Dawny B

Dawny B

@dawnbritten.bsky.social

Lives in UK. All mansplainers will be muted. Hedgehog Whisperer. Psychopathic Hobbit. A bit silly. An ally 🏳️‍⚧️

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Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

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“While each of us (voted Brexit) for different reasons, we all believed that the UK could do a better job of running its own affairs than *unelected officials* in Brussels could." Ben Houchen... November 2020 Six years later 👇👇👇

Private Eye Magazine@privateeyenews.bsky.social

Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

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BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

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Today Plaid Cymru MP, Ben Lake, will lead a Backbench Business debate in the House of Commons on the emerging risks of advanced AI Plaid Cymru says it's the first debate on the regulation of advanced AI systems in the House of Commons chamber

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Replying to @chadbourn.bsky.social

Trump: “Protesters in France were a lot of large men with very big muscles. “They were not students.”

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Brazil's Superior Electoral Court has spoken. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been reelected, the votes have been counted, and the margin is nearly 4.4 million. Lula received 51.8 percent, Flávio Bolsonaro 48.2 percent. The officially certified result stands.

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So move over, my friend Larry David: somebody pulled the ashes of Bill Maher's career out of the fireplace and somehow re-burned them anew. His new friend Trump, dinner with whom he keeps boasting about, just had Bill for dessert Sleep with Trump, get fleeced

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'Leaving the European Union was the biggest act of economic self harm any country has ever committed' Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, told #BBCBreakfast Andy Burnham 'is spot on' about having an "honest discussion" ove the prospect of returning to free movement between the UK and European Union

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My political education began in Brazil, where I lived from 1989-91. I learnt that the only defence we have is "conscientizaçao": raising awareness about the relations between exploiters and exploited, and the violence that underpins them. The Brazilians have once again demonstrated its power. ✊❤️‍🔥

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From now on, they will only be accepting bribes in pounds, shillings and pence...

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The shift away from the US continues. Ten countries have now signed on for Macron’s Forward Deterrence initiative, including the UK, Germany and Poland, WSJ reports. Under the plan, France would station nuclear-capable fighter jets across Europe as trust in the US erodes.

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This is good news for the Amazon and the planet.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came from behind to win Brazil’s runoff election, halting a right-wing wave sweeping Latin America and defying predictions that the 80-year-old political veteran had finally reached the end of his extraordinary career. bloom.bg/4BsvV24 📷: Maira Erlich/Bloomberg