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Lib Dem fighting against social and economic conservatism and other nonsense in power. Loves Musicals, Pokémon and self improvement 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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If you support this, you’re an awful human being

submitted 23 hours ago • 227 comments

Worth reading this to understand the extreme racism, violence and sexism spun into a ‘normal political discussion’ by the media and politicians of the USA. It’s white supremacy and nationalism on a systemic scale brought by psychopath republicans and cowtowed to by pathetic democrats. Pure evil.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Trudeau to announce high-speed rail between Quebec City and Toronto #cdnpoli #Canada Announcement to be made at press conference in Montreal this morning www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

Think solar farms are bad for nature? Think again. Those designed for nature in East Anglia are teeming with birdlife - including threatened species. A new study reveals why. ⤵️

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

submitted 3 days ago • 94 comments

Despite endless stories that suggest the opposite, unemployment has stayed steady - & historically low at 4.4% The panic about too many people & too many of them being on benefits is misplaced. The problem is the wealth we all create goes only to the rich #r4today

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

The Daily Mail has for a long time been protecting a senior journalist who it knows to be a sexual predator. We are helping his victims get justice by suing the Daily Mail - and him. goodlaw.social/24jb

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 5 days ago • 8248 comments

Nature-friendly solar farms in East Anglia support more bird species than arable land, boosting biodiversity By Paul Casciato

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 8 days ago • 1909 comments

“there are Neville Chamberlain’s in every generation” George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt

submitted 9 days ago • 147 comments

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

submitted 9 days ago • 537 comments

We are now at 50,000 and we understand GB News is now going to publicly defend its hate speech.

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

submitted 14 days ago • 765 comments

No decent party should give in to transphobia because if some people lose their rights to live their life how they choose, then it becomes much easier to justify more groups losing their rights. Transphobia harms everyone. Trans people should be able to do anything cis people can do and be free.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a small step but an important one to signal that we should stand stand by or accept hateful content or those who were rather align themselves with Nazi gestures

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 18 days ago • 177 comments

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves claim to be looking everywhere for opportunities for growth but are ignoring the solution right under their noses. A new UK-EU Customs Union would turbocharge our economy, tearing down the trade barriers holding British businesses back.

submitted 21 days ago • 46 comments

A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

submitted 21 days ago • 920 comments

When you control anger, it becomes a tool that fuels strength. When anger controls you, it brings destruction to yourself and others.

submitted 22 days ago • 26 comments

The UK needs to lead in Europe again. We can't rely on Trump, and Labour hasn't shown the urgency or ambition to fix our relationship with our closest neighbours. A UK-EU customs union is the first step repairing that relationship. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-cost-starme…

submitted 23 days ago • 42 comments

Here is the petition which is Zoe's call to action. Please sign. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

This is my favorite picture of Stonewall. They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+. Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them. I think about it a lot in moments like this.

submitted 25 days ago • 384 comments

I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016! (fagpacket maths follows) on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ

submitted 25 days ago • 41 comments