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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12h

Poll Check are projecting the result as incredibly close. We CAN win this! Join us tomorrow anytime between 7am-10pm and then come celebrate the Green victory you helped make happen!! forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 12h

If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3f

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Sadiq Khan: Pull the plug on transphobia

Tell the mayor of London to switch off JK Rowling’s Christmas lights

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9h

You can imagine how bad this would look, if government after government had spent the last 18 years roaring abuse at people who asked them to do things differently, treating them like they are vandals and imbeciles who do not understand the delicate art of excellent governance

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10h

All in all, I would say that the British ruling class and their various hangers on have done a truly remarkable job on the country in the 21st century so far. And they aren’t finished yet!

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Punished 'Woke' Bane @baneforyou.bsky.social · 19h

even if so, you want us to sink the treasury into the American defence industry for a shooting war with russia in 2030 to save £2.5bn annually? No thanks! The Putin tax is a steal in comparison.

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Punished 'Woke' Bane @baneforyou.bsky.social · 19h

i too can make up numbers for bullshit

‘The Putin Tax’ | The economic impact of Russian hostile activity against Britain totals at least £2bn to £2.5bn annually, according to a new report by Labour MP Graeme Downie, the vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on rearmament.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 9h

We ended up talking about this on the free one with @ciaran.operationglad.io, also featuring the return of Rob's Nemesis

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 14h

Corporate profits and tax revenues grew together until the Trump tax cuts. Now corporate profits are at an all-time high while tax receipts are at their lowest since 2021.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14h

Weird, I haven’t seen much about this by-election at all and I barely know anything about the candidate who’s expected to win. Can’t even tell you her name! But I did see the avalanche of all-channels roaring hate and fear against the guy the newspapers want to lose.

The Times and Sunday Tim...
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It's the Holborn and St. Pancras by-election tomorrow, so The Story podcast's @LukeJones has been traversing North London, speaking to Times colleagues @gilescoren, @willpavia and voters on the ground to see who is going to win this battle for the left

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 13h

One page from Norman Finkelstein's new book Gaza's Gravediggers - An Inquiry Into Corruption In High Places.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15h

"So many of the people I speak to here tell me they’ve voted Labour in the past – but this time, they’re voting Green to elect an independent local MP who will fight for their communities and keep the Labour government in check." www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 14h

"Only the Green Party has the policies to address inequality, through taxes on wealth; tackle the cost of living crisis with rent controls and raising the minimum wage; and fight climate breakdown through a nationwide home insulation programme and turbocharging renewables" - @carladenyer.bsky.social

Conservatives: for billionaires, inequality, and environmental damage

Carla Denyer
MP for Bristol Central

“Today Kemi Badenoch once again defined the Conservative Party as pro-billionaires, pro-inequality and pro-damaging the environment.”

“However much money you throw at it, you cannot have national security without action on the climate crisis. You cannot make this country fairer while you continue to favour the super-wealthy over ordinary working people, and you will not help young people into work by removing worker protections and support.”

“Cutting inheritance tax, cutting welfare and reigniting a new round of austerity reminds us that this is a party working for the wealthy few, not the majority.”

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Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales, c/o PO Box Green Party, London SE1P 6YL

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Zen @keithcross.bsky.social · 14h

Kemi A Genius better rhetoric than Cicero etc 🤡

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 14h

The reason we have Hamas is because the US conspired with Israel and the UK to get rid of the much more leftist PLO, which conveniently allows us to blame Hamas for being against leftist values. What a lucky break for us

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19h

I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get.

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Heated Rivalry News @hrnews.bsky.social · 14h

First looks of Jacob Tierney’s “I'll Believe in Anything: The Making of Heated Rivalry Season 1 (The Annotated Scripts)” which details an extended scene of Shane and Ilya meeting for the first time via todayshow

11 EXT. REGINA-JUNIOR HOCKEY ARENA/BACK PARKING LOT - DAY
We got the boys to look younger mostly just through acting, through tracking the story and remembering. I would remind Connor Storie and Hudson how old they were at this point, or more importantly how long they've known each other.
Ilya is standing against a wall trying to light a cigarette in a wind tunnel. He hears a door open and turns around.
Shane is there. Shane pauses, but then bucks up the courage and just walks right over to him.
SHANE
Ilya Rozanov?
Ilya nods.
SHANE (CONT'D)
Shane Hollander.
He extends his hand. Ilya nods again, kind of staring at him, before shaking his hand.
SHANE (CONT D)
wanted to introduce myself.
Ilya nods and goes back to lighting his smoke. Shane notices they are standing under a No Smoking sign.

SHANE (CONT' D)
I'm not sure you're supposed to smoke here.
His butt finally lit, Ilya looks at Shane, who nods up to the sign. Ilya looks at it and exhales. He's gonna smoke.
SHANE (CONT' D)
I'm surprised.
Shane gestures at the cigarette. Ilya shrugs.
ILYA
Ок.
Pause. Shane can't help it.
SHANE
You're an awesome player to watch.
ILYA
Yes.
Shane laughs a little, almost against his own will. Ilya smiles, it's almost sly. Shane waits for Ilya to say it back. It's not happening. Then Shane decides something. He leans against the wall too, keeping his distance, but staying.
SHANE
Are your parents here?
Some of this dialogue was cut during the edit. This was shot exactly as scripted, and then we cut it down. Our editor Arthur Tarnowski would present an option of what a scene looks like at a minute and a half, or three minutes, six minutes, or whatever it was.

ILYA
No.
SHANE
Oh. That must suck. With Christmas and all.
ILYA
Christmas is later in Russia.
SHANE
Oh. Cool.
Another long, cold moment. Shane shivers.
SHANE (CONT' D)
It's cold, right?
ILYA
Yes.
Shane can barely look at him, but Ilya can't help but keep glancing at Shane. Silence. Shane tries yet again but:
SHANE
Ottawa next year.
He looks at Ilya, Ilya looks at him, but says nothing.
This was quite a long scene as it was originally scripted, and then Arthur and I decided together how to cut back.
SHANE (CONT'D)
My hometown. And the International Prospect Cup. I mean, next year the International Prospect Cup will be in my hometown. Which is Ottawa.
Ilya can't help but smirk a bit at Shane's nerves.

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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 14h

Note the studied vagueness of "substantial portions". I suspect if you managed to round up the European and US Left and quizzed them individually, the vast majority would also condemn Hamas, though they might also tell you to fuck off with your silly games.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 15h

I mean, do we think there's no causal link between training liberals to reflexively concede the right's frame and denounce everyone to their left, on demand, and the state we have ended up in now, with the right running roughshod and the centre terrified and powerless to act against it?

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 16h

The Guardian, the BBC, the Daily Mail, and The Telegraph, have once again morally and ethically disgraced themselves over their continued allegiance to the genocidal State of Israel, as they spew venom over Zack Polanski’s ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion. 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WWh...

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WE ARE BEING LIED TO: Richard Sanders EXPOSES Green Party Zionism is Racism Smears

YouTube video by Double Down News

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 16h

Yes, when it comes to UBI, it's about understanding it as power to the People to say No, where it's a fight we must have and win, to make sure we create a floor underneath everyone to protect everyone financially, and where as a dividend we make sure that everyone benefits financially.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15h

Like, I made a comedy blog in 2007 that was all about the total detachment of the way we talk about our wars from actual reality. And here I am twenty years later, with our smartest people still pushing exactly the same shit about strangers on the internet not condemning things.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15h

Still, not to worry: 25 years into this horrifying catastrophe that is only getting worse and more disastrous, I am quite sure that if we only keep forcing it and blowing more town and cities up, then eventually we’ll get to the bottom of this DicksOutForHarambe84 problem.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15h

I mean, I suppose it’s also true that a pile of dead Iraqis doesn’t tweet you on X The Everything App to call you a braindead imperialist cock-farmer, or whatever, but that seems like a poor excuse to me.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15h

Casualties of @ DicksOutForHarambe84 getting arsey and abusive about the Palestinians’ right to self-defence: 0 Casualties of the War on Terror:

Total Casualties and Deaths
• Total Deaths: 4.5 million to 4.7 million (including direct and indirect mortality).
• Direct Deaths: Approximately 940,000 people killed directly by violence, combat, and military operations.
• Indirect Deaths: 3.6 million to 3.8 million people (mostly children) from the degrading effects of war on health, disease, malnutrition, and contaminated water.
• Displaced Persons: Over 38 million refugees and internally displaced persons globally.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15h

We are IMO just stuck forever in a long 2002 because America is *still* trying to enforce its will upon the Middle East and its environs, and because all of the important, intelligent people who made complete and utter cunts of themselves in the 2000s are determined to never admit they fucked up.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15h

I do point out that this behaviour is most stridently deployed at times when America is most acutely fucking up, because it’s always more congenial to focus on the views of @ WallopersForStalin69 than look at 25 years of catastrophic military defeat, disaster and mass slaughter.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15h

It’s possible the most important question of the 21st century is “why are thousands and millions of social workers, teachers, shop workers and waiters deeply in love with Hezbollah, Hamas, the Iranian mullahs, the Taliban, ISIS, the Syrian Army, Boko Haram and Islamic Jihad, and want to kiss them”.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 15h

Excellent point. Which group are we selling arms and providing limitless diplomatic cover to

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Jillbles @jillbles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The whole fucking point was to give AI the boring shit so you could do your hobbies. And even that only works if you have UBI.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 15h

You think we'll get to the bottom of the list of western war criminals and genocidaires before you get sick of it?

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 15h

Condemn Tony Blair. Condemn Alistair Campbell. Condemn George Bush. Both of them.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 15h

What Clarkson here is referring to is that everyone has a point at which they say "nah cunt, not playing any more," and when they do that he and his ilk can say "aha! Aha see I toooold you so! These people are basically Hitler and I am good and nice and kind!"

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 15h

This is, of course, simply a rhetorical play act. Suppose that people do "condemn" all these people? Well, you didn't do it enough. Did you contextualise anything? Stop that. Be more unequivocal. Now hop on one leg. I found someone not condemning them - do you condemn them too?

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No One Gives A Fuck About October 7 No one cares. They used to, but then Israel spent three years showing the world why October 7 happened in the first place. After witnessing the cruelty and savagery of the state of Israel, people get it now. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/no-one-giv...

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No One Gives A Fuck About October 7

Video reading by Tim Foley:

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve said this before, but it’s sort of insane that no British political party is willing to champion Games Workshop, one of the country’s most successful, British born and run companies, and would much rather simp for Palantir or OpenAI

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's cool that we're going to run the 'zionism isn't racism and is actually normal' playbook again, while ignoring liberal Israeli politicians who are regularly going on podcasts calling for the permanent expulsion of all Palestinians and that killing children was actually fine, if not good

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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

what elections did Ruth Davidson win on any sort of personal quality? she was elected an MSP via the list after coming FOURTH in Glasgow Kelvin and she became leader by getting less than 3,000 votes against Murdo Fraser who would lose a popularity contest to the dog turds in your nearest park.

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gav @gavinmit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

'tony blair worried greens are ruining things for palestinians' is an onion headline

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