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Ian McMillan

@ian46.bsky.social

Happily married grandfather. Retired teacher, social worker. Dog walker. Literature. Green Party member, democratic socialist, ex-Labour; #GTTO; @unitetheunion; #MMT; Canadian born, lived in UK from 1959.

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Swear her in. Swear her in. Swear her in. Swear her in. Swear her in. Swear her in. Swear her in. Swear her in. Swear her in. Swear her in. Swear her in. Swear her in.
Swear her in. Swear her in. Swear her in.

Drop a ๐Ÿ’™ to SUPPORT Adelita Grijalva

02.11.2025 07:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 541    ๐Ÿ” 119    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 38    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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The dutchies of Cornwall and Lancaster are publi land, NOT the private land of any of the royal family.
The huge untaxed income (William got ยฃ23 million last year) shold come to the public purse. assets.nationbuilder.com/republic/pag...

02.11.2025 07:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Can't see a thing.......

02.11.2025 09:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The crowd tonight in Norfolk, Virginia for Abigail Spanberger and Barack Obama. LETโ€™S GO!!!

01.11.2025 23:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18105    ๐Ÿ” 4349    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 312    ๐Ÿ“Œ 151

๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ Somethings are just funny........ till I think about them.

02.11.2025 08:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Victims robbed of ยฃ4bn in โ€˜insultingโ€™ car loan redress scheme, say claims firms Financial Conduct Authority defends interest rate of 2.09% as critics describe proposals as โ€˜hypocriticalโ€™

Victims robbed of ยฃ4bn in โ€˜insultingโ€™ car loan redress scheme.

No one forced banks to sell dud products, they don't want to pay. Govt/Regulators line-up with banks.

Execs got bonuses, won't bear any cost, bank customers will.

Hurting victims is the norm - Post Office, Grenfell, mortgage prisoners

02.11.2025 08:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 211    ๐Ÿ” 98    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Russia report: UK 'badly underestimated' threat, says committee Russian influence in the UK is now

Release the Russian Report. The Tories let people down and oor nations security put at risk๐Ÿ™„

BBC News - Russia report: UK 'badly underestimated' threat, says committee - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

02.11.2025 04:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 185    ๐Ÿ” 108    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ๐Ÿ“ฃ

02.11.2025 07:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Could be on to something here!!!!

02.11.2025 08:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ICE and MAGA are not Christians. Bishops of the world unite.

02.11.2025 08:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Beach Scenes.

02.11.2025 07:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Definitely had enough of the weathercocks blowing in the wind...

01.11.2025 10:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜The money machine is misfiringโ€™: City blames Brexit for UKโ€™s ยฃ20bn productivity headache Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

City blames Brexit for UKโ€™s ยฃ20bn productivity headache.

But silence on its own role in economic crisis.
Short-termism and lack of investment
Endless financial scandals
Pushed for privatization.
Urged deal wage/benefit cuts
Opposes redistribution of income and wealth
Unchecked fat-cattery

01.11.2025 07:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 274    ๐Ÿ” 116    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Even a big far-right vote couldnโ€™t give the far-right total control, because the Dutch democracy promotes cooperation.

Here in the UK, just one-third of the vote could give Nigel Farage a huge majority of MPs.

Our democracy isn't fit for 21st-century politics. We need Proportional Representation.

31.10.2025 19:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2461    ๐Ÿ” 576    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 72    ๐Ÿ“Œ 32
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

31.10.2025 08:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17145    ๐Ÿ” 6946    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 718    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1218
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Nearly 150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in Englandโ€™s A&Es each year Older people left in their own excrement and wet beds for hours and forced to watch others die, Age UK report finds

150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in Englandโ€™s A&Es each year.

Older people left in excrement, wet beds, denied pain relief, forced to watch/hear other patients die.

NHS money pilfered by PFI and privatisation

But ... Govts have fiscal rules and don't want to tax the rich.

31.10.2025 08:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 315    ๐Ÿ” 174    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
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This is very true. If/when The Felon croaks, evil Criminal Johnson & the rest of the crew will continue the destruction. They're a disease that must be 100% eradicated.

30.10.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6621    ๐Ÿ” 1826    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 256    ๐Ÿ“Œ 94
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โ€Morning mate."

