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deejred.bsky.social
In search of sanity in this mad world! European! Support vaccines! Irish, Working & Living in Brexit Britain 🤯
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The Onion nailed it ...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Netanyahu is trying to replace social media images of suffering Palestinians and the destruction of their homes… with those of suffering Israelis and their destroyed homes. So he needs to: 1) bait Iran to attack and 2) cut all comms out of Gaza. Our mainstream media will swallow it whole.

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

“Ever since Caesar’s pivotal decision, mankind has understood that the deployment of a nation’s armies against its own people marks the end of that nation.”

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

Nigel Farage was screaming to scrap furlough because it was a waste of money, while he had already claimed £120,000 for himself. He is a fraud every word is a lie

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

Excellent explainer of COVID vaccines for kids by @drjenndowd.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jenndowd...

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Michelle Mone got a new luxury yacht and private jet on the NHS. And most of us can't even get a GP appointment.

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social #cleantheair Children need protection rollingout.com/2025/06/03/l...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper acknowledges there is evidence that the lack of a migrant return deal after Brexit is 'a factor' for people making dangerous small boat Channel crossings youtu.be/blhTU1em0WQ?...

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

Man who used to set the rules, and then broke the rules, wanted tougher rules, because of people breaking the rules... Then, he and his party chums pay £100, whilst public fines reached £10K...all as 1000s died, alone...because THEY followed the rules💔 www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

🧵1/ The UK government plans to cut international aid while ramping up defence spending. But must we choose between defence or aid? In a new @bmj.com piece, @kentbuse.bsky.social & I argue that we must invest in both. Here’s why. 👇

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

The Independent SAGE starter pack. go.bsky.app/TbZdrEU

submitted 214 days ago • 12 comments

Our former @independentsage.bsky.social colleague Deenan Pillay telling it like it is.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

PAGING RFK Jr— “The assumption that children and teens recover completely from COVID has been shattered by mounting evidence that their developing respiratory systems are uniquely vulnerable to long-term damage.” rollingout.com/2025/06/03/l...

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

Prof Deenan Pillay @deenan.bsky.social , former chair of @independentsage.bsky.social , is an expert virologist never afraid to call things out. He was right to oppose arbitrary reductions in COVID isolation times, and he's right about this. £bns wasted on private industry, no UK legacy 🤬

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

Over 15,000 children have been killed in Gaza since October 2023 More than 9000 children have been treated for malnutrition just this year. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Jon Stewart is a legend & the way this show is trying to explain to a mainstream audience the gravity what is happening in the US is amazing. It was both thrilling & terrifying to be part of it. Thank you @TheDailyShow 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...

submitted 18 days ago • 121 comments

submitted 18 days ago • 315 comments

Senator Ossoff speaking the truth. We need real action

submitted 18 days ago • 200 comments

submitted 21 days ago • 435 comments

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵

submitted 24 days ago • 51 comments

"There has been spittle-flecked hysteria from the right wing press every day this week. The terror is now theirs. Even with such a modest EU deal, they know they have lost."

submitted 28 days ago • 16 comments

“Life is better when we leap together.” Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement speech at the University of Maryland on Thursday, the alma mater of his creator, Jim Henson. nyti.ms/4dwMuhQ

submitted 28 days ago • 340 comments

THREAD on the *desperate* medical situation in Gaza from a presentation by UNRWA director at the World Health Assembly. This thread was written by Prof Anthony Costello over on X - I think it's important to share as widely as possible, so I have transferred to here. Please read and share! 0/11

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Lots of good stuff coming out of the UK-EU summit. I’m just about to go onto GB News - so let’s see how that goes!

submitted 33 days ago • 62 comments

Former M&S Chairman Lord Rose, "Here we are, 10 years on now from Brexit" "The issues of immigration are caused by Brexit" "The issues of our poor economic performance ate down to Brexit"

submitted 37 days ago • 125 comments

Nigel Farage ‘never shut up’ about the British fishing industry, according to @mrjamesob.bsky.social. But out of a possible 42, how many committee meetings on fishing in the EU did he attend as a member of the European Parliament? A) 21 B) 31 C) 1

submitted 37 days ago • 21 comments