@loopylaura.bsky.social
Artist, autistic, anarchist Laura Macdonald
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Projectiles were thrown back at the fascists, despite the protestations of SUTR/FFA, who would rather turn the other cheek and collaborate with the police than support antifascist self-defence.
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Scottish antifascists hold the line in Falkirk - Freedom News
The small town between Edinburgh and Glasgow has become fertile ground for the far right following years of cuts and collapsing local services ~ Sc…
freedomnews.org.uk
December 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Projectiles were thrown back at the fascists, despite the protestations of SUTR/FFA, who would rather turn the other cheek and collaborate with the police than support antifascist self-defence.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/12/12/s...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/12/12/s...
Abolish the lords. Replace with an elected second chamber.
The Lords have stalled the Employment Rights Bill to protect employers from fair compensation, and Labour keeps watering down its own promises. #EmploymentRightsBill #WorkersRights #UKPolitics
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Lords stall Employment Rights Bill to protect employers
Peers block Labour’s Employment Rights Bill over plans to scrap compensation caps, protecting employers and weakening promised reforms.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Abolish the lords. Replace with an elected second chamber.
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As I have been saying for a while now, we are going backwards
We had a go, but it was too hard, so now we can't be arsed
Apparently, it's easier to just accept a climate cataclysm, and ensuing societal and economic collapse
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
We had a go, but it was too hard, so now we can't be arsed
Apparently, it's easier to just accept a climate cataclysm, and ensuing societal and economic collapse
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
EU’s 2035 petrol and diesel car ban will be watered down, says senior MEP
Decision would anger environmental campaigners, who say it would amount to ‘gutting’ of green deal
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
As I have been saying for a while now, we are going backwards
We had a go, but it was too hard, so now we can't be arsed
Apparently, it's easier to just accept a climate cataclysm, and ensuing societal and economic collapse
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
We had a go, but it was too hard, so now we can't be arsed
Apparently, it's easier to just accept a climate cataclysm, and ensuing societal and economic collapse
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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This is what happens when non-climate scientists write about the climate crisis without really understanding where we are or where we are headed
Unjustified optimism
If the world is just 2.5C hotter in 2100, I will eat my hat, or would if I wasn't 6ft under
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Unjustified optimism
If the world is just 2.5C hotter in 2100, I will eat my hat, or would if I wasn't 6ft under
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Paris climate treaty changed the world. Here’s how | Rebecca Solnit
There’s much more to do, but we should be encouraged by the progress we have made
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is what happens when non-climate scientists write about the climate crisis without really understanding where we are or where we are headed
Unjustified optimism
If the world is just 2.5C hotter in 2100, I will eat my hat, or would if I wasn't 6ft under
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Unjustified optimism
If the world is just 2.5C hotter in 2100, I will eat my hat, or would if I wasn't 6ft under
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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ICC's Karim Khan says 'senior UK official' threatened him over Israel investigation - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-karim-khan-senior-uk-officlal-threatened-israel-probe
ICC's Karim Khan says 'senior UK official' threatened him over Israel investigation
MEE has previously reported David Cameron threatened to withdraw UK support for court if arrest warrants were sought for Israeli leader
www.middleeasteye.net
December 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
ICC's Karim Khan says 'senior UK official' threatened him over Israel investigation - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-karim-khan-senior-uk-officlal-threatened-israel-probe
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As the western political and media class pretends there is a 'ceasefire' and a 'peace deal', Israel continues the #GazaGenocide.
December 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
As the western political and media class pretends there is a 'ceasefire' and a 'peace deal', Israel continues the #GazaGenocide.
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Israeli settler groups have begun bulldozing Palestinian lands in the town of Beit Sahour to make way for a new settler outpost. The settlement threatens the existence of the largest remaining Christian community in the West Bank, residents say.
December 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Israeli settler groups have begun bulldozing Palestinian lands in the town of Beit Sahour to make way for a new settler outpost. The settlement threatens the existence of the largest remaining Christian community in the West Bank, residents say.
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"The crime of genocide involves specific acts such as:
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group."
#GazaGenocide #BanIsrael #BoycottIsrael #ICC4Israel
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group."
#GazaGenocide #BanIsrael #BoycottIsrael #ICC4Israel
December 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
"The crime of genocide involves specific acts such as:
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group."
#GazaGenocide #BanIsrael #BoycottIsrael #ICC4Israel
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group."
