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Hilly Cooke

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Amra Watson @amrawatson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Not enough that Reform has a 24/7 cheerleading channel (GB News)—they also get 37 mins live on the BBC, while the Greens' press conf. don’t even get a mention. Is Ofcom asleep, or selectively awake? And the BBC?Are they failing to do their jobs, or doing exactly what they’ve decided their job is?
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The war becomes more insane every day.
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Middle East crisis live: Israeli officials push back on US claim that Trump knew nothing about gasfield attack
Three Israeli officials tell Reuters that the US actually helped coordinate Israel’s attack on Iran’s South Pars gasfield
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The message from Farage is clear. If you're a British Muslim wanting to peacefully exercise your right to pray in public then you're a threat to the nation. If you're a convicted far-right rioter who was part of a violent street mob then you'll get a personal message of endorsement
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Hilly Cooke @hillycooke.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Please donate! The Refaat Alareer Camp x The Sameer Project chuffed.org/project/1133...
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The Refaat Alareer Camp x The Sameer Project
The Sameer Project, a mutual aid organization led by three Palestinians in the diaspora, are the proud directors and funders of a tent encampment in Central Gaza that provides shelter and specialized ...
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Hilly Cooke @hillycooke.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
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Call off the King’s visit to the US for the 250th anniversary of America's independence
With the current political chaos in the US and Trump’s failure to adhere to international norms, and given his apparent obsession with the Monarchy, calling off this visit would send a powerful messag...
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Hilly Cooke @hillycooke.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
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Hilly Cooke @hillycooke.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Reform UK are yelling “drill, baby, drill” 🙄 But fracking is reckless & won’t even cut bills. Time to end this nonsense. Tell Ed Miliband: BAN FRACKING permanently. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ke...
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Keep fracking out of Britain!
I live in Lincolnshire, and a new gas field has been found nearby. Reform UK are already shouting “drill, baby, drill,” and fracking isn’t banned - it’s only paused. That means they could start drilli...
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Hilly Cooke @hillycooke.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK just opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. Join me and sign the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics: 38d.gs/xvqe
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Stop shady crypto cash flooding our politics
🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK just opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. That's why I've signed the petition to stop s...
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Hilly Cooke @hillycooke.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/en... @uplift.ie
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Occupied Territories Bill Now
Demand the Irish government stops blocking the Occupied Territories Bill and finally ban trade with illegal settlers on Palestinian land.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Notice how some of the “centrist” commentators who lauded Gary Lineker over Brexit have nothing to say after he is driven from the BBC over Palestine. Shall I start naming which of them have gone on undeclared trips to Israel paid for by pro-Israel lobbyists BICOM?
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Save Nidal & Najla and their Families @nidalnajla.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Ayman's family evacuated to Mawasi today. One of his brothers has a motor disability, so displacement is incredibly difficult for them. They are helpers by nature so I know things must be bad if Ayman posted for help. gofund.me/7ca41e20 Verified and previously featured by @mommunism.bsky.social
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Stop selling arms to Israel then.
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Hilly Cooke @hillycooke.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen! Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
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Put Public Ownership of Water Back on the Table
Privatisation of water isn’t failing - it is the failure. The Government is mid-way through a major review of the water sector. But so far, it has refused to consider a potential solution that’s backe...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🔴The Big Money Firms Bankrolling a Global Retreat From Climate Targets A small group of “super investors” is quietly fuelling the oil industry’s abandonment of environmental goals bylinetimes.com/2025/04/14/t...
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The Big Money Firms Bankrolling a Global Retreat From Climate Targets
A small group of “super investors” is quietly fuelling the oil industry’s abandonment of environmental goals
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Almost 40,000 children lost a parent during Gaza war - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Almost 40,000 children lost a parent during Gaza war
<article data-history-node-id="420730" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/almost-40000-children-lost-parent-during-gaza-war" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/almost-40000-children-lost-parent-during-gaza-war" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Almost 40,000 children lost a parent during Gaza war</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Tens of thousands of children have lost a parent since the beginning of Israel's assault on Gaza.</p> <p>The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said in a statement, issued on the eve of Palestinian Children’s Day, said 39,384 children in Gaza had lost one or both parents after 534 days of war.</p> <p>Around 17,000 of those listed lost both parents.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 03/04/2025
Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank isn't being ignored by accident—it's part of a deliberate global acceptance of ongoing genocide and displacement. 4 reasons why the world remains complicit—and how a new generation might finally change that. mondoweiss.net/2025/03/four...
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Four reasons why Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the West Bank is being accepted by the world
Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in the West Bank is being accepted by the international community because it has already allowed genocide in Gaza and the forced displacement of Palestinians since…
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Mircalla @inplacesdeep.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Please help out @ahmedgaza3.bsky.social's family.
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Donate to “A Humanitarian Appeal from Gaza: A Family’s Struggle for Sa, organized by Mohammed Qandeel
Hello everyone, I am Ahmed Qandeel from the Gaza Strip, speci… Mohammed Qandeel needs your support for “A Humanitarian Appeal from Gaza: A Family’s Struggle for Sa
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"All the signs are that new UK government is going to make the most important decision of its term in office in the coming weeks. Unfortunately, it looks very much as if it will make the wrong one."
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If you tolerate this – then your country will be next
A UK-US trade deal may offer temporary relief from tariffs, but at what cost to Britain’s economy, food standards, and long-term EU relationships?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"Food supplies are running dangerously low in Gaza a month after Israel imposed a total blockade on the strip. All bakeries have been forced to shut down because of a shortage of flour & diesel. Bread is the main staple for the 2.3m Palestinians relying on aid to survive"
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMIC TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMI TRICKLE DOWN ECONOM TRICKLE DOWN ECONO TRICKLE DOWN ECON TRICKLE DOWN ECO TRICKLE DOWN EC TRICKLE DOWN E TRICKLE DOWN TRICKLE DOW TRICKLE DO TRICKLE TRICKL TRICK
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
via Mick Lynch
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The 'streamlining' of enviro protections continues the long British tradition of regarding nature as expendable "Officials acknowledge that this is very likely to mean a less stringent policy for specific protection, particularly around distinct major projects" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Wildlife groups express alarm at plan to ‘streamline’ UK environmental rules
Government wants to spur economic growth and drive housebuilding but charities say nature should be priority
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
On the same day we learn over half of Britain’s 59 native butterfly species are in long-term decline & in what is already one of the most nature depleted countries in the world, this slash & burn approach to growth spells disaster for nature & for longterm sustainability
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Wildlife groups express alarm at plan to ‘streamline’ UK environmental rules
Government wants to spur economic growth and drive housebuilding but charities say nature should be priority
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
After a month of blocking all food from Gaza Israel says there is plenty of food in the strip. The UN says thats ridiculous. In other news all bakeries have now been forced to close because of a lack of flour and fuel.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Tahani Mustafa: Israels strategy "is to make the strip completely uninhabitable for its population.. what we are seeing is what many of us predicted from the outset.. you're going to see Gaza quite literally razed to the ground" Exactly.
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Hilly Cooke @hillycooke.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen! Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
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Put Public Ownership of Water Back on the Table
Privatisation of water isn’t failing - it is the failure. The Government is mid-way through a major review of the water sector. But so far, it has refused to consider a potential solution that’s backe...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Don't worry like cutting money to get Disabled People into work, this cut will help people with Mental Illness get better. 🤡
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
They're hanging up the hi-vis , but they've achieved their mission: no new oil and gas licenses is UK Govt policy . So , top work Just Stop Oil– some may disagree with the method but they can't fault your motive . The fight for a liveable planet continues .
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
My illustrator's take is that there's something especially c__ty about using AI to do *woodcut* imitations in a book about *nature*. Woodcuts work in nature books because the art style is slow, meditative, and involves contact with nature (cutting wood). The art style is a metaphor for the subject
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Karl Drinkwater 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 ☮️ 🥗 @karldrinkwater.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"Israel is gunning down children with Apache helicopters" www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-is-...
