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It's looking increasingly more and more likely that this is a big Nothing that we desperately need to be Something because everyone declared it was Something before they knew it was Nothing.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 4h

The New York Times has *four* people bylined on this piece — its chief UK correspondent, national security correspondent, another international correspondent based in London, and a ‘global security’ reporter based in London — and… it’s a soufflé of speculation puffed up through hyperventilating.

An Iranian Threat, 3 Vans and a Phone Call: Behind the Mystery at a U.K. Air Base
A mysterious call last Sunday near a military base used by the U.S. set in motion a huge counterterrorism response and days of uncertainty in Britain.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 5h

FBPE Types remain hugely annoying

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Hey Alex I have more in common personally with someone from Barbados than someone from Latvia. I mean Barbados speaks English, uses the British parliamentary system, and has close links to UK because colonialism. If people mean white people you should just say that!

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5h

Sonia is a reactionary crackpot who is paid to write hit pieces on progressives for a very, very right wing Murdoch newspaper. What is she talking about, here? You openly despise most of the left, you don’t get a vote here!

Sonia Sodha ® @soniasodha
x.com
Hope the Green conference today is proving a bit of a wakeup call to those who dream of a progressive coalition. No such thing as a progressive coalition with these cranks.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5h

This is nuts, lads: one of these parties had an internal hate campaign that bent the rules to bully and hound out a huge number of Jewish people over their views on Israel/Palestine. It wasn’t the Green Party, was it?

Lewis Goodall C @lewis_goodall
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The Greens have a Labour PM committed to electoral reform at precisely the moment they've essentially made it nearly impossible for that same Lab PM to go into coalition with them.
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Amendment 3 on safeguarding Jews has failed to pass 684 - 1026! Absolutely shameful !!!

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 5h

If that headline accurately depicts what Mahmood said, what other nonviolent left-wing groups need proscribing in order to curb support for violent, rioting right-wing extremist groups?

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 7h

CNN making this sound more mysterious than it is. It was Yersinia pestis, the plague, the researcher died because she inhaled it into her lungs and developed pneumonic plague, there is no danger but to those directly exposed in the lab. Fear-mongering in the time of global terror is a sick choice.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 5h

Wtaf is she smoking and could she share with the rest of the class please? If only so the rest of the class as something to dull the nightmare that is Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary

Mahmood says Palestine Action proscription is needed to curb support for neo-Nazis

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 7h

This is almost certainly true, and the UK fails women refugees in multiple ways, including by refusing safe routes to come here, wrongly rejecting asylum claims, barring family reunion & not recognising trafficking victims promptly or at all. If only Mahmood had the power to do something about this

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Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK

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Debbie Kennedy @whysocialmedia.bsky.social · 9h

I don't get this country. The media are making a huge fuss of this motion in a democratically run party when my tax is currently funding UK's participation in a genocide.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 9h

It's right and necessary to condemn the heinous crimes of the Israeli state. Too often though people try and defend antisemitism as "anti-Zionism". Personally I believe Greens have massively screwed this one. It'll be taken by too many as an excuse for antisemitism under the cover of "anti-Zionism".

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 6h

I mean, I'd have gone about it a different way, but I reckon the response being full bore "you're just like the national front" from people who never said that about the guys blockading ports and burning out cars is, you know, pretty illuminating here.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12h

‘In fixating on the threat of “foreign” money, Labour has implicitly accepted that plutocrats can buy politics, so long as they are on the electoral roll.’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on party fundraising. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Peter Geoghegan · Short Cuts: Funding Reform

British politics has long been complacent about the power of big money. The relatively low price of access to...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, go right at this lads. Make sure everyone sees exactly what you’re doing. Ideally, if we could cut to this on the news directly after e.g. multiple politicians have been talking about the ruthless measures they’re talking against the invasion of sexually menacing migrant scum, that would be 😘 👌

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BREAKING: Greens Branded 'A Racist Party' After Passing Motion Declaring 'Zionism Is
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10h

Fair dues, I really could not improve upon this. Maybe it’d be worse if it said “first openly racist party” but I think there are limits to what even the Mail is willing to push on readers.

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Greens labelled 'first openly anti-Semitic party in the UK' as members approve Zionism is Racism motion - but leader Polanski skips vote

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Laurie Penny @pennyred.bsky.social · 10h

The strangest thing about being a ‘woke person’ is everyone insisting that you believe a set of totally stupid, largely fictional things, trying to debate you on that basis, and then getting cross when you try to explain that no, you don’t think that because that’s stupid. Anyone else had this?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 10h

It's going to rock if Zack Polanski wins that by-election on Thursday and we're treated to a long weekend of "electing this Jewish man to parliament is antisemitism"

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

It’s genuinely remarkable how complete the consensus around anti-Black racism as an unremarkable feature of public and political life has become.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 11h

It's that time of year again when we need to remind National Trust members that Restore Trust is a dark-money funded right-wing astroturfing entryist outfit. Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 9h

Sort of weird how we never talk about the EHRC as a political battering ram that's brought out *specifically* when a party threatens white people's pet settler colony or centrist's jobs.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 10h

People on the left who’s primary focus in politics is to root out ‘Zionists’ (which often seems to include anyone who disagrees with their methods even if they’re not Zionist) as well as being often antisemitic are just completely toxic and draining.

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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 11h

So it passed. As I said, not a disaster. It’s a piece of untactical performative politics but let’s not make it out to be the new Nuremberg laws. The proposers of the motion were very clear that it couldn’t lead to sanctions against members. No Zionists will be expelled from the party.

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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 9h

I can’t believe the debate around racism in this country has got to such an awful, primitive level that hard right politicians are having to earnestly discuss whether they’re actually English or not because they’re not white.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 8h

if zionists don't want their nationalist movement to be seen as racist, they should stop advertising it as the wall against the creeping threat of islam in the west

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dog botherer @dogbotherer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Russell T Davies keeps a knife by his door because of a stochastic terror campaign led by disgraced bigot Graham Linehan

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 9h

“They used bulldozers to clear out entire residential areas, turning our villages into completely flat, empty fields."

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Green Eyed Hecate (she/her) @greeneyedhecate.bsky.social · 15h

NI says no to going back to OO's good old days

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9h

Keep going lads. Keep doing this shit, right in front of a public that watched this system do more or less fuck all about years of fascist mobs rioting in the street, seizing ports and burning houses. Show everybody what you are.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9h

Someone responding to a Green MP here, and I will say: OMG yes, *absolutely* do this. Do it with the same level of terrifying national emergency too, ramp it right back up to full 2019 levels of rage and fear, total shit-up-the-walls derangement.

The EHRC will have to open an investigation into the Greens now and you will probably be
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h

We absolutely deserve an antiracist quarantine against the Greens that then allows a Tory/Reform stitchup government on possibly the most fantastically racist political platform ever put to the public. If we tolerate this shit, we will get exactly what’s coming to us.

Sonia Sodha O @soniasodha
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The question that will now rightly be put to Labour is: would you form a coalition with the Greens at Westminster? There should only be one answer to that question.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h

What an amazing country this truly is.

Peter WalkerO @peterwalker99.bsky... • 51s
Adam Wagner KC, barrister who led the case which concluded Corbyn's Labour broke equalities law, said there is "a strong risk that the motion as passed contravenes the Equality Act 2010... as it will discriminate against and harass people who hold Zionist beliefs and Jewish people more generally."
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Adam Wagner KC, the barrister who led a case which concluded that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour broke equalities laws over antisemitism, said that such a case would have a good chance of success.
"I think there is a strong risk that the motion as passed contravenes the Equality Act 2010, which applies to political parties, as it will discriminate against and harass people who hold Zionist beliefs and Jewish people more generally.," he said.
"Zionism, defined in the broad sense of supporting the establishment, development, and protection of a Jewish nation state in its ancestral homeland, the land of Israel, is likely to be a protected belief under the Equality Act 2010."
He said there was a strong risk that the policy, especially if it resulted in disciplinary action, "will create an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating, or offensive environment for both Zionists and Jewish people therefore harassing them".
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 8h

For those whose families lived through the Jewish traumas of Mitteleuropa, it isn't that esoteric why Zionism was once seen this way, even as it has now become Kahanism. The lesson here is not unique to Zionism, but the opposite - how easily liberation movements become the thing they once hated.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 8h

I could write a long thread on why and how Zionism was by many seen as an emancipatory movement in the early 20th century (and the contradictions involved) or on (marginalised) versions of Zionism that pursued Jewish national expression from an egalitarian position. But this seems esoteric to me.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 9h

Following the vote on the anti-Zionist policy at Green Party Conference, the 5 Green MPs, the Leader and Co-Deputy Leaders have issued a joint statement

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 7h

What if I want to enjoy my lunch?

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 7h

Related: her predecessor quit suddenly and many journalists likely know why and aren’t telling

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 13h

The primary purpose of an Israeli ‘ceasefire’, whether in Gaza ir Lebanon, is decreased media coverage. And Israel was proven right on that.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12h

Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...

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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)

He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 7h

I think the point is that it's appropriate for a political party to have a proposed foreign policy that aligns with an ideological position, i.e. supporting a single state solution, refusing to support ethnic cleansing etc, but not to necessarily pick a side on an intracommunity Jewish issue.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 10h

While "reducing a contested term down to one thing" might seem compelling as an argument against calling Zionism racism, it does rather rely on at least some significant body of opinion within that ideology not being foaming at the mouth Islamophobes. A standard they've not met ever.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10h

Amazing skills here, disproving that whole “is racist” thing

Noa Hoffman • @hoffman_noa
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Stage one of the Islamist assault on the Green Party is now complete. Let's see how long Polanski lasts before they come for the leadership. As has been warned a million times, these Islamic extremists were never going to stop until a policy of dismantling the Jewish state (the ultimate force against Islamism)

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12h

I think there’s a duty here to say …And there’s little or no evidence to support this, and most of the people who say things like this are simply crackpots, usually very right wing ones.

"I have no doubt that the pandemic began in Wuhan. I'm almost certain it came out of that laboratory." Today's @ObserverUK Walk is with Tom Tugendhat.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11h

This also works with stuff like the Tories getting a senior cop fired by claiming that he’s conspiring with Islamists, and so on

Anakin: WE MUST CRACK DOWN ON RACIAL HATRED
Padme: THANK GOD, YOU'RE GOING TO STOP THE RIOTING FASCISTS IN THE STREET
Anakin: …
Padme: …

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 19h

As an aside, imagine cooking your brain so thoroughly that you get yourself a long prison sentence for a terrorist campaign against ... a £12.50 toll charge

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Seemingly not The Onion

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Baffling.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Moore Homes was citing John Hume’s cry to follow the rule of law from some speech of his, and it made me think of one of my favourite photos, John getting searched, probably post being water cannoned, in suit, socks and sandals. I just love it

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