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mountaineer, chutney/ cake maker, based in UK Lake District.❤️EU ; trying to be 💚; v lecturer in health policy leadership/MBA dissertation sup RKCollege Zurich.😷 masking until we get st vaccines. #LongCovidAdvocacy https://www.mef.org.uk/about/committee
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“The Trump administration understands that it does not have absolute power and that it must rely on creating a false illusion of power to create a chilling effect to get everyday people to respond to fear, comply in advance, and censor their own free speech.” www.publicnotice.co/p/aoc-homan-...

Well, William was happy to allow Jason Knauf to share unsolicited private emails to help TheFail defeat Meghan's case. Why are people angry because the judge is allowing Harry to see emails shared between the palace and TheSun🤷🏾‍♀️ www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/h...

People need to realize that trump and the republicns literally cant stop until its ash and cinder in part because they are so deep in high crimes and treason they would actually be held accountable if they were to slow down or stop before they destroy everything. That why we must stop them first.

😂 Boris is trying to fence mend but is actually fence breaking

Note PF is seen as an off ramp for less extreme republicans … www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

THIS IS HOW YOU STAND UP: EEOC admin judge Karen Ortiz resisted an order to hand over all LGBT cases for “review” and told colleagues to resist too. She knows she’ll likely to be fired. “I can exist on cornflakes and community if it means that my soul is intact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

Cost of Brexit to UK’s tourism industry revealed – with the worst yet to come @TheIndependent #Brexit www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

A new international survey has been released exploring the experiences of athletes with ME / Long Covid (with PEM) Please share widely - all info on our website here www.physiosforme.com/athletessurvey

Huge popstar 'so gutted' as he's forced to cancel gig in Dubai after falling ill "The 40-year-old singer lost his voice before performing" www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz...

Do this. Say this. 👇🏻

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

I cried a bit watching this.

📌Our Park Service Rangers have flagged the warning on El Capitan. We are under threat by an America-attacking felon.

The exit poll in today’s election in Germany is showing the Far Right AFD party finishing in second place, a vast increase in voter share And all it took was for innumerable false AI generated videos packed full of disinformation along with a times one thousand algorithm tweak from Elon Musk on X

DOGE missed $200 million of government waste!

“But the child’s White House debut signals, along with the literal repurposing of the US as a Musk playground, a complete contempt for government inferiors from whom some decorum is expected. Including the Trump family. Even Barron, when they put him on show, doesn’t pick his nose.” 💥

His poll numbers are TANKING.

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Donald Trump, "Russia was never going to go in (to Ukraine) and they went in because of a lot of reason" "Far more people are dead than you're reading about" "All of that heritage is gone" "If I was president, zero chance a shot would have been fired. So sad"

Manhunt launched for van driver who fled after three-year-old girl killed in Manchester tram crash

🫡🇺🇸 "Americans do not swear an oath to a king, a tyrant or a dictator. We swear an oath to the Constitution and the idea of ​​America, for which we are willing to die," — Mark Milley ❗️He said that every US military member gives his life to protect the Constitution, not to individuals.

American political columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda shares her travel diaries and conversations with taxi drivers in Washington DC, London, and Paris, where the disgust for Donald Trump is now palpable

What’s everyone reading at the mo?

America is quite obviously moving in an authoritarian direction. Fascist rhetoric, attack on judges & now this: ‘President Donald Trump on Thursday again raised the prospect of serving for an unconstitutional third term.’ www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Calling #pwLC in Cheshire & Merseyside - please share your feedback about the closure of the NHS Cheshire & Merseyside #LongCovid clinic via their survey here: www.cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk//your-health... @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @longcovidphysio.bsky.social @longcovidkids.bsky.social

"He [Rudi] sat at the hospital waiting to be seen - 13 hours on one occasion. He knew something was wrong..He didn't get any help, he was never seen at the hospital, and we just carried on trying to help him." Post-trauma victim stabs his own father www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@billbrowder.bsky.social talking sense as always. Sounds like European Foreign Ministers largely agree with him on Russia's frozen assets. Give them to Ukraine. All of them. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk youtu.be/Z_xV1nf44RA?...

SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

That says it all! How any woman can vote for these horrendous people is a mystery to me.

> @mediaitenews.bsky.social www.mediaite.com/politics/mar...

200 million dollars of waste.

Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings

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"We are calling for immediate action to restrict the operations of Platform X (formerly Twitter) within the European Union due to its negative impact on democracy and its role in spreading disinformation." chng.it/v2NBHRqLJJ

“As a committed coward Trump was always going to side with the guy who rigs elections by killing his opponents, while as a narcissist he harbours resentment over of Zelensky’s popularity. Zelensky stayed to face the Russian tanks. Trump dodged five drafts.” 👏 💥

If you missed this when The Atlantic first published it, now is a good time to read it. Gift link here so it’s free for anyone to read: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Some history… www.theguardian.com/news/2017/no...

REPORTER: Voters say they are angry and frustrated by these firings. They don't like the work of Elon Musk. What do you say to them? TRUMP: Who do you work for? REPORTER: ABC News TRUMP: No wonder. I have the highest poll numbers I've ever had

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?

Breaking News: Stocks tumbled as investors reacted to concerns about the economy and tariffs, erasing almost all gains since President Trump’s inauguration.

Gannets - by Dumfries and Galloway artist and printmaker, Lisa Hooper Because you can never have too many Gannets (or Lisa Hooper prints) in your Bluesky feed More of this artist's wonderful prints, here: hoopoeprints.co.uk #birds #art #seabirds #birdart #gannets 🪶

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.

Plane daft.

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.