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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

Except, and I do fully understand that this is the Telegraph so facts might not matter too much, pretty much every reliable expert agrees that the only practical way to genuinely reduce small boat crossings is to provide safer and simpler alternatives. 1/

Michael Deacon

The Greens say they've got a plan to stop the boats.

Unfortunately, it's barking mad

Their proposal won't solve the problem. In fact, it shows they don't even understand what the problem actually is

Simple. It would allow the small boats' prospective passengers to enter Britain by "safe and legal routes” instead.

Mr Polanski seems to think that this is a brilliant scheme. I fear, however, that not all voters will share his enthusiasm. Because, in effect, he's pledging to stop people entering Britain illegally - by allowing them to enter Britain legally. He might as well say: "We're going to end shoplifting - by requiring shops to give away all their products free of charge."

Mr Polanski's plan, therefore, will not solve the problem. In fact, it suggests that he doesn't understand what the problem actually is.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 3d

The Trump administration is paying children in ORR custody (essentially detained children) $2,500 to get out of the country. Many of these children have no where to go, have no family, and are here seeking protection. Our immigration system is broken but this is NOT the way to fix it.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

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Luna Vives @lunavives.bsky.social · 5d

It's like a magician's trick: "Look, over there!"

Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 5d

“Post-pandemic budget shortfalls and decreased resources have affected Montreal’s public services, while our premier appears to think unions and “radical Islamists” are our biggest problems.”
montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...

Drimonis: Angry about the state of Montreal? Save it for the ballot box

While many Montrealers are quick to express their dissatisfaction online, the majority don’t bother voting in municipal elections.

montrealgazette.com

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Luna Vives @lunavives.bsky.social · 5d

Maintenant plus que jamais, ce n'est pas le moment ni de s'aliger sur les politiques migratoires de Trump, ni d'offrir notre droit à la vie privée en cadeau.

Refusons le projet de loi C-2

Avec ma collègue Patricia Martin.

CÉRIUM @cerium-udem.bsky.social · 6d

Avec le projet de loi C2, le Canada cherche-t-il à plaire à son voisin du Sud? Lisez la lettre ouverte de nos chercheuses @lunavives.bsky.social et Patricia Martin dans @lapresse.ca.
@fasudem.bsky.social

www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...

Érosion du droit d’asile au Canada | Doit-on plaire à notre voisin du Sud ?

En septembre, la Chambre des communes a amorcé la deuxième lecture du projet de loi C-2, la Loi visant une sécurité rigoureuse à la frontière. Derrière ce titre se cache une réforme tentaculaire qui a...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 5d

We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

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Alex @dirtbagboyfriend.bsky.social · 6d

Adding my voice to the chorus: the Sumud flotilla never entered Israeli waters. that is a lie. The Gazan coast is Palestinian territory (not even spiritually, like actually in international law) so the Sumud flotilla has not violated Israeli sovereignty. The Israelis intercepting them however…

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 5d

Happening now: Hundreds of rabbis and Jewish community members gather in Brooklyn for a mass public memorial service on Yom Kippur, demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the U.S. to stop arming Israel.

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The Civil Fleet @thecivilfleet.bsky.social · 6d

Israel accused of ‘piracy’ after abducting over 400 Global Sumud Flotilla activists and seizing their ships

Amnesty says Israel's attack was ‘a brazen assault against solidarity activists carrying out an entirely peaceful humanitarian mission’

thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/i...

Israel accused of ‘piracy’ after abducting over 400 Global Sumud Flotilla activists and seizing their ships

ISRAEL was accused of “piracy and kidnapping” today after its soldiers abducted over 400 people from 42 boats in internationals waters last night as they attempted to deliver humanitari…

thecivilfleet.wordpress.com

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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 6d

An ICE deportation flight (OAE3671) that departed Phoenix, AZ yesterday morning has just landed in Casablanca, Morocco after stops in Senegal (likely fuel) and Mauritania. This marks the 1st deportation to Morocco since at least 2020 when ICE flight tracking began.

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CÉRIUM @cerium-udem.bsky.social · 6d

Avec le projet de loi C2, le Canada cherche-t-il à plaire à son voisin du Sud? Lisez la lettre ouverte de nos chercheuses @lunavives.bsky.social et Patricia Martin dans @lapresse.ca.
@fasudem.bsky.social

www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...

Érosion du droit d’asile au Canada | Doit-on plaire à notre voisin du Sud ?

En septembre, la Chambre des communes a amorcé la deuxième lecture du projet de loi C-2, la Loi visant une sécurité rigoureuse à la frontière. Derrière ce titre se cache une réforme tentaculaire qui a...

