Maura
@pat32.bsky.social
Runner and running coach. Have 5 (neurotic) rescue collie dogs, a rescue cat and three hens. Socialist, "woke". Irish.
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Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Ran a half marathon in Edinburgh. It's a beautiful and scenic route. The weather conditions were typically Scottish: Sunny, sunny and windy, squally rain, hailstones, windy and raining. All in a morning!
May 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Ran a half marathon in Edinburgh. It's a beautiful and scenic route. The weather conditions were typically Scottish: Sunny, sunny and windy, squally rain, hailstones, windy and raining. All in a morning!
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This is truly momentous: UK's Co-op supermarket to remove all Israeli products from shelves.
NEW: The Co-op could stop selling Israeli products as early as this summer after board members voted in favour of a boycott 👇
Co-op board votes to remove all Israeli products from shelves
www.thenational.scot
May 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This is truly momentous: UK's Co-op supermarket to remove all Israeli products from shelves.
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#SocialistSunday 🌹 #Solidarity ✊
"I've got a United Nations heart bypass, done by a Syrian cardiologist, a Malaysian surgeon, a Dutch doctor, a Nigerian registrar. And these people here talk about sending them back. Half of London would be dead in six months.”
Dennis Skinner.
#Immigration
"I've got a United Nations heart bypass, done by a Syrian cardiologist, a Malaysian surgeon, a Dutch doctor, a Nigerian registrar. And these people here talk about sending them back. Half of London would be dead in six months.”
Dennis Skinner.
#Immigration
May 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
#SocialistSunday 🌹 #Solidarity ✊
"I've got a United Nations heart bypass, done by a Syrian cardiologist, a Malaysian surgeon, a Dutch doctor, a Nigerian registrar. And these people here talk about sending them back. Half of London would be dead in six months.”
Dennis Skinner.
#Immigration
"I've got a United Nations heart bypass, done by a Syrian cardiologist, a Malaysian surgeon, a Dutch doctor, a Nigerian registrar. And these people here talk about sending them back. Half of London would be dead in six months.”
Dennis Skinner.
#Immigration
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It's this simple ...
1. We need foreign care workers.
2. We had EU ones before Brexit.
3. They left after Brexit.
4. We needed to replace them with foreign workers from Africa and Asia.
5. They came from further away, so they needed to bring their families.
6. Racists didn't like that.
7. The End.
1. We need foreign care workers.
2. We had EU ones before Brexit.
3. They left after Brexit.
4. We needed to replace them with foreign workers from Africa and Asia.
5. They came from further away, so they needed to bring their families.
6. Racists didn't like that.
7. The End.
May 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
It's this simple ...
1. We need foreign care workers.
2. We had EU ones before Brexit.
3. They left after Brexit.
4. We needed to replace them with foreign workers from Africa and Asia.
5. They came from further away, so they needed to bring their families.
6. Racists didn't like that.
7. The End.
1. We need foreign care workers.
2. We had EU ones before Brexit.
3. They left after Brexit.
4. We needed to replace them with foreign workers from Africa and Asia.
5. They came from further away, so they needed to bring their families.
6. Racists didn't like that.
7. The End.
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If you hate Pope Leo XIV because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.
May 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If you hate Pope Leo XIV because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.
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Translation: "Reform will waste public money trying to do something that is not within the remit of local authorities, resulting in council tax increases or cuts to services"
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
May 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Translation: "Reform will waste public money trying to do something that is not within the remit of local authorities, resulting in council tax increases or cuts to services"
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
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Two months into Israel's full blockade on aid into Gaza, humanitarians described scenes of starving children and people fighting over water, with aid operations on the "verge of total collapse".
Gaza aid work on verge of collapse, UN and Red Cross warn
Two months into Israel's full blockade on aid into Gaza, humanitarians described horrific scenes of starving, bloodied children and people fighting over water, with aid operations on the "verge of tot...
www.rte.ie
May 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Two months into Israel's full blockade on aid into Gaza, humanitarians described scenes of starving children and people fighting over water, with aid operations on the "verge of total collapse".
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April 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
April 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
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Trump has found in El Salvador a model for the repressive state he wants to build – and he’s just getting started
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump has found in El Salvador a model for the repressive state he wants to build – and he’s just getting started | Jordana Timerman
Nayib Bukele has shown how brutal control can be sustained not just through force, but by raising the cost of speaking out, says journalist Jordana Timerman
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Trump has found in El Salvador a model for the repressive state he wants to build – and he’s just getting started
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What is a "peac"?
