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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 7d

We’ve just hit 600,000 followers on Instagram!

Thanks to your support, we are reaching millions of people across different platforms - whether it be challenging genocide or supporting social justice.

I’m finishing my book, but we’ve got big plans for the coming year to reach even bigger audiences.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 7d

Israel's cheerleaders have opportunistically seized on a heinous antisemitic attack to silence opponents of genocide.

Our freedoms are being stolen - and we are headed to a very dark place.

New column 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones

In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage government, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

www.theguardian.com

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 7d

I went to @greenparty.org.uk conference - and unlike Labour, didn't get the boot.

But will the Greens succeed in convincing Labour voters - and what about the threat of Farage?

New video up now! 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds3R...

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 5d

You can lock up as many people as you want for chanting or protesting against genocide.

You will never scrub away the truth about that genocide - or your own complicity in it.

You are just ensuring that you will be damned all the more for what you have done.

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says

The government needs to

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 16d

There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them

“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”

“But, but he was in UKIP”

“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”

So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵

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Bozzi @bozzione.bsky.social · 16d

BREAKING: Trump's MAGA Operative/US Ambassador To Canada Threatens Canadians - "Start Travelling/Buying American Again Or Lose Your Pre-Clearance"
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BREAKING: Trump's MAGA Operative/US Ambassador To Canada Threatens Canadians - "Start Travelling/Buying American Again Or Lose Your Pre-Clearance"

Pete Hoekstra is as vindictive as he is dumb. Kick him out of Canada, now.

open.substack.com

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 17d

Sinclair and Nexstar caved, allowing Kimmel’s show to return. Bless everyone who pushed back!

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · Sep 10

Protesters call Trump ‘Hitler’ as he dines out in Washington.

dlvr.it

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The Dangerous Ones @thedangerousones.com · Sep 10

🚨Fear is their weapon. Community is ours.

Soldiers in our streets, billionaires bleeding us dry, this is psychological warfare. But fear can be forged into courage.

We march scared.
We vote scared.
We fight scared.
Together.

And that’s how we win.

READ NOW: substack.com/home/post/p-...

FEAR IS THE ORE OF COURAGE

The more pressure they put on Americans, the stronger we get.

substack.com

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Sep 10

Protests against Trump erupt inside D.C. restaurant as people chant to his face: “FREE D.C.! FREE PALESTINE! TRUMP IS THE H*TLER OF OUR TIME!” (via Sam Waldenberg / CNN)

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 10

Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin on American soil just weeks ago. That emboldened Putin, leading to the attacks on Poland right now. It’s not a stretch to say that Donald Trump is fanning the flames of a world war.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 10

The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live.

Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed

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Billie Etchison @sybilte420.bsky.social · Sep 9

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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · Sep 9

The birthday book is clear: there was a cabal of rich, powerful people (mostly men) whose fondest memories with Jeffrey Epstein involved trafficking young girls for sex—trading them like baseball cards—and one of them is the current American president. You’re cool with this or you’re not. That’s it.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Sep 9

"To deny cadets the chance to meet Tom Hanks, or any future awardee, is to deny them a moment of inspiration they would carry with them into their service, and into their leadership of America’s soldiers."

Let the Cadets Meet Tom Hanks

West Point’s decision to cancel a ceremony honoring the actor is a loss for all involved.

www.thebulwark.com

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Eleven Films @elevenfilms.com · Sep 10

Chicago is united. 🇺🇸

And America is united with Chicago.

Chicago FIGHTS BACK as Trump TARGETS the city

YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones

youtu.be

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Sep 10

They deserve a clowning
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Sep 9

People are following federal agents around DC w/the Imperial March. 😘

CHICAGO!!

Will add some basic ICE melting🧊 resources below.

Plz add other resources/ideas, & let’s get sub threads by city, so eg one person can start a Boston reply thread and everyone can add stuff to that thread — ?

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Honest and Unfiltered @momazonrises.bsky.social · Sep 10

#ProudBlue

Thanks for this reporting @aaronparnas.bsky.social

This is not good news at all.

Russia is attacking Poland with Iranian Drones.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Sep 10

A panicked Trump asks for protesters to be removed from a DC restaurant tonight

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · Sep 7

EXCLUSIVE- The Reform Conference Diary - Day 2

"09:15 - a motion is passed stating that the only people with an automatic right to UK residency should be those with pre-Saxon Romano-British DNA."

open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

THE REFORM CONFERENCE DIARY - DAY 2

More incredible undercover insights from deep inside the Reform machine

open.substack.com

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · Sep 7

Of course, government or the media could tell us just how cushy an asylum seeker hotel really isn't, how little money asylum seekers get, how they have access to occasional services because they're people...

#wato

Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · Aug 20

"Offensively luxurious"

- Damian Green

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

#wato

Shared rooms, rancid food, no clothes: new report lays bare shocking conditions of those seeking refuge in UK

Asylum seekers are enduring conditions worse than prison as they wait in hotels for claims to be processed

www.theguardian.com

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · Sep 7

#wato

WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · Sep 7

Photo of Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko at the damaged section of the Cabinet of Ministers building.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · Sep 7

#wato

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Sep 6

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’

Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities

www.thetimes.com

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · Sep 7

Who is Dr Angus Dalgleish, the "eminent oncologist" cited by a speaker at Reform conference for the claim that Covid vaccines caused cancers in the royal family?

Well, buckle up, because he isn't your average quack doctor!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform distances itself from doctor who made Covid claims at conference

A speaker at the Reform UK conference claimed it was

www.bbc.co.uk

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Sep 7

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Brussels today.

Almost a quarter of a million people on the streets marching for Palestine, calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza.

This footage was captured by freelance photojournalist, Wahaj Bani Moufleh 👏

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