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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 18h

Friends keep saying, “oh just ignore the flags, they will fall apart on their own”. That’s not the point though, is it? Majority of white people won’t do enough to help POC feel safe. It’s doesn’t matter if you think putting flags up is “not cool”. What are you going to do about it?

tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 18h

A little break away from the UK and I’m instantly feeling safer and calmer. Because that is the world we now live in. I can’t feel safe in my own home. Definitely needed this space

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 1d

I think it comes from a belief it will make them safe — that it will help them finally be accepted in the white society. But that acceptance never truly comes. Eventually, the same system they try to align with will turn on them, just as it does on others.

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 1d

A one-year-old boy with his father were subjected to an alleged racially aggravated attack outside their home in Worcester. West Mercia Police confirmed a man and child were sprayed with an unknown substance and racially abused with "threats to kill" which led to a 77 year old woman being arrested.

Muslim leaders speak of shock after 'racist' spray attack on baby

Muslim leaders at Worcester Mosque spoke of their 'shock and sadness' following the alleged racist attack when a baby was sprayed with an unknown…

www.worcesternews.co.uk

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

When centrists affirm and validate racist grievance politics - that refugees are a burden, that racists have "legitimate concerns" about refugees - they empower the far right to take steps like the below, which would be unthinkable had the underlying assumptions not been turned into a common sense.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Restore Britain's convoluted way of calliing for Britain to take no refugees at all.

UK should only ever give refugee status to genuine asylum seekers from neighbouring countries, which, given every one of our neighbours is a safe country "would effectively mean scrapping our whole asylum system"

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 5d

It’s drenched in blood of the colonies. It’s erasing our history and everything the empire did to us. You can’t reclaim it. I’m not going to feel any safer walking down the street.

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Creature from the Jack Lagoon @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social · 5d

It's gone. It's not reclaimable. It's a symbol of colonialism and racist hatred. Sticking a wanky little phrase across it isn't going to change that. Sticking yet more flags all over the place is going to make people feel further isolated by it though, and give the racists just what they want.

Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 7d

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 6d

Also wtf is this cunt doing on a St George’s flag? Maybe now he might be able to dodge that bullet

tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 6d

Bristol was amazing as always. About 500 counter-protesters sending the fash home. And cops protecting the fascists as expected, letting them march, threatening to arrest us if don’t get into their “play pens”. None of it worked and they were vastly outnumbered. Bristol is anti-fascist ✊🏽

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8d

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 8d

Absolutely heinous.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 8d

You are not seeing this slaughter live-streamed to your devices because Israel has murdered most of Gaza’s most prominent journalists in targeted assassinations.

Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera @aje.io.web.brid.gy · 11d

LIVE: A least 61 killed as Global Sumud Flotilla nears Gaza

At least 61 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as a flotilla of more than 50 ships carrying aid approach.

www.aljazeera.com

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 11d

White people saying the left shouldn't call racists racist boils down to a fundamental failure of empathy.

They don't experience racism so they don't think it's a big deal, they have experienced being called racist and hated it so they sympathise with the racists.

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 11d

All the replies on this video on instagram are white people saying “what a great take”. I’m sorry but you guys don’t get to tell us how to feel. Go tell the 9 yr old girl in Bristol who got shot with an air gun or the young Sikh woman who was raped by two men. Tell them those men weren’t racist

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 12d

This video is very centred on the feelings of white people and not on the actual victims of racism. You may as well have said “white left” as that’s who you mean. If you mean white people just say that! YOU can feel racism rising? Okay…

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks Gary, it’s good to know that my existence is “something we don’t agree upon”. If your “progressive future” is going to leave behind people of colour, how progressive is it? Is the British working class only white people then?

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 13d

Free speech advocates at this weekend's "Protect Our Women" rally in Hull...

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 13d

"Home Secretary proposes conscription for immigrants, a new chain labour force for communities where the chains will be the threat of deportation."

It gets more horrifying when you describe mandatory unpaid labour as what it really is.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14d

"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 13d

It’s simple, you can’t talk about capitalism without talking about racism, colonialism or imperialism. And again, BEING ACCUSED OF BEING A RACIST AND EXPERIENCING RACISM IS NOT THE SAME FUCKING THING.

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 13d

I’m sick of white men telling us racism is just a little “left vs right” issue. As if it isn’t destroying our lives. Oh they only hate you because of the colour of your skin and wish you were deported or dead or both. Just get over it! How are we going to fix anything if we just don’t get along!

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 13d

Oh wow okay then, i guess I don’t need to be terrified of walking down a street because Gary says they’re not all racists! He’s asked them to prove us wrong, it’s okay if the a few black and brown people get racially abused, there’s gonna be some collateral damage. Why don’t we all just get along!

Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 16d

My message to Reform supporters

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 18d

Looks like the psychology/ mental health community has finally woken up on LinkedIn after Trump’s Autism announcement. So you can read the news? You just don’t give a shit about people of colour/ trans people? You know what else affects mental health? A fucking genocide! I’m not even surprised

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 18d

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable.

This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 18d

This is first time I’ve heard the govt making the Labour argument for controlling immigration.

Mahmood argues that controlling our borders is good for race relations, because uncontrolled immigration is feeding far right rhetoric and tensions.

Expect to hear a lot more of that.

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 24d

Anxiety has been through the roof this week. The amount of flags going up in Bristol is terrifying. Why am I made to feel unsafe and scared when all I’m doing is going to work? My job is literally working with little kids who have been abused.

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Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 24d

Jesus fucking christ.

Girl, 9, shot in 'racially aggravated' broad daylight attack in UK city
A nine-year-old girl was shot three times with an airgun in the Brentry area of Bristol in what is
being treated as a racially aggravated attack by Avon and Somerset Police
By Tim Hanlon
16:30, 17 Sep 2025 | UPDATED 16:49, 17 Sep 2025
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A young girl has been shot in the street in what police believe to be a "racially aggravated attack".

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