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Artist, autistic, anarchist Laura Macdonald

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 2h
Scotland shouldn't be providing resources to support and facilitate marches that cause fear and division in communities. The Scottish Government and Police Scotland must ensure officers are never deployed to events like this again.
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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 2h
"Remember HAYI? The Iranian terror group with no history, an AI-generated logo, a brand new website filled with basic typos, and literature written in Arabic rather than Farsi? Well, you’re gonna need to sit down for this one, but HAYI started life as a Mossad-run Telegram channel."
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Golders Green wasn’t terrorism after all, but we’re still pretending the Muslim victim doesn’t exist
Remember the Golders Green terror attack?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11h
Deloitte paid its UK-based partners £1.125m. Firm has 784 equity partners. Due to self-employed status of partners, employer national insurance (ENI) is not paid on profits shared. 150,000 ENI avoided on every £1m of profits shared. Billions lost across the country. Must end this privilege.
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Deloitte UK advisory arm rebounds to growth as new boss insists AI 'can’t replace lived experience'
Big Four giant Deloitte's new UK boss, Darren Graves, insisted AI “can’t replace lived experience” as the firm's advisory arms return to growth.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h
We have the chance to cut bills, end the sewage scandal and stop the rampant profiteering. But instead it's more half-measures, and kicking the issue into the long grass.
Prime Minister stops short of nationalising water companies
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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 10h
Ofcom rules say broadcasters cannot use politicians as newsreaders, interviewers or reporters in any news programmes. Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action.. bestforbritain.org/petition/far...
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 6h
How the f- is any of this normal? Labour can choose to undo this immediately. Deproscribe Palestine Action. It was a disastrous decision by the Starmer admin and Burnham can undo it.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 8h
Nigel Farage has deleted this post But not before it's been shared widely showing him to be either a serial liar or delusional and either way, unfit for public office
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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 11h
"In other words, a local farmer appears to have stumbled on a petrol fraud in a period where US warmongering has caused prices to rocket. UK warmongers then tried to capitalise on the bizarre arrests to push for war and military spending in a ‘false-flag’ attribution."
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 19h
“Thames Water should have been in special administration yesterday... How can this Government be serious about their promise to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation, if they are not urgently bringing it into public hands?” www.standard.co.uk/business/bus...
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PM announces new law to allow public ownership of water firms
Mayors will also be given new powers to hold failing water firms to account.
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JCMartinofBA @jcmartinofba.bsky.social · 19h
This poor suffering girl in Gaza. Israel allows no painkillers or anesthesia in Gaza and the West Bank. The beautiful city of Rafah has been completely destroyed by Israel and the U.S.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 12h
Amazon’s systematic anti-union tactics are designed to suppress worker organizing and protect its algorithm-driven, efficiency-obsessed labor model. buff.ly/wmElfs2
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“Amazon hates my union activity”: How the internet giant tries to suppress every form of collective action by its workers
Amazon’s systematic anti-union tactics are designed to suppress worker organizing and protect its algorithm-driven, efficiency-obsessed labor model.
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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 18h
Big news from Labour Conference: the PM has announced the government's plan to scrap first past the post. Seats that match votes would change British politics for good, but only if it happens. I've added my name. Join me? action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/201578/...
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The PM used his big speech to promise to fix Westminster's broken voting system.
We've heard promises before. I've signed to make sure this one is kept. It takes 30 seconds
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 19h
Left wing Labour MPs and trade unions are intending to push for a more radical policy platform from Andy Burnham
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Labour left vows to fight for more radical policy platform from Andy Burnham
This is what happened at the Socialist Campaign Group rally at Labour Party conference
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Grenobob @grenowl82.bsky.social · 20h
Shameful. British governments hate old people. We need a pensioner's party or campaign group to put pressure on them to treat pensioner's with the respect they deserve.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23h
Two countries voted against making food a human right at the UN, Israel and the USA. The vote would have mandated the UN to prevent starvation, and the US and Israel didn't want to fund preventing starvation.
