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Beth

@punkhaiku.bsky.social

Yank in UK. #Maine voter. ๐Ÿ’™ #DemocratsAbroad ๐Ÿ’™ #Mackem by marriage. Newly retired. Reading, silent & precode film, needle arts, gardening, cozy gaming, medieval history, cats. Trying to get healthy.

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Jared Golden and WA Rep Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez are the new Manchin & Sinema twins.

Yellow Dog โ€œDemocratsโ€ who consistently vote with the GOP.

Vote them out!!!

07.10.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Really good thread to read re: health care abroad. UK: Don't let the Reform party tell you we need private insurance here.

07.10.2025 09:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How we fight in #Portland.
Ridicule is working! #ICE & #CBP backed up!

The frog finally jumped out of the slow heating pot!
Thank you #AntiFascistFrog on TikTok
www.tiktok.com/@theantifasc... @thefarce.org @emptywheel.bsky.social @gottalaff.bsky.social @jim-stewartson.bsky.social

06.10.2025 02:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 89    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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I made stickers

04.10.2025 15:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Because its so windy there is excess power in the system Green-energy supplier Octopus is giving customers free electricity between 12 and 2 today and between 11 and 12 tomorrow.

Deform UK don't want you to know that. Their fossil fuel paymasters don't like it.

04.10.2025 13:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 221    ๐Ÿ” 103    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Acadiaโ€™s Cadillac Summit Road closed because of shutdown Park officials have also closed several buildings at Acadia National Park.

The National Park Service has temporarily closed Acadiaโ€™s popular Cadillac Summit Road to motor vehicles because of the government shutdown.

03.10.2025 12:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 147    ๐Ÿ” 38    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Pollution kills all Tees Estuary seal pups Harbour seal pups in Tees Estuary suffer 100% mortality in 2025, prompting MPs to demand a Defra inquiry into the deaths

Pollution kills all Tees Estuary seal pups
Harbour seal pups in Tees Estuary suffer 100% mortality in 2025, prompting MPs to demand a Defra inquiry into the deaths

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

02.10.2025 20:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 240    ๐Ÿ” 154    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muรฑoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

03.10.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26546    ๐Ÿ” 13731    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 769    ๐Ÿ“Œ 534

When people say โ€œwhy wonโ€™t the international community help us with Trump?โ€ Remember that the United States wouldnโ€™t help Palestine with Netanyahu.

Itโ€™s not Karma, it is the consequences of eroding international law and degrading human rights. It can happen anywhere.

03.10.2025 16:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1364    ๐Ÿ” 281    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 67    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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Fired for displaying a pride flag, followed by a citation of the Constitution.

03.10.2025 14:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12362    ๐Ÿ” 4929    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1247    ๐Ÿ“Œ 394
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The change is really noticable - the filthy Tories wanted to stop this - just shows where their priorities lie, and it isn't with the average joe.

www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

03.10.2025 06:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 78    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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'Beyond Cruel': Woman Who Has Been In UK For 25 Years Slams Farage Deportation Plan LBC presenter Ben Kentish told her: "You've contributed massively to this country."

'Beyond Cruel': Woman Who Has Been In UK For 25 Years Slams Farage Deportation Plan

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/be...

03.10.2025 05:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 290    ๐Ÿ” 108    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Guys I think weโ€™re gonna need more than three ghosts this Christmas Eve

02.10.2025 18:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 528    ๐Ÿ” 70    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

๐Ÿšจalready at almost 39,000 signatures! Letโ€™s get it to 40,000 today ๐Ÿ™

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. It's time to hold them to account.

You can sign here๐Ÿ‘‡
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

02.10.2025 07:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 264    ๐Ÿ” 113    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Starmer on the โ€œFarage boatsโ€, Rachel Reeves on the economic benefits of youth mobilityโ€ฆ

Are the Labour leadership starting to poke their heads out of their shells and dare to see a pro-EU pathway as a route both to fixing our woes and also attacking Farageโ€™s Achillesโ€™ heel?

Letโ€™s hope so.

02.10.2025 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 470    ๐Ÿ” 104    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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Farage the Trump parrot A writerโ€™s response to Nigel Farageโ€™s aping of Trumpโ€™s policies

"Farage has no ideas of his own, he just steals from his idol Trump. He wants to be Britainโ€™s own mini-Trump.

He wants us to copy the failed Trump strategies which are driving the US economy into deep recession."

01.10.2025 18:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 389    ๐Ÿ” 110    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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I'm SO loving this... from the HOTTEST governor in the nation, GCN!

01.10.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

We are run by people for whom The Lorax, Star Wars and Chicken Little went way over their heads

30.09.2025 20:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 117    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dr. Seuss, 1941.
library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb...

30.09.2025 13:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4148    ๐Ÿ” 1209    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 33    ๐Ÿ“Œ 44
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Love over hate: Newcastle unites at Greyโ€™s Monument "We donโ€™t need to be reminded of where we live, thatโ€™s what a football strip is for"

Congratulations North East Bylines on your 5,000th article! ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜ฎ

โ€œIn Newcastle there was a complete reversal with over 3500 anti-right-wing demonstrators to the UKIP-Advance UK gathering of between 150 and 200.โ€

And make sure youโ€™re supporting the Bylines Networkโ€ฆ

30.09.2025 08:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 152    ๐Ÿ” 44    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Looking for the violent?

Look for the guns

29.09.2025 15:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 400    ๐Ÿ” 166    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
29.09.2025 16:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Whatโ€™s one book that changed your life? Mine? My passport.

28.09.2025 20:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 941    ๐Ÿ” 69    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 114    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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๐Ÿšจ911 Emergency๐Ÿšจ
Nancy Mace tells pregnant women to take Ibuprofen.

29.09.2025 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1095    ๐Ÿ” 479    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 123    ๐Ÿ“Œ 58
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Editor's Note:

Donald J. Trump has been convicted of 34 felonies and is an adjudicated rapist.

28.09.2025 18:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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27.09.2025 20:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 838    ๐Ÿ” 199    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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Federal Troops Arrive in Portland and Immediately Form Bands Military personnel were seen trading in automatic weapons for mandolins and zithers.
28.09.2025 03:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Update from Portland: supplies running low. Please send fig jam and artisanal cheeses. For the jam, prefer GF, vegan, small batch, processed by a guy named River, who only stirs it during Mercury retrograde.

28.09.2025 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4975    ๐Ÿ” 745    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 102

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

28.09.2025 05:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22603    ๐Ÿ” 5337    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 608    ๐Ÿ“Œ 260

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