Profile avatar
retiredht.bsky.social
NO DMs. Retired head teacher now making the most of every day, keeping fit, reading, spending time with my many grandchildren, topping up my tan in Spain and staying in touch by being a Governor in a primary school in Leeds. I want to be back in Europe!
267 posts 1,660 followers 1,525 following
Prolific Poster

See if it goes on to South Sudan in defiance of Murphy’s remedial court order which is not and was not before the Supreme Court. 👀

Karma. She's quick. Here's looking at you, Murkowski.

"Refuse to be silent. Because I can tell you from experience, that’s the thing Trump fears most." newsletter.ofthebrav...

youtube.com/shorts/TnmV-... A lot of arguments about which covers & original songs get into the final set, but we're close - ONE WEEK out from the one-day family music festival hosted at Plumpton Racecourse (near Lewes, Sussex) - tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/plumpton-m... #PlumptonFestival2025

Mine for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/news/donald-...

Want to see more videos from us then give ad a follow on instagram! www.instagram.com/daniellamber...

⚠️ Explicit language warning ⚠️ open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

Cool. How about you tell us what Donald Trump said to you that one time that made you wag your finger in his face? kthanksbyeeee

He knows. He does not care. His donors will back him because they think money can outvote people, and they want their billionaire tax cuts.

Whoa! Alligator Alcatraz is going to be complete by Tuesday and open for operation on Wednesday. Am I the only one wondering how Ron DeSantis got this together so fast? Floridians, make sure you remember this the next time a hurricane hits and you can’t get disaster relief in your state.

Big flip opportunity for Dems just dropped

Chris Gibbs is a lifelong Ohio farmer. Trump promised to protect people like him. Instead, his trade war wrecked their livelihoods. newsletter.ofthebrav...

Elon Musk continues to warn against the GOP budget bill

The government just cut a key hurricane satellite during storm season. They call it “routine.” It’s not. It’s sabotage by budget. Less data means worse forecasts. More lives at risk. They want us in a constant state of panic and fear, confusion and anger. People are easier to rule that way.

Rest assured that here in Illinois, our LGBTQ+ community can be who they want to be. They are safe here. They are celebrated here. They are welcome here. And they are free to love who they love here. No matter the month, I'll always be an ally in the fight for equality for all.

It’s going to be 47 degrees in Spain tomorrow, but climate change is not a thing, says Reform voting dickheads.

This hits the nail on the head. The resistance is being fully censored and throttled on this platform, intentionally by Musk @bsky.app has been a wonderful refuge, but wind3 it's more of a progressive echo chamber, we need to the freedom to be heard on X, too Time to get loud!

The Trump administration has released a three-time felon and five-time deported immigrant because he's going to testify against zero-time felon Abrego - all to cover their tracks for mistakenly and illegally sending Abrego to El Salvador and then lying about it to the court to cover it up.

WAPO EXCLUSIVE: New intel via an intercepted call shows top Iranian officials were surprised Trump’s recent strikes on Iran’s nuclear program were less destructive and intensive than expected.

The Musk-Trump public wrestling match is back. After a brief interlude, Elon Musk resumed his feud with President Trump, ripping into the president’s domestic policy bill as “utterly insane and destructive” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"In February, roughly 300 NNSA employees were abruptly told they were terminated—not based on performance reviews or operational needs, but simply because of an employment classification that made them easy to fire." newsletter.ofthebrav...

We should have posters saying things like ‘Measles kills’. As for smoking. With pictures of tiny graves. Seriously. It worked for smoking eventually.

Tucked into Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” spending bill—which passed in the House last month, and promises major cuts to Medicaid—is a provision to spend $46.5 billion in taxpayer dollars on building his long-promised wall along the US-Mexico border.

Tree of the day

Actually Jennifer Griffin is one of the best.

Coming back from time off, seeing this in full and astounded by the level of gaslighting here. Shame on Karoline Leavitt. @natashabertrand.bsky.social doesn’t need my support but is a great reporter. Karoline is lying a lot here. Discussing this on my show Monday.

While it's disappointing to hear that Rod Stewart supports divisive gobshite Nigel Farage, it's very good of him to announce it just in time to be told to fuck off by 200,000 people at Glastonbury.

Disabled kids like mine rely on Medicaid to survive; this bill cuts Medicaid. I don't know how else to say that medically complex disabled children will die as a result of this bill.

At the inquest into my husband’s death the coroner described the situation as a desperately sad and unexplainable case of stresses and pressures that were not shared. Please, if you’re struggling, share the stress with someone else 💛 #DaddyBlackbird #SuicidePrevention #Hope

“‘If you want to overthrow the [Iranian] regime, you have to do what it takes. Right? You can't do human rights work. … You need to build an organization, go there and fight against this horrible regime that is very serious about its opponents. We don't have that.’” www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

ALERT: Since Darrell Issa is MIA, I'll be hosting the Indivisible town hall we deserve with Rep. Sara Jacobs! July 27, 4 PM at the California Center for the Arts. Reserve your seats now. These events fill up fast!

He was always going to vote yes. If you don't recognize this guy when he's standing still and not running at top speed, this is Senator Josh Hawley.

"Until recently, there was reason to hope that, by the time Sallie gets to be 30 or 40 years old—when she will be most at risk of developing early-onset Alzheimer's—we would have new treatments available." newsletter.ofthebrav...

Hey, @housedemocrats.bsky.social :: If withholding appropriated funds from Ukraine in exchange for legal favors was an impeachable offense, surely withholding appropriated funds from Israel in exchange for legal favors is an impeachable offense. No?

Newsom’s $787M defamation suit against Fox, the Supreme Court's attack on nationwide injunctions and birthright citizenship, religious groups winning over the First Amendment, Trump lawyers disbarred, and more. Watch Legal AF live at 8p ET/5p PT!

"His whole authoritarian project relies on America’s elected leaders, business people, and ordinary citizens rolling over for him." That’s why silence isn’t an option. We have to speak out and fight back. newsletter.ofthebrav...

True love lives forever

Elon Musk absolutely torches the Senate GOP budget bill

Uh oh. Is the feud back on?

And Trump just gave asylum to 17 of the cartel's family members. Because he's tough on the cartels, you see. www.cnn.com/2025/06/28/p...

How’s your week been? I’ve been doing this… www.instagram.com/reel/DLb1V6v...

He’s a Republican

Trump said he supports small businesses. Then he passed policies that crushed Devin’s.

I just did the math, and yes, this checks out.

My "American Week" for @tomswarbrick.bsky.social's programme on the UK's @lbc.co.uk. Listen live Fridays at 5.50pm or find it here on demand afterwards. This week: Trump goes to war on Iran, and then against the US media. And in New York, Democrats dare to dream. audioboom.com/posts/874150...

And a reminder that you can also now watch American Week every Friday. This week's episode is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPo4...

www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view... Mine for @lbc.co.uk

Trump’s NIH cuts slash 40% of its budget and shut down thousands of research projects. The next medical breakthrough may never leave the lab. newsletter.ofthebrav...