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Baby flamingo learning to paddle.. 😊

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After significant outrage and blowback, Whitman Walker has restored their trans healthcare page. They've changed the terminology from gender affirming care to transgender healthcare. www.whitman-walker.org/health-servi...

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Libs: 71 MPs. Davey's narrative is the UK as a leader, and a call for national and continental unity in the face of fascism. Reform: 5 MPs. Farage's narrative is the UK as an irrelevance, and pushes Russian misinformation in support of fascism. And our media platforms traitorous Lord Yeehaw-Haw.

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On this day in 1988, 20,000 LGBTQ people and our allies marched through the streets of Manchester to protest Section 28, which tried to stifle all mention of our lives. At the time it was the largest gay rights gathering ever. Pic: The crowd seen from the top of the Town Hall. #LGBT+HistoryMonth

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Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal criticized Trump's statement on Ukraine.

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Jordan Bardella, the president of France’s hard right National Rally, has cancelled his plans to speak at CPAC after Steve Bannon “proactively made a gesture referring to Nazi ideology.” In other words, Bannon and CPAC are now too extreme for the French extreme right.

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Unbelievable, from the man who did more than anyone else to give Douglas Murray's explicit white ethnonationalism a platform and a bridge to the UK mainstream. archive.ph/LMDiX

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🌍 LATEST: Climate past the tipping point? #BrokenNews reveals how one British man’s recycling slip-up spells doom for the planet. 🙏🏻 Please like and share this report to your profile. youtu.be/sM_V9VL1AWI?...

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Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

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So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

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🔶 Only the Liberal Democrats can take control of Shropshire Council from the Conservatives in May. #letsfixshropshire #68daystofixshropshire

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Trump will travel to Moscow to stand next to Putin on the reviewing stand for the May 8 Victory Day celebration, Moscow sources reveal to Le Point. This year's celebration will focus on Russia's victory over Ukraine. How many messages does the world need? (H/t John Paul Fitch)

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Touching interview with Brianna Ghey’s mother. (It does seem to me that there’s something missing, and that’s - obviously - the total inability of the Guardian to acknowledge its role in the wider spread of transphobia.)

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Funny how when you compare trans women to cis women in sporting performance, they are more closely aligned with cis women's performance rather than cis mens. Yet transphobes keep pointing to cis men vs cis women and shouting of "SEE! SEE! THEY ARE FASTER/STRONGER" but that proves nothing wrt TW

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Everyday comes another media story designed to make a particular group of people very cross. Last week, The Times, GB News, and the usual Twitter accounts were fuming at the fact that the NHS hires “expensive” diversity staff 🙄 Let’s dig into the article, shall we? 🧵 1/

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Trump is on the brink of betraying Ukraine and the UK. Britain must lead in Europe by increasing defence spending immediately and all political parties should get round the table to make that happen. I fear what happens if we don't take this step.

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4,000 litres of diesel spilled into the River Wandle this week . Criminal . Please help South East Rivers Trust fund recovery efforts and guard against this type of pollution in the future . Please donate if you can www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-r... Video: Mirrhyn Stephen

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👇Evergreeen www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

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This is the most cowardly administration in history.

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The data could not be more clear: our public services will collapse without immigration. People desperately need to come here & we desperately need people, too. Me, for @metrouk.bsky.social metro.co.uk/2025/02/19/n...

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“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

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Goedemorgen allen!

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Pentagon to slash 8% off their budget over the next five years, WaPo reports. That would amount to tens of billions of dollars annually. Canada’s going to take them out with two Mounties and a moose.

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Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn. It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.

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People keep telling me that untrained have to accept compromise because they’re losing the war, but if that were true, why would Putin deploy his most expensive weapon to try to end it to his advantage?

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I don't see Trump demanding elections in Russia. ...ironically one year, almost to the day, after Alexei Navalny's murder.

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Interessante Umdrehung der Sichtweise zum Thema Asyldebatte von @realreiners.bsky.social

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Eens met Timmermans. Je kunt Oekraïne niet volledig steunen als je in een kabinet zit met partijen die al 3 jaar lang Poetins politiek steunen (lees de PVV). Daarom moet dit kabinet zo snel mogelijk vallen. Dat is in het belang van Oekraïne.

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James Esses calling for the total eradication of trans people. Again. And again… This is not protected free speech as this would fail the Grainger V test. We’re growing tired of this bastard inciting hatred.

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Denmark MP Rasmus Jarlov: "[US] has taken no casualties in Ukraine ... paid 4% of US defence budget for one year and that was too much for them ... they will surrender to Russia. We can not trust such spineless people ... If Russia invaded Poland tomorrow, they would make excuses and do nothing."

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Listen carefully. She is right!

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This is huge. My petition got approved. It challenges the UK government to the lift the Puberty Blocker ban on the grounds that it contradicts article 8 of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child. Please sign and Repost ✊️🏳️‍⚧️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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