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Paul Smyth. Charity ED
@politicsinaction.bsky.social
based in Belfast, FRSA
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Migrating our accounts to this better place! Hoping our followers follow! Please give us a follow!
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@votesat16ni.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
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Robert Reich
3 days ago
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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Come be my new boss!
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14 days ago
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@naomilong.bsky.social
there are lessons to be learnt from Sicily where they have an anti-mafia museum and shops have stickers saying they won’t pay ‘Pizzi’ - protection money. Ending extortion requires a whole society approach and civic courage
21 days ago
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Jon Cooper
23 days ago
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European leaders be like… after Davos
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about 1 month ago
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Molly Ploofkins
about 1 month ago
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
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Smooth Dunk
about 1 month ago
US government rn
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Katie Mack
about 1 month ago
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS
about 2 months ago
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Why is the UK media not reporting this?
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
@itvnews.bsky.social
@channel4news.bsky.social
#Minnesota
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about 2 months ago
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Dear politicians - the 13 year olds you ban from social media now will be voting in the 2029 elections. You wan them to make informed decisions? How are they supposed be o inform themselves?
#SocialMediaBan
about 2 months ago
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Michael Fry
about 2 months ago
Get Rachel running some elections. The way she organised them transfers at the end was incredible
#TheTraitors
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Tanya 🧚♀️👑
about 2 months ago
A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
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Alex Andreou
about 2 months ago
Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids? The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.
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So on the one hand the
@ukgovernment.bsky.social
is empowering young people by giving 16 and 17 year olds the vote (and allowing 14 year olds to register) and then proposing banning the under 16s from social media? It is a misguided and disproportionate idea and could be hugely counterproductive
about 2 months ago
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This! We need to be talking more about
this.how
obscene wealth perverts politics and much else
@politicsinaction.bsky.social
@sci-belfast.bsky.social
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about 2 months ago
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Anne Applebaum
about 2 months ago
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
2 months ago
The widely reported statement about restricting the feature to subscribers was a hallucinatory answer by the AI Grok - not a statement by the company itself
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Raise Your Voice
2 months ago
24 hour Domestic and Sexual Abuse Helpline You will be heard, you will be believed. For anyone experiencing domestic or sexual violence, free and confidential 24/7. 0808 802 1414 or email
[email protected]
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Any tips out there
@bsky.app
for making the platform work for a small charity that has left the dark place?
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2 months ago
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Raise Your Voice
3 months ago
RSE is important because it: helps children to keep themselves safer in the digital world; provides reliable, accurate and timely age-appropriate information; promotes the use of appropriate language; and helps children to recognise inappropriate behaviour and touch.
#16DaysNI
#16Days
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By the time of the 2027 Council and NI Assembly elections it will have been 15 years since the
@niassembly.bsky.social
voted in favour of
#Votesat16
NI was the first place in the UK to vote this way and we will be one of the last to give this right to our young people!
@votesat16ni.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Make the Road NY
4 months ago
📱 Using your
#RightToRecord
! In the U.S.– no matter what your immigration status is– you have the right to record immigration enforcement agents. This is a powerful tool for exposing their tactics, combatting abuse, and fighting detention.
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New Economics Foundation
4 months ago
In the US and the eurozone, central banks' financial activities are not covered by the taxpayer. We could do the same thing here. This government can renegotiate its arrangement with the Bank. 2/3 Read about it in @thetimes:
www.thetimes.com/business/eco...
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Bank’s £5bn loss on bond sales to eat into Reeves’s headroom
The Bank of England’s gilt selling programme will incur interest rate losses the Treasury must cover, adding to the chancellor’s woes
https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/bank-of-englands-5bn-loss-on-bond-sales-to-eat-into-rachel-reeves-headroom-lkv8ks82k
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New Economics Foundation
4 months ago
NEW: The Treasury could save almost £5bn a year by ending interest payments to Bank of England - enough to scrap the two-child benefit limit. "The Osborne-era policy of the Treasury covering the Bank of England’s losses makes no economic sense," says @DominicCaddick 1/3
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Antony Hook
4 months ago
🚨 BREAKING: Kent County Council is hurtling towards financial oblivion under Reform. A shocking new council report reveals a projected budget black hole of £46.5 million for this year. The Reform Administration has completely lost control of our finances. 🔶
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This is an important and long overdue decision. Time to stop indoctrinating our children.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
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Religious education: Supreme Court rules the Christian-focused RE taught in NI schools is unlawful
In a unanimous judgement the Supreme Court allowed an appeal by an unnamed father and daughter from Northern Ireland.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c201qqq0n61t?app-referrer=deep-link
4 months ago
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Young Evaluators NI
4 months ago
#BecauseOfYou
we are able to support our young people and provide them with opportunities in evaluation, both in our own work and the work of other charities. Their perspective is vital to us. Thank you! 🎉🎉🎉
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Young Evaluators NI
4 months ago
A big thank you to the National Lottery players! Without the support from the
@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk
, the work we do at
@politicsinaction.bsky.social
with our Young Evaluators would not be possible.
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Alliance for Choice
4 months ago
The Walkie Talkie Girlies at QUB have organised a walk in support of the ‘Ending Violence Against Women and Girls’ campaign. Stop by our Stall in 2 Royal Avenue after the walk form QUB in City Hall, leaving QUBSU 5:30pm 5th November. Wear pink! 🔗
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Dave Rudden
5 months ago
This is just such a no-brainer win for everybody that I hope that it gets rolled out in a much bigger way.
