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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Sally Hunter @petite-sally.bsky.social · 1d

More autumn rambles…

A wooden bench surrounded by fallen leaves, outside a green door and stone walls.

An old Manor House glimpsed through trees, with a foreground of grass carpeted in fallen leaves.

A stone wall with an apple tree in front of it.

Fallen leaves of yellow and brown scattered across green grass

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d

Firms running hotels make vast profits, while often providing appalling conditions.
People seeking asylum don't choose to get stuck in hotels. Firms choose to make money off their lives, and governments choose to pay them rather than implement better alternatives.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

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House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

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Sally Hunter @petite-sally.bsky.social · 2d

Those trying to get aid into Gaza were beaten and left without enough food and water. Meanwhile our government continues trying to find ways of preventing people protesting… www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Gaza flotilla members allege beatings and insults in Israeli detention

Some of those held say guns were pointed at them, they were threatened with dogs and deprived of sleep

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 3d

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again...

'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d

Until someone, and Greens are probably doing the best at attempting this right now, breaks the cycle and says "hang on, maybe we could implement something positive and make the case for it instead" we are going to end up with policies based purely on what "flagpatriot1234" likes on social media.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

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Sally Hunter @petite-sally.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve just finished The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, by H. G. Parry, which is excellent (and has made me want to go and reread all of Dickens!)

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 4d

People from all walks of life — including many British Jews — are protesting against your government’s complicity in genocide and standing in solidarity with Palestine.

Conflating Israel’s genocide in Gaza with British Jews is deeply inappropriate and dangerous. Shame on you.

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 6d

Trans pupils in Scotland are limiting food and drink intake to avoid using school toilets, fearing they might be ‘outed’

www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-pupils...

Trans pupils in Scotland are limiting food and drink intake to avoid using school toilets, fearing they might be ‘outed’

The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) has said the Scottish Government’s newly revised guidance on supporting trans pupils in schools "falls short" of providing clarity to schools, teachers, par...

www.scenemag.co.uk

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 5d

My heartbreak and horror at the killing and starvation of Gazans does not negate my total support and solidarity with my fellow jewish citizens across the UK against terror. The conflation on display by some politicians and media outlets over the last 24 hours is sickening.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Sally Hunter @petite-sally.bsky.social · 8d

Autumn rambles…

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 11d

Let that sink in

"Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11d

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12d

Dear God, would be nice if Radio 4 didn't repeat obviously nonsensical arguments. Being forced into being undocumented and exploited by employers is not a "pull factor". Also the conflation between "asylum" and "illegal" is getting damn tedious.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 13d

Wonder if Starmer will find room in his speech to acknowledge the objective fact a century of escalating climate impacts means global migration will massively increase. We either find a way to effectively and humanely manage that fact, rather than deny it, or things will get very dark very quickly.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 15d

How do you rebut something this incoherent?

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 15d

So very, very tired.

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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 16d

And to those who question the need for human rights laws or international courts, this is it.

Because even functioning democracies can end up with authoritarian, oppressive regimes. And it is vulnerable people who suffer when there is no way to curtail government powers.

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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 16d

You know why ethnic minorities in the UK always feel second-class as if they're never safe in this country and could be asked to leave at any time?

This is why:

Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 16d

Nigel Farage: "We will abolish indefinite leave to remain (ILR) status", and "We will rescind ILR statuses that have already been granted".

The first sentence is worryingly ignorant. The second sentence is frighteningly fascist.

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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 19d

This is an exceptionally good description of fascism.

Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 19d

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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