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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 8h

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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 9h

A Desi group asked BuyMeACoffee not to let influencers make money from anti-Indian hate – and got ignored. Researchers say the role of crowdfunding platforms in the spread of harmful ideologies is largely overlooked.

A Desi group asked BuyMeACoffee not to let influencers make money from anti-Indian hate – and got ignored

Researchers say the role of crowdfunding platforms in the spread of harmful ideologies is largely overlooked.

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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 9h

Uariumue shared a powerful message to the LGBTQ+ community:

🗣️ “Accept yourself, do not hide yourself because of what people think or do. At the end of the day, it is YOU. Be proud of yourself!"

We are proud of Uariumue and our Rainbow Sisters every day. 🏳️🌈💜

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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 9h

Today is #InternationalLesbianDay – a day to celebrate the resilience, strength, and visibility of lesbians. 🌈🌏

It is also a day to reflect and acknowledge the multifaceted discrimination LGBTQ+ people face all around the world.

To mark the day Uariumue shared her experience: tr.ee/oCKcQB
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Women for Refugee Women : “I don’t need to hide myself or be afraid.”

Uairumue, a member of our Rainbow Sisters, shares her experience as a lesbian woman in her home country, and her experience seeking safety in the UK.

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 12h

The NI Justice Minister was questioned on the deployment of PSNI to London at the weekend. The glib response, lack of accountability and absence of strategy should sound alarm bells. We've included some of the Stormont transcript responses.

PSNI Deployment To London: The Justice Minister’s Stormont Response.

It is with revulsion that people from the North witnessed PSNI officers arrest peaceful anti-genocide protesters in London at the weekend. Proscribed loyalist paramilitaries continue operate unhind…

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Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 12h

“ongoing willful negligence in tackling paramilitary violence which is increasingly taking the form of white-supremacy is making the North a more dangerous place, where paramilitarism is arming, recruiting & expanding.” @enddbelfast.bsky.social enddeportationsbelfast.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/p...

PSNI Deployment To London: The Justice Minister’s Stormont Response.

It is with revulsion that people from the North witnessed PSNI officers arrest peaceful anti-genocide protesters in London at the weekend. Proscribed loyalist paramilitaries continue operate unhind…

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 12h

The NI Justice Minister was questioned on the deployment of PSNI to London at the weekend. The glib response, lack of accountability and absence of strategy should sound alarm bells. We've included some of the Stormont transcript responses.

PSNI Deployment To London: The Justice Minister’s Stormont Response.

It is with revulsion that people from the North witnessed PSNI officers arrest peaceful anti-genocide protesters in London at the weekend. Proscribed loyalist paramilitaries continue operate unhind…

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Netpol @netpol.org · 14h

A guest post on the Netpol website by Medb McDaid: news that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has been involved in arrests at a London protest should be a matter of public concern. The PSNI has no business in Ireland, let alone Britain netpol.org/2025/10/08/t...

PSNI officers involved in the Metropolitan Police’s mass arrest of opponents of the ban on Palestine Action in Trafalgar Square, London, 4 October 2025

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Netpol @netpol.org · 15h

Keir Starmer is now applying political pressure on the police for another crackdown on chants heard at pro-Palestine protests, including "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free". He also says he wants to look at even more police powers www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Starmer considers police crackdown on chants at pro-Palestine protests

Prime minister’s comments come after students across the country defied his calls and took part in pro-Gaza marches

www.independent.co.uk

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 17h

"Release the hostages," they say. Let's remember to release the Palestinian ones, too.

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 1d

‘It is understood some republicans believe there may be a link between race tensions and the attempted pipe bomb attack.

Last month a council committee voted to approve plans to join the City of Sanctuary network.’

This is violence, a bomb, to compel a political decision: terror. [END]

End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 1d

…after a “suspicious object” was found outside the Sinn Féin office used by Stormont infrastructure minister Liz Kimmins shortly before midnight on Sunday.

A British army bomb squad attended the Monaghan Street office and declared the object “a viable explosive device”. [3/n]

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 1d

…to intimidate a population or compel a government or international organization to act or abstain from acting.'

Now the report:

'A failed pipe bomb attack at a Sinn Féin office in Newry has been linked to ongoing anti-immigration tensions in the Co Down town.

An alert was raised.. [2/n]

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t immigration tensions, this is white-supremacist terror.

