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Pratibha Parmar

@pratibha.bsky.social
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Writer. Director Film & TV (feature docs: My Name Is Andrea, Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth - T.V.- Queen Sugar, Law&Order: SVU pratibhaparmar.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
action.greenpeace.org.uk/e/854853/4dI...
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With each day more lives are lost, and weapons sold by the UK are fuelling the fire. British arms should NOT be used to commit possible war crimes in Gaza.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 24/08/2026
The UN has again warned the UK against the implementation of the EHRC code of practice ⤵️ Read our full report: www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-the…
The UN has again warned the UK against the implementation of the EHRC code of practice, which recommends the segregation of Trans+ people
Human rights experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council have warned the UK's EHRC code of practice "risks institutionalising discrimination against transgender and gender-diverse persons" - UN OHCHR
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/07/2026
This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”
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Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives
One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.
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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I second this.
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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Arundhati Roy writes powerfully and incisively about what is unfolding in India right now.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Leadership.
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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Suspend all arms trade to Israel #AndyBurnham
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Btw if you enjoyed this, you can listen to some of the selections here: vijayiyer.lnk.to/nonesuchsele...
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Vijay Iyer's Nonesuch Selects
Listen to content by Vijay Iyer.
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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
#Starmer was a ‘fabricator and a fraud’
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"The facts of Palestine are spoken, and increasingly by Palestinians themselves, but they are met by a refusal to listen, by ears that prefer the drone of implausible denial to the unbearable weight of fact." www.equator.org/articles/mor...
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Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
So this happened yesterday. I received an Honorary Doctorate from University of Arts London #UALGrads2026
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 13/07/2026
Our investigation caught Shivat Zion on camera offering to help UK citizens move to an illegal Israeli settlement. Shivat Zion were then photographed at an event in London. The government has still not imposed sanctions on the Israeli group. www.declassifieduk.org/uk-politicia...
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UK politicians call for sanctions on Israeli charity
Demands follow Declassified investigation, which revealed how Shivat Zion touted ‘awesome’ illegal settlements
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mseviechops.bsky.social @mseviechops.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
on the 1000th day of genoc!de, anything else that floats across your feed today is a distraction
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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Starmer’s legacy - • Crackdowns on peaceful protest. • Support for Tory benefit cuts. • Blaming migrants for failing public services. This is Starmer’s legacy.
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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Good riddance #keirstarmer #resignation
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 22/06/2026
Keir Starmer resigns as Prime Minister In our documentary, we ask whether Starmer's decision to send hundreds of spy flights over Gaza amid the genocide should put him in the Hague👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fk3...
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Britain's Gaza Spy Flights Scandal - A Declassified documentary
YouTube video by Declassified UK
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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Former PM Keir Starmer leaves a legacy of total complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza & the destruction in the U.K. of basic civil rights and free speech. #freefilton4 #stoparmingisrael
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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I just donated. Help them reach their goal. A few hours left. #sparkspacegaze
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Anne-Marie Creamer @amcreamer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
'Burnham is a Giant Step Backwards to a Better Sort of British Politics' – Byline Times, Peter Oborne bylinetimes.com/2026/06/19/b...
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'Burnham is a Giant Step Backwards to a Better Sort of British Politics'
Makerfield’s new MP will face deep challenges if he makes it to Downing Street – but he can succeed where others haven't been able to
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/06/2026
Absolutely disgusting. Not the most disgusting thing we’ve done in immigration even in the last 24 hours, but outrageous and public enough it feels purposeful.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Literally all the referees, including the American ones, should boycott. But nobody will because most people excuse racism unless it's happening to them personally.
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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
“Poetry is pressure on the page, on space, on time.” Dionne Brand
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
fly on, o great one. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
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Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95
One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was an genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and others
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Join me in signing this petition. 'We uncover truth and hold the powerful to account. Take action, donate and join the Amnesty movement to protect human rights.' www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...
