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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ in central London. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services." via Global Justice Now

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We've won big this year - and our wins have forced the Labour government to change course. But we need far more and urgently. From climate action to an emergency brake on rents - we'll keep the pressure on to bring about the change this country needs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Greens can move Labour in the right direction, says Zack Polanski

The Green leader tells his autumn conference that a vote for his party can force changes from Andy Burnham.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A lifeboat crew responds to a call and finds a dingy in distress full of migrant men, women and children. Do they leave or rescue them? No-one with a shred of humanity would turn round and head back.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Palantir have just bought themselves a Labour Lord with close links to the Labour government. No other word to describe this other than corruption. How can Watson remain a member of the House of Lords and keep the Labour whip?

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The extent to which Labour continue to regard left-leaning voters as fundamentally not real people continues to be incredible

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/08/2026

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: An attorney says his client suffered a brain bleed and traumatic brain injury after a violent ICE apprehension, then woke up in a hospital with no memory of what happened. His family didn't know where he was for days. Now his lawyer is demanding answers.

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Lawyer Says ICE Detainee Suffered Brain Bleed After Violent Apprehension, Was Guarded by Agents Instead of Given Private Medical Care

MeidasTouch has obtained a detailed narrative from the attorney representing Jose Mejia Hernandez, describing a violent apprehension by immigration

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So powerful to be in Trafalgar Square at the vigil. Rest in Power, Professor Jason Arday.

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OneWingedSparrow @onewingedsparrow.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Obligatory because extremely related and this should be required viewing but somehow it's not. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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The Alt-Right Playbook - YouTube

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is an outrageous failure from Andy Burnham and this Labour Government. He says they "don't know the remedy." It's obvious to almost anyone. Nationalise water companies. Tax fossil fuel companies. Invest in renewables. Labour selling us down the river to please their donors as country burns.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/07/2026

Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%. In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets. This is only the beginning.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If Andy Burnham truly wants to put politics aside to grip social care, the Greens should be at the table. Last month, I sat down listening to the experiences of carers. We need new thinking and urgent change now: m.youtube.com/watch?v=HbJJ...

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The UK Care System Is Broken

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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Shakuntala @banaji.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It was really exciting doing this podcast with @pinkacidboots.bsky.social

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Food growers & farmers are increasingly experiencing climate breakdown harvests That means higher prices - and more food insecurity. Politicians have been quiet on this growing crisis - but silence isn't good enough when our food supply is at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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More than half of England officially in drought - Environment Agency

The drought declarations follow an exceptionally hot and dry period, which has hit rivers, crops and nature.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

True progress isn't growing bigger,it's getting better, fairer, and circular.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"I am a Deputy Leader of a national political party today because of the upbringing my parents gave me. I would not be writing these words today without the opportunities they built here. I will never apologise for who I am, however much the colour of my skin or my religion upsets some."

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21/07/2026

An extensive new Palestinian Feminist Collective report traces Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to Gaza today, showing it isn't incidental abuse but a deliberate tool of ethnic cleansing and control. mondoweiss.net/2026/07/how-... #Palestine #Israel

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How Israel has used sexualized violence as a weapon of settler colonialism from 1948 to today

An extensive new Palestinian Feminist Collective report traces Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to Gaza today, showing it isn’t incidental abuse but a deliberate tool...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Robert Peston, "Would you work with Andy Burnham, can he build consensus with the Greens for example?" Zack Polanski, "My problem is, some of these appointments today suggest a continuity Keir Starmer"

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Gap between the pay of FTSE 100 CEOs and UK workers the widest for 8 years. Median pay of FTSE 100 CEO increased from £4.66m in 2024/25 to £5.06m in 2025/26. UK bosses get 130 times average worker’s salary, often for mediocre performance. Workers generate wealth but have no say on exec pay.

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Gap between the pay of FTSE 100 CEOs and UK workers the widest for 8 years - High Pay Centre

The High Pay Centre's annual review of CEO pay in the FTSE 100 shows the Median FTSE 100 CEO to median UK worker pay ratio rose to 130:1 in 2025/26, the highest for 8 years and up from 124:1 last year...

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Beyond absurd. A budget is a moral document.

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Shakuntala @banaji.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is actually really funny!

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Canada is burning. Norway is burning. At the SAME time. This is not "summer." This is a climate tipping point unfolding live. For climate deniers still saying "it's natural"

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Now they're doing what we call "trace forward" in the food biz. "Now that we have a suspect [lettuce from X farm].....where ELSE did that lettuce go?" In other words, a whole lot of companies were probably serving that lettuce! Taco Bell just had a good tracking program, so they found it first!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"Bolsonaro has begun a twenty-seven-year prison sentence for his role in January 8, while the instigator of January 6 sits in the Oval Office...Should we in the United States try a Brazilian strategy?" spoiler: I answer yes. me, for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...

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Truth Without Reconciliation

Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 16/07/2026

Keir Starmer authorised hundreds of spy flights for Israeli intelligence during its genocide. That is his legacy. Watch our film revealing those spy flights that the national media refused to cover, and helped Starmer get away with it. 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fk3...

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Britain's Gaza Spy Flights Scandal - A Declassified documentary

YouTube video by Declassified UK

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Please be the first amongst the thousands to like, comment and repost this message if you believe that our remaining forest in the Amazon and in the Congo basin must be protected for climate action and environmental sustainability. No to deforestation and ecocide.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Maine is in absolute outrage! Protesters took over Senator Susan Collins’ office chanting "VOTE HER OUT" after an ICE thug brutally executed a 26-year-old Colombian man. We demand immediate accountability for this state-sponsored murder! Enough is enough!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As wildfires rage, Andy Burnham still won't rule out airport expansion. He still hasn't commited to ending new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. The incoming Prime Minister can't say the climate crisis is an emergency whilst backing policies that make it worse.

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The whole nation is unified in demanding ICE be permanently abolished! Keep hammering away at them! There are far more of us than there are these rogue terrorists. We will defeat them!!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Reported today that Labour plans to withhold benefits to people who have been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain. Performative cruelty and total cowardice. That’s why the Greens will replace Labour.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

feels like a real landmark of impunity that major corporations are making federal crimes part of the interview process

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani announces click-to-cancel rule for NYC. This rule is aimed at guaranteeing New Yorkers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up — and stopping corporations from trapping customers. This will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million per year.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Another caller, who said she was sleeping in her home, said she heard someone say the n-word twice before she heard two or three gunshots."

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

When did Labour become the party who wants to tax those who clean buildings more than those who own them? This can’t be right. The Green Party would equalise Capital Gains Tax and Income Tax.

Blair warns Burnham: don't raise capital gains tax

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