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0x416E6479 @0x416e6479.bsky.social · Aug 9

"The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it."

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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AMIR ♕GAZA♡ @fghsvs.bsky.social · 6h

A Palestinian paramedic tries to comfort three injured children as they survived an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City.

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Steph Petrie @stephpet.bsky.social · 9h

The Jewish Bloc will gather from 11.45 at Victoria Embankment/Whitehall Gardens byt the Henry Bartle Frere statue, SW1 2ET. Do join us with banners and signs if you possibly can.

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0x416E6479 @0x416e6479.bsky.social · 9h

During Covid the government provided shelter for homeless people.

Ending homelessness would cost less than~£3.5bn over 10-years…including social housing (Crisis, 2018)

Potentially returning/saving ~£7bn per year

Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 17h

Every one of these lives mattered but to see this includes eleven children is heartbreaking. The amount of national resource required to solve this problem is so relatively small that Government should just spend it immediately (as it has before!)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 10h

We have arrived at an unspeakable place: two years of genocide.

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 10h

I taught a lesson today on rounding to the nearest 100,000.

Help make it happen!

join.greenparty.org.uk

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 16h

20,000 new members have joined the Green Party in the past month.

This is the Green surge.

Want to be part of it? Join the Green Party today ⤵

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 12h

Officials in Downing Street have blocked publication of a report warning that the collapse of tropical rainforests could push up food prices in British supermarkets.

Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

www.thetimes.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Take this source with a huge grain of salt but uh, “huge, if true” is an understatement

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14h

Wow:

Matt Gaetz says politicians at an AIPAC reception had to wear QR codes around their necks and go around and introduce themselves to potential donors. AIPAC members would scan the QR code to donate if they liked them.

If true, AIPAC is literally buying US politicians like groceries at a store.

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"At my first AIPAC reception, you had to wear a name badge with a QR code, talk to donors, and if they liked you, they scanned it to donate on the spot."
@mattgaetz on the surreal, humiliating world of AIPAC fundraisers.
[GAETZ interview video 1:40]
8:15 PM • 10/7/25 • 885K Views

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AMIR ♕GAZA♡ @fghsvs.bsky.social · 2d

🎥_ More than 250,000 people wearing red flooded the streets of #Amsterdam today in a massive demonstration in support of #Palestine

#Gaza

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moh-amaad.bsky.social @moh-amaad.bsky.social · 19h

I am Mohammed Adnan from Palestine, Gaza. I hope you will help my sick son Adnan to receive treatment. Every dollar will help save his life. 💔🙏😭
Donation link for Adnan and his family
chuffed.org/project/1491...

Adnan Al Najjar is 12 years old and needs urgent medical treatment in hospital

Adnan, Mohammeds child who used to fill the house with laughter and play, has today transformed into a small body with a slight stumbling motion. Walking has become painful for him, and anxiety gnaws ...

chuffed.org

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Doaa areer @doaaareer.bsky.social · 14h

I’m a mother of a little girl named Maryam. We need your support to provide her with milk and medical treatment. Every donation, no matter how small, can help save my daughter’s life. 💔🍼🙏

chuffed.org/project/1460...

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Yaaqoub @ahcrg.bsky.social · 17h

Imagine your home being destroyed and you and your children becoming homeless, sleeping on the street in a torn tent and winter coming. It's an indescribable feeling, full of pain.😥

chuffed.org/project/1515...

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d

A pro-Palestinian protester reads a poem while he was being arrested from a 9-year-old child that was murdered in Gaza

(Global Sumud Flotilla Commentary)

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 1d

As of this morning's update (tracking through 9/20), the number of people killed by the police in the United States this year has crossed 1,000.

This number will continue to rise, as it always does, with no meaningful attempts to slow it by either major party.

This is all still happening.

a screenshot from Mapping Police Violence's database that reads:

Police have killed 1,001 people in the U S so far in 2025

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d

#WATCH | Students at Queen Mary University disrupt an event hosted for BAE Systems, denouncing Israel genocide on Gaza and expressing solidarity with Palestine.

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 1d

👉NEW -- Gaza spy plane spotted leaving UK air base on Cyprus

by Phil Miller and Alex Morris

Exclusive: Declassified captures first footage of an American spy plane taking off from a Royal Air Force base bound for Gaza.
www.declassifieduk.org/gaza-spy-pla...

Gaza spy plane spotted leaving UK air base on Cyprus

Exclusive: Declassified captures first footage of an American spy plane taking off from a Royal Air Force base bound for Gaza.

www.declassifieduk.org

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John Bentley @johnbentlegs.bsky.social · 1d

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

"That's the difference a Green councillor can make."

Co-Deputy Leader @mothinali.bsky.social speaks to Aaron Bastani of Novara Media.

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0x416E6479 @0x416e6479.bsky.social · 1d

Sara Ahmed is great, her work helps explain why alt-right ideas ‘stick’

Fantasy fiction please!!

I’ll be grateful for any sociology book recommendations too but I do have quite a broad collection already :)

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0x416E6479 @0x416e6479.bsky.social · 1d

Love this! Got any sociology/fantasy recommendations?

I’ve read the entire Discworld collection and haven’t found anything that comes close, yet!

I’d recommend Alt Reich by Dr Nafeez Ahmed and The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmad

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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 1d

British arms exports to Israel have reached record highs during the genocide. These arms exports are illegal under British and international law and constitute war crimes. Such arms exports make Israel’s genocide possible.

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