Heather Parry
@ericap51.bsky.social
Retired anaesthetist devoting herself to learning more about art, architecture and music while I still can. Appalled by electorates voting for Brexit, Boris Johnson and Trump:twice.
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Daniel Lismore
Nigel Farage wants the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights.
He has also attacked animal welfare and environmental protections. When someone tells you they want to remove protections, believe them.
Nigel Farage wants the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights.
He has also attacked animal welfare and environmental protections. When someone tells you they want to remove protections, believe them.
December 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Daniel Lismore
Nigel Farage wants the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights.
He has also attacked animal welfare and environmental protections. When someone tells you they want to remove protections, believe them.
Nigel Farage wants the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights.
He has also attacked animal welfare and environmental protections. When someone tells you they want to remove protections, believe them.
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Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
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"If you tax billionaires you won't have billionaires anymore."
Threatening us with a good time, again.
Threatening us with a good time, again.
December 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"If you tax billionaires you won't have billionaires anymore."
Threatening us with a good time, again.
Threatening us with a good time, again.
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Doesn't it strike you as strange that the people who shout long and loud that America is a Christian nation founded on Christian principles are the very people who don't want Christ's teachings of tolerance, pacifism, and generosity codified in law?
December 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Doesn't it strike you as strange that the people who shout long and loud that America is a Christian nation founded on Christian principles are the very people who don't want Christ's teachings of tolerance, pacifism, and generosity codified in law?
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You would have to wait until year 125,206 to have as much money as Elon Musk.
December 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
You would have to wait until year 125,206 to have as much money as Elon Musk.
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It’s the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote next year. Time, I think, to stop asking if leaving was a mistake and to start asking whether now trying* to join the EU is in the best interests of the country.
*This is to ward off people telling me accession is up to the current member states; I know.
*This is to ward off people telling me accession is up to the current member states; I know.
December 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
It’s the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote next year. Time, I think, to stop asking if leaving was a mistake and to start asking whether now trying* to join the EU is in the best interests of the country.
*This is to ward off people telling me accession is up to the current member states; I know.
*This is to ward off people telling me accession is up to the current member states; I know.
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If this is true, it is the most impeachable offense ever.
December 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If this is true, it is the most impeachable offense ever.
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
December 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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Putin has never been interested in peace his aim is domination of Europe
December 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Putin has never been interested in peace his aim is domination of Europe
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Wrapped in the Union Jack, Thatcher and the Tories sold off your water like junkies selling the TV. Now it’s owned abroad by Malaysians who don’t know Wessex exists. Absolute con.
December 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Wrapped in the Union Jack, Thatcher and the Tories sold off your water like junkies selling the TV. Now it’s owned abroad by Malaysians who don’t know Wessex exists. Absolute con.
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"… a rational and cool-headed case for why Britain is better off outside the EU"?
There isn't one.
A pathetic last hurrah, really.
https://thecritic.co.uk/brexiteers-are-losing-the-argument/
There isn't one.
A pathetic last hurrah, really.
https://thecritic.co.uk/brexiteers-are-losing-the-argument/
December 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"… a rational and cool-headed case for why Britain is better off outside the EU"?
There isn't one.
A pathetic last hurrah, really.
https://thecritic.co.uk/brexiteers-are-losing-the-argument/
There isn't one.
A pathetic last hurrah, really.
https://thecritic.co.uk/brexiteers-are-losing-the-argument/
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No one has ever been able to adequately explain what Putin is meant to have thought NATO expansion would threaten him with, apart from limiting his expansionist ambitions.
"He was worried they'd invade Russia."
No he wasn't.
He just wasn't.
That's not a thing anyone thought might happen.
"He was worried they'd invade Russia."
No he wasn't.
He just wasn't.
That's not a thing anyone thought might happen.
this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade
December 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
No one has ever been able to adequately explain what Putin is meant to have thought NATO expansion would threaten him with, apart from limiting his expansionist ambitions.
"He was worried they'd invade Russia."
No he wasn't.
He just wasn't.
That's not a thing anyone thought might happen.
"He was worried they'd invade Russia."
No he wasn't.
He just wasn't.
That's not a thing anyone thought might happen.
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The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.
Opinion | Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship
Mike Masnick: In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech.
www.ms.now
December 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.
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That boot is worn by the billionaires.
December 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
That boot is worn by the billionaires.
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The man who ran on a platform of "America First" and promised no involvement in foreign wars is now launching wars of choice in Nigeria, Venezuela, Syria, and Lebanon.
Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.
Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.
December 26, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The man who ran on a platform of "America First" and promised no involvement in foreign wars is now launching wars of choice in Nigeria, Venezuela, Syria, and Lebanon.
Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.
Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.
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Quite a lot can be explained by the plain fact that our leaders and their hangers on are *enraged* that they can’t send people to prison for doing things that aren’t illegal, and they see this as a very serious problem that needs to be resolved, urgently.
December 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Quite a lot can be explained by the plain fact that our leaders and their hangers on are *enraged* that they can’t send people to prison for doing things that aren’t illegal, and they see this as a very serious problem that needs to be resolved, urgently.
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Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:
Populists attack London because it is ‘progressive and successful’, says Sadiq Khan
Rightwing attacks on one of the world’s most visited cities at odds with reality, says mayor
www.ft.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:
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I say his gently, but…
There’s something unspeakably shameful The United States letting people go hungry.
Not because its government doesn’t fix it —
but because tomorrow a few private Americans could, and never notice the cost.
That’s the part that sits wrong.
There’s something unspeakably shameful The United States letting people go hungry.
Not because its government doesn’t fix it —
but because tomorrow a few private Americans could, and never notice the cost.
That’s the part that sits wrong.
December 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I say his gently, but…
There’s something unspeakably shameful The United States letting people go hungry.
Not because its government doesn’t fix it —
but because tomorrow a few private Americans could, and never notice the cost.
That’s the part that sits wrong.
There’s something unspeakably shameful The United States letting people go hungry.
Not because its government doesn’t fix it —
but because tomorrow a few private Americans could, and never notice the cost.
That’s the part that sits wrong.
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Today is the anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Let’s hope history repeats itself with its successor.
December 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Today is the anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Let’s hope history repeats itself with its successor.
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@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
Starmer is the most gutless morally bankrupt individual ever to be associated with the Labour Party.
He is a historically repugnant figure who has wrecked the entire party.
Starmer is the most gutless morally bankrupt individual ever to be associated with the Labour Party.
He is a historically repugnant figure who has wrecked the entire party.
December 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
Starmer is the most gutless morally bankrupt individual ever to be associated with the Labour Party.
He is a historically repugnant figure who has wrecked the entire party.
Starmer is the most gutless morally bankrupt individual ever to be associated with the Labour Party.
He is a historically repugnant figure who has wrecked the entire party.
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"C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon"
December 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Scrooge was a millionaire (and only because of inflation) and 3 ghosts visited him.
We will soon have trillionaires.
What do we need to visit them?
We will soon have trillionaires.
What do we need to visit them?
December 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Scrooge was a millionaire (and only because of inflation) and 3 ghosts visited him.
We will soon have trillionaires.
What do we need to visit them?
We will soon have trillionaires.
What do we need to visit them?