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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · Aug 27

Regardless of whether Reform's deportation plan "works", if they get a chance to try it - like the Tories' Rwanda policy, or Trump's deportations - it will ostentatiously torment thousands of people and further engrain racism in British politics. It must be opposed on that basis.

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Homershame @homershame.bsky.social · Aug 25

'Alice survived in and because of poetry. That, and love.'

Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · Aug 25

The Poetry Foundation invited me to write an essay remembering Alice Notley (1945-2025). I'm grateful for the space to remember her in this way.

www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/171...

“Always Being Myself”: Remembering Alice Notley

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

www.poetryfoundation.org

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Homershame @homershame.bsky.social · Aug 21

Has anyone written about epistolary form and 20th-21st C poetry?

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Palestine Solidarity Campaign @pscupdates.bsky.social · Aug 14

🚨 National March for Palestine - Stop Starving Gaza
⏰ Saturday 6 September, 12pm
📍 Central London (route TBC)

Join us as we march again for Palestine in London. Our govt is feeling the pressure to end complicity in Israel's violence but we must keep pushing until they #StopArmingIsrael.

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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · Aug 14

“We’re here to talk about A levels”

“Free Palestine the BBC is complicit” 💀💀

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Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · Aug 13

Tickets now available for next thing, which I almost called "the cuck chair and the noise table"

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uma-breakd...

Uma Breakdown and Alex Quicho

Join us for two performance readings: Uma Breakdown – Sha-la-la, and Alex Quicho – RULED BY VENUS

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Homershame @homershame.bsky.social · Aug 11

Keir Starmer comes to mind: 'He doesn’t know what he dreamed last night – or ever: “I don’t dream.” Just hits the pillow at 11 and – “bang” – is out till around 5. He doesn’t have a favourite novel or poem, wasn’t scared of anything as a child.' www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · Aug 11

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.

Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.

#NotATarget

Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...

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Medact @medact.bsky.social · Aug 6

Eighty years after the destruction of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the UK is still pouring billions into nuclear weapons.

Donate today and support a world rooted in care, not mass destruction. #HiroshimaDay

www.medact.org/2025/appeals...

Hiroshima Appeal 2025 - Medact

A safer world isn't build with bombs – it's built with care.

www.medact.org

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Homershame @homershame.bsky.social · Aug 8

This international cat day I have seen one black/brown/white slightly long-haired tabby on the doorstep of the apartment I'm staying in

Homershame @homershame.bsky.social · Aug 8

After admiring cows with bells running across the alm where I'm on holiday I loved watching Holly White's Videos of Cows, filmed in Switzerland www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbQc...

Videos of cows

YouTube video by holly white

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · Aug 6

An open letter to M&S that people can sign

openletter.earth/an-appeal-to...

An Appeal to M&S over Transphobia

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Tom Vandeputte @tomvandeputte.bsky.social · Aug 6

Eighty years since Hiroshima – I remember the strangely superficial terms in which the event was discussed in history classes: as a curious moral dilemma, an exercise in moral reasoning and the calculus of human life/death, quick to pass over its monstrosity

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Homershame @homershame.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Brazil to sanction Israel over genocide in Gaza

TEHRAN, Jul. 30 (MNA) – Brazil says it has decided to impose a whole host of sanctions on Israel affecting the country’s diplomatic, commercial, and military ties with Tel Aviv over the latter’s Octob...

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · Aug 5

“This landscape of destruction looks otherworldly, yet it is not; it is this world, and what is happening may yet come to define one of its darkest eras.”

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

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Radical Philosophy @radical-philosophy.bsky.social · Aug 5

RP2.19 out now!
Flora Renz on For Women Scotland & the UK Supreme Court
Elena Baglioni on reproductive subsumption
Robert Lucas Scott on Gillian Rose
FTC Manning on real abstraction
Francesco Anselmetti on Ghassan Kanafani
Interview with Sophie Lewis
Paulin Hountondji obit
www.radicalphilosophy.com

Cover image of RP issue 219 featuring a photograph of a small pink children's bike in front of a church in an otherwise empty square

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Pride in Education @prideineducation.bsky.social · Jul 31

Have you signed our open letter yet?

We're calling on the Department for Education to revice harmful guidance on RSHE.

Over 700 people have signed, but we still need your voice:

openletter.earth/the-urgent-n...

The Urgent Need to Revise the RSHE 2026 Guidance and Centre Trans, Non-Binary, Intersex, Asexual and Gender Non-Conforming Voices

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Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social · Aug 4

Diamond Stingily – Profile by Amrita Dhallu

Only in the July–August Art Monthly

Quarterly subs from £13
www.artmonthly.co.uk

[image: Diamond Stingily, May 29, 2025]

#art

Art Monthly : Home : The UK's leading contemporary art magazine

Art Monthly is the UK's leading contemporary art magazine.

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Homershame @homershame.bsky.social · Aug 4

NUS: Stop silencing students on Palestine palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/NUSstopsilen...

NUS: Stop silencing students on Palestine

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Aug 3

A quick reminder of why we are here.

Thru their medical campaign, Sameer, partnering w/TechMed, will help Misk, who lost her parents and siblings in an airstrike. She is now the only survivor along w/her uncle. She needs surgery, emotional support, and nutrition.

chuffed.org/project/1368...

Medical Campaign x Sameer Project

Medical Care: The Sameer Project in Honor of Mosab Ali

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 2

‘In making Palestine Action a proscribed terrorist organisation, the government has added it to a list that includes al-Qaida, the UDA and the neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division, all of which advocate terror and murder to achieve political ends.’

Huw Lemmey: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?

I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...

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Homershame @homershame.bsky.social · Aug 1

'At the same moment as this genocidal famine reached a crisis point, Columbia University agreed to a $221 million settlement with the Trump administration to atone for student protests against the destruction of Gaza.' open.substack.com/pub/immersch...

The unseeable

On Palestine again and endlessly

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Homershame @homershame.bsky.social · Aug 1

'Among those arrested in London on 19 July were protesters carrying placards which read ‘Ban Starmer not Palestine Action’, although saying that Palestine Action should not be banned is the one speech act the Act expressly permits.'

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jul 31

‘The proscription of Palestine Action crosses a new threshold. In the injunction proceedings, Mr Justice Chamberlain accepted that PA had not committed violence against any person or endangered life or created a risk to health or safety.’

David Renton in the next issue
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

David Renton · What is the meaning of support?

With the proscription of Palestine Action early in July, the question of what support for a terrorist group means has...

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