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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 4h

There’s no obvious reason why that story would have been pulled. Interesting too that the Mail’s diary story on Gove and Salem splitting appeared three days after her court appearance. Almost like someone resembling Michael Gove wearing a fake moustache sent in that tip.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 4h

It is very interesting that the Mail’s story on Michael Gove’s recent ex-girlfriend being charged with CSAM offences has been memoryholed two days after it was published. Public records show she appeared at Oxford Combined Court centre on September 30 and pleaded not guilty.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 18h

Zack Polanski refusing to be silenced on Gaza 🇵🇸 ‘No State has the right to oppress nor inflict apartheid’ ‘75,000 Palestinians 🇵🇸 murdered’ ‘1,500 since the so called ‘ceasefire’’ ‘No-one should be supporting that State [ 🇮🇱 ]’ That- right there- is leadership. 👏

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Marie Ann Barbero-Clifford @marieann334.bsky.social · 16h

Food deliveries to Oleshky, a city in Russian-controlled Ukraine, ended months ago. Now the hospital is out of medicine and the only road in and out is mined and stalked by drones. www.wsj.com/world/starvi... via @WSJ

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Starving Ukrainians Are Risking Death to Escape Their Front-Line Town

All year, food supplies have dwindled as mines and drones made the road increasingly impassable.

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 10/10/2026

The Jewish Bloc for a on today's Gaza march in London #StopArmingIsrael #endTheGenocide

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Red Mac @pencerrigcalch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Whatever your thoughts on the motion passed at the Green Conference, the reality in Gaza and the West Bank is that Zionism as resulted in Israel treating Palestinians as expendable with no rights. They can be killed on a daily basis and smeared as being terrorists by the IDF and supprted by the west

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 5h

The problem with this framing is that they always define “right to exist” as “right to prioritize maintaining a Jewish voting majority above enfranchising everyone who lives in the governed territories.” Which gets you precisely into the policies in question.

from the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue: “I’ll debate Israel’s laws, its leaders, its policies. But I won’t debate whether it has the right to exist. That’s a stupid debate.”

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 9h

People also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos

She Only Served 10 Months Behind Bars. Florida Still Slapped Her With A $127,000 Bill.
Under Florida's "pay-to-stay" law, inmates are charged $50 for every day of their sentence—including time they never spent incarcerated.

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James Leakyboots Batty @jamesbatty.bsky.social · 5h

The FCDO recommends not travelling to Syria. Our government cares about the safety of UK nationals, & couldn't give a damn about anyone else. And this is supposed to be a Labour government. I despair. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Surgeon faces deportation as Home Office revokes refugee status for Syrians

UK classifies Syria as safe to return to despite UN refugee body’s advice

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Bethany Williams @bethanyincbr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Food for thought

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 5h

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 8h

Lola Salem — Oxford professor, ex-gf of Michael Gove — has been charged with possession of child porn Miraculously unlike, say, Arday, news about this pedophile white woman is getting almost no attention and it’s hard to even find search results www.msn.com/en-gb/news/o...

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Ivor Middleton @iwasid.bsky.social · 4h

"Different people attach different definitions to it, including Zionists" It's not done to be racist, so yes, Zionists do their best to tell us there are so many forms of Zionism the term is meaningless. It isn't. It's nationalist supremacism, target an ethnostate. There is no liberal form.

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Ivor Middleton @iwasid.bsky.social · 4h

"the way they went about it that was at fault" Putting a carefully thought through motion to the members? For the media to grossly misrepresent? #ZionismIsRacism

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 8h

Disgusting.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 5h

People think I'm joking when I say that disinformation threatens democracy and sovereignty, and that this means that kinetic options should be on the table, even if ideally not used.

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Ivor Middleton @iwasid.bsky.social · 4h

Ruin a book by adding a word. Continental Breakfast at Tiffany's

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Kali Nichta @kalinichta.bsky.social · 5h

I was wondering if anyone else has noticed the striking similarity between the Meta AI mascot and the Doctor Who Adipose, and, of course, you nerds (affectionate) are on it.

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 5h

This was Copenhagen yesterday. The European establishment's abysmal failure on Israel/Gasa is not shared by the European public. The gap between the two is untenable. The public will eventually prevail, but Europe's moral collapse will take years to repair.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 9h

Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

"I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources of general contamination and corruption in this country, and I think there are not many phases of London life that could surprise me. I am solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits. I do not believe that any community can prosper where such a scene of horror and demoralization as was enacted this morning outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol is presented at the very doors of good citizens, and is passed by, unknown or forgotten. And when in our prayers and thanksgivings for the season we are humbly expressing before God our desire to remove the moral evils of the land, I would ask your readers to consider whether it is not a time to think of this one, and to root it out.

I am, Sir, your faithful Servant.
Charles Dickens".

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8h

Andy Burnham confirms what previous PM's - May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer - failed to, that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum.

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CallieBalloo @redsoledgooner.bsky.social · 12h

Zionism is cleansing an area of its people and building illegal settlements on that stolen land. The gaslighting from the media and people like Caroline Lucas to suggest this isn’t racism is insane. Zionism was founded by jewish terrorists who murdered to create a homeland for themselves.

