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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸
@organicbotanic.bsky.social
Health academic, #IDSky, sailor⛵, photographer, botanist🌿, writer. Memoir, poetry, children’s stories. AI, public health, education, climate, UCU, 🦠Covid

🇪🇺N Ireland

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Photographs mine unless credited

X: @organicbotanic Blue Sky 3/9/23
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Honoured to be in this #poetry collection (p.14):

Thoughts from the other side of the Mid Atlantic Rift

Written on #Rathlin Island on a #Sailing boat. Grateful to @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social for the call, curation & publication. Means so much to me to support #US #Protest #Politics #Metaphor
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Part One of my exploration of Jeffery Epstein's relationship with the Musk brothers is now live.

Unpacking the first year or so of the documented relationship, it shows how Epstein pursued Elon through connections and "girls," and hints at possible motivations.

niedermeyer.online/2026/02/10/m...
There's more than a whiff of Musk in the Epstein Files
Explore the relationship between Elon Musk and Jeffrey Epstein, as documented in the Epstein Files.
niedermeyer.online
February 11, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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no you don't have to show ID to board a train

this guy is relentlessly pathetic
Markwayne Mullin defends "show me your papers": "If you're here legally, there's nothing to hide. Most people already are walking around with a government-issued ID, meaning your Real ID or your driver's license. If you go board a train here, you gotta show your ID."
February 11, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Matt Goodwin labelled ‘chicken’ after pulling out of first by-election hustings
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/mat...
Matt Goodwin labelled 'chicken' after pulling out of first by-election hustings
Matt Goodwin has been accused of 'chickening out' of the first hustings for the Gorton and Denton by-election, citing "concerns about impartiality."
www.thelondoneconomic.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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🚨Gorton and Denton by-election

Nigel Farage has called for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance

Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM
🚨Gorton and Denton by-election

Surely by now we can all see that Reform is a party that thrives on division, fuels anger, and uses the scapegoating of minorities to gain support.

We are so much better than that.

DON’T BE TAKEN IN BY THE DIVISIVE POLITICS OF REFORM

youtu.be/cWWf1mZhlGk?...
🚨Gorton and Denton by-election - JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
February 11, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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No Reform MPs turned up to the debate on Russian influence on UK politics yesterday, because we are confident that we already know how it works and don’t need any further advice.
February 10, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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Wes Streeting still ready to challenge Starmer despite show of unity, allies say.

He had majority of just over 500 votes in the last election.

He would take Labour further to the right. Funded by healthcare companies, handing the NHS to corporations and private equity.
Streeting still ready to challenge Starmer despite show of unity, allies say
Health secretary poised to make leadership bid after May local elections to pre-empt a potential challenge from rival Rayner, MPs close to him say
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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All flights to and from El Paso, Texas, have been grounded for ten days for “Special Security Reasons”, the Federal Aviation Administration announced.

Shutting down airspace of a major US city for such an extended period hasn’t happened since the aftermath of 9-11.
February 11, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Breaking news from a remote part of #Canada

Heartbreaking 💔
February 11, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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Mass shooting in Canada: Tumbler Ridge, BC school shooting update provided at press conference

Two shootings at a school and a home left at least nine people dead and dozens others wounded in northeastern British Columbia on Tuesday, Feb. 10, in what a Canadian official described as one of the…
Mass shooting in Canada: Tumbler Ridge, BC school shooting update provided at press conference
Two shootings at a school and a home left at least nine people dead and dozens others wounded in northeastern British Columbia on Tuesday, Feb. 10, in what a Canadian official described as one of the worst mass shootings in Canada's history. Officials provided an update on the Tumbler Ridge school shooting at a press conference hours after the incident in the small, northeastern BC town near the Alberta border.
fllics.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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Today I run the risk of annoying everyone.

Starmer got the Mandelson appointment spectacularly wrong and deserves to be held accountable.

