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Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!” Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.
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matthew herbert @matthewherbert.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Sign up: National antiracist network to stop the far right. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...
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Sign up: National antiracist network to stop the far right
Masked far right gangs have mobilised in Dover and Portsmouth to physically blockade refugees from entering the country. This is a significant, organised and well-funded escalation. We need to get org...
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 21/07/2026
Every now and then, it’s worth saying what ought to be obvious: trans people have always existed, and will exist as long as humans do. They’ve not done anything wrong by wanting their existence recognised, supported, and celebrated. The transformation of their existence into “an issue” is evil.
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Javi Pez @3ok.info · 12/07/2026
Domingo Aniversario @matthewherbert.bsky.social #MusicSky
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Cafe de Flore (30th Anniversary Reissue), by Doctor Rockit
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Since Oct 7 2023, the Israeli military and settlers killed 240 Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank. Read the B'Tselem report. www.btselem.org/video/202606...
The Palestinian children and teenagers killed by Israel in the West Bank in 2025. Photos courtesy of their families. Btselem
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
twenty years ago people attacked universities by deriding “Mickey Mouse degrees” like media studies in favour of “proper” subjects like history, and now universities are skipping that step and simply abolishing everything that isn’t economics
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/04/2026
‘The scale of the earthworks was so great that Israel’s two hundred bulldozers were not nearly enough – many were damaged by the Palestinian resistance – and Israel urgently needed two hundred more.’ Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line
Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/04/2026
‘More than 780 Palestinians have been killed and 2200 injured in Gaza since the “ceasefire” last October. The bombing continues. “The massacres happen every day,” Bisan Owda reports from Gaza. “Nothing really changed.”’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...
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Selma Dabbagh | Displaced
Last Wednesday, the reporter Amal Khalil and photojournalist Zeinab Faraj were on assignment in south Lebanon when...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/04/2026
Happy Tax Day.
An lime-green infographic with a giant "7x" in large, white letters. 

Below it, in smaller black text, it reads: "The combined wealth of the 19 richest US households is more than seven times that of the 95 million least-wealthy ones."
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
you know the way "why did the Roman Empire fall" and "what are the causes of the First World War" are big questions that sort of function like Rorsharch tests, allowing people to debate ultimately inexplicable moments in history? "Why did no one stop Trump" a decent future shout for the third.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
It's just an objective fact that Republicans like it when mothers die. It's been a core policy plank of the GOP my entire life.
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Tim Rutherford-Johnson @purlis.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
A year of USAID was $32 billion. So roughly next Wednesday. Monsters.
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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Given that the UK's position in the last 50 years is that settlements are illegal and Israel cannot annex the West Bank, banning trade with West Bank settlements is really the absolutely minimal ask. It's pathetic that it hasn't happened.
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure this is how you get 9/11: the sequel
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Yanar Mohammed is one of Iraq’s most prominent women’s rights activists and established the country’s first shelters for survivors of domestic violence and trafficking. She was assassinated outside her Baghdad home when two gunmen on motorcycles opened fire in the morning.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The chairman of the Board of Peace bombed the Gandhi hospital. Process that.
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 24/02/2026
60 years ago today, Ghana's military overthrew president Kwame Nkrumah. The UK Foreign Office conducted a covert propaganda campaign to help remove him, declassified files show. www.declassifieduk.org/top-secret-d...
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Top Secret Document Exposes UK Role in Ghana Coup
The UK Foreign Office conducted a covert propaganda campaign to help remove Ghana’s president Kwame Nkrumah in 1966, declassified files show.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Labour has brought back section 28 against trans and non-binary individuals. I lived through section 28 last time. I suffered the harms of it. This will do the same thing. Not even allowing young people to socially transition is plain wrong. It prevents them finding their own identity.
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matthew herbert @matthewherbert.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
pretty good petition this for the uk to rejoin the creative europe programme. www.openpetition.org/uk/petition/...
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United Kingdom to join the Creative Europe programme from 2027 - Online petition
This is a Europe-wide petition calling on the UK Government to formally declare the United Kingdom's interest in fully participating in the EU's Creative Europe programme (https://culture.ec.europa.eu...
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Mark Agee @markagee.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
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matthew herbert @matthewherbert.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
More than 36,500 people were killed during Iran’s January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history, according to classified government documents reviewed by Iran International. iranintl.com/en/202601255198
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Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
More than 36,500 Iranians were killed by security forces during the January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history, according to documents re...
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
It’s 1:04 am in Kyiv and siren went off because Russia is attacking us with drones . Hate the beginning of the siren , that loud first note and when it starts rising, crawling through your bones and muscles. it’s the most disgusting part. It gets under your skin. I was told once that it’s by design
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
This took me about 45 seconds.
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A hunger striker is said to be ‘at imminent risk of death’ due to 59 days without food while on remand in prison. Kamran Ahmed was transferred to hospital from HMP Pentonville in north London in the early hours of this morning metro.co.uk/2026/01/07/h...
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Hunger striker taken to hospital 59 days into Palestine protest
Kamran Ahmed is said to be at 'imminent risk of death'.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I think analysts specifically, and society more broadly, underestimate how much white supremacy and belief in conquest and racial hierarchy motivate the decisions of this administration. Like yes its "neo-royalism," yes its oil, but also its white supremacy.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US
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Rudbeckia @rudbeckia.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
uh holy SHIT?
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matthew herbert @matthewherbert.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
good! www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Government announces extra funding for safe housing for domestic abuse survivors – UK politics live
As part of the violence against women and girls (VAWG) strategy councils will receive a further £19m
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
NEW: A Russian family whose son volunteered to fight in the Russian army against Ukraine recently adopted seven children from occupied Zaporizhia Oblast. 🧵(1/9) Read more: isw.pub/OccupationUp... Other Key Takeaways ⬇️
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matthew herbert @matthewherbert.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
uk tour coming up this week with @momokogill.bsky.social london TONIGHT! then brum, bristol, sheffield
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/11/2025
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!
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matthew herbert @matthewherbert.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
a really awful story. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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At least 49 relatives and colleagues of Afghans in data leak have been killed, study suggests
Research also finds 200 of 231 people notified by MoD of breach reported threats to themselves or families
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Meron Estefanos @meron.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Remembering the 369 refugees who drowned in Lampedusa exactly 12 years ago today. I can never forget the 22 years old Yohanna who gave birth as she was drowning, her body was later found with an ombilical cord attached to her baby. #NeverForgotten #ForeverInOurHearts #PeopleNotNumbers #Lampedusa
It's a picture of a poem dedicated to the youngest coffin which was marked as number 92. The poem is called RIP angel, what did your mom call you as I can't stand calling you number 92. The poem was written by Selam Kidane
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 11/09/2025
every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Israel starves 13 more Palestinians to death, kills 89 since dawn aje.io/5169f3
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Israel starves 13 more Palestinians to death, kills 89 since dawn
Israeli forces continue to attack people seeking food aid as the death toll from famine rises further in Gaza.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Israel bombed a hospital. Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded. Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV. Read that again. Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 17/08/2025
Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.
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Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure
Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.
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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
"The most compelling thing about Momoko's voice for me is actually the way she builds and shapes her backing vocals. It’s like working with an orchestra rather than a soloist." New Herbert/ Momoko album is choice. open.substack.com/pub/andybeta... @matthewherbert.bsky.social @momokogill.bsky.social
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Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill
An interview with the iconic British electronic music producer and new collaborator on their primo downtempo new album, Clay
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Freq @freqzine.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
@matthewherbert.bsky.social has joined forces with @momokogill.bsky.social to produce a warm and inviting collection of downtempo dancefloor-affiliated tunes that highlight the latter's inventive approach to percussion and her sensual, soothing voice. #electronica #musicreview t.ly/ETLM5
Renowned electronicist and collaborator Matthew Herbert has joined forces with drummer and vocalist Momoko to produce a warm and inviting collection of downtempo dancefloor-affiliated tunes that highlight the latter's inventive approach to percussion and her sensual, soothing voice. #electronica #musicreview https://freq.org.uk/reviews/herbert-an
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
There's much talk of UK arms exports to Israel - which is of a very limited scope. There's no talk whatsoever of UK arms IMPORTS from Israel. In 2024, according to SIPRI, Israel was the second largest supplier of arms to the UK - 6.9% of total imports.
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Rockdelux @rockdelux.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
En “Clay” @matthewherbert.bsky.social‬ ha encontrado una forma de poner la electrónica al servicio de un propósito esencialmente orgánico, conectivo, que se pueda tocar, y en eso también tiene mucho que ver la presencia de Momoko Gill a la batería. ✍️ @drubiofps.bsky.social‬
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Herbert & Momoko
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
"The social breakdown that we are witnessing, the degrading of human beings, is not a byproduct of the harm that Israel is inflicting. That’s the central element of the crime: destroying Palestinian society." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza | Alex de Waal
We saw famine in Biafra and Ethiopia. In the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s ‘aid distribution system’ we see an attempt to destroy a whole society, says academic and writer Alex de Waal
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Manners Faber @mannersfaber.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The #OST for ‘Hot Milk’, featuring original music by @matthewherbert.bsky.social is now available on all streaming platforms. The film starring Fiona Shaw, Emma Mackey and Vicky Krieps, is in cinemas across the UK, Latin America and Germany. #mannersfaber #musictalentagency #composer #filmmusic
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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