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Seamus Heaney ... it’s time to swim/out on your own & fill the element /with signatures on your own frequency/echosoundings,searches, probes, allurements/elver-gleams in the dark of the whole sea... Socialist ☆no gods☆no kings☆no fascists☆ 🍉🌻

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · Apr 16

(from)The Second Coming
By WB Yeats

“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity."

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 8h

Some Portland party protestors !

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you. My mistake.

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PrivetEye @priveteye.bsky.social · 13h

I was astonished to see hours long queues to vote in the USA.This can only be voter suppression.Here in the UK it takes me at most 10 mins & i have the option of a postal vote.However the UK is already following US in voter suppression (photo ID)
#elections

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PrivetEye @priveteye.bsky.social · 16h

Petey Yum Yum may have gone, but Morgan McSweeney remains #labour #newlabour #bluelabour #labourtogether #mandelson

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 20h

#poetry

goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 20h

Precisely ✊️

goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 20h

Absolutely

goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 20h

The echoes of history are ringing loudly-
In Germany in the '30's The Reich Ministry of Enlightenment and Propaganda, led by Joseph Goebbels, issued daily directives dictating what could or could not be published.

goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 20h

Arrested for holding up a copy of The New World. How bloody un-British - The New World share.google/DTBesqXdaYpi...

Arrested for holding up a copy of The New World. How bloody un-British

This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 20h

In London yesterday a man was arrested for holding up a magazine called 'The New World', which is freely available to buy in our shops.
The UK government is sliding away from the concept of free speech at an alarming speed.

#freedomofspeech #palestine

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 21h

The proscription as terrorist of a direct action protest group for throwing paint over planes devalues the term 'terrorism'& makes infinitely more difficult the fight against actual terrorists.

#proscription

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 1d

Did anyone else see this today and wonder wtf happened?

Oopsie, Stephen.

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 23h

America and its Notion of Freedom
By David Bentley Hart

www.commonwealmagazine.org/three-cheers...

Three Cheers for Socialism

In the late modern world something like socialism is the only possible way of embodying Christian love in concrete political practices.

www.commonwealmagazine.org

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

IN HONOR OF FRIENDSHIP MONTH:

djt: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey."

Epstein: "Yes we do, come to think of it."

djt: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday- and may every day be another wonderful secret."

And by "wonderful secret", he means raping children.

#PedoPrez

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 1d

🔥🔥🔥

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Former UN chief says what really happened on October 7th 2023

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Double Down News on X: "Former UN Chief Absolutely Demolishes October 7 Lies https://t.co/BjmLkygld9" / X

Former UN Chief Absolutely Demolishes October 7 Lies https://t.co/BjmLkygld9

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Iwasid @iwasid.bsky.social · 1d

Israeli press releases - splashed all over the mainstream press, reinforced by 'experts' from 'independent' Think Tanks and other groups, reoeated ad infinitum until they become the only possible truth ...

Swift has it about right, and our fine press condemn themselves in the writing of it.

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Why Trump and all the other liars lie

Jonathan Swift :

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Oligarchs and Media Barons

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.