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He/Him Raconteur Modern Studies teacher. Good design preacher. robfmac.com ❤️ @audproctor77.bsky.social ❤️

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Tom Hanks!

12.03.2026 07:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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John Swinney's talk of US military ban at Prestwick is worst kind of political grandstanding — The Scotsman Martyn McLaughlin has long documented the US military’s use of Prestwick Airport and is unimpressed by the First Minister’s latest pronouncement

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Excellent points by
@martynmcl.bsky.social

11.03.2026 18:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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YES OR NO: Would you vote to authorize further arms funding for Israel?

11.03.2026 18:35 👍 649 🔁 116 💬 76 📌 10
An article “More than one million foreign nationals are receiving benefits”
(March 17, 2025) referred to the number of “foreign nationals” receiving
benefits, and gave the rate of benefit claims for various nationalities. In fact,
the particular DWP data on which the article was based recorded the
nationality of claimants when registering for a National Insurance number,
rather than the nationality at the time they were claiming benefits, so that
some claimants might have since acquired UK citizenship, and would not be
foreign nationals at the time they were claiming benefits. This correction has
been published following an upheld ruling by the Independent Press
Standards Organisation.
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An article “More than one million foreign nationals are receiving benefits” (March 17, 2025) referred to the number of “foreign nationals” receiving benefits, and gave the rate of benefit claims for various nationalities. In fact, the particular DWP data on which the article was based recorded the nationality of claimants when registering for a National Insurance number, rather than the nationality at the time they were claiming benefits, so that some claimants might have since acquired UK citizenship, and would not be foreign nationals at the time they were claiming benefits. This correction has been published following an upheld ruling by the Independent Press Standards Organisation. Advertisement

Fully *one year later*, the Telegraph has been forced (by @ipso.co.uk) to admit that it was lying about foreign nationals claiming benefits.

11.03.2026 16:44 👍 261 🔁 118 💬 6 📌 3
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Teenager dies in custody at Polmont Young Offenders Institution The young offenders institution was heavily criticised last year following the deaths of Katie Allan and William Brown in 2018.

FFS, not again. www.bbc.com/news/article...

11.03.2026 16:42 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 0
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The BBC are really going out of their way to not call these The Peter Files.

11.03.2026 18:03 👍 2063 🔁 476 💬 23 📌 13

These files confirm that Mandelson's malign influence runs through this Labour government.

Starmer knew exactly the choice he was making when he appointed him. He has to go.

11.03.2026 15:19 👍 1474 🔁 389 💬 77 📌 19
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UNICEF is devastated and outraged that our colleague Karine Buisset was killed in a reported drone strike on a building housing aid workers in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.

https://unicef.link/4sI7hp6

11.03.2026 14:20 👍 19 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1

Join us next Tuesday

11.03.2026 09:29 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

If you don’t want your mass-surveillance tools used by ICE or the military don’t make mass-surveillance tools.

11.03.2026 10:13 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

I second that.

11.03.2026 07:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe y’all should read some books rather than banning them.

11.03.2026 07:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is hilarious.

Also, completely enraging.

11.03.2026 01:56 👍 9096 🔁 4174 💬 134 📌 205

I have not met one person who likes CoPilot. Hundreds of billions spent just to make something worse.

10.03.2026 16:55 👍 139 🔁 6 💬 20 📌 0

Laughing at Lamine Yamal scoring an added time penalty to wipe the smiles off of the Geordie’s faces.

10.03.2026 22:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ha ha ha ha ha.

10.03.2026 21:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Looks like Spurs have Atleti just where they want them.

10.03.2026 20:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fuck ICE. Free Palestine. Vote Kat.

10.03.2026 19:26 👍 3146 🔁 470 💬 65 📌 11
NYT: Rashida Tlaib’s Expletive-Laden Cry to Impeach Trump Upends Democrats’ Talking Points

NYT: Rashida Tlaib’s Expletive-Laden Cry to Impeach Trump Upends Democrats’ Talking Points

NYT search result showing no results for Andy Ogles

NYT search result showing no results for Andy Ogles

NYT when a Muslim congresswoman says “motherfucker”: This is a problem for Democrats

NYT when a Christian Republican congressman says “Muslims don't belong in American society”: 0 results

10.03.2026 17:01 👍 1569 🔁 416 💬 12 📌 8
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Ramadan is a time of reflection, compassion and giving for many. For refugees and displaced families who have lost everything, your donation can mean shelter, safety and hope.

Send solidarity today: https://bit.ly/3N8WLI9

10.03.2026 18:05 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Idiot Wind What Trump’s war against Iran tells us about the US government, the UK political right and the mainstream media in both countries What...

New post: Idiot Wind
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/03/idio...
What Trump’s pointless war against Iran tells us about the US government, the UK political right and the mainstream media in both countries.

10.03.2026 08:54 👍 18 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 2
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How Power Works: What the Bombing of Iran Reveals Each week I look at one major international event and try to explain the structures of power behind it — the actors, ideologies and assumptions shaping events

How Power Works: What the Bombing of Iran Reveals - my new weekly column on substack (free to subscribe) - open.substack.com/pub/carneros...

10.03.2026 15:58 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

If you'd told me maybe three years ago that a UK news channel would be platforming someone to set out openly racist, far right, violent conspiracy theories, I'm not sure I'd have believed you. And yet here we are.

10.03.2026 09:34 👍 157 🔁 52 💬 50 📌 19
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The science of racism with Professor Keon West

10.03.2026 13:16 👍 302 🔁 135 💬 19 📌 28
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Pretty sure that picture focuses on Eiza González @empiremagazine.bsky.social

10.03.2026 13:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Green Party leader Zack Polanski discussing his political rivals and trans rights
Green Party leader Zack Polanski discussing his political rivals and trans rights YouTube video by Attitude Magazine

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youtu.be/S5qoSJlI4cM?...

10.03.2026 09:47 👍 504 🔁 125 💬 17 📌 9

It is quite possible to see the Trump presidency entirely through the prism of market manipulation for private gain.

10.03.2026 07:09 👍 168 🔁 50 💬 3 📌 3

Trump: “I think the war is very complete, pretty much."

What the "very" giveth, the "pretty much" taketh away.

09.03.2026 21:04 👍 347 🔁 42 💬 9 📌 0

I gave a talk today to 6th formers explaining the relationship between neoliberalism, populism & the far-right drawing on the tv show Industry. I showed that these positions & tropes have been represented on GBNews recently &/or exposited by GBNews guests & presenters. A major vector of extremism.

09.03.2026 20:13 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0