April 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
What is a "peac"?
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Craig Coben is a very successful banker who made a pile of money and retired young enough to enjoy it. His brother is Harlen (Netflix) Coben another is a CEO. If you can get past 'huh first world problem', his essay on the luxury of wondering what to do with himself is fascinating on.ft.com/4lAPk8X
Is there life after banking?
[FREE TO READ] I’ve spent decades working towards the moment when I’d retire from my high-powered job in finance. Now what?
on.ft.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Craig Coben is a very successful banker who made a pile of money and retired young enough to enjoy it. His brother is Harlen (Netflix) Coben another is a CEO. If you can get past 'huh first world problem', his essay on the luxury of wondering what to do with himself is fascinating on.ft.com/4lAPk8X
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Just found this outstandingly good newsletter on the chaos coming out of America from a former colleague at WSJ. It really is first class and very much worth reading.
My latest on the three “puts” that the markets are counting on to rescue the global economy back from the tariff disaster: the Trump put, the Fed put, and the Xi Jinping put. I don’t think investors should count on any of them.
Three Puts To Rescue The Global Economy?
Don't bet on Trump, the Fed or Xi Jinping to pull the world out of the tariff disaster
open.substack.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Just found this outstandingly good newsletter on the chaos coming out of America from a former colleague at WSJ. It really is first class and very much worth reading.
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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
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Just watched the Home Counties private schoolboy Nigel Farage telling northern voters how he understands steelworkers because he used to work in the “metals business” himself. He was, ahem, a commodities trader at the London Metal Exchange in the City.
April 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Just watched the Home Counties private schoolboy Nigel Farage telling northern voters how he understands steelworkers because he used to work in the “metals business” himself. He was, ahem, a commodities trader at the London Metal Exchange in the City.
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Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.
April 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.
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Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."
April 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."
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I love everything about this post.
How academics imagine their lives would look like if they decide to work in tech
April 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I love everything about this post.
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The Good Friday Agreement was signed 27 years ago today. It was an act of delicate diplomacy, which delivered peace and security to a part of our country where those qualities had long been absent. Those achievements should never be taken for granted.
April 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The Good Friday Agreement was signed 27 years ago today. It was an act of delicate diplomacy, which delivered peace and security to a part of our country where those qualities had long been absent. Those achievements should never be taken for granted.
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I’ve never seen a tweet that more effectively communicates how we got to this current situation
April 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I’ve never seen a tweet that more effectively communicates how we got to this current situation
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Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.
![SpellWild110 • 2 points 17 hours ago
I just got this email too and I am a US citizen? Born and raised in the US. So confused.
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+ [-Potential_Travel_294 • 2 points 17 hours ago
Yeah, so confusing
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+ [H] ramoros1865 • 2 points 13 hours ago
I go this email last night as well and I have a green card](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreihzoewvqjpslxfzhgd2va4qwmpxhbeyh7f3yur55pdomuhmtd46da@jpeg)
![[-| ihatemensomuchursick • 2 points 10 hours ago
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Got this today at 6ame9the thing is I was born here this is the email that sent it: [automatedmessage@cbp.dhs.gov]
(mailto:automatedmessage@cbp.dhs.gov)
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+ [-| ihatemensomuchursick • 2 points 10 hours ago
Has anyone clicked the link?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifbnpl6vrxsj35d2na7bq22mw3cve6ptfxmlnw26totsic2nzotoy@jpeg)
![+ |-]PossibleLast3277 • 1 point 20 hours ago
I just got this same email right now
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+ [-JOk-Comfortable948 • 1 point 20 hours ago
Me too. I am an LPR since an year now and def concerns me seeing this. I got the email from cbpnoreply@cbp.dhs.gov and email looked legit due to its domain though, hope its a scam email. Crazy idiots not sure what they keep doing. permalink embed save parent report reply
+ |-]PossibleLast3277 • 1 point 20 hours ago
I have daca and i am wondering if i got it because I did advance parole in 2023
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+ |-] Potential_Travel_294 • 1 point 19 hours ago
I got the same email twice to my two different email adresses, I think its's a scam.
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+ [-]Ok-Comfortable948 • 1 point 19 hours ago
I got it twice to my same email.
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+ [-]Potential_Travel_294 • 1 point 19 hours ago
Yeah, me too, I got twice too to a kind of personal email address, it's even not my work email address. permalink embed save parent report reply
+ [-]thawk1986 • 1 point 11 hours ago
It's legit:
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mi
grants-cbp-one-app-legal-status-stripped-dhs/
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April 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.