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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social · 23d

GLC “jobs for a change” festival poster for the event held at Battersea Park:

The poster is purple with the word Festival in yellow. The F of Festival is enlarged and the following is written over it:
JOBS FOR A CHANGE
MUSIC
THE JOBS MAZE
CABARET
EXHIBITIONS
THEATRE
STALLS
KIDS AREA
VIDEOS
GAMES
CO-OPS
TRADE UNIONS
GLC JOBS
YEAR '85
in conjunction with
Batterses and Wandsworth Trades Union Council
SUNDAY JULY 7th| BATTERSEA PARK

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Michael Ward @michael954.bsky.social · 18d

This was the poster for the second Jobs For A Change festival - here is the poster for the first one.

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Michael Ward @michael954.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you Dave Hill. Very informative. A great piece of investigative journalism.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 3d

Whew yes the Pope! It still pleasantly surprises me whenever a church leader says something that actually sounds like Christian values

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 5d

A historian I know and respect was illegally fired after being targeted by right-wing groups policing free speech. Please sign this urgent petition calling for Tom Alter's full reinstatement sponsored by the Committee to Defend Tom Alter @lawcha.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Statement by the Committee to Defend Tom Alter

Statement by the Committee to Defend Tom Alter On September 10th, 2025, Dr. Tom Alter, a respected and tenured professor of history at Texas State University, was fired for remarks he made at a social...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 4d

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 4d

Wisdom, moral imagination, an enlarged sympathy for those who live or have lived differently from yourself. This is what you get from studying the Humanities. So quite important, actually.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 7d

Research impact?
#highered #university

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Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social · 10d

Labour needed Liverpool to go well. Labour also needs Manchester to go well for Kemi Badenoch! Indeed, this is more critical to Reform in many, many ways…

While some may not be as interested in CPC, understanding why the Tories continue to lose support is a HUGE issue.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 13d

In her Labour conference speech, Chancellor Reeves announced that the Government has so far recovered nearly £400m of funds from Covid fraud, and launched a new "hit squad" to investigate and recover money from fraudsters who exploited government contracts

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14d

79. American citizen.

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 14d

Burnham's speech shifts beyond confines of PR to mass social housing, technical education, transport. "These are the ideas I'm putting forward. I think we need to debate them as a party. I've launched a debate on our direction." Adds: "I am here to support the government."

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 14d

Labour 4 PR rarely so interesting

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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social · 14d

“There’s nothing more unstoppable than an idea whose time has come - and PR’s time has come.”

💬 @andyburnham.bsky.social

🌹 #Labour4PR #Lab25

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 14d

Burnham says he is "speaking out for the thousands of councillors” and “mllions of good people who want a more hopeful direction for the future. “

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 14d

Burnham says Starmer's Labour Party has "a climate of fear". People are suspended for liking tweets and losing whip. "You can't be narrow and shallow, you need to have everyone in play." It is less tolerant of debate than Blair.

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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social · 14d

“I want to see the people I speak to every single week embrace and have confidence in the democracy we have in this country. I think through electoral reform we can restore trust in our democracy”

💬 @rachelblakemp.bsky.social

🌹 #Labour4PR #Lab25

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 14d

Burnham speech

- linked need for new political pluralism nationally (thru fringe’s ostensible subject of PR) with a newly tolerant big tent approach to party management (got biggest cheer on that)

- Ambition palpable despite protestations this is just a “debate”

- Bond market line finessed a bit

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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social · 14d

“I really do think that Proportional Representation is finally coming of age in this Parliament.”

💬 @alistrathern.bsky.social gives a shout out to the @labour4pr.bsky.social campaign

🌹 #Lab25

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Michael Ward @michael954.bsky.social · 18d

Sadly, not all the team that created the festivals are still with us. Ken Hulme died in 2010. Dick Muskett died at the end of last year. Remembered with great warmth. #GLCworkingforLondon

Michael Ward @michael954.bsky.social · 18d

This was the poster for the second Jobs For A Change festival - here is the poster for the first one.

Michael Ward @michael954.bsky.social · 18d

This was the poster for the second Jobs For A Change festival - here is the poster for the first one.

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Gill Bennett @gillhistory.bsky.social · 22d

This is excellent.

Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 23d

Oh my god lol

This Dutch late night host absolutely eviscerates Trump and Disney- you gotta watch how

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David Lidington @davidlidington.bsky.social · Aug 29

Angry at insinuations that judges who granted or overturned Epping injunction were politically biased. I've known both Cons & Lab lawyers who've become judges. Whatever their previous politics they take seriously their judicial oath to do justice without fear or favour

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · Aug 28

A courteous but very impressive rebuke to Nigel Farage from the Bishop of Oxford.

"I heard no compassion in what you said...".

"I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities".

Do read.
blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...

An open letter to Nigel Farage - Bishop Steven's Blog

Bishop Steven writes an open letter in response to Nigel Farage MP's immigration policy which was launched in Oxford this week.

blogs.oxford.anglican.org

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