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Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social · 1d

Mine are almost 3 and 5. You would think some sort of reasoning and logic might come by that age! 🤣🤣

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 2d

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social · 1d

Omg what is it with the spoons?? I now lay out every possible option thinking they could each have their own chosen spoon but guess what? They go for the same spoon and a fight ensues. Holy mackerel.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 goes to Maria Corina Machado for her work opposing authoritarianism in Venezuela. This is what true leadership and fighting for social justice looks like

#Antifa #Resistance #BadAssWomen

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

#NobelPrize

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 5d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social · 6d

Omg 😱. Sounds worse than Dante’s circle of hell! We had 4 teenagers (15 years old) over for a sleepover about 2 years ago and I’m still recovering!!❤️‍🩹

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 6d

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 6d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 6d

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

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Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social · 7d

They could have just pushed him in his wheelchair when they arrested him. Instead they dragged him away like he was a bag of rubbish. They did this to humiliate him, to diminish him, to hurt him, to dehumanise him. He has a million times the heart and soul of the thugs who did this to him.

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 7d

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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 7d

This is so gloriously embarrassing

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 8d

no excuse for being this bad

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 7d

The sad spectable of American comedians selling out in Saudi Arabia www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia

It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

www.thenation.com

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Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social · 7d

Dammit - missed a trick there! Next time I’ll come to you! 💜

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d

I was on Any Questions last night. I think it was a good discussion, which became quite fierce at times.
We debated the vile attack in Manchester, the right to protest, the Tories' crazy climate stance and how to rescue politics.
You can listen to it here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Any Questions? - Aphra Brandreth MP, Lord Carlile, George Monbiot, Emma Reynolds MP - BBC Sounds

Alex Forsyth presents political debate from The Square at Chester Zoo.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social · 7d

Mate where have you been? We put on the fire when autumn came calling on the 1st of September! You don’t have to suffer! 🩷

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 8d

This brilliant new book is all about the linguistic history of each letter of the alphabet, and I’ve hugely enjoyed reading it — I highly recommend you all get a copy! 👇👌

Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.bsky.social · 10d

I now believe it's real.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 7d

“Dishcloths”?

Boris Johnson was always an arrant racist.

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Classics at Leeds @leedsclassics.bsky.social · 7d

It may be stormy but the Leeds Open Day is still on! Chat to our staff and students in Michael Sadler LG 10 throughout the day, and check out our Classics and Ancient History talks at 10.00 in Roger Stevens Building Lecture Theatre 22 and 13.00 in Lecture Theatre 19

www.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/137...

Undergraduate Open Days

Explore our campus, talk to staff and students and find out about your subject at our open day. Join us for the day and find out what it means to be Leeds.

www.leeds.ac.uk

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Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social · 7d

The pleasure was all mine! It is such an exciting, timely, and very enjoyable read! Bringing history alive like the way you do is such a wonderful talent! Telling stories that have escaped the popular narrative is so essential as a historian. Thank you 🙏

@waterstones.bsky.social

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