Reposted by Jo PalmerMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 23hthe tech industry is about to invent books 558207174042
Reposted by Jo PalmerLady Anytimenow working with Sir Nearlythere @lady-anytimenow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026 317248
Reposted by Jo PalmerDefend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 10hBecause judges are employed by the State, and the State doesn’t want people of conscience who dissent against unjust laws to be acquitted. Blocking this principle from jurors, often with threat of prosecution, is corrupt and undemocratic. The jury decides, not the judge. 2/2 03815
Reposted by Jo PalmerDefend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 10hJury Equity Centuries ago, this legal principle enshrined in law the absolute right of jurors to acquit (find not-guilty) a defendant according to their conscience. It’s proudly carved in stone inside the Old Bailey. Yet judges are lying to jurors about this right. Why? 1/2 15236
Reposted by Jo PalmerPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12hFailures of privatisation. Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs Foreign-owned RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets even after regulator lowered them. Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p. When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. Poor service at triple price. Customers fleeced.bbc.co.ukRoyal Mail plans to cut 2,500 head office jobsThe postal service firm wants to cut the head office and other jobs by the end of 2027. 75624314
Reposted by Jo PalmerDoctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 05/10/2026#ThisIsGenocideNotACeasefire: Israel continues to kill Palestinians, attack hospitals and block access to aid and healthcare. Meanwhile, world leaders are failing to stop it. We call for the protection of civilians in #Gaza and the lifting of restrictions on aid. 111467
Reposted by Jo PalmerEd Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 05/10/2026People who think the Green Party can win by chasing media friendly optics have profoundly misunderstood why the Green Party is currently appealing to so many people. Courage and principles are winners for us not umming and ahhing. 1530158
Reposted by Jo PalmerWomen for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Home Secretary rightly points out that nearly all women who make dangerous journeys to the UK are survivors of rape. So why does the Govt. detain women on arrival, let women languish in the asylum system for months and years on end, & close safe routes that support women and children? 1/2theguardian.comNearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana MahmoodHome secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK 22613
Reposted by Jo PalmerWill Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Pro-Palestine protest outside Plaid Cymru's conference in Llandudno. People carrying wrapped up "bodies" and the sign "Welfare not warfare". 07020
Reposted by Jo PalmerSeven of Nine Fan 🌍🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🖖🏼 @sevenofnine3au01.bsky.social · 03/10/2026UK voters : The corrupt grifters in Reform plan to replace our NHS with an American style insurance based system 600,000+ Americans go bankrupt yearly due to medical bills. Many thousands more suffer or die due to insurance claim denials or lack of money. A vote for Reform = a vote for death 172
Reposted by Jo PalmerBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Private Healthcare. You don't want it. 22299143
Reposted by Jo PalmerThe Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 03/10/2026“We don’t want the tech billionaires post-human reality. We want this world. The soil between our toes.” Rachel Millward on choosing a future built for people, not billionaires. 527971
Reposted by Jo PalmerJorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Imagine being a healthcare provider and a botched “death penalty” victim is brought into your ER. This is so depraved 671608320
Jo Palmer @josephinepalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Please sign & share ✍️openletter.earthOpen Letter: Urgent Demand for Immediate Cancellation of the TEVA sponsorship and exhibition at the Royal College of Pharmacy Annual Conference 2026 and Comprehensive Investigation into Due Diligence ... 000
Reposted by Jo PalmerWomen for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026📣 We welcome the Government's announcement of a safe route for Afghan women and Palestinians. This is a step in the right direction. However, the scheme, pitched to be 'small scale' for a few hundred, does not go far enough and will leave many people behind in danger and at risk of harm. 1/🧵theguardian.comUK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and PalestiniansExclusive: Move by Shabana Mahmood comes after closure of Afghan scheme last year but experts say numbers too small to deter Channel crossings 142
Reposted by Jo PalmerWear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today, a Palestinian pregnant woman, Amal Al-Ajla, was murdered while she was on the rooftop of her home in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City. The Israeli occupation struck the rooftop where she and her husband were standing, killing her instantly and critically injuring her husband. 23325
Reposted by Jo PalmerDavis Bickford @davis.social · 28/09/2026Ya know, it’d be really neat if companies stopped sneaking AI features into their products and forcing us to use them. 729945
Jo Palmer @josephinepalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Vigil in Colombo, Sri Lanka to repeal the PTA. Thursday 1st October @ 4:30pm. Meet in front of Liberty Plaza at the roundabout. 000
