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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2h

It’s great to be paid for protesting and everything but let me tell you the whole antifa reimbursement process is just terrible

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David Serrano @ddserrano.bsky.social · 3h

Todos los jóvenes deberían escuchar a esta señora #MemoriaHistórica

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Radio PICA @radiopica.bsky.social · 2h

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1h

Claims he's just a regular journalist doing his journalising on behalf of the silent millions... checks out for me..

Tommy Robinson
stopped at border driving
Bentley with thousands in
cash'
Far-Right activist insulted police
officers after being arrested for
refusing to give them pin to his
phone, court hears

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 4h

I have trans women friends who’ve been living authentically for decades - how are they going to start using the gents?
I have a tall cis female friend who’s now scared to use ladies loos because she’s been harassed several times.
This code is both cruel and unworkable.
Please write to your MP.

TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 4h

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

i do think it's important to note that liberal boomer pilates grandmas have *already* been showing up in pretty huge numbers to protests for a long time (and do a lot of other non-glamorous organizing)-they're way down there on the list of demographics who need extra encouragement to get out there

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 13h

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 6h

Two frames from The Good Place:

“Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.”

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 5h

Bridget Philipson is trying to get grab even more power, but her ‘gender critical’ transphobic supporters and the trans-hostile media are lobbying HARD to get anti-trans legislation in place ASAP, as they can’t bear to wait a moment longer to exclude trans people! 😖

👉 archive.ph/gaCN4

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

underrated part of this is that stoller very clearly has no idea what "the passive voice" is

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 16h

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 7h

The bbc focussing on what the ceasefire means for the hostages way more than what it means for Gazans, again seeing that disproportionately we’ve become accustomed to for years, this isn’t new, and it’s certainly not ok

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 7h

Gonna start a thread of articles I re-read every time I have an excuse, because after this thread I am thinking a lot about @cormacmccafe.bsky.social‬'s "No Yanks on the Thread" piece.

Feel free to add your own.

I Should Be Able to Mute America

The rest of the world should not have to know the name Bari Weiss

www.gawkerarchives.com

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Alex Hope @dralexanderhope.bsky.social · 3h

Decimate a huge industry and driver of innovation for the UK economy in order to placate the racists and neoliberal nitwits (see Lancaster's proposed cuts)? Sounds like great policy.

That Labour haven't taken action to reverse years of Tory stupidity on unis shows their cowardice and ineptitude.

Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 7h

If this happened at a steel plant there would be talk of government bail out to secure jobs

LopaLeach @lopa.bsky.social · 2d

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 6h

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 7h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 6h

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

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Alex Hope @dralexanderhope.bsky.social · 4h

There's a new Pynchon? I haven't finished Bleeding Edge yet!

Congrats on the book launch though. Looks like a fun read.

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Alex Hope @dralexanderhope.bsky.social · 7h

Taken over by tortoise media. Though given the previous transphobia and bullshit "centrist" takes, it's been on the blue Labourey side of things for years.

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 10h

'I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to deny history. I think it’s always really important to face your own history honestly ...'

Toppling statues is an act of protest. It's about contesting a collective memory. NEVER about denying history.
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I don’t think it’s ever a good idea t...

The British Museum director on toppling statues, the Parthenon marbles and hosting London’s new star-studded answer to the Met Gala

observer.co.uk

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 10h

What are your theories as to why nominally 'liberal' people like Simon Pegg and Matt Berry are willing to work with Rowling?

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21h

I’m horrified to hear that two people were kidnapped by ICE in Evanston this morning.

There’s a protest at Home Depot shortly. We’ll be delivering water and supplies to protesters — I hope you’ll join us in standing with our community.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 20h

John Oliver sounded the alarm this week on how secret donations to presidential libraries provide cover for bribery. We couldn’t agree more.

It’s time to close the library loophole — and you can help.

Read this story and much more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

John Oliver rips presidential library loophole

Plus: There shouldn’t be secret law. Pam Bondi didn’t get the memo

freedom.press

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9h

Not fair on ChatGPT which would never use four clichés in the space of two sentences.

David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 9h

Is one of Reed's allies ChatGPT?

One of Reed's allies said on Sunday: "These amendments will show both business and blockers that, under his watch, no stone will be left unturned to accelerate growth and hand working people the keys to a decent home. From now on, there will be zero tolerance for naysayers."

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Alex Hope @dralexanderhope.bsky.social · 9h

To those odd people who think that inflatable costumes and mockery are not effective forms of protest, see this fool's attempts to paint animal costumes as being dangerous.

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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 9h

the worst thing about protests is you're reminded of this guy's existence as he torturously tries to categorise a Big Bird costume as a dastardly antifa weapon

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 18h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14h

ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 14h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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