Urmstonshrew
LightNews LightNews
urmstonshrew.bsky.social
Urmstonshrew
@urmstonshrew.bsky.social
86 followers 640 following 15 posts
Posts Replies Media Videos
urmstonshrew.bsky.social
A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 5, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Reposted by Urmstonshrew
esherukweku.bsky.social
A very long and important THREAD -

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
January 4, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Reposted by Urmstonshrew
anneapplebaum.bsky.social
The conversation on Threads
January 4, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Reposted by Urmstonshrew
wutangforchildren.bsky.social
As usual, Bill Burr doesn’t miss 🎯
August 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Reposted by Urmstonshrew
liamthorp.bsky.social
This is why Liverpool and Manchester’s mayors and its two major newspapers are joining forces today
Liverpool and Manchester are joining forces today
North West newspaper titles come together on the day that our two city region mayors travel to London calling for backing of new Liverpool to Manchester rail link
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
urmstonshrew.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/alargegr...
The Price of Salop.
What the company accounts say about running a League One football club.
open.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
urmstonshrew.bsky.social
Learned Helplessness 99-percent.org/learned-help...
Learned Helplessness - 99%
Why it is time to reject the idea that we are helpless to solve the nation’s problems The UK faces serious challenges: the cost-of-living crisis, which has been with us […]
99-percent.org
February 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Reposted by Urmstonshrew
profgalloway.com
👇🏻👇🏻
mweinstock.bsky.social mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · Feb 15
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
urmstonshrew.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/t...
Time for Europe to become a global force
After Trump turns his back on European security, we must rearm...
open.substack.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Reposted by Urmstonshrew
shrewsburytown.com
WE WILL NEVER STOP FIGHTING!!!!!
February 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Reposted by Urmstonshrew
salopcast.bsky.social
EP11 - The Vape Escape

youtu.be/KAVoBWZsHsk?...
2024/25 - EP11 - The Vape Escape
YouTube video by Salopcast
youtu.be
January 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Reposted by Urmstonshrew
shrewsburytown.com
NOW THAT IS PROPER CINEMA 🍿
January 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Reposted by Urmstonshrew
mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
"Thompson’s death was not considered sufficiently important by his colleagues to merit the cancellation of the meeting he had been due to attend in the Manhattan Hilton. Just 48 hours later, his job was relisted."
Justice is a contract
Responses to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson have unsettled many, but are a natural result of a broken system
bylines.scot
December 31, 2024 at 6:42 AM
urmstonshrew.bsky.social
An interesting substack on Innovative tech in sports and its evolution into use in healthcare.

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell...
Smart Shoes for "Parkys" - who funds Health Innovation?
Over the past couple of years writing this newsletter has brought me into contact with dozens of people with bright ideas for improving healthcare.
open.substack.com
December 21, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Reposted by Urmstonshrew
josiahmortimer.bsky.social
Whenever I share govt announcements on here, one thing is always certain: the comments will be full of surprise from people who haven’t seen the news anywhere else

Here's a bunch of recent announcements that you may have missed
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/l...
All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You won't have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com
December 20, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Reposted by Urmstonshrew
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
One of my favorite parts of Ministry for the Future was the abolition of the billionaires. Just to be that rich makes you an enemy of democracy. Wrote early this year:
Let me put it this way: if you made $10,000 a week – a princely sum by the standards of most people – you would have to work every week from the year of Jesus’s birth until this week to earn over a billion dollars. To earn as much as Elon Musk’s net worth at that rate – currently $180bn, according to Forbes – you’d have to work every week for more than a third of a million years – that is, since before Homo sapiens first emerged in Africa. Being a billionaire is arguably a disqualification for participating in the affairs of ordinary people Another way to put it is: one day last year, walking on San Francisco’s western edge, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, I saw whales spouting, and then I came home and rescued a bee buzzing at my window. The extremely disparate scale of these two wild creatures impressed me, and so I did the sums: a honeybee weighs about 0.11 grams and 4,000 bees weigh a pound; a grey whale weighs between 60,000 and 90,000 pounds, meaning that, even at the lower weight, it weighs about as much as a quarter of a billion bees. According to Oxfam, 81 billionaires hold more wealth than the poorest half of all humanity, meaning that in monetary terms 81 people are bigger than 4 billion people. So when it comes to wealth and impact, billionaires are whales and poor people are bees. Except that whales aren’t a menace to bees.
December 18, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Reposted by Urmstonshrew
georgetakei.bsky.social
Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does.
December 14, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Reposted by Urmstonshrew
designationsix.bsky.social
December 15, 2024 at 4:07 AM
urmstonshrew.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/RWVEKv
December 8, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Reposted by Urmstonshrew
premnsikka.bsky.social
Need more than tax on the super rich for climate/economic justice.

Fortunes often built on exploitative practices- low wages, unequal value exchange, unpaid care work, pollution.

Must change how wealth creation is perceived, who is valued, how wealth is shared.
neweconomics.org/2024/11/we-n...
We need more than a tax on the super rich to deliver climate and economic justice
In the wake of the G20 and COP29, it's more important than ever for global leaders to focus on tackling extreme wealth inequalities
neweconomics.org
November 29, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Reposted by Urmstonshrew
shrewsburytown.com
GARETH AINSWORTH'S BARMY ARMY 🤩
Full-time: Shrewsbury Town 3-2 Birmingham City
November 23, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Reposted by Urmstonshrew
copddoc.bsky.social
Lung disease and social justice - COPD as a manifestation of structural violence.
#WorldCOPDday
@atscommunity.bsky.social @ats-assemblies.bsky.social
www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...
November 19, 2024 at 6:55 PM
urmstonshrew.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/UAR96WC
For anyone interested in lun healthy lungs
November 17, 2024 at 12:47 PM
urmstonshrew.bsky.social
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

Day 2 on here, 1st post.

I'm still figuring it out. This list of starter packs will hopefully help myself and fellow newbies.
All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
blueskydirectory.com
November 12, 2024 at 5:36 AM