Jo Palmer @josephinepalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026UK National Demonstration for Palestine 12 noon @ Victoria Embankment, London 10th October 2026 000
Reposted by Jo PalmerThe Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Manchester Greens block Palantir from NHS as Labour-run Camden complicity is exposed Green Party councillors have claimed a momentous victory against notorious US 'End Times Fascist' tech firm Palantir www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...thecanary.coManchester Greens block Palantir from NHS as Labour-run Camden complicity is exposedManchester Green Party councillors have claimed a momentous victory against notorious US 'End Times Fascist' tech firm Palantir 29241
Reposted by Jo PalmerDave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Following sustained campaigning by Nurses 4 Palestine & others, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) says it is terminating its commercial partnership with Teva UK after due diligence into Teva's global record found it incompatible with nursing's ethical standards. Boycott Teva! 142
Reposted by Jo PalmerWear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not. 869286208261
Reposted by Jo PalmerGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAbandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George MonbiotChanges in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 17925351729
Reposted by Jo PalmerPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Pay rent, eat or keep warm? Growing numbers face hard choices as housing benefit gap grows. No curbs on rents. Shortage of social housing. 2.8m council homes sold since the 1980s, not replaced. Low wages, 37.8% of Universal Credit claimants are in work. Poverty is a political choice.theguardian.comPay rent, eat or keep warm? Growing numbers face hard choices as housing benefit gap growsWirral mother among renters turning to food banks as gap between a two-bed and housing benefit hits £158 a month – rising to as much as £324 in London 17296130
Jo Palmer @josephinepalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Please sign & share ✍️act.38degrees.org.uk Thanks for saying you’ll email NHS England to object to your personal data being included in the NHS’s national Palantir database! I just chipped in to support 38 Degrees' fearless campaigning - can you help too? 000
Reposted by Jo PalmerAmnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026THIS SHOWS HOW IMPORTANT PROTESTING IS. Protesting gives us power to make our leaders listen to what matters to us. Share this video to show what people power can do! 2309
Reposted by Jo PalmerAmnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026PROTESTING WORKS! Even the Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, agrees. Thanks to millions of people around the world demanding justice for Palestinians, the UK has taken the first steps to help end Israel’s illegal occupation by banning settlement goods and some services. 1815176
Reposted by Jo PalmerBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The Mother of British Aid Worker James Henderson who was murdered by an Israeli airstrike while delivering food in Gaza has demanded a ban of all weapon sales to Israel. His killers will never be brought to justice so this is the only justice James Henderson will ever get. Justice for Henderson. 6537204
Reposted by Jo PalmerWear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A Palestinian girl who has been waiting four years for her father, Mohammad Abu al-Rab, who was abducted by the IOF, to return home from Israeli prison, finally gets to see him again after his release. 06822
Jo Palmer @josephinepalmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Rally for Palestine 🇵🇸 11:30 on 03.10.2026 Llandudno Railway Station towards the Plaid Cymru Conference @ Venue Cymru #WelshGovernment 000
Reposted by Jo PalmerZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Palantir have just bought themselves a Labour Lord with close links to the Labour government. No other word to describe this other than corruption. How can Watson remain a member of the House of Lords and keep the Labour whip? 932315828
Reposted by Jo PalmerThe New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026During a sitting at UK Parliament, Scottish National Party MP Lara Bird called out the government’s delayed and lacklustre response to Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. Her comments come a week after Ed Miliband announced a trade ban against illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine 063
Reposted by Jo PalmerBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Amount a pensioner receives in the UK is the lowest in Europe, just 2/3rds of France and barely 50% of Italy who are considered a 'poorer' country. Why is our pension 'unaffordable' when it is so low, and where is all our money actually going? 35307146
Reposted by Jo PalmerPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Those calling for state pension cut are silent on their tax perks. Gross tax relief on pension contributions £83.9bn. 14% went to 1.1m additional rate tax payers. 57% to 6.6m higher rate (40%) payers. 29% went to 30.4m basic rate (20%) payers. Equalizing it at 20% for all leaves £14.5bn spare.leftfootforward.orgHere’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millionsPrem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi... 17318171
Reposted by Jo PalmerBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Ed Sheeran "I am not complicit." He's not complicit guys you have heard it from him. Just because he stays silent and does exactly what Israel wants doesn't mean that... Oh yeah actually it does mean he is complicit. 69129
