Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism 19855732439
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialSpaceSkeleton Dragon @thespaceskeleton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Tom Morello's message to Tiny Tommeh at the Download festival: 11224166
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Well said, Billy 👏🏼 #BookSky 180101362098
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialRicky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 12/06/2026People have shown up to watch the removal of the orange felon’s disgusting name from the Kennedy Center including thousands more watching live streams. It’s coming TF down! 815217414094
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 09/06/2026When Starmer goes what I'll remember most is that he had a huge majority but was terrified of the right and so failed to confront racist insurrectionists. 17914
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else 12969641556
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10/06/2026oh FUCK OFF 3152950
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026This has nothing to do with stopping crime. It is to do with a global far-right movement, coordinated on X, organised by some of the most powerful men in the world from Silicon Valley to the White House inews.co.uk/opinion/fara... 461379529
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialMaria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Language is ontologically significant. It doesn't just describe reality, it creates it. We are not powerless. We can always refuse to speak the language of the far-right, and we should demand that others do the same. So call it out. Speak a different language, and make them listen. 9/9 59621
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialMaria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The 'mildly controversial or provocative mainstream right-wing commentary' is the language of our government, the language of power, and it has a direct connection to radicalisation. To begin even seeing far-right extremism as a threat, those in power would have to first look in the mirror. 6/ 29422
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026There last few weeks shows how deeply principled and decent people can be, even when going through the most terrible pain. Their grace stands in stark contrast to those who would exploit their suffering for political gain. 201250332
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent. 18062121894
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Fear, hate and racism whipped up by ugly politicians and irresponsible media. With Musk’s X spreading the word and organising their fascist foot soldiers. This is the rage that Farage called for. These are his people. This is his racist, hateful, angry Britain. app.independent.co.uk/2026/06/10/2... 20396128
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The Far Right riot in Belfast last night was nothing less than “a race-based pogrom”, Belfast MP and leader of the SDLP Claire Hanna said. The mob hunted down non-whites and set fire to their homes. Carl Whyte, a local councillor, called it “a hard Far Right element”.bbc.co.ukHomes set on fire in Belfast night of violence as MP says people targeted based on skin colour - follow liveOn one street, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out", our reporter says. 9525051090
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialMark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Justin Webb on r4today this morning trying to turn a violent riot into a "people with legitimate concerns about immigration" debate. He also interviewed someone from Westminster and the DUP - no one from the actual governing party in Stormont, Sinn Fein. 0189
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialAnthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 10/06/2026It's time to dismantle this network of hate using every democratic power we can muster. 323921
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026This is no more about the details of immigration policy than the progroms my great great grandparents fled were about Jews committing crimes. It's straightforward racist violence and it needs the strongest possible response. 241851398
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialRichard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Voters in Makerfield might care to remember that after a woman called for immigrants to be burned alive in their homes two years ago, Nigel Farage gave her a platform at his party conference. 18746302
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialCitizen Paul Templeman @paultempleman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026There’s no longer any excuse. X has become a vile platform that incites violence on our streets, led by an American oligarch who delights in seeding dissent and division in the UK. 33112
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The government needs to leave X. EVERYONE needs to leave X. 16251121175
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialJim Russell 🏴. @jazzyrussell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Ruud Gullit "The World Cup belongs to the world, not to governments, political interests, or football administrators. It belongs to the players, the referees, and the supporters. If FIFA cannot guarantee that all three are treated fairly and equally, then it has failed in its most fundamental duty. 1252729687
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialColm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I 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. 7738201058
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialEuropean News @eunews.social · 07/06/2026Speaking in Madrid yesterday, Pope Leo XIV stated: "I encourage you to nurture the process of the European Union, which is not merely a counterweight to other powers, but a gift to humanity." 251844529
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Very good from Starmer. 371020189
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026“Reform has the most extreme policy on energy and climate the UK has seen since modern science on the subject began. The party opposes solar; it opposes wind; it opposes batteries… Once again: Reform is largely funded by fossil fuels” Private Eye on the anti-thought, pro-corruption threat of Reform 551239644
