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Stefan 🥼 @stefank1117.bsky.social · 4h

Who wants their $250 medication for free and collect an additional $1000 in cash?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We're gonna be reducing the cost of medicines by 100%, 200%, 300%, 500% and even more than that."

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 19h

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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 13h

Is there any way someone can convince me that there's not a whole lot more to this chapter!? I doubt it!
#Menage
#Threesome
#PastImmoralities

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 1d

Female First: 'Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome'

'The test..showed 92% sensitivity and 98% specificity. The team examined 47 patients with severe ME/CFS and compared results to 61 healthy individuals.'

www.femalefirst.co.uk/lifestyle/sc...

Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome

Scientists say they have developed the worlds first accurate blood test to diagnose myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome MECFS.

www.femalefirst.co.uk

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a better indication of how superficial and unhelpful mainstream media has become than that they are cutely musing about whether the domestic terrorist who changed "The Department of Defense" to "The Department of War" will get a Nobel Peace Prize—instead of reporting the fascism/terrorism.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

"Accuse the other of that of which you are guilty" as Goebbels, an inspiration for Farage?, observed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Anarchist Memes @anarchistmemes.org · 1d

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Roibeárd Meillear @beaniebob.bsky.social · 1d

Facts, facts, and more facts

What support do asylum seekers get in the UK?

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What support do asylum seekers get in the UK? – Full Fact

Can asylum seekers claim benefits, use the NHS or get a free iPhone? We’ve answered some of the most common questions we see about the support given.

fullfact.org

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

GB News pay party political leader Nigel Farage over half a million pounds. The TV channel pays him five times his MP salary - and as much as his other 11 further external jobs put together
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

It would take the average UK earner 52 years’ worth of earnings to join the richest 10%.

Up from 38 years in 2006-08. Rich buy political influence.

Govts help the rich. Bottom 20% pay higher proportion of income in than the richest 20%.

Inequalities obstruct economic growth, fuel social unrest.

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

www.theguardian.com

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 2d

Sky News: 'Scientists develop first-ever blood test to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome'

'The researchers, from the University of East Anglia, hope the breakthrough could pave the way for a similar test to diagnose long COVID'

news.sky.com/story/scient...

Scientists develop first-ever blood test to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome

CFS is a disabling illness characterised by extreme fatigue that is not relieved by rest.

news.sky.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

The regulator Ofwat has ruled that 5 private water companies can raise bills by even more than previously agreed

A reminder that despite promising to nationalise the water industry Starmer dumped that pledge &decided to side with the private companies instead. This is the result

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 2d

Remember: "I was just following orders" wasn't a valid defense at Nuremberg either.

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 2d

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 2d

Are We Waking Up Fast Enough to the Dangers of AI Militarism?

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Are We Waking Up Fast Enough to the Dangers of AI Militarism?

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d

IN HONOR OF FRIENDSHIP MONTH:

djt: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey."

Epstein: "Yes we do, come to think of it."

djt: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday- and may every day be another wonderful secret."

And by "wonderful secret", he means raping children.

#PedoPrez

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variant9.bsky.social @variant9.bsky.social · 3d

not very smart of a navy seal

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Twitter Expat 🧚🏽‍♀️🧚🏽 @pinkdream.bsky.social · 3d

It gets even better….

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 4d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 4d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 3d

Don't forget that 41 Tory MPs in the last government took Russian donations. That might account for media reticence to report on the Nathan Gill case.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3d

🔴 The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

"Media companies, governments and public figures are pretending to themselves that it will all get better. It won't. The Twitter many of us joined is dead and, while X is not yet, it should be" @ottoenglish.bsky.social

The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

bylinetimes.com

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Roibeárd Meillear @beaniebob.bsky.social · 3d

Impressive to the end

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 4d

I hope they realise what they're doing for the sake of being a cog in a genocide machine and go retrain as something useful like a firefighter instead

and if they don't do that I hope some harm befalls them that renders them unable to harm civilians any further

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 4d

It's cool that we're so brain broken now from US media exposure that the Gardaí deploying chemical weapons on civilians for the crime of "trying to inconvenience some motorists for an hour or two" is seen as normal policing and not something that warrants being hounded into resignations

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Roibeárd Meillear @beaniebob.bsky.social · 4d

This matters to everyone

If police admit spying on journalists in Northern Ireland then you can be sure as bears s..t in the woods then trade union and labour/community activists will be scrutinised by nefarious means.

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