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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 29m

West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 43m

The brazen confidence is a sign the fascists believe they're controlling the narrative and the direction of travel. It's not too late to stop them.
Fascism does not need your support, just your silence.
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JD Vance ADMITS IT ALL in Insane Post

YouTube video by Adam Mockler

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 3h

"New, devastating flood risk facing nearly all UK. Flooding predicted to become so bad that some towns may need to be abandoned, and it’s not even campaigners raising the alarm – but insurers"
#climate
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Wednesday briefing: The new, devastating flood risk facing nearly all of Britain

In today’s newsletter: Flooding across Britain is predicted to become so bad that some towns may need to be abandoned, and it’s not even campaigners raising the alarm – but insurers

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Doomer Girl News @doomergirlnews.bsky.social · 1d

“We can no longer talk about tipping points as a future risk,” said Prof Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute. “The first tipping of widespread dieback of warm water coral reefs is already under way.”

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Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

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Zero Hour for the Climate & Nature Bill @zero-hour.bsky.social · 2h

📢 Lord Stern: “Investment in climate action is the economic growth story of the 21st century, while growth fuelled by fossil fuels is futile because the damage it causes ends in self-destruction.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

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Peter O’Hanraha-hanrahan @peterohanrahah.bsky.social · 2h

I have been noticing the language used to refer to people by the far right, for refugees and asylum seekers it is very dehumanising.

"invaders"
"fighting age men"
"illegals"

But, yet again this morning I've seem Lucy Connelly referred as a jailed "Mum".

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 4h

The 'protect our women thugs' standing outside Asylum Seeker residences threatening women with rape while the Police do nothing.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 5h

Labour are about to upend a bucket of petrol onto the Reform immigration binfire.

The assertion that we've "lost control of Britain's borders" is an absolute godsend for Reform, because that's what they have been bleating about all along.

Grim, grim, grim.

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 1d

I argued last year at Twitter that Netanyahu's ulterior motive in Gaza wasn't even to destroy Gazans (as viciously as he does so), but to create an ongoing crisis with which to help Trump, first to get elected and then to consolidate power.

See my thoughts from before the election...

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12h

There is no freedom of speech anymore in America.

Tuck Frump @nightmaregop.bsky.social · 12h

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Free speech is dead under Trump.

U.S. Revokes Visas For 6 Foreigners Over Charlie Kirk-Related Speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 14h

Bristol, Saturday

No tyrants protest Bristol Castle Park 2-4

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Paul Stenton @paulstenton.bsky.social · 17h

Oh dear, Farage promising to ReFuk the economy with austerity.

£90,000,000,000 tax cuts [for the super rich] scrapped from their manifesto.

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The Bear (@bearlypolitics)

BREAKING NEWS In a move that has shocked absolutely no one with basic arithmetic skills, populist right wing party trying to win votes with fantasy economics traipses around in fetching hair shirt a...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19h

October 18 is a day to stand tall against tyranny. No Crowns. No Thrones. #NoKings. Join the movement—find a No Kings Day protest near you and make your voice heard. nokings.org

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

To all you patriots (and UK authorities)

Is this not political interference of the most egregious and socially divisive kind?

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 1d

THIS. “The boys makes an off-handed offensive joke. The girls can speak up, getting the reputation as annoying…or they can let it pass & be regarded as a chill girl who isn’t angry or woke. Since Nov. 2024, the latter reaction has become far more common.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As boys shift to the right, we are seeing the rise of the ‘new chill girl’ | Naomi Beinart

Even in comparatively liberal spaces, such as my high school, girls who wince at locker room talk risk exclusion

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

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Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

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Elinor Elliot @elinorelliot.bsky.social · 1d

I really cannot bear how Farage is getting away with bare-faced lies, again and again, through the silence and complicity of the UK media. It's all there. His political career can and shoud be finished. Instead, media are making his rise inexorable. The corruption and ineptitude are beyond belief.

D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 1d

"I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."
Nigel Farage on Gill's pro-Russian statements in European Parliament.

Here's Nigel Farage & Nathan Gill in European Parliament. ⬇️
They mostly turned up to make pro-Russian/anti-EU statements.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change"

"All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern"

"I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened"

"And I get more scared every single day"

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.msnbc.com · 1d

"Those efforts have been complicated by the fact that major hedge funds, including those led by friends of Mr. Bessent, stand to benefit financially from an Argentina economic lifeline."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 2d

GB News has lost over £100 million thanks in part to SFH supporters – now, let’s do the same with X.

How to #StopFundingHate:
1️⃣ See who’s advertising on X via SFH’s social media.
2️⃣ Contact the brand with a polite message and screenshot, urging them to pull their ads from X.
3️⃣ Keep us all updated!

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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · 28d

🎥
Climate Change Myth Buster (part2)

Watch here ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw5s...

e.g.
Myth 12 it’s unseasonally cold today
Myth 13 We have plenty of time
Myth 15 Technology will sort it out
Myth 16 #ClimateChange is good for us
Myth 19 We need to give up

PL RP 🩷💚💙
#ClimateAction #video #climate

More Climate Change Myth Buster (Part 2) | My Zero Carbon

YouTube video by My Zero Carbon

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 1d

"The idea that the Trump administration would be able to find a definitive single ‘cause’ of autism in 5 months, where those 33,000+ studies have ‘failed’, was always a huge red flag."
@monkemma.bsky.social debunks the recent dangerous madness of King Don

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Paracetamol/Tylenol, autism, and the truth about risk

What decades of research (and millions of children in Sweden and Japan) really tell us about acetaminophen and pregnancy. It’s been a couple of weeks since Trump and RFK Junior told the world that ace...

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