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DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 57m

Absolutely
It's here
Musk is funding legal costs of one of our most vile (& convicted) right wing agitators after he was arrested (again) last week
It used to be that UK was a decade behind the US with it's "trends"
It's happening more quickly now😞

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DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 1h

The sane world does

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DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 1h

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DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 1h

Let me get this right, they are *against* No Kings (so pro kings?) and *against* anti-fascists (so pro fascists?)
Come on USA!!
What the heck is going on??

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DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 1h

UK here
It's true you are
Both a laughing stock & a terrifying neighbour
We can't truly call you, as a nation, an ally any more😭

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DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 1h

I don't think that's their point
I think it's the equivalent of an A level in a second language, like me taking a French A level

DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 1h

I think it's the equivalent of an A level in a foreign language
So an first language English speaker taking (say) German A level
Not an A level equivalent in their first language

DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 2h

Yes please

Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 3h

Elon Musk is stoking far-right extremism on our streets.

The Prime Minister should order a security assessment of the threat Musk poses to our democracy.

@libdemdaisy.bsky.social

#PMQs

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DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 6h

This is fabulous

🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 21h

Peter Thiel is coming out with a 4-part series about identifying the antichrist.

Like we need a 4-part series. We're in America. Pretty sure we already know the signs.

This fabulous lady breaks it down into 4 points. In under 3 minutes.

#SheShed

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DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 6h

I think we are being primed
But in the meantime

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DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 6h

Can you just do without?
I have surprised myself (for example) by realising that a freezer drawer doesn't *actually* need a front - it functions perfectly well as a shelf if you stack carefully

DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 6h

However tongue in cheek this headline may be, it's a glimpse of institutional sexism
I'm sure there's nuance in the article (I'm reluctant to click on it) like "having sufficient money enables women to escape abusive relationships"
"The worst thing a man can do for his marriage is being insecure"

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DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 6h

I have bits of broken plastic in my fridge and freezer because I refuse to pay these outrageous costs
If you can "make do" then I would
Sometimes the internet has substitutes

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

The Pentagon’s new press policy bars journalists from reporting anything that hasn’t been approved by the Trump regime.

The NYT, Washington Post, Atlantic, and NPR are refusing to sign the agreement.

Kudos to the media outlets standing up to this blatant authoritarianism.

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DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 18h

America...is it not bad enough that you have Trump as president?
You don't need to make yourselves appear even worse to the world than you do already😉

DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 18h

Not yet on DarrenJonesMP

DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 18h

Are these on Instagram? I can see it on UKLabour

Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones.bsky.social · 19h

We've set up Great British Energy to generate more clean, home-grown electricity here in the UK — and make us less exposed to volatile global energy markets.

What does that mean for you?

Let me explain

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DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 23h

Romeo & Juliet should only be taught in schools if it contains at least one lesson on coercive control, rape, domestic abuse, crime/malpractice by clergy, toxic masculinity & recognises that it's not a love story but one of a raped child, abused (terribly) by her father - mother & "nurse" colluded

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

This poll in The Times is still open.

Go to —> compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/ti...

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 2d

This is what one of the biggest Diwali celebrations outside of India looks like.

Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate light overcoming darkness, hope overcoming hardship, and unity in our diversity.

A person stands on stage addressing a large crowd gathered in Trafalgar Square for Diwali on the Square. Colourful tents and festival stalls fill the area behind the crowd, with the National Gallery visible in the background.

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DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not sure that Witkoff Tweeted to rebut any lies
He certainly doesn't imply that
He is acknowledging the role the UK played
I'm sure he would have done that even if there had been unanimous & wholehearted support of everything done by the US & the UK

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 2d

Radio 4 (yes, radio) giving extensive live coverage of people waiting for Trump to get off his plane. The sort of vapid gushing the BBC usually reserves for royal weddings

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo says that American bishops need to be more vocal and support migrant communities from being abducted by ICE in US cities

"Important that we as church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what's going on in some cities in the US"

"The church cannot be silent"

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DarvitWendy @darvitwendy.bsky.social · 2d

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