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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 21h

Deliberate starvation is a war crime. Ecocide is genocide.

Please stop coming into my mentions telling me how how every subatomic particle in Gaza is Hamas. It's tired, it's evil, and it's pointless. I'm not going to argue with you. You're just wrong.

More than 95 percent of Gaza’s agricultural land unusable, UN warns

Israeli attacks on land, wells and greenhouses exacerbating the already critical risk of famine in Gaza, the FAO says.

www.aljazeera.com

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 1d

the American century of humiliation is in full swing

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

UK big four banks on course to pocket annual profits of more than £45bn.

Bank branches vanishing. Profits from high charges, low interest rates on savings, scandals, speculation.

Govt must levy windfall taxes on banks.

British banks to land £45bn profit bonanza

Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest will report results for the third quarter over the next few days, with HSBC releasing figures the following week.

www.thisismoney.co.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Cost of Privatization,

Thames Water wants to pollute UK rivers with illegal sewage dumping until 2040, pay no fines, law already permits some sewage dumping.

Will still want profits, pay megabucks to execs, dividends and fleece customers.

Public ownership is the only way out.

Thames Water wants permission to pollute Britain's rivers until 2040. No, seriously

Thames Water – Britain's largest water utility – has asked the industry regulator to exempt it from some pollution requirements.

www.bigissue.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine the reaction if the bodies of returned Israeli hostages were handcuffed, blindfolded & showed signs of torture. It would be on the front page, leading every news bulletin, & the govt would be condemning the murderous brutality of Hamas

But Palestinian bodies? Nothing

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Tackling the cost of living crisis goes hand in hand with tackling the climate crisis.

We need food security, insulated homes, and cheap renewable energy.

Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 3d

UK food inflation is being driven by climate change-induced extreme weather, driving up price of butter, milk, beef, chocolate & coffee

The price rises in those staples is contributing 40% of overall food inflation

Climate change is hitting peoples' pockets, right now

www.ft.com/content/ced8...

Five staples fuelling UK food inflation as climate risks rise, study finds

Findings challenge narrative that food price growth is being driven by higher taxes and wage costs

www.ft.com

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Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 2d

earth with "liberal propaganda"

astronaut 1: "wait, it's all anti-communism?"

astronaut 2 with gun "always has been"

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 2d

New study shows widespread AI misinformation

AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Copilot routinely distort the news and struggle to distinguish facts from opinion
AI is telling you fibs
www.dw.com/en/ai-chatbo...

New study shows widespread AI misinformation – DW – 10/22/2025

AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Copilot routinely distort the news and struggle to distinguish facts from opinion. That's according to a major new study from 22 international public broadcasters, incl...

www.dw.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says.

Adds that the rise of parties like Nigel Farage’s Reform party is “completely terrifying”.

Yet no end to real wage/benefit cuts; no curbs on profiteering; little redistribution.

Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says

Exclusive: Poverty rapporteur says governments must rethink welfare state as essential to fabric of society

www.theguardian.com

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Lenny @wiblesworth.bsky.social · 2d

RIP Jeremy Clarkson. A national treasure taken too soon

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t0ussaint @t0ussaint.bsky.social · 3d

the chart of argentina's currency is so crazy its hard to believe that when trump took office the first time, the peso was near 15, now in his 2nd term, its near 1500 peso to the dollar. the current leader did this, but the finance world loves the 'libertarian' and #1 IMF debtor nation #econsky

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 8d

You are being forced to pay a privatisation premium.

Public ownership would enable us to reinvest the huge profits of energy companies into cutting our bills.

Great piece by @mathewlawrence.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence

A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank

www.theguardian.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social wants to raise Capital Gains Tax to the same level as Income Tax, and explains that right now a cleaner can be paying a higher rate of tax than the person who owns the building they clean.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : no more cuts, tax the rich.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 4d

Reform UK didn't bother paying VAT and it was only uncovered after The Times investigated.

Please tell me why it is Disabled People and Pensioners bank accounts we are spying on and not Billionaires and Politicians.

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gav a nice time this autumn @gavinmit.bsky.social · 4d

losing my mind at politicians and pundits apparently believing this was some freak event rather than something that constantly happens in football www.independent.co.uk/news/uefa-fr...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 4d

Yesterday Israel murdered 44 Palestinians in Gaza. Children were among those killed.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d

Tomorrow I'll be on Laura Kuenssberg.

Will I be able to say "I can announce the Green Party have just overtaken the Tories in members!"?

It's tantalisingly close to happening!

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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Lenny @wiblesworth.bsky.social · 6d

You have the awareness of rock

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d

"weirdo” “ridiculous” - these are the playground taunts when you have no political arguments left to make.

And just like playground bullies, they come from a place of fear. Because they can see us organising and they don’t know how to respond.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Weirdo bloke Polanski of the green party has had yet another ridiculous idea

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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 7d

🚨BREAKING🚨

💊 GSK lobbied for a juicy tax break, pocketed £3.4bn, then ghosted on UK investments.

It's time to end the "Patent Box" tax break scheme, gifting billions to Big Pharma.

Full report from @taxwatch.bsky.social: www.taxwatchuk.org/taxwatch-inv...

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Jake Atkinson @jakeatkinson.bsky.social · 6d

More from us on the latest report of tax cuts for Big Pharma whilst they overcharge the NHS for medicines.

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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 7d

🚨BREAKING🚨

💊 GSK lobbied for a juicy tax break, pocketed £3.4bn, then ghosted on UK investments.

It's time to end the "Patent Box" tax break scheme, gifting billions to Big Pharma.

Full report from @taxwatch.bsky.social: www.taxwatchuk.org/taxwatch-inv...

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Jake Atkinson @jakeatkinson.bsky.social · 6d

Big Pharma take UK tax breaks whilst not allowing drugs on the NHS.

TaxWatch @taxwatch.bsky.social · 7d

In this year's Budget, we're told every penny counts. Yet we've found the UK has given one pharma company a £3.4 billion tax cut on profits of patented drugs, including some too expensive for the NHS, while it still cut UK jobs. How did this happen, and why did no-one notice?🧵

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 6d

On the left, Skys sports correspondent saying that away fans are normally banned when they've caused violence before but "that's not the case here"

On the right, Maccabi 'fans' beating a man unconscious in Athens earlier this year.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 7d

So we're not only jailing peaceful anti-genocide protestors for holding up signs but we are also advocating for the... *checks notes* ... presence and freedom of serial racist, pro-genocide hooligans?

Who are you doing this for @darrenpjones.bsky.social?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Government officials will seek to lift ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans at Aston Villa game

Culture secretary to speak to Home Office as minister says barring Israeli supporters is ‘utterly unacceptable’

www.theguardian.com

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