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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 20h

At least Trump has the undying gratitude of the people of Albania. That should be enough.

Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 1d

It's NOT Trump. I pray that this doesn't reignite the war between Azerbaijan and Albania 🙏

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

LIVE: Winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize is announced
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LIVE: Winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize is announced

YouTube video by Reuters

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 9d

How's Farage going to condemn racist, Muslin hating, invasion fearing bigots without alienating all his racist, Muslim hating, invasion fearing bigots. Tricky.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d

Met officers suspended over alleged abuse of suspects and support for Tommy Robinson

BBC’s Panorama to broadcast allegations about wrongdoing at Charing Cross police station The Metropolitan police are braced for an undercover documentary showing officers and staff allegedly being supportive of the far-right activist Tommy Robinson, making anti-Muslim comments and using excessive force against suspects in custody. The allegations, which centre on Charing Cross police station in central London, are contained in a BBC Panorama documentary airing on Wednesday evening. Continue reading...

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 9d

Wine at home enthusiast Jenkyns is part of the cult of Farage. She's lost.

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 11d

Honey, I shrunk the economy again

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 14d

It's gathering pace.

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 14d

In the 60s & 70s Britain taxed the rich properly — ordinary people could buy homes. Now billionaires own the media, bankroll politicians, dodge taxes & hoard property. Housing crisis isn’t an accident, it’s what happens when the rich write the rules.

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 15d

Obviously not for the public good but I suspect somebody, somewhere made a great deal of money out of this fiasco

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 15d

Best comedy series ever 👌

Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 15d

Trumped up charges...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Former FBI director James Comey indicted on two charges

James Comey says he is innocent after being accused of lying to Congress in 2020 while testifying about leaks to the media.

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The SNP @snp.org · 15d

Farage built Brexit, and Brexit broke Britain.

Nigel Farage is the cause of the mess we’re in - not the solution.

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 16d

I've no idea who that could've been...

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 17d

Farage's comments are stupid because they ignore decades of scientific studies disproving any link between paracetamol and autism, and falsely compare a well-studied medicine to the thalidomide disaster—spreading needless fear and conspiracy nonsense. Typical of the man.

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 17d

"We were told thalidomide was a safe drug and it wasn't..."

Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17d

Ed Davey, "It's so frustrating, so infuriating that Nigel Farage gets such an easy ride from the media"

"As he lies, as he divides, the BBC and others given Farage so much time and attention"

"But they never hold him to account for all the damage he has already done"

"The damage of Brexit"

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 17d

Trump's headache over the Epstein files just won't go away...

Cat 🐈 @mrsbadcrumble1975.bsky.social · 17d

😆😆😆😆😆😆😆 epic! #Tylenol #epsteinfiles

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 20d

UN report details targeted abuses against LGBTQIA+ individuals, political activists and journalists, alongside sweeping legal changes aimed at eradicating all dissent.

Belarus isn't part of the ECHR. That's what Farage wants for our country.

news.un.org/en/story/202...

Belarus: Violations remain ‘widespread and systematic’, says independent expert group

A new report from UN Human Rights Council-mandated experts monitoring Belarus on Friday said that authorities have been committing widespread human rights violations, some amounting to crimes against ...

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 20d

Publican who hosts discussion nights for 'sensitive issues' in her pub, attends free speech rally, gets her views into national media concerned about not being able to say what she wants.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 21d

Britishness and free speech - why we travelled 200 miles to Robinson's London rally

More than 700 people who were on the march and counter-protest, contacted the BBC to express their views.

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 22d

Trump has shown that corruption, greed, and incompetence are tolerated or even celebrated by a huge portion of the American public—as long as they're given scapegoats to hate and the feeling that they're owning the libs. There will be others just as bad.

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 22d

Mrs Brown's Boys? Ever the optimist.....

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22d

Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert … who is the next to be silenced? | Moira Donegan

When a regime can use the power of the law to punish speech because it does not like that speech’s content, then speech is not free

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 22d

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

Turns out, mom was right.

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 23d

American media standing up to Trump's fascist bullying......

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 23d

On a par with, plants have feelings too

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 23d

Deeply cynical. Terms like 'disproportionate' highlight society’s effort to measure equity, not merely reflect envy. Justice isn’t about masking motives, but about creating standards for fairness beyond personal perspective, aiming for more inclusive and balanced outcomes.

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 23d

While perceptions of fairness may be influenced by individual views, societies establish shared norms & legal frameworks as pure individualism often fails to address systemic inequalities. Assessing disproportionate resource accumulation is not rooted in envy, but in a collective pursuit of justice.

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Michael 🌱 Ⓥ @changedgear.bsky.social · 24d

Hope the police can distinguish between malicious communications and communications about a malicious person.

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