#GazaGenocide #BanIsrael #BoycottIsrael #ICC4Israel
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The government, again refusing to do any joined up thinking.
They’ll do the bare minimum (lifting the 2-child cap) to keep backbenchers and supporters happy.
They’ll produce strategies that identify the problem.
Yet they struggle to realise what is needed.
Poverty is a Political Choice
They’ll do the bare minimum (lifting the 2-child cap) to keep backbenchers and supporters happy.
They’ll produce strategies that identify the problem.
Yet they struggle to realise what is needed.
Poverty is a Political Choice
The work and pensions secretary has bragged about cutting disabled people’s support, 3 days after launching a child poverty strategy which warned more than a million children in families where someone was disabled were living in “deep material poverty”
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfadden-bra...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfadden-bra...
McFadden brags about cutting disability benefits, just as his own strategy warns of ‘deep material poverty’
The work and pensions secretary has bragged about cutting disabled people’s support, three days after launching a child poverty strategy which warned that more than a million children in families w…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The government, again refusing to do any joined up thinking.
They’ll do the bare minimum (lifting the 2-child cap) to keep backbenchers and supporters happy.
They’ll produce strategies that identify the problem.
Yet they struggle to realise what is needed.
Poverty is a Political Choice
They’ll do the bare minimum (lifting the 2-child cap) to keep backbenchers and supporters happy.
They’ll produce strategies that identify the problem.
Yet they struggle to realise what is needed.
Poverty is a Political Choice
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🚨 Hamas:
We hold the enemy fully responsible for the tragic circumstances our people in Gaza are living through as a result of its preventing the entry of shelter materials.
We hold the enemy fully responsible for the tragic circumstances our people in Gaza are living through as a result of its preventing the entry of shelter materials.
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🚨 Hamas:
We hold the enemy fully responsible for the tragic circumstances our people in Gaza are living through as a result of its preventing the entry of shelter materials.
We hold the enemy fully responsible for the tragic circumstances our people in Gaza are living through as a result of its preventing the entry of shelter materials.
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The government is letting the hunger strikers die.
This is a national scandal - and should be on the front-page of every newspaper in Britain.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gove...
This is a national scandal - and should be on the front-page of every newspaper in Britain.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gove...
Government risks letting protesters on hunger strike die, Corbyn warns
JEREMY CORBYN warned today that the government risks letting jailed Palestine protesters on hunger strike die in prison.The former Labour leader and Your Party MP said that he had visited one of the h...
morningstaronline.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The government is letting the hunger strikers die.
This is a national scandal - and should be on the front-page of every newspaper in Britain.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gove...
This is a national scandal - and should be on the front-page of every newspaper in Britain.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gove...
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If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
Patriot who tragically died while hanging flag on lamp post to be given state funeral
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Patriot who tragically died while hanging flag on lamp post to be given state funeral
Somebody’s drunk uncle has died on his patriotic mission to save his neighbourhood from foreigners by tying flags to lamp posts.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Patriot who tragically died while hanging flag on lamp post to be given state funeral
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Economists don’t understand capitalism
December 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Economists don’t understand capitalism
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SOLOMON HUGHES finds the government went along with a US scheme to distract from Israel’s lethal Gaza blockade with an impractical floating pier scheme – though its own officials knew it wouldn’t work
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pier...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pier...
Pier pressure: how sucking up to the White House led the Foreign Office to ignore its own advice
KEIR STARMER sent British troops join Donald Trump’s “multinational task force” in Israel, supposedly monitoring Gaza’s shaky peace.But working with the US on Gaza can be risky, as documents released ...
morningstaronline.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
SOLOMON HUGHES finds the government went along with a US scheme to distract from Israel’s lethal Gaza blockade with an impractical floating pier scheme – though its own officials knew it wouldn’t work
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pier...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pier...
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Let me explain the problem so you understand why your taxes are so high, your wages so low and your services so bad.
In the 1970's about 40% of the money you spent went straight back to Government to fund services and cut taxes.
Now due to Privatisation it's about 5
In the 1970's about 40% of the money you spent went straight back to Government to fund services and cut taxes.
Now due to Privatisation it's about 5
December 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Let me explain the problem so you understand why your taxes are so high, your wages so low and your services so bad.
In the 1970's about 40% of the money you spent went straight back to Government to fund services and cut taxes.
