Chris McCabe
@3salmon.bsky.social
Eco-Socialism, human rights, culture, cats, dogs, sundogs, birdwatching, vegetarian, frugality, SHARP Skinhead, Celtic supporter, Fabry Disease. Mask wearer. NB: ***It's no good asking me for money!*** No DMS.
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Let’s talk about real love. Not the kind that says “this is the best you can do,” or keeps breaking promises. Real love invests in your health and makes sure you’re housed. Real love protects human rights. No more settling for the lesser of two evils. This year, choose the greater good.
February 14, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Let’s talk about real love. Not the kind that says “this is the best you can do,” or keeps breaking promises. Real love invests in your health and makes sure you’re housed. Real love protects human rights. No more settling for the lesser of two evils. This year, choose the greater good.
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All Londoners should be able to swim safely in the capital’s waterways.
A proposed bathing water site on the Thames is a big step forward and could help make that possible if approved. My upcoming Clean and Healthy Waterways Plan will take this further.
A proposed bathing water site on the Thames is a big step forward and could help make that possible if approved. My upcoming Clean and Healthy Waterways Plan will take this further.
Londoners to get first official bathing area on Thames at this idyllic spot
The filming location for TV drama Broadchurch is also among 13 new designated swimming sites proposed by the Government
www.standard.co.uk
February 14, 2026 at 12:03 PM
All Londoners should be able to swim safely in the capital’s waterways.
A proposed bathing water site on the Thames is a big step forward and could help make that possible if approved. My upcoming Clean and Healthy Waterways Plan will take this further.
A proposed bathing water site on the Thames is a big step forward and could help make that possible if approved. My upcoming Clean and Healthy Waterways Plan will take this further.
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Drop the charges.
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Zack Polanski, "2,600 have been arrested for standing with Palestine Action"
"Today the court found the proscription unlawful, it's time to release them"
"Today the court found the proscription unlawful, it's time to release them"
February 14, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Drop the charges.
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'I had no qualms at all with the decision, it was the right call,' Marty Whelan said. 'It just won’t be the same without Ireland. We are joint seven-time winners, after all. I really did think more countries would come with us as well, but there’s only five. I was hoping there would be more'
‘It’s a real void, not going, but the madness has to stop’ – Marty Whelan on RTÉ’s Eurovision boycott
RTÉ’s Marty Whelan has expressed regret that he will not be commentating from this year’s Eurovision contest.
www.independent.ie
February 14, 2026 at 11:00 AM
'I had no qualms at all with the decision, it was the right call,' Marty Whelan said. 'It just won’t be the same without Ireland. We are joint seven-time winners, after all. I really did think more countries would come with us as well, but there’s only five. I was hoping there would be more'
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"The State learned the lesson - denial works. If you refuse to look, you can claim you did not see.
If you criminalise protest, you can shift the story from what is being facilitated to who is objecting."
- Colin Sheridan @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
If you criminalise protest, you can shift the story from what is being facilitated to who is objecting."
- Colin Sheridan @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Shannon Airport and ICE deportation flights raise fresh questions over Irish neutrality
ICE deportation stopovers at Shannon Airport reignite debate about neutrality, accountability and Ireland’s complicity in US removals
www.irishexaminer.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:31 AM
"The State learned the lesson - denial works. If you refuse to look, you can claim you did not see.
If you criminalise protest, you can shift the story from what is being facilitated to who is objecting."
- Colin Sheridan @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
If you criminalise protest, you can shift the story from what is being facilitated to who is objecting."
- Colin Sheridan @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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The only people sent to Limerick prison over Irish State complicity in lawbreaking at Shannon Airport have been those highlighting it.
February 14, 2026 at 10:34 AM
The only people sent to Limerick prison over Irish State complicity in lawbreaking at Shannon Airport have been those highlighting it.
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Great news that #BlueSky has added the “drafts” feature😁👏🏼👏🏼👌🏼
Meens you can chek four typos rather than poste and sea them when it’s tool ate..
Or accidentally hit post before you’ve actually finished composing the
Meens you can chek four typos rather than poste and sea them when it’s tool ate..
Or accidentally hit post before you’ve actually finished composing the
a woman is making a funny face while standing in front of a microphone and saying whoops .
ALT: a woman is making a funny face while standing in front of a microphone and saying whoops .
media.tenor.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Great news that #BlueSky has added the “drafts” feature😁👏🏼👏🏼👌🏼
Meens you can chek four typos rather than poste and sea them when it’s tool ate..
Or accidentally hit post before you’ve actually finished composing the
Meens you can chek four typos rather than poste and sea them when it’s tool ate..
Or accidentally hit post before you’ve actually finished composing the
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open.substack.com/pub/councile...
"It is a case of help us starve Cubans or you will be next. That’s just how the land of the free operates."
"It is a case of help us starve Cubans or you will be next. That’s just how the land of the free operates."
A paedophile president is starving Cubans because he thinks they don't have suitable leaders
On 29 January, Trump issued an executive order which declared a national emergency over imaginary threats from Cuba’s government.
open.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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"It is a case of help us starve Cubans or you will be next. That’s just how the land of the free operates."