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The Socialist Dad @thesocialistdad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Still amazing me that the media and politicians are more concerned about the feelings of people who support genocide than the lives of those murdered in a genocide #ZionismISracism #MakeIsraelPalestineAgain

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h

Can we be honest that so called 'wokeness' meant Black people demanding full social personhood and refusing to be silent about getting murdered/harmed by the state? So yes, that is more threatening to many in this country than is fascism. I think that's been clear.

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Lindsey B @kibalchich.bsky.social · 13h

Big shout out to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for his courage and strength in the face of the inevitable vicious backlash by the media and other politicians, following the passing of the Zionism is Racism motion and the by election. Hold firm Zack.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13h

It was, if the spirit of Iain Banks will forgive me, the day the pope exploded. Well, to be strictly accurate, today is the 68th anniversary of the day a botched embalming saw Pius XII’s rotting torso break open while he was lying in state. (Yes, sorry. This thread is absolutely disgusting)

Papal Swiss guards in costumes – and especially helmets – that could have come from the 1980 Flash Gordon film, flanking the dead body of Pope Pius XII in a big, posh room in a palace in Rome

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Ivor Middleton @iwasid.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, that's how I meant it too. Perhaps should have phrased it as "one" instead of "you" 😀

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Pete Davies @pete-davies.bsky.social · 14h

A rare sighting in British media. An opinion piece backing the "Zionism is racism" position and arguing that Polanski's mistake was not coming out to support it. Good work, Martin Shipton!

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 10/10/2026

Israel’s leaders have made it clear that they have no intention of allowing a two-state solution, leaving millions of Palestinians the victims of occupation and discrimination indefinitely. With the support of the United States, this misery will continue ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-1uVe

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 9h

What an exciting day for people studying misinformation on Twitter. I bet a lot of prolific accounts there have suddenly gone quiet.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 6h

Great stuff from the Telegraph. archive.ph/r2nTA

A 29-year-old woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said the high levels of unemployment were “noticeable” in the area.
“When you go into Somali town, as we call it, you just see people outside in the cafes,” she said, gesturing down the road, before adding: “It annoys me, they are loitering around and doing nothing.”
Addressing her own career path, the 29-year-old said: “I can’t work at the moment because of my mental health. Of course I want to work, I went to uni and studied English Literature for two years. I want to be a writer.”

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 8h

I don't want to over-egg this but it's remarkable how similar the vibe is to the Madian revolutions.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 9h

MAGA grandma threatens to call ICE on Black woman-for riding the bus. "Go back to your country!" she yells. "You don't belong here!" "This is America-go back to Haiti or wherever you're from you foreigner!" "Get your nose pushed in," she says making mocking gestures about her face.

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 6h

Man "worried" about Africans coming to Ireland set to help bring about peace in apartheid state

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Ivor Middleton @iwasid.bsky.social · 6h

Where the custom is to lie and smear a decent leftish person, to signal your belonging to centrism?

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-bb...

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How the BBC sets a trap to make sure leftwing politicians never get a fair hearing

There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale

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Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Reading JG Ballard's book about a dystopian world of out of town shopping malls with shiny domes, and deadening sports that lead to the rise of a Fascist cult based on consumerism, while sitting in the Home of the Set Fare Arena in Livingston for the football.

Anonymous concrete and glass shopping mall with a shiny dome

JG Ballard's book Kingdom Come while waiting for Partick Thistle V Livingston at the Home of the Set Fare Arena.

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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 12h

The far right are marching, and we must stop them! harryeccles94.substack.com/p/the-far-ri...

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The Far right are marching

Terrifying scenes

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eastangrian.bsky.social @eastangrian.bsky.social · 12h

This is a very useful and informed review of Green Party policy changes, although note Andy Cooper comment Clarifying nuclear policy change. Just saying keep existing nuclear but press ahead with renewables, not new nuclear.

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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

“The result is that many of Britain’s largest landowners today can trace their holdings back centuries. Generation after generation are born into wealth, and into land.” open.substack.com/pub/harryecc...

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Who Owns Britain? The Land beneath our feet.

An explorative series looking at who really owns Britain.

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annri.bsky.social @annri.bsky.social · 11h

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

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Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021–2025

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

Here's something the media is hardly talking about. This Government is set to oversee the steepest fall in living standards in modern times - unless they change course fast. In less than two weeks Labour faces a stark choice - will they tax wealth and back the majority?

Under current projections this is set to be the worst parliament on record for living standards growth - and a bar chart demonstrating it

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Coliboo @coliboo999.bsky.social · 11h

I really don’t understand the reluctance to tax the wealthiest and all businesses who trade in the uk - you’re not telling me Amazon are going to throw away their business if they have to pay a fair amount of tax.

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Ivor Middleton @iwasid.bsky.social · 11h

Sorry, miles away this pm 😀

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"The United States are not the champions of freedom they pretend to be, but rather the main culprits of the oppression and misery of the world's peoples." - Che Guevara, UN, 1964.

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