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janetsouthcoast.bsky.social
Cats, politics, long walks in the country. Education, social policy. Woke before it was a problem and currently mystified by government’s lack of courage on EU and other policies including foreign policy.
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I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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submitted 3 days ago • 237 comments

What happened today reeks of insider trading. Trump’s tweet wasn’t random—it was a signal. Someone cashed in, and the public deserves to know who and how much. Follow. The. Money. “This entire White House is one giant grift.” —Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social shining a spotlight on it! 🔥

submitted 3 days ago • 206 comments

Famously, illnesses affecting younger people are almost invariably minor… 🤦‍♂️

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Extraordinary story highlighted by @mrjamesob.bsky.social this morning. Make it make sense. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Watch this BBC Verify video on the shocking incident where the Israeli army killed 15 emergency workers, buried them in a mass grave, and only admitted its version of events was false when mobile phone footage was retrieved from one of the bodies. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

Absolutely disgraceful that the Home Office is now trying to send an Afghan woman, who helped western forces, back to the Taliban. Yvette Cooper should be putting a stop to this immediately.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The Government is planning “catastrophic” cuts to benefits that experts say will force disabled people into poverty, and even those with extreme disabilities will lose money. Our social safety net isn’t up for grabs: add your name now. 38d.gs/NoCruelBenef...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work. The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

Utterly disgusting. There is absolutely no way any Afghan woman should be returned to the Taliban having sought asylum, but particularly someone who has fought for human rights. It is tantamount to a death sentence. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

Put up by Katy Brand today - this is the story over and over again

submitted 8 days ago • 104 comments

We already know that the Israeli army gunned down 15 rescue workers last month BUT “only after reportedly making sure that at least some of their hands and legs were tied, unable to move. In other words, Israeli soldiers executed these rescue workers at point-blank range;”

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.

submitted 8 days ago • 1452 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 10 days ago • 964 comments

I wish this type of thing surprised me, but it isn't exactly isolated. There are numerous reports of the levels of racism displayed towards those seeking asylum by Home Office contractors. The Home Office never takes any genuine action. It just doesn't care. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

1/ To expand on this angry cry from the soul with a bit of substance. Long rant coming, sorry. When Trump first started talking about "Reciprocal Tariffs" he claimed to mean a mirroring. If Barbados has a 15% tariff on US shoes, the US applies a 15% tariff on Bajan shoes to match, and so on...

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Curtis Yarvin, a close ally of Peter Thiel, recently declared that the system is “irreparable,” that “To capture an elite, you have to demolish its institutions,” & that “Every existing institution of science, outside the scientists & the labs themselves, must be fully cremated…” 1/

submitted 16 days ago • 140 comments

Politicians’ wilful misunderstanding of these guidelines will condemn women, parents, pregnant and young people to continued extreme and unjust punishments. These guidelines would have finally addressed the huge harm of being pregnant in prison but the Government has just blocked them outright.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

“The truth is that a tattoo identifying Tren de Aragua does not exist,” she told me. “Tren de Aragua does not use any tattoos as a form of gang identification; no Venezuelan gang does.”

submitted 12 days ago • 232 comments

I don't want Starmer to do this shit. Blaming 'illegal migration' for low wages while letting big corporation - who've embraced the gig economy as the answer to their low wage prayers - off scott free is what the far right do. Weaponising immigration is what most defines the far right.

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

So I was sat in the car today, next caller to speak to @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk Unfortunately I never got the chance because time ran out, but the topic was the issue of record low men teaching secondary and what is the impact So here's my thoughts on 🧵 form...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

submitted 14 days ago • 183 comments

You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

submitted 15 days ago • 131 comments

Blimey. One of Nigel Farage's biggest donors, and the owner of 55 Tufton Street, is helping the Russian military effort www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

submitted 15 days ago • 169 comments

We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

submitted 15 days ago • 540 comments

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene refuses to take a question from a British journalist saying, “Ok we don't give a crap about your opinion and your reporting. Why don't you go back to your country” I guess Keir Starmer hasn't told her about the special relationship 🤷‍♂️

submitted 17 days ago • 427 comments

DWP impact assessment now out. 3.2million families lose from the changes, and 800,000 lose the daily living element of PIP worth between £3800 and £5600 a year. www.gov.uk/government/c...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

The human face of all those bullshit, blue tick Twitter accounts full of racism, lies, cowardice & cruelty…

submitted 17 days ago • 475 comments

The cost of homelessness is destroying local council budgets in London (and everywhere). Building affordable housing is the medium/long-term solution. In the short term, anything which reduces people’s capacity to afford the homes which do exist risks making things worse.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Just this 👇👏

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

This is insane.

submitted 19 days ago • 819 comments

Imagine getting your wife to announce an upcoming trip to the territory you’re intending to invade, just as you’re angrily reiterating your intention to invade it

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

Gotta love DISNEY! ❤️🌈✨

submitted 21 days ago • 128 comments