"It is a case of help us starve Cubans or you will be next. That’s just how the land of the free operates."
Save our BBC: don't let the likes of Trump and his UK cronies meddle with our public broadcaster act.38degrees.org.uk/act/bbc-dg-o...
Save our BBC: don't let the likes of Trump and his UK cronies meddle with our public broadcaster
🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up & replaced by the likes of GB News or Fox win. Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protec...
act.38degrees.org.uk
February 14, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Save our BBC: don't let the likes of Trump and his UK cronies meddle with our public broadcaster act.38degrees.org.uk/act/bbc-dg-o...
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"BREAKING: High Court rules Palestine Action Ban UNLAWFUL
“This is the story of how Israel got a protest group based in another country proscribed a Terrorist organisation”
“This is the story of how Israel got a protest group based in another country proscribed a Terrorist organisation”
February 13, 2026 at 4:29 PM
"BREAKING: High Court rules Palestine Action Ban UNLAWFUL
“This is the story of how Israel got a protest group based in another country proscribed a Terrorist organisation”
“This is the story of how Israel got a protest group based in another country proscribed a Terrorist organisation”
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Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway….
📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way
📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way
February 13, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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DID YOU KNOW
that if an AFAB person (including teen) goes on Accutane for acne, they must join a federal program called iPLEDGE (because the meds are "potentially harmful to fetuses")
wherein they must get bloodwork & a pregnancy test
each month
& fill out forms re: what birth control they're on
that if an AFAB person (including teen) goes on Accutane for acne, they must join a federal program called iPLEDGE (because the meds are "potentially harmful to fetuses")
wherein they must get bloodwork & a pregnancy test
each month
& fill out forms re: what birth control they're on
February 13, 2026 at 4:24 PM
DID YOU KNOW
that if an AFAB person (including teen) goes on Accutane for acne, they must join a federal program called iPLEDGE (because the meds are "potentially harmful to fetuses")
wherein they must get bloodwork & a pregnancy test
each month
& fill out forms re: what birth control they're on
that if an AFAB person (including teen) goes on Accutane for acne, they must join a federal program called iPLEDGE (because the meds are "potentially harmful to fetuses")
wherein they must get bloodwork & a pregnancy test
each month
& fill out forms re: what birth control they're on
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UK Dept of Work and Pensions deducted £32.4m from Universal Credit to pay poor people's water bills.
People in the North hit the hardest.
Water companies pay dividends, exorbitant exec pay, fleece customers, don't pay fines.
Now allowed to rob the poor, with full complicity of the state.
People in the North hit the hardest.
Water companies pay dividends, exorbitant exec pay, fleece customers, don't pay fines.
Now allowed to rob the poor, with full complicity of the state.
Northern communities are bearing the brunt of DWP and water company deductions
The DWP is allowing water companies to go after benefit claimants living in the most deprived areas to collect debt for water bills
www.thecanary.co
February 13, 2026 at 8:01 AM
UK Dept of Work and Pensions deducted £32.4m from Universal Credit to pay poor people's water bills.
People in the North hit the hardest.
Water companies pay dividends, exorbitant exec pay, fleece customers, don't pay fines.
Now allowed to rob the poor, with full complicity of the state.
People in the North hit the hardest.
Water companies pay dividends, exorbitant exec pay, fleece customers, don't pay fines.
Now allowed to rob the poor, with full complicity of the state.
International trade union delegations blocked from entering Palestine www.buzzsprout.com/2313632/epis...
International trade union delegations blocked from entering Palestine - LabourStart: Where trade unionists start their day on the net.
In the last three weeks, two high-level delegations of trade union leaders from around the world were blocked by Israeli authorities from entering the Occupied Palestinian Territories (West Bank).&nbs...
www.buzzsprout.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:30 PM
International trade union delegations blocked from entering Palestine www.buzzsprout.com/2313632/epis...
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24 MPs signed our open letter to Ofwat and the Environment Secretary this week.
THANK YOU to every MP who signed, and said NO to illegal Thames Water sewage pollution until 2040.
You can read the full letter here.
THANK YOU to every MP who signed, and said NO to illegal Thames Water sewage pollution until 2040.
You can read the full letter here.
Open Letter from Thames Water MPs: Ofwat must reject the Thames Water deal
Read our open letter to Chris Walters, interim CEO of Ofwat and Emma Reynolds MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, signed by MPs from the Thames Water region.
weownit.org.uk
February 13, 2026 at 3:57 PM
24 MPs signed our open letter to Ofwat and the Environment Secretary this week.
THANK YOU to every MP who signed, and said NO to illegal Thames Water sewage pollution until 2040.
You can read the full letter here.
THANK YOU to every MP who signed, and said NO to illegal Thames Water sewage pollution until 2040.
You can read the full letter here.
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I attended university in Northern Arizona, and drove through Cottonwood numerous times. It's a two-stoplight town in the middle of nowhere.
If the folks in this primarily Red area of a Purple state are getting organized and working to defeat the Trump administration, you should take that as a sign!
