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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13h

After pointing out that she's an immigrant Joanna Lumley asks why we don't fix the problems that create asylum seekers and address climate change

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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 21h

We have the fastest growing membership of any political party because absolutely we want to #AbolishBadThings
We stand for; a Wealth Tax, renationalisation, green jobs, clean air, clean water, fully funded NHS, fight climate change, equality, and more!
If you feel the same join.greenparty.org.uk

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 15h

So your version of a "ceasefire" is, in your own words, that you'll invade your neighbors whenever you feel like it, and they'll just...let you

The Israeli goal is actually "Lebanonization" — but not in the original 1980s sense of armed militias. Rather, it's the modern version: an active ceasefire in which Israel operates from the air to eliminate threats, and on the ground beyond the international border.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 19h

Real patriotism isn’t about bashing migrants or minorities. It’s about caring enough to ensure nobody is homeless, hungry or left behind.

My piece for @thelondonstandard.bsky.social.

www.standard.co.uk/comment/jere...

Keir Starmer is a plastic patriot just like Nigel Farage

Reform and Labour can wrap themselves in as many union jacks as they want — this is what my country means to me, by Jeremy Corbyn

www.standard.co.uk

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 1d

The Al-Madhoun family in Gaza are struggling to stay alive, and really need our help.

‘Our daily life is like hell’: A look into the struggles faced by the Al-Madhoun family in Gaza

The Al-Madhoun family in Gaza are struggling to stay alive, and really need our help

northwestbylines.co.uk

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 1d

You can lock up as many people as you want for chanting or protesting against genocide.

You will never scrub away the truth about that genocide - or your own complicity in it.

You are just ensuring that you will be damned all the more for what you have done.

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says

The government needs to

www.bbc.co.uk

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

Trump would rather burn down the country than release the Epstein Files.

Over 80% of voters want it released.

Release the Epstein Files.

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Neil Miles (but spooky) @miles-online.co.uk · 1d

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it
Omid Djalili

Krusty the Clown - "They drove a dump truck full of money to my house. I'm not made of stone"

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spersjr.bsky.social @spersjr.bsky.social · 2d

First time for everything - I agree completely with a piece in the Spectator.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 2d

Scoopy McScoopface here, Darren Grimes, was born Darren Hutchinson, 22 July 1993. 😬

TALK

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@TalkTV

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REVEALED: Green Party leader Zack Polanski was born David Stephen Paulden.

"This is smoke and mirrors! He just wants a catchy name - people like that are frauds!"

@TVKev | @darrengrimes_

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DARREN GRIMES |

REFORM UK

GREEN ATTACK

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ZACK POLANSKI CALLS FARAGE 'TRUMP-LOVING CORPORATE STOOGE

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Darren Grimes

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Darren Grimes (born Darren Hutchinson, 22 July 1993) is a British Reform UK politician and political commentator. He worked for a number of Brexit campaigns. He set up the website Reasoned in May 2020. He currently serves as the Deputy Leader of Durham County Council and as a Reform UK councillor in Durham County Council, having been elected in the 2025 local elections. [1] In August 2025, he was also elected to the Reform UK board with the highest number of votes. [2]

Councillor

Darren Grimes

Grimes in 2025

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 2d

Mocking Gaza's murdered babies on national television.

We are living through a depraved period of history.

But this is what genocides do.

They're only possible because of the dehumanisation of their victims.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/mocking-ga...

Mocking Gaza's murdered babies on national TV

A nauseating case study into the dehumanisation of Palestinians

www.owenjones.news

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Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 3d

Greta Thunberg: "Israel is recycling old arguments without addressing the evidence of them committing a genocide. Terrorism is defined as the calculated act of using violence to incite fear in a population for political control. One can really ask who the real terrorist is here."

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spersjr.bsky.social @spersjr.bsky.social · 3d

I remember, not so long ago, thinking there couldn't be a dumber, more bumbling political leader than Boris Johnson.

Simpler times.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

BBC now suggesting they didn't interview Zack Polanski on Laura Kuenssberg when he was elected because they weren't on air then. Which is technically true because he was elected on a Tuesday. However, they did air just days later on Sunday and featured interviews with Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 3d

Just seen the @greenparty.org.uk party political broadcast, can't help but be moved!

I'm in, are you? Together, we can build a society that works for the 99%, not the 1%

join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

"Deported" is a very interesting way to say kidnapped, imprisoned illegally, abused, then released. 🤔

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 4d

Two Indigenous women in Canada have had their offices firebombed and it's getting very little media attention. One has been the target of death threats for calling Charlie Kirk racist and transphobic even after she apologized for the comments

The constituency offices of Housing Minister Bernadette Smith (left) and Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine (right) have seen a series of fires and acts of vandalism in recent weeks. (Justin Fraser/CBC)

As Winnipeg police continue to investigate fires and acts of vandalism at the constituency offices of two MLAs in recent weeks, some political science experts worry the incidents will deter Indigenous women from seeking public office over safety concerns.

On Tuesday — the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine's constituency office in West Kildonan was hit by fire. The blaze came just over a week after the office's windows were smashed.

The North End constituency office of Housing Minister Bernadette Smith has seen four fires since August.

Winnipeg police's major crimes unit is investigating the blazes at both offices. Officials have not confirmed whether they believe the fires were intentionally set.

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spersjr.bsky.social @spersjr.bsky.social · 4d

Lol - the staff didn't even bother to put any chairs out.

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spersjr.bsky.social @spersjr.bsky.social · 4d

The great thing about Kemi Badenoch is that we have an idea of the sort of lunacy Liz Truss might have come up with if she hadn't immediately chosen to destroy the economy. And looking at Liz Truss we have an idea of the kind of dementor Badenoch will become after she's thrown onto the scrapheap.

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spersjr.bsky.social @spersjr.bsky.social · 4d

Who can say?

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4d

We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism

So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5d

The govt is amending existing laws to give the police more powers to restrict protests (under the pretext of protecting the Jewish community).

The Home Secretary is asked if these changes would have led to the banning of pro Palestinian protests in London. You bet!

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spersjr.bsky.social @spersjr.bsky.social · 5d

Starmer immediately denounces fascist Tory policy, then goes on to announce introduction of 'FROST' force to not exactly deport foreigners, but just make them really miserable.

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George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 5d

Sunday Express: Tory ‘ICE' force would deport 150,000 a year #TomorrowsPapersToday

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