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NEW: "America is your enemy," I interviewed Jason Stanley for this week's newsletter & podcast. A Yale professor, who's a leading expert in fascism. We're normalizing what's happening & we urgently need to stop. Please read/listen/share. 🙏 broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-united...

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When do these people get their weekend? 🤷🏻‍♀️🥰🇺🇦

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SNP MP calls for Trump state visit to be scrapped. Others should support. Unhinged felon must not be honoured. 34 felony convictions in New York alone. Dodged prison because his billionaire pals helped him win election. Risk of mass social disorder, if the visit goes ahead.

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Syria poverty crisis: new regime calls on US to lift sanctions www.channel4.com/news/syria-p...

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UK PM Starmer to Zelensky: "You are very, very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom. We will stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take."

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(1/4) The Administration’s view of the law and the gov’t lawyers who uphold it is deeply disturbing. As a former Chief Legal Counsel to the Governor of Mich. & presidentially appointed U.S. Attorney – I’m appalled at what I’m watching unfold.

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England ❤️

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Stats please - How many people with disabilities/ disabled people hold senior employment positions? Are there any feasible routes to seeing this increase?

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What happened today isn’t just politics. ⚠️ Trump is reshaping the U.S. into a far-right, authoritarian state—favoring deals over values and aligning with autocrats worldwide. A democracy without principles is just an oligarchy in disguise. 💔🇺🇸⚖️ #Democracy #HumanRights

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European leaders are stepping forward to tonight to show their support for President Zelensky 👏

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Diplomacy > Reprimand. This is leadership 🇺🇦💙 #IStandWithUkraine #Diplomacy

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Trump’s idea of ‘peace’ is a threat to global stability. What a surreal day. 💔✊🏼🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine #HumanRights

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🔴UK Taxpayers’ Cash Is Funding an Arms Firm Whose Biggest Shareholder Is Now Bankrolling Nigel Farage’s Reform UK The UK Government’s big increase in defence spending will likely hugely benefit Reform UK’s biggest donor bylinetimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

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Days like these! 😍

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With jobs within the charity/NGO sector. What should be provided for by the state? And what is genuine charity/VCS/NGO sector stuff? Does this affect where you seek to work, and what you do? The charity sector picks up, where the state doesn’t, but austerity has impacted this.

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What a sunset! 🌅

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Happy Weekend! Have a good one! *NEET

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UK Aid funding cuts. Who’s affected? Small charities - let’s keep doing what we do best!

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Pension pots - Is the ethical pension pot the new soft power? Who determines ethical? What’s the criteria and how is this allocated? To whom? Is this the alternative to USAid and UK Aid funding? Who can advise on this?

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#Indonesia Indon who waffle on about how great their Banana Republic is, been unable to use their addled brains to analyze the true situation #WestPapua #Chomsky

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#WestPapua Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms - Malcolm X

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Why aren't the mainstream media talking about this? bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/n...

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We will always remember 🕊️ To look away just now, is to turn our back on humanity.

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So, how many folk with disabilities have got to the stage that they have given up writing job applications?

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Devolution: how Wales got a raw deal, and what that means today Wales and Scotland were granted devolution for the same reasons but got very different deals. Now Wales is struggling as a result, and with deeper austerity. ✍️ @jenniekermode.bsky.social bylines.cymru/politics-and...

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Ukraine has $26 TRILLION of mineral wealth. As the map shows, it's concentrated in the East & most of it is now under Russian control. This is why Trump wants a peace deal: instead of losing money by 'sending' aid, he wants American companies to extract wealth and enjoy Russia's spoils of war.

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(1/3) To corrupt a system, go after its guardians. That’s what’s happening @ US Dept of Justice, as @benjaminpenn reports. For yrs, a sr career official decided key ethics matters. Now two pol appointees do – one < 4y out of law school; neither w/ DOJ exp. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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USAID, a 63-year-old agency created by Congress and codified in law, was dismantled in a matter of days. Scott Pelley reports on 60 Minutes.

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London today! Marching for a free Palestine. @pscupdates.bsky.social

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This is worth a read. The need to hold the Trump administration to account. Through the rule of law.

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The EYFS years are critical!

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🚨BREAKING: From today people who entered the UK by irregular routes will "normally be refused" citizenship, regardless of how many years they've built their lives, raised families & called this country home. A heartless attack on people seeking safety. rb.gy/gt8hf7

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Always nice to start the day to news of another successful grant application 🎉

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Who’s got local elections happening? Ours are delayed until 2026. It’s not on the agenda just yet.

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The 27 words to be banned on US public-sector websites from 10 Feb. Think how staggering this is: not just banning words which relate to human rights, undoing so much achieved in the last few generations... But that words have been banned AT ALL. I mean, 'equality'? FFS.

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A former UK diplomat has exposed conduct that “crossed the threshold into complicity with war crimes.” From Yemen to Gaza to Sudan, UK arms sales have enabled atrocities. We need an independent investigation & those responsible must be held accountable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Reform UK's Nigel Farage spent January ranting about Pakistani grooming gangs. Since then, he's posted photos of himself with convicted rapist Conor McGregor and Derek Chisora who was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend. So much for caring about the welfare of women and girls.

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The Border Security, Asylum & Immigration Bill is back in Parliament today. As MPs debate the Bill, here's a reminder of our response to its content and a reflection on steps needed to create a fairer, more compassionate asylum system 🔗 https://www.boaztrust.org.uk/articles/new-border-security-bill

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Nigel Farage says he would not recognise the UK-Chagos deal if Reform UK wins the next election, cease all deal payments, ban Brits from visiting Mauritius & ban Mauritians visiting the UK. This would be a blatant breach of international law. Reform are following Trump's lawless authoritarianism.

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On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

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The reason Disabled People don't have jobs in the UK is because. 1. Almost all Employers will not hire a Disabled Person, they will always pick a non-Disabled person if they can. 2. The NHS is not treating Physical/Mental Illness so people don't get better. Deal with this.

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