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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1h

🧵 Netanyahu Trial - 15th October 2025

Netanyahu is being investigated for day 46 after the trial was stopped for a few days

The investigation: interference in regulatory system in return for bribe (Netanyahu and Milchin)

Conversation below

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StIves4EU @stives4eu.bsky.social · 1h

It could have said:-

"ECHR was created to protect citizens against rogue governments. People should therefore be very suspicious of the motives of any government or political party that wants to withdraw that protection"

Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 14h

And this is exactly why AI cant be trusted. When billionaires control the algorithms its all about disinformation and manipulation, not the truth.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15h

Elon Musk is now clearly writing Grok's replies to all the subjects that he considers important.

It's exactly the nonsense he posts on Twitter.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2h

UK banks oppose tax rise.

Falsely claim to be paying 46.4% tax rate.

The PwC generated number includes PAYE, employee national insurance which is paid by workers. VAT which is borne by customers.

it is extrapolated from a sample, can't be verified

Why do media reports not expose this sham claim?

Banks step up lobbying over threat of Reeves tax hikes

The gap between the tax burden on British banks and their international rivals is widening, even before the imposition of any further levies in next month's budget, according to a report seen by Sky N...

news.sky.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2h

Name a protest movement, anywhere or at any time, that has achieved its goals without being annoying and obstructive.
People like this enjoy the freedoms our political ancestors gained for them, while attacking the means by which they were achieved.

Jack @jackdawg52.bsky.social · 8h

Nope, you make protest obstructive and annoying you lose the good will of the general population.
When they ring their local member to complain - they dont tell the local member to deal with the issues raised by the protesters, they tell them to deal with the protesters.

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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 2h

A £21m is nowhere near enough. If you pay for a service you expect to get that service

news.sky.com/story/royal-...

Royal Mail fined millions for failing to meet delivery targets again

Millions of important letters are arriving late, the communications regulator said, and people aren't getting what they pay for.

news.sky.com

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sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 2h

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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 3h

Runaway #ClimateChange is here, now.

The only party with any plan to deal with it is @greenparty.org.uk.

All Labour can think of is chasing endless economic growth that NEVER "trickles down" and is an excuse to avoid ever discussing wealth redistribution.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told

Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate

www.theguardian.com

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Sue @hulatt47.bsky.social · 3h

jonathancook.substack.com/p/once-again...

Once again, Jeremy Bowen is misleading the British public about Gaza

The BBC international editor is required to report what Hamas actually thinks. Otherwise he is not a journalist, he's just another western propagandist

jonathancook.substack.com

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Richard Warren @richardmw1653.bsky.social · 2h

"But we're sticking with it because it's what Rupert Murdoch wants."

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 3h

#BREAKING | The Israeli "Hostages and Missing Families Forum" reveals that an autopsy conducted on recovered remains confirmed that one of the bodies belonged to a soldier who was killed in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike while in detention.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3h

Banks make $26bn in a decade of financing deforesting companies.

Destruction of the world’s forests reached the highest level - agricultural expansion, mining, infrastructure, logging.

Profits before climate change, human lives and the planet.

The cult of deregulation will make matters worse.

Banks make $26bn in decade of financing deforesting companies

US, EU and UK banks have made over $10 billion in income since Paris Agreement by financing companies involved in deforestation, new analysis ahead of COP30 reveals

globalwitness.org

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Metaphor Man @metaphorman.bsky.social · 3h

substack.com/@suevpate/no...

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 7h

handcuffing & chaining the legs of hostages, medical neglect, untreated wounds, gunshots...

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 7h

15 October 1930 | Czech Jewish girl, Gertrud Gunst, was born in Prague. In March 1939 she emigrated to Norway.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Children at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

A young girl in white blows with some patters and curly hait. She is photographed somewhere outside - some. blured buildings in the background.

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Richard Warren @richardmw1653.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 6d

“Arrested for holding up a copy of The New World. How bloody un-British

This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging”

- The New World Magazine

www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-kelly-a...

Sign up to oppose this absurd ban: wedonotcomply.org

Arrested for holding up a copy of The New World. How bloody un-British

This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 22h

Given the competing self interests of Polanski (make a fairer more sustainable world to live in) and Spectator owner multimillionaire Marshall (avoid paying taxes on hoarded wealth), I’m going to go with Polanski

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22h

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14h

People had to complain to get Polanski an interview.

Weird nobody has to beg the BBC to give Farage airtime.

I mean, it's not actually weird. We all know what it is and why it happens.

Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 14h

BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview

www.thenational.scot/news/2554271...

BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview

ZACK Polanski will be interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg after the BBC received complaints from the public for the lack of coverage of the Green Party…

www.thenational.scot

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 15h

The planet has reached its first catastrophic climate tipping point.

160 scientists from 23 countries warn that unless global heating is cut to 1.2°C as fast as possible, warm-water coral reefs will vanish “at any meaningful scale.”

The science is clear: We need to act now.

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 13h

They call monitoring students “safeguarding”.
But what they’re really guarding is the war machine's profit margin.

Students speaking against bombs in Gaza should be treated as heroes — not threats.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 13h

14 October 1940 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Mirjam Lewkowicz, was born in Gouda.

In September 1943, she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8