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Julia, dog lover
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I am a woke retired social worker of over 20 years. Left leaning politics loving having a labour government. Disabled wheelchair user. Love my dogs and enjoy playing the cornet in my local brass band. Will block accounts who DM
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Kevin Maguire: "If you're put up in a hotel & you get meals you get £10/wk.. all these terrible myths.. free iPads.. myths & lies have gone mainstream & we've got to challenge them.. we've gone back to the worst aspects of the 1970s where racism is becoming mainstream"

Well said
September 2, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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I'm no lawyer, but it seems like discussing war plans in Signal outside a SCIF is maybe just a little bit worse than using a private server to send emails that weren't even marked as classified. But what do I know.
hillary clinton is smiling while speaking into a microphone in front of a crowd .
ALT: hillary clinton is smiling while speaking into a microphone in front of a crowd .
media.tenor.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Sums up my thoughts quite well
March 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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The message from US authorities to tourists planning to visit America this year, seems to be “Don’t!”
@addyspectreai.bsky.social @rachey.bsky.social @ghosted077.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social

Please james will you do an accuate piece on the motability scheme. It is so upsetting hearing your colleagues say you get a free car for bed wetting. Please will you put this right and do an informed segment on this. We disabled are being vilified by the lies
March 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Out-of-date polls to wrong aid amounts: factchecking Trump’s Congress address
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Out-of-date polls to wrong aid amounts: factchecking Trump’s Congress address
The president’s marathon address to a joint session of Congress was littered with false claims he’s been corrected on but continued to repeat
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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A Bish Called Wonderful.
January 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Elon Musk does not represent the views of British people. So I've signed the open letter telling him to butt out of UK politics. Agree? Sign & share far & wide across social media so he sees & knows we won't stand for his meddling. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/elon-mus...
Elon Musk: Butt out of UK politics
Elon Musk does not represent the views of British people. So I've signed the open letter telling him to butt out of UK politics. Agree? Sign & share it far & wide across social media so he sees & know...
act.38degrees.org.uk
January 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Farage, Musk and Trump: they crave your attention. Don’t give it to them | Andy Beckett
Farage, Musk and Trump: they crave your attention. Don’t give it to them | Andy Beckett
Populist trolling thrives on the oxygen of publicity. It’s on all of us – media and voters – to start looking away Even more than other forms of politics, populism needs an audience. Populist politicians want to be famous personalities, to make…
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Experts say Musk's social media activity “comfortably sits within any definition of an extremist”

www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/counter...
Counter-extremism unit probes Elon Musk tweets
Elon Musk's social media activity is set to be probed by the British government's counter-extremism unit, it has been revealed.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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The Broligarchy VS the UK government : Revenge of the Nerds.

As a UK poll reveals that ol’ Ketamine Karen is about as popular here as a dose of the clap, I take a look at the links between the bro-verlords and the international far right network.

Shits getting real.

youtu.be/Wh-dnijlMA4
The Broligarchy VS the UK Government: Revenge of the Nerds…
YouTube video by Supertanskiii
youtu.be
January 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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We can't let British democracy turn into a plaything for overseas billionaires with short attention spans.

At PMQs, I urged the Prime Minister to work with us to make sure power always sits with the voters, not wealthy foreign oligarchs.
January 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Meta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Meta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner
Maria Ressa warns of ‘dangerous times’ for journalism and democracy after move to end factchecking in US
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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STORY

Kemi Badenoch hasn't actually met any grooming gang survivors - and doesn't think she needs to
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Kemi Badenoch has never actually met any grooming gang survivors
The Tory leader's spokesman said she didn't need to meet with victims, because she's read all about it in the media - and had no current plans to meet with anyone - but denied she was jumping on an El...
www.mirror.co.uk
January 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Why can those getting on the bandwagon not listen to the victims who want actions, not another inquiry. 7500 victims listened to. Why retraumatise these strong women and children for political point scoring.
January 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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How many times in the past week have you heard UK broadcasters say “Pakistani grooming gangs” despite 2% of Pakistanis being responsible for child sexual abuse?

88% are white British.

How many times has Musk or Farage been the headline?

They are openly normalising far right narratives.
January 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.
January 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Screechy Carole Malone on Jeremy Vine again. Time to turn off.
January 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Here is the key section of that train wreck of an interview by Robert Jenrick on #r4today.

Robinson: Did you raise it when you were Home Office minister?

Jenrick: We talked about it... I wasn't... My portfolio... But we talked about it.

Only a minute, if you can bear it. ~AA
January 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I can't believe what I am reading. I thought X was bad, but OMG this is the worst I have ever seen. The things people are saying about Jess is beyond vile. If this was summer and we had lovely weather I think the RW fools would be using this for an excuse for a good riot. Thank god it is cold
January 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Prof Alexis Jay, chair of public inquiry into child sexual abuse, says further national inquiry into grooming gangs isn’t needed & would delay action.

“The time has passed for more inquiries, we’ve had enough… We’ve set out action required & people should just get on with it, nationally & locally”
January 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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We need urgent realignment with Europe, watertight counter disinformation laws, social media regulation, laws against foreign interference/foreign funding, the same re. the press plus reform, an overhaul of Ofcom and a PM that will firmly tell our insane hillbilly cousin, America, to go fuck itself.
January 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Thank goodness you are back. Missed you so much over the last couple of weeks. Happy new year.
January 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM