MandyB
@mandy1b.bsky.social
Keen on fair values, reasoned thinking & empowerment. Against all abuse of power. Interested in education, humanistic psychology, politics, art, classical music, gardens, science & humour. Trying to find a balance between self-preservation & engagement.
This video gives a detailed explanation, which at 1st is reassuring but it's supremely worrying that everyone around him must know this already, so they CHOSE to keep him around as a 'useful idiot' to create chaos, $$$ and time for them to put their plans in place for what's to follow. USA, act now!
Trump could die or be forced to resign under threat of the 25th Amendment because of dementia.
January 21, 2026 at 3:16 PM
This video gives a detailed explanation, which at 1st is reassuring but it's supremely worrying that everyone around him must know this already, so they CHOSE to keep him around as a 'useful idiot' to create chaos, $$$ and time for them to put their plans in place for what's to follow. USA, act now!
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-valuel... @lewisgoodall.com Excellent, as usual: "Britain’s position is especially exposed. We can wield little influence over an erratic president, and we have severed ourselves from the E.U. — a strategic error that looks more egregious with each passing day"
The Valueless Presidency
America is no longer Europe's ally. Stop bleating about NATO. It's already gone.
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:20 PM
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-valuel... @lewisgoodall.com Excellent, as usual: "Britain’s position is especially exposed. We can wield little influence over an erratic president, and we have severed ourselves from the E.U. — a strategic error that looks more egregious with each passing day"
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🔥🔥🔥 Here's the EU telling Trump and his cronies that they've made a huge mistake in thinking European restraint means weakness: "We are Europe, and we will always stand up for our way."
#Greenland 🇬🇱🕊
#Greenland 🇬🇱🕊
United in our support for Denmark and the people of Greenland.
January 20, 2026 at 1:12 AM
🔥🔥🔥 Here's the EU telling Trump and his cronies that they've made a huge mistake in thinking European restraint means weakness: "We are Europe, and we will always stand up for our way."
#Greenland 🇬🇱🕊
#Greenland 🇬🇱🕊
Interesting and surprisingly reassuring. Professor Poutine @TrevorsHistoryReels on YouTube: "There are two major miscalculations happening right now in the United States and they've got huge consequences."
January 19, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Interesting and surprisingly reassuring. Professor Poutine @TrevorsHistoryReels on YouTube: "There are two major miscalculations happening right now in the United States and they've got huge consequences."
I suggest that the Nobel Foundation add a future clause e.g. “anyone found to have attempted to pass on or distribute their prize will be deemed to have nullified their award and will be struck from the record" (+ legal words). I doubt they could apply this retroactively, but it would make the point
January 18, 2026 at 7:36 PM
I suggest that the Nobel Foundation add a future clause e.g. “anyone found to have attempted to pass on or distribute their prize will be deemed to have nullified their award and will be struck from the record" (+ legal words). I doubt they could apply this retroactively, but it would make the point
"Trump’s attacks on the ... existence of Nato his contempt for Europe ... & his ... support for Putin’s land grabs mean that the UK could negotiate better terms for re-entering the EU now than it would have done before the US president tore up international law & turned on America’s oldest friends"
January 18, 2026 at 12:49 PM
"Trump’s attacks on the ... existence of Nato his contempt for Europe ... & his ... support for Putin’s land grabs mean that the UK could negotiate better terms for re-entering the EU now than it would have done before the US president tore up international law & turned on America’s oldest friends"
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The harm Brexit has done to business and the economy, a clear summary achieved in 2 mins👇. Here's my starter list of other harms: defence, security, alliances and international relations, global influence, science, research, and education, social unity and cohesion and impacts on mental health.
Ten years on, I’m not sure people voted for what Brexit has delivered.
The value of new trade deals? Around £14bn a year.
The cost of Brexit to the economy? Closer to £180bn a year.
See a clip from today's committee hearing here:
The value of new trade deals? Around £14bn a year.
The cost of Brexit to the economy? Closer to £180bn a year.
See a clip from today's committee hearing here:
January 14, 2026 at 4:42 PM
The harm Brexit has done to business and the economy, a clear summary achieved in 2 mins👇. Here's my starter list of other harms: defence, security, alliances and international relations, global influence, science, research, and education, social unity and cohesion and impacts on mental health.
