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UK. Originally from Norfolk, now in Surrey, via London. Reposts are generally endorsements (minus any personal insults). Increasingly wanting a simple life. Kindness isn’t weakness. 💚🐕‍🦺🐈🦆🦢🦔🦋🐝🌳 🌷🌻🌈🧪
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social The chap who said that uni fees don’t materially affect your life does not consider the full picture. If you put the figures into a repayment calculator, a ‘middle income’ student could easily pay back £150k+ (=£103k in today’s money) over the term of the loan.

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@sonia-sodha.bsky.social You were a breath of fresh air on BBCQT tonight…pragmatic, thoughtful and honest assessments.

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/02/27/t...

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Not only are they ignoring climate change—they’re trying to cover up the cost. Shutting down NOAA’s disaster tracking so we can’t see the BILLIONS it’s costing us? This ain’t solving the crisis—it’s hiding it.

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On April 24, ICE agents broke into a home of a family of US citizens in Oklahoma. The family repeatedly said we are citizens, you have the wrong people. ICE terrorized the family, ripped apart the house. It's not "other people" that this is happening to. It's us. Open your eyes. Wake the hell up.

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@scaramucci.bsky.social Well done Harvard, standing up for academic freedom. Let’s hope other uni’ and companies line up behind them.

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🚨NEWS: Trump’s move to shut down the IRS’s popular free tax filing system followed TurboTax delivering $1 million to his inauguration. TurboTax’s corporate documents say the program threatens their profits. Details: www.levernews.com/defunding-th...

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk

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Reform UK candidate Matthew Salter has put out campaign materials that look like they are from the Stop Preesall Quarry campaign with the line “we endorse him in the upcoming election”. The campaign doesn’t endorse him and the leaflet is produced by Reform. Pretty dishonest.

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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

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The TX Natal Conference ended on 3/29/25. “Network State” leader Balaji S., an ally of Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen, was slated to speak. Organizer Kevin Dolan once wrote that those w/ Apache ancestry are “lucky we let you live in Arizona” bc the Apaches “got royally butt-raped by whitey lol.” 1/

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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

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Lieutenant Commander Grace Jones was fired from the Dept of the Navy just for sending Elon Musk a playful limerick. She did it because she was trying to keep classified information safe. fortune.com/2025/03/26/n...

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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

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MUST-WATCH: This is the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil from the perspective of his wife, who is 8 months pregnant. This is federal agents in plain clothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his speech. @nyclu.org @ccrjustice.org @theimeu.bsky.social

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@maitlis.bsky.social Listening to your latest podcast takes me back to this documentary re Facebook… www.netflix.com/gb/title/801...

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@scaramucci.bsky.social @kattybkay.bsky.social Listening to your latest podcast…I’ve recently read ‘The Man Who Broke Capitalism’….isn’t Jack Welch’s legacy the problem here wrt low wages, inequality and monopolies?

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@scaramucci.bsky.social @kattybkay.bsky.social Until I’d read Michael Lewis’ book ‘The Fifth Risk’, I had no idea how much I didn’t know about what Govt does. Could he perhaps be a guest on TRIP.US, genuinely think it’s important to educate us all on NOAA, DofE etc.

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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