Now due to Privatisation it's about 5
In the 1970's about 40% of the money you spent went straight back to Government to fund services and cut taxes.
Now due to Privatisation it's about 5
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Trump thinks immigrants will destroy Europe. The truth is the opposite.
This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum.
Big issues we need to understand.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum.
Big issues we need to understand.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot
These are the facts: plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapse, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Trump thinks immigrants will destroy Europe. The truth is the opposite.
This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum.
Big issues we need to understand.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum.
Big issues we need to understand.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Turmoil in Northamptonshire with police, fire and crime commissioner Danielle Stone lambasted over her leadership of the scandal-hit force she was elected to improve and scrutinise.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Turmoil in Northamptonshire with police, fire and crime commissioner Danielle Stone lambasted over her leadership of the scandal-hit force she was elected to improve and scrutinise.
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Norman Finkelstein EXPOSES Israel’s DARKEST SECRET
Norman Finkelstein EXPOSES Israel’s DARKEST SECRET
Norman Finkelstein’s Most EXPLOSIVE Interview Yet
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December 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Norman Finkelstein EXPOSES Israel’s DARKEST SECRET
A very good reason not to support Shabana Mahmood 👇
I mean aside from her current politics being the polar opposite of Blair's in Government, what is the purpose of this exactly? Mahmood's ratings are through the floor with Labour members, according to Labourlist surveys. At least go for someone with half a chance
Everyone can see Shabana Mahmood is the heir to Blair. Even Tony www.independent.co.uk/voices/shaba...
December 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A very good reason not to support Shabana Mahmood 👇
"The tangle that these trade deals have strewn across the planet ... makes taking the action we need to avert climate disaster much, much harder[.] British trade negotiators ... seem to have confused ‘the national interest’ with ‘the interests of Shell and BP’."
‘Britain’s trade department is more accountable to the big businesses driving the climate crisis than it is to the MPs we elect’
Brilliant piece by @adamramsay.bsky.social on the colonial nature of our trade policy and the scandal of ISDS!
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Brilliant piece by @adamramsay.bsky.social on the colonial nature of our trade policy and the scandal of ISDS!
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How British undemocracy lets big oil shape our trade policy - and drive climate crisis
Long read: British trade deals are being used to protect fossil fuel company assets around the world, and MPs barely get a say
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December 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"The tangle that these trade deals have strewn across the planet ... makes taking the action we need to avert climate disaster much, much harder[.] British trade negotiators ... seem to have confused ‘the national interest’ with ‘the interests of Shell and BP’."
"In November, Welsh Reform leader Nathan Gill was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for taking pro-Russian bribes. Yet in recent years, current and former Labour ministers have taken around £300,000 in donations from pro-Israel tycoon Trevor Chinn."
December 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
"In November, Welsh Reform leader Nathan Gill was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for taking pro-Russian bribes. Yet in recent years, current and former Labour ministers have taken around £300,000 in donations from pro-Israel tycoon Trevor Chinn."
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Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to show the world they are not alone.
December 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to show the world they are not alone.
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Five years ago, the Progressive International was born with a burning mission: To make solidarity more than a slogan.
Join us to celebrate our fifth anniversary.
Join us to celebrate our fifth anniversary.
5 Years Of The Progressive International
Five years ago, the Progressive International was born with a burning mission: to make solidarity more than a slogan.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Five years ago, the Progressive International was born with a burning mission: To make solidarity more than a slogan.
Join us to celebrate our fifth anniversary.
Join us to celebrate our fifth anniversary.
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A decade ago trans people warned this would happen.
The “gender-critical” transphobes have opened the door to a much wider attack on women’s rights, including on safe and legal abortion, birth control…
I even managed to get this published in @opendemocracy.net in 2022
The “gender-critical” transphobes have opened the door to a much wider attack on women’s rights, including on safe and legal abortion, birth control…
I even managed to get this published in @opendemocracy.net in 2022
December 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
A decade ago trans people warned this would happen.
The “gender-critical” transphobes have opened the door to a much wider attack on women’s rights, including on safe and legal abortion, birth control…
I even managed to get this published in @opendemocracy.net in 2022
The “gender-critical” transphobes have opened the door to a much wider attack on women’s rights, including on safe and legal abortion, birth control…
I even managed to get this published in @opendemocracy.net in 2022