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MountainStream
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Likes the outdoors, keeps one eye on the news.
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social @LBC

I'm wondering if raising the retirement age (particularly the women) will have played into more people being on benefits yet unable to work. It must have done.

Meg
July 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
DISCUSSION Please join.

How to solve the UK housing crisis.

I'll start.

Why not consider 'tiny homes' on brown fields sites?

Perfect for young people starting out. Low rental or buy and it's a first step on the property ladder.
June 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social

A sign of intelligence is the ability to change your mind as new facts become available.

There is no shame in changing your mind when it is the right thing to do.

The winter fuel allowance is an example of this. It has come to light that the threshold was set too low.
May 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Has he gone yet?

Is it safe to wake up?
a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls .
ALT: a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls .
media.tenor.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left."

It’s between democracy and oligarchy.

The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us.

They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.
April 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Right wing populist politics has been so damaging and so brain-achingly tedious this last decade. Look at where we are as a result. Far poorer, weaker, more divided, isolated from the EU and trying not to piss off an egomaniacal lunatic in the White House. Sovereignty at its most vulnerable.
April 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
April 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.

—With love,
Your American allies.
April 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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April 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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BREAKING: A massive protest is happening now on the Heard and McDonald Islands after Trump announced a 10% retaliatory tariff against the islands.
April 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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USA has become the SECOND country in history to impose economic sanctions on itself.
April 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Blackrock has just bought 3 British Freeports, Felixstowe, Thamesport, and Harwich for $22 billion in a deal via Hong Kong pushed by Donald Trump.
Did you hear about this in the MSM?
March 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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We have now reached the ‘Brexit could actually kill you’ stage of the sunlit uplands.
March 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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I've arrived here at BlueSky 😀

Hello.

Now to find everyone again.

I'll try this tag to try and find my #FBPE chums.

Pic for no particular reason other than posts seem nicer with pictures. Carcassone - France.
November 21, 2024 at 4:38 AM
I've arrived here at BlueSky 😀

Hello.

Now to find everyone again.

I'll try this tag to try and find my #FBPE chums.

Pic for no particular reason other than posts seem nicer with pictures. Carcassone - France.
November 21, 2024 at 4:38 AM