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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
WARNING⚠️ Burnham is running for PM on the Manchester Model. Before the country decides, it should know what that model did with £600m of public money. 🧵
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The £10bn stolen in dodgy PPE contracts would have been enough to pay Doctors pay demands for 30 years. But that is too expensive while PPE money can just be forgotten.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Free zones do not require acts of Parliament. Enter secondary legislation, which is an insidious form of corporate governance. 🧵 europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-same-t...
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The Same Trick, Twice: How Tata, the Guardian, and Post-Brexit State Aid Are Carving Up Britain
By David Powell | davidpowell.nl | EuropeanPowell on Substack
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Belgium and Hungary are the latest EU states to sever ties with Israel over its flagrant violations of international law— the momentum is mounting.
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More EU leaders are turning against Israel
Belgium and Hungary are the latest EU states to sever ties with Israel over its flagrant violations of international law—momentum is mounting
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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
#Israel
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Competition regulator allows additional 2% -4% increase in England water bills on appeal. Regulators side with industry. Companies to collect more money from captive customers, dump sewage in rivers, pay dividends, exorbitant exec pay. Rip-off continues. Who protects people?
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Final decision on disputed price controls for 5 water companies
An independent group of experts appointed by the CMA has decided how much revenue 5 water companies are allowed following their rejection of Ofwat’s decision.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Starbucks claims of ethical conduct and supporting farmers are a sham. It books profits from the purchase and sale of green coffee beans in Switzerland, dodges taxes. Shifts profits. 18% mark-up on all global coffee purchases before re-selling to other Starbucks subsidiaries.
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The ‘Swiss Swindle’ — Does Starbucks short-change coffee-producing countries? — Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
While claiming 99% of its coffee beans are ‘ethically’ sourced, Starbucks’ shifts profits to Switzerland, leaving scant revenue for coffee-producing countries and perpetuating poverty in farming commu...
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
via Owen Jones
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Nigel Farage says he wants to 'raise aspiration' by cutting the minimum wage for young people (currently £10), but reducing tax for young people earning over £100k. Presumably he wants them to just ask their stockbroker fathers to fix them up with a job in The City, like he did.
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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Funny how the members of this shitty government planning this regressive authoritarian legislation (and those of the Tory ones that preceded it) saw the relentless and prolonged harassment of Jeremy Corbyn at his home by the media & others as a mere joke
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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
From Thursday to Sunday, a programme of Left politics, arts and cultural events takes place in Manchester, a week after Labour's annual party gathering in Liverpool. NB: I’m always amused when the Tories meet up in Manchester: they have had no Manc MPs for years. news.sky.com/story/bring-...
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'Bring it on': Left-wing activists gather for fight back against the right - and Labour
Zack Polanski, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will headline a left-wing festival in Manchester this weekend - as progressive voters look for an alternative to Labour.
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Terence Hamilton @thamilton-books.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I've just used Good Law Project's tool to tell Keir Starmer that his ID scheme is a recipe for repression. Will you do the same? goodlaw.social/364f2b
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Tell Keir Starmer to scrap his ID card scheme
With his government in turmoil and Nigel Farage breathing down his neck, Keir Starmer has reached for the panic button, announcing a scheme for ID cards that would be compulsory to prove your right to...
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Hayward Zwerling @hzwerling.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Email to my friends, family, neighbors, and subscribers, Subject: A personal plea to take a stand ihaveanidea.us/stop47/
“Camp Reichenbach,” Embroidered Handkerchief, by Agatha Abrahamina (Atie) Siegenbeek van Heukelom (1913-2002)

cotton and silk, 1944

After being imprisoned in Amsterdam, Atie Siegenbeek was transferred through Camp Vught (Netherlands) and then Ravensbrück to the Reichenbach concentration camp. There, she was forced to work in an underground electronics factory. Recording these daily camp scenes, embroidered on a wash cloth, was an act of resistance. The scenes, accompanied by captions, criticized the camp regime. It was crucial that she not be caught with this handkerchief by a camp guard.
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Maygray @maygray.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Privatisation broke our water system. @labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it. Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: ​https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&​
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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Embroidery blessings
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General Strike US — Florida Chapter @generalstrikeus-fl.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A red fabric patch with small white flowers features an embroidered quote by Clarissa Pinkola Estés. The text, stitched in black on white strips, reads: “Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.” In the lower left corner is a circular logo reading “Lei Pua Ala: Queer Histories of Hawaii.”
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Metaphor Man @metaphorman.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
substack.com/@ellenmitche...
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
#SCOOP | Oscar-winning Palestinian director Basel Adra says Israeli soldiers raided his West Bank home 👉 Israeli settlers attacked his village, injuring two of his brothers and one cousins 👉 9 soldiers asked his wife about his whereabouts and went through her phone.
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Oscar-winning Palestinian director Basel Adra says Israeli soldiers raided his West Bank home
"No Other Land" director Basel Adra said Israeli soldiers raided conducted a raid at his West Bank home on Saturday, searching for him and going through his wife's phone.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
via Women For Justice #SocialistSunday
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
via The Thinking Atheist
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
"Mandelson wasn’t “sacked”, he was ‘withdrawn’ from his role as Ambassador. Meanwhile, Mandelson retains his position as a Labour peer and continues to receive payment, with potential for future assignments. Apsana Begum STILL hasn’t had the Labour whip restored" via Ad Sinistram #SocialistSunday
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This is Gaza in 1944. This is Gaza before Israel existed.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Gaza is starving open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Gaza is starving
The most respected Israeli sources now confirm what many have long warned: Gaza is in a state of famine.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 31/07/2025
The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
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The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food. It calculated how much Gaza needs – but data shows how this is being withheld The mathematics of famine are simple in Gaza. Palestinians cannot leave, war has ended farming and Israel has banned fishing, so practically every calorie its population eats must be brought in from outside. Israel knows how much food is needed. It has been calibrating hunger in Gaza for decades, initially calculating shipments to exert pressure while avoiding starvation. Continue reading...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 01/08/2025
Israel wants you to believe that airdrops and symbolic aid trucks will solve the famine in Gaza. Don't believe them. These measures are not meant to end hunger, only to quell growing global outrage as the genocide continues unchecked. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/dont...
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Don’t stop talking about the famine in Gaza
Israel wants you to believe that airdrops and symbolic aid trucks will solve the famine in Gaza. Don’t believe them. These measures are not meant to end hunger, only to quell growing global outrage as...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
It's not even surprising anymore...
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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Yesterday I went on an unexpected truffle hunt. On a foray arranged as part of the British Mycological Society's spring meeting in Norwich we were shown how to find False Truffles (Elaphomyces granulatus) in an area of mixed woodland. fungi.myspecies.info/all-fungi/el... #fungi #fungifriends
Members of Norfolk Fungus Study Group looking for False Truffles.False Truffle (Elaphomyces granulatus), granular exterior of fruitbody.False Truffle (Elaphomyces granulatus) cut open to show spore mass.Back in the lab, looking at spores of Elaphomyces granulatus under the microscope.
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 28/03/2025
🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 06/03/2025
The UK Foreign Office is still defending Israel by saying that its preventing aid reaching Gaza only "risks" violating international law. As Amnesty has said, this "is a war crime and amounts to collective punishment of the civilian population". #DCUKparliament
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Instead of Healthcare you have their profits Instead of Social Care you have their profits Instead of Housing you have their profits Instead of Clean Water you have their profits Instead of Energy you have their profits The only solution, take their profits away. Nationalise.
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rembetis.bsky.social @rembetis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I was fearing my new Thames Water Bill increase of 35%. Surprise! It's gone up from £438 to £639, around 47%. 😡 The Labour Government ("we will put money in people's pockets") stand by, doing nothing. Thames Water going to Court to try and get even higher increases.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The community note 🤌😘
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
We are nearing a precipice.
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John Henry @priveteye.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is probably the most accurate take.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist
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Greg @infomatisk.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt
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Brenda Gough @brendagough.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
International Women's Day rally in Belfast on Saturday the 8th of March. This year's message is "Solidarity Beyond Borders." Organise 🔥 🤝
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John Henry @priveteye.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
How corporations can sue Governments. (ISDS and LCIA) I recently went on a live chat with a UK Government representative as part of a FOI request, my question was do UK SEZs and Freeports licenses contain ISDS clauses within them? He couldn't answer my question.
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Grumpy says "FREE THE PALESTINIAN HOSTAGES! @grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If you were paying attention over the last 16 months, you'd know that Biden, Blinken, Harris, Starmer Scholz, von der Leyen, et al - by their outspoken and logistic support for GENOCIDAL Israel and complete abandonment of the Palestinians (and Human Rights in general) - were paving the way for this.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025
SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting says the NHS will remain 1. publicly funded. 2. free at the point of delivery. Silent on what is happening in-between. NHS becoming a shell, handing contacts to private sector. 30%-40% of money vanishes in profits. Money buys less. Say NO to NHS privatisation.
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Sir Norman of Nowhere. CSE. 🏴‍☠️ @sirnorman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The idea of a Labour government was supposed to address the needs of the working class. Not the companies that exploit us. There is absolutely no point in a Labour government with conservative economic and social policies. Change, my arse.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
How justice 'works'.
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