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joaretz1.bsky.social
Curious about most things or plain nosey...depending on your view. Love dogs, politics and kind or funny people
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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 11 hours ago • 121 comments

Apparently this story is being "killed" on websites around the world. Funny that. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/donald-trump-recruited-kgb-codename-34727486

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 20 hours ago • 79 comments

Dear @maitlis.bsky.social @jonsopel1.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social @krishgm.bsky.social @vicderbyshire.bsky.social, I would be hugely grateful if you might consider sharing my piece about the extraordinary work of Ukrainian combat medics on the front line. Thank you.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 10 days ago • 523 comments

Just finished listening to audio book Prima Fascie. Wow! Just blown away by it. Such a powerful storyline and told brilliantly by Jodi Comer. The patriarchy of the judicial system laid bare.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

A 31-year-old Sligo man who was functionally blind has got his sight back, after being treated with a new gene therapy at the Mater University Hospital in Dublin.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

#GuessTheArtefact Did you guess correctly?

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

submitted 8 days ago • 161 comments

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is so wonderful. Haven’t laughed (and cried) so much at a film in ages. Strong recommend.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

'Do they prefer waiting lists to come down, their mortgages to come down, the economy to start working for everyone... 'Or do we want to keep a tax break for farmers? You can't have both' Starmer reacts to farmers who held a protest at his visit earlier

submitted 10 days ago • 45 comments

Hegseth's visit to Brussels made clear that the best Europe can do is to ignore this harmful man. Europe needs to arm as fast as possible & develop its own strategy. The US under Trump is not only useless but harmful & dangerous.

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

If this were Just Stop Oil, there'd have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much. The real #TwoTierPolicing www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

submitted 12 days ago • 101 comments

I had to check for myself to make sure this was real, and holy shit it is. How scarily unhinged American politics have become. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

The Israeli hostage looks very gaunt. How did the released Palestinians look? If Israel stop aid from going into the country then no one has enough food. I have doubts that this hostage is the only person in Gaza who looks so unwell.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not easily shocked, but the sight of individuals cheering on the richest man in the world as he takes away vital aid to the most desperate people on this Earth has shocked me. There are good people. There are bad people. Then there's Elon Musk and his empathy devoid flesh failure followers.

submitted 16 days ago • 83 comments

I’ve decided I’m going to take over Lancashire, own it, level it, get all its inhabitants to relocate to Wales, Cumbria or wherever (not Yorkshire!), re-name it God’s Own Country, plant millions of acres of rhubarb and build a Betty’s Tea Room on every street corner. That’ll sort the buggers!! 👍 👀

submitted 17 days ago • 228 comments

After today’s news this poem should be shared far and wide. @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social #Gaza

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

"I’m far from the first to ask this, but – what do they think we elected them for, exactly?" On how I am losing patience with this government's failure to challenge the right.

submitted 18 days ago • 61 comments

I would love this for my 26 year old son & 22 year old daughter. Both too young to vote in 2016. Both unable to follow dreams of working in Europe & time is running short to get this in place for them. 😔

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments