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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 7h

Labour is telling you VERY LOUDLY who to vote for if you value human rights. And it's definitely NOT LABOUR.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 20h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 7h

Private equity takeover of US hospitals led to rise in patient deaths.

Cuts to staffing/investment; high debt, profiteering; worse patient outcomes.

More deaths in nursing homes, increased post-operative complications

Why is UK Govt handing the NHS to PE? Why no investigation of the impact of PE?

Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study

Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals

www.theguardian.com

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 11h

Netanyahu announces Israel will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite it being a key ceasefire agreement clause.

Didn't take long, did it?

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 20h

A typical British worker would need to save all of their earning for 52 years to become wealthy, new research has found.

Typical Brit must save entire lifetime's worth of earnings to become wealthy

www.bigissue.com

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 20h

Important: educationhub.blog.gov.uk
Vaccination: a key line of defence
Handwashing: a simple, powerful tool
Coughs & sneezes: can spread diseases
Good ventilation can help remove air that contains virus particles & help prevent airborne spread of respiratory infections such as colds, flu & COVID-19.

Reducing the spread of illness this winter: Seven steps to healthier schools and higher school attendance

As the colder months approach, we can expect to see increases in common airborne viruses. Illness is the biggest single reason for school absence; while some absences due to illness are unavoidable, m...

educationhub.blog.gov.uk

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 20h

Gavin Williamson has described the decision to open, then close, primary schools on 4 January 2021 as “panicked”.

I would describe it as idiotic.

Boris Johnson gave parents 'false hope' over schools reopening, Gavin Williamson tells Covid inquiry

Watch as the former education secretary gives evidence at the inquiry, which is focusing on the impact of the pandemic on children and young people.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

In 2022 when I was campaigning on vaccines for clinically vulnerable children I was infuriated that MPs refused to reply or respond to parents asking for help but some MPs did meet with antivaxxer parents group USfoThem but are still ignoring us. Even though 88 children had died from covid.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3d

UK travellers should expect "four-hour queues" as new EU border system comes into force. Brexit really is the gift that keeps giving

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 1d

Maybe Clarkson will join Reform….he’d be a good fit - full of hot air and out of touch with reality.

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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 1d

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The War Llama @thewarllama.bsky.social · 1d

The truth about the Green Party's booming membership: we have had enough of being exploited and manipulated by millionaires and billionaires who would rather burn the Earth and watch children starve than pay a minute fraction of their hoarded wealth in tax.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Many on the right will try and belittle and undermine what’s happening.

But here’s the truth. Tens of thousands are joining Greens. Polls are at record highs. People are just starting to feel hope again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The truth about the green party's booming membership

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Shaun Bent @shaunbent.co.uk · 1d

I'm in! ✅

I feel energised, engaged and for the first time in a longtime like I have a political home!

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Many on the right will try and belittle and undermine what’s happening.

But here’s the truth. Tens of thousands are joining Greens. Polls are at record highs. People are just starting to feel hope again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 1d

That vibe of when you can afford to buy your own media empire but don’t want to pay more in taxes …

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 1d

Given the competing self interests of Polanski (make a fairer more sustainable world to live in) and Spectator owner multimillionaire Marshall (avoid paying taxes on hoarded wealth), I’m going to go with Polanski

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

Respect to those who got here first.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

There is no ceasefire.

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 2d

Hospitals across the world have recorded an alarming rise in common infections that are resistant to antibiotics, with doctors saying the number of deaths driven by drug resistance will increase sharply in the years ahead.

Sharp global rise in antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals, WHO finds

Experts describe findings as deeply concerning and predict 70% increase in related deaths by 2050

www.theguardian.com

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 3d

Untreated HIV can take on average around 10 years to progress to AIDS. This means HIV was unknowingly circulating throughout the ‘70s (and likely before). Going by this rough timeline, we won’t know what damage a single COVID infection, let alone several, does long term until around 2030.

Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 3d

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Lower bills.

Fund our NHS.

Not their culture war nonsense.

youtu.be/1CbN6TUTRZs?...

Zack Polanski HUMILIATES Piers Morgan LIVE On Air!

YouTube video by Antony Jones

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 4d

When Fox News lies, people die | We explain on PBS Newshour how the antiscience disinformation spread by the Murdoch media empire and especially Fox News, likely lead to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths in the U.S. And that's just COVID-19. Their fossil fuel disinformation is as deadly.

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 7d

"Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science" | My #ScienceUnderSiege co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I spoke with @wbrangham.bsky.social of the @pbs.org #Newshour:
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science

From its embrace of dubious research about autism, its skepticism over vaccines and its wholesale rejection of the consensus about climate change, the Trump administration has set off alarm bells with...

www.pbs.org

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Kegel @kegel7.bsky.social · 3d

F**k the BBC and its lies. This is why I don't have a TV license!

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 8d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d

Left: Labour's Bridget Phillipson saying British Jews find the anti genocide in Israel protests "deeply upsetting"

Right: A British Jew on the anti-genocide in Israel protest wearing a watermelon a kippah

Shame on Labour for conflating anti genocide protests with anti Jewish sentiment -disgraceful

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 3d

Today in London I was impressed by the diversity I saw at the Palestine solidarity march. People from all over with different backgrounds, ethnicities & ages. All united by their refusal to silence their humanity in the face of injustice.
A powerful display of hope.
This is the real England 🤍

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