Gina S

Gina S

@gsarg.bsky.social

Can't abide the Tories. Or Trump. Remainer forever. Love books, music, art, science, gardening. All the good stuff

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2 down, 3 to go 🇷🇸 Serbia — Vucic lost 🇧🇷 Brazil — Bolsonaro lost 🇮🇱 Israel — 27 Oct 🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 1 Nov 🇺🇸 USA — 3 Nov

Russ Jones@russincheshire.bsky.social

Five tests for nationalism in the next 10 days. Could be genuinely transformative. 🇷🇸 Serbia — Vucic lost (yay!) 🇧🇷 Brazil — Lula leads early count 🇮🇱 Israel — 27 Oct 🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 1 Nov 🇺🇸 USA — 3 Nov One down, one looks promising, three to go.

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Turning out to vote is a far more revolutionary act than smashing up the streets ever can be. In fact the latter feeds the authoritarian vultures. I hope European democracies can give young people something worth voting for in the next few months as Lula has done for Brazilians.

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🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Two Canadian Scientists Develop an Inhaled Vaccine Mist That Delivers Immunity Directly to the Lungs, Right Where Viruses Enter Two scientists, Fiona Smaill and Zhou Xing, developed AeroVax, an inhaled vaccine mist designed to reach the lungs in just 2 minutes.

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I'm a fan of Khan because he has the confidence to say the things that need to be said, unlike many politicians who hide behind language that says nothing. His comments on Brexit and rejoining the EU reflect what many of us now feel and want.

thelondoneconomic.com'Brexit lies are exposed, the debate is settled... we must rejoin the EU' - Sadiq KhanThis is searing stuff from Sadiq Khan, and his arguments for the UK to rejoin the EU are as clear and comprehensive as it gets.

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This food recall in America has exposed that whether you’re buying food at Kroger or Whole Foods, they use the same suppliers but the pricing varies widely for the exact same food Whole Foods and Trader Joe are scamming y’all

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"Tyler Boebert, 21, faces five counts in total: three charges of sexual exploitation of a child and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. All of the charges are felonies and are alleged to have happened in 2024." www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/08/10/u...

coloradopolitics.comUS Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son arrested, faces charges of sexual exploitation of childU.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son Tyler Boebert has been charged with sexual exploitation of a child.

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Solar panels on football stadiums make perfect sense. The next question: how long until we see parking lots everywhere covered with solar canopies too? Generate power. Provide shade. Charge EVs. #Solar #CleanEnergy #EnergyTransition #ESG balkangreenenergynews.com/solar-power-...

balkangreenenergynews.comSolar power to energize European football, UEFA teaming up with SolarPower EuropeThe Union of European Football Associations and SolarPower Europe have partnered to advance sustainability in European football

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Replying to @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social

(Also, a lot of public debate about law is quite properly shaped by its application to particular cases - as effective campaigners for all kinds of law reform know well. So I don’t think that “but it’s all being shaped by this one case” is in itself a problem.)

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Replying to @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social

Of course, when shaping policy in response to that pressure, attention has to be paid to questions such as consistency across cases, not least because clear inconsistency will be vulnerable to legal challenge. And that is no doubt why sorting this out is taking time.

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They all think we won't step up and fight... They think they're the biggest, baddest bully on the playground... That they're going to show up and we're going to run away...

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“We're here today because our neighbors are being kidnapped, our loved ones are being abducted off of the streets because of the color of their skin…” Today, Queens New Yorkers are standing together to defend our neighbors, and say loud and clear: ❌🧊ICE is not welcome in our communities!

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Lady Gaga said: “This is our opportunity to vote against Donald Trump,” and her video was removed from Facebook and Instagram. This is what Republican fascism calls “freedom.” 🤬

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Two of these people around Farage were in and out of the Russian Embassy discussing Gold and Diamond deals. The third has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison for taking Kremlin Gold. How does anyone believe Nigel didn’t know?

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Trump spouting lies about vaccines shouldn’t be broadcast on #r4today without counter arguments from recognised UK experts.. & we wonder why vaccination rates are falling.

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Vaccines do not cause autism. Keep saying it. #academicsky 🧪

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social

Drafting an EO insisting that vaccines cause autism doesn’t make it true. This won’t go down well. We have an administration that would make policies rooted in falsehoods rather than evidence. 🧪 arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

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Two judges have blocked the orange felon’s illegal ballroom construction, calling him a temporary resident who has no claim or ownership over the property and saying he needs Congressional approval. I wish they would’ve done this before he actually destroyed the building forever.

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Excellent.

Joe O’Brien@pnamblath.bsky.social

Powerful from #Fleadh26 on @tg4.bsky.social “My heart is low,my heart is so low As only a mother's heart can be" Róisín El Cherif, Leen, Áine Tyrrell, Aoife Scott, Gráinne Holland, Sive, Aziz Abushark & Mothers Against Genocide Choir ag casadh 'A Mother's Heart for Palestine' #Gaza #FreePalestine

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This week I wrote about: 🌎 A new, China-free battery tech 🧂Can be made almost anywhere, from common materials ☀️ Could turn renewables into the cheapest 24/7 power source on earth Coming soon to a grid near you: sodium-ion (and sodium-metal) batteries 🎁🔗 www.wsj.com/business/ene...

wsj.comChina-Free Batteries Made From Salt Are Finally HereSodium-ion batteries have almost none of the problems that lithium-ion ones do, and could be cheap enough to make fossil-fuel dependence a thing of the past.

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The Tories, who sold off the social housing stock and did not replace it, then only built 100 new social housing units over the next 30 years, are now going to evict 200,000 foreign born Brits from their homes because there is a shortage of social housing. 🤷‍♀️

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Tip for top education journalists: Dr James Orr of Cambridge University's Faculty of Divinity's 'Key publications' list include "Being and Eternity: Phenomenology and Thomism in Edith Stein (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2022)." Bloomsbury's online catalogue lists no such item. Time to do some hunting?

bylinetimes.comJames Orr: Reform UK's Religious Cambridge Professor’s Politics of ContradictionsNigel Farage’s Head of Policy provides a veneer of respectability to a politics that seeks fewer restraints, fewer mediating institutions, and less liberal democracy

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Shell shifted billions in profits to tax havens, leaked files reveal. Complex corporate structures, intragroup transactions used to shift profits to the Bahamas and Switzerland. Taxes dodged in many countries, including the UK. Govt inaction is protecting secret subsidies. archive.ph/Cqq2L

ftm.euShell shifted billions in profits to tax havens, leaked files revealLeaked financial reports show how Shell moved profits through tax havens such as the Bahamas and Switzerland – potentially depriving developing nations of hundreds of millions of euros. While some of ...

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We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.

And why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?

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Trump is considering removing Jeanine Pirro as US attorney for the District of Columbia, CNN reports. He’s upset she didn’t back up his fantasy that the issues with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool were caused by vandalism.

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NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

propublica.orgFCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From ParamountCiting a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...

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Andy Burnham correctly points out in an interview that small boat crossings are massively down this year compared with last. The comments in the post are filled with people suggesting he is lying about this very clear, data-evidenced fact. It’s almost as though they don’t want it to he true…

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I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

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Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