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As a parent who was told their child may have ‘high functioning aspergers’ on their final day of preschool…to finally getting a clinical face to face diagnosis for #autism in Yr 5, I can say categorically #Farage has no comprehension of how longwinded the system is in the UK in terms of diagnosing #neurodivergent conditions.
And that’s just 1st stage…then you have to fight for #EHCP.
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What other democratic country has their judges arrested on the instruction of the executive?
Hmmm…is that because arresting judges on the grounds they are obstructing executive orders inherently the actions of a junta?
“Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction – after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.”
Now deleted tweet on X, Kash Patel, Head of FBI.
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I’m not a young woman anymore…but the political events outlined here of the past decade have equally led to me voting #Green.
25% of 18-24 yr old women voting Green may not be electorally significant…but are those numbers creeping up for older women too? I suspect so.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/25/young-men-reform-women-green-voters
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‘The #BBC presenter Evan Davis has been told he can no longer host a podcast about heat pumps due to the corporation’s concerns that discussing the technology risks “treading on areas of public controversy”’
Controversial to #FossilFuel industry and #Reform voters who are trying to kneecap anything that will help us avert #ClimateBreakdown.
#HeatPumps are NOT controversial outside UK.
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One primary teacher said: “I have had boys refuse to speak to me, and speak to a male teaching assistant instead, because I am a woman and they follow Andrew Tate and think he is amazing with all his cars and women and how women should be treated. These were 10-year-olds.”
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/apr/19/teachers-warn-rise-misogyny-racism-uk-schools
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When whether you receive social security information depends on you having an account for X, the platform of choice for spreading disinformation, owned privately by #Trump’s right hand man,#Musk…it’s not a question any more of ‘conflict of Interests’, it’s very clear to the world that a coup has taken place.
https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-administration-regional-office-elon-musk-x/
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While I accept many messages from institutions are tweeted through X these days, it’s rarely the only means of communicating, especially for vital information on fundamental changes (of which I think there are a hell of a lot taking place right now in the US).
Sign up to X or not receive social security updates…that’s surely blackmail and indoctrination, I mean, isn’t it?
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‘#Labour hopes to boost the public coffers by billions of pounds with its crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion.
But figures obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveal that fewer than five such prosecutions were brought in 2023-2024, down from 16 in 2018-2019.’
Meanwhile more than 600 carers have been prosecuted since 2019 for fraud.
Priorities?
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‘Latest official figures show more than 134,500 unpaid carers are paying back more than £251m after unwittingly falling foul of drastic “cliff-edge” rules on earnings limits.
This means a carer who earned £1 more than the current £151 a week threshold for 52 weeks would have to pay back not £52 but £4,258.80.’
No level legal playing field in UK terms of richest and poorest.
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International academics using burner phones and laptops that are basically just browsers when entering the US…EU countries setting up fellowships to help US academics escape.
When the most intelligent folk on the planet start acting like this…you know it’s not a practice drill.
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Alt Text: ‘The people who hid Anne Frank were breaking the law.
The people who killed her were following it.’
And remember Anne Frank wasn’t living in Nazi Germany or Hitler’s homeland of Austria. She was living in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Fascism not only turns law and order on its head…it spreads beyond borders.
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The scariest public utterance yet from #Trump about seizing #Greenland by force…and twisting the hand of NATO to support it against #Denmark:
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‘What makes this decline all the more delicious for #Musk’s critics is the sheer speed at which the empire is crumbling. From its record high of $479.86 in December, #Tesla’s stock has erased all of its post-election gains and then some.
Its market capitalisation has collapsed by nearly $800 billion, and Musk’s own stake in the company is now worth $55 billion less than before #Trump’s victory’
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‘#Musk’s net worth has taken a staggering hit along with Tesla’s stock. Once valued at an eye-watering $464 billion, Musk’s fortune has shrunk by $141.5 billion. Monday alone saw him lose $20 billion in paper wealth as Tesla’s stock tanked.
Of course, he remains the world’s richest man, but that’s likely of little comfort as investors lose faith in him as an asset rather than a liability.’
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/tesla-stock-plummeting-faster-than-a-space-x-starship/?
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I don’t understand why a Church that would surely want to make all its believers feel included, who makes up the rules as it goes along, would want to wilfully exclude and even insult those who don’t drink alcohol by referring to them as alcoholics and not accommodate those who can’t gluten because it makes them physically ill.
59% of Gen Z over age of 18 don’t drink.
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The rolling news of #Trump’s fascist takeover of the US and intent to seize land around the world by stealth has been both shocking and numbing.
With each new day we see another horrific previously unthought of executive order. And so we forget the previous day’s equally inhumane action.
Will we recall Bernie Sanders’ defiant stand in a week, month or year’s time? Probably not, but we should.
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Asked by a reporter if he was seriously asserting that the crash had happened because of DEI, [Trump]replied, “It just could have been. We have a high standard, a much higher standard than anybody else, and there are things where you have to go by brainpower, you have to go by psychological quality, and psychological quality is a very important element of it.”
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This evidence free, un-hinged scapegoating on a day of national disaster, is not limited to #Trump sadly:
‘In a press conference on Thursday morning where Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy all suggested that the Federal Aviation Administration had hired unqualified and incompetent air traffic controllers due to diversity hiring practices’
The doubts about the suitability of his entire administration come home to roost.
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I miss Caroline Lucas…who else in Parliament is picking up the baton to constructively engage with the media and public about protecting our democratic rights of non-violent protest?
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Come on #Starmer, this is the kind of endorsement you’ve been working towards for months now and you really pushed for it this past week…you should feel so proud that all your hard work to cozy up to a fascist hellbent on destroying democracy, expanding their territory, defunding sciences, trashing the environment and only interested in furthering the rights of white, straight, male tech bros has paid off.
Late Gen X. Adopted city Norwich, started out life in Dorset. Juggling twins, hearing aids, politics and climate concerns. Partial to dramatic landscapes, Wes Andersonesque architecture, unsung historical figures and Peanuts cartoons. Do we all get better at juggling or do we acknowledge some balls are just too precious to drop?
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