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Paula

@speccypaula.bsky.social
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Socialist, feminist 🍻. Sick of feeling powerless and ignored. We are many, they are few. 🇵🇸 🩵 💪 EFC 💙

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Holborn and St Pancras is looking incredibly close. Thank you to everyone joining us today on the doorsteps - we know it's only by having conversations with voters that we can win this. With just five days to go - we need you!
Action day photo with Zack and Ross and a big crowd
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🔎 New report out! Growing up in poverty increases the likelihood of being NEET - not in employment, education or training - as a young adult, and inadequate income holds young people back from returning to earning or learning.
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davecampbellsheff.bsky.social @davecampbellsheff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Did you see this? Lifeboat volunteers were attacked and harassed this weekend for saving lives at sea. Will you join me and add your name? 38d.gs/rvos
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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MJ @msmindstrike.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Dear Danny Tommo & chums I dare you to call lifeboat crew “traitors” in Cornwall. The Solomon Browne went down off Penlee-all volunteers lost in icy December water trying to reach the Union Star Almost Xmas,trying to save lives What do YOU do with your weekends? Oh #RNLI heroes, end of story.
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PACrosthwaite 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺🇵🇸 @baggytrousers1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The RNLI volunteers coming under fire and being threatened are heroes. They put their own lives in jeopardy to save lives irrespective of race, colour or creed. I am proud to have supported them for over 50 years and will continue to do so. Arrest the masked thugs. Repost your Support for the RNLI
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thomas's sister explains that he's spent 14 years in prison for stealing a mobile phone, and he's still inside.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 23/07/2026
We need more equality in our tax system, we need to end the exemptions and loopholes that have bloated our tax code to around 3,000 pages long - a simple one size fits all for income, however generated, would raise a significant extra sum of tax. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When they're discussing Andy Burnham's clothes, but the saxophones are getting louder
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I spoke about @greensorganise.bsky.social and fighting austerity in local government at the National Shop Stewards Network. youtu.be/uzq2ULzN3x0?...
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Ed Poole - Greens Organise
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Blatant lobbying, not for the sake of our country, but for the fossil fuel industry, in which almost all the ultrarich - including, in all likelihood, the proprietors of these newspapers - are heavily invested. These people are not and never will be your friends. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
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Analysis: UK newspapers have already printed 63 editorials in 2026 backing North Sea drilling  - Carbon Brief
UK newspapers have already published 63 editorials this year calling for more oil and gas extraction in the North Sea, according to Carbon Brief analysis.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I would beg you to read the whole thread, as I think very few people have seen how fast the foundations of democracy are being torn out in the UK, and how far down the road towards authoritarianism we have already travelled. Sorry to pester you, but this could not be more important. Thanks.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel. Now no one dares.
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Jeremy Corbyn on Starmer resignation.
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Jeremy Corbyn on Starmer Resignation + Ashok Kumar, Prem Thakker, Ted Hamm & Zohran Slate Victory
YouTube video by Katie Halper
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 24/06/2026
At least one person has managed to make a fortune from the chaos of the Brexit deal. £5m for Nigel Farage. A £90bn hit to the rest of us.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Why has this been erased from the discussion?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It's obvious to point out attacks against Muslims get ignored - but still needs repeatedly calling out. An Antisemitic attack should be reported and action taken. But where is the same media outrage, cobra meetings and calling of national emergency when 5 Muslims are attacked?
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 17/06/2026
We know that hope is stronger than hate. This Refugee Week we stand together in solidarity against those who seek to divide us.
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GJdop @gjdop.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Who benefits from the chaos? www.doubledown.news/watch/2026/j...
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How to Distract a Nation: The "Two-Tier Policing" Smoke Screen
Who benefits from the chaos? The hidden agenda behind the headlines
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/06/2026
Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments. Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Absolutely astonishing that there has been a two day racist pogrom in Northern Ireland and Keir Starmer hasn’t called a COBRA meeting. QWHITE revealing!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Cobra meeting for 4 empty ambulances that got burned and no one was injured. Many homes burned with residents having to flee for their lives, hundreds injured, no Cobra meeting. What ridiculous priorities.
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Jockyfox @jockyfox.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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26 Years an Islander, 24 Hours a Scapegoat:
On the Belfast Riots
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"For far too long... mainstream media in the UK has failed the public. It has downplayed the rise of the far right at home while helping manufacture consent for genocide abroad." I make the case for why we need Zeteo UK, which launched today and which needs your support, as subscribers:
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💥 Zeteo UK Is HERE!
Read Mehdi’s announcement, explaining why we're launching a UK-focused Zeteo offshoot, who we’re bringing with us, and how we plan to fix a broken British media.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Two-tier policing is real and ever-present. Black and Brown people experience it. Women experience it. Pro-Palestine and green protesters experience it. But the last people who would ever experience it are right-wing white men. They are the people with whom the police instinctively align.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing. Please sit down before reading this week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Horrific, unregulated, and very profitable. The companies making cash from England’s children in care | George Monbiot
Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes ran by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vultures, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 02/06/2026
James O'Brien didn't hold back. In this powerful LBC clip he brands Nigel Farage a "gleeful opportunist" who is shamelessly exploiting the horrific murder of 18yr old Henry Nowak to push division & hatred. Do we really let Farage’s rhetoric distract us from the sheer evil of what happened to Henry?
