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Marion Friedl @mari-19.bsky.social · 10h

USDA: Ban Bullhooks Now!
51,449 signatures toward our 75,000 goal (without mine), please sign/share. Bullhooks are used to "discipline" elephants at zoos and circusses, even here in Germany too.
theanimalrescuesite.com/blogs/petiti...

USDA: Ban Bullhooks Now! | The Animal Rescue Site

Bullhooks are used to pressure elephants into obeying their trainers, but they cause serious injury. Help us ban bullhooks now!

theanimalrescuesite.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h

They gained more than 6000 members in a single day. There are now more Green members than members of the Conservative Party and their membership is more than double the reported membership of the LibDems.

www.thenational.scot/news/2555611...

Will the BBC face up to the Green Party's membership surge?

www.thenational.scot

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

Christ alive. If we, as a nation, can’t do better than this nasty, stale-breathed, stale-minded, racist misogynist prick, then what the hell are we doing? Leading in the polls??
FFS. Sort yourself out, UK.

Photo of Farage being interviewed by Mishal Husain.

Because he feels uncomfortable about his position on Putin, he replies to her…

‘Listen love, you’re trying ever so hard….’

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Philippa Banks @phil510.bsky.social · 11h

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Blood Cheddar: Cathedral City Cheese Exposed (GRAPHIC WARNING)

YouTube video by Joey Carbstrong

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Silke Smith @silkesmith.bsky.social · 10h

Texas!
www.idausa.org/campaign/jus...

Helpless Kitten Fed to a Snake by a Teacher in Front of Her Students

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Silke Smith @silkesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Where has our British sense of the ridiculous gone? Once over, we would have laughed at clowns like Tommeh and Fartage, and they wouldn't have had a hope in hell of getting elected

Tricia Alderson 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @tricia-a.bsky.social · 1d

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Silke Smith @silkesmith.bsky.social · 1d

All big businesses should pay tax where they make money and if that's multiple countries? Fair enough. Why should smaller businesses pay tax in the country in which they trade and big businesses not do the same?

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 1d

Hiring RFKJR as head of The
Dept. Of Health Showed Us How
Little Value Chump Placed on
American Citizens Health and
Healthcare......

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Silke Smith @silkesmith.bsky.social · 1d

You are, of course, correct, and if we decided to have an elected head of state, they too should have no political power. We can't risk a situation like they're having in the USA

Silke Smith @silkesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Look at the USA

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

People say to me you always blame billionaires for everything.

Who owns the Housing?
Who owns the Energy?
Who owns the Supermarkets?
Who owns the Healthcare?
Who owns the fucking Government?

They are responsible for everything.

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Silke Smith @silkesmith.bsky.social · 2d

Don't need to, I've said it myself. Many times

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Silke Smith @silkesmith.bsky.social · 2d

It's only been a year, but frankly, I don't believe anything she says.
I didn't look at the date of the article, I'm at work. It was a quick read.
Pre 2008 there were less than a dozen food banks in the UK

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Silke Smith @silkesmith.bsky.social · 2d

She wants to get rid of food banks? That's actually a good thing if she's going to reduce poverty to pre 2008 levels but I'm not convinced that's what she's saying..

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Silke Smith @silkesmith.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone should push back! We pay their wages with our taxes

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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 3d

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Silke Smith @silkesmith.bsky.social · 2d

It's how they're trained..

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Silke Smith @silkesmith.bsky.social · 2d

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Urge Road Runner Sports and FIT4MOM to Run Away From SeaWorld’s 5K Promotions

Urge Road Runner Sports and FIT4MOM to stop sponsoring events at SeaWorld.

support.peta.org

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Silke Smith @silkesmith.bsky.social · 3d

Straight out of Trump's playbook

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4d

Libraries in Reform UK run Staffordshire are being forced to close.

They are refusing to hire much needed staff and refusing over time or paying for staff to be covered. This is resulting in libraries closing because of too few staff, despite there being available staff to cover.

#Farageheit411

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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 3d

Israel tortured and sexually humiliated Greta Thunberg.

Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg

YouTube video by Caitlin Johnstone

youtube.com

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Silke Smith @silkesmith.bsky.social · 3d

They've got the live hostages so they can just wipe out the Palestinians now. They had to male a show of caring about them. No need now

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Everyone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 4d

Breaking news: Nigel Farage and Reform have been secretly meeting with the extremists who helped BAN abortion in the USA.

Since cosying up to them, Farage has started talking about limiting abortion.

If Reform think they’re “taking back control” of women’s bodies, they can f*ck right off.

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Silke Smith @silkesmith.bsky.social · 3d

protectthewild.org.uk/lbc-petition...

LBC petition - Protect the Wild

Tell LBC and Ian Payne to show compassion for wildlife 4401 people have taken action so far. Help us reach 5000 First name Last name Email Phone Subject Letter Dear LBC and Ian Payne, On 14 October 20...

protectthewild.org.uk

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 3d

via Expose Racism

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