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Margaret Tyson

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Biologist, lover of science, music, art, exercise, anything interesting! Runs Manchester Amputee Fitness Initiative (manfit) www.manfit.org Researches lobular breast cancer and epigenetics. www.margarettyson.org www.behavioural-epigenetics.org

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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

13.02.2026 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just signed the campaign calling to save our swifts, by calling for the UK Government to follow Scotland's lead and make it the law for all new houses to be built with "swift bricks" - safe places for these birds to nest. Will you join me?

08.02.2026 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Let’s flood the consultation to ban these poisons! Linked to cancer, fertility issues, and birth defects -- forever chemicals (PFAS) are now found in our food, drinking water, and even our blood. When we reach 100k signatures, 38 Degrees will submit o...

In our blood. In our water. In our babies. πŸ©Έβ˜ οΈπŸ’§Ask @EmmaReynolds to stop the poisoning of Britain, and ban #ForeverChemicals immediately! 🚫 Join the @38_degrees consultation submission to #BanPFAsπŸ‘‡ 38d.gs/fc_bs

26.01.2026 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Emily Thornberry MP:

"How dare this man, who's never seen any action, who somehow or other, when there was a draft for everybodyelse in the United States, managed to avoid it"

"And yet now is commander in Chief and knows nothing about how it is that America has been defended."

23.01.2026 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 610    πŸ” 197    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 13
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Let’s flood the consultation to ban these poisons! Linked to cancer, fertility issues, and birth defects -- forever chemicals (PFAS) are now found in our food, drinking water, and even our blood. When we reach 100k signatures, 38 Degrees will submit o...

In our blood. In our water. In our babies. πŸ©Έβ˜ οΈπŸ’§Ask @EmmaReynolds to stop the poisoning of Britain, and ban #ForeverChemicals immediately! 🚫 Join the @38_degrees consultation submission to #BanPFAsπŸ‘‡ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...

19.12.2025 10:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, the government is letting a few greedy fishing companies overfish our UK waters, destroying marine life and local fishers’ livelihoods. Join me and sign the urgent petition to fight back:

17.11.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sign the petition: save our BBC: don't let the likes of Trump and his UK cronies meddle with our public broadcaster 🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up & replaced by the likes of GBNews or Fox win. Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect...

🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up & replaced by the likes of GBNews or Fox win. Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect the BBC, not let its enemies tear it down: 38d.gs/2sa8

15.11.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Respect the Amazon - Greenpeace International Add your name to demand global leaders #RespectTheAmazon and protect its forests, wildlife and its people.

⚠️ The Amazon's powerful ability to regulate climate is under threat ⚠️

Illegal mining and industrial-scale agriculture are cutting and burning down vast areas of forests for a quick profit.

Add your name to demand global leaders #RespectTheAmazon act.gp/4c12sje

04.11.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Keep fracking out of Britain! I live in Lincolnshire, and a new gas field has been found nearby. Reform UK are already shouting β€œdrill, baby, drill,” and fracking isn’t banned - it’s only paused. That means they could start drilli...

Reform UK are yelling β€œdrill, baby, drill” πŸ™„ But fracking is reckless & won’t even cut bills. Time to end this nonsense. Tell Ed Miliband: BAN FRACKING permanently. Add your name:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ke...

03.09.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Did you know the government has to publish a new climate plan this year? It’s a huge opportunity to change our gloomy trajectory‼️

With @friends-earth.bsky.social I just emailed my MP to demand the next climate plan leaves no one behind – will you join me? 🌍⏰https://foe.uk/caaz7

14.08.2025 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Don't allow Trump's Turnberry golf course to host The Open Championship The Open Championship must not give in to the UK government's lobbying and allow Donald Trump to host one of the world's biggest, oldest and respected golf tournaments at any of the golf courses he ow...

Trump’s heading to Scotland this weekend and wants the next Open at his Turnberry course. I just told The R&A: DO NOT give it to him :x: Will you join me too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

23.07.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Teach children in the UK how to help the planet! We would like the UK government to implement climate change and protecting the earth into all school curriculums to ensure that our generation are informed about the choices they make and the impact w...

Kids are growing up with climate change, but aren't learning about it in school! 🀯 Let's demand climate education for every UK child. Sign the petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/te...

20.07.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Flight Tracker showing flight paths

Flight Tracker showing flight paths

Ten Air Force C-17 Globemaster IIIs have been transporting cargo to various CENTCOM bases in the Middle East. So no let up.

Trump’s two-week window will allow naval support to reach the area and Israel to destroy air defences around the Fordow nuclear facility.

20.06.2025 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 412    πŸ” 165    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 22
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Mincho Law: End dolphin captivity Mincho, a captive dolphin in a resort hotel near CancΓΊn, smashed his head on concrete and nearly died during a show. The operator forced him to keep performing after that – today, Mincho is almost bli

Mexican lawmakers: Pass the Mincho Law and end dolphin captivity for good! action.eko.org/a/mincho-law...

