Francis Hayden
@francishayden.bsky.social
Grandad. Songwriter. Green. Retired Physics teacher. Mainly working for my wife.
South West England, UK.
He, him
South West England, UK.
He, him
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December 17, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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Whoever this is, they’re tragically right.
December 13, 2024 at 6:21 AM
Whoever this is, they’re tragically right.
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I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated.
We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.
We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.
December 13, 2024 at 1:38 PM
I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated.
We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.
We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.
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Some people ask me what I have against this deal. And I say it would probably be good for me personally but also the death of everything that we the journalists hold dear
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 12, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Some people ask me what I have against this deal. And I say it would probably be good for me personally but also the death of everything that we the journalists hold dear
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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With the shocking revelation the Health Secretary is using taxpayers money to pay the GMC’s legal costs, @anaesunited.bsky.social need our help more than ever to protect patient safety. You can support them here👇
www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-mi...
www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-mi...
December 11, 2024 at 8:35 AM
With the shocking revelation the Health Secretary is using taxpayers money to pay the GMC’s legal costs, @anaesunited.bsky.social need our help more than ever to protect patient safety. You can support them here👇
www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-mi...
www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-mi...
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Israel has invaded Syria.
The failure of the Western media to refer to an invasion is nothing other than disinformation.
A lie by omission is still a lie. You are being lied to.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-has...
The failure of the Western media to refer to an invasion is nothing other than disinformation.
A lie by omission is still a lie. You are being lied to.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-has...
Israel has invaded Syria - with Western complicity
This is a blatant land grab - and an attempt to hobble any new Syrian government - by an Israeli state cheered on by Western politicians and media.
www.owenjones.news
December 11, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Israel has invaded Syria.
The failure of the Western media to refer to an invasion is nothing other than disinformation.
A lie by omission is still a lie. You are being lied to.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-has...
The failure of the Western media to refer to an invasion is nothing other than disinformation.
A lie by omission is still a lie. You are being lied to.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-has...
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Dallas Black Dance Theatre fired all of its dancers just days before the season was set to start because they attempted to unionize. On Sunday, the theater reached a $560k settlement with 10 retired dancers — and it agreed to write personal apologies to each one.
thebarbedwire.com/2024/12/10/t...
thebarbedwire.com/2024/12/10/t...
Texas Dance Company F*cked Around, Now Must Pay $560,000 to Fired Black Dancers - The Barbed Wire
Six months after the prestigious Dallas Black Dance Theatre chose to f*ck around — by wrongfully firing all of its dancers just days before the season was set to start — they’re now finding out the ha...
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December 10, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Dallas Black Dance Theatre fired all of its dancers just days before the season was set to start because they attempted to unionize. On Sunday, the theater reached a $560k settlement with 10 retired dancers — and it agreed to write personal apologies to each one.
thebarbedwire.com/2024/12/10/t...
thebarbedwire.com/2024/12/10/t...
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How a police state slowly comes about
Hope you are proud Keir Starmer - human rights lawyer?
Totally shameful
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hope you are proud Keir Starmer - human rights lawyer?
Totally shameful
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds
Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:30 AM
How a police state slowly comes about
Hope you are proud Keir Starmer - human rights lawyer?
Totally shameful
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hope you are proud Keir Starmer - human rights lawyer?
Totally shameful
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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December 10, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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I need you to understand how grotesque it's been to watch the Smartest People tell the Democratic Party they were just too nice to incarcerated transgender people and in fact it's trans people's fault for asking them
The FL Department of Corrections is attempting to "reverse" the gender identity of transgender people in its custody, referring to trans identities as "short-term delusions" and withholding hormone therapy. Reviving psychiatric theories of the 1950s, they blame trans identities on "childhood trauma"
December 10, 2024 at 5:21 PM
I need you to understand how grotesque it's been to watch the Smartest People tell the Democratic Party they were just too nice to incarcerated transgender people and in fact it's trans people's fault for asking them
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i’m trans. reporting this story nearly killed me. had to stop drinking and wound up on many friends “call to see if she’s ok” lists.
please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)
please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)
i spent a month investigating how republicans could cut off access to trans healthcare for most americans, and how democrats can likely stop them — but it’s unclear if they will.
tw: president of wpath warning of mass suicides
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
tw: president of wpath warning of mass suicides
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Will Democrats Let the GOP Gut Trans Health Care?