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Luna Vives @lunavives.bsky.social · 6d

Thinking of Presente: A dockworker's story, where Herb Mills (with historian Peter Cole) tells how his union successfully blocked a shipment of weapons to El Salvador in the 1980s.

Workers are the force that keeps the wheels of the system turning. Unions have the power to channel that force.

Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 6d

Italy's largest union, with over 5.5 million workers, has called a general strike for Friday in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla.

And smaller Italian unions have said they will join CGIL's general strike.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 6d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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The Civil Fleet @thecivilfleet.bsky.social · 7d

According to this tracker, the #GlobalSumudFlotilla Alma has been attacked

magic.mapim.dev/sumudnusantara

Follow the live stream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 7d

A leaked document confirms the EU is still backing deterrence efforts, even though they know this money goes to human rights abusers. The EU has been funding Libyan militias for a long time. Just days ago, they fired on our Sea-Watch 5. Read more here: https://euobserver.com/migration/areb944fcf

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InfoMigrants @infomigrants.net · 7d

The Spanish government has highlighted the benefits generated by immigration, after the center-right People's Party in opposition proposed implementing a points-based visa system for foreigners.
www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6725...

Immigration not a problem in Spain, government tells opposition

The Spanish government has highlighted the benefits generated by immigration, after the center-right People's Party in opposition proposed implementing a points-based visa system for foreigners.

www.infomigrants.net

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Luna Vives @lunavives.bsky.social · 7d

Venez me voir si vous êtes au Québec le 21 Octobre ! 🌟

📚 Lancement du livre The Gates of the Sea

🙌 Avec la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les dynamiques migratoires mondiales et l'École supérieures d'études internationales (ULaval)

📍 Salle GHK-2320-2330

📅 21 octobre, de 10 h 30 à 12 h

Affiche de l'évenement, avec les informations (21 octobre de 10 h 30 à 12 h à la salle GHK 2320-2330 ULaval) et la couverture du livre, qui montre un bateau de sauvetage orange en mer.

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Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 8d

Labour’s plan to make migrants earn permanent residency by doubling the wait to 10 years & adding new tests turns belonging into an endless exam.
🔗 theconversation.com/labours-plan...
#ShabanaMahmood
#LabourConference

Labour’s plan for migrants to ‘earn’ permanent residency turns belonging into an endless exam

In this hierarchical system, migrants are kept on extended probation and judged by standards never applied to British nationals.

theconversation.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 9d

Last week, I and others reported 5+ ICE flights had landed in Ghana since it began taking third-country nationals on Sept. 5.

Now eNCA confirms at least one of those flights held Liberian, Nigerian and Togolese nationals, who were driven to Togo and dumped w/o papers. www.enca.com/news/west-af...

West Africans deported by US to Ghana dumped in Togo without papers

West Africans deported by the United States to Ghana are now fending for themselves in Togo after being dumped in the country without documents, lawyers and deportees have told AFP.

www.enca.com

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 10d

Every death in the Channel is the avoidable result of a political choice.

The i Paper @theipaper.com · 10d

Breaking news: A child has died off the coast of France while attempting to cross the English Channel in a small boat,

trib.al/JD3STCi

Child dies after attempting to cross Channel in small boat

Incident comes after two Somali women died attempting to cross the Channel in a separate incident off the northern coast of France on Saturday

inews.co.uk

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 11d

It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11d

“Italy’s USB union will host trade unionists from ports in Spain, France, Greece, Cyprus, Morocco and Germany to hammer out a joint strategy.”

European and North African dockworkers will gather to devise methods for curtailing the flow of goods and arms to and from Israel

Dockworkers from across Europe gather to plan trade squeeze on Israel

Dockworker unions are fast becoming an important factor in exerting pressure over the war in Gaza.

www.politico.eu

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Luna Vives @lunavives.bsky.social · 12d

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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 12d

“Thúy has been a Quebecer longer than Bock-Côté has been alive. Why is she being treated by him as a foreigner, branded as ungrateful the minute she criticizes policies & rhetoric that deeply impact Quebec’s reputation and many Quebecers’ sense of belonging?”
www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...

Drimonis: I’m not a guest here. This is my home. It’s Kim Thúy’s home too

We all have the right to both love and criticize Quebec.

www.montrealgazette.com

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Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 12d

Il y a quelques années, le groupe CollecTerr, composé d’étudiants et doctorants de Genève, avait mis en ligne une énorme quantité de ses écrits librement sur l’Archive Ouverte de l’Université de Genève. Merci à elle•eux, merci à lui pour cet héritage.
archive-ouverte.unige.ch/contributor/...

Raffestin, Claude | Archive ouverte UNIGE

Claude Raffestin, contributor of Archive institutionnelle de l'Université de Genève - Institutional Repository of the University of Geneva

archive-ouverte.unige.ch

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