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David Smith
@dsmithwales.bsky.social
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Thinker/Doer. fmr lecturer. Democracy Animator. Organiser @CoopWales, R Owen Museum trustee, ex Co-op Group Main Board, NPF CLP rep. Health, Food & Climate Crisis Politics. Deacon Canton Uniting #Askforadoctor #TruthWarriors
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David Smith @dsmithwales.bsky.social · Jan 12
If democracies are going to survive, they need to go to war with social media and the tech oligarchs who oversee it. We cannot have a society governed by mass hallucination.
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 1d
What a stick of dynamite this one turned out to be
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d
“I urge everyone to join the global uprising for justice, freedom, and equality. And to apply real pressure on our governments and institutions to fulfill their legal obligations to ensure human rights for everyone. We have truth, morale, international law, justice, love, history, solidarity with...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d
Greta Thunberg “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”

Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.
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AYsa..er @sofarmary.bsky.social · 1d
Sounds like an unstoppable and timely event! Building a well-being economy through collaboration and education is exactly the direction we need to head. 👏
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David Smith @dsmithwales.bsky.social · 1d
An amazingly lucid and wise interviewee
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 2d
The Economist has claimed Britain is trapped in a “debt doom loop.” But they’re wrong. The UK does not face a government debt crisis. What we really face is chronic underinvestment, inequality, and an elite media pushing austerity to protect the wealthy.
youtu.be/myNUVF_Kl7o?...
Britain isn't in a debt doom loop, whatever some people say.
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d
Jane Goodall said she’d like to send off to another planet: Musk, Trump, Putin, Xi & Netanyahu. 🚀
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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 4d
"When nature suffers, we suffer. And when nature flourishes, we all flourish."

Dr. Jane understood that, and she worked to ensure we understood, too. She felt that animals, people, and the environment could thrive together – but each of us would have to do our part.
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 3d
Here is a pic of former Reform leader in Wales Nathan Gill, who has admitted taking Russian bribes between December, 2018 and July, 2019.

He is alongside the current Reform candidate for Caerphilly Llyr Powell at the EU election count in May 2019.

(Copyright: Matthew Horwood)

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 4d
The Daily Mail owner, the Grandfather of the current owner, posing with Adolf Hitler.

The Daily Mail has always been Far Right trash.
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Jacob Kaarsbo @jkaarsbo.bsky.social · 3d
🇫🇷 President Macron is 💯 here👇🏻
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David Smith @dsmithwales.bsky.social · 5d
Welcome to a Co-op Party Sunday 5th Oct event 5pm with Cwmpas & two Early Years Educationalists
· ‘Empowering communities to build a well-being economy’
· ‘Embedding the Co-operative Principles in Education
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DM me for details
LinkedIn
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 7d
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12d
Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12d
#TheHack From the archives 🔎

Untold Stories: The Daniel Morgan Murder

Journalism is not about the fictions people want to hear, but the inconvenient facts that they may want to ignore or may be hard to tell

2021 editorial by @peterjukes.bsky.social es

bylinetimes.com/2021/06/18/u...
Untold Stories: The Daniel Morgan Murder
Journalism is not about the fictions people want to hear, but the inconvenient facts that they may want to ignore or may be hard to tell
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David Smith @dsmithwales.bsky.social · 12d
Well worth reading
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 13d
Lord Glasman "sought out, and was sought after, by some of the most important Trumpworld movers and shakers" JD Vance, Steve Bannon... Curtis Yarvin and "as @bylinetimes.bsky.social can reveal – the tech baron and Palantir data firm founder, Peter Thiel"

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...
'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics
The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?
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David Smith @dsmithwales.bsky.social · 13d
Co-operators are invited to this event 5/10/25 to reflect on the Cwmpas Manifesto and a proposal to strengthen co-operative learning and learning to co-operate with a focus upon 'Early Years Leanning’
Zoom link us06web.zoom.us/j/8240764528... Meeting ID: 824 0764 5281. Passcode: 814241
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 13d
#BREAKING | Today, Italy and Spain have deployed warships to protect and provide rescue efforts if needed to the Global Sumud flotilla which is heading to break the Israeli siege on Gaza
Picture of a military ship with the flags of Spain and Italy with the caption: SPAIN ANNOUNCES IT WILL DEPLOY A MILITARY VESSEL TO SUPPORT THE GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA TO GAZA AFTER ITALY DEPLOYED NAVY SHIP
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 15d
Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?

He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.

So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18d
They want to leave the ECHR because it will allow them to abolish the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, paid holiday and sick leave.

It would make them tens of billions a year.

But of course they say immigration, because they can't tell you the real reason.
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 18d
🗣️Top-down impositions from Govt & NHS England, without the resources, are a recipe for disaster

Listen to GPs who understand the needs for patient care & safety @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social no need for a fight we all want the same things, good #NHS patient care

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DAUK backs GP vote to re-enter dispute with Government | DAUK
DAUK's GP Committee has given its support to the BMA and the vote by GPs in England to enter into dispute with the Government.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 18d
“When we left the EU, we left the Dublin Protocol, which is the main deterrent to irregular migration"

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Keir Starmer dismisses Neil Kinnock’s calls to ‘rejoin EU’ to prevent small boats and boot out Farage
"When we left the EU, we left the Dublin Protocol, which is the main deterrent to irregular migration"
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19d
KPMG delivered dud audits at three US banks, Says US senate report with the title “THIS INDUSTRY IS A JOKE”.

Ignored red flags, credible allegations of widespread fraud, appeased directors, gave clean bill of health.

Is the UK any different?

Audits by big firms are worthless.
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KPMG Ignored Flaws at Regional Banks Before 2023 Crisis, Senate Report Finds
Auditing industry reform is needed, Sen. Richard Blumenthal said. KPMG called the report “misguided.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20d
It is not about Kimmel or what he said. It is about the US government forcing a network to fire someone - no government should have that power. If the network decided this on their own, that’s one thing. But in this case they absolutely did not.
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