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The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 12 days ago • 129 comments

Important to know, but relevant only in the reality-based community.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

He boasts about being a sexual predator, he's been accused by 25 women of rape, harassment or assault, a jury found he "forcibly and non consensually penetrated Carroll's vagina with his fingers," he supports banning abortion. But he hates trans people and so the Times calls him "a feminist hero."

submitted 21 days ago • 139 comments

If anyone whines that we "self-segregated ourselves from X" and "aren't in the conversation anymore," feel free to show them this screenshot of my "For You" tab.

submitted 21 days ago • 242 comments

"That's one of the most damning things I've ever read!" LBC listener Peter tells @matthew-wright.bsky.social there's 'no role whatsoever' in the NHS for physician associates.

submitted 27 days ago • 15 comments

Faced with protests, Poland cut retirement age -65 for men, 60 for women. France reconsidering plan to hike retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030. UK state pension age set to increase from 66 to 67. Rich retire whenever they want, poor work until they drop. leftfootforward.org/2025/01/pens...

submitted 29 days ago • 34 comments

Europe has a message for Elmo.

submitted 36 days ago • 677 comments

So concerned were the Reform MPs at violence against girls, as they claimed, that none even bothered to turn up to the Commons debate. @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

From the start, a central plank of US and Israeli propaganda has been to cast doubt on the Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers. What will they say to this, a peer reviewed study carried out by reputable institutions (and to what has been obvious for a year to most of the world inc the ICC)?

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

Today Conservative MPs will seek to block a piece of legislation that will actually help protect vulnerable children from abuse, in order to gain a few retweets from a far-right billionaire.

submitted 52 days ago • 50 comments

We don't need think tanks, or right wing politicians to tell us what the NHS needs. 1) invest in the NHS to repair years of underfunding. 2) cancel/pay off crippling PFI 3) end privatisation and outsourcing to stop money going to greedy CEOs 4) pay NHS staff a fair wage to fix the staffing crisis

submitted 64 days ago • 15 comments

It’s odd on here how rather than repost or quote post your post, lots of people will copy-paste it

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

Tories and Labour are a uniparty, there is no difference between them, what you are voting for is a sham democracy where a single "Business Party" is controlled by corporate and financial interests. 1/2 theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 81 days ago • 9 comments

Stop arming Israel.

submitted 86 days ago • 56 comments