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Interested in people's experiences with Social Security Scotland. While we haven't had the dehumanising approach of the DWP to contend with, they are painfully slow and uncommunicative. Over 3 months of radio silence on Carers Support. Which isn't pleasant when you're not earning.

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If you haven't made some serious as fuck plans by now, you need to pull your finger out! They are confident of pushing law to ban trans people in the UK by January 2026. Or is it posturing? www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/11/e...

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This. But those who get angry, get stamped on.

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I'm done

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For anyone to claim the EHRC is independent is farcical when Kemi Badenoch admitted she ensured the right people were in place and Falkner confirmed yesterday they changed the board to pursue this "course correction".

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Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.

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🥀Despite it being a key driver of child poverty the Labour UK government have failed to scrap the two-child cap. That's why we are taking the decisive action as early as possible to scrap the cap in Scotland.

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Falkner cannot share who #EHRC is getting legal advice from to #WESC. Totally unacceptable.

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Kind of appalling - what's been happening behind the scenes in Parliament with rival amendments to decriminalise abortion. 🧵

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Will @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social be reporting on the spending review in ReformUK style, to keep the troops happy?

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Falkner is so full of it. She is saying parliament doesn't need to bring in new law to bring UK back in alignment with the ECtHR and should let things "bed in" the EHRC carry on as usual. How... very... convenient...

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Oh dear. CCUS is not, repeat not, a "green energy" technology 🤦‍♂️

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The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent" bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

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“Society of strangers”? Love that the fascist government in the US is using the language of Keir Starmer. Very cool and fine.

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I’ve just challenged the FCDO minister: when will UK govt ban settlement goods? This trade directly funds & fuels illegal Israeli settlements and makes the UK complicit in extremist violence. The minister just talks about labelling; trade in these goods must be banned outright.

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Ah. Nothing like @uklabour.bsky.social attacking the notion of universality. So far from the foundations of the Labour movement.

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Man. Online learning can be a scam. Just paid money to EDx for a course from Babson. From a video on the course it appears the content (to do with Data analysis) is 9 years old. So in a fast moving area EDx and Babson are offering old information. Nae pleased.

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Why do Labour, the Tories, and Reform UK all back free zones? My latest article is on Substack, please subscribe and share it. open.substack.com/pub/european...

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Just watched Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley talking about Adriana Smith, the dead Georgia woman whose body is being used as an incubator. Adriana’s little 5 year boy asks when his mum is going to wake up. This twisted cruelty is unfathomable

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When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left? All the shifts are in just one direction. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

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🟡 NEW 🟡 Oil and Gas Lobby Behind ‘Concerted’ Attempt to Weaken EU Methane Policy - New Report 📝 @stellalevantesi.bsky.social 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/06/10/o...

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BBC NEWS “In the last few hours Russia has begun targeting major British cities with an army of nuclear drones, but we’re interrupting coverage of the attack because Nigel Farage has just farted after eating an enormous ploughman’s lunch.”

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[email protected] has done great work in its climate change broadcast tonight, but sadly between the outrages in Trump's America, in Gaza, & Ukraine, I doubt any of it will really cut through. We are collectively accelerating towards an existential catastrophe, & too many of us just don't care.

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The "1.2 m illegal immigrants" number - (from @pewresearch.org - has been seized on by Reform, unchallenged by BBC/media. It's a lie. 1. It includes large number of people with leave to remain" - here legally. 2. It includes* children born here 3. It's upper limit of 800K-1.2m range

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If Trump can claim a "national emergency" to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him? No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens. Fascism is here.

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BREAKING: NYPD and ICE mistakenly arrested a Chilean woman who was on vacation in New York City, leaving her 12-year-old daughter on the street alone. This is what happens when you embolden ICE to act with zero oversight. Trump’s America.

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As you watch ICE terrorize Los Angeles, remember: private prison companies are going to get very, very rich off Trump's cruelty.

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"One of the biggest AI projects in the NHS has been paused after concerns were raised that it may have used the health records of 57 million people without the correct permissions." [Observer]

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