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• Post #4469295

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/09/russian-family-finland-reprisals-pro-ukraine-activism. Why, #Finland, why? This #Russian couple support #Ukraine - if they're sent back to #Russia, they'll end up in a #penal #colony in #Siberia! "Nikita & Olga Belov fled their homeland in 2022 after attracting the attention of Russian #authorities - including #military summons, threatening #messages & attempts to locate them - after expressing #opposition to the full-scale #inva...

• Post #4168942

  https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-spd-seeks-lgbtq-protections-in-constitution/live-78140446. That's good to know, @PinkNews@flipboard.com, @christineburns@mastodon.green, @HarriettMB@toot.wales!

• Post #4096558

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/25/history-of-spain-fearless-1970s-trans-rights-political-collective. WOW, @christineburns@mastodon.green, @HarriettMB@toot.wales, @transworld@masto.ai, @transactualuk@mastodon.social, @PinkNews@flipboard.com! See: https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/queer-history/uncovering-the-history-of-spains-first-trans-organisation/.

• Post #4062394

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/23/trump-says-he-is-close-to-decision-on-largest-yet-attack-on-iran. The ordinary people of #Iran go on suffering, #international #law keeps on being broken, yet more #warcrimes are committed - & all so the #fossilfuel #companies can make larger & larger #profits, Vladimir #Putin can make even more #revenue from his #oil & #gas to pay for his #war in #Ukraine, & Donald #Trump can keep on massaging his #SolarSystem sized #ego!

• Post #4037493

  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/23/divided-world-pride-hot-show-film-musical. Yes, things WERE bad - VERY bad - for #LGBTIQA people; so why are we letting things get bad AGAIN? Why are we allowing divisions in our #community to be exploited by right-wing #politicians & #TERFs? We need to defend #transgender people & #TransRights, irrespective of our own #gender #identity. @PinkNews @HarriettMB@toot.wales @christineburns@mastodon.green @transactualuk@mastodon.social @tr...

• Post #4016194

  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/19/trump-foreign-election-interference.

• Post #3855853

  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/16/british-girl-stranded-rome-six-weeks-new-passport-rules. "A #British girl was prevented from returning to her #school in the #UK for 6 weeks after a trip to see her #grandmother in #Italy because of the Home Office’s new rule requiring dual British #nationals to have a British #passport to get back into the #country." Yet more narrow-minded, #racist, #xenophobic #HomeOffice stupidity, for which that #ReformUK entryist into the #LabourPar...

• Post #3838957

  https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/10/cia-history-communist-albania-cold-war-kim-philby-review/. How NOT to launch a clandestine mission! Kim Philby didn't need to betray ANY of it, it was so badly organised! "Far from the buttoned-up, bureaucratized #spying of the later #ColdWar period, the early post-war #MI6 & #CIA were an almost shambolic bunch. With little oversight, especially on the #US side, these #agencies could concoct whatever schemes & plans they fancied... they were...

• Post #3549796

  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/02/keir-starmer-britain-pharma-deal-covid; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/11/keir-starmer-medicines-deal-donald-trump-cost-british-lives. "In the face of Trump’s bullying, the #Government will double how much it spends on #drugs as a share of national income, going from 0.3% now to 0.6% in a decade. It also accepts that the money will come from the #NHS budget. The BMJ analysis suggests that over the next couple of years...

• Post #3533758

  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/01/the-guardian-view-on-yet-another-immigration-bill-law-as-performance-is-a-failing-model. "The #Right of #British #politics is... [demanding]... a more sinister #agenda of deporting people who have already settled in the country. A #Labour #Government should be doing everything in its power to stop those attitudes encroaching further into the mainstream. #Britain doesn’t need another #law that will only confirm beliefs that #immigration i...

• Post #2595770

  https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2026/may/15/wealth-britain-billionaires-gdp-rich-list-inequality. "The #wealth of Britain’s 157 #billionaires is now equivalent to more than a fifth of the country’s entire #GDP, according to analysis by the Equality Trust - a fivefold increase since 1990."

• Post #2563103

  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/13/datacentres-electricity-consumption-uk-us-ai. 6% of #electricity #supply in the #UK & #US used by #Datacentres, @DoomsdaysCW - & what about #water #consumption & #carbon #emissions? See: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788.

• Post #2363337

  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/09/supreme-court-death-penalty-execution-disabilities. I can believe this only too easily, @andrewstroehlein, @humanrightswatch, @Nonilex, @DoomsdaysCW. It ought to be nothing more than the deranged fantasy of some far right-wing extremist, rather than the real prospect of an actual #SCOTUS majority #decision. It is wrong, wrong, wrong. There is nothing in the least bit right about it. It is a grievous example of #disability #discrimination, &am...

• Post #2132260

  https://theconversation.com/even-in-japan-robots-are-a-long-way-from-being-fully-fledged-carers-heres-why-281657. #Robots aren't #humans - so how can a #robot CARE for a #human? How can a robot CARE for anything? Humans & non-human #animals have #emotions - robots don't & can't!

• Post #1953163

  https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260430-teen-with-30-tortoises-under-clothes-nabbed-at-thai-airport. Here's another very naughty #teenager - 19 years old, this time. I don't think she'll get away with a slap on the wrist. Smuggling #wildlife - like these protected #tortoises - is a major #problem, which needs to be tackled.

• Post #1908563

  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/02/keir-starmer-calls-for-ban-on-some-pro-palestian-protests-british-jews. #Starmer would just LOVE the excuse to ban ALL - never mind SOME - #protests in favour of the #Palestinians. He is NO #democrat, & no #liberal; he IS an #authoritarian & a #Zionist, willing to defend #Israel come-what-may, even when the #Israelis are committing #genocide, & even if that entails the #UK being #guilty of aiding & abetting genocide...

• Post #1895155

  https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/key-cost-saving-change-on-pip-re-assessments-as-dwp-offers-new-ways-to-engage-with-timms-review/. "The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) has increased the number of #disabled #claimants who will face fewer #reviews of their #eligibility for #personal #independence #payment (PIP)." Thank Heaven for small (very small) mercies!

• Post #1862961

  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/01/esther-cohen-poet-laureate. Only #Trump supporting #Republicans could fire this woman - a #pacifist - on the grounds that she supported #violence, @DoomsdaysCW. What was their #evidence? Yes, she opposed Trump & voted, & campaigned for, Zohran #Mamdani. Was that supposed to be "violent"?

• Post #1669534

  https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tories-and-reform-face-scottish-voters-with-manifestos-describing-plans-to-slash-disability-benefits/. So #disabled people in #Scotland will know NOT to vote #Tory & NOT to vote #ReformUK if they don't want their #disability #benefits to be cut!

• Post #1550413

  https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/21/victims-of-sexual-violence-distressed-by-mps-pugnacious-questioning. "Victims of #rape & #sexual #violence have told #parliamentarians they felt anxious & distressed during a #Westminster #evidence session, with one stating that witnessing 'pugnacious' questioning had resulted in her 'breaking down, sobbing & struggling to breathe'. The victims’ commissioner has made a formal complain...

• Post #1453115

  https://theconversation.com/what-neurodivergent-people-really-think-about-the-words-used-to-describe-them-271784; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26134030/; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27546330251390590 (open access). "Across #diagnoses, people spoke powerfully about how certain words made them feel. Words such as 'disorder' were widely disliked. Many felt they implied something broken or defective, rather than acknowledging that difficulties often arise bec...

• Post #1150365

  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/14/african-scientists-fungal-conservation-movement-aoe. The #biosphere is fully integrated & inter-dependent. Take out one part of an #ecosystem & the rest of it collapses - & the same is true of the biosphere as a whole. If all #fungi were to become #extinct, the #extinction of other #eukaryotic life-forms, including #humans, would follow, & very rapidly.

• Post #1147162

  https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260409-argentine-mps-approve-milei-backed-bill-allow-mining-glaciers. #Argentina is going to end up with no #glaciers if #Milei & his #supporters have their way. The glaciers are under a big enough threat from #climatechange, without THIS, as well! It will be absolutely devastating for the #environment in that #country, & its #people will suffer badly as a result. Do they want to be #flooded out of their #homes? Do they want to see their #crops &amp...

• Post #1068877

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/09/vladimir-putin-announces-orthodox-easter-ceasefire-with-ukraine. "Vladimir #Putin has declared a 32-hour #ceasefire in #Ukraine over the #Orthodox #Easter weekend, after an earlier call from Volodymyr #Zelenskyy for a pause."

• Post #935721

  https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/05/nissan-sunderland-plant-could-close-if-uk-excluded-from-made-in-europe-rules-eu. This is entirely down to the utter stupidity of #Brexit - but will we hear that from Keir #Starmer, or any of his Ministers? Will we heck!

• Post #835819

  https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfaddens-speech-suggests-ministers-are-set-to-renew-efforts-to-pressure-young-disabled-people-into-work/. Once again, young #disabled people are being depicted as lead-swinging, work-shy "scroungers", who need to be forced into work, kicking & screaming. No account is taken of #disability #discrimination, either in the #jobs #market or the #workplace, let alone #education. That this is coming from a #Labour #Government, employing s...

• Post #808174

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/09/25/vaccines-dementia-risk-reduction/. The #influenza #vaccine protects one from #dementia, as well as the flu, @JoePajak@mastodon.online, @JoePajak@mstdn.science.

• Post #776048

  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/23/trump-administration-wind-project-plan. "As a fuel crisis triggered by the war in #Iran drives up global #fossilfuel prices, the #Trump administration has announced it will pay #French #energy major #TotalEnergies $1bn to kill plans to construct #windfarms off the US east coast." This is utterly INSANE, @MichaelEMann, @ZLabe, @RARohde, @rahmstorf, @davidho, @GeraldKutney.

• Post #648972

  https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/concern-over-fit4jobs-questionnaire-that-filters-out-dwp-recruits-with-health-conditions/. "Ministers are facing questions over why the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) is using a strict screening process to filter out potential recruits with #health conditions, while repeatedly complaining that too many #disabled & #older people are not in #jobs." Very much par-for-the-course, @ChrisMayLA6, @HarriettMB.

• Post #601582

  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/25/reform-matt-goodwin-labour-gorton-and-denton-byelection-greens. "New polling ahead of the crucial Gorton & Denton byelection this week, while by no means decisive, puts the #Greens first on 22%, followed by #ReformUK (20%), then #Labour (18%), with 31% undecided. But still Keir #Starmer falsely claims that 'only Labour can beat Reform'. Does he want to see Reform in power? ... the only thing that would allow N...