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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

Marge Greene yesterday, Loomer today.

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Westie @westie1.bsky.social · 11h

Tell me about it! Yes, it did indeed cost me £95 today. The govt. are so short sighted by not offering it to everyone who wants it. I am lucky enough to be able to afford a jab, but many are less fortunate. Article is very interesting, but slightly disappointing, as I was given Pfizer, not Moderna.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11h

It's time for the rich to pay.

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah but they want £95 if you’re under 75!

Westie @westie1.bsky.social · 11h

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 11h

Let's face it they are selling the US to anyone prepared to bankroll the Trump family, is that no obvious to the US electorate?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 12h

Quite. The BBC is a Reform tool not an independent broadcaster!

Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 16h

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 12h

Knob is a very good word here to quote "Peter Cook"

Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 12h

Knob

Tone deaf. Must have the same advisor as that other knob the Duke of York

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Gregg Wallace: Former MasterChef presenter claims BBC caused him 'distress and harassment'

The former MasterChef presenter is seeking up to £10,000 in damages from the BBC, court documents show.

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 12h

love it. Want more of that! If only I could get up a lampost nevermind a ladder!

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16h

Lots of flag-botherers over on Facebook now suddenly demanding the council step in to take these down
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Signs of kindness put up along Nottingham road in place of flags

It is not clear who put up the signs, which have appeared on lamp-posts along a road in Nottingham.

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 12h

How could you not? What's the matter with the 23%?

Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 12h

The next few months need to resemble the 2017 fight to save the ACA. In the end, we won. Call Congressmembers, confront them at town halls, offices, airports & fundraisers. Hold events so Congressmembers look really bad for being afraid of constituents.

Let's show up. Let's organize. Let's win.

dlvr.it

Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 17h

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 19h

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 18h

He was the only person worth watching on there last night.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23h

Polanski expertly dismantling the "rich people will move if we tax them" narrative, while Denham nimbly demonstrates how very patriotic such people are.

Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 1d

Former Head of Comms for the IEA, Annabel Denham, says the super rich will leave if we have a wealth tax.

Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt

Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 18h

It does make one question most journalist's motivation, is it financial or the glee of disaster or career motivation? It certainly isn't altruism.

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

Bet that woman asking about the Welfare System was a Reform/ Tory plant.

Montygucci @montygucci.bsky.social · 1d

Given more air time and not interrupted than any other panel
Member.

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

Think I would substitute predictable to “incredible”.

Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 1d

It was incredible the number of lies told about the Green Party by Reform on Question time this evening.

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𝔇𝔢𝔫𝔫𝔦𝔰 𝔅𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔱 @bsky.pickpear.com · 1d

By way of a reminder folks...

You voted for Cameron
Everything got worse

You voted for Johnson
Everything got worse

You voted for brexit
Everything got worse

You voted for Truss
Everything got worse

If you vote for Farage

You have no idea how bad your life will become.

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

Quite Mad!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Noem claims Portland hid their war zone from her.

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

Zia Zusuf as unpleasant as ever on BBCQT. Can only really talk immigration, racism and over people.

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

Hope you’re right

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

That should be a headline in itself: “Fiona Bruce says something intelligent and true.”

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Heseltine, "Brexit is now having a debilitating effect on the UK.. It will be reversed, not it, when..The deception of Brexit has exposed Britain"

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

So Gaza still being bombed despite a signed peace deal! And Israel wonders why they are hated?

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant!

Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 1d

Farage squirms as Rep. Jamie Raskin obliterates the "Putin-loving, free speech imposter, Trump sycophant."

Please share as widely as possible. We need an antidote to media promotion and protection of Farage.

Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

It's bias promotion and must breach their Charter.

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 2d

The BBC's justification for platforming Farage beyond the actual significance of his small parliamentary party are his polls. A rather cynical explanation, for he wouldn't be where he is without the constant, uncritical appearances he's given on the BBC. It's a (literally) vicious circle.

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 2d

Looks remarkably like the stores have windows despite Trump's prostestanions they are all boarded up!

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

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