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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Our message to London 👇🏻

Vintage Spoonie @vintagespoonie.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Beyond disgusted with the EHRC ‘guidance’ today which effectively seems to say trans people cannot use bathrooms which align with their gender identity OR, in many cases, ones which align with their so-called biological status. Where the fuck are trans ppl supposed to pee? #trans #EHRC

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 23/04/2025

The announced changes to disability benefits will lead to very substantial falls in income for some families. While some families will gain a small amount from the changes, others will lose thousands of pounds a year.

Chart showing Annual impact of changes to PIP and Universal Credit, by family characteristics: UK, 2029-30
Losses will fall on those who no longer qualify for PIP daily living, who will be £3,700 worse off in 2029-30 (in 2024-25 prices) if they are receiving the standard rate or £5,700 worse off if they receive the enhanced rate; those who lose Carer’s Allowance because someone they care for no longer qualifies for PIP, who will be £4,300 worse off; and those who claim UC after April 2026 and receive the new lower UC-H rate, who will lose £2,400. Current recipients of UC-H will have that element frozen from 2026, meaning they will lose £210 by 2029-30. The biggest losses could hit couples with a disabled member and somebody who cares for them full-time.

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Vintage Spoonie @vintagespoonie.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Good to see so many people at the emergency trans solidarity march yesterday. Although Sylvie may have stolen the show by doing a massive shit in front of Peter Tatchell #trans #transsolidarity #LGBwiththeT

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

As I watch Starmer tear up Labour's prospects by attacking people in poverty, abusing those who care about the living world and appeasing the ultra-rich, I feel the same sense of dislocation as I did before the Iraq War. Anyone can see the disaster coming, except, apparently, the government.

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Vintage Spoonie @vintagespoonie.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Just spent 10 days in US and Canada for conference/family visit. Deleted social media before entering US + pics of Palestinian peace marches. Many ppl didn’t attend due to visa worries, or fear for safety (mostly trans and other queer individuals). So this is what visiting a fascist state is like.

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Equality Amplified @equalityamplified.org.uk · 31/03/2025

Today is #TransgenderDayOfVisibility! Trans people deserve to be seen, heard & celebrated. But visibility alone isn’t enough, we must keep uplifting trans voices, defending their rights & creating a world where every trans person can live openly & safely. #TDOV #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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Alt: a poster for transgender day of visibility with a group of people

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Tesla protests across the UK as people worldwide reject Elon Musk. These brave protestors showed up in showrooms and dealerships all over London. #3E #TeslaTakeDown [📷 @JimmieGregory2]

Protesters gather in front of a Tesla sign, holding signs with images and text questioning the company's practices.

Two protesters stand outside a Tesla building, holding signs that read "Defend Democracy" and "Don't Buy Nazi Cars."

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

“There are tens of thousands of people who are desperate to get back into work,” Reeves has repeatedly claimed. But she has totally failed to explain how disabled people are assisted to work by having money taken away from them. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Reeves on course to be less popular than Truss mini-budget chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng

The chancellor is plunging toward the approval rating of Kwasi Kwarteng in the wake of the September 2022 financial statement

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 27/03/2025

The big-picture outlook for living standards remains grim after the Chancellor’s Spring Statement. It’s particularly dismal for the poorer half of Britain, who are set to become £500 a year poorer over the Parliament. Here’s what you need to know 🧵 ⤵️ buff.ly/5CHyJII

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Vintage Spoonie @vintagespoonie.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Watching Peter Doocy of Fox News try to defend the ‘no war plans were shared’ claim by saying the Signal messages didn’t include detailed imaging is really quite something #foxnews #signal #trump #trumpadministration #theatlantic

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Vintage Spoonie @vintagespoonie.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The Trump administration so fervently believe that if they say something, it must be so, they seemed to think they could get away with lying about the nature of the Signal chat and…. The Atlantic just wouldn’t publish messages from the chat? #signal #theatlantic #trump #trumpadministration

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

For all their denial that this is austerity, the grim reality of Starmer and Reeves' new economic project is that it is bad for living standards, bad for public services, bad for the vulnerable, and bad for the economy, argues his former senior adviser Simon Fletcher bylinetimes.com/2025/03/26/s...

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'Keir Starmer's Government Should Stop the Austerity Denial About These Cuts'

The uncomfortable truth about Starmer and Reeves's economic project is it is grim for living standards, public services and recipients of welfare, and should be opposed by all, argues his former senio...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/03/2025

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

And with Labour's "review" of Access to Work already predicted to focus on cuts, in addition to those already being made and further restrictions on PIP, this only gets worse. Cutting funding and support doesn't help people get into work. Increasing it can. #r4today www.thetimes.com/article/8f1f...

Disabled people forced to turn down jobs over 9-month wait for support

More than 60,000 disabled people are yet to receive assistance to enter or remain in the workforce despite Labour's pledge to get more people into employment

Matilda Davies, Data Journalist

Monday March 24 2025, 12.01am, The Times

More than 60,000 disabled people are facing waits of more than nine months to receive support to enter or remain in the workforce.

