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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · May 31

My book Bodies Under Siege tracks the far right attack on abortion rights in UK, Europe & US, via conspiracy theories, Christian nationalist networks & dark money from US, Russia & Europe… I’ve been on this story for 8 years so buy it now!!

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Bodies Under Siege

Think today's anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today's anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extremi...

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2h

💔 A 7-year-old boy was killed by Russians during today's strike on Zaporizhzhia.

Relatives said his father, who is currently in hospital in critical condition, spent three years in Russian captivity.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 2h

This

Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 2h

Truly we live in the most Trump-brained timeline. Maybe, just maybe the Nobel Prize committee gave María Corina Machado the peace prize on her own merits, rather than so as not to give Trump the award while making it impossible for him to criticise their choice.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 4h

I’m going to Lee Miller next week and dreading it being rammed

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Viktoriia Grivina @brams884.bsky.social · 4h

This is your support Kharkiv kitty for Friday.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 6h

⚡️Russia attacked Ukraine’s homes and energy grid overnight.

A 7-year-old boy was killed in Zaporizhzhia, at least 9 people were injured in Kyiv, and large parts of the capital were left without power.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 21h

AMAZING SCENES!

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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 1d

A member of our committee writes on the growing revelations about Reform UK's links to Russia, as well as the centrality of pro-Russia and pro-Putin politics to the whole British far right ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2025/10/09/n...

Nathan Gill, Reform and the Price of Putin’s Praise

Patriotism for Sale: The UK Far Right’s Russian Connection Last month it was reported that former Reform leader for Wales, Nathan Gill, had admitted taking bribes to make statements in favour of Ru…

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to confirm that Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be joining @opendemocracy.net’s webinar on protest rights next week!

Sign up to join this free event, with speakers from @ukrainesol.bsky.social, Liberty, and XR

www.eventbrite.com/e/we-are-all...

“We are all arrestables now” - how to protest safely

Free speech has been hampered by draconian laws, but reasons to take to the streets are just as prevalent as ever.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

Timeline serendipity

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

Really pleased we can publish this powerful testimony from Hassan in Gaza. Please read it.

opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net · 1d

Daring to dream after two years under fire: Life in Gaza

For two years, our lives have been on hold amid constant air strikes and fighting. Now, we finally have reason to hope

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

I feel other people’s recommendations were a bit more intellectual 😂

sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

As if to prove my point, I passed an RCP sticker on a lamppost when I popped out earlier

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1d

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

In my neck of the woods, communism never really fell

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no! Hope you feel better soon. I just watched Sirens on Netflix which I liked. If you like crime drama, Hidden Assets on iPlayer is good.

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Viktoriia Grivina @brams884.bsky.social · 1d

This Kharkiv cat is a university dean.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

Right wing front pages today all feel a bit Iron Lady Theresa May in 2017 or those “now is the day Trump became presidential” don’t they.

sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, at one point when the Morgan/Cook episode started I thought ITVx had selected a different show!

It was all good, well acted & well written, but it tried too hard to be clever and lacked an emotional heart.

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 1d

The mother of this baby, Tetyana, was killed in a russian strike on Kyiv on Sept 7 — she suffered burns to 90% of her body.

Her premature baby, Nazar, miraculously survived emergency delivery and brain surgery. The father Vadym meets his son for the first time on Oct 7.

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Source: United24.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 2d

You might enjoy something I wrote about this, when Marianne Faithfull died, and how I accidentally saw her and a range of icons for £20 at a time when I survived on mung beans and lived in a house with no windows downstairs
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 2d

Cutting public spending to reduce national debt and lower taxes is it. IS IT?

sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 2d

Dying at Badenoch relaunching the Tory Party with a policy disaster from 2010

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 2d

One more thought - one of the issues with the whole story in the first place is that the hacking scandal felt very unreal and distant until we learnt what happened to the Dowler family. And the drama suffers from that too. Which is not to deny the harm done to people like Sienna Miller is horrendous

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 2d

I know why they did it this way - goes back to what I said before. It’s hard to dramatise a journalistic investigation. It needs the fourth wall breaking narration to make sense of it all.

But as a drama to provoke empathy & outrage… it inhibits that because you’re distracted by the style.

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