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Israel is gunning down children with Apache helicopters
They just keep unleashing new horrors...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/03/2025
Reeves’s statement will leave poorest £500 a year worse off, finds thinktank
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Reeves’s statement will leave poorest £500 a year worse off, finds thinktank
Resolution Foundation says ‘outlook for living standards remains bleak’ after chancellor’s cuts to welfare * UK politics live – latest updates Lower-income households are on track to become £500 a year poorer by the end of the decade as a result of the chancellor’s spring statement, according to analysis by a leading thinktank. The Resolution Foundation said a combination of weak economic growth over the next five years and benefit cuts that fall disproportionately on lower-income households would result in an average annual loss of £500 in 2030 for those in the poorest half. Continue reading...
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Every job you get AI to do is cash taken from working people, usually low earning freelancers. That money is now not in the system. You are not only making the world poorer culturally, you are making the economy poorer. And since there is no workable financial model for AI, not even moving money up.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Labour MPs condemn Rachel Reeves’s ‘unacceptable’ welfare cuts. Labour MPs and Peers must oppose (I won't vote for it) this strategy. There are numerous alternatives to hitting the poorest. Mobilize opposition. Seek face to face meeting with your MP. Ask your friends/family to do the same.
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Labour MPs condemn Rachel Reeves’s ‘unacceptable’ welfare cuts
Backbenchers express anger as impact assessment shows 3.2 million households will be worse off
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Capitalism is a system where the poorest have to pay for everything because the richest are too busy hoarding all the money. It's not a flaw, it is how it is meant to be.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes wasn't bad enough - the Israeli courts copy the pure racist theft practiced by every colonial power meme via Yeni Şafak
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 27/03/2025
🚨 JUST OUT — privatised water companies DUMPED sewage for MILLION hours in 2024. Are you sick of this 💩? Do you want to end the profit from pollution crisis? Sign our petition for public ownership, starting with Thames Water: tinyurl.com/cd9y2pf8
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The UK has spent up to £500m assisting Israel's genocide in Gaza. This is the kind of thing that money is being moved from disabled people to 'defence' for.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
In every atrocity in history, the silent are always principal players. Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue. Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Imagine if all those who are silent about the terrible evil being committed in Gaza spoke up | Owen Jones
No crime in history has been so well documented by its victims. And yet inaction and censorship reign, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
US bombs cancer centre in Yemen, most victims of bombings women & children, western media are silent. If this action was taken by Russia, China or any country we are taught to call enemy, politicians & media would make political capital out of it. The hypocrisy skwawkbox.org/2025/03/18/u...
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US bombs cancer centre in Yemen, most victims of bombings women, children
Western media and UK government silent and complicit Israel has bombed a cancer centre in the Sana’a Governorate as part of Trump’s assault to protect Israel’s genocidal war on th…
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“A small arthouse cinema on Miami Beach faces the possible cancellation of its lease + the loss of $80K in grant $ promised by the city after refusing to cancel screenings of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land (about 🇮🇱’s displacement of 🇵🇸) following rptd intimidation attempts by the mayor.”
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Miami Beach Cinema Targeted by Mayor Speaks Out: “We Don’t Want To Leave”
The city is threatening to close O Cinema after it refused to cancel screenings of No Other Land, the Oscar-winning film about Israel’s displacement of Palestinians.
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B heard media 💚🇵🇸 @bheardmedia.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
On the use of the private sector, Care Minister Stephen Kinnock said: “ Yeah, we’re comfortable with that.” Tanni Grey-Thompson said: "..making life intolerable, it's obvious more people will feel forced down this route to end their lives early." #assisteddyingbill #WelfareCuts #PeopleBeforeProfits
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The Malthusian Labour Party
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Paul Da Pork Hunt & Mr Moo (Friends with Larry) @paulcwgb.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Has any public enquiry, the Post office scandal, Grenfell Fire Covid , the dumping of Sewage etc:. ever lead to a prosecution, Has it fuck !
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