Rebecca Gethin

So You Want to Be a Dissident? A practical guide to courage in Trump’s age of fear.

Crucial point made here — we should learn from others rather than imagine that everything is new and therefore shocking and impossible to resist.
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Walking and swimming today.

Not just the optics! It IS terrible.

“At the moment, this will be the first Labour Government likely to oversee a significant rise in the number of children in poverty”
Save the children UK

This must be stopped

First species tulips

Equinox swim in the river. Water very low as we have had no rain for 3 weeks. And none today when forecast.

There are no rules and if there are, they are there to be broken. If you want.

Our niece, Cressie is now eligible for early release.

Gourmet women’s holding signs for the Women’s March actos from Barcelona University Library.

Women’s March 2025
#resist

Trying to forget how Ukraine is about to be sold down the river so i went swimming x 2 in the sea in South Devon, off Burgh Island.

And where's the opposition?

But he has a large administration shoring him up and all are dangerous and malevolent. It's never just one person.

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Neat summing up but each point gets worse.. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

An obvious trap. I am sorry Z fell for it by even going. Starmer and Macron were in the same trap too but I don't understand that one yet. It will become clear

I didn't hear Z shout at all. Vance and Trump shouted like thr schoolboy bullies thst they are. They play with fire like spillikins

I knew Z was in a trap.

It was an obvious choice to humiliate the bravest man on earth by the most deluded/ selfish/ wicked.

Sign the petition: Scrap plans to cut aid I just signed the petition calling on the PM not to cut support for the world’s poorest to pay for more defence spending - tax the ultra rich instead! Can you sign too?

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Daughter by Claire Walker DaughterThey brought her to me – tiny in a Moses basket, woven rushes hemmed with a white frill.As though she were a doll, or sleeping. They’d taken great care to settle her,head to one side, capped w...

Our second nomination is Daughter by Claire Walker.

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Thank you so much to @dustpoetry.bsky.social for nominating my poem 'All praise the count of two' for a #forwardprize. I'm amazed, and grateful. 🙏

Next time, pls, yes.

Gorgeous x

How very very moving.

And they in yours, Julian x

Good man.

Betrayal is betrayal. I always thought better of America.

Supressing a woman’s right to vote. They’re just a white Christian version of the Taliban.

Our once-a-year-if-lucky-visitation of starlings to the two great sycamores was a blessing yesterday. Their orchestra of sounds was incredible. Maybe a hundred or more.

The Times identified more than 30 frozen studies that had volunteers already in the care of researchers, including trials of: malaria treatment in children under age 5 in Mozambique treatment for cholera in Bangladesh a screen-and-treat method for cervical cancer in Malawi tuberculosis treatment for children and teenagers in Peru and South Africa nutritional support for children in Ethiopia early-childhood-development interventions in Cambodia ways to support pregnant and breastfeeding women to reduce malnutrition in Jordan an mRNA vaccine technology for H.I.V. in South Africa

Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research: