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Robbie Smith 💚

@bobtwohats.bsky.social
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Ecosocialist, mental health, vegan, culture, tech, politics. Ⓥ 💚 🇵🇸 Sorry no DMs.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I was asked to react to the breaking news that the IPC have confirmed the famine in Gaza. End the genocide. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Zarah Sultana "As a share of GDP working age benefits have not risen since 2015... we do have alternatives, a 2% tax on extreme wealth... yet this govt will not tax the super rich... while they squeeze the most vulnerable they found billions for war... money for war but not the poor" Spot on!
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Real change is coming.
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
'Death to the IDF' is not antisemitic. Reserve your outrage for Israeli crimes in Gaza - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/death…
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'Death to the IDF' is not antisemitic. Reserve your outrage for Israeli crimes in Gaza
The band Bob Vylan's performance at Glastonbury has sparked outrage in British media, but UK politicians' guilt for complicity in genocide is driving this hysteria about punk bands
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I find it hard to follow the splits between Reform UK, Advance UK, UKIP and Reclaim Party. And I used to be a Trotskyist.
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Irish Band Fontaines D.C displays massive sign reading “Israe* is committing a genocide, use your voice.”
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
"86 charities, including Oxfam and Scope, are urging MPs to vote against the bill, saying it will harm disabled people" #GMB
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/07/2025
‘This is not a humanitarian response,’ say 130 NGOs calling for UN to take over distribution of humanitarian aid.
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Charities urge shutdown of US- and Israel-backed Gaza aid group
‘This is not a humanitarian response,’ say 130 NGOs calling for UN to take over distribution of humanitarian aid.
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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The PIP cuts are horrifying. The presupposition that there are jobs for people who can't put on trousers or use the toilet is obscene. The only job that would allow one to go around half naked, while shitting themselves in public, is being a UK politician.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
He didn’t say that. He chanted “Death to the IDF”. If he’d have changed “Death to the Russian Army”, the Daily Mail wouldn’t have splashed on it, or demanded his arrest. This rag shows infinitely more rage over a chant than the IDF incinerating thousands of little children.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This is about the right to oppose genocide. This is about our democratic freedoms. Please sign this petition - and also share it.
change.org
Sign the Petition
Don't proscribe Palestine Action
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
No amount of “concessions” on disability benefit cuts will make them more “palatable” to those who will still suffer as a result. Balancing the books on the backs of disabled people is always inhumane and unjust. It costs lives. MPs can't be expected to sit by and allow this to happen.
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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A Labour MP who signed the reasoned amendment said ministers were using "flattery and begging" to dissuade them from rebelling on welfare cuts "Oh but you're so sensible and reasonable, why would you do this, why not vote it through next week and try and win the arguments... at committee stage?"
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Cabinet Ministers Use 'Flattery And Begging' In Bid To Dissuade Labour Welfare Rebels
Government ministers have been directly calling and messaging rebellious Labour MPs in an attempt to convince them to vote for the welfare bill nex...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 24/06/2025
I'm calling on the Government to urgently rethink its proposed changes to welfare. Analysis of the proposals shows that the impact will be substantial, destroying the financial safety net for too many disabled Londoners.
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Sadiq Khan joins growing Labour rebellion against disability benefit cuts
Exclusive: London mayor is most senior party figure to call for plans to be dropped, as Starmer vows to press ahead
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The phenomenal campaign of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has caused panic among the elites. Whether he wins the Democratic nomination or not (🤞), his campaign offers the Western left crucial lessons. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Socialist Zohran Mamdani could be New York’s next mayor. This is what the western left could learn from him | Owen Jones
He has used clear messaging to redirect anger from the disenfranchised to the economic elites. That the wealthy are worried shows it’s working, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/06/2025
BREAKING: Medical sources say Israeli forces have killed at least 37 Palestinians in Gaza since the early hours of this morning. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/in9xdt
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power. Well said.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Note all the supposed "liberals" with nothing to say about Palestine Action being banned. Nothing to say about a direct action movement being legally classified in the same box as ISIS. Pathetic. Embarrassing. These charlatans will help pave the way for fascism in this country
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
via @huddersfieldtuc.bsky.social
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Perfectly expressed.
"I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. 

Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. 

That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. 

