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RowedThatMike

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European. Lover of being nice. Sick of hearing how someone will make Brexit great again. Studied law, MBA. Studying psychology. Animals over humans. 🇻🇳 🇬🇧. https://Infinityconnect.global

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RowedThatMike @rowedthatmike.bsky.social · Mar 27

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d

The state we're in

UK full-time employee median wage, £30,816.
4.5m jobs pay less than the real Living Wage.
1.17m workers on zero-hour contracts.
34% of Universal Credit claimants are in work.
16m Britons live in poverty.

Can't build economy on poverty.

Must increase worker share of GDP.

The government must ensure fair distribution of income

'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 3d

Dr Jane Goodall filmed an interview in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. This is her final message.

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RowedThatMike @rowedthatmike.bsky.social · 3d

Seems accurate

circleofchaos.bsky.social @circleofchaos.bsky.social · 3d

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Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 3d

Smuggler's Notchnin Jeffesonville Vermont

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 4d

250,000 people turned out in Amsterdam to support Palestine today.

Our leadership does not represent us.

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RowedThatMike @rowedthatmike.bsky.social · 4d

Community works

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

RowedThatMike @rowedthatmike.bsky.social · 4d

Please share

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

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RowedThatMike @rowedthatmike.bsky.social · 4d

@implausibleblog.bsky.social is the interview with Hugh Grant I’ve seen on Instagram on here. I wanted to share it

RowedThatMike @rowedthatmike.bsky.social · 6d

Couldn’t understand? They do now.

RowedThatMike @rowedthatmike.bsky.social · 8d

@ledbydonkeys.org can you get a ‘for sale’ sign on that yacht ?

RowedThatMike @rowedthatmike.bsky.social · 9d

Will fix nothing. I’d imagine crime will increase. Yes, encourage employment so people learn skills, but forcing people into jobs they either don’t like or that won’t help their career growth will not address the issue.

RowedThatMike @rowedthatmike.bsky.social · 10d

Note to UK:

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 10d

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10d

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:

2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503

So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.

We do not have to keep living like this.

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J Keen @jkeen1213.bsky.social · 11d

This is amazing! 😂

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 11d

North Carolina, Michigan, and countless others, when is enough, enough?

When will we all demand better from each other, from our government?

We must stop the hatred of each other, but we must also demand each of our elected officials do more.

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RowedThatMike @rowedthatmike.bsky.social · 11d

The guy that wants people to re-apply for residency, has himself got a passport for Germany, along with his two children, so he doesn’t need to suffer the brexit woes. When I his fans (all ten of them) going to wake up.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11d

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 11d

Nigel Farage's attendance record as an MEP was 748 out of 751, yet he turned up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian disinformation. Now one of his MEPs has admitted taking bribes to spread Russian propaganda. Why is this not all over the media?

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11d

So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

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RowedThatMike @rowedthatmike.bsky.social · 12d

It should be shared far and wide. These people knew about this before it became real

RowedThatMike @rowedthatmike.bsky.social · Mar 27

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 13d

People want lower rents. They want cheaper bills and publicly-owned services. They want an NHS that works.

Why can’t this government just do things that would actually improve people’s lives?

We can fix this country. We just need the political will.

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RowedThatMike @rowedthatmike.bsky.social · 13d

Yes but we don’t like regeneration and investment funding from the EU. We’d all sooner be poorer and deprived.

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RowedThatMike @rowedthatmike.bsky.social · 14d

Great to see This Morning tv making sure people know Farage is lying. Makes for a nice change.

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RowedThatMike @rowedthatmike.bsky.social · 14d

What would love do?

RowedThatMike @rowedthatmike.bsky.social · Mar 27