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Stephen J.Reid @stereid.bsky.social · 15h

✊✊✊Thanks for the mention.

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 17h

Absolutely This!!!
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 17h

We must sever all diplomatic ties with the genocidal apartheid state of Israel immediately.

Expel the ambassador. Close the embassy.

As apartheid South Africa was isolated, so too must Israel be — a pariah state.

We’ll march until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.

Zarah on the stage at the Palestine demonstration infront of a large crowd in Whitehall

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 17h

This is harrowing… brave, brave people, knowing they will be targeted again and again for reporting what they see and hear!!

zeteo.com/p/israel-kil...

Israel Killed Our Storytellers, But It Can’t Kill Our Stories

In a new book, co-edited by Zeteo contributor Fatima Bhutto, writer and translator Huda Fakhreddine pens a powerful essay about the Palestinian truth tellers Israel systematically targets and kills.

zeteo.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 16h

I still don’t get how the major reporting doesn’t frame this as obvious. It’s as if the administration just randomly shut off all traffic lights, in the absence of a plausible reason I think we could assume the goal is pain and chaos.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 16h

They are trying to kill us

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 17h

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16h

31-year-old David Noutch, white British has been charged with racially aggravated assault, threatening with a bladed article in a public place and assault by beating.

It was a White man attacking Non-White people.

Where is the apology from this hateful racist?

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17h

Nigel Farage says something needs to be done about about Second Homes to stop them from destroying tourist villages.

It's another lie, because Farage has a Second, Third and even Fourth Home.

And he will never tax himself.

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🇨🇦DUNK🇨🇦 (Proud Old White Hippie) @noofieninja.bsky.social · 1d

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 3d

Striking thing is that the US craziness is such a recent phenomenon.

Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 3d

Mass shootings by year and country.

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 1d

#FridayFacts
Follow me here for insights, inspiration, and more fucking goofy ass tomfoolery...🤭😅🤣

Patience:
Something you have when there are too many witnesses around.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani: I run against a disgraced former governor who, in this moment, has chosen to issue a statement in which he cannot even say the name Tish James, nor the name Donald Trump.

If you cannot say Trump’s name today—how will you stand up to him tomorrow?

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 3d

You don’t get to bankroll a genocide…

Embolden and cheer on the perpetrators

…and then call yourself a hero for pulling the plug.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 2d

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 2d

Does it strike anyone else as odd that the regulator has approved higher bills? It's almost as if owners and regulators are in league with one another...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Water bills to rise further for millions after appeal

Five water companies win permission for higher bills as they seek more funds to fix outdated infrastructure.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Stephen J.Reid @stereid.bsky.social · 2d

Slapped down by #ZackPolanski

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, Zack!
God, it's good to hear someone telling the truth again.
#BackZack 💚
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT

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Stephen J.Reid @stereid.bsky.social · 2d

Fat Cunts on a Fact Hunt.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2d

Spanish lawmakers have passed a law halting all arms, defence equipment, and technology trade with Israel over its genocide in Gaza.

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🌺🌈🦋laura 🌈🙏🌺 @laurahunter-88.bsky.social · 2d

As Trump says Pritzker ‘should be in jail,’ Illinois’ governor taunts: ‘Come and get me’

Convictions Pritzker = 0
Convictions Trump = 34
Who should be jailed?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yXl...

Pritzker to Trump: 'Come and get me!'

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

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Cathy Green (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️ @cathygreen67.bsky.social · 2d

This is what Einstein ACTUALLY said. He was speaking about what was happening in 1949:

“Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education)….

www.snopes.com/fact-check/a...

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 2d

British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK

Now that the UK has recognised Palestine as a state, this opens legal routes for British members of the IDF to be charged in the UK
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK

Now that the UK has recognised Palestine as a state, this opens legal routes for British members of the IDF to be charged in the UK

www.thecanary.co

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debi58.bsky.social @debi58.bsky.social · 2d

YUP!!

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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 2d

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted on a bank fraud charge by a federal grand jury in Virginia on Oct. 9, less than three weeks after President Donald Trump publicly called for her to face charge.

The DOJ is no longer in the justice business.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

New York Attorney General Letitia James, a longtime target of Trump, reportedly indicted

New York AG Letitia James was reportedly indicted Oct. 9, less than three weeks after President Donald Trump publicly called for her to face charges.

www.usatoday.com

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