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pih @upzy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Like them for their strengths but NovLive has such boomer framing sometimes
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Only full abolition of two-child benefit cap will substantially cut poverty, thinktank says Half-measures would have little or no meaningful impact on child poverty rates, Resolution Foundation analysis finds www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Only full abolition of two-child benefit cap will substantially cut poverty, thinktank says
Resolution Foundation says half-measures would have little or no meaningful impact on child poverty rates
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 30/10/2025
Ireland's wealthiest households create significantly more carbon emissions than lower-earners, according to a new report from Oxfam Ireland. jrnl.ie/6859962
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Ireland's richest 10% produce almost as much carbon as the bottom 50%, report says
Oxfam Ireland is calling on the Government to increase taxes on the rich.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/11/2025
Asian and Pacific Rim leaders pledge support for trade and investment that 'benefits all'.
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APEC leaders wrap up summit after Trump and Xi reach truce in trade war
Asian and Pacific Rim leaders pledge support for trade and investment that 'benefits all'.
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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Wes Streeting has been known to tack left for popularity before. Usually it lasts about 72 hours before he tacks right again and becomes fully draconian - and harsher than the Tories - on the very same issue. See trans rights and striking workers.
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Another Your Party legal threat has been fired off leftfootforward.org/2025/10/your...
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Your Party to launch legal action against a group of its own founders
The founders of Your Party have fired off another legal threat
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
💚 Delighted to welcome our new councillor in Bristol! 🥀 Alsayed is one of 20 councillors to leave Labour & join the Greens this year. 🎤 “I will never stop standing up for equality, justice & the right to speak truth to power." Huge welcome, Alsayed! www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
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Bristol Labour councillor defects to join Greens
Alsayed Al-Maghrabi's defection means the Green Party holds exactly half of the seats at City Hall
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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🚨 Microsoft workers launch #Palestine encampment at company's HQ in Redmond, WA "I worked for three years on Azure, not knowing that my labor was being used to actively facilitate the murder of my people" - Hossam Nasr, No Azure for Apartheid, former tech worker fired by Microsoft @therealnews.com
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
On 23rd Feb, Germans go to vote in a General election. Recent EU election results suggests there's still a strong east/west cultural, economic & political divide. And this map of same illustrates, brilliantly, how education is the kryptonite to populism (blue denotes support for AfD) 🧵 1/5
map of EU election results in Germany showing a deep divide between east & west. With most of the support for AfD in the east.
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Fair Political Coverage - we want to hear from ALL our parties @fairpoliticsnow.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
We need 150 people a day to sign this petition by Sept13 to hit our target of 10k. We need all your help folks to make it happen. It won’t be the end of the campaign but let’s try & hit the number. The heat map shows support right across UK. Sign now & pass on. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 19/08/2025
Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts. The protest encampment started today, and it’s the biggest escalation of the protests at Microsoft so far www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts
It’s the biggest escalation yet of the protests at Microsoft.
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The Electronic Intifada @intifada.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Internal paper shows EU sought to shield Israel from sanctions electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
People have been talking about this for months, and it’s unbelievable that they still haven’t come up with a proper plan. Imagine deciding to make 12,500 people redundant and not even creating a plan to make sure those people are properly supported?! 🚨 www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
🚨 BREAKING | Police confirm 466 people were arrested for "terrorism" for holding signs at a Palestine demo. This means more people have been arrested under terrorism legislation in 2025 than **any** other year. (Source: Home Office)
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
holy crap. "In Ireland, there are more than 80 data centres, gobbling up 50 per cent of the electricity in the Dublin region, and hoovering up more than 20 per cent nationally, as they work to process and distribute huge quantities of digital information."
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Greens all voted against proscription. Lib Dems abstained - which is shameful when they often try and claim the mantle of defending civil liberties. (It just doesn't stretch to holding cardboard signs opposing genocide apparently.)
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The Met now says it arrested 522 people yesterday on terrorism charges for supporting action to stop the genocide in Gaza. More than a fifth were over the age of 70. Each faces up to 14 years in jail.
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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 10/08/2025
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Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network @anticappodnetwork.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
In case you run out of toilet paper, steal this book from Barnes & Noble.
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 31/07/2025
UK ministers like Douglas Alexander endlessly say they regard Israel's settlements as illegal... ... while refusing to actually ban settlement goods from entering the UK. In practice, doesn't this mean the UK condones the illegal Israeli settlements? #DCUKparliament
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 30/07/2025
Palestine Action's bid for judicial review granted after MPs banned group
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Palestine Action's bid for judicial review granted after MPs banned group
The High Court has granted Palestine Action's application for a judicial review after MPs voted to ban it as a terrorist group.
