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Paul Russell

@pwrussell.bsky.social
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Mostly not particularly well informed comment and moral outrage. I don’t like fascists. South London. “Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.” — Mahatma Gandhi #PAFC

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 20h
On the Green Party’s anti-Zionist conference motion. Non Jews would do well to listen. “A group of Jewish Greens tried to alert their comrades to these dangers, asking for an amendment that might allow Jews to go to synagogue, but they were rejected.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think | Jonathan Freedland
The resolution shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23h
The "Zionism is racism" motion, to be debated at the Green Party conference tomorrow, will not advance the Palestinian cause one inch. But, if adopted, it would marginalise and discredit the party. There are powerful ways to confront the genocide. Toxic gesture politics isn't one of them.
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“FASCOM”. They’re not really hiding it now, are they?
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Forbes @forbes.com · 02/10/2026
Kushner’s private equity firm is the largest stakeholder in an Israeli financial institution that invests in Israeli defense companies.
forbes.com
Kushner Rejects CNN Report That His Israeli Diplomacy Might Benefit His Private Equity Fund
Kushner’s private equity firm is the largest stakeholder in an Israeli financial institution that invests in Israeli defense companies.
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The arrogant sense of entitlement required to believe its alright to impose your will on everyone else against their will, just because you can. Psychopathy by any other name.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide
Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🇮🇱 SMOTRICH: “We need to do in (The West Bank) what we did in Gaza. I am not playing pretend.”🤔 Israel’s finance minister not hiding their ethnic cleansing intentions— Hamas is not in the West Bank Per Grok, 🇮🇱 has dropped the equivalent of 6-13 atomic 💣 on Gaza (made in 🇺🇸 )
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The images on Google maps that have shocked the world are from February 2026. In fact the destruction in Gaza, 7 months on, is even worse now.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
"He is not here to help. He’s distant, angry, a figure of nothing but venom & vengeance. He walks toward the viewer like a serial killer stalking his prey, his face a mask of contempt & barely-contained rage. His visage in this ad is glowering, almost a parody of a dictator trying to inspire terror"
publicnotice.co
Scenes from a personality cult
Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.
leftfootforward.org
This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Say what you like about Burnham, at least he’s remembered that politicians are there to do things that people want.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In 2021, UK income tax personal allowance frozen at £12,570, 26.6m paid income tax at the basic rate of 20%. 2026-27: 31.4m liable to pay income tax at 20%. In 2021, 6.47m pensioners paid income tax. 2026-27: 9.58m pensioners liable to income tax. Govt must relieve poverty. End stealth tax.
leftfootforward.org
This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 28/09/2026
It’s happening. Oxford Street is going traffic-free on Monday 26 October. The transformation of the nation’s high street into a world-class pedestrianised space will begin in earnest four weeks from today.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 27/09/2026
A new, publicly-owned bus company for London - with routes, fares and timetables set for the benefit of Londoners and visitors, not for private profit. The first route run by Buses for London will start next year. www.mylondon.news/news/transpo...
mylondon.news
TfL confirms when new publicly owned London bus company will launch
Sir Sadiq Khan has described it as a "bold new approach" for London's bus system
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
youtube.com
Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Controversial, I know, but given that Peter Thiel reportedly has an IQ of 150+, I’m proposing that the link between IQ and intelligence is tenuous at best.
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another gibbering lunatic. This time on GB News. She wants to castrate all asylum seekers. Let’s not normalise this. Let’s not even try to engage with it. These people have genuinely taken leave of their senses and should be treated accordingly.
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“I do not want to overspeak for the Government grid”. Perhaps if modern politicians tried to speak something approximating to English, people would find it easier to relate to them.
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A man is sitting in a comfortable TV studio screaming with barely controlled rage that he is a Roman and all immigrants are ‘barbarians’. Are we really supposed to engage with this seriously? They are not well. Why do we have to pretend otherwise?
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NYT: In a phone call days before Oct. 7, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Hamas was considering a major attack. Days later, on Oct. 1, 2023, Netanyahu met with his security chiefs but never mentioned the warning www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/w...
nytimes.com
Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7 (Gift Article)
The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials sai...
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“If you can’t do the time don’t film yourself doing the crime.”
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fascism has always been an unholy alliance between unscrupulous privileged white men and the mass of violent, uneducated thugs who follow them.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New York’s DSA @nycmayor @zohrankmamdani continues to erase barriers and center regular folks 👇🏽👏🏾 Again: They weren’t scared of him failing, they were scared of him succeeding.
