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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Jun 1

'Reframing Women Printmakers' discusses the significant and vital history of African American women printmakers, from Elizabeth Catlett and Margaret Taylor Burroughs to the contemporary US group Black Women of Print.

Three prints with images refecting portraits of Black people in various styles

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 13h

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h

Bart Board: the institutions are not self enforcing

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 12h

Quote: I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember this too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick. Stewart Lee

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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 10h

Looks lush :)

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 2d

It's weird. There were just no clues that this is what he was like.

Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 2d

Johnson refused to answer specific questions or to provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking, while insisting all the rules had been followed at all times. His responses led Acoba’s chair, Isabel Doverty, to find him in breach of the rules.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Rouse @rickyrouse.bsky.social · 2d

"Acoba has used the sole mechanism it has to enforce the rules: a letter to the Cabinet Office."

I'm amazed that Johnson would risk breaking the rules in the face of such severe sanctions.

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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 2d

Keep up the good work :)

Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. I think what he and others are really frightened of is that education might teach people to think critically ... And once we can do that, we have the tools to challenge the vicious/false/ misleading/disingenuous/etc claptrap that Farage and his like keep on delivering

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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 3d

I don't even know what that word means any more ...

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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 3d

How does he continue to get away with spouting this utter tripe? Always attacking never praising. Most teachers I know work their backsides off to support the kids in their class, doing the most they can with fewer and fewer resources. They don't have the time or inclination to poison anyone's mind

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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 3d

Forced adoption ... Not a great moment in various histories

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

Pritzker: “This is a convicted felon…who is threatening to jail me. This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump: If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me.”

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Research in Practice @researchip.bsky.social · 3d

The needs of young people rarely cease at 18. Many harms can escalate at this point – not least because support reduces or stops altogether.

Our #TransitionalSafeguarding briefing is for those interested in safeguarding young people across systems for children and adults https://ow.ly/SK9b50X8vUm

Transitional Safeguarding briefing for sector leaders: Strategic Briefing (2025)

This briefing is for anyone interested in, or responsible for safeguarding young people across the interlocking systems for children and adults. It has been drafted collaboratively by Research in Practice, ADCS, ADASS and Partners in Care and Health, to demonstrate joint leadership in improving the responses to the safeguarding needs of young people.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 4d

Another day.

Another presidential threat to jail two of his political opponents.

What will it take for Republicans in Congress to speak out?

While we still have a democracy left.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 5d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 5d

Direct comparisons with the 1930s are ahistorical and unhelpful: 2025 simply is not 1930s Germany. BUT what we can look at are patterns. And on the basis of those patterns we absolutely can see common trajectories here. I would also urge everyone again to remember that death camps and … 1/2

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 5d

Heseltine at the Tory conf:

"Fascists of the 30s are back... Trump's language coincides with words here... The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem. We must make clear we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Farage... We don't need Trump's mouthpiece anywhere near No. 10.”

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 5d

Not just NHS.
That's the thing with anti-immigration policies, as well as harming migrants themselves, they harm everyone. Undermining infrastructure and industries inevitably causes a decline in services and additional job losses for non-migrants as a knock on.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 5d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 7d

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 8d

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands. The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 7d

Yup, chaos, corruption and cruelty - not to mention complete disregard for law and due process ... I'm sure the Tory party can style it out

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 8d

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 8d

Batshit.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 8d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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