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Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

submitted 3 days ago • 1180 comments

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

submitted 4 days ago • 12045 comments

I'm Mar🐫 & I approve this message. 👍 #EcomomicBlackout (image by @donkoclock.bsky.social) 🙏

submitted 3 days ago • 1829 comments

❤️ #BRETURN ❤️

submitted 46 days ago • 34 comments

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submitted 55 days ago • 14 comments

The average age of death for homeless people in the UK is 47 for men and 43 for women, compared to 79.5 for men and 83.1 for women in the general population. Makes you proud to be British, eh? If like me you don't find this acceptable, consider donating to Shelter UK. www.shelter.org.uk

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

This is a real demonstration of the human impact of an ever-increasing hostile space for protest in the UK. Gaie should not have to return to prison due to failures of the justice system. We stand in full solidarity. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Using or recognising the signal for “I NEED HELP” or “I’M NOT SAFE” can save a life, it might even be your own. If you see someone making the sign act immediately. This girl was seen by a passing driver and rescued. Not everyone can speak when in danger. www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/u...

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

You know why Finland housed their homeless? Because it's cheaper - saving Finland about $14K per person per year in crime, addiction, mental health, and emergency housing services. In Canada/UK/US, we mostly rely on raising police budgets instead & still watch those problems rising exponentially.

submitted 408 days ago • 40 comments

More Bad Ice News: a new study finds that Greenland ice sheet loss has been underestimated by as much 20%. An area bigger than Rhode Island disappeared and we didn't account for it before.

submitted 412 days ago • 8 comments

An average of 300 bombs every day for a little over 3 months. On a stretch of land very slightly larger than Las Vegas.

submitted 414 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 “For ages 50-64, deaths involving cardiovascular diseases such as heart disease and stroke were 33% higher than expected. Other causes with significant excess deaths at ages 50-64 were acute respiratory infections (43% excess) and diabetes (35% excess).” 15% excess overall in that age group.

submitted 456 days ago • 2 comments

"The Government’s failure to act quickly in response to warnings about rising Covid-19 cases in autumn 2020 led to preventable deaths, the nation’s chief scientific adviser has said." www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 465 days ago • 4 comments

Has public health died? Have we replaced infection control with information control? johnsnowproject.org/insights/end...

submitted 483 days ago • 8 comments

'Tens of billions of pounds have been “syphoned out of the industry” by the private sector and into the pockets of the shareholders, according to the RMT dossier. ' bylinetimes.com/2023/11/06/r...

submitted 484 days ago • 1 comment

Medicine shortages in the #UK are “as bad as they have ever been”, a new report warns that #Brexit is a major factor in “severe” supply delays. Vital antibiotics, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are among those in desperately short supply this winter www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 484 days ago • 6 comments

"Democracies seldom die suddenly. Instead, they are chipped away. In the early stages of collapse, it is very typical that small, subtle public signals of disapproval from government sources gradually cause individuals to become scared to speak up, in case they are also seen as ‘non-compliant’"

submitted 486 days ago • 0 comments

Under Johnson the Tories descended into a criminal enterprise that now exist purely for their own interests. Public service is anathema to them.

submitted 487 days ago • 3 comments

The government's own watchdog warned three years ago that Britain's prisons would run out of space by 2023 as it accused the Treasury of failing to provide the vital cash needed Who was Chancellor?

submitted 508 days ago • 3 comments

Hugo Keith KC’s opening words to COVID19 Inquiry Mod 2 are stark: If the protection of life is the pre-eminent duty which every government owes to the people, the numbers of those who died is the marker against which the government's response must be judged covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/u...

submitted 512 days ago • 1 comment

Rishi Sunak claims a #GeneralElectionNow “is not what the country wants” Over 95,000 have now signed the petition telling him he’s wrong. Keep signing! https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/641904

submitted 515 days ago • 7 comments

Prime Minister @RishiSunak claims a #GeneralElectionNow “is not what the country wants” Sign the petition to let him know he is wrong https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/641904

submitted 516 days ago • 18 comments

SHOCKING & SHAMEFUL. Largely unchallenged & backed by right wing media the Government has openly declared war on benefit claimants. We cannot allow them to use the poorest & most vulnerable members of our society as scapegoats for its incompetence https://youtu.be/xvaCAt34hv4?si=EPf_rJvM1_PFfYXA

submitted 519 days ago • 3 comments

Last nights interview with Home Secretary Suella Braverman was absolutely shocking - full of appalling rhetoric & misleading statements. I refuse to believe she speaks for the majority of people in this country. We are so much better than this https://youtu.be/3brRt3VXK5w?si=xdc7CYkMce9a2l1W

submitted 523 days ago • 4 comments