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Husband, Dad, and Grampy; Woking FC, cyclist, a bit of drawing/painting, tai chi learner, modelmaker, trams, left leaning and a bit green.
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A report released Monday by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on President Donald Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein included new details from a young Swiss woman raped by Trump in an Atlantic City hotel room in 1993, whose meeting was arranged by Jeffrey Epstein. time.com/article/2026...
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This is the kind of deal the Democrats need to investigate immediately if they take Congress. An oil deal in Alaska which actually might be a gift to the Russians with Trump involvement. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...
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bsky.app/profile/miag... Like father like son-in-law.
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We literally have the largest bike-touring event in the world which has been an annual summer state tradition for FIFTY YEARS. There's a giant exhibit in the state historical museum about it. This is comical.
Joe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."
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Anglian Water fined puny £1.6M for polluting 14km of River Brain. Ignored alarms telling them that sewage was being dumped. Highest levels of toxic ammonia. AW has numerous criminal convictions. No exec prosecuted, licence to operate not cancelled. Fleecing normalized.
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Aberfan disaster kills 144 people and levels a Welsh mining village www.history.com/this-day-in-...
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UK Tory govt failures led to Covid spreading ‘like wildfire’ in care homes. Ministers lied. Residents sent home without protection. 43,000 died from Covid-19 in UK care homes between March 2020 and July 2022. 2016 Exercise Cygnus showed NHS couldn't cope with a flu pandemic. Govt did nothing.
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🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky says the U.S. is delivering just 12 Patriot interceptor missiles per month to Ukraine, roughly a quarter of the amount supplied under Biden, - Bloomberg "We have paid for the weapons." "A part of supplies has been authorized, while the rest haven't been. This is not a technical issue."
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Our NHS has been hollowed out over the last few decades. Thank you @premnsikka.bsky.social The UK has 2.4 NHS beds PER 1,000 people Japan: 12.6 Germany: 7.7 Austria: 6.6 France: 5.4 OECD average: 4.2 This is why we have the disgrace of corridor care. It's time to invest and rebuild our NHS
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'The government’s £15bn warm homes plan – insulating Britain’s homes and investing in heat pumps – which is currently under threat of cuts, would do more to cut the cost of living, create jobs and boost the UK’s economy than drilling for new oil.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Absolutely. Most who fought in the war were grateful for the military personnel from Europe and the commonwealth. They retained that appreciation despite the vilification of ‘others’ by the fascist press.
My dad fought in the war and he wasn't a racist. My late mother was a teenager and dedicated her life to helping refugees. My cousin is in her 80s and "fucking hates racists". You don't get a get out of racist jail free card simply for being old and having happened to have lived during a war.
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Sharing the video of violent attacks on young women at Farage's conference again to remind people that he encouraged the bullies and laughed. The same disgusting behaviour as Trump who praises his MAGA thugs at rallies. Please don't be fooled. This level of hideous abuse and cruelty is the point.
Reform and MAGA are the same animals. This is how they both treat young women. #RefUKkers
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Friends, Sad news! Our dear friend #MajorJasonWatson will face a historic general court-martial, the military's most severe trial! He remains in pretrial confinement. His attorney told @cnn.com the conditions amount to "cruel and unusual" solitary confinement. Want to help? Keep posting about him!
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A government spokesperson told Byline Times that ministers were now "exploring what action to take" against MPs like Nigel Farage double-jobbing as presenters on GB News, as Ofcom's former standards chief tells us the watchdog has taken a "two tier" approach to the channel
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Usual hand-wringing about returning to division and inaction, not getting the same opt-outs etc… but arguments to rejoin trump those what-ifs. Going it alone in a world dominated by Putin, Trump and China is strategically idiotic and economically ruinous. Shaking your head at that is red-flag-dim.
George Monbiot explains why the UK should rejoin the EU, "There's a reason why Russia tried to intervene in the Brexit vote, they knew that it would harm the UK and the EU if we left" "They were very clear about that and boy have they been proved right"
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