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Proud dad, guitarist, poet. I was a teacher for years but gave up before it killed me. Although my son is older now, he's still my beaming, laughing toddler. Indie author. #Palestine #Gaza authors.tertulia.com/dancooper-draftqbqqt9

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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Miliband declines an invitation to talk to pensioners being arrested as terrorists for holding up signs exposing Israel's genocide in #Gaza. He'd rather get on with eating his pizza. Pizza or genocide, which is more important? novaramedia.com/2026/09/28/h...
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Hope Is Back With Burnham, Apparently – But Not for Pensioners Opposing Genocide
As police arrest people protesting the Palestine Action ban at Andy Burnham’s first Labour conference as prime minister, held under the slogan ‘Hope again’, some things feel decidedly unchanged, write...
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Italy has become a client State of Israel, bowing down to Zionism. Italy's fascists are back. www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/02/i...
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Italy Has a Public Without a Political Voice as Zionism Defines the Law of the Land.
This is written for readers who already know the name of the crime. They do not need a primer on occupation, a debate about whether Zionism is a form of
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
US politicians care more about toadying to Israel than they do about the lives of their own citizens. Shame on them. Vote them all out. Then charge them with complicity in war crimes. novaramedia.com/2026/10/02/u...
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US Politicians Vote Down Bid to Get Justice for Americans Killed by Israel
US senators have blocked a resolution that would have forced the government to reveal what evidence it has relating to the killing of nine Americans by Israel.
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Maga = Make America Go Away.
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The crime of the century. A war crime. Israel must be held to account, but so must the US, chiefly Biden the war criminal, who supplied the bombs to cause this carnage. Tens of thousands dead, many still buried under the rubble, many of them children. #Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I consider Red Umbrella to be the best short story I've written. Didn't plan it that way, it just developed and fell together. Funny how writing can take on its own direction at times. #booksky
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Finished Comrades, the sequel to The Marianne Summer, but it's only a first draft and needs further work. Something to get around to. Made notes for the third in the trilogy too, so I know where it's all going. #booksky
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beware the scammers who claim to have read your book and want to help you by giving you strategies to, oh I don't know, expand its reach or something. For a price, of course. #booksky
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Blair is one of the many failed Tory leaders of the past 40 years. www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/does...
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Does Tony Blair still think he's Prime Minister? | The News Agents
Tony Blair has said that Labour’s priority should be to region the EU, if it wants the UK to grow. The News Agents think it might not be such a bad idea…
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
4,000 people have now been arrested following Starmer's attempt to introduce fascism to the UK. #Gaza #Palestine morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labo...
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94-year-old human rights lawyer among hundreds of protestors arrested in test of Burnham’s mettle
ANDY BURNHAM faced growing calls to deproscribe Palestine Action today as hundreds of protesters as old as 94 were arrested for supporting the banned group during his first Labour Party conference as ...
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"We call out ethnic cleansing by the settler terrorists in the West Bank. We call out the evidence of war crimes in Gaza. We call out Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine." Well done Miliband. Well done, Labour. #Gaza #Palestine www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Israel murdered tens of thousands of people, but they could not snuff out Gaza's culture and joy. #Gaza #Palestine www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra...
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Try as it might, Israel could not destroy Palestinian culture and joy in Gaza
Victims of the Gaza genocide include countless artists, poets, filmmakers, educators and musicians - but the enclave's collective spirit will never die
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It might be time for California to consider leaving the US and joining the EU as an associate member.
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh no, Bonnie Greer has died. That’s a shock. Aged 77, ‘after a brief illness’. I liked her, spoke to her a couple of times on Twitter, as it was. She was a staunch European. Walked past her once in Rathbone Place. Goodbye, Bonnie, I’ll miss you. I feel for her husband, who’s going to be bereft.
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Starmer, who supported Israel as it killed at least 38,000 women and girls in Gaza, resigns as an MP to focus on “international affairs” and “protecting women and girls." Oh the irony. He's lying, of course. novaramedia.com/2026/09/01/f...
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Former Prime Minister Keir Starmer Resigns As MP
Keir Starmer is resigning as an MP to focus on “international affairs” and “protecting women and girls”.
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Shame on the Democratic Party. "opposition to genocide and antisemitism are neither logically nor factually related to one another except in the minds of political marketing agents for Israel ... including the very top of the Democratic Party." #Gaza www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/04/w...
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Why Opposing Genocide in Gaza Isn’t Antisemitic
The charge that alleged antisemites represent the opposition to the current genocide in Gaza illustrates the turnabout that history has wrought. The charge that this opposition reflects a hatred of Je...
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Heart goes out to Russell Howard and wife after the death of their baby son. I can't imagine their pain. Condolences.
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In fact, I loved Shabby Tiger so much I now want to live in 1930s Manchester and meet an Irish girl called Anna. #booksky
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just finished reading Shabby Tiger by Howard Spring and loved it. Any recommendations for other good Howard Spring novels? #booksky
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem showed generations of us what a more equal world could look like. She built the road there, brick by brick, march by march, for over sixty years. My deepest condolences to everyone who loved her, and my deepest gratitude for everything she gave the rest of us.
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Meet the new one, same as the old one. Burnham’s Government Has Approved 10 Military Flights to Israel in 6 Weeks. ​His Gaza apology has been exposed as a sham. Burnham wants to join the war criminals club. #Liar, #GenocideEnabler novaramedia.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Burnham’s Government Has Approved 10 Military Flights to Israel in 6 Weeks
At least ten military flights have left RAF bases for Israel since Andy Burnham became prime minister, despite Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 01/09/2026
I would like, just once more, to congratulate our lofty intellectual betters in the British political commentary and pundit set for elevating this transparently cynical, self-serving pig to the country's highest political office on the basis of his flawless ethics and commitment to public service.
Keir Starmer to quit parliament, triggering byelection in north London seat – UK politics live

Former PM announces he will no longer represent Holborn and St Pancras on the day his successor, Andy Burnham, is to give first Commons address as prime minister
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Starmer cuts and runs. Exactly what you'd expect him to do. #CutAndRun www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Keir Starmer announces he is standing down as MP
The move will trigger a by-election to replace the former prime minister in his London constituency.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So much more than a Country Music Superstar. Philanthropist, humanitarian, defender of diversity & fierce advocate for the working class, she helped fund the Moderna Covid vaccine & donated 332+ million books to children. Thank you, Dolly. We will always love you.♥️ #RIP
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Dolly Parton, Hardscrabble Storyteller Turned Global Entertainer, Dead at 80
Dolly Parton, country music legend, dead at 80.
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Netanyahu is now subject to an Interpol red notice. He could be arrested at any time. What countries are going to shelter this war criminal? #Genocide #ChildKiller #Gaza novaramedia.com/2026/08/24/t...
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Turkey Seeks Arrest of Israeli Prime Minister With Interpol Red Notice
Turkey has asked Interpol to issue a red notice for the arrest of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and military lieutenant Afek Moskovitch on charges including genocide and torture.
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton preferred to stay in her trailer when touring because she found hotel rooms "too fancy for me". #Legend
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Slice of Fox @michaelwi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Like how his promise to end homelessness ended up being giving them Christmas dinner.
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Since Dolly Parton died, the world has changed somehow. It's no longer the world that it was. 😢
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Labour’s energy bills crisis is getting worse." You can say that again. But never fear! With his special glasses, Burnham will be able to recognise it. www.theguardian.com/business/nil...
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Labour’s energy bills crisis is getting worse. Political honesty is essential | Nils Pratley
Ofgem and ministers should be transparent about why energy bills for households are expected to stay stubbornly high
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Rest in peace Dolly Parton, a country legend who stood up for working class people and was proudly feminist, anti-racist and pro LGBTQ+. An advocate for children’s literacy, she launched the Dolly Parton Imagination Library – a book gifting scheme for children under the age of five. [1/2]
A photograph of Dolly Parton holding an open book with many more books underneath her stacked on a table.
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Energy bills to rise in October, and again in January. "I recognise it's difficult for people," says Burnham. Why not try to do something about it? Like you said you would. He's as useless as Starmer. #BurnhamFail
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Burnham won't recognise Israel's genocide in #Gaza, so Labour groups are having to try to force him to. No change from Starmer, then. Just as culpable, just as wicked. #genocidedenier #Palestine www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham to face pressure at Labour conference to recognise Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide
Grassroots groups to urge PM to break with Starmer policy and impose full arms embargo on Israel
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ben-Gvir is a sick, podgy little moral degenerate. What's more, he has at least 8 criminal convictions.
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Now the US national debt is $40 trillion, they should consider stopping funding wars. Cutting funding to Israel would save a lot of money, and it would save a lot of innocent lives too. I don't see that the American people are happy their tax dollars are used for the slaughter of innocents. #Gaza
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Starmer and Lammy's attempt to introduce fascism to the UK hasn't worked. Thankfully, their attempt to abolish jury trials didn't work either. #VoteLabourGetFascism #NeverVoteLabour novaramedia.com/2026/08/20/j...
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Jury Refuses to Convict Palestine Action Activists
A jury has refused to convict seven Palestine Action activists in connection with a raid on an Israeli arms factory in South Gloucestershire.
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
People of Clacton! Don't vote for a joke candidate! Vote for Binface instead. #ClactonByElection
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Let’s remember today that Nigel Farage wants to - leave the ECHR - repeal the Equality Act - Strip back workers rights - Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts - repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes “no fault evictions” He is not on your side youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...
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If UK media actually explained Nigel Farage’s policies to the public no one would be supporting him
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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 13/08/2026
I don't know how accurate or even if it's true but I think if we all squeeze our eyes shut REALLLLLLLY TIGHTLY we can make it happen.
A screenshot showing Clacton Polling results from 12 August suggesting Count Bin Face has 53% of the vote while Nigel Farage has only 47%.
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Good luck to all the young people opening their results today. Be proud of yourselves. #ResultsDay #ExamResults
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Can you wear shin pads when you go hurdling? I'd definitely want to. #EuropeanChampionships
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hurdlers are amazing. I don't know how they do it. #EuropeanChampionships
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Dave Hargreaves @davehargreaves.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Jenni Milward 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉🦓♿ @jrmilward.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The only difference between Labour and the Tories is the colour of the rosette. They serve capital, not you. They protect profits, not people.
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
An eclipse the evening before the Clacton by-election. Woo. It's a sign.
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William J Morton @emperorjulian.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Via #themorningstar - it’s all the greed - no wonder they scuppered Jeremy Corbyn, he would have ended their gravy train 👇
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“The burden of student loans has never been higher. By stealth and with minimal democratic scrutiny, successive governments have piled costs on to young graduates in the hope that nobody would notice." Governments ruthlessly exploit young people. Bastards. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Students face ‘ticking timebomb’ of debt and higher taxes
Exclusive: Analysis finds cost of higher education ‘falls overwhelmingly on the individual’
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Infantino didn't have to shave his head bald, he could have just dyed his hair if he didn't like ginger.
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Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Labour are never happy unless they're bossing everyone around and telling people what to do. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I’m all for the nanny state – but we should abolish fines for holidays in term time | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Some parents are sticklers for the rules, yet mass civil disobedience by parents in England and Wales suggests many agree with me, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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