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Turkish authorities detained more than 1,000 people across Turkey since the start of protests five days ago against the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said reut.rs/4iTlOJx 1/9

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And by the way...if you've got news, views and stories from around the world we'll take them too!

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Please can this Labour government stop referring to Bevan and Attlee now? I don’t think they’d be too happy with what you’re up to.

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The Trump administration is insisting a man they sent to an El Salvador prison is in a Venezuelan gang even though he’s a youth soccer coach and pro goalie with no criminal record and the tattoo they said was a gang tattoo is a soccer team he likes. www.dropsitenews.com/p/venezuelan...

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Great song

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Follow the money:

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ON FALLING - produced by @kenloach16films.bsky.social is a powerful, gut punching indictment of loneliness, alienation, isolation & the devastating realities of the cost-of-living crisis faced by precarious workers. An important film everyone should see if they can

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As glaciers melt at unprecedented rates, will this World Day for Glaciers be enough to raise global awareness? By Brian McHugh @brianmchugh.bsky.social @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Under the House GOP’s budget plan, the lowest-income taxpayers would see a LOSS of $1,125. The richest 0.1 percent of taxpayers, on the other hand, would see a more than $180,000 GAIN. This is trickle down economics on steroids.

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Follow the money:

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📣 Next week! Join us Don't Bank on the Bomb UK as we launch our new campaign toolkit 🚫💰 The toolkit is a one-stop shop for anyone looking to understand and get involved in nuclear divestment campaigning! 🗓️ Tuesday 25th March ⏰ 6.30-8pm Register👇 www.medact.org/event/dont-b...

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🚨Tell Wes Streeting - Palantir out of our NHS! Palantir enables Israel’s genocide and apartheid against Palestinians, yet it’s been given a HUGE contract to create a platform to manage NHS patient data. Tell Wes Streeting to cancel the contract: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/palantirnhs (1/7)

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Copyright infringement is not my legal forte. But if there is any way of taking legal action against Meta for benefiting from the theft of my intellectual property, I am absolutely going to do so.

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If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

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Vladimir Putin has edged closer to his goal of repairing Russia's relations with the United States and driving a wedge between the US and Europe, while offering only a slim contribution towards Donald Trump's peace efforts in Ukraine www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Vance: UK importing too much cheap labor. From 2020-22, people born outside US made up 68% of US crop farmworkers. Almost 1/3 of US construction workers are foreign-born (up to 40% in Texas and California). Vance knows this. Rationalizing blatant hypocrisy is the point.

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NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia plan to withdraw from the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel mines due to the military threat from their neighbor Russia, the four countries said reut.rs/41yCxL9

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Today, mothers and fathers in Gaza are mourning their children because governments across the world did not deem their lives worthy of protection.

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Sounds like a plan @patmillsuk.bsky.social 👏

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This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.

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Trump and DOGE are dismantling Social Security— firing thousands of SSA employees and shuttering offices. Why? Because they don't want one of the govt's most successful programs to work. They want to pave the way for privatization so Wall Street can gamble with our retirement.

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Superbly put Shami Chakrabarti 👏 BBCNewsnight

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Millions of Americans — especially seniors, small businesses, and rural communities — rely daily on USPS's affordable rates and universal service. Privatization would make the mail more expensive and less reliable — all to enrich the billionaire class. We cannot let it happen.

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Labour MPs handed plea to 'take a stand' against welfare cuts as backlash grows www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Almost every assertion of fact and law in Honest Bob Jenrick’s latest far-right-tickling rant is false. But because I’m me, I feel it most important to point out that the statue of Lady Justice above the Old Bailey is famously not blindfolded. As any real lawyer knows.

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Labour MPs called in to No10 for talks on benefits cuts amid growing rebellion www.itv.com/news/2025-03...

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Sirens blaring in Kyiv. Thanks Trump - by removing intel & hardware, Putin is now sending drones to kill civilians every night in the capital. 🤬

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NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

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📢 The UK government is talking about making HUGE cuts to disabled people’s social security. Disabled people are already three times more likely to face hunger, and these cuts risk pushing even more people to food banks.

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Hunger & hardship are already at record levels. Almost one in five people receiving Universal Credit & disability benefits used a food bank in the last month. People are desperate & at breaking point - cutting welfare & disability benefits which are already not enough to live on is not the answer

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Elon fired hundreds of “unnecessary” Twitter employees and the platform has been down for hours today. Now he’s firing hundreds of “unnecessary” FAA employees. What could go wrong?

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This is a chilling attack on free speech. Criminalizing dissent is straight out of the tyrant's playbook.

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What about this #Canada?

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Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Cut Off Funds for Severely Malnourished Toddlers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The consequences of Labour's domestic & foreign policy for the Union are barely being recognised. We are seeing a repeat of what happened under Blair’s disastrous Iraq War, where a generation turned to the idea of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 independence as a radical alternative bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/10/w...

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Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis

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Yesterday: Musk insulted the Foreign Minister of an ally saying "be quiet, small man." Today he is calling a US Senator a "traitor." This is uncharted waters. Musk is acting as a representative of the US government overseas, and de facto Prime Minister at home. Huge power w no accountability

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Happy International Women's Day! Here’s a woman you should definitely know: Emmy Noether. A brilliant mathematician, she connected symmetries to conservation laws, transforming physics forever!

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It is 50 years since the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, which aimed to bring equal pay for men and women. In many jobs, we’re still not there. On #InternationalWomensDay we look at East Anglian employers to find the good and the bad. By @jennyrhodes42.bsky.social

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A group of labor unions are asking a federal court for an emergency order to stop Elon Musk ‘s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the sensitive Social Security data of millions of Americans www.thebaltimorebanner.com/national/elo...

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This is shocking. ITV reporting that even those with extreme disabilities in the unfit to work category are likely to lose money under new government plans. Charities have branded the move catastrophic

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Surely national rules about what physician associate’s can & can’t do, standard guidance on supervision & an agreed process for patients to give consent should be a given - it goes to the very heart of patient safety

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Boycotts are taking hold. Protests are on the rise. Federal courts are hitting back. The Trump-Musk-Vance regime's popularity is plunging and DOGE is losing credibility. In these dark times, it's important to recognize that people are fighting back. Join them.

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Russian forces damaged Ukrainian energy and gas infrastructure overnight in their first major missile attack since the US paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine, piling pressure on Kyiv as President Donald Trump seeks a swift end to the war reut.rs/3F5jnoK

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