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Shazza B

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Why not leave the picnic area cleaner than you found it?! 🇬🇧+🇫🇮+🇩🇪+🇪🇺+🇺🇸 #WearAMask😷 #GetVaccinated💉 #ProChoice⚖️ #Antiracist🚫 #Humanist💜

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Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · Nov 18

Do not obey in advance.

#Resist #OnTyranny

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · Nov 8

Do not obey in advance.

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Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 10h

*on

Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 10h

Ava DuVernay's doc should be mandatory viewing. And it’s free in YouTube.

youtu.be/krfcq5pF8u8?...

13TH | FULL FEATURE | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

youtu.be

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Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 12h

That would require a conscience, which arguably he does not have. May he experience *everything* horrific he so rightly deserves, and may those grieving families collect every last dime.

That collection battle now begins.🔥⚖️

Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 14h

Spot the difference. 🤦‍♀️

Two nearly simultaneous news alerts with rather different focus spins.
1. BBC: UK forecast to be second-fastest growing economy in G7 behind US this year and next, says IMF
2. Sky News: UK inflation set to be highest in G7 in 2025 and 2026, IMF says

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18h

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 23h

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Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 1d

👇This.👇

Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 2d

Randomly growing daisies plucked from my garden before mowing the grass this afternoon. 🌼

A small bouquet of white and yellow daisies against a white background.

Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 3d

…while *falsely* declaring…

Be more clear, please!

Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 4d

♥️Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, Nobel Peace Prize 2025 Winner/Recipient.♥️

#NobelPeacePrize

"It was a choice of ballots over bullets."

MARIA CORINA MACHADO

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 4d

✊🐸♥️

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 5d

“Even dildos run out of battery eventually.”
—Jimmy Kimmel

P.S. The president does NOT have plenary* authority; quite the opposite, in fact, under the U.S. Constitution.⚖️

(*unqualified, absolute)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

CNN: Does the administration still plan to abide by that court ruling?

STEPHEN MILLER: The administration filed an appeal this morning ... ... ...

CNN: Stephen? Stephen? Can you hear me?

MILLER: ... ... ...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6d

Donald Trump is calling for the jailing of his political opponents in Chicago. His DOJ lackeys have already indicted a NJ Congresswoman for conducting ICE facility oversight and James Comey. John Bolton's house was raided.

We must treat these latest threats seriously and all stand up against them.

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Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 7d

*half-naked underage girls.

Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 8d

Not surprising, but also thank f*ck! 😅⚖️

Release the #EpsteinFiles, and send #GhislaineMaxwell back to a more secure federal prison facility where she belongs, and NOW.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d

Breaking News: The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein.

Supreme Court Rejects Appeal From Ghislaine Maxwell

The onetime employee and friend of Jeffrey Epstein argued that a secret agreement between prosecutors and the multimillionaire financier invalidated her conviction.

nyti.ms

Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 8d

🗳️Vote for #MikieSherrill for NJ governor.🗳️💙

@mikiesherrill.bsky.social
#VoteNJ

Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social · 9d

🧢 Jack Ciattarelli stood on stage with Trump and called him “a great leader.” That’s not leadership—it’s blind loyalty to chaos. NJ deserves better than a Trump echo chamber. #VoteNJ

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 9d

Elon Musk and Stephen Miller both tweeted against judges today.

A South Carolina judge's house burned down and almost killed her family.

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Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 9d

Amazing!! ♻️♻️♻️👇👇

Isaac Hayes III @isaachayes3.bsky.social · 10d

Julian Brown has officially turned plastic waste into a clean-burning alternative fuel source called PLASTOLINE, a 110 octane fuel that produces clean emissions and could redefine the future of energy.

More than 1,000 people gathered as plastic waste was transformed into power before their eyes.

Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 9d

A great thread! Don’t miss reading and learning the story of Bessie Stringfield!
👇🧵🏍️🖤💖

Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 Bessie Stringfield, was born Bessie Beatrice White on February 9, 1911 (some records list March 5), in Edenton, North Carolina, to Maggie Cherry and James White. (cont)

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

allthatsinteresting.com/bessie-strin...

She Was The First Black Woman To Bike Across America — And She Did It At The Height Of Jim Crow

“Colored people couldn’t stop at hotels or motels back then. But it never bothered me.”

allthatsinteresting.com

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Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 10d

Violence & abuse against
*…checks notes….*
HUMAN BEINGS is wrong.

Not being an American citizen does not erase the basic human rights we all share and to which we are all entitled.⚖️

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13d

Please follow @thenerve.news!

Were a new female-founded publication that launched yesterday…& it was a huge team effort to get a website up & this investigation over the line.

We’re all exhausted but we want to do journalism that matters & we need your support. Thank you!!🙏

www.thenerve.news

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Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 13d

Quelle surprise. #Misogyny should be declared a hate crime.

BBC News alert:

Breaking News
Secret filming by BBC Panorama exposes hidden culture of misogyny and racism inside the Met Police.

Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 13d

Hopefully this is the beginning of accountability. It matters. Never forget how the VIP lanes meant mates’ pockets got filled in exchange for faulty PPE — bilking/stealing taxpayers’ money and costing lives whilst they sailed off on their massive yachts.

They belong in prison, as do their enablers.

Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 13d

Nearly five years on, PPE Medpro, the company linked to Michelle Mone, will have to pay back £122m for the defective gowns it sold the government.

Now it’s time to go after the ministers who handed out contracts worth billions to their political chums.
https://bit.ly/46RjgY4

The PPE scandal is far from over | Good Law Project

The Tory VIP lane was a high road to cronyism, says Henry Marsh.

goodlawproject.org

Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 14d

Ahem. “Misleading” actually means FALSE in this situation. Don’t forget: the Republicans have the majority in and control both the House and the Senate — and the White House. But let’s ignore reality, eh? Blame the Democrats’ minority “control”…. FFS Do better, NYT and legacy media.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14d

With Congress at an impasse over federal spending, Republicans have emerged with a new and misleading talking point: Democrats are shutting down the government to fund free health care for unauthorized immigrants.

Explaining the G.O.P.’s Misleading Talking Point on the Looming Shutdown

Republicans have been falsely asserting that Democrats are shutting down the government to fund free health care for unauthorized immigrants.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15d

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

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Shazza B @shazzab.bsky.social · 15d

Underreported story!
#Dominion #Guiliani Confidential settlement reached….

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17d

Dominion Voting Systems and Rudy Giuliani have just settled the $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Giuliani over spreading lies about the 2020 election, according to a court filing.