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Has anyone tried to calculate the cumulative impact on the nation’s mental health of having constantly to negotiate shitty websites, useless apps, idiotic chatbots and automated phone systems that can’t understand a single word just to get the simplest of everyday tasks done? It cannot be negligible
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Uh huh. And Netanyu is the opposite of a fit person for office who is telling the opposite of the truth. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Netanyahu calls Israel’s war in Gaza ‘opposite of genocide’ in UN speech
Israeli PM attacks critics and calls New York mayor Zohran Mamdani ‘antisemitic’ in inflammatory address
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The aptly named Nasty Party. Wouldn’t it be nice, if they put as much effort into curbing the excesses of tax dodgers, billionaires and corporations as they do into persecuting and stigmatising powerless benefit claimants? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories target universal credit claimants in plan condemned as ‘fast track to poverty’
Proposals aim to push people into work, but charities say families are still paying price of austerity cuts and rise in cost of living
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We can all get along and solve all the world’s problems just by singing Ed’s songs.
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The UK desperately needs an independent national news broadcaster that can be trusted by everyone. Unfortunately, the BBC is not it.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension. Means-testing even though people have paid for it. Proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains tax; cut corporation tax. Enrich the wealthiest. No means-testing. Chaos and cruelty inevitable.
theguardian.com
Thinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension
‘Radical’ report likely to influence party’s platform also proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains taxes
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
All these platforms were originally sold to us as being liberating tools of free speech and expression. Now they're being actively used by their owners to suppress it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
God forbid people should discuss ‘social topics’. They might get ideas above their station and start questioning the oligarchy. Far better they sit there, like obedient consumers, watching endless streams of adverts and mindless unchallenging slop. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Neoliberals want to end the triple-lock on state pension They inflict low wages, consign millions to poverty. Govt spending on state pension as % of GDP in G7 countries. Italy 12.8 France 12 Germany 9.8 Japan 8.9 USA 6.6 Canada 4.7 UK 4.7 UK has one of the least generous pensions in the G7.
adviserservices.fidelity.co.uk
How does the UK State Pension measure up globally?
A global comparison of State Pension provision highlights the onus on individuals in the UK to build pension savings for their retirement, rather than leaving
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
No one who has told us in recent years that asylum seekers are a threat or that we have to reduce immigration or that white people feel ‘under siege’ is any any position to tell us now that they condemn masked fascists, attacks on asylum hostels or calls for ‘remigration’. This is their doing.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Right-wing press and ideologues will have you believe that the UK is the most heavily taxed place. They promise the impossible, European/Scandinavian levels of social security with American levels of taxation. This graph puts things in perspective.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Time is long overdue that the political mainstream in Britain vigorously re-asserts its longstanding anti-racism norms... these have been allowed to be significantly eroded the last few years.
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Is it good that out politicians are bought and paid for by billionaires? It doesn’t sound good to me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge
Exclusive: A total £179m has been donated by wealthy individuals since 2019, research reveals
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
Reform UK
Follow
@reformparty_uk
Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It beggars belief that the leader of a political party is allowed to have his own show on a UK news channel. One of the reasons we had previously avoided the worst of US-style culture wars was that we didn’t have our own equivalent of Fox News. Now we do, and look where it’s taking us.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
'These small boats are *constantly* coming across. An invasion! Let's make an app to show the sheer scale of the problem, then Britain will wake up.' 'Oh... it turns out there aren't that many.' Never believe your own BS. And yet the Right do this a lot.
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You often see posts saying ‘so and so destroyed so and so’ in a debate. Well in this case Mehdi actually did destroy Nancy Mace. There should be a health warning on this clip as it’s almost painful to watch.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18/09/2026
Welp, now we know who their other clients are. As I've been saying, the tech fascists are buying up Democratic consultants by the bushel. They have enough money to *BUY BOTH SIDES* Time to burn out the rot and build a party that serves the people, not the billionaires.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify
Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When AI execs tell breathless stories about how their models "autonomously" caused terrible hacks, please realize 1) they set the conditions for those hacks, 2) they are not trying much to prevent them, 3) companies are liable for their products. AI agents do not have liability. Companies do.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The original reporting of what happened in Portsmouth was a joke. This is just a hate mob that has been whipped up who are now targeting the RNLI. Throw the book at them.
independent.co.uk
RNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests
RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Well here we are - an RNLI station forced to temporarily close because of racist morons with too much time on their hands. The far right don’t like Britain, its institutions or most of its people. They can feel free to f*ck off. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
RNLI facility had been affected by attempts by activists to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel
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