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History addict. Former news addict. Occasional politics addict. BEWARE of my sarcasm and bad language! Pro-Democratic Socialism and Open Source everything Anti-Fascist and Anti-Genocide

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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 12/10/2026
Amazing how politicians will shout about Russian interference in our politics, but the moment you mention the very obvious Israeli interference, they call you an antisemite
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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 10/10/2026
This is an extraordinary way of saying that 2 in 3 Brits think @zackpolanski.bsky.social SHOULDN'T resign! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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One in three Brits thinks Polanski should resign after by-election defeat, poll shows
Green leader facing calls to quit from within his own party
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11h
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Crickets 🙄😡
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aprilblue57.bsky.social @aprilblue57.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Who's going to jump on this?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 5h
Towns in England at risk of running out of water until 2027. Over one trillion litres of water a year lost to leaks. No new reservoirs since privatisation. Record customer bills. Polluted rivers. No national planning. No national grid. Crisis deepened by privatisation. archive.ph/0XI5H
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The UK towns at risk of running out of water until 2027
Extreme dry conditions are set to stay through the winter, experts warn
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Who defends the poor if the poor are selfish?
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We have a media which portrays opposition to Israel’s crimes as antisemitism. That same media is viciously and relentlessly Islamophobic. And as we see here, has no qualms using antisemitic tropes against “the wrong sort of Jew”.
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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 20h
#ClimateEmergency #Renewables #auspol #USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MeidasMighty #america #Ethics #ClimateJustice #bcpoli #abpoli #Klimapolitik #ClimateActionNow #ClimateChange #Climate #Ecosocialism #environment #Nature #BCClimateAction #capitalism #FalseConsciousness
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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 20h
BREAKING: Andy Burnham has confirmed that those lads nicking diesel near RAF Fairford were actually terrorists sent by Israel, I mean Iran, and this is why police released them on bail 👀
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Freebesieged @freebesieged.bsky.social · 20h
Trump wants his political enemies ARRESTED. " Ilhan Omar vows ‘not to be silenced’ after Trump’s feds raid her home in criminal investigation "
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Freebesieged @freebesieged.bsky.social · 22h
A new reason to resist the rush to a #Cashless Society: National Security : If a hostile actor or natural disaster damages IT infrastructure, the Public may lose access to their bank accounts > So the advice now is to keep CASH at home for emergencies
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The billionaire class is going all-in to keep Trump and the GOP in power because they don't want to pay their fair share in taxes. Here's how we fight back.
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How to Actually Tax Extreme Wealth (ft. Gabriel Zucman)
Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist
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Saneman @saneman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Happy genocide in the name of Christianity day! (Tomorrow.)
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Getting some fridge magnets made with this design and then I'm going to reverse-shoplift them onto tourist-trap gift shop displays in central London
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Not to mention the oldest known UK remains, aka Cheddar man, was of dark brown complexion. This is a great question for Cruella, Farage, Lowe, Reform, Restore or any of other racist brainwashed individuals or tribes to answer " via The UK Against Hate
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Freebesieged @freebesieged.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
" Raise taxes or cuts benefits to fill £35bn Budget hole, Healey warned " > I suggest a Windfall Tax on Big Energy and Petrol suppliers and a #WindfallTax on Banks and a #WealthTax on those with £10 million or more in assets
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
At times like this, the mask really comes off the British media. There is no pretence - at all - about their impartiality or objectivity towards the Green Party. It is a blatant naked partisan cross-media assault against the Greens.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
More information on the Bureau of Investigative Journalism website. Abramovich’s inner circle presented high court with sham documents and misleading testimony Documents faked by Deloitte staff were used to help fend off a lawsuit. 👇👇👇👇
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Abramovich’s team presented sham documents to London high court
Documents faked by Deloitte staff were used to help fend off a lawsuit from rival oligarch
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Freebesieged @freebesieged.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
" On the ground in #Delhi under siege as ‘cockroach’ protests rattle #Modi government " > Government closes designated protest site, switches off internet, detains 1000s > ' #cockroach ' Party are protesting #BJP 's attack on electoral rolls and closure of designated protest site
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Not for the first time, I’d ask: what does it mean, if the press keep running campaigns claiming that country’s most horrific racists and bigots are the Green Party, the Labour left, Amnesty International, Stonewall, the police (I know) and Gary Lineker? Look around you. Does that feel right?
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Jew-baiting Greens haven't peaked: they're just getting startedIt's strange having a fully fledged, fully funded racist party in our political line-up. It does not comfort me that in Holborn & St Pancras the Greens "only" got nearly 9,000 votes. If the British National Party, another party defined by a racist lie, had won that many votes in any constituency, there would be pandemonium. There would be riots. There wouldn't be amused, jocular analyses in all the main papers. Its leader wouldn't be ushered on to the Today programme as a senior statesman for a light dressing-down by Nick Robinson.
He wouldn't be allowed to repeat propaganda as Polanski did (he sounded as if he was reading lines from a piece of paper). He wouldn't be greeted with a comical, indulgent shrug.
And if I were a Jew in Holborn, or anywhere, watching this, what would I now be thinking? I would be thinking: I now know precisely how many of my fellow constituents want to kill me. Is anyone doing anything to protect me from them?
Just look at the recent hate crime statistics. Jews are now almost ten times more likely than Muslims to be the targets of a religious hate crime. So no one is stopping it. No one is even touching it. This is an unacceptable place for politics to have reached.
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Freebesieged @freebesieged.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Amber Valley council by-election this week: Green: 674 (29.5% +4%) Reform UK: 617 (27% new) Tories: 386 (16.9% -15.2) Labour: 364 15.9% - 6.1) Restore: 246 (10.8 new) > English Media: 'Polanski MUST resign'
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Freebesieged @freebesieged.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Decline of the American Empire: Televised #PublicExecutions > Yet UK politicians will STILL talk BS about 'shared cultural values'
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Protests that started in Spain and then spread to France and Brazil have now started in Belgium. People are sick of being told there is 'no money' by billionaires who are becoming trillionaires.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ok lets do some Diesel maths The USA uses approx 125 million barrels of diesel per month & using the global oil industry standard conversion factor of 7.46 barrels per metric ton of diesel fuel. Pedolf's deal in total for 4.8 million tons of Russian diesel equates to 9 days supply! It's BOLLOXOLOGY
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Freebesieged @freebesieged.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Anyone aiming to change The System and / or help 'little people' (rather than the rich, big business & corporations) gets the same treatment from UK Press: " Why this is the beginning of the end for #Polanski " Sean O’Grady > by 'this' he means increasing #Greens vote-share by 22% in #Holborn
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Tony @antonyillahiwarren.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I don't need them, but these graphs show the massive swing to the Green Party in Holborn St Pancras since the 2024 general election. Replicated across the country, dozens of seats are very winnable for the Greens. #VoteGreen, always.
Graphic showing 22.4% swing to the Green Party. All the other parties that stood last time lost vote share.Bar Chart showing Labour support dropping to 45% from 48.9% at the general election. 
Green Party support rose from 10.4% to 33%. (From Middle East Eye)
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We TRIPLED our vote share. Second best byelection result in Green Party history. On a date that Labour chose to deliberately clash the same week as our conference. All with a brand new PM in previously a "safe" seat. Best response to all the absolute nonsense today? Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK
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Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party
The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I like John Harris, he seems like a good, well-meaning guy. But his desire for a better radical politics is totally fraudulent, even if he doesn’t understand that it is. There is no form of meaningfully left wing politics that John cannot be effortlessly bullied into denouncing by his colleagues.
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A promising future now looks perilous for election loser Zack Polanski. He sowed, now he reaps | John Harris
There was a real chance of a Green byelection win in Holborn and St Pancras. He made bad decisions and cost his party dear, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Freebesieged @freebesieged.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer.” “They are sequence completion engines, internally hollow, designed to follow instructions, and accomplish goals set by humans." - Mustafa Suleyman (co-founder of Google DeepMind and the current CEO of Microsoft AI)
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The BBC & billionaire press are pretending this massive increase in Green share of the vote is a failure But if Reform had done the same instead of crashing down they'd be bigging Farage up into no. 10! Why? Because Green policy is to #TaxTheRich Which terrifies the British Establishment ...
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The media’s complete double standards in the way they attack the Greens vs issues with bigotry in other parties is a huge problem because 1. It breeds resentment and undermines desperately needed solidarity between different groups 2. It reduces anti racism to a tool to beat the Left with
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What amazing biased illogic that the only party which did better in the by-election is the one all the mass media are saying failed and it's leader should resign ... meme via Dianne Drew
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Freebesieged @freebesieged.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
" Angry #Trump says Nobel Peace Prize decision is ‘disgraceful and embarrassing’ in new tantrum after snub " #PeacePrize #Nobel
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2026
7 shots fired into an SUV with a 5-year-old child in the back seat as the vehicle was moving away. Markwayne Mullin claims the driver “weaponized” his vehicle. Bullshit! “Weaponized vehicle” has become ICE’s go-to excuse for shooting folks. Where’s the evidence? It’s not in this new footage.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If Farage ever got power - prime recruits for ICE style vigilantes (they wouldn't need to be fit if given guns) meme via The Progressive Alliance - Uniting Against The Tories & Reform
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If the Greens has lost Holborn & St Pancras by one vote, the media would have called it a “crushing defeat”. The media is not neutral in its reporting, it is consistently and deliberately trying to destroy the Green Party because we are a threat to their power.
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Analysis: How close was the Holborn and St Pancras by-election?
Labour’s victory was not the ‘crushing defeat’ for the Greens that the media is making it out to be
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You’d have to be a special kind of stupid to bomb a school full of children and still expect to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I get that people liked a nice, soft, hippy Green Party that focused only on the environment, and could be happily ignored, and Greens patted on the head with a little ‘there, there’, and don’t like radicalism that undermines comfortable capitalism. Those days are over.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/10/2026
'Gaza is a moral tear in the universe' – Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking
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'Gaza is a moral tear in the universe' – Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor speak to Radical Thinking, a new series from the Guardian with Aditya Chakrabortty
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
via Anti Reform Hub
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Green Elects @greenelects.world · 09/10/2026
Kilburn, Denby, Holbrook & Horsley (Amber Valley) Green GAIN from Conservative
Kilburn, Denby, Holbrook & Horsley (Amber Valley) Council By-Election Result for October twenty-twenty-six displays voting percentages across five parties. The Green Party leads at thirty percent, representing an increase of four percentage points since May twenty-twenty-five. Reform UK follows at twenty-seven percent. The Conservative Party stands at seventeen percent, showing a decrease of fifteen percentage points. The Labour Party is at sixteen percent, reflecting a decrease of six percentage points. Finally, Restore stands at eleven percent.
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Freebesieged @freebesieged.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Britain says it ‘strongly disagrees’ with US sanctions on ICC in joint statement with G7 allies > those sanctions mean the people named cannot have a bank account. > Maybe Britain should offer them one?
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Freebesieged @freebesieged.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#Polanski is doing a great job for the Greens from what I can see. Difficult time for the Party as many voters are giving Burnham a chance. I suspect they will come back to the Greens when they see it's the same old Blairite Labour Party
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