Maurice
@jointhecoo.bsky.social
In the end, we’re all commoners, and on the one common. All my own personal ramblings.
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About 100 members of the Sudanese community and supporters rallied at Parliament House to call for an end to the genocide in Sudan. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1443/ne...
Stop genocide in Sudan!
Members of the Sudanese community and their supporters rallied at Parliament House to call for an end to the genocide in Sudan. Markela Panegyres reports.
www.greenleft.org.au
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
About 100 members of the Sudanese community and supporters rallied at Parliament House to call for an end to the genocide in Sudan. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1443/ne...
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🔴UK Government Flouted Own Rules Designed to Stop Gaza Intelligence Harming Palestinian Civilians
The revelation raises questions over whether UK applied safeguards designed to prevent information from 600 RAF intelligence flights being used to harm civilians in Gaza
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
The revelation raises questions over whether UK applied safeguards designed to prevent information from 600 RAF intelligence flights being used to harm civilians in Gaza
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
UK Government Flouted Own Rules Designed to Stop Gaza Intelligence Harming Palestinian Civilians
The revelation raises questions over whether the UK applied safeguards designed to prevent information from 600 RAF intelligence flights being used to harm civilians in Gaza
bylinetimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🔴UK Government Flouted Own Rules Designed to Stop Gaza Intelligence Harming Palestinian Civilians
The revelation raises questions over whether UK applied safeguards designed to prevent information from 600 RAF intelligence flights being used to harm civilians in Gaza
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
The revelation raises questions over whether UK applied safeguards designed to prevent information from 600 RAF intelligence flights being used to harm civilians in Gaza
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
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Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
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In my wildest dreams I never imagined that the answer to the question "What does the Labour Party mean to you?" would be "Confiscating jewellery from asylum seekers"
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
In my wildest dreams I never imagined that the answer to the question "What does the Labour Party mean to you?" would be "Confiscating jewellery from asylum seekers"
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The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Unspeakable suffering in Tawila.
Over half of the fleeing survivors are children. One injured woman I met walked into the camp after surviving an attack, carrying her friend's starving child.
They're asking the world if help is coming.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Over half of the fleeing survivors are children. One injured woman I met walked into the camp after surviving an attack, carrying her friend's starving child.
They're asking the world if help is coming.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
In Darfur, Sudan’s lost children wander through a landscape of death
Around 200 unaccompanied children have arrived in the Sudanese town of Tewila after escaping El Fashir, where RSF fighters have carried out mass killings.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Unspeakable suffering in Tawila.
Over half of the fleeing survivors are children. One injured woman I met walked into the camp after surviving an attack, carrying her friend's starving child.
They're asking the world if help is coming.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Over half of the fleeing survivors are children. One injured woman I met walked into the camp after surviving an attack, carrying her friend's starving child.
They're asking the world if help is coming.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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‘Worrying reports’ continue of abductions and disappearances in Syria — Global Issues
https://www.europesays.com/2553244/
“Eleven months after the fall of the former government in Syria, we continue to receive worrying reports about…
https://www.europesays.com/2553244/
“Eleven months after the fall of the former government in Syria, we continue to receive worrying reports about…
‘Worrying reports’ continue of abductions and disappearances in Syria — Global Issues - EUROPE SAYS
“Eleven months after the fall of the former government in Syria, we continue to receive worrying reports about dozens of abductions and enforced
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November 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
‘Worrying reports’ continue of abductions and disappearances in Syria — Global Issues
https://www.europesays.com/2553244/
“Eleven months after the fall of the former government in Syria, we continue to receive worrying reports about…
https://www.europesays.com/2553244/
“Eleven months after the fall of the former government in Syria, we continue to receive worrying reports about…
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This is what oligarchy looks like:
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is what oligarchy looks like:
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
"By my calculations, some 26 families with a net worth of over a third of a trillion spent over 22 million dollars trying to prevent 8 million New Yorkers from getting free transport and affordable homes."
Me on Mamdani:
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Me on Mamdani:
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The Mamdani Moment
In an update to my post from the end of July, it is exciting to see Zohran Mamdani win the New York Mayoral election by a considerable margin, with 1,036,051 votes to Cuomo’s 854,995 votes, o…
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November 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"By my calculations, some 26 families with a net worth of over a third of a trillion spent over 22 million dollars trying to prevent 8 million New Yorkers from getting free transport and affordable homes."