If the folks in this primarily Red area of a Purple state are getting organized and working to defeat the Trump administration, you should take that as a sign!
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
I attended university in Northern Arizona, and drove through Cottonwood numerous times. It's a two-stoplight town in the middle of nowhere.
If the folks in this primarily Red area of a Purple state are getting organized and working to defeat the Trump administration, you should take that as a sign!
If the folks in this primarily Red area of a Purple state are getting organized and working to defeat the Trump administration, you should take that as a sign!
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Plymouth, Minnesota
Mondays
Mondays
#STANDUP
#visibilitybrigade
#Minnesota
Plymouth Minnesota
Plymouth Demonstration
Highway 55 &
Northwest Boulevard
Northwest corner
Plymouth, MN 55441
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
#visibilitybrigade
#Minnesota
Plymouth Minnesota
Plymouth Demonstration
Highway 55 &
Northwest Boulevard
Northwest corner
Plymouth, MN 55441
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Plymouth Demonstration · Mobilize
This an opportunity for people near Plymouth to stand up and show that we do not intend to quietly watch as the democracy we love is being taken apart. Make a big sign and join a lot of friendly peop...
www.mobilize.us
February 13, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Plymouth, Minnesota
Mondays
Mondays
The great Ministry of Defence-to-Palantir pipeline eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/the...
The great Ministry of Defence-to-Palantir pipeline
Senior defence officials are moving into Palantir roles as the company secures ever-deeper footholds across government
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The great Ministry of Defence-to-Palantir pipeline eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/the...
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#PERSIST
#IceOUT
#California
Santa Rosa California
Tell Target: ICE OUT NOW -
Justice for Renee Good &
Alex Pretti
Saturdays
11am – 1pm PST
Target - Santa Rosa South (public sidewalks)
1980 Santa Rosa Ave
Kawana Springs Rd. driveway entrance
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
#IceOUT
#California
Santa Rosa California
Tell Target: ICE OUT NOW -
Justice for Renee Good &
Alex Pretti
Saturdays
11am – 1pm PST
Target - Santa Rosa South (public sidewalks)
1980 Santa Rosa Ave
Kawana Springs Rd. driveway entrance
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Tell Target: ICE OUT NOW - Justice for Renee Good & Alex Pretti · Mobilize
ICE OUT OF TARGET
Justice for Renee Good and Alex Pretti
Silence is complicity. It’s time to boycott and protest those corporations that comply with the fascist actions of this regime.
**Meet on th...
www.mobilize.us
February 4, 2026 at 3:22 PM
#PERSIST
#IceOUT
#California
Santa Rosa California
Tell Target: ICE OUT NOW -
Justice for Renee Good &
Alex Pretti
Saturdays
11am – 1pm PST
Target - Santa Rosa South (public sidewalks)
1980 Santa Rosa Ave
Kawana Springs Rd. driveway entrance
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
#IceOUT
#California
Santa Rosa California
Tell Target: ICE OUT NOW -
Justice for Renee Good &
Alex Pretti
Saturdays
11am – 1pm PST
Target - Santa Rosa South (public sidewalks)
1980 Santa Rosa Ave
Kawana Springs Rd. driveway entrance
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 13, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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“For residents, this is about the possible erasure of the political status they have maintained for close to eight decades.”
Jenin and Tulkarm refugees fear permanent displacement – again
Forcibly removed from their camps in the northern West Bank, twice-over refugees fear for their internationally mandated rights.
electronicintifada.net
February 5, 2026 at 9:44 AM
“For residents, this is about the possible erasure of the political status they have maintained for close to eight decades.”
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Presumably Palantir will be
teaching British soldiers
how to massacre children using
snipers, drones & 2000lb bombs
as they're helping do in Israel
"The US company Palantir Technologies is hosting a lavish party for the Ministry of Defence to celebrate winning a government contract"
via The Times
teaching British soldiers
how to massacre children using
snipers, drones & 2000lb bombs
as they're helping do in Israel
"The US company Palantir Technologies is hosting a lavish party for the Ministry of Defence to celebrate winning a government contract"
via The Times
February 12, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Presumably Palantir will be
teaching British soldiers
how to massacre children using
snipers, drones & 2000lb bombs
as they're helping do in Israel
"The US company Palantir Technologies is hosting a lavish party for the Ministry of Defence to celebrate winning a government contract"
via The Times
teaching British soldiers
how to massacre children using
snipers, drones & 2000lb bombs
as they're helping do in Israel
"The US company Palantir Technologies is hosting a lavish party for the Ministry of Defence to celebrate winning a government contract"
via The Times
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Ratcliffe is where populism leads. To multimillionaires spouting ignorant racist horseshit that divides us but unites the far right in their cynical bid to exploit prejudice for power. Ratcliffe will just shrug from his tax haven home. He doesn’t care. Farage laps it up. Everyone else loses.
February 12, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Ratcliffe is where populism leads. To multimillionaires spouting ignorant racist horseshit that divides us but unites the far right in their cynical bid to exploit prejudice for power. Ratcliffe will just shrug from his tax haven home. He doesn’t care. Farage laps it up. Everyone else loses.