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Sonia A @onnyponny.bsky.social · 1d

Why is the UK still a major supplier of arms to Saudi Arabia, despite the devastating humanitarian crisis in Yemen, despite its human rights violations, & the assassination of the Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul?

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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 2d

Amnesty said that the execution of Abdullah was just one of a long line of executions | Peter Sagar

Saudi regime executes another child offender for attending protests

Amnesty said that the execution of Abdullah was just one of a long line of executions

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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 2d

A Tyneside doctor originally from Ukraine is continuing his mission to help his homeland by sending vital aid and emergency vehicles to the front line | North East Bylines

Tyneside doctor leads new effort to deliver frontline ambulances to Ukraine

A Tyneside doctor originally from Ukraine is continuing his mission to help his homeland by sending vital aid and emergency vehicles to the front line

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Ka81 @ka81.bsky.social · 4d

If you've not seen the #waitrose posts ⬇️

Where "volunteering" and work placement schemes are used to exploit chronically ill, disabled and neurodivergent people. It's dire...

All this talk about working people ah? @rachelcdailey.bsky.social
@francesryan.bsky.social

Post over a autistic young man being volunteering at waitrose for 4 years...now being told he can't do the job after asking to get paid.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 3d

Truth needs institutions to protect it.

A new report warns that UK agencies safeguarding science, health and data are vulnerable to political interference – and lessons from the US show how fragile truth can be.

Stephen McNair reports.

How can we better protect the truth?

The Trump regime is undermining a host of agencies which protect citizens. Could the same happen here? How might we prevent it?

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

Suggest you jump in on this poll.

—> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...?

And share…

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

On Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics podcast. Has Brexit damage gone away? No - we’re bleeding money & opportunities every day because we are structurally in a bad place now.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve never seen Iain Duncan Smith slapped down better than this. Well played Ian Byrne MP. 👏

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

FINALLY the BBC starts covering what we’ve all already seen.

“A 55-year-old Palestinian woman has been taken to hospital after being clubbed over the head by a masked Jewish settler as she was picking olives.”

Palestinian woman in hospital after being clubbed by masked Israeli settler

The attacker is seen striking the 55-year-old woman with a large wooden stick during the assault in the West Bank village of Turmus Ayaa.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

🔴Two Major Ukrainian Cities Lose Power Overnight as Russian Infrastructure Attacks Grow More Effective

Putin’s attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure are accelerating as winter approaches, reports George Llewelyn from Kyiv

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/21/t...

Two Major Ukrainian Cities Lose Power Overnight as Russian Infrastructure Attacks Grow More Effective

Putin's attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure are accelerating as winter approaches, reports George Llewelyn from Kyiv

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Sonia A @onnyponny.bsky.social · 1d

Everything!

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 1d

Dropping the ECHR would mean no treaty protection against this in the UK.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Sonia A @onnyponny.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, it’s worked out well, but hoping that one day, I’ll have a proper rolling library ladder 🙏

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Sonia A @onnyponny.bsky.social · 3d

love this ❤️
What a poet was Benjamin Zephaniah, truly beautiful words. Thank you Zack for posting them 🙏

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d

British.

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Sonia A @onnyponny.bsky.social · 3d

Me too!

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 4d

The more I hear from Zack Polanski the less politically homeless I feel.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

Lower bills.

Fund the NHS.

Invest in our communities.

My long form conversation with @lewisgoodall.com 👇🏼

youtu.be/j8hiBI6T_24?...

Zack Polanski on populism, patriotism and poverty

YouTube video by The News Agents

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Sonia A @onnyponny.bsky.social · 4d

Ooh .. you’ve made me fancy a boiled egg now 😋

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Sonia A @onnyponny.bsky.social · 4d

I wish I could help you all, each and every one of you in Gaza. Sadly, I’m not in a position to, but I do donate monthly to several Palestinian aid organisations and will never cease to actively campaign and pray for the freedom of Palestinians until you have your own state #FreePalestine ✌️🇵🇸

Sonia A @onnyponny.bsky.social · 5d

This ⬇️

Tamara in Portugal @tamarainportugal.bsky.social · 7d

Its up to the UK to break their moronic Brexit red lines & cut right out all this tinkering around the edges - and get straight to the point of open, honest & collaborative communication.
The barriers you speak of are UKGOV owned. The EU has no responsibility to fix any of it. End of.

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 6d

An actual, real life, nuanced discussion about Brexit!!

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Michael @vivamjm.bsky.social · 6d

Brexit only ever "works" when it is not fully done.

EU entry-exit questions dropped for Eurostar passengers over fears of long delays | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

EU entry-exit questions dropped for Eurostar passengers over fears of long delays

Initial passengers through EES channels at London St Pancras have taken only 50 seconds through digital border check

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fairshare.help @fairshare.help · 5d

Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not.

Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know

Reyadmousa @reyadmousa.bsky.social · 12d

Hello, I live in Gaza and I was displaced and I do not have shelter. I am currently sleeping in the street. I ask you to help me buy shelter for my younger brothers and my family🙏🍉
gofund.me/8d0c2566

Hope in the Time of War – Help Me Feed My Family, organized by Alaaeldeen itbail

Help Me Feed My Family and Return to School Hello, … Alaaeldeen itbail braucht deine Unterstützung für Hope in the Time of War – Help Me Feed My Family

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Sonia A @onnyponny.bsky.social · 5d

Please sign and share surgeon Dr Rahmeh’s petition. Thanks to numerous Israeli lobby groups, she is being forced through a second Interim Orders Tribunal hearing, despite being cleared by an independent tribunal just two weeks earlier. www.change.org/p/drop-dr-ra...

Sign the Petition

DROP DR RAHMEH'S INVESTIGATION, HOLD THE GMC ACCOUNTABLE NOW

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