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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 5h

If you can, print this out, grab a hard copy or screenshot the cover. Save it in a scrapbook or digital file for your kids. Let them know you were on the right side and tried to help

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 5h

Once again, a music magazine is doing a better job reporting on the state of public health than public health orgs

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 8h

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Suella De-Vil First Female Britain First MP (maybe) -parody @suellade.bsky.social · 8h

But…but….
Isn’t it a war zone down there

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h

Reform candidate visibly squirms as he's confronted by a local family in Caerphilly.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 9h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · 15h

COVID is still here.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Wonders of privatisation.

Royal Mail fined £21m.

Hasn't t meet the 1st and 2nd class mail delivery targets to years.

No personal fines on execs. Corporate fines will no doubt be passed on to customers.

No incentive to deliver value for money. People fleeced.

Royal Mail fined £21m by Ofcom for missing delivery targets

It is the third-largest fine the communications watchdog has ever issued.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14h

They lie about the ECHR.
Just like they lied about Brexit. Claiming if we just got rid of that ‘European’ thing, we’d be free, we’d have control, all our problems solved…
It’s NOT TRUE.
We’d inflict more chaos on ourselves and torch our own human rights framework for NOTHING.
For liars.
Again.

Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 1d

The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇

🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com

“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Labour is telling you VERY LOUDLY who to vote for if you value human rights. And it's definitely NOT LABOUR.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Private equity takeover of US hospitals led to rise in patient deaths.

Cuts to staffing/investment; high debt, profiteering; worse patient outcomes.

More deaths in nursing homes, increased post-operative complications

Why is UK Govt handing the NHS to PE? Why no investigation of the impact of PE?

Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study

Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals

www.theguardian.com

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 1d

Netanyahu announces Israel will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite it being a key ceasefire agreement clause.

Didn't take long, did it?

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 2d

A typical British worker would need to save all of their earning for 52 years to become wealthy, new research has found.

Typical Brit must save entire lifetime's worth of earnings to become wealthy

www.bigissue.com

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 2d

Important: educationhub.blog.gov.uk
Vaccination: a key line of defence
Handwashing: a simple, powerful tool
Coughs & sneezes: can spread diseases
Good ventilation can help remove air that contains virus particles & help prevent airborne spread of respiratory infections such as colds, flu & COVID-19.

Reducing the spread of illness this winter: Seven steps to healthier schools and higher school attendance

As the colder months approach, we can expect to see increases in common airborne viruses. Illness is the biggest single reason for school absence; while some absences due to illness are unavoidable, m...

educationhub.blog.gov.uk

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 2d

Gavin Williamson has described the decision to open, then close, primary schools on 4 January 2021 as “panicked”.

I would describe it as idiotic.

Boris Johnson gave parents 'false hope' over schools reopening, Gavin Williamson tells Covid inquiry

Watch as the former education secretary gives evidence at the inquiry, which is focusing on the impact of the pandemic on children and young people.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 2d

In 2022 when I was campaigning on vaccines for clinically vulnerable children I was infuriated that MPs refused to reply or respond to parents asking for help but some MPs did meet with antivaxxer parents group USfoThem but are still ignoring us. Even though 88 children had died from covid.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 4d

UK travellers should expect "four-hour queues" as new EU border system comes into force. Brexit really is the gift that keeps giving

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 2d

Maybe Clarkson will join Reform….he’d be a good fit - full of hot air and out of touch with reality.

buff.ly/SPXLuXP

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 2d

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The War Llama @thewarllama.bsky.social · 2d

The truth about the Green Party's booming membership: we have had enough of being exploited and manipulated by millionaires and billionaires who would rather burn the Earth and watch children starve than pay a minute fraction of their hoarded wealth in tax.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Many on the right will try and belittle and undermine what’s happening.

But here’s the truth. Tens of thousands are joining Greens. Polls are at record highs. People are just starting to feel hope again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The truth about the green party's booming membership

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Shaun Bent @shaunbent.co.uk · 2d

I'm in! ✅

I feel energised, engaged and for the first time in a longtime like I have a political home!

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Many on the right will try and belittle and undermine what’s happening.

But here’s the truth. Tens of thousands are joining Greens. Polls are at record highs. People are just starting to feel hope again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 2d

That vibe of when you can afford to buy your own media empire but don’t want to pay more in taxes …

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 2d

Given the competing self interests of Polanski (make a fairer more sustainable world to live in) and Spectator owner multimillionaire Marshall (avoid paying taxes on hoarded wealth), I’m going to go with Polanski

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d

Respect to those who got here first.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 3d

There is no ceasefire.

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 3d

Hospitals across the world have recorded an alarming rise in common infections that are resistant to antibiotics, with doctors saying the number of deaths driven by drug resistance will increase sharply in the years ahead.

Sharp global rise in antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals, WHO finds

Experts describe findings as deeply concerning and predict 70% increase in related deaths by 2050

www.theguardian.com

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 5d

Untreated HIV can take on average around 10 years to progress to AIDS. This means HIV was unknowingly circulating throughout the ‘70s (and likely before). Going by this rough timeline, we won’t know what damage a single COVID infection, let alone several, does long term until around 2030.

Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 5d

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

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