Donald Trump and Republicans may try to ban funding to companies that perform trans health care. Some fear Democrats won't stop them.
www.rollingstone.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:27 PM
i’m trans. reporting this story nearly killed me. had to stop drinking and wound up on many friends “call to see if she’s ok” lists.
please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)
please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)
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Israeli troops have entered and then seized the buffer zone inside Syria, which they aren’t supposed to be doing.
Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have condemned the incursion. Saudi Arabia said the move would “ruin Syria’s chances of restoring security.”
Bibi has to go.
nypost.com/2024/12/10/w...
Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have condemned the incursion. Saudi Arabia said the move would “ruin Syria’s chances of restoring security.”
Bibi has to go.
nypost.com/2024/12/10/w...
Israeli troops near Damascus, say Syrian security, after Israeli airstrikes hit Syrian bases
A Syrian security source said Israeli troops reached Qatana, which is six miles into Syrian territory east of a demilitarised zone separating Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria.
nypost.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Israeli troops have entered and then seized the buffer zone inside Syria, which they aren’t supposed to be doing.
Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have condemned the incursion. Saudi Arabia said the move would “ruin Syria’s chances of restoring security.”
Bibi has to go.
nypost.com/2024/12/10/w...
Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have condemned the incursion. Saudi Arabia said the move would “ruin Syria’s chances of restoring security.”
Bibi has to go.
nypost.com/2024/12/10/w...
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Poverty is killing people.
Average male life expectancy in Blackpool declines to 73.1 yrs, females 78.9
Rich Kensington and Chelsea: 83,4 yrs for males, 86.5 females.
Hiking of UK state pension age hits the poor, results in wealth transfer from poor to the rich.
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Average male life expectancy in Blackpool declines to 73.1 yrs, females 78.9
Rich Kensington and Chelsea: 83,4 yrs for males, 86.5 females.
Hiking of UK state pension age hits the poor, results in wealth transfer from poor to the rich.
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Life expectancy for local areas of Great Britain - Office for National Statistics
Subnational trends in the average number of years people will live beyond their current age measured by “period life expectancy”.
www.ons.gov.uk
December 10, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Poverty is killing people.
Average male life expectancy in Blackpool declines to 73.1 yrs, females 78.9
Rich Kensington and Chelsea: 83,4 yrs for males, 86.5 females.
Hiking of UK state pension age hits the poor, results in wealth transfer from poor to the rich.
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Average male life expectancy in Blackpool declines to 73.1 yrs, females 78.9
Rich Kensington and Chelsea: 83,4 yrs for males, 86.5 females.
Hiking of UK state pension age hits the poor, results in wealth transfer from poor to the rich.
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
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This is a nightmare scenario for trans people. If language like this gets into an HHS funding bill that becomes law, pretty much every hospital and doctor's office that treats trans people of any age would stop doing so.
This is the most extreme anti-trans push yet.
This is the most extreme anti-trans push yet.
![For the last few years, the GOP has coalesced around an idea that would short-circuit essentially all trans health care in America: banning federal funds from going to businesses that provide health care specific to changing one's sex or gender identity, including hormones and surgeries. It would essentially signal to the private sector that if it wants federal dollars, it needs to stay away from sex-or gender-affirming care, and bow down to right-wing pundits who aim to, in their own words,
"eradicate" and "erase" this form of
health care.
Language in House Republicans' most recent funding bill for the Health and Human Services Department would do just that - ban money from any federal program to entities that do "social transitioning" or drugs and surgery for "gender dysphoria." Gender dysphoria is the specific diagnosis doctors use to justify those medical interventions. This legislation has not gotten a vote yet and would need to be reintroduced next Congress to be considered. But it has been a top priority for Republican lawmakers in the House, and Trump himself has promised he'd ask Congress "to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these [trans] procedures." (You can hear all his promises on trans health care in this short campaign video.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hf7ezrajxadu7v3tzcyij424/bafkreid3evqccjqsjbwtdleb4kkevl4nepvc3h7wornyv37q5po7swxsei@jpeg)
December 10, 2024 at 2:24 PM
This is a nightmare scenario for trans people. If language like this gets into an HHS funding bill that becomes law, pretty much every hospital and doctor's office that treats trans people of any age would stop doing so.