If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after"

Sahar Delijani,
Iranian author
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Robbie Smith 💚 @bobtwohats.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
So if your argument is Israel was targeting Hamas HQ, that would explain one hospital in Gaza. Explain the targeting of *all* the other hospitals, universities and schools. Israel's action are genocidal.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The warped priorities of our warmongering Prime Minister meme via Dave Hunt #SocialistSunday
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
"The UK is deeply complicit in what is happening in the Middle East. When we talk about arms sales, the UK government has suspended 30 out of 350 arms licences. 90% are still active, including components of lethal F35 fighter jets" Well said @zarahsultana.bsky.social
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Dissent is treated as terrorism, while terrorism is just state policy. #PalestineAction
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Robbie Smith 💚 @bobtwohats.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
You don't understand international law do you. So you resort to ad hominem attack and silly memes instead. It is like arguing with a 10 year old.
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Robbie Smith 💚 @bobtwohats.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Israel's Mossad HQ is in Tel Aviv suburbs. So if everyone interprets international law as Israel does, then if civilians die near Mossad HQ then that is lawful and we would have to see Israel as using its own civilians as human shields. 2/2 It's your choice!
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Robbie Smith 💚 @bobtwohats.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
International law is clear. Unless a combatant poses an immediate risk, then civil areas must not be targeted. If Hamas are hiding in tunnels, then they don't pose an immediate risk. 1/2
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Robbie Smith 💚 @bobtwohats.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Israel targets non-combatants in civilian areas and has been doing so for years. Israel does so by contorting international law beyond recognition, putting civilians all over the world at risk is this interpretation of international law becomes the norm.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
There are very few questions to which war is the answer, and Iran's nuclear enrichment is not one of them.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Why have I tabled a motion against the continued funding of Drax to burn US trees, to be heard on Monday in #HouseofLords? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince
The evidence against the Drax power station is damning, yet the government wants to continue its massive public funding, says campaigner Dale Vince
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Well done to Adil Ray for pointing out the hypocrisy of the govt. When in opposition they called on the govt to publish the legal advice it had received on Israels action, but now they are in govt they refuse to publish it #GMB
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Lisa Nandy: "Lots of my constituents worry about coming off PIP & into work because its so hard.. to get back onto it" Except PIP isn't related to employment & plenty of disabled people on PIP do work. Nandy just told a bare faced lie.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Faiza Shaheen: 50 families in the UK have as much wealth as the bottom 50% of the whole population. Faiza is right, we need a wealth tax #politicslive
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Love this news so much! Welcome @graceblakeley.substack.com Join us, we’re building a movement: join.greenparty.org.uk
I've joined to vote for Zack.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Third class non-citizens regarded as "vermin" by apartheid Israel "‘Not for you’: Israeli shelters exclude Palestinians as bombs rain down Shelters are a lifeline in Israel from Iranian missile attacks, but Palestinian citizens of the country have been locked out" www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
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‘Not for you’: Israeli shelters exclude Palestinians as bombs rain down
Shelters are a lifeline in Israel from Iranian attacks, but Palestinian citizens of the country have been locked out.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Comedy gold, as the Treasury minister tries to justify a project she knows precisely zilch.0 about. Though you stop laughing when you realise that the gold (in total, some £16bn for a crashing white elephant) is coming out of our pockets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-tp...
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Treasury minister falls apart when asked about her own announcement
YouTube video by LBC
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Following Israels latest massacre, over 200 injured people (some in a critical condition) have been rushed to Nasser hospital. Franz Leuf from MSF is asked about the situation there. He says its catastrophic.
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Robbie Smith 💚 @bobtwohats.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Yes I agree that is what they are insinuating. I think each person needs to make their own mind up whether they wish to block people or not. I don't feel the need to block. The fact that others are reading this thread, means they can look at both sides and I am confident in what I am saying
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 17/06/2025
The Labour government has armed Israel, supplied fighter jet parts and trained its forces. Now, David Lammy refuses to rule out further military support for this genocidal regime. How far will they go?
WHAT NEXT?
With photo of David Lammy speaking in the House of Commons

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066. London SE16 9GQ
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Robbie Smith 💚 @bobtwohats.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I care because I am witnessing a genocide in Gaza. When I first learned about the Holocaust, as a child, I cared about the victims, even though I am not Jewish and hadn't been to Germany. I care that my government is lying about its participation in this genocide. Hope that helps.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Contrary to media reports after the 2025 local elections, there was no Reform UK landslide, just an outdated voting system that needs reforming.
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There was no Reform UK Landslide!
Contrary to media reports after the 2025 local elections, there was no Reform UK landslide, just an outdated voting system that needs reforming
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Robbie Smith 💚 @bobtwohats.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Or how about these officers and reservists www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Israeli army officers refuse to serve in ‘unnecessary, eternal war’ in Gaza
In letter to Netanyahu, 41 signatories say government’s orders are ‘clearly illegal’ and hostages have been given ‘death sentence’
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Robbie Smith 💚 @bobtwohats.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Not exactly "anyone" is it. All your references are either Israel or the far right in the US. Whereas I can point to pro Israelis calling this a genocide www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEGl...
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Is Israel Committing Genocide? A Debate w/ Shaiel Ben-Ephraim
YouTube video by Rabbi Daniel Levine
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Robbie Smith 💚 @bobtwohats.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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Robbie Smith 💚 @bobtwohats.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Oh yeah because an organisation set up by an ex-IDF intelligence corp spy is going to be really, really unbiased 😀
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