Me on Mamdani:
thelivingweft.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/t...
Me on Mamdani:
thelivingweft.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/t...
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Social media footage and satellite imagery show killings as Rapid Support Forces took over Al Fashir (El Fasher). Bellingcat geolocated one incident on the city’s outskirts and showed it to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...
Geolocating Darfur Killings of Those Escaping Al Fashir - bellingcat
Warning: Contains written descriptions of extreme violence including murder. All graphic footage has been omitted. A Bellingcat investigation has identified and verified the exact location of a mass k...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Social media footage and satellite imagery show killings as Rapid Support Forces took over Al Fashir (El Fasher). Bellingcat geolocated one incident on the city’s outskirts and showed it to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...
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The @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social podcast is always a pleasure but this week's tribute to the Scottish curator, the late Elspeth King, is fascinating. I'd never heard of her, but her work at the People's Palace Museum in Glasgow sounds joyful and inspirational.
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Jack Glass Is A Pastor
Podcast Episode · The Lesley Riddoch Podcast · 04/11/2025 · 1h 8m
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November 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social podcast is always a pleasure but this week's tribute to the Scottish curator, the late Elspeth King, is fascinating. I'd never heard of her, but her work at the People's Palace Museum in Glasgow sounds joyful and inspirational.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...
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Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
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Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
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#Sudan: MSF fears large numbers of people remain trapped in grave danger in #ElFasher, blocked by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from reaching safer areas after they and their allies seized control of the city this week.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/sudan-msf-de...
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/sudan-msf-de...
October 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
#Sudan: MSF fears large numbers of people remain trapped in grave danger in #ElFasher, blocked by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from reaching safer areas after they and their allies seized control of the city this week.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/sudan-msf-de...
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/sudan-msf-de...
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Labour's ugly rhetoric has consequences: a sentence I frankly wish I'd never felt the need to type. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%
Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Labour's ugly rhetoric has consequences: a sentence I frankly wish I'd never felt the need to type. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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An estimated 130,000 children in Al Fasher, Sudan, are at a high risk of grave rights violations, with reports of abduction, killing and maiming, and sexual violence.
UNICEF calls for an immediate ceasefire, safe, unimpeded humanitarian access, and the protection of civilians, especially children.
UNICEF calls for an immediate ceasefire, safe, unimpeded humanitarian access, and the protection of civilians, especially children.
October 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
An estimated 130,000 children in Al Fasher, Sudan, are at a high risk of grave rights violations, with reports of abduction, killing and maiming, and sexual violence.
UNICEF calls for an immediate ceasefire, safe, unimpeded humanitarian access, and the protection of civilians, especially children.
UNICEF calls for an immediate ceasefire, safe, unimpeded humanitarian access, and the protection of civilians, especially children.
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Ards Historical Society’s Bully’s Acre exhibition in the Newtownards Tourist Information centre. The @heartsofdown.bsky.social Forgotten Famine film is the centrepiece.
October 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Ards Historical Society’s Bully’s Acre exhibition in the Newtownards Tourist Information centre. The @heartsofdown.bsky.social Forgotten Famine film is the centrepiece.
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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Some good news/
Home Office evaluation of the Refugee Transitions Outcomes Fund - pilot schemes to help employment, housing and integration for newly recognised refugees.
Substantially improved employment outcomes & had positive fiscal impacts.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Home Office evaluation of the Refugee Transitions Outcomes Fund - pilot schemes to help employment, housing and integration for newly recognised refugees.
Substantially improved employment outcomes & had positive fiscal impacts.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
October 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Some good news/
Home Office evaluation of the Refugee Transitions Outcomes Fund - pilot schemes to help employment, housing and integration for newly recognised refugees.
Substantially improved employment outcomes & had positive fiscal impacts.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Home Office evaluation of the Refugee Transitions Outcomes Fund - pilot schemes to help employment, housing and integration for newly recognised refugees.
Substantially improved employment outcomes & had positive fiscal impacts.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Insane story out of India
Why is India prosecuting Muslims who said ‘I love Muhammad’?
More than 2,500 people have been charged as an initial crackdown on the expression has spawned broader protests.
www.aljazeera.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Insane story out of India
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Watch this space, we have some exciting news.
October 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Watch this space, we have some exciting news.