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@geojl.bsky.social
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Books, theatre, music, dance and art keep me sane. Interested in politics & the environment. Northern. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇨🇺 No DMs please.

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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 22h
US live streaming firing squad executions @theageaustralia.bsky.social www.theage.com.au/world/north-...
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New data shows July was the worst on record for wildfires in England The PM's upcoming Wildfire Summit must make “radical changes to how we fire-proof our landscapes– by restoring peat bogs, ponds and wetlands – & cut out the fossil fuels making wildfires worse” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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July 2026 was worst on record for wildfires in England, data shows
Devastating blaze near Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk among a record 624 wildfires in July this year
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@Peg33 @peg33.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Matthew Chalmers @matthewchalmers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We need basic rules about data centres: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Zero water waste 🗣️ Local community consent Sign Foxglove's petition to stop data centres harming our communities and environment now. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
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Ban data centres that harm our communities and climate
Big Tech’s giant data centres swallow as much power as millions of homes, guzzle our water, and risk driving up our energy bills - all with zero limits. We need basic rules: ⚡ 100% clean power 💧 Ze...
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why is Nigel Farage back on air? Ofcom bans politicians from presenting news programmes, but GB News claims Farage's show is just 'current affairs' despite him using it to defend Reform's £72m in donations. Close the loophole now.
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Janet Beale 🇵🇸 @janet-beale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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‘No moral government should tolerate Palantir's involvement in our NHS’
PATIENTS, health workers, and members of the public gathered in more than 40 protests across England today to demand an end to spy tech firm Palantir’s role in the NHS.In London, protesters converged ...
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🎯I'm so done with this fucking shit. Have we learned nothing at all from the Me Too Movement and the Epstein Files? 🤬
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Don't they have enough?? All these little weeny billionaires do is suck up our resources and leave us with nothing." ICYMI - South Park calls out billionaires for data centers and resource extraction👇
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A political party having its own media outlet (I mean, more than the old media was a Tory operation) is not a sign of a healthy democracy or a healthy media.
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Tom from Temecula @tomfromtemecula.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Guardian inverts reality as number of UK anti-Zionist Jews up 50% Guardian misrepresents data on number of British Jews who identify as Zionist: "The data is literally the opposite of what the Guardian says." By @skwawkbox.org
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The Guardian inverts reality as number of UK anti-Zionist Jews leaps by 50%
Guardian misrepresents data on number of British Jews who identify as Zionist: "The data is literally the opposite of what the Guardian says."
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Adam Parsons explains that Israel has kicked out ("made to leave") 20 of the 27 British diplomats working at the UK consulate in occupied East Jerusalem.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the hell what you do when you see a woman being attacked. These two are heroes. Take notes, Fellas. The world needs more men standing up for women. Don't be a piece of shit rapist, for fuck's sake.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump regime wants to dismantle the International Criminal Court because it plans to continue committing war crimes. The Trump regime is refusing to allow international election monitors because it plans to continue committing election fraud. They are not being subtle.
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mystical archway. Photo from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor. Good luck to everyone trying for Glastonbury tickets today. 🤞#Glastonbury #glastonburytor
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 02/10/2026
Exclusive: A recent lobbyist for the controversial $450bn US tech company Palantir played a senior role in helping Andy Burnham become prime minister W/ Rob Booth
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Recent lobbyist for Palantir had key role in helping Andy Burnham become PM
Exclusive: Martha Dalton worked closely with Burnham’s team on byelection that secured his return to parliament
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ in central London. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services." via Global Justice Now
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geojl.bsky.social @geojl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Please, if you are able, purchase #BylineTimes Fearless journalism is to be treasured at the moment. Show them some love!