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"Gleeful Opportunist": O'Brien's Powerful Takedown of Farage!
YouTube video by Maximilien Robespierre
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Scottish Refugee Council @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Our Hairy Haggis relay team are running 26.2 miles this Sunday to support people seeking safety in Scotland. We're running for hope, solidarity & to give refugees the warm welcome they deserve. Every contribution helps us to make a difference: ow.ly/XRKC50Z19S0 Thank you for your support! 🧡🫶
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Bertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The government needs to start weaning social care off vampire private providers. It needs a root and branch clear out and major central government investment. Start in test regions and export best practice. This is such a tragic scandal.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026
Immigration make Britain brilliant
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Keir Starmer's political failure comes down to one issue above all others: his unwillingness to put the public interest ahead of the demands of the oligarchs, corporations and foreign governments who lobby him. Whoever replaces him had better be prepared to stand up for us, or Labour's finished.
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Corbyn was an MP for 32 years until elected Labour leader in 2015. No of media accusations of antisemitism from 1983-2015 = 0 No of media accusations of antisemitism from 2015-19 = 11,251 Media Lens on the establishment's revisiting of its smear campaign: medialens.substack.com/p/starmagedd...
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'Starmageddon' - The Anti-Polanski Smear Campaign That Ate Itself
Historian Ian Kershaw titled the two volumes of his definitive biography of Adolf Hitler, ‘Hubris’ and ‘Nemesis’.
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Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @richmountbasket.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Antisemitism is a crisis, Starmer is absolutely right. But you know what's a bigger crisis? Millions of Palestinians who've had their homes destroyed, their children murdered, and they're huddling in refugee camps without adequate food, water and healthcare! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Keir Starmer to host Downing Street summit to address antisemitism
The prime minister will meet leaders from a number of sectors at Downing Street on Tuesday.
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
When you see the relentless attacks from other parties on the Greens across the media remember this: They hate our plan to end Rip Off Britain. They don't want a wealth tax. They don't want public ownership & lower bills. They're trying everything in their power to stop us.
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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Sky News is blatantly lying about hate crimes. Trevor Phillips said that ONLY jews are being attacked, despite Essa Suleiman attacking a Muslim man in Golders Green THAT MORNING. The interview with Zack Polanski was PURE MISINFORMATION.
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Sky News tell HUGE lie about Jews & Muslims with Zack Polanski - Trevor Phillips
YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
When Jewish people speak out against genocide, why are our voices dismissed? And smirking while I describe someone Nazi-saluting at me isn’t just disrespectful - it feels deeply antisemitic. youtu.be/7VkfYJgLljE?...
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It 'wasn't appropriate' to share post criticising police response to Golders Green, Polanski says
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Reform Candidate tweeted about White people as the Master Race, cheered an asian woman being raped, and unwisely also tweeted pictures of his house and dog to prove it was him.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Extremist is the death and destruction that Benjamin Netanyahu government brings on a daily basis. Extremist is them introducing the death penalty for Palestinians. Extremist is this apartheid, genocidal Israeli Government that our Government shamefully supports.
UK green party leader is an "extremist" say Israel's deputy FM
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The Greens has reached the stage of wall to wall media hate. There's no way to avoid this. It will be 24/7 and unending. We just need to stand firm in our beliefs and stay the course. Don't let them distract us or wear us down. It'll be exhausting, and it will be tempting, but we mustn't give in.
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Socialist Peaky Blinders. @solidaritypb1.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Save Our NHS. JC was right all along.✌🏼 #SocialistFriday
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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🇬🇱🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
#SocialistSunday No5 @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @councilestatemedia.uk @communicipalist.bsky.social @daiwright.bsky.social @johnsensible.bsky.social @eileenk.bsky.social @transient337.bsky.social More Housing? No Thanks! thephilosophicalmuse.blog/2026/04/14/m...
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Socialist Peaky Blinders. @solidaritypb1.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Solidarity with the people of Cuba 🇨🇺 resisting decades of blockade and standing for sovereignty, dignity, and social justice. #SocialistSunday ✌🏼
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Conservative MP Edward Leigh thinks disabled people and pensioners cost too much. He claims £2350 to pay his Council Tax, and £2500 to pay his energy bills every year But he isn't disabled or a pensioner, he is on £94,000 He should pay his self and cut the bloody benefit costs
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Eamon O'Reilly @eamonoreilly.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
As usual the winners of Trump's war are:
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$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds
Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists
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Ali Haydor @alihaydor.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
With your eyes closed, imagine this school was in the United States and the girls were white and Christian. How would the United States respond? How would Western media react? International law and our shared humanity must apply to every child, not only to those seen as having “privileged” status.
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