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retrogem.bsky.social
Teacher, Pro EU, dog owner, mistress of the typo. Permanently tired.
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Our proposals to pedestrianise Oxford Street are backed by ⤵️ ➡️ 2/3 of Londoners ➡️ Major retailers ➡️ Business groups Let’s work together and make Oxford Street the UK destination to shop, eat and spend time with friends and family.

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

Getting a bucket out of the street and they shot me... there's no way these people were here to protect us..

submitted 20 hours ago • 135 comments

🕯️🇺🇦 As of 7:00 a.m., the bodies of 5 more victims were unearthed from the rubble of a partially destroyed building in the Solomianskyi district of Kyiv. In total, 21 people died and 134 were injured in the capital.

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

Parnas: He sends the Marines into American cities not to protect us, folks, but to silence us. He ignores court orders like they’re optional. He surrounds himself with loyalists who exist solely to carry out his will. This is a leadership style that’s called authoritarianism.

submitted 17 hours ago • 113 comments

An active duty service member has been sent to a mental health facility against his will after speaking out about ICE’s legal and humanitarian abuses. TikTokers took action, including writing @governor.ca.gov /

submitted 19 hours ago • 252 comments

@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @bundestag.de Please. What. Can. We. Do. To. Stop. This? Please.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

In a hundred years or more, people will wonder what Ukrainians felt and did under heavy attacks - and, more importantly, what the world did to help us. I wrote a letter. Exclusive for supporters. Indifference, Care and Why No Sunday Letter This Week. www.patreon.com/posts/life-b...

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

💔 The number of injured in Kyiv due to massive attack has increased to 139. There are also 15 known deaths.

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

Hi, it’s Meg again. Brad is still in ICE custody. We are grateful to the many friends, supporters, and allies who have gathered in Federal Plaza. Together we are standing up for those with no voice.

submitted 19 hours ago • 359 comments

BREAKING: MPs have voted to REMOVE abortion from the criminal law in England and Wales for women in relation to their own pregnancies. A historic day for shaping a more humane law – one that prioritises treating women with compassion. humanists.uk/2025/06/17/b...

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.

submitted 19 hours ago • 634 comments

So devastating 💔

submitted 21 hours ago • 542 comments

This has to end...!! I live a few thousand kilometers from Ukraine, a part of my heart is with them every day❤️ I worry about them, I need to hear "we are okay" every day. Let's continue support brave defenders in fight for freedom 🇺🇦

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Wow.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

@nottslassuk.bsky.social GREAT NAME FOR YOUR ACCOUNT sorry for the all caps, but it was worth saying loudly :)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Labour and Starmer have done the right thing, not the political thing with the grooming gang inquiry. I hate the optics because I know the Tories and reform will jump on this because of course they will. So, it's up to the rest of us to remember we need good politics not performative soundbites.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: ICE raids at farms and hotels are back on. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 1 day ago • 412 comments

Former British Ambassador to Iran Sir Richard John Dalton says that Iran was not on the brink of getting a nuclear weapon "Iran has not taken a decision to develop nuclear weapons" "We should disbelieve Netanyahu's claims unless there is evidence, and I don't believe that evidence exists:

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

"Bluesky is dead." Meanwhile, on Bluesky...

submitted 2 days ago • 467 comments

❗️At night, the Russians carried out a massive combined attack using UAVs and missiles of various types. Previously, 14 people were killed in Kyiv. More than 40 injured. In the Solomyansky district, the entrance to a residential building was destroyed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Toomaj, the famous Iranian rapper and freedom fighter who has been one of the biggest targets of the Islamic regime, has posted this statement. Toomaj has been out of prison for the past few years and has sacrificed a great deal fighting for freedom.

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

No lies told.

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

17 June 1932 | A French Jewish boy, Daniel Belchatowski, was born in Paris. In September 1942 he was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz and after the selection murdered in a gas chamber.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

In Kananaskis, nestled in the majestic Canadian Rockies, the world’s largest democracies and leading economies have come together. Willing to talk, openly, as partners do. And achieving unity on the most challenging topics.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments