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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 10d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · Sep 5

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.

Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.

That, right there, is the problem.

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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · Sep 4

His party only has 4 or 5 MPs but the media have him on everything constantly. Other parties that aren’t on the right don’t get a look in despite being more established & functional. It’s a media problem as much as a far right problem.

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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · Sep 4

Yeah. He’s evil. It was him and Banks etc behind Brexit. He even did media for Russian TV. Proper fascism vibes. Voted in by one of the poorest communities in the UK (rural maga probably the closest comparison even though it’s a town)
Glad he got called out for this!

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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Notting Hill Carnival Open Day with Prostate Cancer UK

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Pete Johnson @pedrojuk.bsky.social · Aug 15

It's shocking that with a new Labour government and in 2025, equality of access to our railway for disabled people is actually being downgraded, not tackled.
An important letter here to the Transport Secretary to do the basic decent thing and get disabled people's needs right on the agenda.

John Pring, DNS @johnpring.bsky.social · Aug 15

Accessible transport campaigners have called on the government to sign up to 10 “basic equality standards” that would improve the accessibility of the rail network for millions of disabled passengers.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/letter-to-mi...

Letter to minister issues 10 ‘basic’ demands on rail accessibility

Accessible transport campaigners have called on the government to sign up to 10 “basic equality standards” that would improve the accessibility of the rail network for millions of disabled passenge…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Microdosing Study 2.0

Recruitment for an upcoming trial - Microdosing in London or online

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Jul 16

🔴‘MPs and the Media Cast Benefit-Claimants as Freeloaders – This Discrimination Is What Keeps Them Out of Work’

The media has gone on the attack after the welfare U-Turn, but they’re not telling the real story, argues Mathilda Mallinson

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'MPs and the Media Cast Benefit-Claimants as Freeloaders - This Discrimination Is What Keeps Them Out of Work'

The media has gone on the attack after the welfare U-Turn, but they're not telling the real story, argues Mathilda Mallinson

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · Jul 15

NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care.

“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’

Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation

www.theguardian.com

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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · Jul 7

“If you’re religious then you believe those girls deserved to drown to death in that flooding because god intended it to happen”

-Donald Trump supporters on Twitter defending cuts to NOAA

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · Jul 7

"Now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40"

Enough already. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘There is no safe way to do it’: the rapid rise and horrifying risks of choking during sex

Now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40, it can also lead to difficulty swallowing, incontinence, seizures, memory problems, depression, anxiety and miscarriage. How...

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · Jul 7

When I pointed out on Twitter a couple years ago that available evidence indicated that campaigning *against* Low Traffic Neighborhoods was functionally the same as campaigning *for* more kids to be run over, I got absolutely monstered for it.

Anywhere, here is more of that famed Social Injustice

London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’

Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods

www.theguardian.com

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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · Jul 7

Wow

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 7

Leavitt: "The alerts imminently were sent out before the flood when people were sleeping because the flood hit in the very early hours of the morning. People were sleeping in the middle of the night when this flood came. This was an act of God, it is not the admin's fault the flood hit when it did."

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gme11💙 @gme11.bsky.social · Jul 5

If we don't start telling the truth about why this happened, it's going to keep happening. We have an idiot running this country who thought FEMA & NOAA were a drain on the budget. How much is YOUR child worth? That was TX, so you know most of them voted for the man that just killed their children.

Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · Jul 5

Accurate weather forecasts matter. FEMA and NOAA matter. Because little girls lives matter: Camp Mystic: Estimated 20 girls still missing after deadly Texas floods kill at least 25 people www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

At least 25 people dead, 20 girls missing after Hill Country floods

An estimate of 20 girls remained missing after deadly flooding caused “destructive” floods at Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Thanet Flint @tflint.bsky.social · Jul 6

The NWS did issue a flood watch but it took 4 hours for the state to send an alert. The state should have immediately sent an alert to cell phones but....Abbott, Patrick, et al...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Jul 4

I refuse to call an American concentration camp the same thing it calls itself at its attached gift shop

Maybe American journalism should search in the garbage for its self-respect and start taking the same position?

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · Jul 4

Wishing all of my friends in the United States a happy Independence Day. Only took you 249 years to go back to having a King... 🇺🇸

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · Jul 3

car not found

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Jul 3

Due to a “statutory requirement to automatically impose budget cuts when legislation increases the deficit,” Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill (which Rs just passed) requires “automatic sequestration cuts across the board,” including Medicare cuts, as “confirmed by the Congressional Budget Office…” 1/

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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · Jul 3

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · Jul 3

When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.

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Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social · Jul 1

#DisabledByTheRailway is one of 138 orgs who signed the reasoned amendment that has been selected today.

Urging all MPs of all party colours to now put their constituents first!

#TakingThePip
#DisabilityRebellion

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Dozens of Labour MPs still expected to rebel over welfare bill as government defends reforms - live updates

Keir Starmer and his ministers have been scrambling to convince MPs to back watered-down welfare changes after concessions were made last week.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Blessed Madonna @theblessedmadonna.bsky.social · Jun 26

FUCK. THE. FASH.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 26

A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.

ICE press release:

Johnny Noviello, a 49 year old Canadian, has died in the custody of ICE. The cause of death is under investigation.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · Jun 26

I'd say roughly 75% of mainstream news reporting about the disability benefit cuts has been from a Westminster angle rather than the actual impact the cuts will have

Text of tweet posted at 9.33am on 26th June (i.e. this morning) by Diane Abbott:

The fight over the welfare bill is not about Morgan McSweeney or Keir Starmer. It is not even about the Labour party, even though it could be strongly affected.

It is about the hundreds of thousands of people who will be pushed (deeper) into poverty.

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