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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Londoncolin @colcro.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Mark Bonnar (@mark_bonnar) on X
Show newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name now https://t.co/ZrpoJJBLFL
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Absolutely astonishing that there has been a two day racist pogrom in Northern Ireland and Keir Starmer hasn’t called a COBRA meeting. QWHITE revealing!
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
There’s no excuse for attacking other people based on their ethnicity. Neither poverty nor ignorance excuse this. Individuals are responsible for their actions even if they were misinformed. By all means blame the agitators and demand action on disinformation but that doesn’t excuse the aggressors.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The message is clear: Muslims are fair game in this country.
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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
There’s a strong rule that’s existed for thousands of years among sailors. They know the horrors of the sea, so as soon as an enemy surrenders, killing turns immediately to rescue. The only exception is if the sailors of the ship are still under attack. The AIPAC Empire has no honor. It is cursed.
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Londoncolin @colcro.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This choice of image, that headline and the reality of what happened to those Iranian school children this morning - we’re living in a sick joke of a world and it’s being rubbed in our faces.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
No reputable media outlet should engage with Restore, any more than they would with Combat 18.
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/02/2026
This is the most important thing happening in the world right now. Trump and Hegseth want killer drones + mass surveillance of Americans. Anthropic refuses to build it. While most tech companies fall in line, they are prepared to pay the price for their principles.
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Londoncolin @colcro.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Finally we can all agree this was always utter nonsense from a legal and moral point of view: High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful – live www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
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High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful – live
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge; home secretary ‘disappointed’ by ruling and says government will appeal
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Wes Streeting has confessed that his government broke the law on Gaza. He didn't mean to - but that's what he has done. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/wes-street...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Still reckon they're terrorists, Mr Starmer? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli defence firm site
None of the six activists were convicted of any offence over break-in at Elbit Systems factory near Bristol in 2024
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Labour's dark soul has been exposed. Why does it refuse to confront wealthy elites - even though that's popular? For two reasons: ideology and money. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Starmer has little to offer voters of either right or left in Gorton and Denton. That’s why he’s facing a perfect storm | Owen Jones
The Greens are buoyant as Labour struggles. After shredding any semblance of a progressive agenda, fear of Reform is all the PM’s party has left, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...
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Mandelson’s Fifth Column
The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.
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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
“The Crown was not a passive beneficiary of slavery, nor a reluctant overseer, but an active architect, financier & legitimising force behind one of the greatest crimes in human history.The scandal is both what the monarchy did & what it has refused to say ever since.” slguardian.org/empire-by-om...
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Empire by Omission
by Luxman Brooke N. Newman’s The Crown’s Silence is a book that does not merely revise British history; it indicts it. Written with the precision of an archival historian and...
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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
MPs, experts & campaigners have called on King Charles to make a formal apology for transatlantic slavery, after research in THE CROWN’S SILENCE highlighted how the British crown & Royal Navy extended & protected the trade in enslaved African people for centuries. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...
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Calls for King Charles to formally apologise for slavery after research shows crown’s role
Book The Crown’s Silence details how crown profited from and protected trade in enslaved African people for centuries
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org. www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Two things to learn from this. 1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors. 2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
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Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time - Carbon Brief
Nearly 100 UK newspaper editorials opposed climate action in 2025, a record figure that reveals the backlash against net-zero in the right-leaning press
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Londoncolin @colcro.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Well it seems like the penny is finally dropping in Europe that NATO is no longer a viable security solution going forward. I wonder how long it will take for the UK to realise that a defence alliance with the EU rather than the US is the only option that will give the UK a semblance of sovereignty.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"Israel Is Banning the 'Last Foreign Witnesses' to Its Genocide in Gaza" In a likely deadly move, the Israeli government told 37 foreign aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders, they could no longer operate in Palestine. Where is the outrage, asks Diana Buttu for Zeteo?
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Israel Is Banning the 'Last Foreign Witnesses' to Its Genocide in Gaza
In a likely deadly move, the Israeli government told 37 foreign aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders, they could no longer operate in Palestine. Where is the outrage?
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 16/12/2025
My first Reith Lecture is now out in video form: A Time of Monsters. On moral decay, elite cowardice, and why we need a moral revolution. Watch here 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=fUJ-... (With one tiny edit at 4:28, for those who notice such things 😉)
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Are we living through the fall of civilisation? | The Reith Lectures 2025
YouTube video by BBC Sounds
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Londoncolin @colcro.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is not what democracy looks like
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Here's my argument with Sir Bernard Jenkin MP about the report showing how the racist intimidation of Black and Brown NHS workers on home visits has been exacerbated by the far right's wall of flags.
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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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Londoncolin @colcro.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A huge morning in global politics - NEW YORK CITY has elected a socialist mayor 🤯 It’s worth watching the whole victory speech including the two women speaking before him. This was not about one man - it’s an ORGANISED movement. The UK left need to pay attention. www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL...
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WATCH LIVE: Zohran Mamdani addresses supporters after winning 2025 NYC mayoral race
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The far right want you to believe that immigration causes an explosion of crime. It's simply untrue. Crime has gone down - and crucially, we are a markedly less violent society than we once were.
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 04/11/2025
72% do not feel that they can influence decisions affecting the UK. Why? Because our political and economic institutions have been captured by the wealthy. And our democracy is failing as a result. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-uks-fa...
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The UK's Failing Democracy
The Carnegie Foundation's Life in the UK report shows the weakness of UK democracy, and the suffering caused as a result .
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Ben Shapiro did a long video attacking Tucker, Fuentes, and Candace Owens for their antisemitism. But he has on his payroll Matt Walsh, who is currently promoting the late Pat Buchanan, who questioned whether Treblinka was a death camp and defended multiple Nazi war criminals.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
It's way beyond the bounds of basic decency. It's also suicidally stupid.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Starving two million people in Gaza — including a million children — is a war crime. We’ve witnessed hundreds starve to death from Israel’s manmade famine; countless more will die unless Gaza is flooded with aid. Keir Starmer must demand Israel’s lifts its illegal siege NOW.
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Gaza's Rafah border crossing will remain closed through Wednesday, Israel says
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October 14, 2025 2:55 PM GMT+1 • Updated 52 mins ago
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
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Londoncolin @colcro.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Home Again: Rebuilding Hope for a Gazan Family chuffed.org/project/1488...
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Home Again: Rebuilding Hope for a Gazan Family
My name is Casey York and I live in the U.S.. I have created this fundraiser on behalf of my dear friend, Mohammed, as he is in Gaza and unable to create one for himself due to geographical and logist...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This means that it is now Labour’s official position that Israel is committing genocide. While at the same time, the Labour government continues to arm that genocide Absolutely extraordinary!
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Londoncolin @colcro.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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Government under pressure as Labour members vote to accept Israel committing genocide in Gaza
Israel has repeatedly denied this and called a recent UN commission of inquiry report "distorted and false".
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
“Israeli Forces Kill 198 Palestinians in Gaza Over Three Days” It’s a genocide. Daily endless massacres, largely ignored in the West.
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Israeli Forces Kill 198 Palestinians in Gaza Over Three Days - News From Antiwar.com
Israeli attacks have killed at least 198 Palestinians and wounded 786 in the Gaza Strip over 72 hours, according to death toll updates released by Gaza's Health Ministry, as Israel continues its US-ba...
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Londoncolin @colcro.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Racist pseudoscience is still alive and well in mainstream uk politics investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/andrew-sabis...
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Unravelling Westminster’s secret influence network | HOPE not hate
An ex-Tory aide linked to race science has created a group of political allies to craft policy in the shadows
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
How is this not a war crime? How this not a green light for Iran to target Israeli or U.S. civilian scientists in return?
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
If you’re looking for quality independent reporting on what’s happening in Los Angeles, I’ve put together a starter pack for it. If you’d like to be added or know an indie who should be added, hmu
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Greta Thunberg and the Madleen offered a heart in a heartless world. They reminded us that Israel is deliberately starving an entire people - and the West could stop that at any moment. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments | Owen Jones
The Madleen is no ‘selfie yacht’. It is a symbol of human compassion in a world that has decided to look away, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Londoncolin @colcro.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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Israeli Military Attacks Madleen in International Waters — Weeks After Bombing of Conscience - Freedom Flotilla
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: FFC Press Officer Hay Sha Wiyamedia@freedomflotilla.org WhatsApp: +1 210-834-8155 Submit interview requests here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7r5Wy2glAJI8g...
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 08/06/2025
Email: fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk TEXT TO COPY BELOW
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Londoncolin @colcro.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
@theguardian.com Hi, have you heard the story about “The Madleen”?? It seems pretty noteworthy, maybe something you might want to report on? Perhaps before the ship is illegally attacked??
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