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Sue Lukes

@suelukes.bsky.social
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Expert on local services esp housing, migration, migrant communities, community safety, human rights. First UK councillor migrant champion. she/her pronouns. Post in Spanish and English 💜💙🤍💜💙🤍

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Jorge Castaño 🔻 💚 🍉 @jorgecas89.bsky.social · 20h
Traduzco: O Ayuso se puede comprar un atico de lujo con dinero público mientras se permite la especulación, se desahucia a la gente y terminaras pagando un alquiler de 2000 € al mes; o se regula la vivienda y se termina la especulación Esta es la batalla que se libra en España
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Pablo Bustinduy @pbustinduy.bsky.social · 23h
Hoy se vota si la derecha está con las familias o con los fondos. Me entrevistan en @20minutos.es
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Pablo Bustinduy: "Si la derecha bloquea las soluciones al problema de la vivienda, lo pagará en las urnas"
 El ministro de Derechos Sociales atiende a 20minutos a menos de 20 horas del pleno extraordinario decisivo para la convalidación de los dos textos aprobados por el Consejo de Ministros. 'Estamos...
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@HaringeyWelcome @haringeywelcome.bsky.social · 14h
This is an important read. "The UK government talks about “safe and legal routes” for refugees, while Palestinians continue to face some of the most restrictive barriers when trying to reunite with their families. The hypocrisy is hard to ignore..." tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/the-...
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The UK Is Failing Palestinians At Home and Abroad
Palestinians arriving from Gaza face homelessness, mental health crises and a Home Office actively restricting family reunion.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 17h
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Islington Tribune @islingtontrib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bishop praises refugee supper club as a ‘blueprint’ for churches to follow - www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/bish...
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Bishop praises refugee supper club as a ‘blueprint’ for churches to follow
Monthly community event brings together Islington residents and asylum seekers to share food, music and art
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Useful thread on yet to be enacted "socio-economic inequality duty" in UK law.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They may be incompetent and hateful, but they still do a lot of damage.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This story is so very Republican. A barbaric government run by people too stupid to listen to experts, so they can’t even carry out their own murderous policies according to plan. Violence and idiocy.
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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sanction all countries that practice capital punishment, including the US.
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opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net · 01/10/2026
Flávio Bolsonaro’s Washington-aligned programme amounts to a subordinate economy confined to the US sphere of influence www.opendemocracy.net/brazil-electi…
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Lula, Bolsonaro, and Trump: The election for Brazil’s future
Flávio Bolsonaro’s Washington-aligned programme amounts to a subordinate economy confined to the US sphere of influence
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No civilised country has the death penalty.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 01/10/2026
In no circumstances ever should the state be murdering people. Judicial or extrajudicial. Period.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s going to be a Navalny / Skripal situation isn’t it? In such places it’s not legal to not die when the state says you have to die. They’re going to punish this person for not dying
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AMH @askmehow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Putting a crime family in charge of Brazil on behalf of America and Israel doesn’t seem outlandish at all. It should, but we can look at Honduras and Argentina to see how normalized corruption has become in US.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Like if they’re spewing conspiratorial crap or simply genuinely seem disappointed the plane didn’t crash 🚩
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The way people react on days like this show you who the antisemites really are btw
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Michael Crick is in no mood for Jacob Rees-Mogg’s failed ideas wrapped in a posh accent. Superb. 🔥
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Jessica Goetia Brooking @transskinmedia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As well as the ranting Islamophobia here, the basic facts are wrong - the Foreign Secretary explicitly disagreed with BDS.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 30/09/2026
A Labour Member of the Senedd has written to Meta raising concerns after she was impersonated on Instagram by a scammer offering advice on cryptocurrency to her constituents✍️ Emily Price
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Crypto scammer impersonates Labour MS on Instagram
Emily Price  A Labour Member of the Senedd has written to Meta raising concerns after she was impersonated on Instagram by a scammer offering advice on cryptocurrency to her constituents. Caerdydd Ffy...
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 30/09/2026
Six days ago I wrote the thread linked below. Times Higher Education's lack of interest in James Orr had bothered me for weeks. Today Byline Times published the investigation that explains this very British scandal at length. Corruption, racism, sycophancy & graft bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Past time that pretty much any politician who considers themself a defender of democracy realised all these people need their stuff confiscated asap
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The outrage at Mamdani on the left is just embarrassing, shameful in itself, but also just leaning into a stereotype that will be wielded gleefully.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If those who benefited from the status quo had been willing to listen instead of sabotaging the #MeToo movement, we’d be in a very different place right now. Same story w/ BLM and so much more. But it’s not too late to rise in collective solidarity now to create a more possible world for everyone.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it.
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Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Very well said Sarah. Labour returning to its socialist roots plus a determination to defeat fascism. The country has been desperate to hear this since the days of Thatcher. Social housing, renationalisation, a national care service, a new system of education - investment in the nation's wellbeing.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some v negative responses to posts about Burnham. I understand the cynicism. What I don’t understand is the refusal to wait and see and to look for the positives. Politics cannot be about perfection. It’s compromise. It’s effective communication… and persuasion. Why not be prepared to be persuaded?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This mindset is the least we deserve from a leader. Of course it has to be turned into action. But this kind of ambition and love for the country, this kind of personal but positive vision is what takes people with you. How feeble-minded Farage and Badenoch seem. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Photo of Burnham waving to the audience in front of HOPE AGAIN backdrop Burnham was not going to die wondering. He knew he might be delivering one of the longest suicide notes in history, but he did it anyway. Because he couldn't not do it. Better to go down remaining true to his principles than being slowly airbrushed out of history like the previous six prime ministers. Failures all. Andy was prepared to burn through all his political capital right there in Liverpool, right then. Not just for his own legacy but for a country he wanted to rebuild. It was the only way he could look himself in the mirror.
Honour his parents.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations — Samantha Asumadu The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK…
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding
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Heidi Alexander MP @heidialexander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As I said in my speech at conference, a train without level boarding is a job you can't take. All new Great British Railways trains will be level boarding, as standard. We’re building a railway that everyone can rely on. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Rail passengers to benefit from pledge to close train platform gap
EXCLUSIVE: Disabled people, pregnant women and other commuters will have easier and safer rail journeys under plans to close the gap between trains and platforms
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Sue Lukes @suelukes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
youtu.be/TJDaNc3LZHg?...
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My family and other bad migrants | Sue Lukes | TEDxEastEnd
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Ellie Reeves @elliereeves.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For too long, our water systems have been run for the vested interests of private companies. It isn’t working for customers or the environment. Yesterday’s announcement will end the ban on government ownership of water companies, putting them back into the service of the public.
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Alf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm so very sad to hear of the death of Esther Ranzen who played an important role in reuniting me with Nicky Winton - the man who saved my life. It's so desperately sad that she couldn't choose assisted dying as was her wish.
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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Keynote by @ankahajkova.bsky.social: Lesbian Chimeras. Jewish Women Kissing in the Holocaust
Anna hajkova in front of a slide with two women kissing
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Momentum @peoplesmomentum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Want to hear more from the Labour left? 🎙️ Check out the Labour Left podcast, hosted by our Vice Chair @brynhgriffiths.bsky.social. The latest episode is with @labourlewis.bsky.social on why we need to reset our Party to win. Search “Labour Left Podcast” wherever you listen.
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Javier Ayala @javierayala.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hoy he presentado mi candidatura para revalidar la alcaldía de Fuenlabrada a la militancia del PSOE de Fuenlabrada. Gracias por el inmenso apoyo, es un honor asumir la responsabilidad de seguir liderando la gran transformación de nuestra ciudad. #Yo💖Fuenla
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 30/09/2026
#OtD 30 Sep 1953 British communist boxer, Len Johnson, went for a drink at the Old Abbey Taphouse in Manchester, but was refused service because he was Black. Soon after, 200 people picketed the pub until the landlord agreed to stop discriminating. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1112...
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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People realise that just because the police are no longer categorising the Golders Green stabbing as terrorism it’s still a real thing that happened right? It’s now being classified as a hate crime, presumably because they think the attacker acted alone. Don’t give me any of this false flag shit
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Sue Lukes @suelukes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Feeling hopeful again”: Responses to Andy Burnham’s Conference speech labourhub.org.uk/2026/09/30/f... Hope is what we need, let's turn it into the change we need too!
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“Feeling hopeful again”: Responses to Andy Burnham’s Conference speech
As predicted, Andy Burnham’s speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday was full of content, with the proposed National Care Service getting most of the headlines. But the Prime Minister also …
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Tabasum Westra @tabasum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Rooted in a faith-driven tradition it is highlighting solidarity with displaced children, unaccompanied minors, and families separated or affected by conflict, poverty, and crises, and a fierce protection for unaccompanied children. ❤️
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Tabasum Westra @tabasum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Its World Day for Migrants and Refugees today! #WDMR This year, the day centers around the theme: “Even just one of these children,” taken from Matthew 18, which places a specific focus on the protection, vulnerability, and rights of migrant and refugee minors.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/09/2026
I'd have just assumed that they had legitimate concerns about immigration.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can I have some legitimate concerns please? Hello, UK government, I have a legitimate concern that temperatures will rise to a level that destroys many already-struggling nations, leading us in to an era of food scarcity wars. And now we wait for Andy Burnham to act on my legitimate concerns😎
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
27 September 1936 | A Czech Jewish girl, Blanka Schwarzkopf, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 9 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
Vintage portrait of a young girl. The girl is wearing a light dress with a floral design and has curly hair.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Helen @socialsoup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As an aside mining communities were incredibly creative and literate. People always want to paint working class people as idiots. Please look up Ashington Group, Miners’ Weekend School, Welsh National Memorial Association. Or the longevity of Lit&Phil or Baltic gallery from working class members.
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Malcolm X-Bluebird-X 🇪🇺 #FBPE 🇪🇺 #RejoinEU @brothermanshaft.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He wanted to prove a point with the lives of your families. bsky.app/profile/brot...
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