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greenhealthpolicy.bsky.social @greenhealthpolicy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What does the Green Party proposed new health policy say about #infectious disease? @greenparty.org.uk

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My partner got our cat his own personal doorbell. It's attached to a sensor on the wall that tells us when he's coming to the door so that we don't have to keep the door open all the time. Much cheaper and less work than a cat flap and also 200% more whimsy. 10/10.

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 21/09/2026

Yom Kippur. Jews fasting for Gaza in Westminster 40 young and old, on the pavement, demanding an end to Genocide

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am an anti-Zionist but I do sometimes flinch when I see people describing Zionism as uniquely "evil", as if it was somehow worse than or wasn't a part of the widespread evils of capitalism, colonialism and nationalism...

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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The only way you can identify yourself as anti-Zionist and say that Israel has committed genocide in a shul and not be thrown out, is if you are standing for election and get invited to a hustings there. So shekoyech to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for speaking for all of us excluded from these spaces.

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Full of admiration for @zackpolanski.bsky.social after hearing about the Jewish community hustings yesterday. We need more political leaders who stick to their principles even when they know it won't make them popular. I'm proud to be a Jewish member of the Green Party this morning

jewishnews.co.uk

Polanski sparks anger after declaring himself ‘anti-Zionist’ at packed communal hustings - Jewish News

Green Party's Holborn and St Pancras by-election candidate is booed and heckled

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Was a mekhaye (joy) and a koved (honour) to be interviewed on the lefty Jewish podcast Bashert for their episode on the month of Elul, which began at sundown yesterday. Give it a listen tr.ee/2_wUOZJszB

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Bashert Podcast Official: Instagram | Linktree

Bashert is a podcast that celebrates the magic of the Jewish calendar; weaving together ritual practice, astrology of the month ahead and doikayt.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If you think it's hot where you are, it's 127 degrees Fahrenheit in Iran

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Cowleyforniadreaming @holybollards.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Thames water have been discharging raw sewage into the river for more than 4 hrs today.

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The year is 2036. A group of neurodivergent people with ME/CFS now live in Paris Chatelet metro because we lacked both the executive function and the energy to get more than halfway through the station

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Mimed the word "avekleygn" (put away) for my Francophone Yiddish students and I said "tak" as I placed the object down for clarity. Feeling proud of my cultural literacy 🥸 Also now coming up with a "hop mayne homentashn" exercise that involves moving some homentashn from one place to another

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Jewdastine Action @jewdas.org · 24/05/2026

Hey all just some admin for our Peysakh seder next year. Looking for ideas: What vegetable should @zackpolanski.bsky.social hold up and what ideology should he shout fuck at?

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

coucou la semaine prochaine c'est mon anniversaire #justsaying

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Saving this snapshot from Parisian Police Archives for when my dad says something "political" in the family group chat "It seems that English public opinion, always slow to react, is beginning to make itself known..."

Screenshot of a typed French document that reads "il semble, d'autre part, que l'opinion publque anglaise, doujours longue à s'émouvoir, commence à se manifester"

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I think a major reason for why Zionism has become so dominant among Jews is somewhere along the line—and thanks to clever manipulation by Zionist leaders—lots of Jews have started to see Israel's right to exist as synonymous with Jews' right to exist. Extremely dangerous and we need to challenge it

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This is the only acceptable answer to "do you support Israel's right to exist" and it's frigging great to see a prominent politician say it

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Winslow Santé Publique @winslowsp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🎤 Un de nos membres, Julien, était sur les ondes sur RTL ce matin pour parler #CovidLong Il y parle de la fausse séparation en vulnérable / invulnérable au Covid, des inégalités face au diagnostic & à la prise en charge, et son expérience de la maladie👏

Faustine bollaert un jour une vie
Julien, le Covvid long a bouleversé toute sa vie.
Photo de Faustine bollaert fond rouge

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

"I went from a life of being able-bodied to a life of being disabled. And a disabled life is just as worthy as an able-bodied life, you can just can't do certain things, but what becomes difficult is society's gaze, which tells you that you are no longer worth much" So well put.

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Winslow Santé Publique @winslowsp.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🚨🗞️ Must read : "Non, le yoga n’est pas la solution au Covid long" sur le Colloque Long COVID EU Project (nous confirmons!), "rapidement interrompu par des personnes vivant avec le Covid long, s’insurgeant des thèses défendues par certains des protagonistes

liberation.fr

Non, le yoga n’est pas la solution au Covid long

Christian Lehmann est médecin et écrivain. Pour «Libération», il tient la chronique d’une société touchée par les crises sanitaires et du service public. Il s’insurge contre ces praticiens qui pensent que le Covid long «c’est dans la tête».

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Great conversation with @josephfinlay.bsky.social and @vashtimedia.bsky.social editors Asha Sumroy and Evan Robins, trying to make sense of the recent antisemitic attacks and, as Joseph puts it, the 'utter, utter nonsense' of the state response to them www.vashtimedia.com/the-present-...

vashtimedia.com

The present crisis

A conversation on attacks and repression in London.

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Another day, another national newspaper publishing a cartoon with Zack Polanski with a massive hook nose. Another day of silence from mainstream politicians self-proclaimed great antisemitism fighters on the antisemitism faced by Zack. Solidarity with Zack and ALL the victims of antisemitism.

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Next Tuesday @ 7pm EST (midnight for Brits) @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social , Elissa Sampson and I discuss the interwar history of the IWO, an immigrant fraternal order associated with the CPUSA. Free, online, register at www.circle.org/events/iwo-p... Come for the communism, stay for the Yiddish.

A blue flyer showing an illustrated book cover with a picture of a boy selling newspapers on a new york street, and photographs of three presenters - two white women and one black man.

The event description reads: THE IWO: FROM POPULAR FRONT TO COLD WAR a discussion with Dr. Elissa Sampson, Anthony Russell and Annie Cohen

MAY 12, 7:00-8:00 PM ET on Zoom

How did the International Workers Order navigate Jewish and leftist political communities and organize for justice before, during, and in the wake of the Second World War?

Join us and learn why the IWO's history and legacy remain compelling for all of us who wish to build "a better and more beautiful world for everyone."

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

One size fits all, if your bum is too big or too small then you should investigate yourself for left- or right-wing deviationism

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Going through 1930s Communist Press archives and a lot of it is very depressing and also Stalinist but then there is also this great guide by SUSAN to making your own knickers using cut outs from the paper as a template #history #praxis

Screenshot of a newspaper showing the title "SUSAN, the Home Page dressmaker, gives some useful tips on MAKING your own KNICKERS". Image of a knickers template with dimensions

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tash @tashldn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Have you seen this from Herschel Gluck? He’s gone in pretty hard and taken up the hoohah over Zack Polanski too… bsky.app/profile/tash...

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

In his memoirs, translated into English by Samuel Portnoy, the famous Bundist leader Vladimir Medem described having his words misconstrued by a Zionist journalist 🧵

Excerpt from a book that reads:
In my address I concentrated on the pogroms. I could readily discern
in the audience the terribly depressing effect induced by those
sanguinary events. Words of consolation are hard to come by in such
circumstances; and that was n ot my task. I had merely wished to set
the matter in its proper light. And I said: Blood is being shed, the
situation is horrible, but one should keep in mind (I can literally
recall the words that follow): " Blood constitutes that lubricant
without which the carriage of history does not move ahead." Here
was a thought, one would imagine, that was perfectly legitimate and
plainly elementary, yet these words had the effect of stirring up a
hornet's nest. The audience included some sort of Zionist (I don't
know whether he was a fool o r a vicio us faker) who wrote a report in
a Jewish newspaper about the meeting, and he p ut altogether different
words into my mouth. According to his report, I allegedly
stated that Jewish blood is the lubricant of the R ussian revolution. A
brouhaha ensued. The Zionists seized upon those fictitious words
and tormented me with them for years. Several weeks after the
speech-as soon as I arrived in Russia-! published a denial in Der
Fraynd. I declared that what the correspondent had written about me
was a lie; and I cited my actual words. Alas, to no avail. Those nice ·
folks simply ignored my response; it suited them better to sustain the
furor. And year after year the words would be thrown up to mewords
which I had never uttered. It became simply habit. A real
tradition was established in the Zionist press: whenever my name was
mentioned, the following addendum would be tacked on: "This is the
same individual who said that Jewish blood is a lubricant for the
Russian revolution." To this very day, sixteen years later, the identical
statement continues meandering through Zionist byways. When faced with liars, one truly remains powerless.

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Very excited for this book talk with @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social and Elissa Sampson. I'll be talking about my chapter on the IWO and the International Brigades

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

"We are people living with long covid, and we are ill. We're fed up of seeing public money spent on projects that put sick people in danger. We want real treatments, not behavioural and cognitive therapies or meditation..."

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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This is a sobering read but what it reiterates to me is the unwiseness of combining a large range of diverse phenomena under the term ‘antisemitism’. It makes it all but impossible to deal with any of them. Much better to consider them separately and specifically. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Spat at, threatened and kidnapped: British Jews tell of rising antisemitism

British Jews have described to BBC Panorama how they are experiencing a rise in antisemitism.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 12/04/2026

#OtD 12 Apr 1918 Bolshevik forces attacked 26 anarchist centres in Moscow. At least 40 anarchists were killed by Cheka forces, and about 500 arrested and jailed. They falsely claimed "criminal elements [had] infiltrated the anarchist organisations" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1253...

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Elisa Rojas @elisarojas.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Le cadmium énième scandale sanitaire. Tous les médias qui se mettent à vous expliquer ce qu'il faut manger ou pas et comment, alors qu'il y en a dans tous les aliments les plus consommés et que la seule vraie solution c'est d'exiger des pouvoirs publics qu'ils agissent.

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Berthe PhD Chorizot 🔮🌱 @berthechorizot.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Le fait qu’on ne puisse plus rien manger, que ça soit pas une priorité absolue de nos gouvernements, qu’on soit tous et toutes condamné•es sans réelle possibilité d’agir wahou what a time to be alive dites donc. www.liberation.fr/checknews/ca...

liberation.fr

Cadmium : faut-il vraiment privilégier les aliments bio pour protéger sa santé ?

La filière de l’agriculture bio fait de la moindre contamination au métal lourd un argument de vente, tandis que l’Anses ne tranche pas la question. «CheckNews» fait le point sur la littérature scient...

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Reading decyphered Communist Party radio messages in 2026 and I keep reading "CC" as "Covid Cautious" (rather than Central Committee). But enjoying the image of the Community Care revolution in which we occupy the land of wealthy landowners in an organised way ...

Screenshot of typed text reading "After discussion with C.C. comrades it was decided that the occupation of the land should continue in an organised way, the only way of compelling the Institute of Agrarian Reform to hasten its steps but to occupy only the land of the ex-nobility, of important reactionary landowners, of the church, ex communal lands etc. The same thing is being done with appropriating stores of wheat ...."

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Love it when my two very different research interests (mediumship and Communist antifascism) randomly collide This is from Gerald Howson's 'Arms for Spain', describing the activities and arguments of the infamous non-intervention committee during the Spanish Civil War

Excerpt describing the activities of the Non-interevention committee. Highlighted section reads: "Baron Eric Palmstierna, the Swedish delegate, would sometimes fall into a species of trance, for he was busy composing a book, The Horizons of Immortality, in which he recorded his conversation with ‘the messengers from the other world’, and whenever these spirits spoke to him he had to concentrate on what they said in order to write it down later."

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Greens Against Covid @greensagainstcovid.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

We recommend protecting supporters and activists from airborne infections. Avoid holding gatherings in unventilated spaces. Wear ffp3 masks if you have to attend these. People power is our greatest strength and we can't afford for them to be sick. The ultra wealthy have money.

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Bowling Shane @bowlingshane.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Millions of people in the UK including myself have had their long term health impacted by COVID infections and @zackpolanski.bsky.social is the only political leader talking about it. We need treatments and indoor clean air policies to protect the public's health.

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The right to protest in this country is sacrosanct and must be protected. We urge the New York City Council to reject anti-democratic legislation that restricts protest outside houses of worship.

nyclu.org

Buffer Zones Around Houses of Worship in NY Would Fuel Trump’s Fight Against Protest

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Happy International Working Women's Day

Screenshot showing a section of the front page of the Daily Herald, December 18 1933, with an article describing a protest at the German Embassy in London. Headline reads "Police baton charges at Embassy" and the subheading "women fight with sticks: many hurt"

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Greens Against Covid @greensagainstcovid.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Thanks @elliechowns.bsky.social , @greenparty.org.uk MP for this reflection and the understanding that the harms are ongoing. #Covid-19DayOfReflection #CovidIsNotOver

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I'm pretty tired of arguing with people in my communities about 'Israel's right to exist' when Zionist lobby groups like UKLFI are doing everything they can to support Israel in its erasure of Palestine (sorry for the guardian link, I haven't seen this discussed anywhere else)

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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

www.toratalbion.org.uk/booing-the-k... Both in the story and in the world, it is right to critique instances of Jewish violence, and the violence of any traumatised people seeking vengeance. But to only blame the traumatised avengers is a mistake: it lets the King off the hook.

toratalbion.org.uk

Booing the King

The Purim story blames everyone for the violence within it, and it is ultimately the fault of a despotic ruler

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

1. Outstanding article from Tess Finch Lees: 'Meanwhile, when asked why she’s masking during chemo, Meg now says, “I’m training for the Olympics” '. Please click on the paywalled link first, archived link in next post. Also consider sharing. m.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

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Tess Finch Lees: From the Winter Olympics to Nasa, wearing masks is back – except when it comes to our hospitals

Masks are back: at the Olympics, at Nasa and with A-listers.

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I help to run a mutual aid fund for a family in Gaza, and donations have been quite low over the past few months. Despite the "ceasefire", the genocide is not over, people are still living in tents and struggling to survive. Please share and donate if you can! chuffed.org/project/1227...

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Support Mohammed And Family To Survive And Rebuild!

We, people in the UK, France, Jamaica and the US, are fundraising to assist Mohammed Abdel Gatah Kamel Haggag, along with his multi-generational family, survive in a devastated and intensely dangerous...

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Learn Yiddish with me this semester part 2: for beginners who already know a bisl Yiddish. Great reviews from previous students (pictured). secure.qgiv.com/for/yiddishc...

A white and brown cat in front of a laptop. On the screen is a white person talking next to a document they are sharing. Text reads : Yiddish for beginners II, Wednesdays at 1.30pm EST / 6.30pm GMT

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