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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 12h

Quite a bloody cheek, this, given the UK has the most hostile regime towards healthcare for young trans people and their families in the world (www.gov.uk/government/s...).

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Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 6h

UKIP leader says he will use the military to round up Muslims and communists. I wish more people would recognise and name fascism when it’s jumping in our faces with flashing lights.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 6h

This is a very important read, in essence some senior members of the judiciary appear to be corrupt fascists

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act

The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. None of this is being done in secret – the...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 7h

lol liars, every one. Chicago cops threatened to quit if Brandon Johnson was elected mayor. Police union leader LITERALLY threatened "blood in the streets," saying between 800 to 1,000 would walk.

Guess what never happened.

And even if they'd made good on that threat... OK??? BYE????

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 11h

Full of trepidation, ngl!

diva-magazine.com/2025/10/10/p...

Parliament’s back – and so is the fight for trans rights

“Parliament may be back, but so are those determined to defend equality. If this summer proved anything, it’s that the movement for trans rights never took a break”

diva-magazine.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 8h

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 7h

Ratio me? I think sometimes people think they are being edgy but they aren’t. It is not edgy to support the head of one of the largest news organizations in the world. Like. It’s okay to just say you like adjacency to power! Own it!

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 11h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 11h

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 16h

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Daisy @daisygeekytgirl.bsky.social · 18h

TERFs also support segregation. Their policies are no different to the realities of Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.

Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18h

…using their control of mainstream media to portray anti-segregationists as violent and therefore “unsafe” to have in “their” schools.

It is a deeply dishonest modus operandi as it depends on portraying the victims of their oppression as “silencing the oppressors, when the opposite is true…

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KD Smith @kd-smith.bsky.social · 17h

Thread.

Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18h

Provoke and Publicise was originally used as a strategy by the racist segregationists about Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957 to try and enforce a different, but equally invalid form of apartheid. It involves provoking a response from the victims of oppression and then…

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 20h

We also wrote over 4 months ago to the Brighton Centre and begged them to cancel hosting a de facto genocidal hate movement that wraps itself in the camouflage of feminism.

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 16h

"Nigel meets tens of thousands of people on an annual basis ultimately, he can't be held accountable for the actions of every single person who he comes in contact with."

-Zia Yusuf, head of Reform UK Department of Government Efficiency.

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 12h

“Ministers keep telling us what they have done, but voters aren’t hearing them. If the government has a communications strategy, it isn’t working,” writes @peterkellner.bsky.social.

Voters are not listening to Labour

New data shows how little the Starmer government’s messaging resonates

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 21h

‘Doublethink*’ alive and well in the U.K. Government.

Given the U.K. Government’s statement to the United Nations on 10 October 2025:

www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 13h

I forgot to restrict replies under this video. I had to spend 12 mins blocking & hiding transphobic, homophobic & far right comments under it! One reply threatened Ruth & another one, me. It is amazing just how much more toxic Twitter has become.

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Dave Edwards @dave280161.bsky.social · 14h

want to know more about FARAGE ??
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 18h

It’s infuriating that so mediocre and crude a power as Russia is running rings round European democracies and that they have so many willing collaborators.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21h

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

open.substack.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 13h

Never Newsom. Ever.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 15h

Great this is being noticed but the framing in these stories that centre on Farage's own words rather than the issue itself tells you all you need to know about the appalling coverage of the far right and the role the mainstream media play in enabling its rise and mainstreaming

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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naoarte 🎚️🦋🎀🤍🎀🦋🎚️ @naoarte.bsky.social · 17h

"Why would they break windows? We're just trying to talk..."

On now at FiLiA.

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The Rascal King of Gregging @therascalking.bsky.social · 15h

He just doesn’t miss. That line at the end was pure gold.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 15h

"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 15h

That is because they can equate and deliberately confuse antisemitism as anti-zionism and then weaponize it against their enemies, something they can’t do with transphobia.

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 17h

Interesting how Ministers think minorities with a protected characteristic should be protected & from what.
It’s unacceptable that Jewish students feel they need to conceal their identity on campus.
Yet this doesn’t apply to Trans students & Gender Critical people who attack their right to exist 🤔

Phillipson: Universities must tackle antisemitism
Bridget Phillipson says it's unacceptable that Jewish students feel they need to conceal their identity on campus

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 15h

Quick question: Are you able to say "cis" on the Nazi platform now?

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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