tortoise28.bsky.social
@tortoise28.bsky.social
Ditched IG & FB - believer in a justice, equity & inclusion - concerned about current state of affairs in Europe & the USA - Autism Mama & advocate
The world according to T, white South Africans are being persecuted by black South Africans, but Israel is not committing persecution of the Palestinian people???

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with claims of 'white persecution': live updates
Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with claims of 'white persecution': live updates
President Ramaphosa pushes back against discredited claims from the US president that white South Africans are facing
www.bbc.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Systematic extermination of the Palestinian people 😔

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...
UK suspends Israel trade talks and summons ambassador over 'intolerable' Gaza offensive - BBC News
UK suspends Israel trade talks and summons ambassador over 'intolerable' Gaza offensive
Foreign Secretary David Lammy says Israel's war in Gaza is entering a
www.bbc.co.uk
May 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Trump officials deport two-year-old US citizen and mother of one-year-old girl
Trump officials deport two-year-old US citizen and mother of one-year-old girl
Lawyers in both cases, one in Louisiana and another in Florida, say clients arrested at routine Ice check-ins
www.theguardian.com
April 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
We must never forget.
My Uncle was one of the first soldiers in to liberate Belsen & what he witnessed haunted him, for the rest of his life. He never spoke of it.....

BBC News - Eighty years on, survivors and families remember horrors of Bergen Belsen
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bergen Belsen: Eighty years on, survivors and families remember camp's horrors
180 British Jews will join groups marking the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Germany.
www.bbc.com
April 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Reeves flies to US to push Trump to sign trade agreement.

Please repost if you oppose any deal with Trump's America, and call on Starmer to do what is right for the UK and democracy and work to bring the UK back into the Single Market / EU as rapidly as possible.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reeves flies to US to push Trump to sign trade agreement
Chancellor hopes to persuade Trump to cut tariffs on Britain’s exports
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Perhaps the media should ask Homan if it’d be ok for him to be grabbed off the street and trafficked without a hearing.
Tom Homan on ABC does not deny that the administration's position is they have a right to grab people off the street and deport them without a hearing
April 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Mistake my ass!
April 19, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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‘They were chanting as they killed people in their homes’: survivors describe attack on Sudan’s Zamzam camp
‘They were chanting as they killed people in their homes’: survivors describe attack on Sudan’s Zamzam camp
On 11 April Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries attacked the country’s largest displacement camp. The extent of the brutality remains unclear, but some accounts are now emerging
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Aid and rescue workers in Gaza are risking their lives every single day. Many have been killed by Israeli forces in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Efforts to investigate these violations & crimes are obstructed by the Israeli authorities. We need a permanent ceasefire now.
April 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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The premise on which Nigel Farage bases his argument for leaving the ECHR wholly fails under scrutiny
Nigel Farage has told ITV News the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights

That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK.

THIS IS WHY
youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...
Nigel Farage says first thing he would do as PM if he won a GE would be to remove UK from the ECHR
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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April 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Why on earth does JDV think he has a right to dictate on another countries laws on free speech or the protection offered in law to protect minority groups, from hate - facism is rife!
April 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Sadly yes
April 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Same River, Twice: Putin’s War on Women by Sofi Oksanen – review
Same River, Twice: Putin’s War on Women by Sofi Oksanen – review
This harrowing study of the Russian leader’s weaponising of sexual violence argues that misogyny goes hand in hand with imperialism
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:58 AM
BBC News - 'Russians are even trying to ban our holidays' - life in occupied Ukraine
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ukraine war: ‘Russians are even trying to ban our holidays' - life in occupied territories
Ukrainians in Russian-held land tell the BBC about the difficulties of life under occupation.
www.bbc.com
April 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
#MomSky

Not Just Handmaid's Tale

Straight Up Nazis Germany
State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.
www.politico.com
April 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
And that is why Mark Carney was Governor of the Bank of England - he knows his stuff!
April 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Nights of BLUE SKIES
#MomSky

DAY 9 APRIL 2025

TRUMP REACHED A NEW LEVEL OF FUCKERY

BOND MARKET was going to cave

TRUMP CAVED

"This is a great time to buy "

Few hours later
He lowers tariffs

AND THEN MARKET SOARS
That's STOCK MANIPULATION

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April 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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LISTEN to Barack Obama:

"It's up to all of us to fix this. The most important office in this democracy is the ordinary person."

Freedom is not a given — we have to fight for it!
April 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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I needed to hear this. Maybe you do too.

“Fear has a way of being contagious… courage is also contagious.” — Kamala Harris

Man, I miss her.
April 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
RIP Val Kilmer - gone too soon 😥
BBC News - Top Gun and Batman actor Val Kilmer dies aged 65
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Val Kilmer: Top Gun, Batman and The Doors actor dies aged 65
He starred in some of the biggest movies of the 1980s and 90s, also including The Doors and Heat.
www.bbc.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Don't quote me but it now appears that JD Vance has been assigned the job of applying Trump's makeup. 🤣
#ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #ElbowsUpCanada #ElbowsUpGreenland #TheTurdReich
March 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM