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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Peter Hain says anti-apartheid campaigners would have been treated as terrorists under logic used to ban Palestine Action www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Anti-apartheid activists would have been called terrorists under logic banning Palestine Action, Peter Hain says – as it happened
Labour peer says he is ‘deeply ashamed’ his party is backing moves to ban group
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Justin McAffee @mcaffee.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that most people don’t want the truth—especially not the kind that tears at the myth of progress, the lie of civilization. Because to truly see—to really let it in—would mean everything they depend on is soaked in blood and ash.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Notice how wealth class media will spend years normalizing authoritarians, giving them the benefit of the doubt, and if someone who is even considered remotely leftist and wants to help people gains momentum they'll change every rule, twist history, and attack them relentlessly.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This is what heroes sound like. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I received a 30-month jail sentence for nonviolent resistance. Why so harsh? Because protest works | Indigo Rumbelow
The judge wanted us to show remorse, but I can’t apologise for fighting the climate disaster, writes Indigo Rumbelow, co-founder of Just Stop Oil
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Ginge [Rage Era] @ragingginge.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Jordan Peterson desperately defends a black and white worldview but can only describe it in shades of gray
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Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Jordan Peterson DESTROYED BY Jordan Peterson
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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
This is genuinely so bad, he can’t even answer basic questions from budding teen atheists lmfao. It’s like that scene in game of thrones when all the children ganged up and stabbed grand maester pycelle to death
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 27/05/2025
crazy to hear there’s a video going around that shows jordan peterson being incredibly stupid
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
...it concluded since the landslide was triggered by the melting glacier, and since *that* happened due to rising global temperatures... This was a signal - and a warning - from our rapidly changing world, heard in every single part of it. Best we listen up. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 10/
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A rockslide-generated tsunami in a Greenland fjord rang Earth for 9 days
Climate change is increasingly predisposing polar regions to large landslides. Tsunamigenic landslides have occurred recently in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), but none have been reported from the east...
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party. I ask again, what is he playing at?
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The Exploding Heads @explodingheads.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Is AI a good thing?
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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ASOIAF Read Through @asoiafreadthru.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A GAME OF THRONES: PROLOGUE
“We should start back,” Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. “The wildlings are dead.” 

“Do the dead frighten you?” Ser Waymar Royce asked with just the hint of a smile. 

Gared did not rise to the bait. He was an old man, past fifty, and he had seen the lordlings come and go. 

“Dead is dead,” he said. “We have no business with the dead.”
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 03/03/2025
#Gaza: Doctors Without Borders strongly denounces Israel’s announcement to block aid into Gaza. Humanitarian aid should never be used as a tool of war. Regardless of negotiations between warring parties, people in Gaza still need an immediate and massive scale-up of humanitarian supplies.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Perhaps there is another way we should think about the economy.
"I would propose that we just rip up the discipline of economics 
as it exists and start over. This is my proposal in this regard: 
I think that we should take the ideas of production and 
consumption, throw them away, and substitute for them 
the idea of care and freedom.
 
As feminists point out, even if you’re making a 
bridge, you’re making a bridge because you care 
that people can get across the river. You make a 
car because you care that people can get around. 
So even production is one subordinate type of 
care. What we do, as human beings, is take 
care of each other."
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 - David Graeber
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
What the government can’t afford: ❌Lifting children out of poverty ❌Disability benefits ❌Compensation for WASPI women ❌Winter fuel allowance What the government can afford: an extra £13.4 billion on the military. Never any money for the poor. Always enough money for war.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Hopelessness is an important element of Neo-Liberalism.
I think there has been a war of the imagination 
over the last several years. I was thinking a 
lot about what there might be to be optimistic 
about and I came to the conclusion that this 
feeling of hopelessness that everybody has 
is a manufactured product, and that’s what 
Neo-Liberalism is really about. Neo-Liberalism 
isn’t just an economic program, it’s a political 
program designed to produce hopelessness 
and kill any future alternatives."
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  - David Graeber
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Balerion the Cat @balerionthecat.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
So weird question, but is anyone on here concerned about climate change & what is happening with the ocean bc everyone is so deep in denial on Twitter & i don't get why people are pretending this isn't happening 😭
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. —James Baldwin
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
In this week's column, I explore what I see as a very real prospect of systemic collapse, caused by Trump's actions, and suggest we start preparing. I try to explain how complex systems fail, and suggest some of the failure paths we could be on. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens | George Monbiot
It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves, writes columnist George Monbiot
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Social democracy is not a viable alternative to capitalism. It is a tempting prospect, but ultimately suffers from violent contradictions that cannot be sustained. 🧵
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The great @jksteinberger.bsky.social provides some excellent pointers in this essay. Please read it (and follow her): jksteinberger.medium.com/a-few-points...
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A few points for the left
A few thoughts as the flames of fascism rise up all around, consuming people and planet.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
We're shocked by Trump and Musk's antics because we judge them against the idea that governments should serve the people. But they have no such intention. Government for them is simply about seizing power and wealth. Let's stop being shocked, and build a global, democratic counter-movement.
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Carne Ross @carneross.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Did you know that the UK has been conducting surveillance flights in #Gaza throughout? It's called enabling genocide. Top work in uncovering it by @declassifieduk.org - www.declassifieduk.org/gama-aviatio...
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Gama Aviation: The company that helped Britain spy for Israel
Royal Air Force surveillance flights over Gaza have relied on technical support from Gama, Declassified has found.
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Connor Grey @connorgrey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Ironborn disciple of Aeron Damphair: “hold my ale”.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
1. As Zuckerberg abandons fact checking in the name of “free speech”, let’s take a moment to examine this concept. 🧵
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Balerion the Cat @balerionthecat.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Seeing Arya's arc as a revenge quest, instead of a search for justice, misses the question of what is justice, esp during a civil war. Is it punishment, which can be like revenge, is it protection of the community, how is it applied & to who, & why do the small folk always suffer? #asoiaf
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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/12/2024
CEO Unveils Bold New Plan To Undo Damage From Last Year’s Bold New Plan theonion.com/ceo-unveils-...
CEO Unveils Bold New Plan To Undo Damage From Last Year’s Bold New Plan
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 26/12/2024
I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”. Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
If you have ever wondered what colonization was like—the violence, the dispossession, the massacres, the genocide, the displacement, the famine, the dehumanization, the racism—you are watching it in real time in Palestine. It is among the most depraved of all possible acts.
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Oscar Berglund @berglundoscar.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We have a report out today on Criminalisation & Repression of Climate & Environmental Protest 1/10 @uob-policystudies.bsky.social
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Carne Ross @carneross.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
It is shocking that Turkey’s attacks on the Kurds and the autonomous area of North East Syria are treated as kind of footnote to the Syria story. Be clear: a region of Syria is under major assault; the war is NOT over.
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cate @buny.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
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Carne Ross @carneross.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in #Gaza - www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
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Carne Ross @carneross.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Deeply alarming news from northern Syria where Turkish-backed militias are attacking Kurds, particularly in IDP camps, committing atrocities and driving them out. Perhaps 200k people are on the move. A humanitarian disaster with no international attention.
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Carne Ross @carneross.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
It does not stop. What has stopped is western news coverage.
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Scientists on Survival @scientistsonsurviv.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A statement from @healthxr.bsky.social: “Health professionals join scientists & lawyers to occupy the so-called “magic circle” law firms today to call out their facilitation of the climate health emergency. This work is existential and it is all of ours to do” healthforxr.com/29th-nov-202...
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29th Nov 2024: Health professionals, Scientists and Lawyers occupy “Magic Circle” law firms – Health for XR
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Protest is like begging the powers that be to dig a well. Direct action is digging the well yourself and daring them to stop you.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
An extract from the introduction to the Book; Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber!
We have become a civilization based on work in itself. We have come to believe men and women who do not work harder than they wish at jobs they do not enjoy are bad people unworthy of love, care nor assistance. It's as if we've collectively acquiesced to our own enslavement."
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
In case anyone still doesn’t understand, the tech oligarchs are following in the footsteps of their industrialist predecessors and going full bore into antidemocratic authoritarianism. Look around. Conventional political analysis obscures the truth. You’re in a class war. And it’s heating up.
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Carne Ross @carneross.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Officials signing off arms exports to a country committing war crimes might want to consider this warning from Ken Roth. ICC indictments may be coming your way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The ICC arrest warrants for top Israeli officials are a step toward justice | Kenneth Roth
The warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant are also a reminder to governments arming Israel as it commits war crimes in Gaza
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
You cannot sacrifice people to the authoritarian machine in hopes it will stop. It never stops. You’ll only embolden it and lose yourself Trans people, gay people, women, people of color, Palestinians, the poor, people being oppressed around the world. Their struggle is interconnected with our own
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Reading the ancients is great because they’re 50% the most profound shit you’ve ever read and 50% Galen you fool, the soul is stored in the balls and that’s why women aren’t people. Usually in the same text.
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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Background art by Nizo Yamamoto for Princess Mononoke (1997)
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