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AL Kennedy

@writereralk.bsky.social

Author, comic, broadcaster and tired person. Usually UK based, but who knows... Member of the Leguminati, kayaker, friend of ravens.

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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛@tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 3d ago

More GOP dishonesty. Huge "Democrats for Biggs" signs have popped up all around Phoenix. Who are the “Democrats for Biggs”? Surprise. Behind the signs is not a Democrat-led organization, but Turning Point. Biggs campaign claims to not be involved. We know what to do. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

No, there isn't a 'Democrats for Biggs' movement, despite what new signs claim

Who, exactly, are the “Democrats for Biggs”? That’s the question behind a wave of blue campaign signs popping up around Greater Phoenix.

azmirror.com

Democrats Abroad Canada@demsabroadcanada.bsky.social · 3d ago

Voter intimidation much? The DC Board of Elections has officially requested that National Guard troops stay clear of ballot drop boxes and voting locations. Trump sent the National Guard to DC in August 2025, with their deployment extended until 2029 (after the next presidential election 🤔) 🧵

Olena Halushka@halushka.bsky.social · 3d ago

Here are the faces of people whom russia murdered in their beds in Pryluky. Three babies, two older children. 17 adults. Is that what American taxpayers want to fund by procuring diesel from russia? Maybe Europe also stops remaining fuel purchases from the terrorist state? The world of hypocrisy.

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Shooti@bambooshooti.bsky.social · 3d ago

Postscript: Gwen Graham, Bob Graham’s daughter, carries forward her father’s dedication to public service. She is running for Florida Lt. Governor alongside David Jolly for Governor. Jolly and Graham have developed a detailed plan to address Florida’s challenges and take the state into the future.

Gwen Graham (left) speaks at a press conference outside the Historic Florida Capitol in Tallahassee, where gubernatorial candidate David Jolly (right) announced her selection as his running mate, June 10, 2026. The Jolly-Graham ticket centers its campaign on housing affordability, property tax relief, healthcare costs, public education and opposing large-scale AI data centers that impact local resources.
Shooti@bambooshooti.bsky.social · 3d ago

Graham carried those notebooks everywhere, filling thousands of them. Instead of relying on abstract statistics, he took detailed notes on citizen complaints, broken equipment and systemic inefficiencies. He used these granular details to challenge bureaucrats and force tangible improvements. /5

Governor Bob Graham jots down notes in one of his little notebooks as constituents look on. A habit dating back to his father’s log of farm tasks, Graham journaled details and observations every day in pocket notebooks, which had color-coded covers to represent the seasons. He tracked his entire day in tight five-minute to 15-minute intervals, recording mundane rituals as well as historical micro-moments. Roughly half of each notebook was dedicated to practical action items. During his first gubernatorial campaign, he used them to keep track of who supported him as an underdog candidate and document lessons from the Workdays. The notes often contained the names and addresses of people he met throughout the day, which allowed him to follow up the visit with a personalized note a few days later. Graham amassed a collection of more than 4,000 notebooks throughout his public service career. Photo credit: Florida Memory.
Shooti@bambooshooti.bsky.social · 3d ago

Graham didn’t end his Workdays program. Over his career, he completed 408 official workdays, putting in shifts as a teacher, an arson investigator and a baggage handler. He gathered first-hand data on how state laws impacted ordinary workers, recording them in small, color-coded spiral notebooks. /4

Florida State Senator Bob Graham works as a busboy at the Versailles restaurant in Little Havana, Nov. 17, 1977. In December 1977, Graham donned the full velvet suit and worked a holiday shift as a professional Santa Claus at Clark LaSalle Cleaners in Coral Gables, Fla. Throughout his political career, Graham spent more than a year’s worth of full days working with the people he represented. In that span, he worked 921 jobs in over 109 cities and five states. Once he was elected Governor, he began choosing jobs to highlight active legislative fights or push specific policy agendas. If he were pushing for natural resource funding, for example, he would choose a day working as a logger or cleaning natural sponges in Tarpon Springs. To better understand state funding shortages, he rode night shifts with the Tallahassee Police Department and worked night shifts as an attendant at state mental hospitals and nursing homes.
AL Kennedy@writereralk.bsky.social · 5d ago

#BigTech's data centres use as much power as millions of homes and guzzle our water. We need basic rules: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Zero water waste 🗣️ Local community consent Sign petition to stop data centres harming our communities and environment now. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...

Ban data centres that harm our communities and climate

Big Tech’s giant data centres swallow as much power as millions of homes, guzzle our water, and risk driving up our energy bills - all with zero limits. We need basic rules: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Ze...

you.38degrees.org.uk

Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺@andygjburge.bsky.social · 5d ago

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Well knock me down with a feather - whoever would have guessed .... As for Orr and Jukes throwing their toddler tantrums and suing Verbatim, yeah, good luck with that - they've as much chance of winning as I have of pulling Scarlett Johansson ....

Reform clears its own officials of breaking party funding laws despite police investigation

Internal inquiry exonerates Dan Jukes and James Orr, who were filmed talking about scheme involving US donor

theguardian.com

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d ago

Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?

As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind

The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.

npr.org

Marcus Chown@marcuschown.bsky.social · 5d ago

Privatisation in a nutshell: 1) Steal from us something we own. 2) Sell us back an inferior service 3) Charge us a higher price. The pattern is the same everywhere: royal mail, water, railways, the NHS, public services, council services…

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 6d ago

Failures of privatisation. Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs Foreign-owned RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets even after regulator lowered them. Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p. When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. Poor service at triple price. Customers fleeced.