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Performative Flag-waving @joylove.bsky.social · 10h
Stop Trump’s attack on wolves! actions.eko.org/a/stop-trump...
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Stop Trump’s attack on wolves!
Majestic, intelligent, and fiercely loyal, gray wolves live in devoted family packs—led by an alpha pair who mate for life and raise their pups as a tight-knit unit.Among them is the Mexican gray wolf
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Performative Flag-waving @joylove.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Big Oil makes € 3.000 every second. While Europe burns, Shell, BP, and Total rake in billions. ACT NOW to #MakePollutersPay. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-08...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not beating the genocide allegations
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Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 03/10/2026
The government needs to take as serious look at the radicalisation of older people on Facebook (mostly) as it does at the dangers of social media for young people
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bless.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's not a TV channel, it's a far-right propaganda outlet (and replacement for RT)
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Frenchie McFrenchface @frenchie.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Well, Nigel is lying. The teachers are hand in hand with the students who are blocking their lycée because they have : no teachers, no chairs, no toilets in some, no nurse. Nothing to do with the Left..Just kids wanting what they should have. On the other hand the police have been monsters.
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Holli Deloe (HD) @hollidurhamdeloe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... This guy is evil.
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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Excellent article on British awareness of the Nazi death camps and ambivalence over Jewish refugees. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Britain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truth
Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion.
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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes, the players shouldn't have been put in this position but at the end of the day, everybody is their own moral agent and Bazunu is the only one of them with a backbone.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
PLEASE SHARE
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Come on down to the Council House for International Day of Birmingham, see the Re-Union Jack ♥️ #OneBrum Goldship have repurposed dozens of dirty & torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts to create a huge Union Jack, adorned with the names of people who have called Birmingham home
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GOLDSHIP Re-Union Jack 2026

Repurposed polyester flags/Mixed media.

Re-Union Jack is an ongoing community art project conceived by GoldShip, the creative duo of textile sculptor Clare Elisabeth and event producer Sam Shipman.

Repurposing dozens of dirty and torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts, Clare and Sam, alongside countless contributors from the wider community, pieced them together to create a huge Union Jack.

The flag was then transformed over several months by countless more contributors into a visual celebration of the people and stories that have helped shape the West Midlands. Across its surface are the names of influential Midlanders, spanning from the Anglo-Saxon Beorma, after whom Birmingham takes its name, through to the present day. Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.

Together, these names reflect the region's extraordinary history as a vibrant melting pot of cultures, ideas, talent and communities - and the positive contribution that migration has made to its identity.

The flag has since been signed in black by many of the people whose names feature upon it as a collective endorsement of its message of unity, inclusion and community.Photo of huge Union (Jack) Flag on lighting truss in the hall of the Council House. 
It's glorious and bears many names upon it of the people of Birmingham 
Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 26/09/2026
Josh Babarinde MP: "Our volunteer lifeboat crews. These are people who put their lives on the line for us" 👏 "Anyone who should get in their way is pathetic, unpatriotic, and un-British. We're a country that prides ourselves in bringing people together."
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Talk growing that Ireland’s players will refuse to play Israel www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...
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Ireland’s match against Israel thrown into chaos as Bazunu tells squad he does not want to play
Some other players understood to be considering whether to join goalkeeper in withdrawing from Nations League fixtures
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔥This is how it’s done. Imagine if every anti-immigrant fearmongering liar was grilled like this. #ShowMeTheStats #GetYourPhoneOut 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (h/t @ukcameraman.bsky.social )
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/09/2026
NEWS: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has secured a record $131.5 million settlement from DoorDash after a NYC investigation found the company underpaid or failed to properly pay 264,000 delivery workers. 1/
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our activist Yael Agmon stormed one of Ben-Gvir’s conferences and confronted him directly, demanding answers about the violence tearing through Palestinian communities.
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UK Friends of Standing Together @ukfost.co.uk · 17/09/2026
Interested in Standing Together’s work to protect the harvest and nonviolently resist settler terrorism in the West Bank? We’re organising public meetings in Nottingham, Leeds, Newcastle and Liverpool. But if you can’t make any of those dates, you can join this online webinar with Standing Together.
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Join us for public meetings with protective presence activists · UK Friends of Standing Together
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thread on the incident in the Channel.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The United States, which once freed prisoners from Germany's concentration camps, is now siding with the war criminals—and obstructing those who would hold them into account. Shameful—if this administration had any shame.
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US prepares to sanction the ICC, that indicted Russia's Putin and Israel's Netanyahu for war crimes
Trump is preparing sanctions against the International Criminal Court itself, potentially cutting it off from U.S. banking, technology and services. The US has already sanctioned 13 ICC officials and ...
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We disrupted a conference of the “Together” party led by Naftali Bennett, who vowed not to establish a Palestinian state, to remind the party that only diplomatic agreements and peace – not forever war – can bring safety to the people who live here.
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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Feel like this should have a bit more attention- www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report
Alleged talks between billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications
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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Worth a read. They play the long game.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026
Steak ’N Shake Employee Screams After Nude RFK Jr. Climbs Out Of Beef Tallow Fryer theonion.com/steak-n-shake-employee…
Steak ’N Shake Employee Screams After Nude RFK Jr. Climbs Out Of Beef Tallow Fryer
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🟡 Print Edition Nathan Cofnas and America’s Protection for Anti-Black Racism By Karam Bales The reinstatement by Ghent University of a key figure in the Jason Arday affair followed pressure from Trump’s State Department. It reveals a wider ideology of ‘injustice as illusion’. Karam Bales reports
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Nathan Cofnas and America’s Protection for Anti-Black Racism
The reinstatement by Ghent University of a key figure in the Jason Arday affair followed pressure from Trump’s State Department. It reveals a wider ideology of ‘injustice as illusion’. Karam Bales reports
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 21/09/2026
It's not just X you shouldn't be on.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
More people need to remember that Russia is not the USSR, and this isn't 1983. There are not massive tank armies waiting to surge across our borders. They can't beat Ukraine. They couldn't beat us. The problem is persuading the lunatics in charge of that.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
All these platforms were originally sold to us as being liberating tools of free speech and expression. Now they're being actively used by their owners to suppress it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it
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Philip Lymbery @philip-ciwf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, and happiness and misery” Charles Darwin #AnimalsMatter @ciwf.org.uk
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Performative Flag-waving @joylove.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Meta and Big Tech: don't allow the spread of disinformation on your platforms! action.eko.org/a/meta-big-t...
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Meta and Big Tech: don't allow the spread of disinformation on your platforms!
When Bolsonaro was president, he almost destroyed the Amazon. Now, his son could be elected to start Bolsonaro 2.0 and finish the job. Recent research by Ekō just exposed that Meta AI, Gemini, Grok an
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: The Army secretly relaxed its vetting policy for at least 2 years, meaning recruits could pass through basic training into specialisms without completed checks A far-right extremist later convicted of terror offences was among 13,000 who joined during period inews.co.uk/news/army-se...
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Army secretly relaxed vetting - letting in far-right extremist who backed Russia
The revelation raises questions for British military who are a key target for Russian intelligence in Vladimir Putin's 'hybrid war'
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My heart 💔
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Performative Flag-waving @joylove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ed Sheeran: Cancel your US tour! action.eko.org/a/ed-sheeran...
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Ed Sheeran: cancel your genocide-friendly tour
Macklemore stood on stage with pop superstar Ed Sheeran and said two words: "Free Palestine."Days later, Ed Sheeran dropped him from his remaining US shows.Ed Sheeran chose warmongering billionaires o
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
‘Danny Tommo’, leader of the balaclava-clad blackshirt rallies, says he will travel to Piddington “in the coming days” following the Parish Council’s stunt referendum: “I want to hear about safety concerns for their women and children.” Tommo was jailed for two years in 2016 for a knifepoint kidnap.
Daniel “Danny Tommo” Thomas. Indigo Nolan at Flickr.com, CC-BY-SA.
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Performative Flag-waving @joylove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump: hands off the forests! actions.eko.org/a/trump-hand...
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Trump: hands off the forests!
For 25 years, a law protected 59 million acres of forests in the US – some of the last truly wild forests on the planet – and just a few weeks ago, Trump signed off to end this protection.Now, pristin
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Performative Flag-waving @joylove.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AI is getting dangerous - beyond our control. 🤖 The race to build ever more powerful AI is reckless. Tell the EU to put safety first! ✊ action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-08...
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AI should serve us, not tech billionaires!
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Performative Flag-waving @joylove.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AI is getting dangerous - beyond our control. 🤖 The race to build ever more powerful AI is reckless. Tell the EU to put safety first! ✊ action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-08...
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AI should serve us, not tech billionaires!
Share the petition and you'll help multiply the impact of this campaign: AI should serve us, not tech billionaires!
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Performative Flag-waving @joylove.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Stop Musk’s Space base actions.eko.org/a/stop-musk-...
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Stop Musk’s Space base
Every year, tens of millions of birds fly thousands of miles across North America, stopping at Pecan Island to rest and feed along their epic migration.Snow geese arrive in enormous flocks. Endangered
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In another act of ethnic cleansing, Israeli forces forcibly displaced around 30 Palestinians by bulldozing their homes, sheep pens and water tanks in Khirbet al-Fakheit, Masafer Yatta – destroying their livelihoods and leaving entire families homeless.
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What would you do if you saw someone digging up and cutting a pipe that supplied an entire Palestinian community with water during the hottest time of the year? (1/4)
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.
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