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/06/2026Ossoff: "This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand. That our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas. Americans are not a race, we're a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions." 682453678
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/06/2026It is shit like this which is why I get so angry at the people who try and defend or dismiss Labour's rampantly xenophobic and hostile policies on the basis "Reform will be worse". Yeah, they will, it doesn't excuse how utterly abhorrent Labour is though. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comHome Office sends letters to children as young as five saying they must leave UKChildren of those on care worker visas – who came legally before rule change – told to leave even if parents can stay 16377161
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026An effective push back against GOP culture war tactics? Seems to me it should be. 281105803110
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace. 650310068413
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialNiall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 30/05/2026The damage is done and will continue to be done until the British electorate is able to see itself as just another European country. It will be a happier - and better - place when it gets there. Ends 86015
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Giants OLB Abdul Carter on why he responded critically to Jaxson Dart’s decision to introduce Donald Trump: www.usatoday.com/story/sports... 26484141320
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialHylder Adox @hylderadox.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Getting into the EEA is so obviously the right thing to do economically it's painful. It's also the ideal half-way house while we figure out if full membership is really what we want or worth sacrificing the advantages of a fiat currency etc. The EU isn't perfect or a cure all as some think it is. 3104
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸 473311589096
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂 342135124164
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026The EU we want. ❤️🇪🇺 3238872
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialDemocratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Hands Off BLACK VOTES! Visibility Event · Hosted by Forest Hills Indivisible Wednesday, May 13 4:30 – 6pm EDT Long Island Expressway pedestrian overpass Horace Harding Expressway & 62nd Avenue & Grand Central Pkwy Queens, NY 11375 www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...mobilize.usHands Off BLACK VOTES! · Indivisible## The Supreme Court Just Handed the Keys Back to Jim Crow The highest court in the land hasn't just failed us—it has betrayed the very definition of democracy. By systematically gutting the Voting R... 8351141
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Social care reform, immediately. Bon the commission, give task force 3 months to propose final recommendations building from Dilnot proposals, implement immediately with penny on basic and higher rates of income tax to pay for it. Immediately transforms local govt fortunes too… 2338282
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialTwitRuss @twitruss.bsky.social · 12/05/2026The next election will be a wild gamble leaving 75% of the electorate disaffected if conducted with FPTP. It would be actively dangerous for our democracy. 111
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/05/2026🔥 HAYES: “You get the pattern here, right? One after another… so there’s no Black members of Congress left in the states of the old Confederacy. They want a New Jim Crow, now they have a blessing from the Supreme Court.” #Tennessee #Memphis @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn 21664262540
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialBlackbeardsghost @blackbeardsghost.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I think he puts himself in this position though... 'We must break the status quo/no more incremental change' wow sounds exciting, what are you suggesting? 'incremental change!'.. ok thanks Keir that could have been an email 231
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialPaul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 09/05/2026The EU will not trust closer relations with the UK until Reform is emasculated and Tories shift to centrist sceptical remain position and that requires PR - without that Farage is a spoiler and EU won’t touch us…👆👆👆 1142
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 11/05/2026There's a sort of core to Labour support, of people who feel a genuine connection to the party and see voting for - even working with - those of other parties as a betrayal. This group seems chronically unable to understand that *even among historically reliable Labour voters* they're a minority 1319630
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialCompass @compassoffice.bsky.social · 11/05/2026The PM's speech was just sticking plaster politics. The country wants leadership and it wants a direction. What it got was more nebulous gesturing towards possible policy. Compass in @the-independent.com. 182
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Maybe he'll tell us his father was a tool maker. 13918
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026It's just a bit embarrassing really. The big much-hyped Europe policy is: we'll be better mates in a way I cannot describe or define. 724128
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026This is the end result of Shabana Mahmood’s nasty immigration policies… more votes for Reform and so, more racism scaring and dividing our communities. Not sure how Labour can justify this, politically or morally. It’s so far from what we’d all hoped. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comMinority groups brace for surge in racism after Reform UK election gainsMany members of minority communities fear results in Birmingham and elsewhere could lead to rise in hostile rhetoric 761223473
Reposted by @gerryguk7.bsky.socialTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 09/05/2026A lot of the scepticism about the idea that someone in Labour should turn the next few years into a debate about the EU again forgets that this strategy really just amounts to 'telling the truth to voters about Brexit and suggesting that we act on it'. It's not some 4D Chess move. 929757
