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Alan Stedman

@alanjstedman.bsky.social

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You will find me around the middle of the room. Outward looking because if you are not you get isolated and stop learning NHS for many years before retiring. Read a lot, listen a lot. Dovestones Reservoir ⬆️ I don't have access to DMs so don't bother!

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · Nov 14

If you want me to follow you I need to see a bit in your timeline to have an idea of who you are and what you're about please

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 12m

From tiny streams do rivers run

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 12h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 14m

Get in!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 17m

They are just making up stuff now and it's just embarrassing longer term for the USA, because as their Christian leaders know lying gets you into trouble

Checks notes...

Oh, they have been making stuff up since 2015 POTUS election then?

Who'd have thought?

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Noem: “We are hoping…we will get more and more information about the network and how we can route them out and eliminate them from the existence of American society…Antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them. They are just as dangerous.”

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1h

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1h

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 11h

Head hits desk.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 52m

I hope I can assume that the world's scientists will facepalm but carry on with the accepted scientific methods of research and set a flamethrower on any research he comes up with

Longer term this lot will go away. Limiting the damage and sticking to principles now is vital

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 1h

Probably my favourite song of theirs

Got up to reset the stylus many many times to replay it

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 1h

What, a bit of charisma is needed to punch through in politics?

Who'd have thought?

Problem is it starts at the top

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 7h

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 10h

Still my favourite

I mistyped Farage once and got offered Garbage

I left it in

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 10h

Heard the name but that's about it. I could not have placed him as an author tbf

At least it's not Trump for his I suspect, ghosted, books

Down to one chance left for him I think

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 10h

Yep conversations with my son, a Primary school teacher confirm that

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 10h

Add some fruit and we could call him a fruitcake as well!

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 10h

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 10h

Beautiful words mja 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 10h

I read Brazzaville Beach when it came out. There are only a few of Boyd's books I haven't read

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 10h

Which footage Ian?

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 13h

Bit late I know but I have only just come across this photo of Jane Goodall who left us last week

Captures the essence of the lady and her work I feel

Photo is by Michael 'Nick' Nicholls, taken in Brazzaville in 1990 using a 35mm camera

RIP Jane ❤️

Photo showing Jane Goodall (died 1st Oct 2025) bowing her head towards the outstretched hand of a chimpanzee. The background is deliberately blurred to ensure focus on the hand reaching towards Jane's forehead. It is almost touching and is having to do so through strands of Jane's blonde hair that is falling forwards over her dipped head. Jane is smiling

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 14h

Yes I did think about that

Grind them down gradually by piling on the pressure over time which might work

I worry that fatigue will set in over 3.5 years, with many voters just switching off

There's for me another thing to think about now. How is that 'centre' vote going to pan out...split?

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 14h

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 19h

Well, a generation perhaps

Interestingly, my son now 34 still cannot forgive the LDs for breaking their promise on Student Uni fees

Not sure of the body of evidence but anecdotally I suggest people don't forget things like these examples easily

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 19h

Well integrated cat that one so should pass muster

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 19h

Is it just me (and yes conference season has just ended) but it feels to me like some party leaders and some big guns here have kind of slipped into GE mode

We are four years away from that for goodness sake. At this rate GE 2029 will be a damp squib because we have run out of things to say!

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 20h

Can you imagine the freedom of speech crew screeching if say Liddle or Lawson from the S Times were banned from attending LD or Green conference?

(I am assuming they wouldn't be of course if they applied, as pretty difficult to check)

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 22h

🔵 “I think the Tories are manoeuvring [towards Trump]. Look at the conference promising to deport thousands of people. It’s very Trumpian stuff. And on net zero. There’s no question.”

https://bit.ly/4nJDABQ

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

Veteran award-winning investigative journalist David Hencke has attended Conservative party conference since 1987 but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

bylinetimes.com

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