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Jude @2jude.bsky.social · Sep 14

Musk incites violence and insurrection in the UK and there is no push back from the government??
We’re not just sliding, we seem to be welcoming Fascism with open arms and red carpets.

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Jude @2jude.bsky.social · Apr 15

Does this count ?

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Jude @2jude.bsky.social · Apr 7

My task for the day..
Trump is not Putin’s stooge. Explain

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Jude @2jude.bsky.social · Apr 7

Is Trump/Project 25 plan to cause WW3 through sparking a global recession?

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Jude @2jude.bsky.social · Apr 7

How is Musk able to ‘lose’ HALF A TRILLION dollars and he and Trump are still in their respective posts?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Apr 7

In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Mar 24

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Jude @2jude.bsky.social · Apr 1

This IS an April Fool joke, right ?? 🤞🤞🤞

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Mar 30

As it's the fourth anniversary of me nearly dying and my life completely changing - here's the post I wrote on the first anniversary. Always feels like I should mark it somehow. (Free to read).

samf.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...

Lessons From a Near Death Experience – a Year On

Apologies for a more personal piece – we’ll be back to the politics and international relations soon (and there is a bit of policy in this one at the end I promise).

samf.substack.com

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · Mar 14

Hi, we are an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible 👋🏻 With us, you select the independent bookshop you want to support (we have 3,000+ partners across the globe), and we share profits from your purchase with them.

We're also employee-owned and a registered Social Purpose Corporation.

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Jude @2jude.bsky.social · Mar 12

I was in my 20’s before I understood Chameleon was pronounced cameeleon not shamelon🫣

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · Mar 8

There is an alternative to Government welfare cuts - a 2% tax on wealth. There is no shortage of money here, we just need a fairer approach to tax - take more from the few not the many.

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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · Feb 21

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Feb 22

Worst. Episode. EVER.

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ændra. @aendra.com · Jan 23

📌 📰 News feeds • PINNED POST
(Expand this thread for feed info)

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Jude @2jude.bsky.social · Feb 1

1st daffodil of spring humankind may shock, nature brings the awe❤️

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Jude @2jude.bsky.social · Feb 1

Calendular, spread the seeds liberally.. easy to grow, bees love the flowers, and you can make a tincture that heals wounds better than any shop brought antiseptic 🌻

a greeting card with a flower and the words good morning

ALT: a greeting card with a flower and the words good morning

media.tenor.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Jan 29

YouGov find just 30% of people think we were right to leave the EU. The lowest number yet.

Just 10% of 18-24 year olds think it was the right decision.

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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · Jan 25

I’m sure the Sunday papers will be doing massive write throughs on the amazing story of how a Royal and a minister forced Murdoch empire to admit widespread Sun criminal activity. I mean look how the dailies covered it next day!! All in this together! So they bury it. Mail still in firing line 2026

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · Jan 25

Looks like Labour's next big opportunity to disappoint is already limbering up.

It's hard to see them letting a trade deal with the US slip over a piffling hiccup like leaving the NHS to be pilfered by US companies.

Once it's gone, it's gone for good.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · Jan 24

NEW

How Harry and Watson forced News Group Newspapers to admit wrongdoing

Why the circumstances show it was NGN wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants—that brought this case to its end

By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

The best explanation is perhaps not that the prince and Watson had finally buckled to costs risk; it instead looks like a desperate last-minute move by a publisher anxious to avoid a public trial of the claims.

It appears from the evidence available that NGN signalled that it would actually accept liability. If so, this would change everything. If NGN accepted it was liable for at least the main part of the claims, there would be no need for a full trial—for there would be nothing to be tried. The prince and the politician would not now be able to force a full trial even if they had wanted to do.

For a defendant to admit liability is an unusual, if not unique litigation ploy.

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Tom Pearson @tom7p.bsky.social · Jan 24

Good to see @bylinesnetwork.co.uk add a post to @bsky.app button.
Hopefully other websites will follow suit soon, and perhaps even remove the post to X option.

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · Jan 23

🔥 YES! LOOK AT THAT! 🔥

I’m delighted to announce that all articles from all Bylines publications now have a share on Bluesky button 🦋 at the top of the article- in first place.

Try it out.

And make sure you “follow all” in the Bylines starter pack (see my pinned post).

@bsky.app

Screenshot of a North East Bylines article, with the Bluesky share button circled in red.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · Jan 25

With Tesco and Lidl among the retailers wading in to the farmer IHT row, as @dalevince.com points out is this really a PR stunt to cover up their less than favourable tactics towards British farmers... like farmwashing?

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · Jan 24

Elon Musk has posed as a champion of those poor bereaved families in Southport

but the killer watched a violent video just before his killing spree *on X*

and Musk is refusing to take it down despite numerous official requests from UK & Australian authorities

www.ft.com/content/3c89...

X refuses to remove stabbing video watched by Southport killer

Axel Rudakubana was able to view Australian clip before murdering three young children despite pleas from authorities

www.ft.com

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Jan 24

It's official.

Upsides: Numerous.
Downsides: None.

Political decisions really don't come easier than this. All that is needed is a little bit of the dynamism that *should* accompany a majority of over 150 MPs. ~AA #YMS #YouthMobility

commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Potential merits of a Youth Mobility Scheme between the EU and the UK

There will be a Westminster Hall debate on the potential merits of a Youth Mobility Scheme between the EU and the UK on 29 January 2025, led by Sarah Olney MP.

commonslibrary.parliament.uk

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JohnWest_JAWS @johnwestjaws.bsky.social · Jan 24

The UK government has banned the emergency use of neonicitinoid pesticides.

There has been much bollocks in the press that the government MIGHT NOT do this.

Well, they have.

It is the correct action and should be celebrated.

Governance is actions, not pantomime.

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