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Marge von Marge

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🏳‍🌈 RSD, AuDHD, FMS, MDD, PCOS, ACAB etc.... 🏳️‍🌈 If I happen to block or mute you, please don’t take it personally. It’s not that I don’t like you, it’s just that I never want to hear from you again. Ever.

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Marge von Marge @margevonmarge.bsky.social · Dec 5

I support trans rights, I believe that black lives matter. I believe in science and socialism and that animals lives are worth saving. I'm an atheist but I believe in freedom of worship but I do not believe in people using their faith to attack others. Misanthropic antifascist world-weary pacifist.

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Marge von Marge @margevonmarge.bsky.social · 16h

Some of this isn't surprising. From 2015 when millions had joined, eager for a fairer society and change to a sudden turn into "get Corbyn out!" up to 2020 when a giant A3 poster of Starmer appearing in the post, it felt like the party internal structure collapsed, mutating into Tory corporatism.

Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 21h

👉NEW -- How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate

by Richard Sanders

Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.
www.declassifieduk.org/how-keir-sta...

How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate

Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.

www.declassifieduk.org

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War on Want @waronwant.bsky.social · 19h

More than 45 charities, campaigners and trade unions have signed our open letter urging UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Miliband to back an ambitious outcome on just transition at the UN Climate Summit #COP30.

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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 18h

An end to Israel’s devastating genocide in Gaza is long overdue, but any plan for peace must include accountability for Israel’s war crimes and address the root causes of the conflict.

Our statement on the Gaza peace deal 👇🏾

www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/global-...

Global Justice Now statement on Gaza peace deal - Global Justice Now

Our statement on the Gaza peace deal: An end to Israel’s devastating campaign of genocide in Gaza is long overdue but any plan for peace must include accountability for Israel’s […]

www.globaljustice.org.uk

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 3d

And 3 years later, we now have more in us to resist russia's sadistic cravings:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

UNITED24 x NAFO Part V: Dark Night

Dark Night is the 5th joint fundraiser between UNITED24 and NAFO Fellas. This time, for a Sky Sentinel — an AI-controlled air defense turret that will protect Ukrainians from russian drones and missil...

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1d

“The UK’s net zero economy grew by 10 percent in 2024, employing almost a million people in full-time jobs.”

Reform want to ditch renewables for fossil fuels. Not even the oil & gas industry thinks it’s a good idea:
https://bit.ly/46LOfGc

Oil and Gas Trade Group Blasts Reform’s Anti-Renewables Agenda

LIVERPOOL – The UK’s largest oil and gas trade body has criticised Reform UK’s plans to “turn off the tap” on renewable energy. Nigel Farage’s party has tried to present itself as the oil and gas indu...

www.desmog.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

MSNBC from last night.

Debunking the right's obsession with Antifa

Rutgers University History Professor Mark Bray joins The Weekend: Primetime to share why he and his family fled the U.S. over safety concerns amid the Trump administration's broad attacks on Antifa. H...

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Antifa International @antifaintl.bsky.social · 6d

"Is immigration a problem in the UK?"
ANSWER:

#immigration, #refugeeswelcome, #nooneisillegal, #keinmenchistillegal, #YourBordersKill, #LetThemIn

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” #uk #immigration #shorts

YouTube video by Wear The Peace

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Trans Greens 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @transgreens.bsky.social · 6d

Green Party Conference recently passed some amazing healthcare policy for the trans community. It commits us to an informed consent model of trans healthcare, a trans-led public inquiry into NHS care, a trans-inclusive ban on conversion therapy, and so much more.

The Green Party just voted to reform trans healthcare.

What does this bold new policy look like?

Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

What we're calling for:
- The end of segregation in trans healthcare.
- Ending the torture of conversion therapy.
- Moving the NHS to an informed consent model.
- Expanding the range of funded transition care.
- Access to affirming healthcare for trans youth.
- NHS support for people who seld-medicate or use private care.
- Real support for detransitioning people.

Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

How we get there:
- Closing the existing Gender Identity Clinics and supporting GPs with training and funding to care for trans people.
- Lifting the politically motivated ban on 'puberty blockers'.
- Starting a government funded, trans-led, inquiry into past NHS treatment of trans people.
- Including & prioritising trans expertise in independent care reviews.
- Passing a trans-inclusive ban on 'conversion therapy'.

Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Marge von Marge @margevonmarge.bsky.social · 2d

Human rights?✔️ Better planet? ✔️ Antifash? ✔️ What's not to love? I also joined this week. Was considering Corbyn's "Your Party" but they have no interest or care in speaking out for marginalised genders and sexualities, too busy just bashing Labour. Gotta have positive policies for people to care.

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Marge von Marge @margevonmarge.bsky.social · 2d

So glad to read that you are safely in Spain now! Hope you and your family can settle down, enjoy the wonderful Spanish culture and you can continue to teach everyone about the horrors of fascism. Loads to explore about Spain under fascism too, and its transition to democracy after Franco's death.

Marge von Marge @margevonmarge.bsky.social · 2d

There is literally no conflict between green policies, caring about local and global human rights and wanting a more equal distribution of wealth. Literally the entire WORLD needs all these things. The planet needs this. Global wealth and corporations are the oppressors and destroyers of the planet.

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Marge von Marge @margevonmarge.bsky.social · 2d

Finally a UK political party leader who emphatically recognises that gender is a spectrum, that transphobia is punching down on some of the most marginalised, and that mocking the vunerable is the last resort of bullies and ill informed bigots!

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Marge von Marge @margevonmarge.bsky.social · 2d

Earlier this afternoon, Trafalgar Square, London. Hundreds of thousands out to demand an end to the oppression of Palestinians across the occupied territories. Don't let anyone make you think it was only a few, I took the train and could see both Waterloo and Westminster Bridge filled with flags.

Marge von Marge @margevonmarge.bsky.social · 2d

When you're around a group of people for a long time and that's your main space for ideas, concepts and world view, you start to forget or ignore other perspectives. They even have a term for it. "Stockholm syndrome" or "echo chamber" Few don't end up, unless they actively resist, being affected.

Marge von Marge @margevonmarge.bsky.social · 2d

not my work but it's brilliant:

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Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) @aoav.bsky.social · 4d

Universities as military-industrial watchdogs: British colleges must never offer to monitor students for arms firms

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Universities as military-industrial watchdogs: British colleges must never offer to monitor students for arms firms - AOAV

Internal emails unearthed by The Guardian reveal UK universities pledged to surveil student chat groups and social media at the behest of defence companies anxious about campus protests.

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Marge von Marge @margevonmarge.bsky.social · 2d

Route for Palestine Solidarity/CND/StoptheWar/FOA/PFB march today in London. Even as a ceasefire has been declared, the rights of all Palestinians to self-determination, safety and freedom remain unmet.

map: shorturl.at/begyB #london #freepalestine #stopthewar #stoparmingisrael #gaza #endgenocide

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Marge von Marge @margevonmarge.bsky.social · 2d

The more Trump etc label antifa as a resistance movement, the more people will be drawn to action. In the UK few people knew who Palestine Action were until the govt here decided to proscribe them as terrorists! Now pensioners are getting arrested for them en masse! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palesti...

Palestine Action - Wikipedia

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Marge von Marge @margevonmarge.bsky.social · 2d

Someone shared this elsewhere yesterday(?) and the animal costumes and music really speaks to the power of the concept : Tactical frivolity. archive.org/details/tact... Saw clips on late night shows all sharing the costumed dancers. Mock America great again! Ridicule is nothing to be scared of!

TACTICAL FRIVOLITY + RHYTHMS OF RESISTANCE : Nuria Vila + Marcelo Expósito : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Spanish translation: http://www.archive.org/details/frivolidad_tactica In September, 2000, several thousands of people gathered in Prague to counter the...

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Marge von Marge @margevonmarge.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like Trump in 2020.

Marge von Marge @margevonmarge.bsky.social · 2d

someone shared this with me on my fb after I mentioned the Portland Frogs... #amphifa #antifa #frogs 🤣 #resist #antifascism #humour

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

Now is a great time to learn more about histories of protest and tactically effective resistance to militarized policing. One lesson that’s being spontaneously rediscovered and reworked for digital capitalism in Portland has been called Tactical Frivolity by past observers

Screenshots of videos of Portland cartoon bloc

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Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 3d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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