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Todds Welfare Society @twspk2.bsky.social · 10h

We were not able to achieve the target last month😢. Could 198 supporters donate £5 so that we may achieve our target this month. We have so many lives depending upon us and just cannot do this without you. Just £5 🙏🏼 www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Help raise £2000 to cover TWS Fund appeal – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to cover TWS Fund appeal. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

www.justgiving.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 6h

Here’s video of the incident

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 7h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Marina Jirotka @marenka.bsky.social · 10h

#Marineland is threatening to kill 30 beluga whales unless the government gives in to its demands. Urge Ontario to act now! #CdnPoli
action.animaljustice.ca/page/179174/...

URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Stop Marineland from Killing 30 Belugas!

Marineland is threatening to kill 30 beluga whales unless the government gives in to its demands. Urge Ontario to act now.

action.animaljustice.ca

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Dog Desk Animal Action @dogdeskaction.bsky.social · 15h

Shameful act, a man dumped dogs by the roadside, Dirmil 🇹🇷

Thanks to conscientious locals the number plate was noted, he’ll be found and face a significant fine.

Well done to everyone who helped, the pups are safe🐾❤️
#AnimalRights #EndAbuse #StopDumpingDogs

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Marina Jirotka @marenka.bsky.social · 12h

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Sign the Petition

Give animals the chance to opt out of slaughter

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Marina Jirotka @marenka.bsky.social · 1d

Pregnant horses are drained for their blood in Iceland to fuel factory farming. Iceland is the only country in Europe still allowing this cruelty, but lawmakers are deciding now whether to ban it. Please sign
to shut down these brutal blood farms for good. action.eko.org/a/iceland-ba...

Iceland: Ban PMSG

It sounds like something out of a dystopian nightmare, but it’s real: pregnant horses are restrained and drained of massive amounts of blood, leaving them weak and traumatized —all so the pharmaceutic

action.eko.org

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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Marina Jirotka @marenka.bsky.social · 2d

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butterfly-conservation.org/join-the-dar...

Make a Moon Meadow for moths!

Butterfly Conservation is a British charity devoted to saving butterflies, moths and their habitats throughout the UK.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks to my fab panel @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social Naomi Luhde Thompson for making such a powerful case against Government assault on communities & natural world thro its planning “reforms” - the real housing crisis is one of affordability not planning #gpconf

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Marina Jirotka @marenka.bsky.social · 3d

Tell Japan: shut down the ivory market, save elephant lives. action.eko.org/a/japan-ivor...

Tell Japan: Shut down the ivory market.

Every year, tens of thousands of elephants are butchered for their tusks despite a global ivory ban -- and Japan’s massive domestic market remains one of the main drivers.But we have a once-in-a-gener

action.eko.org

Marina Jirotka @marenka.bsky.social · 3d

URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Help stop plans for a monstrous chicken farm in Ellough that would imprison and send over a million sensitive birds to slaughter every year. Sign here: petauk.org/49t

Factory Farm Alert: 1.2 Million Birds to Be Imprisoned and Killed

Please sign PETA’s petition to help stop these plans and spare millions of lives.

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Marina Jirotka @marenka.bsky.social · 4d

Tell the Canadian government to send #Marineland's surviving whales & dolphins to sanctuaries! #CdnPoli
action.animaljustice.ca/page/178914/...

Whales & Dolphins Are Suffering at Marineland - Take Action!

Tell the Canadian government to send Marineland's surviving whales & dolphins to sanctuaries!

action.animaljustice.ca

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 5d

Top 65 banks, including UK banks, committed $869bn (£648bn) in financing fossil fuels in 2024.

$7,900,000,000,000
over 9 years, driving climate chaos, deadly health impacts, crop failures, migration.

Banks profit from destruction and no govt stops them.

Some of UK’s biggest banks ‘investing ever larger sums into fossil fuels’

Which’s analysis follows research finding that the world’s biggest banks significantly increased their fossil fuel finance in 2024.

www.independent.co.uk

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Marina Jirotka @marenka.bsky.social · 4d

World Leaders: Protect the Sumud Flotilla Now action.eko.org/a/world-lead...

World Leaders: Protect the Sumud Flotilla Now

Right now, the last remaining vessel of the Sumud Flotilla, The Marinette, is approaching Gaza's waters -- carrying brave activists who are all risking their lives to break Israel’s illegal siege on G

action.eko.org

Marina Jirotka @marenka.bsky.social · 4d

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Help save nature by rewilding the Church’s massive landholdings!

What would Jesus do if he owned 108,000 acres (over 60,000 football pitches) of land? Would he farm the vast majority for profit, or would he use some of it to restore forests, wetlands and meadows to...

you.38degrees.org.uk

Marina Jirotka @marenka.bsky.social · 5d

amazonwatch.org/news/2025/09...

Ferrogrão Is a Shortcut to Collapse | Amazon Watch

Ferrogrão is the backbone of a corridor that transforms the Amazon into a commodity export route and condemns Brazil to a subservient role.

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Marina Jirotka @marenka.bsky.social · 6d

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/nz...

NZ Government Sanction Israel Now

Since October 2023 the world has witnessed the state of Israel perpetrate innumerable war crimes and human rights violations against the people of Gaza [1], while the violence, repression, and forced ...

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Marina Jirotka @marenka.bsky.social · 6d

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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 6d

In a world that often chooses destruction over wonder, be like Jane Goodall.
Listen to the whispers of the forest and the cries of the wild.
Protect creatures who cannot speak for themselves.
Cherish the earth as if every tree, river, and mountain were part of your own family.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 6d

Empathy + Action = A Better World

Thank you, Jane Goodall

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 6d

Your #FoxOfTheDay , shared by @hennige.bsky.social on BlueSky

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 6d

“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏

PM Keir Starmer

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 7d

Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security.

It’s time for a public inquiry.

Nathan Gill’s treachery puts him in same league as the “Cambridge Five”

Reform’s Russia connections may endanger our security – time for a public inquiry

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