A definition of terror: 'Security Council Resolution 1566 define terrorism as criminal acts, such as causing death, serious injury, or hostage-taking, committed to instill terror in the public or a group, with the intent .. [1/n]

Pipe bomb found at Sun Fein offices in Newry headline.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Gaza's children face genetic harm ‘for generations to come’ from Israel’s genocide - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gazas-children-face-genetic-harm-generations-come-israels-genocide

Gaza's children face genetic harm ‘for generations to come’ from Israel’s genocide

<article data-history-node-id="429760" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gazas-children-face-genetic-harm-generations-come-israels-genocide" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gazas-children-face-genetic-harm-generations-come-israels-genocide" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza's children face genetic harm ‘for generations to come’ from Israel’s genocide</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Rice is the only nutritious food Mohamed Aldreini can afford to feed his 22-month-old daughter, Rewan. </p> <p>The <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a> toddler has never tasted her mother’s milk since being born in November 2023, a month after the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza" target="_blank">Israeli genocide in Gaza</a> began. </p> <p>Rewan’s mother, now caring for four children, is battling depression. </p> <p>Her body stopped producing milk after repeated trauma caused by the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a> siege and relentless bombardment. </p> <p>The family was forced to flee their home in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, first to Gaza City, then to Khan Younis.</p> <h3>Read more: <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/generations-come-gazas-children-face-lifelong-genetic-damage-israels-genocide">Gaza's children face genetic harm ‘for generations to come’ from Israel’s genocide</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Palestinian children check the rubble of a residential house in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on 1 July 2025, following overnight Israeli strikes (AFP/Eyad Baba)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="d34f4140-7d3a-4c5d-af23-94fa0d03c4cb" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-07%20at%2010.56.12.png" width="1257" height="707" alt="Palestinian children check the rubble of a residential house in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on 1 July 2025, following overnight Israeli strikes (AFP/Eyad Baba)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Palestinian children check the rubble of a residential house in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on 1 July 2025, following overnight Israeli strikes (AFP/Eyad Baba)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url("https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png") rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 1d

More in the breathless, breaking stop-the-presses, and not at all confected story, that judges, before they were judges, were involved in practising law. Take 5 seconds to appreciate just how hard into "swivel-eyed loon" Robert Jenrick is being allowed to lean:

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

Firms running hotels make vast profits, while often providing appalling conditions.
People seeking asylum don't choose to get stuck in hotels. Firms choose to make money off their lives, and governments choose to pay them rather than implement better alternatives.

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

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 2d

People Before Profit's Gerry Carroll added he was “shocked” to see the “disgraceful scenes”.

“Not only does this call into serious question the widespread narrative that the PSNI is under-resourced, it also speaks volumes about who they view as the biggest threat and danger in our society." [3/3]

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 2d

SDLP's Policing Board member, Colin McGrath MLA said he was “concerned” by the scenes.

“At a time when our own policing resources are so stretched, it’s impossible to justify sending officers to London to conduct sham operations arresting protestors for wearing a T-shirt.” [2/3]

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 2d

‘Footage has emerged of a number of PSNI officers physically carrying protesters out of the event at Trafalgar Square organised by Palestine Action, now a proscribed terror group.

PSNI officers, in bottle green uniform, were heckled by one woman “shame on you, don’t you know your history?” [1/3]

‘Shame on you’: PSNI officers heckled while policing pro-Palestine protesters in London

Former UUP leader Doug Beattie MLA has defended a decision by the PSNI to send officers to help provide support at a Palestine Action protest in London.

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 3d

The “Blueshirts” illustrate how white supremacists exploit youth platforms: Roblox’s user-generated content and weak moderation allow teens to radicalize other users, recruit children, and profit from extremist in-game items.

Read more:

Online Neo-Nazi Group Using Children’s Video Games For Recruiting And Propaganda

A disturbing trend is emerging on Roblox, a platform with tens of millions of young users: online white supremacist groups are using children’s video games to recruit and spread propaganda. The “Blues...

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 3d

From End Deportations Belfast on the London PSNI deployment.

‘For over a year, the Justice Minister had one response to the pressing question of policing the far-right, that the PSNI doesn’t have enough manpower, money, or political support to do anything about their repeated acts of terror.'

PSNI In London: The Myth Of Justice & Policing By Consent.

For over a year, the Justice Minister had one response to the pressing question of policing the far-right, that the PSNI doesn’t have enough manpower, money, or political support to do anythin…

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 3d

Be very clear that this was about not only creating fear on English soil, but about 'blooding' officers from N. Ireland to commit mass arrest on Irish soil.

PSNI Officers make rare appearance in London to assist with arrests at pro-palestine protest

YouTube video by ViperUK

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 3d

Be very clear that this was about not only creating fear on English soil, but about 'blooding' officers from N. Ireland to commit mass arrest on Irish soil.

PSNI Officers make rare appearance in London to assist with arrests at pro-palestine protest

YouTube video by ViperUK

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 3d

From End Deportations Belfast on the London PSNI deployment.

‘For over a year, the Justice Minister had one response to the pressing question of policing the far-right, that the PSNI doesn’t have enough manpower, money, or political support to do anything about their repeated acts of terror.'

PSNI In London: The Myth Of Justice & Policing By Consent.

For over a year, the Justice Minister had one response to the pressing question of policing the far-right, that the PSNI doesn’t have enough manpower, money, or political support to do anythin…

enddeportationsbelfast.wordpress.com

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