29.10.2025 14:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Agree civil liberties would be threatened. But threat to liberty is already a fundamental feature of the American way of life under Trump. It is called fascism. And to be against fascism is a threat to Trump and his Project 25 cronies. Is there a way out of this?

29.10.2025 08:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New Brakesy appears at Stubborn Dog Stack.
๐Ÿ˜ฒ Wow!

29.10.2025 07:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Missing child alert
Prince Albert Saskatchewan

28.10.2025 20:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"

I've saved her some time.

29.10.2025 04:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16689    ๐Ÿ” 5804    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 616    ๐Ÿ“Œ 255

How many of you know someone who can afford to pay over $52,000 a year for health insurance?

With the 10% copays for scripts and costs of inpatient care, @politicsgirl.bsky.social is looking at $75,000 a year (very low estimate) JUST to maintain her life.

This is murder.

28.10.2025 15:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 256    ๐Ÿ” 99    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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I hope she teaches yoga dance better than she administers her duties as Montanaโ€™s Secretary Of State. Christi Jacobsen appears to have okโ€™d printing on our ballot envelopes that uses the wrong language. Birth date is required in unconstitutional HB 719. She wrote birth year.

28.10.2025 15:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image Claudette Colvin (born 1939) was a courageous African American teenager whose refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks. Colvin was handcuffed, arrested, and forcibly removed from the bus while shouting that her constitutional rights were being violated. This event marked an important early act of resistance against racial segregation. Colvin was a member of the NAACP Youth Council and had been learning about the civil rights movement in school. At just 15 years old, Colvinโ€™s bold stand challenged the entrenched Jim Crow laws of the South and helped set the stage for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 
Despite her bravery, Colvin did not receive the same public recognition at the time, partly due to her youth and the fact that she was unmarried and pregnant. Nevertheless, she became one of the four plaintiffs in the landmark legal case Browder v. Gayle, which ultimately led to the Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional.
In 2021, the record of Colvin's arrest and adjudication of delinquency was expunged by the district court in the county where the charges against her had been brought more than 66 years earlier.
Colvinโ€™s story is a powerful reminder that the Civil Rights Movement was shaped by many activists, not just the most famous figures. Her act of resistance has been memorialized in poetry, books, songs, TV, a childrenโ€™s picture book, and a biopic.

Claudette Colvin (born 1939) was a courageous African American teenager whose refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks. Colvin was handcuffed, arrested, and forcibly removed from the bus while shouting that her constitutional rights were being violated. This event marked an important early act of resistance against racial segregation. Colvin was a member of the NAACP Youth Council and had been learning about the civil rights movement in school. At just 15 years old, Colvinโ€™s bold stand challenged the entrenched Jim Crow laws of the South and helped set the stage for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Despite her bravery, Colvin did not receive the same public recognition at the time, partly due to her youth and the fact that she was unmarried and pregnant. Nevertheless, she became one of the four plaintiffs in the landmark legal case Browder v. Gayle, which ultimately led to the Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional. In 2021, the record of Colvin's arrest and adjudication of delinquency was expunged by the district court in the county where the charges against her had been brought more than 66 years earlier. Colvinโ€™s story is a powerful reminder that the Civil Rights Movement was shaped by many activists, not just the most famous figures. Her act of resistance has been memorialized in poetry, books, songs, TV, a childrenโ€™s picture book, and a biopic.

Claudette Colvin (born 1939), a courageous African American teenager who refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks.

#GirlPower
#RadicalWomen

27.10.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 385    ๐Ÿ” 125    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Farage: epic grifter

27.10.2025 12:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7426    ๐Ÿ” 4125    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 206    ๐Ÿ“Œ 375

Not on RR's watch!!

27.10.2025 17:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Rachel Reevesโ€™ budget must reduce inequalities and increase spending capacity of the masses This is how to secure sustained economic growth

685,000 Britons has wealth of ยฃ2.8 trillion, 48m have ยฃ2.4trn.

4 people have more wealth than 20m Britons.

Bottom 50% of the population has 5% of wealth, the bottom fifth only 0.5%.

Rich buy political parties, legislators; hold govts to ransom.

Can't get economic growth without redistribution.

23.10.2025 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 447    ๐Ÿ” 213    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

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