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Iran, Lebanon and the wider Middle East: Demand an immediate, comprehensive, and sustained ceasefire
Demand an immediate, comprehensive ceasefire in Iran, Lebanon and across the Middle East. Stand up for civilians facing death, displacement and fear—act now to protect lives.
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
In the last article published before his death, Shloyme described how Zionists employed fascist “methods of terror.” We know the utter brutality that Zionism has wrought against Palestinians, Lebanese, Iranians, and so many others.
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is disgusting treatment of the Flotilla activists, the woman being abused at the start of the video is Irish woman Catriona Graham. Our government cannot continue to stand by as apartheid Israel kidnaps, assaults and incarcerates its citizens, it must impose sanctions now.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 28/04/2026
The Gender Critical activists have really shown their hand with this one. They are being backed by the ADF – an anti-women's rights group – to go after a fun run. Make sure your MP knows what's going on 👇
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 22/04/2026
NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math. less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)
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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Yep. Hungary is a beacon of hope for democracy and the defeat of fascism/fascists everywhere.
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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Rest in lyrical heaven dear Ashaji. #AshaBhosle
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/04/2026
Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds
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Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds
Exclusive: MPs say profit-making levels in England are ‘scandalous’ and call for cap on amount private companies can make from NHS Private firms providing services to the NHS including healthcare and consultancy have made £1.6bn in profits over the last two years, research reveals. The findings – on the basis of contracts worth £12bn – have prompted claims of “scandalous” profiteering, concern that the health service is being “taken for a ride” and calls for ministers to impose a cap on maximum profit levels. £2bn of the £12bn of contracts went to firms with owners based outside the UK. £533m of that £2bn went to companies owned by people living in tax havens such as Jersey and the Cayman Islands. Firms, especially those owned by private equity outfits, used £353m of their £12bn NHS income to pay interest on debts. Continue reading...
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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
@nytimes.com your willful, dangerous & deliberate misinformation is despicable.
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Israeli govt continues to demonstrate its belligerence. Traditionally the US used to try to pull it back from its illegal activities. The Biden-Trump years will go down as ones where the US facilitated astonishing war crimes & genocide. The breach of the ceasefire is a disaster for the US*
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Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Monster fishing vessels are hoovering up whole ecosystems in UK waters that are supposed to be protected. I just signed a petition calling on the new government to save our seas from destructive fishing, by banning supertrawlers in UK Marine Protected Areas. Will you join me? act.gp/47MTYKR
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Emma Reynolds: stop the industrial fishing frenzy
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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Like a number of other people - more than I would have dreamed possible when I first met Rachel Pollack and the GLF TS/TV/DQ group 55 years ago this September- I'm having my contribution to the community recognised today. #TDOV
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
We've so close to reaching Alaa's crowdfunding target! She was targeted by GB News and Suella Braverman - because Goldsmiths accepted her. Support Alaa - and stick it to these horrible bullies 👇
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Donate to Support a Gaza Family’s Path to Education in UK, organized by K A
My name is Alaa Radwan, a Palestinian writer, teacher, and translator from Gaza… K A needs your support for Support a Gaza Family’s Path to Education in UK
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 31/03/2026
Visibility isn’t enough. Information is a tool for liberation - and a way to fight back. This Trans Day of Visibility, we’ll be sharing some articles that celebrate Trans+ lives, honour our history and push back on anti-trans narratives. Because we’ve always been here and always will be 🏳️‍⚧️ #TDoV
A crowd at a protest holding signs in the colors of the trans pride flag. One sign reads “WE WILL ALWAYS EXIST!!!!” and another reads “TRANS JOY IS REAL,” both painted in bold black lettering. Buildings and more demonstrators are visible in the background.
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Together Alliance @togetheralliance.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Half a million strong. Together. The biggest march against the far-right in British history.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 21/03/2026
School bans Twilight & Terry Pratchett books. Their rationale / excuse (hidden at end of article)? "the school admits that the categorisations of the books were written using AI, writing: “Although the categorisation was generated using AI, I consider this classification to be broadly accurate.”"
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