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Hoping for a quieter period of politics. Update - Well that's worked out well!!
#COYS
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We need to be very clear about this.

Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.

humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all
Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...
humanists.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Mark Zuckerberg has spent $110M to buy 11 houses in one Palo Alto neighborhood.

He's turning the homes into a compound.

That's on top of his 30 bedroom, 30 bathroom compound in Hawaii and another in Lake Tahoe.

I don’t want to hear that billionaires can’t afford a wealth tax.
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The greatness of a player is not measured in stats or trophies. It's measured by the indelible mark they leave in the memories of their club's supporters. By that rule, Son is a modern legend, a Spurs great forever. Farewell, you wonderful man.
August 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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New petition: "Justice for ESN Survivors: apologise and fund financial compensation"

Deadline 1 October 2025, created by Noel Gordon

#NewPetition
New petition: Justice for ESN Survivors: apologise and fund financial compensation
In the 1960s, hundreds of black children were labelled as "educationally subnormal" and wrongly sent to schools for pupils who were deemed to have low intelligence. We want the government to apologise to those affected.
petition.parliament.uk
April 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
June 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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If you've ever wondered why Trump lies all the time, this explanation by Professor Timothy Snyder is the best you'll ever hear. Please listen to it and pass it on. It makes everything so much clearer!

[SOUND ON 🔊]
May 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy.

Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.

That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.

It's Fascism 101.
April 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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1. Infuriatingly, here in the UK, the government still seems to believe that the only way of introducing trees is to plant them (see, for example, the current Land Use Framework consultation).
News just in: trees can self-seed, which could be why they've survived for 360m years. 🧵
I took this photo less than 10 years after the deer fence behind was erected. Before it went up, the land behind was just grass, exactly like the foreground where he sheep are.

*Nothing* was planted here.

"It's not rocket science" is an understatement.
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March 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
March 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Nigel Farage would turn UK into a 'Trump tribute act', Lib Dem leader says

news.sky.com/story/nigel-...
Nigel Farage would turn UK into a 'Trump tribute act', Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey says
In a wide-ranging speech on the last day of his party's spring conference, Sir Ed Davey launched a furious attack on Donald Trump and Nigel Farage.
news.sky.com
March 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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This is the way ✊✊✊
“Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf."
Statement from Elias Law Group Chair Marc Elias
elias.law
March 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Yep. Not enough weight is being given to this story.
"How could the Germans have let it happen"?
We used to debate at school.
You & I, we are all living it how it could ..
& did..
& is again..
in the US.
theintellectualist.com/black-saturd...
Black Saturday: The Day the United States Ceased to Be a Constitutional Democracy
Black Saturday, March 15, 2025, will be remembered as the day the U.S. ceased to function as a constitutional democracy. A sitting president defied a federal court order, proving that judicial authori...
theintellectualist.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
March 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.

The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.

History is repeating. Pay attention.
January 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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UK choosing to end Freedom of Movement is helping create the same effect in UK too..
& when UK eventually, incrementally, reciprocally, fully ends freedom of food too (after now 7 delays since 1/1/21) in accordance with its Brexit TCA border wishes
it will make this situation worse still, of course
America, you were played…👇

Hard!

Any Questions?!
January 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Jeremy Clarkson is scapegoating badgers for bTB and has reportedly slaughtered them all on his land. This is disgusting, cruel, and ignorant.

You know what he’d really hate? If you shared this and signed the petition to end the badger cull. Let’s do it

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
January 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM