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Wigan, Retired after 42 years at Royal Mail, Enjoying the peaceful life and finding skeletons in the family cupboard 🏎 📷 🔭 🤓
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Richard Tice is utterly clueless. Starting to realise its a good thing Reform UK now have some executive power at local level, because now can see how idiotic their policies and hyperbole are, and we can hold them to account. #BBCQT

NEW: As part of our Donald Trump series we look back at what happened when the US president visited the Scottish Parliament 🗣️ 'The idea that he was an expert witness on renewable energy is laughable'

Why won't Treasury say what conversations its Minister had with Shein? goodlaw.social/xncu

Kick Israel out of Eurovision: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRWo...

RIGGED! #theNewPope

The leading cause of death in children aged 1 to 17 in the USA is gun deaths. More than fatal car accidents, more than drugs. 100 guns per 125 Americans, but that's only the registered guns. Too late for gun control. But you could criminalise ammunition.

What Rayner is doing here reveals her party's disdain for democratic oversight and the handing over of green space to Blackrock whose next move is to identify UK land as 'nature's assets' in a new addition to their financial portfolio. Thread

If Trump’s ‘serious’ about ending the war, here’s how he can ruin Putin: Sir Bill Browder youtu.be/i0J1OZUNxD0

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Israel has blocked all international aid into Gaza for more than nine weeks now The UN says Gaza is experiencing “probably the worst humanitarian situation ever seen throughout the war." 📉👇for @bloomberg.com

Solidarity forever ✊

15% of children under the age of two in northern Gaza now suffer from acute malnutrition Children in the Gaza Strip are facing a severe health crisis as malnutrition is rampant, threatening their lives and exacerbating deteriorating health conditions. www.thecanary.co/global/world...

The UK's trade deal with the USA was announced almost 24H ago. Today, the media are full of hot takes on the deal. NOBODY is talking about the fact that it DOES NOT EXIST. It's like debating how to carve up and cook the Loch Ness monster when Nessie has never actually been found. Truly bizarre.

There you go Scotland. The 2 iconic exports Salmon and Whisky excluded for the UK / USA trade deal. Question is - Who insistged on their exclusion? Going by past UK trade negotiations, it is most likely the UK insisted on that clause.

Well now we know what Starmer actually is. He has saved jobs in the motor industry but at the same time. He has turned himself in to a wee dancing prancing pony. It doesn't fill me with hope and WHERE THE FUK WAS WHISKY TARIFFS???

Nothing to do with October 7. The escalation of Israel's genocide had been planned since 2017 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I see that "union of equals" is working well.🤬

Early voting has started in Oklahoma’s State Senate District 8 special election with the Election Day on May 13. Republican candidate Bryan Logan wants to repeal the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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NEW: Dozens of contracts killed by DOGE have now been resurrected by federal agencies. DOGE's website still lists them as "terminated," however, inflating the group's success with $200M+ in savings that have already vanished. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

When it comes to the UK-US trade deal, there has been no public consultation, no published mandate, and reports suggest secrecy has intensified, with some documents now classified “top secret”. Read my article about why MPs must get a say. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Mutual recognition of professional qualifications would be an excellent step on the long road to tearing down post-Brexit barriers to trade. @financialtimes.com

Trump: We want to send you chorinated chicken. Starmer: You can't. We have a deal. Trump: One, it's not signed. Two, it doesn't stop us. Starmer: Yes, it does. It says you have to respect our food standards. Trump: Exactly. And if you want my John Hancock on the deal, you'll have to lower yours.

Why do they need to be in government if they can just fix everything by talking crap on Twitter?

• 2,000 men made to sit on a beach in shirt & shorts as 2 atomic bombs were detonated just nine miles away • hundreds of men ordered to walk, march & crawl through fallout in order to see how much of it stuck on their uniforms • a decades long cover-up by successive governments #NukedBloodScandal

New research shows that it is harder to register to vote in the UK than almost every other democracy. secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/171047/...

What is the right amount of protein intake? It's not "bro science" of 1 gm/pound body weight per day. "You're being lied to about protein" @vox.com ($) www.vox.com/future-perfe... open-access systematic review: Maximum benefit 1.6 gm/kg/day (note kg not lb) bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/6...

I’m currently being told by people on X who have never watched my stuff that I must be happy a man has been charged for burning a Koran. A good time to revisit this, which I recorded last year.

The BBC has a live blog about the US trade deal. Thousands and thousands of words. Breathless quotes galore. And tucked away, one tiny but absolutely crucial paragraph: "However, it’s important to remember that nothing is finalised. There are still months of negotiations and legal paperwork ahead."

MAGA influencers are demanding that Attorney General Pam Bondi arrest and prosecute a MeidasTouch host—for the “crime” of reporting the news. If they think intimidation will silence us, they’ve got another thing coming.

Israel’s new fence turns Palestinian town into open-air prison, residents say A new Israeli wire fence is being erected on the outskirts of Sinjil, a Palestinian town north of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250509-isr...

He’s like a kid in the 8th grade who didn’t complete his homework assignment offering up lame BS explanations to the teacher. He couldn’t even get the FBI budget done on time and has no timeframe for having it done. These people are grossly incompetent. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK. Replaced by less experienced or skilled staff, which had a knock-on effect for patients. Brexit has done immense harm. No impact assessment was provided. Farage/Reform still doing the same with their nationalist rhetoric.

The American Right: "We would have a preferred a pope who ignores Jesus. Like we do."

This thread should remind everyone why D.C. needs statehood. At least give us the opportunity to inflict our own bozos on ourselves.

Does anyone remember when Starmer said he was going to rebuild the NHS? This is disgraceful🚨 “Hundreds of doctors and nurses' jobs could be scrapped and maternity and A&E services scaled back to meet the government's “eye watering” NHS savings.” www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

He's had the account for over a decade and posted pictures of himself at events all the back in 2015 so I kiiiind of doubt it. Lot of cope going on.

Left: hospitals cutting staff and services to save money Right: private firms make £169,000,000 profit out of NHS contracts

Imagine if Keir Starmer just decided to tax extremely wealthy people properly instead. I wonder how many lives would be saved? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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