If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

The issue isn’t just our media capitulating to Trump. It is that our media is now owned by conglomerates and billionaires with multiple interests before the government. They are compromised from the get go.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

Repurposed Assad tank in Syria.

Please , if you are able , support Independent publishers who are doing most of the heavy lifting in finding great new writers!

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And many more

Always find it interesting how no link is drawn between stories on #r4today🤔

-Russian air strikes in Syria
-Famine & ethnic cleansing in Darfur

-Refugees seek safety in the UK which provides exactly no safe route for anyone escaping those places to reach us 🤔🤔🤔

Please, if you are able, support Indy publishers.

As the big 5 buy up all the book shelves with their astronomic discounting.

It would be grand if you could look at.

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& many more

Terrifying and funny and packed with good advice.

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social on cracking form just when she is most needed.

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Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops.

They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.

Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .

Thank you.

The scale is not significantly larger than at any other time in history. Only the panic is. The panic is manufactured, not the migration.

In the late 90s & early 2000s we in the UK received (very roughly) 80,000 asylum applications per year.
Mainly people escaping Balkan wars.

Today in these “unprecedented” times of “invasion” by small boat… we receive pretty much the exact same numbers.

Had you been taken in?
I wouldn’t blame you.

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