20.06.2025 09:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tell the government: British businesses need a better deal with the EU Sign our petition calling on the government to negotiate concrete improvements to our ability to trade with the EU

I just signed this petition calling for a better deal with the EU for British businesses who have been damaged by Brexit. Will you add your name, too? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/business-rep...

10.06.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stop the illegal monkey trade Wild, highly social monkeys are being illegally caught, shoved into cages and exported to the US for animal testing – and one of the biggest medical labs is profiting off of them. Let’s make it stop!

Tell Charles River Laboratories: No more monkey business – end the illegal trade with long-tailed macaques! action.eko.org/a/stop-the-i...

02.06.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Protect elephants: keep global ivory ban! Elephants are being slaughtered so their tusks can be turned into trinkets. And now, some governments want to make it legal. Japan and South Africa are pushing to overturn the global ivory trading ban

Protect elephants: keep the global ivory ban
action.eko.org/a/keep-globa...

31.05.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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African Union: enforce the ban on the donkey skin trade Every year, millions of donkeys are slaughtered so their skins can be turned into ejiaoβ€”a so-called β€œbeauty” product sold in China.In 2024, the African Union (AU) took a bold step and banned the bruta

African Union: enforce the ban on the donkey skin trade action.eko.org/a/african-un...

26.05.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Time for πŸ›οΈ
#sunset

16.05.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6164    πŸ” 387    πŸ’¬ 117    πŸ“Œ 13
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Stop Trump's Extinction Plan The Hawaiian hawksbill is one of the rarest sea turtles on Earthβ€”fewer than 100 adult females are known to nest across the islands. Each year, they return to the same fragile beaches on the southern c

Stop Trump's Extinction Plan action.eko.org/a/stop-trump...

17.05.2025 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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French and UK Regulators: Investigate the Banks Funding Adani Adani, the world's largest private coal developer, thinks it is invincible. Fraud, deception, bribery, Indigenous rights abuses… but still, the world's biggest banks finance this corrupt company. Now,

French and UK Regulators: Investigate the Banks Funding Adani action.eko.org/a/french-and...

16.05.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Save the forests of Bastar! No military range! president-droupadi-murmu-protect-the-people-and-the-forest

18.03.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Invest in Long Covid & M.E. Research: Thousands of Children DISABLED, DISCHARGED, & HIDDEN FROM VIEW β€’ Five years after the start of the Covid pandemic, thousands remain severely ill - Many housebound or often bedbound, unable to attend school, work, or take part in daily life.  Disabled, discha...

I just signed the petition urging the Government to invest in research to help those suffering from Long Covid. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...

18.03.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Recognize Palestine as a Sovereign State The Israeli government just cut off electricity for 2 million Palestinians living in Gaza. Gaza is already a living hell - tens of thousands of Palestinians have been slaughtered, starved and bombed,

Let’s raise a huge public outcry affirming Palestine’s right to exist. If we don’t, Israel, backed by Trump, will continue to strangle the life out of Gaza, and tens of thousands more Palestinians will die.

Join the public declaration for Palestine’s right to exist. action.eko.org/a/palestine-...

13.03.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chevron want to drill for fossil fuels in Greece’s sea – on the very edge of a Marine Protected Area. We wrote to the EU last year about Greece repeatedly approving of oil drilling and now we're urging them to pay attention.

www.clientearth.org/latest/press...

19.02.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 132    πŸ” 156    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 6
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MondelΔ“z: Clean up your palm oil supply chain Milka chocolate and Oreo cookies are filled with rainforest destruction – because its maker MondelΔ“z keeps sourcing palm oil from companies that are destroying critical orangutan habitat on their home

MondelΔ“z: No more destroyed orangutan habitat in your candy – protect rainforests now: action.eko.org/a/mondelez-c...

12.02.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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…and One Step Back This week: it’s midnight in America. Also: some notes on the history of presidential inaugurations; and a nifty bus-tracking tool for the north of England.

"To be fair, killing a president on inauguration day is not an entirely theoretical risk..."

Some notes on the history of presidential inaugurations. Also contains stories of dead canaries, an aggresie rooster and a bad omen for JFK

23.01.2025 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Meatloaf: we'll do anything for growth, but we won't do that

23.01.2025 11:07 β€” πŸ‘ 195    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 1

UK PM Keir Starmer is about to give a speech launching a bold new AI strategy. Three tech companies have already promised to invest Β£14bn to build AI centres in the UK, creating more than 13,000 jobs.

13.01.2025 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 20
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This is what the private companies have done to our Water.

Do you really think we should give them health?

11.01.2025 10:01 β€” πŸ‘ 156    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

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