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MaryamB (She/Her) #FBPE #BanX #DemocracyDiedInDarkness 6Nov24🖤 @maryamb.bsky.social · 9h

How about more GPs in surgeries? People may not have to go to long term sick leave if they can get an appointment quickly. #WithNHSStaff

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10h

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10h

Thanks to London’s bold action, almost 10 million people are now breathing cleaner air.

That means fewer children will grow up with stunted lungs and fewer people will have to suffer from asthma, dementia and heart disease.

London hits clean air milestone 184 years early - ULEZ makes 'big difference'

A professor has branded the success a 'truly remarkable turnaround for the city's air quality'

www.mylondon.news

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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 20h

Three years ago today, Abdolfazl, Peyman, and Yahya were all killed by the Islamic Republic for taking part in the Woman, Life, Freedom protests. Read their stories, and keep their memories alive on the Omid Memorial. Link: buff.ly/lLwmenA

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Civil.ge @civil.ge · 1d

"No justice - no peace" - protesters respond with a vibrant march as Georgian Dream threatens to end daily Rustaveli Avenue rallies. Day 315 of non-stop #GeorgiaProtests
🎥 Nini Gabritchidze/Civil.ge

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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 1d

Rustaveli Avenue is packed on Day 315 of uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia.

Yesterday, GD threatened the protest with provocations and threats, so even more people showed up today. #GeorgiaProtests

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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 1d

Day 315 of uninterrupted, nationwide #GeorgiaProtests. ✊🇬🇪

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Tata Chemia @tatach.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you ⁦‪Laura Thornton‬⁩ ✊🏼

“After Sham Election in Georgia, the Country’s Citizens Persist” - We do indeed, our homeland hangs in the balance.✊🏼🇬🇪

www.justsecurity.org/122040/georg...

After Another Sham Election in Georgia, the Country’s Citizens Persist

Georgians will fight for their democracy. The ruling party is now one more paranoid, insecure dictatorship that knows its days are numbered.

www.justsecurity.org

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⚫️🐦‍⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social · 3d

Long live free Georgia! 🇬🇪🇪🇺
#GeorgiaProtests

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Samia Ali Salama @samiaalisalama.bsky.social · 1d

#PleaseReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#poems #DonaldTrump #Epstein
#ProudBlue #Pinks
#ResistanceUnited
👇🏼

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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #FBR #NAFO @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 1d

I invite you to join our next Campaign Wave!
@gardeningbookworm.bsky.social @juliatanner20.bsky.social @safarisara.bsky.social @tgblue.bsky.social @damerainbowwarrior.bsky.social @vanderstap.co.uk @margareterosali.bsky.social @gehapeters.bsky.social @rogsilson.bsky.social @fife4europe.bsky.social

Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #FBR #NAFO @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 2d

📢 Join the #FBPE & #FBR Campaign Wave (aka tweet storm) on Sunday, 26 Oct:

- to protest against the global rise of the far right,
&
- support progressive parties in the Dutch elections (29 Oct).

Time: 20–22 CET | 19–21 UK

Hashtags: #DefendDemocracy #HopeNotHate

Let’s stand strong together!✊

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22h

Lord Heseltine, "The number of people aged below 50 who think it was right for us to leave the European Union, is less than 20%

"The latest polls tells us 56% now believe it was mistake to leave the European Union"

Hands up if you are one of the 56% 🙋‍♂️

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 2d

In the West, journalists receive the Pulitzer award for truth-telling.
In Russia, there is also a 9mm award - a 9mm bullet in the forehead for telling the truth.

Anna Politkovskaya was one of the many journalists that the Kremlin regime assasinated for telling the truth.

Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 2d

OTD in 2006 journalist & activist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead. Whoever is responsible for having her killed is still at large. And turns 73 today.

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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #FBR #NAFO @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 1d

Please share this list of reliable sources about the protests in Georgia, where the majority of the population fights the brutal oppression by the government of "Russian Dream" - a party that follows the Russian playbook and uses the Russian threat to maintain authoritarian power.

#GeorgiaProtests

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Ⓜ️uumi ✖️ McBob 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇳🇱 3.5% 🐟 - Antifa 💚❤️ @muumi-tweets.bsky.social · 2d

"We call them the waterdrugs."
Paging @jaketapper.bsky.social again. #25thAmendmentNow #presidementia

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We call them the water drugs. The drugs that come in through water. They're not coming. There are no boats anymore. Frankly, there are no fishing boats. There are no boats out there period, if you want to know the truth. Does anybody go fishing anymore?"

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15d

Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan responds,

"President Trump has shown he is racist, he is sexist, he is misogynistic and he is Islamophobic"

"Since records began there hasn't been a period where more Americans have come to London, there has to be a reason for that"

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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #FBR #NAFO @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 2d

📢 Join the #FBPE & #FBR Campaign Wave (aka tweet storm) on Sunday, 26 Oct:

- to protest against the global rise of the far right,
&
- support progressive parties in the Dutch elections (29 Oct).

Time: 20–22 CET | 19–21 UK

Hashtags: #DefendDemocracy #HopeNotHate

Let’s stand strong together!✊

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Magdalena @csibike1.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to this clip about Führage privatising the NHS. Dr Cat explains how language is being used very cleverly to manipulate voters.

vm.tiktok.com/ZNdtcQTco/

TikTok - Make Your Day

vm.tiktok.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 3d

If the media covered Palantir/BlackRock's public sector takeover and the rollout of deregulated investment zones with the same intensity as Nigel Farage and immigration, we'd see actual outrage at the seismic corporate power grab secretly remaking Britain. The UK is being privatised.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d

Given that it was the Green Party conference last week

Does anyone know why Zack Polanski wasn't invited onto Laura Kuenssberg's BBC show, or onto Trevor Phillips's Sky News program?

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 3d

What's happening behind those relentless headlines about immigration?
A Silent Coup where US corporations are restructuring the British State and commodifying the entire public sector.
open.substack.com/pub/european...

The Stories the Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You About Britain’s Corporate Takeover

While you’ve been distracted by Nigel Farage, corporations have been quietly seizing control of Britain

open.substack.com

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