I’m just not convinced that his resignation is the answer.
This Won’t Be Popular: Starmer Got It Wrong - But That Doesn’t Mean He Should Go
Starmer’s Mandelson decision was a spectacular lapse of judgement - and still not a case for detonating the Prime Minister.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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Lord Doyle, Keir Starmer's former director of communications, has been suspended from Labour's parliamentary party over his links with a convicted sex offender

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex-Labour comms chief Lord Doyle suspended over links to sex offender
Lord Doyle apologises for his past association with a former Labour councillor who admitted indecent child image offences.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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Ukraine has decided to try and hold a referendum at the same time which could defang the suggestion that Zelensky is not reflecting the will of the people which is rich coming from wannabe dictators Trump and Putin.
February 11, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Trump: "I've cut hundreds of thousands of jobs"
February 10, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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This level of Russian casualties is unbelievable. Putin is killing hundreds of thousands of people, Ukrainians and Russians, with his disastrous war.
‘At least 325,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in the conflict, according to the CSIS report, five times greater than in all Russian and Soviet wars combined since the second world war and at a ratio of at least twice Ukraine’s battlefield casualties.’
www.ft.com/content/ce74...
Russian army casualties in Ukraine surge
Rising number of men killed or missing in action makes a military breakthrough for Moscow less likely, officials say
www.ft.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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Because it's not art.

That's why it's so dreadful.
As the right stokes culture wars, their alternatives to ‘woke’ Hollywood prove to be shoddily made and uninspired
From Melania to Kid Rock’s halftime show: why is Maga art so dreadful?
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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"They had driven almost seven hours from Froid, a town of about 200 people in the northeastern reaches of the state, to back one of their own..."

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/comm...
Community members fight for Froid man facing immigration charge
GREAT FALLS — Roberto Orozco-Ramirez pleaded not guilty Monday to a federal charge of reentering the United States illegally in U.S. District Court in Great Falls.The detention hearing arraignment las...
www.newsfromthestates.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Trump is terminating $600 million in public health grants from the CDC to four Democrat-led states because he is a pinche pendejo.

His war on public health is incessant and painful.

All because we said that drinking bleach was contraindicated in humans and ivermectin does nothing for COVID19.
Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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Trump: "Connecticut is an extremely corrupt voting place. That's why a guy like Blumenthal can keep getting elected. He admitted he cheated on the war. I went to Vietnam for a couple of days and I spent two more days than he did there. He was never there."
February 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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Vinay Prasad of the FDA has broken with the usual approval process and refuses to review Moderna’s new flu shot.

He claims that the proposed clinical trial, which would compare the new vaccine to an already approved one, “does not reflect the best-available standard of care”.
Moderna says FDA refuses to review its application for experimental flu shot
Moderna said the move is inconsistent with previous feedback from the FDA on the experimental influenza shot, called mRNA-1010.
www.cnbc.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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Our FDA has been hijacked by RFKJ & co. This is outrageous. “Moderna’s vaccine uses the same mRNA technology as its Covid shot.

In a release Tuesday, Moderna said the FDA did not identify any safety or efficacy concerns with the vaccine” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot
Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.
www.nbcnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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Khanna: "Donald Trump had the FBI scrub those files in March. And the documents we saw already had the redactions of the FBI from March. So we still have not seen the vast majority of documents unredacted that have the survivor statements of the rich and powerful men who committed these crimes."
February 10, 2026 at 1:14 PM
“Reform UK’s head of policy Zia Yusuf launched a culture war in Wales by threatening to withhold funding from Bangor University after its student debating society refused to host two leading figures from his party.”
Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
dim pasaran

Policy chef (sic) Yusuf stirring the party culture wars once more🤮

“Former Bridgend Labour council leader Jeff Jones answered Yusuf with a post stating: “What an idiotic thing to say. This is the UK in 2026, not Italy in 1922 or Germany in 1933.”

nation.cymru/news/uproar-...
Uproar as Reform policy chief threatens to defund Welsh university
Martin Shipton Reform UK’s head of policy Zia Yusuf launched a culture war in Wales by threatening to withhold funding from Bangor University after its student debating society refused to host two lea...
nation.cymru
February 10, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
dim pasaran

Policy chef (sic) Yusuf stirring the party culture wars once more🤮

“Former Bridgend Labour council leader Jeff Jones answered Yusuf with a post stating: “What an idiotic thing to say. This is the UK in 2026, not Italy in 1922 or Germany in 1933.”

nation.cymru/news/uproar-...
Uproar as Reform policy chief threatens to defund Welsh university
Martin Shipton Reform UK’s head of policy Zia Yusuf launched a culture war in Wales by threatening to withhold funding from Bangor University after its student debating society refused to host two lea...
nation.cymru
February 10, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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I don't know how the phrase "tree hugger" can ever be seen as an insult. Hugging trees is great. Even better is waking up in a tree's arms and telling it your dreams.
February 10, 2026 at 7:42 AM