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I'm Interested in the 🌎 environment, climate change, history, our 💙NHS, a much closer relationship with the EU, hopefully one day rejoining, and collie dogs. 🚫DMs
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Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

He nails it.

🫡🇺🇸 "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.

"This is my fourth visit to Ukraine since Putin launched his full-scale invasion three years ago. As an NHS palliative care doctor, I have been supporting and helping train local hospice teams." via @theguardian.com #StandWithUkraine❤️

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

🚨🚨 The Rebellion Strikes Back: European leaders are working on a military aid package for Ukraine — worth at least €20 billion — to bolster Kyiv, as the United States increasingly aligns with Moscow. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-w...

When you're too far right for the "far - right"? 'He was released from prison in October, after serving four months for defying a congressional subpoena over the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“This administration doesn’t have a plan to advance science, they have a plan to remove obstacles for the oil and gas industry. They want to return to an era where kids have polio, rivers are on fire and cities are blanketed by pollution.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'He told the BBC of his shock when he found what it had done, given his research was not published so could not have been found by the AI system in the public domain.' "I'm in front of something that is spectacular, and I'm very happy to be part of that." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rarely has so much ignorance & ahistorical BS been crammed into a single tweet. I know JD Vance & Donald Trump are busy surrendering to a KGB butcher, abandoning the cause of freedom, & destroying the security of America & her allies, but they'd do well to spend some time actually studying history.

..'disappearance of wood mice caused a domino effect.' "Classic sort of Jenga – if you pull the wrong piece out of the local ecosystem, everything collapses." "Three years ago, we realised we were at an absolute crunch point. We took it upon ourselves to do something." www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Musk alleged the astronauts had been "left up there for political reasons." 'Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen shared a clip of the Fox News interview on X and said: "What a lie.' "And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media." news.sky.com/story/elon-m...

21 February 1894 | A Jew Meyer Dvoretsky was born in Grodno. In 1914 he emigrated to Norway. In November 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He perished in the camp on 21 December 1942.

I am missing mornings like this. Taken a few weeks ago in Glastonbury.

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

Have we really forgotten that the Nazis were the worst humans to ever walk the Earth? I don’t understand how this isn’t triggering mass protests in every city in the US or a response from the armed forces. We (the US, Canada, Britain, etc) fought, and won, a war over this shit. #LestWeForget

Kernow Resists: An upcoming Reform UK Cornwall conference, Farage won’t quite get the welcome reception he has bargained for. www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

'The deepest well at Kirby Misperton, dubbed KM8, descends for 3km (1.9 miles). In tests, the temperature at the well's base was even hotter than Third Energy expected – around 115C. ... the system could maintain a steady temperature of around 42C at the surface.' www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

'The whales have been spotted in both Watergate Bay and Mawgan Porth.' 'Bex Allen, marine conservation officer at the trust, said the team have had confirmed sightings of at least five whales across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'The case threatens to bankrupt Greenpeace US, but the biggest impact could be a chilling effect on free speech and activism more broadly, according to environmental and civil liberty experts consulted by the Guardian.' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: "Inspectors general are a headache for everyone. You know why? Because they're investigating every agency and they find stuff! Including waste and fraud and abuse! They wouldn't be firing them if they cared about waste, fraud, and abuse."

— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

This is not how federal criminal investigations work. —me (former federal criminal investigator)

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on. Now.

He's mad his lies about Ukraine were fact-checked by his own website so he wants to change the fact-checking system

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is the most cowardly administration in history.

Brilliant simple clear explainer by @sheridanflynn.bsky.social of the threat Russia poses to Britain youtu.be/M7O4Eh3Roe8?...

Without friends

There's a rumour that Nigel Farage is keeping his head down because he's off to a Trump cheerleading conference over the weekend. I’m afraid I’m being proved right- Farage is far more interested in Trump's success than British security. He is a bootlicker and a plastic patriot.

Well. This didn't last long.

The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

'Cole captured the everyday lives of Black Americans authentically. “He embodied [the idea] that photography is not just an intellectual process. It’s about life. It’s about the human condition. It’s about taking risks. It’s not just about beauty'... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

'The discovery offers a new way to understand the dynamics of ice streams, which are crucial contributors to rising sea levels. Ice streams like NEGIS carry massive amounts of ice from the interior of the Greenland ice sheet to the ocean'... scitechdaily.com/we-were-asto...

'Nato believes Russia is also waging another war, an undeclared one.' 'Hybrid warfare, also called “grey zone” or “sub-threshold” warfare, is when a hostile state carries out an anonymous, deniable attack, usually in highly suspicious circumstances.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...