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@evies13.bsky.social

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Nolite te bastardes carborundorum #ANTIFA Woke & Feminist she/her. Scot-Irish Mam&Gran, Pro-Scottish Indy, TU Officer, Mediator, ex-lawyer - child protection, employment, and mental health law. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇮 www.aglaiketstirk.wordpress.com

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YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · Feb 3

This:
"The oligarchs have no plan to govern. They will take what they can, and disable the rest. The destruction is the point. They don’t want to control the existing order. They want disorder in which their relative power will grow."

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Feb 2

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

The Logic of Destruction

And how to resist it

snyder.substack.com

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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 2h

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 3h

My Mum is 81 and my Dad is 84... both looking great and still fit and active (despite the multiple cancers & diabetes). I am very much in denial about either of them ever dying - and am thankful for every day I still have with them ❤️

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 3h

The father of the slain journalist Saleh Al-Jaafarawi bids a heartbreaking final farewell to his son, who was killed by Israeli-backed gangs in Al-Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City earlier today.

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15h

Since @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is doing the media round today, here she is in Nov 2023 explaining she opposed a ceasefire because Israel had the right to defend its borders. At that time Palestinians in Gaza were already telling us what Israel was doing was genocide

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 1d

The reality for Gazans is utterly horrific.

The media narrative currently developing is: Hamas won't disarm... the inference being: Hamas are to blame.

It is disgusting. It is vile.
Total devastation - no homes or communities left - no food or running water or utilities.

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 1d

As feared. This is no 'ceasefire'. Israel bombs a residential building murdering at least 70 - most were children.

Netanyahu cannot afford a ceasefire. His government will collapse. There will be no peace whilst he - and his fellow genocidal monsters - hold onto power.

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 1d

I've always believed that hope was the fuel that sustained my activism

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 1d

Madness.

Completely and utterly mad.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

The world’s smallest man:

“The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called me and said that she was accepting it in honor of me.

“I did not say then "give it to me." I think she might have, she was very nice.

“I have been helping her along the way, they need a lot of help.

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YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 1d

You have been destroyed from within.
Trump is and always has been Putin's useful idiot.
Putin has the US at war with itself - effectively leaving the rest of the world (Europe at least) to Putin

If you don't kill one another, some disease or other will get you.

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 1d

What we danced to at our wedding 😁

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 3d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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𝚐𝚊𝚋𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚢 @gabundy.blog · 3d

I know I haven't said much about the peace deal. That's because it's a con and won't last and of all parties involved only Hamas are entering into it in good faith.

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𝓥𝓲𝓻𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓪 𝓗𝓪𝓵𝓵 📎 @virginiahall32.bsky.social · 3d

That is the question.

www.youtube.com/shorts/6HRnp...

Maddow: How far will the American public allow Trump to go?

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3d

The thousands of hostages we never hear about.

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 3d

Starmer/Labour is complicit in this, too.

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 3d

Labour: disingenuous arsewipes

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3d

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years"

The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.

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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 3d

Government urged to end ‘its complicity in the Gaza genocide and to protect its own people’ after Israel kidnaps British nationals morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gove... #morningstaronline

Government urged to end ‘its complicity in the Gaza genocide and to protect its own people’ after Israel kidnaps British nationals

FAMILIES of British nationals kidnapped by Israel while attempting to deliver aid to Gaza called on the Foreign Office today to secure their release and halt its complicity in the genocide.The Israeli...

morningstaronline.co.uk

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 3d

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Deranged Trump Lawyer Pam Bondi Says Americans Who Oppose Fascism Will Be Treated Exactly Like Foreign Narcoterrorists—Meaning That Summary Execution Via Domestic Military Strike Is on the Table

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 3d

Hamas announcement on the ceasefire agreement www.workers.org/2025/10/8831...

Hamas announcement on the ceasefire agreement

The following statement from Hamas was released on Oct. 9, 2025: Following responsible and serious negotiations conducted by the Movement and the Palestinian resistance factions regarding President T...

www.workers.org

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 3d

😂😂😂

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Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 5d

Schrodinger’s #Antifa

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 4d

The Al-Madhoun family in Gaza are struggling to stay alive, and really need our help.

‘Our daily life is like hell’: A look into the struggles faced by the Al-Madhoun family in Gaza

The Al-Madhoun family in Gaza are struggling to stay alive, and really need our help

northwestbylines.co.uk

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 4d

My first undergraduate degree was an MA(Hons) in English Literature and Religious Studies.

Best subject choices I ever made - and they equipped me well for the later LLB and legal career.

Neil is right. Beware the Tory barbarism.

Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 4d

If you want to create a docile, obedient nation, first attack the arts so you deskill children of critical thinking. Once you’ve done that the people can be moulded as their rulers please. Beware this barbarism. It’s a path to demagoguery and authoritarianism

YRoy @evies13.bsky.social · 4d

Plenary power = complete and absolute power

The US is a frightening place right now.

Rick or Treat | The D-Pad @ricdesi.dpad.fm · 4d

Interesting, now how about an explanation for this?

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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