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 23/03/2025

I don't think enough of a stink is being made about the naked dishonesty of Reeves and Starmer's crap about 'get people “trapped on benefits” back into work'. PIP is *incapable of trapping anyone.* You still get it if you're in work. It is one of the few UK benefits offering no perverse incentives!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Schoolchildren are routinely slaughtered by AR-15s. Hundreds die. [*crickets* "Thoughts and prayers" *crickets*] A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt. ["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

AOC, @aoc.bsky.social, making the case for free speech alongside universal healthcare is so KEY for the left, because it's time progressives reclaimed the mantle of fighting for free speech from the faux free speech warriors of the right.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Israel just killed hundreds of Palestinians, including kids. The US just killed dozens of Yemenis, including kids. "Why do they hate us?" asks the American public, blissfully ignorant of what's being done in its name in the Middle East by the US and its ally Israel. Sigh.

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Vintage Spoonie @vintagespoonie.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

So I did a book! Queer Film Festivals and Urban Space is now yours for, um, a mere £145….please ask your institutional libraries to stock it and if you don’t have institutional access or millions of pounds to spend on books drop me a DM. #queer #film #queerfilm www.routledge.com/Queer-Film-F...

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Queer Film Festivals and Urban Space: Reclaiming the City

This timely and innovative book argues that queer film festivals reclaim urban space for queer women and other marginalised queer subjects through the mobilisation of both material and diegetic space....

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The TESLA (a/k/a "TESLER") TAKEDOWN is working... WORLDWIDE! Turns out people really resent an unelected weirdo running our Government & creating economic chaos. Hit Elmo where it really hurts: in his big, fat wallet. If we #TankTesla, It's Ex-X! (a/k/a Twitter) #WinWin Visit www.takedowntesla.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/03/2025

Bernie Sanders: "I'm gonna vote no. I think the American people are sick and tired of Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, running around, slashing Social Security, veterans programs. That Republicans are moving for massive tax breaks and cutting Medicaid ... you gotta draw a line."

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Welcome to Donald Trump’s America, where First Amendment lawyers find themselves compelled to advise people that they have no First Amendment rights.

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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I can’t emphasize enough how much accessibility benefits everyone. Ramps, elevators, ventilated air, automatic doors. You caring about accessibility is literally caring about your future. You will become disabled unless you die young. Investing in the disability community is investing in yourself.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism? Here is an answer: Good Things. Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine. Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it. The more we build community, the less it can take root. 🧵

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Disabled women are more likely to experience abuse than their non disabled peers We’re often trapped with caregivers who treat us badly & lack the support to leave Many disability benefits are cut if you marry, forcing dependence We need a universal basic income so we can have autonomy #IWD2025

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"We have to take care of our law enforcement," says Trump, standing inside the building where law enforcement were brutally attacked by a mob of his supporters that he sent to the Capitol.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

“Not only did a film about occupied and persecuted Palestinians win an Oscar, but the great and the good of Hollywood put their hands together for two speeches slamming “ethnic cleansing” and “ethnic supremacy” in Palestine.” - me for Zeteo on the Oscars:

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'Stop the Ethnic Cleansing': Watch and Read the Most Powerful Oscars Speech for Years

Remarkable and historic speeches from both Palestinian co-director Basel Adra and Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham, after their film 'No Other Land' won the Oscar for Best Documentary.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

If it walks like a Nazi, talks like a Nazi, and salutes like a Nazi… Keep the online pressure up, friends. And boycott Tesla. Find out more about local protests at teslatakedown.com

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Please share. 🙏🏻

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Vintage Spoonie @vintagespoonie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This. I know it’s not the main takeaway, but as a former EFL tutor, I was horrified by how Trump and Vance were siezing on Z’s turns of phrase to manufacture faux outrage, and the guy is speaking in his second language in which he is not fluent. Ignorant pigs, the pair of them. #istandwithukraine

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Alonso Gurmendi @alonso-gd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

And just like that, overnight, there’s a US-Russia axis. If you made a movie out of this people would say it’s an absurd premise

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

They are arguing, endlessly, that illegally inciting acts of terror online is ‘free speech’ while silencing dissent, targeting journalists & telling an invaded ally what he is & is not allowed to say during a live television broadcast are all fine.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

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Vintage Spoonie @vintagespoonie.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This is a difficult read but important to understand just how entirely Israel has become a fascist, apartheid state. The IDF is rotten to the core. Torture and humiliation of imprisoned Palestinians routine and systemic. #palestine #gaza #israel www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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‘They forced me to stand for hours in the cold, arms raised and shackled’: eight Gaza doctors on their Israeli prison ordeal

Senior doctors and surgeons describe the torture, starvation, humiliation and denial of medical care they endured while being held without charge

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Vintage Spoonie @vintagespoonie.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

McCarthyism for the 21st century. The right always need a scapegoat to demonise, and this time it’s trans people. #trump

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Vintage Spoonie @vintagespoonie.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

He is quite literally insane isn’t he? #gaza #trump

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Trump can’t handle the faintest criticism so, when he hears that Zelensky should have been invited, he lashes out saying “He started it”. When Zelensky mentions the disinformation that feeds Trump, Trump lashes out again. A monstrous spoiled brat wrecking the world with his dull-witted vengefulness.

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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 18/02/2025

"There's an old saying in diplomatic circles: 'If you are not at the table, you are on the table.' Hard to believe it's 2025, and two superpowers are meeting to split up a sovereign nation—like colonialism never went out of style. #Ukraine

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