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 NEW ‘Andy Burnham’s Plans to Make Britain Great Again Are the Polar Opposite of Trump’s’ By Alexandra Hall Hall Read below. ↓
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‘Andy Burnham’s Plans to Make Britain Great Again Are the Polar Opposite of Trump’s’
If Burnham succeeds where Trump has failed, the whole MAGA agenda will be exposed, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 NEW Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations By Samantha Asumadu Read below. ↓
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Quelle surprise... Rabid free speech advocates don't like free speech
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Jockyfox @jockyfox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Journalists / lobby colleagues unite and call this out?! @hugorifkind.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social @natashadevon.bsky.social @paulbrand.bsky.social @vicderbyshire.bsky.social @pickardje.bsky.social
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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geojl.bsky.social @geojl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Has #JamesOrr been sacked yet? #BylineTimes
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These are the Cornell rapists:
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
City must be taken to task. If they aren't the Premier League will be a mockery for ever However, the point I wanted to make is the Premier League welcomed all these big investors in. There's no going back now. They have to find a way to manage things better www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Manchester City case shows us how the global mega-rich now expect to operate with impunity | Jonathan Liew
When transnational alliances have scarcely been weaker, the way the club was allegedly run offers a bleak vision of a world driven by brute power and wealth, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
People vs Palantir – International Day of Action 🌎✊ Thursday 1 October 2026. We are saying NO to Palantir! Find a UK action near you 👇🏽 www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/inter...
Activists at Parliament Square, London holding up a banner that reads NO PALANTIR in our public services
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE IS SICKENING......
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Did the Far Right Grifter Cry Again? dorseteye.com/did-the-far-right-gri…
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Did the Far Right Grifter Cry Again? - Dorset Eye
Did he cry again? Daniel Thomas, I’m not using “Tommo” as I’m not a fucking 13-year-old kid asking his mum if he can come out to play; he has just been in court, clutching a bible for fucks sake, and ...
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pathetic Weak Sauce 😡
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It never stops being important that, no matter what the subject, politicians like Farage, Trump & Rubio are entirely untethered from the most basic requirements of honest discourse. They might turn out to be telling the truth sometimes but only ever in the spirit of stopped clocks.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today before Senate.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The end times fascists may want us to believe that the end of the world is nigh and inevitable but this book shows, again and again, that there is a different way. It's up to us to follow it" - Thank you Ericka Taylor for this generous and thoughtful @npr.org review! www.npr.org/2026/09/28/n...
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'End Times Fascism' looks at supremacist groups uniting around end-of-the-world ideas
Authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor identify supremacists that have, despite ideological differences, converged around the conviction that they are part of an elite destined to survive an apocalypse.
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geojl.bsky.social @geojl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Square Chapel for the people
Square Chapel has a strong history of supporting community events and professional performances and is a popular venue in the local community.  Square Chapel was a popular arts centre with good ...
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister was among more than 80 people arrested outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool while demonstrating in support of Palestine Action. The arrests came as Ed Miliband told critics of the government’s policy on Palestine: “We hear you. You were right"
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the Midterms
See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...
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"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure
Our new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state
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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When climate protesters - some elderly women - lay down in the street, they were jailed: the men of the far right, on the other hand, disperse without being arrested. I talked to @natashawalter.bsky.social about the crackdown on eco-protestors in the UK. www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/dont-lean-in...
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Don’t Lean In: Natasha Walter on Ecofeminism
“Environmentalism without feminism is a patriarchy in the forest, but the women’s movement without environmentalism is a women’s centre on a dead planet.”
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's End Times Fascism explores the religious fanatics and tech billionaires who see catastrophe as an opportunity ✏️ @rostaylor.bsky.social
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Apocalypse wow: The American right wingers rooting for doomsday
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's End Times Fascism explores the religious fanatics and tech billionaires who see catastrophe as an opportunity
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Watched the first episode of this very important programme, Finding Britains Slave Traders with #DavidOlusoga Recent research shows the royal family, beginning with Elizabeth 1 and continuing with the Stuarts, to be key financiers and backers of the transatlantic slave trade. #history
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Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga - Series 1: Episode 1
David Olusoga reveals the new research that uncovers how the slave trade was driven by the monarchy, beginning with Elizabeth I, and how a royal monopoly was established.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
RepubliKKKans Are Bad For America, Vote Accordingly.......💙
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