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 20h
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20h
Can you imagine if you owed 40% in Income Tax and you just paid 21%, and nothing happened. Year after year after year. Would never happen, but if you are a billionaire it's just normal.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 20h
IRGC issues open letter urging US voters to 'wrest control back from corrupt politicians' - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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IRGC issues open letter urging US voters to 'wrest control back from corrupt politicians'
<article data-history-node-id="448536" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/irgc-issues-open-letter-urging-american-voters-wrest-control-back" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/irgc-issues-open-letter-urging-american-voters-wrest-control-back" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">IRGC issues open letter urging US voters to 'wrest control back from corrupt politicians'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) released on Tuesday an open letter addressed to US voters, calling on them to "wake up" and "wrest control back from corrupt politicians".</p> <p>In a lengthy open letter, the IRGC made a direct appeal to American voters, telling them "you are the ones who empower, with your votes, the government and allow it to do what it does."</p> <p>"The United States of America is a great nation. To allow vulgar and immoral individuals to continue steering your politics and policies will only further humiliate and undermine the US," the letter continued, urging the American public to "take back control".</p> <p>This comes ahead of the US midterm elections at a time when Trump's popularity is at an all-time low.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 20h
Just another Incel.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20h
"The Board of Peace Is an Abject Failure, and Palestinians Are Paying the Price" It promised to bring ‘everlasting peace’: Gaza was to be rebuilt; military operations halted; ‘full aid’ given... It has failed on every count. From Zeteo UK:
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The Board of Peace Is an Abject Failure, and Palestinians Are Paying the Price
It promised to bring ‘everlasting peace’: Gaza was to be rebuilt; military operations halted; ‘full aid’ given; and an International Stabilisation Force set up. It has failed on every count.
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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 20h
"framed .. as .. spontaneous uprisings by liberal, progressive elements with legitimate grievances, who yearned for democracy and freedom .. they almost invariably produced corrupt, repressive governments that ruled via intimidation and brutality, including political assassinations."
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The Rise And...Rise of ‘Color Revolutions’
All my investigations are free to read, thanks to the enormous generosity of my readers.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 21h
No one should be making a profit from children's care Add your name to our petition calling for an end to profit in children's social care: vist.ly/5kcqu
Screenshot of a We OWn It tweet that says "A National Care Service is long overdue and a welcome step.   But if we're serious about building a care system that works, children's social care must be at the heart of it.   Right now, an average children's home placement costs councils around £404k per year.   And in 2021/22, the largest independent children's social care providers recorded £310 million in profit, from the public purse.   Andy Burnham is right to say that we need a system with “care that is about people, not profit”. Reforms of social care must end profit in children’s social care.   No one should be making profit from the the most vulnerable children."
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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 21h
"more defence investment doesn’t create many jobs, siphons public money into private hands, and exacerbates the single greatest security threat we face – climate breakdown. .. military Keynesianism is a dead end – so it’s no surprise that this government is attempting to pursue it."
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From Starmer to Burnham: more of the same failed policies
On social security, public investment, and housing, this week's conference announcements recycle the policies that have failed time and time again.
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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 21h
"the Bush administration’s much-vaunted colour revolutions all turned out to be “terribly disappointing.” Each and every time, “elite corruption still continued apace” and “promises of far-reaching change never really materialized.”"
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The Rise And...Rise of ‘Color Revolutions’
All my investigations are free to read, thanks to the enormous generosity of my readers.
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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 23h
Trump pushes Iran into military escalation; Netanyahu’s ignored Oct. 7 warning open.substack.com/pub/mate/p/t...
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Trump pushes Iran into military escalation; Netanyahu’s ignored Oct. 7 warning
Aaron Mate is a reader-supported publication.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Economist speculates that the men arrested at RAF Fairford might be nothing more sinister than fuel thieves. If that's true, those who rushed to blame the IRGC, Russia, Islamists, pro-Palestine activists, asylum seekers or Mossad will have a lot of egg on their faces.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not in Burnham’s speech; -rent controls -measures to address the climate crisis -preserving freedom of speech/protest -rejoining the EU -measures to end government transphobia & trans section 28 -taxing the mega-rich -getting big/dirty money out of politics -protecting Gaza -real hope
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister was among more than 80 people arrested outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool while demonstrating in support of Palestine Action. The arrests came as Ed Miliband told critics of the government’s policy on Palestine: “We hear you. You were right"
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some good stuff in here, but missing one key word - climate That's right. Not a single mention of the greatest threat this country, and the world, have ever faced Really quite bizarre www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
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Burnham giving first Labour conference speech as prime minister - watch live
Under the plan, the state pension will continue to rise each year in line with inflation or by 2.5% - but the annual earnings link will be dropped.
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Magellan 🇵🇸 @magellan107.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Officials across the globe take no action; any words they do utter amount to blatant hypocrisy, demonstrating only that the lives of the innocent hold no importance for them. We need not criticize the occupation—it is well known to be a vile criminal entity—but what of these world officials?
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There wasn't a social care crisis when local authorities provided the service free of charge. Then Thatcher privatised it and private equity bosses started charging £8000 a month.
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Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of Starmers first actions was to go after pensioners. It was a mistake he never recovered from. Burnham has learnt nothing from that mistake.
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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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How UK state pensions compare to other countries
With the UK full state pension standing at £241.30 per week, international comparisons reveal vastly different models for funding life after work
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The fact that the Fairford suspects are all British Nationals proves nothing. I’m a British National and look at the damage I’ve already caused to the UK.
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Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You don’t need to remove the protective triple lock on pensions to fund an improvement in social care. Why are people still buying the crap Labour are selling?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Such an important documentary this!! It shows how IsraHelli impunity is baked into the foundation/ laws of IsraHell and how they have used it from 1947 (atleast) to attack and butcher innocents, annexations of lands and all without facing consequences at all. www.filmsforaction.org/watch/how-is...
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How Israel Won the West (2024) Full Documentary
74 minutes | How Israel Won the West examines how Israel has come to occupy such a privileged and protected place in the Western world. It traces the journey of the Jewish people from biblical stories...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham announces end of triple-lock on the state pension from 2030. It will be replaced by double-lock, slower growth in state pension. Full state pension is already less than 50%of the minimum wage. Poverty awaits future retirees. £500bn of taxes not collected by HMRC since 2010.
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Grenobob @grenowl82.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Taking money from pensioners to help fund social care is such a backward step. They could have taxed the rich more, increased tax on capital gains and stopped paying billions in interest to banks holding desposits. But, as always, hitting the poor and powerless is the easiest option
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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Losing My Religion craigmurrayorg.substack.com/p/losing-my-...
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Losing My Religion
I have lost faith both in Western social democracy, and in the institutions of international law.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Labour is dishonest when is uses the slogan “hope”, which, tellingly, it nicked from the Green Party, while touting a policy to make pensioners even poorer than they are already. The irony of having the slogan “Hope again” alongside headlines about Labour’s policy of making pensioners poorer…
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Minister refuses to rule out scrapping state pension triple lock ahead of Burnham speech
• Burnham's deputy refuses to say if he will scrap triple lock - live
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Israeli national security minister storms Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron with hundreds of occupiers
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Israeli national security minister storms Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron with hundreds of occupiers
Extremist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron in the southern West Bank on Tuesday along with hundreds of occupiers, Anadolu reports. Ben-Gvir’s…
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 28/09/2026
Unaffordable rents. Spiralling bills. Not enough council homes. People need bold change on housing, not more of the same.
Headline reads: “It’s time to get housing costs under control.”
Quote from Zack Polanski, Leader of the Green Party:
“The Prime Minister promises he won’t ‘back away from difficult issues’ at the Labour Party Conference, but he has little to offer people who are struggling with unaffordable housing and spiralling bills.
“While Labour pats itself on the back in Liverpool, I’ve been knocking on hundreds of doors in Holborn and St Pancras. People want to see bold change, not more of the same - and that’s why we’re calling for rent controls and 150,000 new social and council homes every year.”
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Weasel words hiding the continuing flow of British arms to Israel ... via Ian Shepherd
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The UN Human Rights Office has identified 214 companies from 11 countries as involved in specified business activities linked to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to an updated database released on Monday. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260929-un-...
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"UN warns of ‘narrowing window’ to restore world’s forests" 'Food and Agriculture Organization urges governments to make forest restoration a national priority' www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UN warns of ‘narrowing window’ to restore world’s forests
Food and Agriculture Organization urges governments to make forest restoration a national priority
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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"We have a cost of living crisis and a pension poverty crisis. So why is everyone looking at punishing some of the most vulnerable people in our society when the rich continue to have their ever-increasing wealth subsidised by the state at a cost of many billions of pounds a year?"
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The triple lock punishment
I have this letter in The Guardian this morning: Gaby Hinsliff claims that “Every serious party needs billions of pounds to fund their promises, and everyone knows there’s an obvious place to find th...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Its the wrong place to get money from.. there are other places.. the richest 50 families are worth £500bn. Why are we talking about pensioners £12,500 & not talking about a wealth tax. Why is that?" @unitesharon.bsky.social says scrapping the triple lock would be the wrong thing to do
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Dennis Patton @dennispatton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.landlordzone.co.uk/news/council...
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Councils get powers to take over empty homes after six months
News - Helen Gregory - Councils are to get new powers to take over empty and derelict homes in a bid to tackle the housing crisis.
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