This is the most extreme anti-trans push yet.
This is the most extreme anti-trans push yet.
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Thames Water is after a £3 billlion bailout loan💰
The interest and fees alone will be £800 million 💸
The company only has one source of income - customer bills 🧾
What might happen to those bills? 🤔
We need Steve Reed to #BlockTheBailout ❌
www.mirror.co.uk/money/thames...
The interest and fees alone will be £800 million 💸
The company only has one source of income - customer bills 🧾
What might happen to those bills? 🤔
We need Steve Reed to #BlockTheBailout ❌
www.mirror.co.uk/money/thames...
www.mirror.co.uk
December 10, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Thames Water is after a £3 billlion bailout loan💰
The interest and fees alone will be £800 million 💸
The company only has one source of income - customer bills 🧾
What might happen to those bills? 🤔
We need Steve Reed to #BlockTheBailout ❌
www.mirror.co.uk/money/thames...
The interest and fees alone will be £800 million 💸
The company only has one source of income - customer bills 🧾
What might happen to those bills? 🤔
We need Steve Reed to #BlockTheBailout ❌
www.mirror.co.uk/money/thames...
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Israel working hard to ensure that Syria remains an enemy
More than 300 Israeli strikes on Syria since fall of Assad, reports say www.bbc.com/news/article...
More than 300 Israeli strikes on Syria since fall of Assad, reports say www.bbc.com/news/article...
Hundreds of Israeli strikes on Syria since fall of Assad, reports say
The strikes have reportedly targeted military facilities of the Syrian Army, including weapon warehouses.
www.bbc.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Israel working hard to ensure that Syria remains an enemy
More than 300 Israeli strikes on Syria since fall of Assad, reports say www.bbc.com/news/article...
More than 300 Israeli strikes on Syria since fall of Assad, reports say www.bbc.com/news/article...
Elon Musk comes to the defence of the CEO who did for United Healthcare what he did for Twitter
December 10, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Elon Musk comes to the defence of the CEO who did for United Healthcare what he did for Twitter
I take the view that killing people is wrong - whether you shoot them with a silenced pistol, run them over with a tank, torture them in a hidden dungeon or refuse to pay out on their health insurance
December 10, 2024 at 12:11 PM
I take the view that killing people is wrong - whether you shoot them with a silenced pistol, run them over with a tank, torture them in a hidden dungeon or refuse to pay out on their health insurance
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In light of the news that Trump has named Harmeet Dhillon, who wants to turn calling someone a “transphobe” into a hate crime while arguments that trans people shouldn’t exist is protected “free speech”…
I’m re-upping my thread on using criminalization to imprison dissenters.
I’m re-upping my thread on using criminalization to imprison dissenters.
Thread 🧵:
Criminalization allows cruelty.
We know our prisons are not places for “reform” or “rehabilitation.” They are places to punish.
The law and morality are not the same, but people often believe they are.
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Criminalization allows cruelty.
We know our prisons are not places for “reform” or “rehabilitation.” They are places to punish.
The law and morality are not the same, but people often believe they are.
bsky.app/profile/bolt...
Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the Mandela Act in 2022 and stalled negotiations in 2024. Meanwhile, a diluted alternative was signed into law—allowing pregnant women to be held in solitary for up to 5 days. boltsmag.org/califor...
December 10, 2024 at 12:53 AM
In light of the news that Trump has named Harmeet Dhillon, who wants to turn calling someone a “transphobe” into a hate crime while arguments that trans people shouldn’t exist is protected “free speech”…
I’m re-upping my thread on using criminalization to imprison dissenters.
I’m re-upping my thread on using criminalization to imprison dissenters.