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cymry.bsky.social
Welsh, Swansea City, Scarlets socialist. Cymraeg
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humans terrified of being eaten are failing to walk into lions' den

The at home assassination of a state lawmaker should be getting a bigger reaction from the President than someone throwing a rock at a Tesla dealership.

In Praise of Kim Leadbeater Regardless of how today's vote goes, she has shown us a politics of compromise, compassion and decency. We should treat it as proof of concept for a better kind of politics. iandunt.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

Every time I post about ICE tactics, I get replies, “This is what I voted for.” Really? You voted for a mother crying for mercy while her child is still in school—about to come out and find her missing? There isn’t another way to go about this that preserves our humanity?

Good morning everyone. ☕️☕️☕️

We went from UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!!! to “we’ll see what happens in two weeks.”

Back in 2012......

Whole section of the Federal Government now spends its time masked, out-of-uniform, and unidentifiable, variously snatching people from courthouses, handcuffing elected officials, and driving around LA trying find the best location to provoke a riot for TV coverage purposes.

The extent to which the London Standard (formerly the Evening Standard) properly hates London and always has properly hated London is really quite the phenomenon. It's like having a temperance crusader running CAMRA. I recommend www.londoncentric.media instead.

The government has announced £500m funding to support the delivery of major world class sporting events in the coming years. It is estimated the social-economic return from this will be £2.4bn. An additional £400m funding is being invested in grassroots sporting facilities across the whole UK.

The WH lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". I wish that was true. But here's our reality: We are now under the "leadership" of a regime actively planning to disappear people -even CITIZENS- to war-torn nations! Silence is not our friend. SHARE this video! 🎧 #MAGAKidnappers

Today’s London Standard has a big report on how the capital “isn’t working”. It blames immigrants, especially Muslims, and the lack of “White British”. It asks “if there’s a minimum number of natives” at which London must give it up its status as the UK capital. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/lond...

Managed up to: “When it was recently estimated, in a report by Professor Matt Goodwin”

New data reveals that 40% of corporation tax due from small businesses isn’t being paid. It’s a hidden crisis that costs the UK £15 billion a year — and HMRC has quietly lost control. buff.ly/5Ah4fP4

Israel complaining about another country bombing a civilian hospital is almost as sadly ironic as Israel bombing another country for developing nuclear technology.

No, MPs haven't legalised abortion up to birth. That lie was spread on X by many who should know better. The change is about saving a handful of vulnerable women from trauma and prison. Women about whom those people do not even think. New writing from me open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

This is fantastic news for Swansea, and communities across South Wales. Anti-Net-Zero ideologues will tell you green industries are the problem. They’re wrong. Wales has a proud past working the pits, but our jobs of the future are in the sun and on the sea. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Another SPACE X explosion

Labour You have had a WHOLE year to sort out: The economy The NHS Education Crime Migration Potholes Heatwaves Jeggings Manchester Utd Jeremy Clarkson Trainer socks Quinoa Moths What the actual f*ck have you been up to??? ONE WHOLE YEAR! And NONE of these problems solved. 😡

"I'm very happy to have this out" writes Douglas Carswell, insincerely.

Netanyahu has been raising the specter of an Iranian nuclear weapon since at least 1995 and now is using that as an excuse to start a war. Almost all Iranians want freedom from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Despite what you might hear, tho, my people’s liberation will not come from foreign bombs.

What happens when a political agenda takes over any semblance of journalistic standards Telegraph admits its story about private school family not being able to go on five holidays was complete nonsense and not remotely fact-checked Beyond embarrassing www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/the-t...

BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers

10 years of the podcast. Thank you so much for listening. It’s the best thing I’ve ever been involved with and I’m so grateful to you. Listen to the 10th anniversary ep here: 🎧: podfollow.com/dan-snows-hi...

I post my "Bluesky is dying" article on Twitter and sit back smugly as it's shown to 274 of my 80,000 followers, receiving two likes, on retweet, and an anime avatar called lolitas1488 telling me my inferior skullshape means I belong in the camps.

Man’s a poet.

Great news for punters and performers in Swansea 👇 swanseabaynews.com/2025/06/18/m...

If this group of men jumped out of a van and grabbed someone in your neighborhood, a friend, family member, or you. What's your reaction going to be?

Not sure how Bluesky will come back from being attacked by a Spectator writer who ‘wanked himself into hospital’. It really seems like all the right wing bad faith arguers are finding their engagement levels falling.

It took Netanyahu 29 years, but he finally found an American president who was itching to go to war with him against Iran.

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

IAEA has seen no evidence that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program. “We have had no indication of systematic efforts aimed at developing nuclear weapons,” said IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in an interview with CNN.

In my view Starmer has quickly become a very useful, well respected and influential world leader. It has been a long long time since the UK has had one of those.

The headquarters of the new Welsh National Theatre will be in Swansea / Abertawe, it has been announced. www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/the...

We need an experienced Project Manager to play a pivotal role in a multi-partner, multi-disciplinary project exploring cultural, social, and ecological dimensions of #biophilic retrofitting (integrating nature into buildings), adapting our cities to climate change. www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...

Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

"I'm raging, actually, on behalf of the victims." Baroness Louise Casey, author of the Government's audit on grooming gangs, on her anger that so little has changed since her 2015 Rotherham report. #Newsnight

So Chris Philip is supposedly doing PMQs today - people are suggesting it's so he can make a big deal about grooming gangs - politicising the issue, which Baroness Casey has asked people not to do. But remind me - who was previously a policing minister and didn't do a single thing about the gangs?

"Recent Eurobarometer data confirm the shift: 74% of Europeans now view EU membership as a positive thing – the highest level of support ever recorded." - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

does it ever disturb anyone how willing our governments are to drop bombs and murder indiscriminately

Have you tanked your economy? Was your birthday parade an embarrassment? Did the richest man in the world allude to you being a nonce? Did you lose your bid to challenge a sexual abuse & defamation lawsuit? If so, you need WAR! 𝑊𝐴𝑅 - 𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟

An elected representative. Doing his lawful business. America 2025

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

That’s exactly what this is about. Distraction. For all of this and that lame duck, low energy spectacle

Starmer is rightly challeneging Badenoch over her failure to act on grooming gangs when in government. In contrast, Starmer prosecuted such gangs in his job as DPP at the CPS; and has called for changes to mandatory reporting - which the Tories failed to bring in.