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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just the Israeli culture minister reposting Abraham’s statement on X and saying “don’t return to Israel, you aren’t wanted here. Traitor”

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Got a piece in this weekend's New Statesman on some of the least helpful reactions to NAZA, such as:

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Got a piece in this weekend's New Statesman on some of the least helpful reactions to NAZA, such as:

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is a very interesting new resource, The Register of British Slave-Traders. 'The Register focusses on the individuals who sought to profit from the enslavement of over 3 million African men, women, and children, whose identity was – for the most part – erased from the historical record.' 🗃️

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The Register of British Slave-Traders

The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Always had Sheeran down as a gifted songwriter who is trying real hard to keep his public persona apolitical - but this isn't neutrality. It's a political stance as unequivocal as Macklemore's, except Ed doesn't appear to have the guts to articulate it out loud.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

she deleted this once she realized that based on the time difference she was implying that schoolchildren in Scotland knew about 9/11 before it happened

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eb99 @eb99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Israeli journo: unlearns all he was raised to believe, puts body on the line, reveals inner workings of genocide, faces lynch mobs. You, a diaspora / general audience spectator clicktivist, whose experience of sacrifice is an awks at family dinner: "Are we really applauding the bare minimum 😤"

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is it. If Burnham’s Labour doesn’t stop the ongoing assault on migrants/asylum seekers/refugees and trans people, the far right will not be defeated. Keeping Mahmood is insulting.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Listen, I agree there’s loads of good signs re Burnham, but taking a firm pro-immigration stance should be a basic requirement for an ostensibly progressive politician. And sorry for being biased here as an immigrant myself. Mahmood made me want to leave the UK and keeping her is incredibly hurtful.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Worth adding some numbers to this. The British press decided to make trans rights into an issue. It just wasn’t an issue before. This was a top-down decision. shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

Two striking statistics come to mind.
The first is how the British media decided to obsess over trans people. This is very clear.
Between 2012 and 2022 alone, trans-related articles went from just 60 to over 7,500. By 2022, there were at least 125 times more articles on trans people than in 2012. This has facilitated the rise of a far right narrative vis-a-vis "gender ideology" which is talked about in civilisational terms: In effect, trans people are being portrayed not as individuals but as the products of an ideology that threatens the dominance of 'man' and perceived traditional gender roles.
Fast forward just three years and we see the Daily Mail actively investigate whether any of Tyler Robinson's neighbours or roommates were trans, which would apparently help explain why he shot the white supremacist and Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Just realised this will be my son’s fifth prime minister and he’s 6.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22/06/2026

been furious with Starmer for long enough that this is genuinely coming as a surprise to me, but I'm feeling a bit.......sad this morning? not really about him per se but about the waste of time, I guess, and the end of yet another political failure when Britain really couldn't afford another one

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Yes, it’s true. Money Box Live has been the standout and most beloved part of my entire career. We have served so many communities, told so many stories and explained so many issues. I am heartbroken.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Here’s a world-historically new sentence: I have known the Georgia Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor basically since he was born because we both went to the same illegal home daycare run by a Florida fan called Miss Donna and her two mean dachshunds

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Always a bit amused when I see a "this is the canary in the coal mine" take about universities or the humanities. My dude, we're knee deep in canary carcasses. Glad've cottoned on, but the eery silence of ceased chirping has long since engulfed us.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Oh hi, Edinburgh 👋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Mainstream politicos use "genuine concerns" and "legitimate concerns" interchangeably. They aren't. "Genuine concern" = we believe people are sincerely anxious or angry. "Legitimate concern" = we signal we think being discomfited by a neighbour's skin colour is ok. Sure we want to signal the latter?

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A few quick notes & questions from Belfast: 1. Community response was astounding. 370+ ppl rescued, rehoused, fed, clothed, reassured. Some in homes. Some in offices of grassroots orgs - Loyalist and Republican both, 2. Houses will very likely burn this summer in England too. Are we ready?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

We keep babyifying ever older people (16 and 17 year olds getting tech curfews, the woo-woo stuff around sentencing under-25s). Think it’s an underappreciated (and mostly bad) consequence of being an ageing democracy:

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Why childhood is getting longer

Technology, demography and culture are all pushing society to extend how long people are considered young for

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Gotta say, it's all good (and right) to make fun of grifters saluting loyalist Belfast rioters as Irish patriots, but calling them "settlers" and comparing Belfast to West Bank is just as stupid, and as dangerous. Probably more so, given the live-wire sectarianism it invokes.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

When they say "protect our women and children" we need to take the "our" seriously. This isn't motivated by concern over violence. They just want to be the ones doing the violence. www.thedetail.tv/articles/one...

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One in four arrested over 2024 Belfast race attacks have since been reported for domestic abuse

Perpetrators of domestic abuse in Northern Ireland are overwhelmingly male, white, British/Irish, and known to the victim

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Burnham saying that we should look at banning the kirpan was further confirmation that the response to Starmer's failure will be 'what if we had the same soft left policies, the same equivocation, but with a more charismatic leader who actually likes and does politics'

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

So, the pogroms are back. Where is the organised Jewish community? Where's the Chief Rabbi, where is the Board? Sitting this out? You know they'll come for Jews too, eventually, right?

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Why is The World At One reading out Rupert Lowe's posts on the Northern Ireland attack, at the start of the bulletin? He leads a party that is polling at about 3%. This is not about "censorship": it's about the choices media outlets make concerning which voices to amplify.

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Hello, Dublin! It's been a minute! (It's been 19 years 🙈)

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Some thoughts on the policy and politics of raiding infrastructure budgets. The TL;DR is 'don't do it, do you really want your final act as PM to be *yet another* poorly thought through hospital pass for your party and your successor?'

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Raiding infrastructure budgets to fund defence stores up trouble

Cancelling projects is already politically costly, while more military investment is unlikely to boost economic growth

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Israeli govt sources tell local press that Israel will also stop its attacks in Iran - but crucially, and in defiance of Iran's own condition for a ceasefire, will continue attacking in South Lebanon. It will also attack in Beirut again if Hezbollah strikes south of the border..

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Well, looks like Netanyahu played Trump again, and is now in a position to commence Round Three vs Iran. Maybe America will get a president one day who tells Israel where to get off, but it sure doesn't look like it's this one.

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I am an old fart. I have NEVER experienced anti-white racism in the UK. Never. Not once

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Woody @woodyrew.dev · 02/06/2026

Probably related: A recent paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 02/06/2026

An absolutely outrageous and unfounded claim made by an "impartial" #r4today presenter with a straight face. Farage and co having their work done for them

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Not sure if it's Webb hosting #r4today or Robinson - Tommy Robinson. Apparently, the UK police are hardwired to think white people are always perpetrators and brown people are always victims? Apparently, the MacPherson Report is the core issue & we should reconsider if institutional racism exists?

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

headlines praising the reduction in immigration numbers to the UK will be followed at some point with headlines complaining about the UK's ageing population and there will be zero attempt to make the obvious link between the two

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The Kings Speech shows why Starmer must go. What a wasted opportunity! Where’s the urgent transformative programme to redistribute wealth, tackle the nature & climate crisis, bring water into public hands, & introduce rent controls & wealth taxes? No hope, no story, no vision

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary was exposing the company to legal liability under EU law due to its illegal surveillance of Palestinians. Thanks to the investigative work of @972mag.com and The Guardian. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

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Microsoft fires head of Israeli subsidiary and other managers over surveillance of Palestinians

The move follows years of internal and external pressure.

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"...and we are just hearing from our chief political correspondent that the banished Bolingbroke apparently repeals himself, and with uplifted arms is, reportedly, safe arrived at Ravenspurgh. But first, the weather."

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Sheer denial is prob a factor. Keir stacked his career & legacy on being a More Electable Labour Leader than Corbyn and a More Reliable PM than Boris. Admitting—even to yourself, nevermind the country—you failed '26 worse than Corbyn failed '19, and served two years to Boris's three? Must be tough.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Three new Reform councillors (and counting) gone already

Glenn Gibbins, Sunderland: suspended by Reform following allegations of racism (May 2026).
Jay Cooper, Sefton: declared “not welcome” by Nigel Farage following reports of him calling the Holocaust a hoax (May 2026).
Stuart Prior, Essex: expelled by Reform and resigned after “he was accused the week before the elections of creating racist and Islamophobic posts on social media” (May 2026).
Note: Daniel Devaney (Bradford) said he was pulling out before polling day but got elected anyway. It is not yet clear if he is or is not now formally resigning as a councillor

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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Keir Starmer a Roomba programmed for one thing only: get elected as PM. This is why he is stuck in centrist campaign mode, even after already getting elected. And also why his only trick is to reset. *roomba startup jingle*🎶

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