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Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

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Age UK delivered a petition to Downing Street urging the government to do more. Three of every four pensioners were cold in their own homes in January | Age Cymru @bylines.cymru

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It's no bother if you can't, but if you can afford to chip in that would be immense. We'll still bring you stories about and affect Scotland. We're all volunteers fighting for #CitizenJournalism!

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UK competition regulator fines Citi, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Canada, Deutsche Bank £100m for breaching competition law. All have history of abuses. No one prosecuted, no personal fines. Puny fines don't deter, will be passed to customers.

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www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of...

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Raise lower Personal Tax threshold to £15,000 Stop State Pensions being taxed. Please participate in the survey. mailchi.mp/silvervoices...

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In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

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Former KGB spy breaks cover to reveal Donald Trump was recruited as a Russian spy 38 years ago. Byline Times was subjected to a DDOS attack to prevent this story being published. bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

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Was it ever published?

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Wow! The number of @bsky.app users just passed 32 MILLION! 👏 LETS DO THIS!

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Current mood

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From United Humanists on FB

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We may have left the EU in 2016 after lies, misinformation, and promises of prosperity that have not materialised Luckily for us, the EU isn't that far away, it's just next door Anyone else want the UK 🇬🇧 to rejoin the EU 🇪🇺 ?

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"The university is 'complicit in enabling' sexual misconduct. “I’ve advocated for people who have been harmed, and now I’ve been harmed in the process. I am being disciplined and intimidated by both the institution and him. It’s incredibly stressful.” goodlawproject.org/lse-threaten...

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Nigel Jenney, head of the Fresh Produce Consortium, warned it would be “impossible” for the supply chain to absorb an expected 27% hike in import fees set to be phased-in from August. theloadstar.com/costly-impor...

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Join @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social, @toritsui.bsky.social and @stwc.bsky.social’s Lindsey German in Bristol for a special in conversation event to discuss the global arms trade, campaigns for peace and climate justice on Saturday 15 March. 🎟️ Tickets: bit.ly/BristolMAG

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😂🤣 Trump's nemesis......himself! youtube.com/shorts/PgGhC...

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Broken Britain youtube.com/shorts/ITRYW...

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Byline Times is facing major DDOS (malicious traffic-flooding) issues on our site apparently after this article went live... bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

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Council tax is rising and services are declining. It could be local government failures that are fuelling Reform’s growing support. By @lizcrosbie.bsky.social

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They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

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Government's failure to take control of Thames Water means almost £1billion of customers' money will be squandered - How is this good for anyone but financial parasites and predators? www.windrushwasp.org/single-post/...

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Why do we have a tax break for people who can save £20,000 every year? How is that a good use of public money? www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...

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Poverty kills. Cancer death rates are 60% higher for people living in deprived UK areas compared with those in more affluent areas. 28,400 extra deaths due to deprivation, people seek comfort in smoking. Poor healthcare, late diagnosis, 'must work pressure' punishes the poor.

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It’s great to see progress now being made on this but as @thebda.bsky.social point out it amounts to a dentist seeing little over 2 extra urgent cases a month & no new money behind it. 14 years of Tory failure has left 13 million people unable to dental access care

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Short of money Rachel Reeves? Nationalise energy now. Then we all win.

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#Newsnight’s audience share broke records last night It’s the highest it’s been since the new format was launched in May 2024 Thank you so much for watching - on YouTube, on social media & on TV 🙏

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Kernow Resists: An upcoming Reform UK Cornwall conference, Farage won’t quite get the welcome reception he has bargained for. www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

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The lesson of history is that those who vote in populist/fascist leaders end up suffering a great deal. The trouble is so does everyone else.

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“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time.” - former Russian Ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, after Brexit.

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There's a common path in the development of authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, regardless of whether they are overseen by Catholic Inquisitors, Protestant enforcers, monarchists, fascists, Nazis, Stalinists, Maoists .... First they eliminate words. Then they eliminate people.

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I can’t speak whether this could hit global pandemic scale, but it definitely wasn’t a good idea or efficient to fire the CDC, NIH, FDA, and the USDA during a bird flu outbreak. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

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We've said it before, the more followers, the more readers our fantastic citizen journalists get. Please help @eastangliabylines.co.uk - who write national as well as regional stories - reach 18k. Read their latest on Starmer and an EU youth mobility scheme – which comes with caveats…

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We don’t simply have a housing crisis. We have a housing affordability and decency crisis. Labour is focussed on planning permission. But granting planning permission does not guarantee those homes will be built, nor that they’ll be the right sort of homes. apple.news/APOVrSPCGS8O...

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Brilliant sabbing from Three Counties Hunt Saboteurs. Notice that the hunt members had zero intention to stop the hounds. If that sab wasn’t there, that fox would have continued to be hunted. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2495190...

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"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege." - Tommy Douglas

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'We will have to make difficult choices' Chancellor Rachel Reeves commits to spending more on defence but signals this could mean cuts elsewhere

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