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Make the Road NY
6 months ago
✊Today, hundreds of New Yorkers shut down the streets surrounding 26 Federal Plaza to make it clear that they will not stay silent as ICE commits violent & unlawful actions against our immigrant communities. Join us today at 6PM at Foley Square to demand
#ICEOutofNY
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Giving every person in Northern Ireland a ‘Brit Card’? What could possibly go wrong? 😂
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards
Measure could be announced as soon as Friday as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigration to the UK
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/25/keir-starmer-expected-to-announce-plans-for-digital-id-cards?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
6 months ago
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Please give a follow to our
@youngevaluatorsni.bsky.social
project. Such exciting times ahead!
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6 months ago
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HOPE not hate
6 months ago
HOPE not hate has written to the Prime Minister, urging him to speak up and defend multicultural Britain. Now we are gathering messages from supporters across the UK.
secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/177398/...
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Tom Hulme
6 months ago
Bizarre, xenophobic, fear-mongering post from Michael Deane… head of a small empire of restaurants that Belfast folk might wish to avoid from now on
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FactCheckNI
6 months ago
Does Belfast have the 2nd highest number of asylum seekers in the UK, and do almost a fifth of them live in BT12, as claimed by DUP MLA Edwin Poots? ❌ No. 📊Belfast ranks 20th overall. 👥With 0.6% of the local population (1 in 167 people). ➡️ No data confirms the BT12 claim.
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Politics in Action
6 months ago
⏰Only 3 Days to go!⏰ There is still time to apply to become part of our amazing team today! 📆3 Year Contract Project Officer £37,280 Project Manager £39,862 Don't miss out! Apply now on Community NI
www.communityni.org/organisation...
⏳Deadline 12th September 2025
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Come join the dream team!
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6 months ago
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Get PR Done!
6 months ago
‘The top 10 countries in the 2025 Global Social Progress Index all use proportional representation’ When all votes count social outcomes improve.
#getPRdone
#ProportionalRepresentation
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Politics in Action
6 months ago
Please share with your networks- two great roles with a groundbreaking new project PEACEPLUS
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Two tremendous new roles with
@politicsinaction.bsky.social
working with adults across Northern Ireland and the Irish border counties in collaboration with
@britishcouncil.bsky.social
@seupb.bsky.social
#peaceplus
PEACEPLUS
www.politicsinaction.org/post/two-new...
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Two new roles with Connect Communities Cross-Border Project
We are looking for a Project Manager and a Project Officer for a really exciting new cross-border project supported by PEACEPLUS in collaboration with the British Council.
https://www.politicsinaction.org/post/two-new-roles-with-connect-communities-cross-border-project
6 months ago
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APPG for Fair Elections
6 months ago
🙏 Thanks to the many experts & academics who reviewed & fed back on this proposal 🎯 There's unprecedented public & parliamentary support for addressing our voting system. We offer the Government a plan to seize this opportunity: a National Commission on Electoral Reform 3/3
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APPG for Fair Elections
6 months ago
🤝 “It sets out a viable approach to combining broad consultation, meaningful deliberation & expert evidence” ⌛️ The National Commission would present Parliament with carefully evidenced final recommendations within 12 months of launch 2/3
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Cross-party MPs publish ‘ready to go’ blueprint for electoral reform commission - Politics.co.uk
A group of cross-party MPs have set out a “ready to go” blueprint for an independent review of the UK’s first past the post (FPTP) electoral system. The all-party parliamentary group (APPG) for fair e...
https://www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/09/01/cross-party-mps-publish-ready-to-go-plan-for-electoral-reform-commission/
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APPG for Fair Elections
6 months ago
📜 We're pleased to publish a Terms of Reference for a National Commission on Electoral Reform ⚖️ This is a ready to go plan to independently review how Parliament is elected, promote a national conversation, and build consensus on a way forward 🧵 1/3
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National Commission on Electoral Reform: Terms of Reference
APPG for Fair Elections
https://www.fairelections.uk/national-commission/
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Richard Chambers
7 months ago
Entirely man-made famine.
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Such a great
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gig in Belfast last night. It was wonderful to hear
#SharleenSpiteri
talk with such great affection about the city and its’ people. “Had the best curry in years!”
7 months ago
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Robert Reich
7 months ago
Between his crypto ventures, real estate deals, and licensing agreements, Trump and his family have profited off the presidency to the tune of $3.4 billion. The grifter-in-chief knows no bounds. We must not become numb to this.
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New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency
President Donald Trump and his family have made a staggering $3.4 billion off the presidency, according to an analysis b
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-family-billions-presidency-1235405843/
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Politics in Action
8 months ago
🚨We are so happy to announce that our Votes at 16 Campaign has been a success! Yesterday, the Government announced their plans to legislate for
#votesat16
in all UK elections!🥳 A huge well done to our fantastic campaign group, who have worked so hard to make this a
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Politics in Action
8 months ago
Historic days for us at Politics in Action as the UK Government commits to giving 16 and 17 year olds the vote
@votesat16ni.bsky.social
@politicsproject.bsky.social
great to meet Democracy Minister Rushanara Ali to interview her about these historic changes
www.politicsinaction.org/post/democra...
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Democracy Minister outlines 'Roadmap to Votes at 16'!
Campaigning can be tough and sometimes frustrating, but once in a while all the efforts align.Our Votes at 16 Campaigners have just returned from Westminster where the 'Roadmap to Votes at 16' was ann...
https://www.politicsinaction.org/post/democracy-minister-outlines-roadmap-to-votes-at-16
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