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@organicbotanic.bsky.social

Health academic, #IDSky, sailor⛵, photographer, botanist🌿, writer. Memoir, poetry, children’s stories. AI, public health, education, climate, UCU, 🦠Covid 🇪🇺N Ireland 🐸 Photographs mine unless credited X: @organicbotanic Blue Sky 3/9/23

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Breaking news from a remote part of #Canada

Heartbreaking 💔

11.02.2026 08:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Mass shooting in Canada: Tumbler Ridge, BC school shooting update provided at press conference Two shootings at a school and a home left at least nine people dead and dozens others wounded in northeastern British Columbia on Tuesday, Feb. 10, in what a Canadian official described as one of the worst mass shootings in Canada's history. Officials provided an update on the Tumbler Ridge school shooting at a press conference hours after the incident in the small, northeastern BC town near the Alberta border.

Mass shooting in Canada: Tumbler Ridge, BC school shooting update provided at press conference

Two shootings at a school and a home left at least nine people dead and dozens others wounded in northeastern British Columbia on Tuesday, Feb. 10, in what a Canadian official described as one of the…

11.02.2026 08:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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This Won’t Be Popular: Starmer Got It Wrong - But That Doesn’t Mean He Should Go Starmer’s Mandelson decision was a spectacular lapse of judgement - and still not a case for detonating the Prime Minister.

Today I run the risk of annoying everyone.

Starmer got the Mandelson appointment spectacularly wrong and deserves to be held accountable.

I’m just not convinced that his resignation is the answer.

11.02.2026 07:51 — 👍 113    🔁 15    💬 35    📌 2
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Ex-Labour comms chief Lord Doyle suspended over links to sex offender Lord Doyle apologises for his past association with a former Labour councillor who admitted indecent child image offences.

Lord Doyle, Keir Starmer's former director of communications, has been suspended from Labour's parliamentary party over his links with a convicted sex offender

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

11.02.2026 07:39 — 👍 54    🔁 15    💬 12    📌 4

Ukraine has decided to try and hold a referendum at the same time which could defang the suggestion that Zelensky is not reflecting the will of the people which is rich coming from wannabe dictators Trump and Putin.

11.02.2026 07:30 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Trump: "I've cut hundreds of thousands of jobs"

10.02.2026 21:43 — 👍 1017    🔁 267    💬 144    📌 71

😊

11.02.2026 07:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This level of Russian casualties is unbelievable. Putin is killing hundreds of thousands of people, Ukrainians and Russians, with his disastrous war.

11.02.2026 06:58 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Because it's not art.

That's why it's so dreadful.

10.02.2026 22:55 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Community members fight for Froid man facing immigration charge GREAT FALLS — Roberto Orozco-Ramirez pleaded not guilty Monday to a federal charge of reentering the United States illegally in U.S. District Court in Great Falls.The detention hearing arraignment las...

"They had driven almost seven hours from Froid, a town of about 200 people in the northeastern reaches of the state, to back one of their own..."

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/comm...

10.02.2026 23:16 — 👍 2353    🔁 694    💬 32    📌 19
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Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States

Trump is terminating $600 million in public health grants from the CDC to four Democrat-led states because he is a pinche pendejo.

His war on public health is incessant and painful.

All because we said that drinking bleach was contraindicated in humans and ivermectin does nothing for COVID19.

10.02.2026 23:50 — 👍 212    🔁 80    💬 14    📌 3
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Trump: "Connecticut is an extremely corrupt voting place. That's why a guy like Blumenthal can keep getting elected. He admitted he cheated on the war. I went to Vietnam for a couple of days and I spent two more days than he did there. He was never there."

10.02.2026 21:09 — 👍 464    🔁 112    💬 141    📌 59
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Moderna says FDA refuses to review its application for experimental flu shot Moderna said the move is inconsistent with previous feedback from the FDA on the experimental influenza shot, called mRNA-1010.

Vinay Prasad of the FDA has broken with the usual approval process and refuses to review Moderna’s new flu shot.

He claims that the proposed clinical trial, which would compare the new vaccine to an already approved one, “does not reflect the best-available standard of care”.

10.02.2026 23:59 — 👍 299    🔁 155    💬 16    📌 19
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FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

Our FDA has been hijacked by RFKJ & co. This is outrageous. “Moderna’s vaccine uses the same mRNA technology as its Covid shot.

In a release Tuesday, Moderna said the FDA did not identify any safety or efficacy concerns with the vaccine” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

10.02.2026 23:52 — 👍 46    🔁 31    💬 2    📌 2

The photos have been do shocking - seeing the limbs they were clearly children

10.02.2026 18:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When all this is over we will never see or hear from her again. She will be a nobody.

