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Sonia A @onnyponny.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

A much more sensible and extremely articulate view of the situation from Emili Stevenson, a member of the pro-Palestinian Jewish group Na’amod, interviewed by @owenjones.bsky.social youtu.be/5Rt07zjHlf0?...

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Synagogue Attack Used To Shut Down Gaza Protests - w/. Emili Stevenson

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Fiona Armer @fionaarmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

How did it ever make sense for farmers to not even cover the cost of shearing whilst we import merino wool from New Zealand? It’s not a case of going back, there are many companies finding new uses for wool…

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Fiona Armer @fionaarmer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

We must not look away because it’s difficult for us to see this genocide happening. Keep sharing and keep pressuring our government and the UN to do something effective to stop this!

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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge. 750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms

Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Protesters outside the UN in New York. Kristen Saloomey reporting.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Peter Kyle: "We've done everything we can possibly do to have an impact on [Gaza]" A full arms embargo? No Ending all military ties? No Sanctions on the Israeli govt? No Sanctions on the Israeli economy? No Tell me again how you've done everything you can #GMB

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Fiona Armer @fionaarmer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Yes, exactly! The behaviour of the Israeli government and IDF towards Palestinians is inhuman and a travesty of Jewish teaching and standards. Good for these guys, sitting down to protest.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Article 54 of the 1977 Geneva Convention Protocol I. 1. Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited.

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Fiona Armer @fionaarmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The report into the English and Welsh water industry www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4... Feargal Sharkey nails it: the heart of the problem was "corporate greed and the exploitation and abuse of bill payers and the environment".

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Scrap Ofwat, says major report, as author warns water bills will rise by 30% in five years - live updates

Sir Jon Cunliffe's report into the water sector in England and Wales makes 88 recommendations - including making water meters mandatory.

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Fiona Armer @fionaarmer.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I support Palestine Action! I don’t presume to tell anyone else how to think. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social has very eloquently set out here why it matters for our democracy. If you can spare the time, it’s about 13 minutes of information to help you draw your own conclusions.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 21/05/2025

#Gaza: On May 19, Israeli forces struck Nasser hospital compound, 100 metres away from the intensive care unit and the inpatient department run by Doctors Without Borders.

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 14/05/2025

This week, the British government is in the High Court defending the indefensible: its continuing approval of arms exports to Israel. HRW's Yasmine Ahmed is at the High Court in London ⤵️

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/05/2025

An aid ship heading to Gaza has sent out a distress signal after crew members say it was hit in a drone attack and has caught fire. There are 30 aid workers on board the Freedom Flotilla ship, which was attempting to break Israel’s 2-month aid blockade.

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Fiona Armer @fionaarmer.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

A few people worked this out already, nice to see it getting more publicity

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Important study. “Adults in the highest wealth quintile (the top 20%) were almost twice as likely to be physically active as those in the lowest quintile.” “… health disparities in later life are deeply tied to wealth and socioeconomic status.“

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Wealth, wellness and wellbeing: why healthier ageing isn’t just about personal choices

Older adults in the UK’s wealthiest bracket are nearly twice as likely to eat well, stay active and avoid depression.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/04/2025

A Venezuelan family is calling for a 2-year-old to be returned to her mother after the Trump administration deported the mother to Venezuela on Friday without the child. The toddler remains in foster care in the U.S., officials said. The girl’s father was sent to a prison in El Salvador.

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A Mother and Father Were Deported Under Trump. But What Happened to Their Daughter?

The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter remains somewhere in the United States.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot

The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Great response here to the government's Land Use Framework consultation by Rewilding Britain. Consultation closes on April 25th. Please make your views known. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity.

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Fiona Armer @fionaarmer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I don’t know what’s in the river this morning but my dog didn’t want to paddle in it. Lots of big chunks of froth, less than 3 miles from the source.

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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.eurosky.social · 07/04/2025

Imagine going to the environment agency or other relevant department and saying you want to release 50 million birds of a non-native species into the British countryside each year, so that wealthy people can shoot around a quarter of the birds and the rest can feed themselves on native wildlife...

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Fiona Armer @fionaarmer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It’s here. If we wondered how those new UK anti-protest laws would be used, this is how. It’s the thin end of the Trumpian wedge and I’m very worried for where this is going.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This! Integrity means standing firm on your principles, even when things get tough. It means sacrificing a little to ensure your values and ideals of democracy, freedom, justice and equality prevail. This entails struggle. People need to speak up, rise up, and take action against dark forces. Now.

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'It is up to all of us to fix this:' Former President Barack Obama on American ideals

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/04/2025

Israel continues its deadly attacks on Gaza, with UNRWA saying that at least 100 Palestinian children have been killed or injured each day in the besieged enclave since Israel broke the ceasefire on March 18. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/7n8dex

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Defence Ministry: Shoreline defence force Gentoo’s prepare mortars. Our Navy Seals conduct clandestine training, and teach tactical camouflage and concealment to juveniles. We stand ready. Flippers Up.

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Fiona Armer @fionaarmer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Why? I can’t bring myself to ‘like’ posts like this. I cannot ignore them. While the rest of the world is looking at the USA, Ukraine, or Myanmar, let’s not forget what Israel is doing in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This is progress, as far as it goes. But land-burning should be banned here for all purposes other than firebreaks and emergencies. There should be no burning by grouse estates, and no "swaling" on Dartmoor and Exmoor (torching regenerating woodland for sheep pasture). www.gov.uk/government/n...

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New proposals to ban heather burning on peatland to protect air, water and wildlife

Extension to ban of burning on deep peat proposed by Government, so that an extra 146,000 hectares are protected

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 31/03/2025

At least 80 Palestinians have been killed and 305 others injured in Israeli attacks across besieged Gaza in the past 48 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

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Israel kills 80 Palestinians in Gaza in 48 hours

Palestinians mourn Israel’s killing of 15 emergency workers in Gaza’s Rafah.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Next time Starmer and Reeves say there's too much regulation, remember this. This is what a deregulated economy looks like, and we all pay for it, with our health, our ecosystems and, eventually - when the massive clean-up / land abandonment bill can no longer be avoided - our wallets.

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Fiona Armer @fionaarmer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Why???? How can the rest of the world ignore this blatant, cruel disregard for human life?

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury

Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 11/03/2025

It's hard to comprehend the scale at which supertrawlers are murdering life in the oceans.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 06/03/2025

People in #Gaza don’t have proper access to healthcare, as most of the health system was destroyed by Israeli forces during the war. It’s imperative that the remaining health facilities are respected and protected.

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 03/03/2025

Israeli authorities are violating the International Court of Justice’s legally binding orders in South Africa’s genocide case by denying the entry of lifesaving aid and services into Gaza. Ceasefire or not, Israel is obligated legally as the occupier to facilitate entry of aid.

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Israel Not Complying with World Court Order in Genocide Case

The Israeli government has failed to comply with at least one measure in the legally binding order from the International Court of Justice, in South Africa’s genocide case.

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Just signed this letter asking the Speaker to keep Trump out of the House of Commons should his state visit go ahead

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Sign the Petition

Keep Trump out of Parliament

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Fiona Armer @fionaarmer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

After the news coverage of President Zelenskyy being bullied in public by Putin’s new best friend I just had to say something.

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Fiona Armer @fionaarmer.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This is the Aire flood plain doing what flood plains are meant to do when you get snow then heavy rain and a fast melt - flooding. It’s why we shouldn’t build houses on them #flooding #rivers #slowtheflow

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Fiona Armer @fionaarmer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Lunchtime dog walk. Makes a very nice change from all the rain!

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Fiona Armer @fionaarmer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hello Blue Sky! I loved the eclectic mix of people, opinions information and witty stuff on Twitter as it was. It looks like we have that here now. I look forward to sharing civilised debate and fun that is also kind.

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 19/11/2024

If you know someone with dementia, who’s had a severe stroke or Parkinson's or a brain injury, watch this, they may be due a Council Tax discount. Please spread the word… youtu.be/fPkWMlwB5sw

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Know someone with dementia, severe stroke or Parkinson's? They may be due a Council Tax discount

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