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Joanne Clements 🕷💙🦋 @joannekarma.bsky.social · Jan 22

So what is the Russia report that Johnson is refusing to release? Here is a a supremely clear explanation: youtu.be/F2AztQZy910 #ReleaseTheRussiaReport This is why @DominicGrieve1 and others were so concerned about the report being withheld by No.10.

Brexit, the Russia Report, and UK's Five Eyes Alliance Membership

YouTube video by Robert Patman

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Joanne Clements 🕷💙🦋 @joannekarma.bsky.social · 13h

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes I think
that maybe my posts and letters about Ukraine
could make you not only fall in love
with this wounded land,
but also look closer at
the country you live in,
the treasures you have,
the beauty your eyes can reach.

Oh, silly thoughts.
But good to have them anyway.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 19h

These paintings were made
on boards from ammunition boxes
by Ukrainian soldier
Serhii Herasymenko in 2023.

Seen today at the exhibition
Callsign: Artist

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 16h

I’m deeply grateful to everyone who supports my mission
to show Ukraine to the world.

This week’s gratitude for you –
my travel diary from the palaces of Vinnytsia region,
little-known, non-touristic places
in the heart of Ukraine:
www.patreon.com/posts/travel...

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 14h

A rapid reponse to my article:
'Despite our practice putting in 6 months of work to prepare for the roll out the coverage in the national press has led to overwhelming demand which has pushed us to the limits of safer capacity. Patients have to read and acknowledge a warning about not using..1/2

Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 1d

According to Wes Streeting, GPs are less convenient than hairdressers.
My latest on why goodwill has drained away as we try to provide a safe & equitable service in the teeth of a gale of nonsense from NHS England & the govt.
bmj.com/cgi/content/...

Helen Salisbury: GPs versus hairdressers? Streeting has no idea

The row about online access to GP services continues.1 In April it was agreed that GPs would keep online portals open in their core hours, but a six month delay was put in place. This was so that NHS ...

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 14h

And so it begins... Client telling me that my (and counsel's) advice is wrong and that I need to consider various cited cases that support their view. Which cases don't exist. Client admits used an LLM AI, but comes back to me with further detailed argument, citing other cases which.. don't exist.

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Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social · 14h

Belarus rarely makes Western headlines — but it should this week.
A quiet move by the Trump administration has just handed Alexander Lukashenka, and indirectly Vladimir Putin, an unexpected gift.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 1d

Yes because the idiot refuses to recognise that the EU’s internal political and governance arrangements are for us to determine not for exceptionalist British expats. For residence purposes, we are a single political entity, just like the UK.

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 2d

Every local authority has been cut to the bone for years – this is common knowledge - but Grimey and his Reform chums swore blind that £millions were being wasted through incompetence and laziness. DOGE found fuck all - welcome to reality, dickhead.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2d

🔴Winter Is Coming: Can Ukraine Keep the Lights On?

As temperatures fall and Putin’s strikes on the grid escalate, Ukraine prepares for a winter of severe hardship, reports George Llewelyn from Kyiv

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

Winter Is Coming: Can Ukraine Keep the Lights On?

As temperatures fall and Putin's strikes on the grid escalate, Ukraine prepares for a winter of severe hardship, reports George Llewelyn from Kyiv

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 1d

Remind you of anyone? Frogface Nigel? Donnie Trumpo?

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

After spending an entire morning defending his suggestion that there are too many non-white faces in the UK, Robert Jenrick ends his speech with the line: "Let's take our country back".

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 2d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 2d

He claims in this clip, he didn't see a white face for about an hour and a half when he visited a place in Birmingham. He then goes on to say, it isn't about the colour of a person's face. If it isn't about colour why mention it?

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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 2d

EN DIRECT, Gaza : Donald Trump assure que les discussions avancent et que le Hamas a « accepté certaines choses très importantes »

Les pourparlers indirects entre Israël et le Hamas en vue de libérer les otages et mettre fin à deux ans de guerre à Gaza ont commencé lundi en Egypte. Ils sont basés sur le plan en 20 points proposé par le président américain.

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is transactional. As such his method of "supporting" Ukraine is for NATO countries to purchase weapons from the USA and then they can give them to Ukraine. As opposed to supporting them on Constitutional principles.

If that happens, he shouldn't have any say in how they use them.

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Joanne Clements 🕷💙🦋 @joannekarma.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful! 👏

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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 3d

When artistry, ingenuity and compassion combine.

Remarkable.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 2d

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?

The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.

At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 2d

“We want to see an end to medical unemployment in the country.”

Jack Fletcher tells LBC why Resident doctors in England starting out in their career have voted resoundingly for strike action as the doctor unemployment crisis threatens the future of the medical workforce.

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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 2d

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It’s Badenoch’s Tory show, 2025: like Britain seeing an old flame and remembering why we blocked their number | Frances Ryan

The conference offers a flailing leader, Trumpite policies and rivals jockeying for position. It is comical, but also worrying, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 2d

On reports that Reform’s DOGE unit in Kent has found no savings and is set to hike council tax, Lib Dem Daisy Cooper MP:

"Reform's pledge to slash millions...has turned out to be nothing but smoke & mirrors

"Like his idol Elon Musk, Zia Yusuf has spectacularly failed to deliver what DOGE promised"

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

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