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ralphhickman.bsky.social

@ralphhickman.bsky.social

Try and be nice to people, avoid eating sugar, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live in peace and harmony with people...

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Trump’s 🇺🇸 is part of the Axis of Evil. Even when it comes to offers of rebuilding “Ingnatius asserted that the Trumper “envoys” had extended a generous offer of funding the rebuilding of Ukraine once Russia’s campaign of devastation ends.“ EXCEPT

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social

Very valuable and very sober analysis www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-puti...

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“In 30 years in local government I don’t think I have seen this level of fury” The government's local government shake-up has been put on hold, with no timetable for what comes next. Who pays for the chaos, and what happens to our councils?

eastangliabylines.co.ukThey planned to rewire local government. Now they’ve pulled the plugIn a surprise intervention, the government’s plans for reorganising local government have been suspended. What happened and why?

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Another year, another rallying call to stop the right wing entryists from wrecking yet another of our nation’s treasures.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

Speaking of voting, if you're a member and you'd like to keep the National Trust's Council free from interference from Britain (and the US's) richest financiers, don't forget to vote before the end of the month. Quick-vote takes moments and avoids the Restore Trust slate of candidates.

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💥 This is today! If you've not sent an email to your MP yet asking them to attend, now would be a perfect time. Here's the link you need to send that email --> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...

European Movement UK@europeanmovement.co.uk

Something huge is happening on Monday! And we need your help, write to your MP to make sure they're at Westminster Hall on Monday at 4:30pm to debate whether the UK should join the EU. Together we can get the UK back to the heart of Europe!

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🔥DEBATE ON APPLYING TO JOIN EU🔥 Monday 12 October Over 25,500 emails sent from you to your MPs. All 650 MPs have had at least one - some have had over 100. Use this link to send an email to your MP to ask them to attend —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...

europeanmovement.co.ukAsk your MP to stand up for our future in EuropeOn 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?

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Let me try this once more. It was a choice. EITHER the Greens adopted a slogan. OR they could have joined the next govt, where they could push for an end to arms sales, sanctions, support for the arrest warrants etc. It was never going to be both. Which one makes a material difference? #GazaGenocide

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You’ve been seeing very large #bumblebees on the wing for the past while. Why? Okay I’ll tell you why in this quick thread if you promise to #repost as the more people who know that these are queens the more likely that someone will help some out meaning more colonies next year. Deal? 1/15 #bees

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New Google Maps footage from Gaza just dropped. You can go and watch for yourself how "the most moral army" operates.

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This is essentially what we are ‘fighting’ now

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

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Tomorrow night, Channel 4 Dispatches airs the findings of a year-long investigation into Tommy Robinson’s finances. Watch it. Then come back here. We’ve got more to show you.

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The next Labour manifesto must include a commitment to join the European Union. It would be a game changer and a chance to rid ourselves of Farage once & for all

Mike Galsworthy@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social

Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.

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Victoria Derbyshire, "Does the data back up what Burnham said about Brexit contributing to ten years of low growth" Ed Conway, "You'd be crazy if you didn't think throwing sands into the wheels of commerce, which is what Brexit essentially is, wasn't to some extent reducing our standard of living"

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"For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer." www.notus.org/agencies/tru...

notus.orgTrump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private DeveloperThe National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.

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RFK lying? Who'd have thought?

Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social

On the left: Five times RFK Jr. stated in Senate in Confirmation Hearings the purpose of his 2019 trip to Samoa "had nothing to do with vaccines." On the right: Eight times RFK Jr. 2019's letter to Samoa Prime Minister referenced "vaccines" as proposal for visit (via FOIA).

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Modern trade flows weren't just devised to make things cheaper, though that's part of it. Supply has also become far more resilient, which sounds counter-intuitive of a system of billions of individual nodes. But they work. They are however largely outside government control.

Ed Conway@edconway.bsky.social

✍️ Want to understand the bonkers nature of the modern economy? Take a ride with me on the 30,000 mile journey the cod in a fish finger takes between being caught off the coast of Scotland and consumed in a British home 🤯 Promise I'm not making this up👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-30000-...

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On benefits but living in a £1.3 mill house and 3 children in private school. What was going on? “Over the course of 2020, despite being on benefits, Gheewala’s bank account received more than £880,000 in cash in 200 different deposits.“

Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media

Hahaha fucking helllllllll just read this. So many thoughts. Like “this is how you actually do money laundering, not on Oxford Street” and “British deference to small businesses being honest and taxpaying is the problem”. (Writes a small business owner.) www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...