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On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Nigel Farage wants to drag Britain down the same road as Trump’s America: chaos, division and fear. Our NHS, our rights and our communities are at risk. Do not let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

What might be more surprising is how closely Trump’s view of the prerogatives and entitlements of abusive husbands towards their abused wives mirror his own sense of his prerogatives and entitlements as president towards his abused country. Throughout his second term, Trump has spoken of the 2024 election in terms similar to the way that Hale spoke of the marriage vow: as an irrevocable grant of total power. He believes, he says, that because he won the 2024 election, that there are now no more rights that Americans have that he must respect: that he can discard the will of Congress, fire civil servants at will, kidnap our neighbors and invade our cities.

I wrote about Trump’s comments trivializing domestic violence, and tried to chart the parallels between his own theory of governance and the logic of abusers. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’ve never been more scared about the state of the world

Farage has gone to the US to tell them Britain is ”awful” - If you don’t like it over here Nigel maybe don’t catch a return flight?

Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’

When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
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NOT a small part. A big, big, big part. I am a glorified audio stenographer, to these fabulous women.

Sorry, but wtaf? This does absolutely nothing but ensure that even more people, including children, have to use irregular crossings, and blocks people who even this government have recognised are refugees from being with their families. This is utterly sickening from Labour. 1/

Season Finale! I’m so proud to have been a small part of this podcast with my fellow experts. But the credit goes to @sturdyalex.bsky.social who has worked incredibly hard and produced an outstanding podcast. He really is as lovely, inclusive, funny and clever as he comes across on his podcasts 💜

MEDUSA - Here's Looking at You, Kid Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 01/09/2025 · 1h 35m

🐍 MEDUSA - Here's Looking At You, Kid 🪦

Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. She is a riddle that defies solution, from a time before the shape of things was settled.

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🚨 BREAKING: Russia has struck the EU delegation building in Kyiv.

Read the developing story: ow.ly/N2RW50WNllP

Well said David - I couldn’t agree more!

Here’s my take. I resent having to hear voices that I trust endorsing a platform that erodes the value and viability of our profession. As a kicker, they are helping to line the pockets of US tech bros and investors whose values I (and I suspect they) find repellent. 🤑💰 #podcast #advertising

Fellow therapists: do you also feel uneasy with BetterHelp ads on every podcast?

I can’t identify the source of my concern but I’m aware of the criticisms (low pay/high caseloads, mismatch in client needs and therapist expertise)

Does it erode trust in #therapy?

#counselling #psychotherapy

This is probably the episode that I would Clockwork-Orange-force every Labour politician to listen to.

The amount of work that went into this 75 minutes almost killed me. I hope you get a lot of joy and insight from it. x

Actual question: It has been only 72 hours since the disastrous puppeteer/puppet show in Anchorage.

Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?

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On Sky News from 12:30 giving a view on today's stories. You can watch live here:

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Trump mentions NYC, Baltimore, and Oakland, says "they're so far gone," and adds, "this will go further. We'll starting very strongly with DC."

Donald J. Trump & ( @realDonald Trump Washington, D.C. will be LIBERATED today! Crime, Savagery, Filth, and Scum will DISAPPEAR. I will, MAKE OUR CAPITAL GREAT AGAIN! The days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people, are OVER! I quickly fixed the Border (ZERO ILLEGALS in last 3 months!), D.C. is next!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT

Trump whipping himself up about cracking down on DC.

The language - “savagery, filth and scum” - should worry any right-minded person.

#BREAKING | CNN’s Matthew Chance joins the Jordanian air force in a flight over Gaza and gets an aerial view of the widespread destruction caused by the Israeli military after almost two years of genocide war.

This is despite Israeli limitations on recording Gaza

a sign reading "I just want to say if you are trans and reading this I love you & so do all my mates"

obviously that was incoherent because I'm angry, anyway I saw this on Cambridge Heath Road yesterday and thought it was nice

Yes! Because it was always written off as a modern version of hysteria. Gaslighting and misogyny working against us and causing irreparable harm. I was diagnosed in 2000 and nothing has changed in 25 years.

They felt they didn’t need research because it was “all in our heads” 😑

The fault, dear POTUS, is not in our stats Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 07/08/2025 · 1h 10m

🆕 The fault, dear POTUS, is not in our stats 📉

@pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social welcome back sage @brianklaas.bsky.social.

🗡️ Is MAGA beginning to turn on Trump?
😫 Why is the British far right SO WHINEY?

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Initial DecodeME DNA Results - DecodeME 06 August 2025 The DecodeME team is delighted to announce that the initial analysis of 15,579 DNA samples is complete, and we have important news to share. Main findings from our analysis  Your genes ...

@decodemestudy.bsky.social found eight genetic signals linked to #MECFS They show differences in immune and nervous system function, and how the body responds to infection. This indicates immunological and neurological causes.

ME is real. We are ill.

#DecodeME

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Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

Another wonderful episode of @alexpodyssey.bsky.social
Although I am a contributor, I am an avid listener too and it’s a real treat to hear the whole episode and expand my own understanding. Alex beautifully shows us how and why the Greeks myths are still alive today.

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.