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L. J. McCartan

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The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5h
The winner of Nobel peace prize doing what the Government of the United Kingdom will not do: calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.
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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 3h
Reading Nerd Reich and it is jarring to learn for how long technocrats have been dreaming of the society we're inching closer to everyday.
The following year, in 1997, tech critic Langdon Winner coined a term for this emerging ideology: cyberlibertarianism. he defined this as a "collective of ideas that links ecstatic enthusiams for electronically mediated forms of living with radical, right-wing libertarian ideas about the proper definition of freedom, social life, economics and politics in the years to come.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 17h
Interesting that they’ve learned that people will react positively to socialism if it is defined correctly so they’ve had to stop doing that.
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 5h
Micheál Martin does not actually believe in democracy, he believes in the periodic ratification of elite consensus at the ballot box, and he treats any attempt to oppose, resist or even question elite consensus as an attack on "democracy"
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 4h
Sanctioning Justice: The International Criminal Court denounces an assault on the rule ‌of law and on the very foundations of the international legal order.
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Trump administration has long been hostile to the court and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges.
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 15h
We can expect to see the BBC putting more pressure on the Greens over this than they ever will on a government that has been arming and assisting a genocide.
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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Quelle surprise a super-rich exodus recent story is shown to be complete bollocks This billionaire said to have quit Britain over fears of a potential Labour wealth tax actually moved to Monaco in 2014 when the Conservatives were in power. Next. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
theguardian.com
‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 13h
Open the books on State use of agents, enabling and prolonging far-right activities. MI5 linked Fulton/Keeley was written about as early as 2022, but PSNI used Neither Conform Nor Deny to conceal his identity for 4 more years. MI5 agent links to NI & Tommy Robinson’s rise echo dark state collusion.
An image of Tommy Robinson with overlaid text and newspaper clippings. The text reads "Open the books. Who is Robinson's 'little Irish fella'?"
A news paper clipping reads "PSNI drops 'Neither Confirm Nor Deny' stance on Kevin Fulton alias'.
A second newspaper clipping reads 'Far-right activist Tommy Robinson 'using former IRA mole to spy on opponents'.
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 14h
The party of business and sound financial management? Give me a break Badenoch pamphlet seems to have made this ridiculous claim about net zero delivery by copying am erroneous spreadsheet from one of the right-wing junktanks www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The ICJ says Israel is an apartheid state. An independent commission of inquiry of the UN says its committing genocide. The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for its PM for war crimes An Israeli spokesperson says the UK & Israel are like minded countries that hold the same values
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
via EvolvePolitics
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m sorry, but this is a fantasy. The *entire point of all this* for ten years has been 1) Absolutely fuck you, the left does not get any kind of power, ever, 2) We will do and say literally anything, whatever it takes, to ensure this never happens and 3) Britain does what America wants, full stop.
George Monbiot
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Let me try this once more.
It was a choice.
EITHER the Greens adopted a slogan.
OR they could have joined the next govt, where they could push for an end to arms sales, sanctions, support for the arrest warrants etc.
It was never going to be both.
Which one makes a material difference?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bs... • 2h
Some people here don't seem to have understood the purpose of a political party.
It's not the same as a protest movement.
It is a vehicle designed to get into
government, to change legislation and make a material difference to the lives of people at home and abroad. 2/2
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You know who else said that zionism is racism? The UN. In 1975 the UN general assembly passed a resolution declaring "zionism is a form of racism & racial discrimination". The resolution was revoked in 1991 because Israel made this a condition of its participation in peace talks
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The Paul of the House of Usher @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I agree that “Britain cannot call itself a diverse democracy when communities are living with such fear” but I will note some communities’ fears are taken less seriously than others
One UK mosque attacked ‘every five days', says British Muslim Trust

More than 70 attacks have been recorded over past year, including acts of violence, property damage and vandalism

Aamna Mohdin and Jayni Makwana
Thu 23 Jul 2026 00.01 BST
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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(1) Dave Rich on the (very real) problem of antisemitism in the Guardian also says the (wrongful) demand British jews distance themselves from Israel is a "Unique Demand" - but British Muslims throughout the War On Terror faced the "You must distance yourselves from Taliban/Al Qaeda".....
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jury 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
A row of peaceful sign-holders sits in the rain, opposite the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court in London. Their signs display the words “jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience” - words that replicate a 1670AD stone plaque inside the Old Bailey referencing the legal rights of jurors following the trial of two Quakers and subsequent implementation of the legal principle known as “jury equity”.As traffic passes by, a lone man sits in the rain, opposite the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court in London. His sign also displays the words “jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience”
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 06/10/2026
Independent Ireland and Aontú join with the government to vote through a reduction in inheritance tax which will benefit the richest 3% of the population! We should be protecting ordinary people from the cost of living crisis, not having tax giveaways to the rich.
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 06/10/2026
A trend emerging on the budget votes tonight. Once more Independent Ireland and Aontú voting with the government. This time they are reducing Capital Gains Tax for landlords and corporations. €186 million for the richest people in the country while most people are struggling.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Will a government minister be making a statement and visiting? Of course not - not MANLY jobs in STEEL or CHEMICALS or CARS
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Shadow chancellor vows to cut tax in every Tory budget As always, it would be tax cuts for the rich. No mention of corporate welfare, equitable distribution of income/wealth. We haven't recovered from previous Tory follies. NHS queues, potholed road, crumbling schools. What will they cut next?
bbc.co.uk
Shadow chancellor vows to cut at least one tax in every Tory budget
Shadow ministers unveiled a series of policies on day two of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The majority of people on the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) board are not Labour party members, it has emerged. This means the group does not have to tell the Electoral Commission who has donated to the organisation, journalist Solomon Hughes revealed today in the Morning Star.
declassifieduk.org
Why is Labour Friends of Israel not led by Labour members?
The pro-Israel group does not have to declare its funders because majority of board are not Labour party members
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The problem AI is being designed to solve is wages.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The thorough cleansing that we are carrying out now in southern Lebanon is unprecedented. “They have nowhere to return to. Look at how it looks. “And by the way, the world isn’t stopping us.”
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
".. a 15 year old boy who had his hand blown off after picking up a police stun grenade.. 4,000 out of the 5,000 arrested are under the age of 18.. right now.. pictures being broadcast around the world of police firing tear gas at French children" #GMB
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@rmtunion.bsky.social & @unitetheunion.bsky.social members who work on a number of North Sea platforms are on strike today as they defend their existing pay & terms & conditions. Rather than negotiate, the employer (Wood Group) has instead threatened to issue fire-and-rehire notices.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'seven women...have told the Guardian they are survivors of domestic abuse carried out by key figures in the anti-immigration street patrol movement. All have chosen to come forward to make the public aware of the patterns of violence behind this new form of activism.'
theguardian.com
‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There are numerous elevators
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There is nothing racist about any ethnic or religious group wanting their own homeland. The problem is if this desire is at the expense of another people. Zionism in practise meant "a homeland at the expense of Palestinians". It's really not hard to grasp this basic point!
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Salma Yaqoob: "This is not about denigrating any people based on their faith, based on their identity. Zionism is a political ideology which insists on a supremacist approach"
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The environmental costs of AI is mostly in the infrastructure required to build these unwanted sinks, and here are these avaricious ghouls avoiding paying for their environmental desecration.
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Latest announcement from Tory shadow chancellor strongly suggests a party stuck in an idealogical rut, unable to learn 1. Scrapping regulations on low carbon home building - was done in 2015 by Tory govt, ended up costing UK many ££ billions in fuel & retrofit www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ireland's chronic over-dependence on HGVs for freight leaves us at mercy of every fuel crisis & cutting diesel prices is only a short-term salve. We need to shift to rail freight & electrify our HGV fleet, as I explain in @irishexaminer.bsky.social today. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
irishexaminer.com
Subsidies for diesel are lost money when electric trucks are the future
Pumping taxpayers' money into diesel-guzzling trucks is fair to nobody when we should be subsidising companies to transition to electric vehicles
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We've been sounding alarm bells about pogromists agitating around Drumcree, trying to build momentum, waiting for a spark. The 'Green & Orange together' mask has slipped. Sunday World reports former BNP member Glen Kane and supporters were at Drumcree backing Portadown Orange District LOL No1.
crimeworld.com
Right wing sectarian killer ‘Mr X’ backs Orangemen at Drumcree flashpoint
Glen ‘Killer’ Kane was jailed for nine years in 1993 after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of Catholic Kieran Patrick Abram.
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Nikola @greasyboiler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Britain, from now until eternity.
The circular I Just Need To meme with austerity
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The World Court ruled against United Kingdom and in favour of Mauritius in the case of Chagos Islands. UN General Assembly voted that UK has to return the islands to Mauritius. Eventually UK agreed to. Exiled Chagossians could return. Burnham says he will break the deal to please Donald Trump.
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Meanwhile in France, a high school student protesting during the second week of strikes asking for better learning conditions lost his hand, after a police grenade ripped it off his arm.
franceinfo.fr
Un adolescent de 15 ans a eu "la main arrachée" par une grenade près d'un lycée de Lens, une enquête de l'IGPN ouverte
L'élève est scolarisé en seconde au lycée professionnel Auguste-Béhal de Lens, dans le Pas-de-Calais.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Actually the U.N. declared Zionism as racist and an apartheid ideology in 1971... they just forgot apparently 😠 www.middleeasteye.net/news/green-p...
middleeasteye.net
Green Party members to vote on declaring Zionism a form of racism at conference
If the motion passes, the Greens will become the first major party in Britain to recognise Zionism as a form of racism
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The money flowed around football. It made a lot of other clubs richer. It helped teams everywhere and especially in the Premier League." Seems a bit weird to build an entire piece around a Man City-friendly claim yet be unwilling or unable to cite anyone making it. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
bbc.co.uk
Man City guilty charges: Which clubs did 'inflated' money flow to in transfer market?
BBC Sport follows the trail of transfer money flowing to other clubs during Manchester City's period of financial rule-breaking.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"persuade" here is a really vital word. We are getting on for 15 years of a programme specifically aimed at cajoling, forcing, starving and battering people on benefits to get them to cease their laziness and "get back into work" and, yet, there seems to be no end to their recalcitrance.
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The message from outside the Aviva Stadium last night was very clear. Ireland should never have crossed the Palestinian picket line and played against apartheid Israel. It must not play the second game of shame on Sunday. #StopTheGame Photos Fidelma Bonass 📸
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Andy Burnham on Sunday. Beths tweet yesterday.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Journalists have a right to protect their sources. The NUJ continues to call for a broader inquiry into unlawful surveillance by police and security forces in Northern Ireland. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj-respond…
nuj.org.uk
NUJ responds to claim of further PSNI source protection breach
The NUJ has responded after an investigative journalist filed a high court claim against the Police Services of Northern Ireland (PSNI) for unlawfully obtaining communications in order to identify journalistic sources.
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FREE @freefreeforum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Francesca Albanese's last two books read as a sequence: When the World Sleeps, then La luce del risveglio, The Light of Awakening. She joins Clara Mattei on FREE to talk about both, the Palestinian lives at their heart, and the companies her UN report named. youtu.be/YGRBcGjvpxc
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isobel @gynoid74.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
ban landlordism, confiscate their property and give it to the tenants who have paid their fucking mortgages for years.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Zohran Mamdani Wah
Alt: Ms Rachel and Mamdani pretending to be crying babies
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bites u @snuffbait.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think this will be one of the defining images of the Premier League's void years: a proudly working class fanbase celebrating that the ruling family of an oppressive regime had hired a barrister on £10,000-an-hour to try and prevent them suffering consequences for their cheating. Embarrassing.
A bunch of mugs celebrating their perceived impunity
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have argued for some years that one of the key problems with having football clubs owned by foreign rulers isn't just their limitless wealth, it's the special legal status it confers on them. www.ft.com/content/1256...
ft.com
Manchester City chair shielded by diplomatic immunity
Khaldoon al-Mubarak was granted immunity six years ago, protecting him from potential legal proceedings in the UK
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