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Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 12h

Tony B-Liar sticks his degenerate paws into another Middle East quagmire hoping for a fast buck or 50,000,000. What a disgraceful, neoliberal, arse-licking monster - happy to tread across the backs
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Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton

The Blair-Trump fantasy for postwar Gaza shows the former PM still thinks that free enterprise can solve all the world’s ills, says associate editor at the New Left Review Oliver Eagleton

www.theguardian.com

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t think they intend to learn/relearn this…it doesn’t serve their interests.

Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 12h

Same.

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 12h

I fear recognition of the upcoming collapse of habitats & food security due to climate change and jobs due to AI/tech is driving many governments' lurch to the right in preparation: close borders, deport people, cut welfare, ignore the poor/sick/old, ban protests (for when the public realises)...

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 12h

Why are they allowed to write their own puff pieces?

Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 12h

The fact that the UK govt blocks a report on the impact of rainforest collapse in south America says so much:

1. They know climate change and the impacts are real and will be deadly

2. Instead of planning for solutions, their response is to:
- suppress the information
- block refugees
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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 14h

Officials in Downing Street have blocked publication of a report warning that the collapse of tropical rainforests could push up food prices in British supermarkets.

Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

www.thetimes.com

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 13h

The global south and most of the world will never forgive the current US government and their enablers (esp Musk) for this one!

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

This is among other things a product of how far UK Conservative and Reform Party MPs and Spads have become so marinated in Right wing American social media that they have adopted its view of unis as a source of radicalisation tempting youth away from the moral purity of National Conservative thought

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 20h

Every one of these lives mattered but to see this includes eleven children is heartbreaking. The amount of national resource required to solve this problem is so relatively small that Government should just spend it immediately (as it has before!)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 17h

If you are right wing, then the truth and reality always looks like they were created by left wing activists.

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Love Glasgow Hate Racism @lghr.bsky.social · 1d

"Andrea said she boils eggs in the kettle in her room. It is the only way to get some protein for her daughter"

People seeking asylum are not the problem.

The problems are incompetent governments & billionaires who are profiting from human misery.

Be angry at them.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Pudsey @pudsey68.bsky.social · 1d

What a nauseating puff piece!

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Ashleigh Plumptre: 'I deeply hurt people by moving to Saudi Arabia'

In an interview with BBC Sport, Ashleigh Plumptre says she regrets losing the trust of some LGBT fans in women's football by moving to Saudi Arabia.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 1d

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Richest 1% has more wealth than 70% of UK population combined.

Top 20% own two-thirds of wealth, receive 36% of income.

Bottom 20% own 0.5% of wealth, receive 9% of income.

Can't grow economy or have social stability.

Poverty is political choice. Which political party wants to address this?

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.'

leftfootforward.org

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 1d

This piece poses as a collective statement from former US surgeon generals.

Thanks to Kennedy, we are facing the biggest barrage of misinformation in decades, that will cost us.

He is entitled to his views, but he is not entitled to put our collective health at risk.

🧪 archive.today/DNPUh

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 1d

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

So according to Jenrick, 'not integrated' means black/brown faces outnumbering white faces. How very dare they. Nothing to do with whether they're actually integrated – just what they look like.

Absolutely shameful.

He'll probably become Tory leader.

Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 2d

Jenrick says, Handsworth the area I went to school in isn’t integrated as he didn’t see a white face and the closest he has seen to a slum? So is he saying we should pay minorities much more for their low paid jobs and welcome them to The Cotswolds with their mosques and temples???

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨 "The ECHR is not some foreign imposition that curtails our sovereignty. It was born of British leadership after the horrors of the Second World War, drafted with heavy British influence, and championed by Winston Churchill himself". Great stuff by Sir Robert Buckland KC:

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 2d

Does it mean she has "lost her heart" if she no longer finds this heartening?

Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 2d

That graph also sums up perfectly what happened to the NHS during peak covid pandemic and why it struggles/cannot return to previous baseline.

Running bed occupancy and capacity close to 100% in normal times means there is no resilience in the system for any stressor events.

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for your courage and authenticity. Both matter now more than ever.
Wishing you strength and happiness.

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Frederick Smith, Ed.D. @fsmith827.bsky.social · 3d

Black women are the most educated & degreed, per capita, than any demographic group in the U.S. And they buy & read more books than any demographic in the U.S.

www.essence.com/news/new-stu...

A statistic I shared in my 2018 doctoral dissertation: bit.ly/FredSmithDis...

#HigherEdSky #BlackSky

New Study Shows Black Women Are Among The Most Educated Group In The United States | Essence

New studies show Black women have been receiving degrees at a higher rate for years.

www.essence.com

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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