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 30/07/2025
‼️TOMORROW‼️ What is the UK's role in the Gaza genocide? Join the discussion with Laura Pidcock, @markcurtis30.bsky.social and @john-mcevoy.bsky.social at 630pm tomorrow. Spots limited, register here 👉 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 30/07/2025
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
'Recognition of the state of Palestine should not be a bargaining chip.' leftfootforward.org/2025/07/keir...
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Keir Starmer says UK will recognise Palestine in September unless Israel ends war
Critics point out that Palestinian statehood ‘is not a bargaining chip’
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
HOW COOL IS THIS? Researchers have developed a DENTAL FLOSS that can DELIVER vaccines THROUGH the gums, a method that could one day offer a NEEDLE-FREE alternative for vaccination. This approach effectively stimulated immunity AND provided FULL protection against a lethal strain of influenza. 🧪🧵⬇️
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
12 signed on to six measures that constitute a full arms embargo. They said, “These measures show that we will not allow international law to be treated as optional, or Palestinian life as disposable. [The measures] break the ties of complicity with Israel’s campaign of devastation in Palestine.”
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Yesterday, 12 countries announced their commitment to a full arms embargo on the Israeli government. The resolution comes out of an emergency summit in Bogota where the Hague Group gathered to coordinate legal and diplomatic action to counter the “climate of impunity” for Israeli war crimes.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
This is because of the Online Safety Act, and UK folks had better get used to doing this because every site on the internet that "is likely to be accessed by children" and has users in the UK will be doing this as of 25 July; that's Ofcom's deadline.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 15/07/2025
🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will: - Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender" - Teaches children the laws about "biological sex" - Removes all references to the word transgender What we know so far 🧵
Logo of the Department of Education. Title: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education. Subtitle: Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, and teachers. Dated July 2025
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pih @upzy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I’ll check if there’s a full/vid of prev later.
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
This is PURE BS! We already have piss weak regulation in the UK. She can fuck off! #LaboursLizTruss
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Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business
At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth
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pih @upzy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
seeing that one poll where our current well established government is tied with the party that’s not even taken off yet is crazy.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
We can have a bolder Green Party. Come to our campaign rally Wednesday night to find out how you can get involved! Link in next post!
Campaign Rally. Tomorrow 7pm. 45 minutes. Campaign update. Hear from Zack.
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Ali @meltedliso.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth" Destined to repeat the mistakes of the past; trickle down BS. Capitalism in its death throes is a pitiful sight.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
WATCH: “You’re lying on national TV.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social 🔥 absolutely dogwalks Dershowitz when he says 🇮🇱 soldiers have been prosecuted for killing kids (they haven’t), and tells piers morgan we didn’t need NYT to tell us Bibi is selfishly prolonging the war.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/07/2025
This Palestinian boy is comforting his younger siblings after they were injured in an Israeli attack that targeted a displacement shelter in Gaza City.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 05/07/2025
In just 48 hours, Israel committed 26 massacres across Gaza, killing over 300 Palestinians — including 33 humanitarian aid workers. (Source: Gaza Government Media Office, via local authorities and Al Jazeera reporting, July 3, 2025)
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election. A new generation of leaders is here.
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
okay. what about when you said immigration had done ‘untold damage to the UK’?
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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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Felix Sylvestris @felixsylvestris.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Watching last night's QT (sorry) So much talk surrounding the cost to the economy from welfare payments and not a single mention of tax evasion.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
If I published this video next week, I could be sent to prison for 14 years. That’s for expressing support for Palestine Action, who take direct action to stop genocide. We are heading to a very dark place. New video 👇 youtu.be/KgPy2QRS7r8
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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Nicely done! Spotted on the London tube.
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Mainstream reports about the illegal bombing which imperils the world are celebratory in tone, using language like 'played out' to gloss over the appalling violence of weapons designed to burrow hundreds of metres through rock before exploding. Western society is sick. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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How the US says it hit Iran's nuclear sites
A timeline of how the complex mission unfolded was laid out in a Pentagon briefing.
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
NEW: Cheaper batteries mean near-24/365 solar is now economic☀️ We analysed 18 years of hourly insolation data at 12 places, to see how close to 24/365 electricity it was possible to get. The sunniest places get over 90% - and up to 99% - of the way... from just $100/MWh. 🧵
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
How do people reconcile the endless killing with their happy little delusion that the West is the free and democratic leader of all that is decent in the world? It's like a cult that brainwashes people from birth
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 23/06/2025
Israeli bombs left this massive crater where Palestinian tents stood moments before. A direct hit on the displaced.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Edward Heath blocked US use of UK bases to defend Israel in 1973. Harold Wilson resisted US pressure to send troops to Vietnam. From the ’50s to early 2000s, the UK imposed full arms embargoes on Israel for breaking international law. We can choose not to be America’s poodle.
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