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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 1h

love this!

Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 2h

Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1h

Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 1h

We had years of debate about whether Trump's movement was a fascist one - I never expected them to openly identify themselves with historical fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1h

The discourse in the West for the next few days will be e.g. "for all the caveats, let's just be relieved". And no, let's not. That's a feeling for Palestinians, not us.

Palestinians are human beings who deserve much better than the choice we've given them between genocide or colonial subjugation

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2h

Even the change to formally calling for a ceasefire was meaningless given that there was no "or else" attached. The arms and intel sharing continued to flow, no sanctions were applied. They were complicit throughout.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3h

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years"

The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 20h

‘“For this movie to make any sense at all, one has to believe the United States, today, right now, is a fascist dictatorship,” wrote David Marcus at Fox News.’

Damn, this movie must make a lot of sense.

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 20h

This man cannot stop stepping on career rakes, which are admittedly extremely lucrative

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Dylan Kerrigan @rumagin.bsky.social · 20h

PM who supports genocide and is using the law to fight those who oppose genocide now will police the language of those against genocide. He needs to be in jail for supporting crimes against humanity

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 21h

Keir Starmer has threatened to crack down on the chants used at pro-Palestine protests in England

Keir Starmer threatens crackdown on pro-Palestine protest chants

www.thenational.scot

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 1d

Getting confused messages from the slogan
"If you want to live in Britian, don't learn to spell teh fucking langauge"

Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t study English these days because of anti-woke.

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 1d

Once again, the sensibles find themselves on the wrong side of history

Helen Lewis

@helenlewis

Corbyn: "There is a poet, a painting, a novel, a play in all of us." DON'T ENCOURAGE THEM JEREMY.

8:22 pm 21 Aug 16

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

They all knew exactly what they were doing and I have seen not a trace of contrition

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson... • 33m
In the early 2010s it was infuriating to see endless screeds on "legitimate concerns" against East Europeans from analysts and scholars who seemed oblivious to how the moment political leaders capitulated to this xenophobia it would just lead to escalating hatemongering against other diasporas
Captain Haddock @realcapt... • 43m
It was inevitable that "too many people speaking Polish" Brexitism would become outright "too many brown people"
And it's what people like Gove, David Davis and Johnson enabled

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

This has become a farce and it needs to stop. Legally buying a magazine and getting arrested for carrying it?!

The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 1d

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1d

Need to bring back official anti-racism. Even as hypocritical as it was passing the '81 Nationalities Act was you still had an official anti-racism which would have stopped Jenrick in his tracks. Another era I fear.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Netpol @netpol.org · 1d

Yesterday's narrative of 7 October as ‘another 9/11’ – "yet another day torn free from any history or context" with only two sides – seeks to demonise all Palestine solidarity as "pro-terrorist." It is critical to understanding Britain's current crackdown on protest rights netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...

Protesters against the banning of Palestine Action in Trafalgar Square, London, 4 October 2025.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 1d

5 times I've been through the 'break / ban encryption' debate.

1st time was late 90s, trying to get encryption to use AT ALL.

Imagine what progressive tech could have built if we didn't have to drop everything to fight this BS off every few years.

Support your local digital rights org. Please.

Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 1d

At some point, you'd think they ought to conclude that *there isn't an acceptable, mandatory alternative*, and put the resources into other, more practical ways of addressing the *societal* problem of child abuse instead. But they'd rather have the means of mass surveillance and censorship. 🤷‍♂️

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 1d

Another case of TBI - Traumatic Blair Injury amongst the political class

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

James Cleverly: "I cannot understand the motivation for protests of this type so regularly"

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 1d

I was a Ulrich Beck fanboi so I have a row of Polity on the bookshelf.

Anyway, a bit of googling and turns out their associate editor for Gender, Women's and Feminist Studies is extremely friendly to TERFs...

Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 1d

Incredible that the health minister, the Blairite saviour Wes Streeting is hiring the professor who ideologically fucked up diagnoses of ME/CFS at the exact point of this discovery.

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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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 1d

When did Polity get into the business of being an outlet for Spiked and Critic instead of just an academic press?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

“Why haven’t the protests against successive governments’ complicity in genocide stopped”, a mystery that is apparently beyond our finest political minds to fathom

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 1d

Where are Muslims supposed to go other than the racist formulation of "back home" anyway?

The Anglos and Europe have decided that it's acceptable to treat us as genetically antisemitic, rapist pedophiles who threaten the fabric of your perfect liberal democratic societies even without Trump.

Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 1d

Most people can’t leave anyway. Whenever I read a post about get out while you can, I wince. Most people can’t. No one should have to anyway.

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 1d

Murray is invited to synagogues here to talk about the Muslim threat to Jewish safety, regular contributor to the Jewish Chronicle, and there's a direct line from that to Starmer talking about an island of strangers and Tory and Reform plans of deporting 15mn people.

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 1d

I repeat, GRT is now primarily a Zionist theory, and been largely shorn of its antisemitic origins to be aimed squarely at Muslims, and at least in the UK, is completely mainstream.

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 1d

Incredibly normal to have writers for the State of Israel, defender of the Jewish people, who are also proponents of Great Replacement Theory.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 1d

Again, populism needs to be retired as a concept as its main purpose has been to lump left wing parties with fascists even whilst centrist parties adopt more and more of fascism's ideology.

Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 4d

"Modern fascist parties might have accommodated themselves to electoral democracy, as did many socialists and archconservatives before them. Some might even look very much like today's reactionary populists." /end

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