@gardeningbookworm.bsky.social
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European,30+ years in the UK. Pottering in the garden and reading are daily essentials. Detests all right-wing nutters. Strongly believes in the right to protest. 💙 📚 🌱 🇪🇺 #FBPE 😷🇺🇦🌻
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
🚨The petition is now well on its way to 75,000 signatures! Let’s get it there today 🙏

You can support the campaign to change the law by signing the petition here👇

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns
The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo
www.mirror.co.uk
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ilfu.com
Op 20 september vond in Utrecht De Lezersmars plaats.

Tijdens ILFU (t/m 4 oktober) marcheren we virtueel verder en stellen we een mooie leeslijst van het vrije woord samen.

Voeg ook een boekentip toe via lezersmars.nl
Neem het niet! van Stéphane Hessel moét je lezen volgens Mieke van Paassen
De Lezersmars voor vrijheid en democratie – 20 sept - 12.00u - Jaarbeursplein Utrecht.
lezersmars.ilfu.com
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antizionistjew.bsky.social
#WATCH | Ceasefire? What usually happens in occupied Palestine is that Palestinians cease, and Israel fires.

Now live from Al Rashid in Rafah, Israeli forces prevent Palestinians from reaching the south via the road 👇

(Credit: Al-Jazeera, Irlandarra)
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greenparty.org.uk
"Christians, Muslims, Jews, migrants and people from a global majority background face the threat of violence or harassment as they simply go about their lives each day. This is unacceptable for the UK in the 21st century."

@carladenyer.bsky.social on the increase in reported hate crimes.
Graphic with a photo of Carla Denyer in the House of Commons.

Text reads:

SHOCKING HATE CRIME RISE MUST BE A WAKE-UP CALL

"Politicians of all stripes have a responsibility today: 

to say loud and clear that people of all backgrounds and all faiths are valued members of our communities, and 
an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of our values and freedoms.”

Carla Denyer
MP for Bristol Central

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
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heavensgone.bsky.social
With #Labour, #Tories and #Reform all battling to see who can be the nastiest party and who can attack vulnerable people the most, independence has never been more vital said @patrickharvie.bsky.social

#ScottishIndependence

greens.scot/news/with-in...
With independence we can build a greener Scotland
With independence we can build a greener Scotland - Greens react to latest Scot Gov Independence white paper.
greens.scot
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hackneycyclist.bsky.social
A Hackney "Cycleway". Paint a few bike symbols on tarmac and let motor traffic dominate. An embarrassing mess ten years ago, an even worse mess today. hackneycyclist.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-lo...
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hernandez888.bsky.social
Revolution is the ultimate act of freedom. I encourage all Americans to exercise your Rights & Liberty to defend this country, & to overthrow the tyranny we are witnessing.
No one is coming to save us from domestic enemies. When everyone & everything is corrupt, We the People are our only defenders.
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
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marina-purkiss.bsky.social
You don’t get to bankroll a genocide…

Embolden and cheer on the perpetrators

…and then call yourself a hero for pulling the plug.
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michaeljstern.bsky.social
Harris and Hillary were right about it all. Every shocking prediction is coming true.
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mmolarsky.bsky.social
Who would ever have imagined that Britain would go so far off the deep end?
pauleric70.bsky.social
A man arrested for holding a magazine with a picture of a sign that reads, "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."

Britain has gone completely mad.🤬
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brexitbin.bsky.social
SPOILER ALERT: Antifa is not an organisation. Antifa does not exist as anything beyond a general description of people who are against fascism – as in "anti-fascist" (antifa).
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francesryan.bsky.social
This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
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hackedoff.bsky.social
#DYK The initial investigation into hacking at News of the World - which failed to get to the bottom of the scandal - was carried out by a police officer who subsequently left the force. And then got a job with News UK. #TheHack
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jackfifield.uk
Utterly, utterly astonishing how little British police seem to care about crimes like these, when people literally have trackers showing where their stolen stuff is! Time and again we see that following leads like this can result in smashing organised crime.

www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-is-ea...
Screenshot of London Centric

A phone theft victim does the legwork to lead the Met to an organised crime gang.

You might have seen this week’s coverage of the phone theft gang that was smashed by the Met police. The police said the gang may have shipped 40,000 stolen phones from the UK to China, around 40% of all the devices reported stolen in the capital in a given year.

The only embarrassing thing for the Met is that their mega investigation seems to have been prompted by a member of the public using Apple’s Find My feature to track their iPhone to a warehouse near Heathrow, where they alerted security to a large box of stolen phones, who in turn eventually got the police to take it seriously. Whether the gang would have been found out without that enterprising member of the public doing their own detective work is unknown, although it shows that a basic bit of legwork can make the difference.
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hackedoff.bsky.social
The relationship between police and press ought to have clear boundaries. The police should fulfil the duties without fear or favour, and the press should hold them to account. Unfortunately, those boundaries have been blurred. And they denied it for years. #TheHack
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aurorablogspot.bsky.social
Please share this list of reliable sources about the protests in Georgia, where the majority of the population fights the brutal oppression by the government of "Russian Dream" - a party that follows the Russian playbook and uses the Russian threat to maintain authoritarian power.

#GeorgiaProtests