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Cherry L

@cherryl.bsky.social
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Wiltshire based, socialist, Quaker, trans ally.🏳️‍⚧️ She/her

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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026
Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly
Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt
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Steph Paton @stephpaton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In a reasonable world, that last sentence should have been the end of the story. But when it comes to the campaign against trans people, apparently, you can take any unevidenced claim and still say that it 'raises questions' about us.
A row has erupted over NHS policies which allow transgender women onto women-only wards.

A consultant psychiatrist at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) claims a patient, who identified as a trans woman, exposed themselves to female patients during their stay.

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) said it had investigated the allegations and had no record of this ever happening.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender” Today is exactly 5 years since @theguardian.com censored the words of non-binary academic, Judith Butler. These are the censored words. Still valid now.
It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender. The anti-gender ideology movement is not opposing a specific account of gender, but seeking to eradicate "gender" as a concept or discourse, a field of study, an approach to social power. Sometimes they claim that "sex" alone has scientific standing, but other times they appeal to divine mandates for masculine domination and difference. They don't seem to mind contradicting themselves.
The Terfs (trans exclusionary radical feminists) and the so-called gender critical writers have also rejected the important work in feminist philosophy of science showing how culture and nature interact (such as Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, EM Hammonds or Anne Fausto-Sterling) in favor of a regressive and spurious form of biological essentialism. So they will not be part of the coalition that seeks to fight the anti-gender movement. The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times. So the Terfs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which include high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people.
The anti-gender movement circulates a spectre of "gender" as a force of destruction, but they never actually read any works in gender studies. Quick and fearful conclusions take the place of considered judgments. Yes, some work on gender is difficult and not everyone can read it, so we have to do better in reaching a broader public. As important as it is, however, to make complex concepts available to a popular audience, it is equally important to encourage intellectual inquiry as part of public life. Unfortunately, we are living in anti-intellectual times, and neo-fascism is becoming more normalized.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 30/08/2026
Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to undergo procedures, according to NHS correspondence sent to patients and seen by QueerAF www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...
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NHS cancels all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of Welsh Gender Service with immediate effect
Some trans patients received news their surgeries had been cancelled just days or even hours before they were due to take place
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 15/08/2026
Dr Arday’s tragic death was the direct, foreseeable result of press harrassment, with racism playing a key role We're asking the prime minister to commission an immediate public inquiry ito ensure we never see a tragic death like Dr Arday's again goodlaw.social/n1ck
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So why is Burnham refusing to nationalise Thames Water?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
50 green groups write to Andy Burnham demanding he be clear that climate change is the cause of the current extreme heat crisis. Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth and others say "the British public deserves leadership that speaks honestly about the nature of the challenges the country faces"
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Claims Burnham refuses to engage with climate crisis ignore the unpalatable truth: he’s made his position very clear. The North Sea is to re-open for oil and gas drilling & electric vehicle targets have been slashed - all within three weeks of taking power. #VoteGreen
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Marty Hades 🔥💀 @smartypantsmarty.com · 14/08/2026
It’s just so wrong. We need to revisit the need for a public inquiry into press standards. No one should have to endure the hounding that Jason Arday experienced. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
Jason Arday was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, officials said.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
...so Parker has a new article making many of the same points. agreed we should consider retiring these jokes: bsky.app/profile/park...
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
England Schools Ordered to Restrict Trans Pupils’ Toilet and Changing Room Access gayexpress.co.nz/2026/07/engl...
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England Schools Ordered to Restrict Trans Pupils’ Toilet and Changing Room Access - YOUR EX
New statutory guidance will require England’s schools to restrict transgender pupils’ access to toilets, changing rooms and social transition.
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Lazzie BOO!! 😱 @lazzieb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
in most domains it's thought self-evident that an adult picking on children is the lowest of the low. that wanting to make young lives miserable is a wretched & disgusting thing. an evil thing. not here. here, they like to make children cry, and suffer, and be made to feel alone, and unwanted.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We should allow asylum seekers to work – so that they can support themselves and become part of our communities. It’s these common sense solutions, not more performative cruelty, that will fix our broken migration system. metro.co.uk/2026/07/01/z...
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Zack Polanski: Burnham must end Labour's dangerous anti-migrant slant
I don’t have much hope for the man who will soon have the power to change things.
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Services specifically for women who'd experienced violence from men *already* had pretty broad discretion to refuse individual women (trans or cis!) out of safety concerns. The anti-trans campaign has been against more general everyday public facilities everyone can (or needs to!) use!
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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 25/06/2026
The draft Conversion Practices Bill recognises serious distress and disruption to day-to-day life as harm. Yet the EHRC's draft code may push some trans people towards social detransition to navigate public life. At what point does exclusion become conversion? medium.com/@geekonaleas...
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When does exclusion become conversion?
Today, the UK government released the draft Conversion Practices Bill. Of which there are many issues, as highlighted in this statement…
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.
A map of the new future regions of Britain, including 'Wolves' and Wild Golf'.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The UK Labour Government could immediately legislate to end the legal proposition that trans people must be excluded from public bathrooms that align with their gender. There is nothing remotely “respectful” by the government refusing to do this. It’s just political gaslighting to say they care.
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Toilets and changing rooms must be used on basis of biological sex, guidance confirms
The guidance was published on Thursday following the landmark Supreme Court ruling last year.
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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The only thing I dislike more about these people than their snarling bigotry is the way they demand everyone else treat them as nice liberals
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 22/05/2026
This cartoon by Ella Baron from the Guardian today actually made me well up a little. We will keep fighting. Together.
Cartoon Separate But Equal from the Guardian. 
Link to access provided alt text: 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/may/22/ella-baron-on-the-ehrcs-transgender-guidance-cartoon
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
There we have it - you have to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces (so maybe avoid having them if you can). A bathroom ban from people who recognise that they’re doing a bathroom ban, and feel guilty about it. Shameful. www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
And the easiest way for organisations to navigate this mess is to create gender neutral spaces, and then the GCs will be up in arms about that because they don't understand the basic logical flaws in their own arguments. SIGH.
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Thread: The BBC is an international laughing-stock. Northern Ireland had a slow motion civil war. The Good Friday Agreement made peace possible & is guaranteed by the EU & ECHR. BBC reports on this peace treaty from its obsession with trans ppl! BONKERS! [1].
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Supreme court: How a Troubles ruling could impact court's definition of a woman
A recent Troubles ruling is likely to be significant in deciding whether an earlier Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman applies in NI in the way it does in the rest of the UK.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/05/2026
I can't find the specific piece now but I remember reading a passage in which Streeting explicitly laid out that the best strategy for campaigning for Labour leader was to pivot left during the contest and then pivot hard-right upon becoming the leader. If you fall for his act, you're a sucker.
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Cherry L @cherryl.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Jesse Welles produces an amazing amount of songs, and nobody will like them all. But please look at Masks Off, The List, War is a God and War isn't Murder and many others before dismissing him.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Please retweet.
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
EXCL: Reform UK’s leading figures have repeatedly promoted new pothole-fixing machine by construction company JCB, while party received £200,000 from British digger maker @rowenamason.bsky.social reveals www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Dig deep! Reform frontbench promotes JCBs after £200,000 donation from firm
Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson and Robert Jenrick, among others, have sung the praises of the JCB PotHole Pro
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A retweet by Zack Polanski is now the main story across every single media outlet. Two days ago, it was revealed that Nigel Farage failed to disclose a £5 million gift from a crypto-billionaire. It gets nowhere near the media attention, for straightforward political reasons.
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Long shot but we have received a very sweet birthday card, including some cash but no return address, to a "Jordan Bedding" who presumably lives/lived in Stroud, though not at our house. Please feel free to repost and let's cheer up a stranger.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 29/04/2026
Frances Thompson was one of the first trans women to testify before the US Supreme Court. Her testimony changed civil rights for all Black Americans. 
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The trans woman's Supreme Court testimony that helped change civil rights for all Black Americans
Frances Thompson was one of just five brave women who helped pave the way for the 14th Amendment, which granted equal civil rights to Black Americans
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 29/04/2026
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Disturbing parallels between the Tavistock and the WellBN case
The case against Tavistock GIDS has been reported to have been exaggerated, is the same thing now happening at WellBN clinic?
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Dylan NDR Edwards @dylanndr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
In 2021 I created this short explainer comic about the right-wing groups behind the anti-trans hate campaign, and their coordinated, multi-pronged attack strategy
Comic by Dylan Edwards

Panel 1
TERF: The all-powerful trans lobby is trying to take away MY rights as a REAL woman!!
Trans ppl: What power?? What lobby???

Panel 2
Men in suits labeled ADF, FRC, and Heritage stand behind the TERF and hand her bags of money
Men: We LOVE what you're doing! Keep it up!
TERF: Also, "queer" is a slur. If you call yourself that, you're bad and wrong.

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Wacky Fun Facts! (May not actually be fun)

Panel 4
The poverty rate for trans people is 29%, versus 15% for straight cis people.[1] The Trans Justice Funding Project, which funds trans rights groups across the country, raised a total of $2.7 million between 2012 and 2017.[2]
Meanwhile ...

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... the tax forms for the Alliance Defending Freedom, an evangelical Christian legal advocacy organization, showed annual revenue of more than $65 million in 2019 alone.[2] The ADF is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.3 They help fund the anti-trans LGB Alliance.[4]

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The Family Research Council’s Value Voters Summit instructed attendees to frame transphobia using the language of feminism, and to claim that “gender identity” is a concept offensive to women.[5] "If you separate the T from the alphabet soup, we’ll have more success.” --Meg Kilgannon, Value Voters Summit panelist [5]

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Along with the ADF, the Koch-funded Heritage Foundation helps draft and distribute anti-trans bills for right-wing legislators to turn into law.[2] These and other interconnected right-wing groups lobby against abortion and same-sex marriage.[4]

Citations:
1. williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/lgbt-poverty-us/
2. newrepublic.com/article/163113/behind-gop-strategy-outlaw-trans-youth
3. splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/alliance-defending-freedom
4. pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/03/lgb-alliance-gary-powell-center-bioethics-culture-alliance-defending-freedom-anti-lgbt/
5. lgbtqnation.com/2017/10/christian-rights-new-strategy-divide-conquer-lgbt-community/
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23/04/2026
Would you like to have to present your ID every time you want to go to the gym, or the swimming pool, or try on clothes at M&S? That's what Sex Matters are suggesting for *everyone*, in our new gender-policed world.
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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Ahem. When cis people say they need a "civil discussion" around "trans issues," what they really mean is they want a discussion amongst themselves about how quickly they can get rid of us, over tea, preferably before the rush-hour traffic.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
If you are a cis woman who is opposed to being used as a pretext for establishment transphobia and trans exclusion please sign this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social. Now fewer than 300 signatures needed to get it past 100,000! notinourname.org.uk
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Home - Not in our name
Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We know privatisation is a neoliberal scam. screwing all of us! The issue is how to make th changes that people want to actually happen when Labour, Tories, Fib Dems and Reform all oppose them. Our only option at the moment is to VOTE GREEN! @greenparty.org.uk
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 14/04/2026
Our new FOI reveals that EHRC Chair moved quickly to arrange a meeting with 'For Women Scotland' to discuss prisons, hospitals, and redefining “sex” in law. Meeting minutes were heavily redacted. tacc.org.uk/2026/04/14/e...
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EHRC FOI disclosure raises questions over engagement (again)
EHRC and FWS: FOI documents reveal how the EHRC engages with anti-rights organisations, raising further concerns over transparency and impartiality.
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We spend the 6th largest amount in the world on the military. In 2024/25, Defence Spending was £60.2 billion, up 7.7% on the previous year (adjusted for inflation). You could return every single public sector salary to 2008 levels (as resident doctors demand) more than three times over for that.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds
The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
“We support the dignity of gay people but getting married or having kids should just be between a man and a woman.” “We support the dignity of trans people but sex is what is assigned at birth and gendered spaces should be based on biology.” There is no “dignity” with discrimination. Just saying.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 14/04/2026
“A cis teenage girl lying about being on her period to avoid a sex act she’s uncomfortable with would arouse sympathy. "When a trans girl does the same, it’s treated as a serious crime." 
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Come out before you kiss: How Trans+ panic snuck its way into UK law books
Trans+ people can be convicted for sexual assault just for not coming out before any form of intimacy, under CPS 'deception as to sex' guidance
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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
While everyone is glazing the pope, perspective is crucial. And a reminder: if you've got some extra coin to spare, toss some in the plate of trans journalists telling trans stories from trans perspectives, because the transphobic corporate media damn sure ain't going to do it.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
People peddling complete drivel can get published in mainstream media more easily than breathing, as long as it’s anti-trans. But if you are a trans writer trying to get something based on peer-reviewed research & solid data, getting into the media is like trying to break into Fort Knox.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
In fact Ms Leavitt the world is simultaneously laughing a loud and hollow laugh... and holding its head in its hands. The United States has never looked so stupid and played and ridiculous and dangerously unhinged and it's all down to one man.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
How on earth can the trip planned by King Charles possibly go ahead with Trump making statements like this?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It's now been 3 hours since our supposed "ally" Donald Trump threatened genocide on a country of 93 million people. We've had absolutely nothing from the UK government. This doesn't come in a vacuum either - every day the US & Israel have been murdering innocent people.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"Under a 10-20 year system, a worker would spend a decade or more in which their entire immigration status — and [thus] their family’s home, their children’s schooling, their right to remain — depends on maintaining the goodwill of a single employer. That is a structurally coercive relationship."
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Private equity controls our lives from the cradle to the grave. Profiteers from hospitals, nurseries, housing, care homes, undertakers. Business model - high prices, low staffing/wages, high debt, asset-stripping, tax abuse. Life commodified & financialised. Profits for the few, misery for many.
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Want to know capitalism’s endgame? Just look at private equity – it has captured our everyday lives | Hettie O'Brien
These companies now own everything from nurseries to care homes, squeezing vital services for profit while we foot the bill, says Hettie O’Brien, author of The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned C...
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