10.02.2026 18:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Khanna: "Donald Trump had the FBI scrub those files in March. And the documents we saw already had the redactions of the FBI from March. So we still have not seen the vast majority of documents unredacted that have the survivor statements of the rich and powerful men who committed these crimes."

10.02.2026 13:14 — 👍 1695    🔁 530    💬 54    📌 18

“Reform UK’s head of policy Zia Yusuf launched a culture war in Wales by threatening to withhold funding from Bangor University after its student debating society refused to host two leading figures from his party.”

10.02.2026 12:39 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Uproar as Reform policy chief threatens to defund Welsh university Martin Shipton Reform UK’s head of policy Zia Yusuf launched a culture war in Wales by threatening to withhold funding from Bangor University after its student debating society refused to host two lea...

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Policy chef (sic) Yusuf stirring the party culture wars once more🤮

“Former Bridgend Labour council leader Jeff Jones answered Yusuf with a post stating: “What an idiotic thing to say. This is the UK in 2026, not Italy in 1922 or Germany in 1933.”

nation.cymru/news/uproar-...

10.02.2026 11:02 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
A stone pine, at dusk, in Devon, wishing it was in Japan.

A stone pine, at dusk, in Devon, wishing it was in Japan.

I don't know how the phrase "tree hugger" can ever be seen as an insult. Hugging trees is great. Even better is waking up in a tree's arms and telling it your dreams.

10.02.2026 07:42 — 👍 140    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 1
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Europe is confronting its Epstein shame. Trump wants to move on. The avalanche of files have buried some — while others have weathered scrutiny.

"The outcry in allied nations has derailed top government careers — and is threatening to tank Starmer, a man who never even met Epstein. But in the U.S., officials and some wealthy figures remain largely unscathed," Axios reported.

#EpsteinCoverUp

10.02.2026 11:01 — 👍 15    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 2

Please call the Senate they will vote very soon on whether to allow dangerous sulfide-ore copper mining on the edges of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Tell them to vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140 (H.J. Res. 140).

10.02.2026 12:28 — 👍 2483    🔁 1038    💬 41    📌 39

No Prisoner be

No Prisoner be—
Where Liberty—
Himself—abide with Thee—

Emily Dickinson

10.02.2026 12:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by human beings for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison people because they are different from others.”

~President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Image: Public domain.

10.02.2026 12:14 — 👍 30    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Screenshot of a sports news article titled “Face masks and no handshakes: Olympians follow ‘corona rules’ in Milan.” Subheading explains that while the COVID-19 pandemic is said to be behind us, fear of viruses remains in sport and Olympic teams are taking measures to prevent infection. Byline reads Sports editorial team, dated February 2, 2026, 7:12 PM. Below the headline is a photo of Jenning de Boo and Femke Kok, both wearing face masks and bright orange team jackets, walking indoors with others behind them. Photo credit: © Pim Ras Photography.

Screenshot of a sports news article titled “Face masks and no handshakes: Olympians follow ‘corona rules’ in Milan.” Subheading explains that while the COVID-19 pandemic is said to be behind us, fear of viruses remains in sport and Olympic teams are taking measures to prevent infection. Byline reads Sports editorial team, dated February 2, 2026, 7:12 PM. Below the headline is a photo of Jenning de Boo and Femke Kok, both wearing face masks and bright orange team jackets, walking indoors with others behind them. Photo credit: © Pim Ras Photography.

The Dutch Olympic team is taking several precautions: "We're not shaking hands anymore, but we're giving fist bumps," says Verheijen. "We're wearing face masks in crowded areas and making sure we wash and disinfect our hands thoroughly." This decision was made to minimize the risk of illness.

09.02.2026 23:15 — 👍 250    🔁 69    💬 13    📌 15
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna who sits on the House Committees on Oversight and Accountability,

"According to the unreacted files we saw, Ghislaine Maxwell was engaged in trafficking and rape of young women, and potentially children"

"She's a monster"

10.02.2026 07:51 — 👍 376    🔁 147    💬 27    📌 7
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These are the areas of Essex that could be underwater by 2030 Plenty of coastal areas around Essex will lose some land if sea levels keep rising at their current rate

Farage has said he doesn’t believe Climate Chsnge is happening, which seems ironic that the people living near Clacton-on-sea are likely to be heavily impacted by rising sea levels by 2030. Only 4 years away! www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2008674...

10.02.2026 02:01 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0

Nigel Farage has just called for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance

"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”

Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM

09.02.2026 20:37 — 👍 444    🔁 134    💬 46    📌 8
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Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

07.02.2026 23:38 — 👍 43282    🔁 12312    💬 967    📌 679

Am I one of the last people in the world to “penny drop” that all the #victims pictured in the #Epstein files were #white not #black

09.02.2026 13:28 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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