It’s important that Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk and Emma @monkemma.bsky.social are supported in what they are doing because strongly principled, values-based, passionate people, willing to speak up, in an evidence-based and clear way, are SO much needed.
This Sunday evening, episode one of Bear and Monk Debunk is live, in which @monkemma.bsky.social examines the shooting of Renee Nicole Goode in Minneapolis and how it’s been misrepresented, while I dig into the panic and confusion around the Online Safety Act and X.
Listen below.
Listen below.
Bear and Monk Debunk #1: Minneapolis & The Online Safety Act
Separating fact from froth: Minneapolis, the Online Safety Act, and the misinformation pipeline connecting them.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 7:41 PM
It’s important that Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk and Emma @monkemma.bsky.social are supported in what they are doing because strongly principled, values-based, passionate people, willing to speak up, in an evidence-based and clear way, are SO much needed.
Please share this Avaaz campaign to make this the biggest global call against Trump's aggression. Avaaz is about to deliver it to governments around the world, calling on world leaders to stand up to Trump and defend our values. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
Stand Up To Trump!
After attacking Venezuela, Trump is now threatening Colombia, Cuba, and Greenland. We need our leaders to stand up to him - before it's too late!
secure.avaaz.org
January 10, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Please share this Avaaz campaign to make this the biggest global call against Trump's aggression. Avaaz is about to deliver it to governments around the world, calling on world leaders to stand up to Trump and defend our values. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
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"Waking up to the threat posed by the USA".
Not just to #Venezuela and the Americas, but to any country which has something America wants: oil, natural resources and minerals, territory.
And not just Trump, but Vance and warmongering Republicans
#r4today #skynews
youtube.com/shorts/3hy_y...
Not just to #Venezuela and the Americas, but to any country which has something America wants: oil, natural resources and minerals, territory.
And not just Trump, but Vance and warmongering Republicans
#r4today #skynews
youtube.com/shorts/3hy_y...
Why this might be the year we take the threat that the US poses seriously...
YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics
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January 5, 2026 at 6:19 AM
"Waking up to the threat posed by the USA".
Not just to #Venezuela and the Americas, but to any country which has something America wants: oil, natural resources and minerals, territory.
And not just Trump, but Vance and warmongering Republicans
#r4today #skynews
youtube.com/shorts/3hy_y...
Not just to #Venezuela and the Americas, but to any country which has something America wants: oil, natural resources and minerals, territory.
And not just Trump, but Vance and warmongering Republicans
#r4today #skynews
youtube.com/shorts/3hy_y...
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What just happened ...
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
January 4, 2026 at 8:33 AM
What just happened ...
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
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So I made this video 4 years ago - and somehow things have got worse since then… youtu.be/bJnT2yL66Kw?...
Interview for a senior role at BBC News
YouTube video by Matt Green Comedy
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
So I made this video 4 years ago - and somehow things have got worse since then… youtu.be/bJnT2yL66Kw?...
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Our 2025 version of "Carol of the Bells" - originally a Ukrainian New Year celebration song "Shchedryk" - music 1st written by Mykola Leontovych in Pokrovsk (now under Russian occupation). The composer would be murdered by a Soviet agent in 1921.
#SlavaUkraïni
#dontabandonthem
youtu.be/vvMLtJ-Wyfs
#SlavaUkraïni
#dontabandonthem
youtu.be/vvMLtJ-Wyfs
"Carol of the Bells" / "Shchedryk" - Marsh Family adaptation of Ukrainian New Year song for 2026
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Our 2025 version of "Carol of the Bells" - originally a Ukrainian New Year celebration song "Shchedryk" - music 1st written by Mykola Leontovych in Pokrovsk (now under Russian occupation). The composer would be murdered by a Soviet agent in 1921.
#SlavaUkraïni
#dontabandonthem
youtu.be/vvMLtJ-Wyfs
#SlavaUkraïni
#dontabandonthem
youtu.be/vvMLtJ-Wyfs
Everyone in the UK needs to be fully awake to the links between Farage, Gill, Tice and Russia, which are well described in this @ledbydonkeys.org video.
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Everyone in the UK needs to be fully awake to the links between Farage, Gill, Tice and Russia, which are well described in this @ledbydonkeys.org video.
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Take the Buybull…
December 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Take the Buybull…
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In case you missed it ...
Here's Katherine Hepburn exposing a fascist plan to take over America in the 1942 film "Keeper of the Flame". The parallels between that plot and what's happening in the USA and elewhere today is staggering!
Here's Katherine Hepburn exposing a fascist plan to take over America in the 1942 film "Keeper of the Flame". The parallels between that plot and what's happening in the USA and elewhere today is staggering!
December 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
In case you missed it ...
Here's Katherine Hepburn exposing a fascist plan to take over America in the 1942 film "Keeper of the Flame". The parallels between that plot and what's happening in the USA and elewhere today is staggering!
Here's Katherine Hepburn exposing a fascist plan to take over America in the 1942 film "Keeper of the Flame". The parallels between that plot and what's happening in the USA and elewhere today is staggering!
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Please sign and share this petition
Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK.
It's time to force Starmer to get his head out of the sand and address the economic and geopolitical damage Brexit is inflicting on this country.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK.
It's time to force Starmer to get his head out of the sand and address the economic and geopolitical damage Brexit is inflicting on this country.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK
We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...
petition.parliament.uk
December 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Please sign and share this petition
Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK.
It's time to force Starmer to get his head out of the sand and address the economic and geopolitical damage Brexit is inflicting on this country.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK.
It's time to force Starmer to get his head out of the sand and address the economic and geopolitical damage Brexit is inflicting on this country.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
As a Brit, I may be over-focused on the situation in America but I have unconsciously created a list of Americans I support and am fond of. This conversation between 2 of my top 10 ( @politicsgirl.bsky.social @johnfugelsang.bsky.social ) shows why they inspire hope. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVQT...
Trump and MAGA FAKE CHRISTIANITY EXPOSED by FED UP Fugelsang | PoliticsGirl| PoliticsGirl
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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December 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
As a Brit, I may be over-focused on the situation in America but I have unconsciously created a list of Americans I support and am fond of. This conversation between 2 of my top 10 ( @politicsgirl.bsky.social @johnfugelsang.bsky.social ) shows why they inspire hope. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVQT...
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There should especially be an investigation into any Russian influence over Brexit.
An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue. And we all know who should be questioned first.
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
There should especially be an investigation into any Russian influence over Brexit.
#WesStreeting on #ThisMorning today, in his smart casuals, talking about men's health and implying that the more he sees of the PM job, the more he doesn't want it. Could you get a clearer sign that his campaign to be PM is well underway?
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
#WesStreeting on #ThisMorning today, in his smart casuals, talking about men's health and implying that the more he sees of the PM job, the more he doesn't want it. Could you get a clearer sign that his campaign to be PM is well underway?
Watching the U.S. from the U.K., it's important that we engage with, learn from and support all of those who shine a light and resist what's happening. Then we need to be proactive to stop the same process from gaining further momentum here.
I’ve been trying to articulate this forever and this quote says it perfectly. Real hope isn’t passive, it’s active. But it’s also worth remembering that action doesn’t always mean sweeping change or grand gestures. Small choices count too. What a fabulous woman Dr. Goodall was. RIP.
November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Watching the U.S. from the U.K., it's important that we engage with, learn from and support all of those who shine a light and resist what's happening. Then we need to be proactive to stop the same process from gaining further momentum here.
Kevin spells out the dangers of letting the unprincipled, power-hungry get a foothold. They may be much, much more difficult to stop once they dismantle the guardrails. I hope the U.S. public can fight back successfully and that the U.K. learns from watching the whole process play out.
THREAD 🧵: Yesterday was the municipal election in Pennsylvania where we chose judges and local politicians.
Republicans got their asses kicked, even in red counties.
Americans are stressed out, broke, and pissed the fuck off - and yesterday was a loud referendum on the MAGA junta.
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Republicans got their asses kicked, even in red counties.
Americans are stressed out, broke, and pissed the fuck off - and yesterday was a loud referendum on the MAGA junta.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Kevin spells out the dangers of letting the unprincipled, power-hungry get a foothold. They may be much, much more difficult to stop once they dismantle the guardrails. I hope the U.S. public can fight back successfully and that the U.K. learns from watching the whole process play out.