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Liberal internationalist feminist, antiracist & LGBTQ+ ally. Yorkshire/London. Ex LibDem MEP. Works in health policy, interested in food, nutrition & science too! Likes running, cooking & yoga. Mum of 1. Dual 🇬🇧/🇩🇪 citizen. Vive l'Europe 🇪🇺 (personal account)
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It always starts with a small minority group... it never ends there 😱

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PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

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Not content with purchasing the presidency, Elon Musk now wants to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court as well. His PAC just pumped $1M into supporting anti-choice right-wing extremist Brad Schimel. Wisconsin — don't become Musk's latest acquisition! Vote @crawfordforwi.bsky.social.

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The Daily Mail is publishing this story??!!

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Just looking at the latest YouGov poll - the Tories are on 9% with people under 50. It is not clear to me how this helps with that problem.

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

submitted 17 hours ago • 578 comments

she is right

submitted 2 hours ago • 24 comments

wow, too bad there isn't some sort of organization that speaks up against antisemitism

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

So, Farage is turning down interview requests; I can't imagine why.

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

submitted 7 hours ago • 28 comments

🇪🇺 should immediately threaten sanctions against SpaceX in case this happens. Only playing hardball will yield results.

submitted 14 hours ago • 26 comments

Fairly sick of the sight of simpering British politicians trotting over to America to talk down our country in front of a bunch of braying MAGA fascists If you don't like this Britain, why not go and live in your beloved Trump’s America. (AM I doing this right)

submitted 14 hours ago • 130 comments

I have never seen one of these in any places I shop. Wonder if they correlate with Gails?

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DOGE = Department of Gross Errors

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“I shake my head as people actually think DOGE has identified waste, fraud and abuse in 5 days. What they are doing is gutting programs they don't like according to Project 2025. They haven't done any analysis and don't even know the functions of the depts they are cutting.” - Henry M. Rosenberg

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Take Russia's frozen assets now (written in December 2023, now even more urgent) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Associated Press sues Trump officials over barred access for not using ‘Gulf of America’

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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They steer hard to the right

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Take a moment to process this: Musk has had his private thugs—who aren’t public servants and don’t work for the government and operate under no known standard of conduct—as _federal law enforcement agents_. When a CPAC host told him his army of security is “enormous,” he replied it should be bigger.

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“I want to state again what I’ve been saying since November: your health care coverage for Elon’s tax cuts. That is the fundamental fulcrum on which the next two years of American history — and quite possibly many years into the future — will turn.”

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Our new FBI director. Congrats America!

submitted 1 day ago • 197 comments

French media publication Le Point are reporting that quite incredibly Trump will join Putin for Russia's May the 9th Victory Day celebrations. Are we witnessing America's final downfall on the world stage as we know it?

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1824 comments

Our nation is sick—and dying

submitted 1 day ago • 91 comments

Neither Musk nor Trump care whether what they say is true. They don't care about rooting out fraud or saving taxpayer money. The administration is just “flooding the zone,” knowing that the people cannot keep up.

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When Farage did it back in June, it was 'nauseating ahistorical drivel' but when Trump does it his 'statements are not intended to be historically accurate but to shock Europeans into action.'

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Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Hey, @ox.ac.uk, how about an honorary degree for this woman pilot with a PhD in aviation safety, whose employer hired a crooked psychiatrist to label her mentally ill after she blew the whistle on safety practices? She fought (for years) and won. www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...

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Aggregate Vote Share since GE 2024 in local by-elections: 🌹LAB: 24.5% 🟦 CON: 23.5% 🔶 LDM: 18.5% 💚 GRN: 9.1% ➡️ RFM: 8.8% 🟡 SNP: 7.3% Despite what they may have you believe the Lib Dems are the main challengers to the Tories & Labour. #LibDems 🔶🔶🔶🔶🔶

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Zelensky is perhaps the defining figure of our age. Brave, ingenious, pragmatic and defined by his convictions. They hate him because he kills fascists.

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Malcolm X was assassinated 60 yrs ago today. See his timeless wisdom on the true meaning of “progress.” “If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.”

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“Britain must choose between an unstable alliance with Trump or aligning with a resilient, unified Europe”

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