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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 10h

A wee message from us 👇

A Message to the Police (British) State

News of a Crown Prosecution Service Appeal against the ruling of their own judge is unsurprising.

He ruled the charge was ‘unlawful and null’ and it was.

It is unsurprising because this whole process has not been driven by the police or the courts, it has been driven by politicans backed up by British media. This is political policing.

There is no ‘important point of law’. The CPS have submitted nothing new in their appeal. What there is though, is a state wide witch-hunt against Palestinian solidarity.

The media were gleefully informed about this appeal before we were.

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A Message to the Police (British) State

Once again this is a massive waste of taxpayers money, of police time, of court time.

Once again there are endless news reports about Mo Chara, about Kneecap but we are NOT the story.

Yesterday 104 Palestinians were murdered in Gaza and hundreds more maimed as Israel commits genocide.

Entire families wiped out, people bombed to pieces as they slept, young kids with limbs blown off and no medicaine to treat them.

This is aided and supported by the British State.

We will fight you in your court again. We will win again.

FREE PALESTINE / TIOCHFAIDH ÁR LÁ

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 12h

Once upon a time, the police spokesperson claimed that...

Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 12h

Once upon a time, a politician said that they were working to...

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 12h

If stories in the capitalist media were more truthful, many of them would begin with Once Upon a Time...

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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 17h

Sign the new House of Commons e-petition calling on the Government of Canada to strengthen protections for LGBTQ+ people worldwide and reaffirm Canada’s role as a safe haven.

Thank you to MP Rob Oliphant for sponsoring this important petition.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Isabel Zaw-Tun @izzyzaw.bsky.social · 18h

everybody’s jealous of me since I decided to get plastic surgery to have Cuttlefish skin. they‘re resentful because I camouflage myself as a brick wall or a gorseberry bush in order to steal their croissants off their plates at cafes. I’ve never felt so beautiful

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Logan Grendel @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social · 14h

Uniting the working class means getting your people to stop being racist, transphobic, classist, etc for 10 mins running rather than getting marginalized people to be quiet about their oppression. I'm sorry your favorite relative picked the wrong side, but the civil war "broke up families" too.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 14h

Jewish Currents has learned that the Conscience flotilla, with
Emily Wilder aboard reporting for us, has been intercepted and boarded by the Israeli military. Communications with Emily and the rest of the boat have been cut. We are awaiting further updates.

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 14h

So... the marketing department

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 14h

People do lose their rights when they allow other people's rights to be taken away.

hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 15h

A resident of a nearby building asks a very important question:

“You claim you have warrants, but do you have a warrant to seize the entire building?” she asked the agents. “Do you have warrants to detain the entire building?”

Or: do people lose their rights if they live near undocumented people?

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 15h

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 14h

vintage record store going out of business, all sales vinyl

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 17h

Carney (as Charlie Brown) thinking about kicking the football held by Lucy (as Trump), and then zooming in, there's a recursive miniature scene on the surface of the football playing out exactly the same with voters (as Charlie Brown) thinking about kicking the football held by (Lucy as Carney).

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 17h

This is funny because I typically associate this image with voters getting tricked into voting for a party that will not keep their election promises, but it works well as intended here for Canadian politicians doing what Trump wants and seemingly hoping it works out for them.

Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 18h

Lucy sets up the football for Charlie Brown.

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 19h

Folks who tell you that it’s okay to temporarily sacrifice a marginalized group in order to win

Do not care about the marginalized group

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 19h

at some point traffic engineers & politicians need to be held accountable

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 2d

5 years before her son died there, a mother tried to make an intersection safer

5 years before teen was killed crossing the street, his mom asked for safer roads

In September 2020, Caty Anderson typed out a short email to her state representative, lamenting that a woman was hit by a car near her family’s Kensington home.

buff.ly

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Between These Lines 🇪🇺 ⚽ 🏈 🏀⚾ 🏒 @footballlibrettist.bsky.social · 1d

Why are Canadians on the comments trying to pretend Carney isn't missing his ass in front of the whole world?

All you're doing is making excuses and lying to yourselves. This is embarrassing from a man who ran on the platform of fighting back against the US and fascism.

Pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 19h

Are you forgetting Kent State and many other examples of state violence?

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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 22h

Well, well, well...if it isn't the endlessly dismissed Left being proven 100% correct about someone for the one billionth time.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 23h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 19h

I wonder if there's a sort of "but it's my turn to have power now" that is often attributed to some baby boomers That being told we want equality instead triggers an emotional reaction.

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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 20h

OH "I'm always fascinated by mushrooms that look like futuristic moon bases in varying levels of disrepair"

— @penryu.bsky.social

Perfect Orb 🍄 @perfectorb.bsky.social · 3d

More mushrooms from Wednesday’s chanterelle bonanza. The second mushroom had a distinct smell of raw shrimp

Red banded polypore growing up and over from a fallen log in the woods they are black clam shaped mushrooms with orange next to the edge

Light tan to brown topped Seafood Russula. Doesn’t look like much but it has a distinct smell of raw shrimp

Orange gelatenous bulbous witch’s butter busting through the bark of a fallen hardwood

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 19h

How does one ask a person to confront their privilege without them having an emotional meltdown?

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 20h

We could prevent asthma and breathing issues by taking cars off the road to reduce pollution.

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Juni! 🥰 @literallyjustadog.online · 20h

bro just one more employee crashout. the site will be better soon bro, you've just gotta let one more team member publicly mock and insult our users. i promise bro, the annoying marginalized users will leave- i mean the site will be better. bro I'm serious, just one more.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21h

I also think there needs to be some semblance of being willing to admit the organization has done something wrong. A good start would be to restore Link and to invite him, Aveta, Rudy and others to have a conversation about racial bias in moderation in this time of rising white supremacy.

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