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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 6h

Hell yeah!

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 15h

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Exists to support non-violent activists in prison in the UK.

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 15h

79 people have been imprisoned in Britain for acts of nonviolent resistance with Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action. Collectively, they have served more than 7,700 days — over 21 years — behind bars. 14 are still inside.

They remind us that truth-telling under tyranny carries a price.

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 19h

Topless trans protests are a brilliant dilemma action.

If police arrest, the state admits they’re women.

If not, it exposes the hypocrisy of calling trans women “male.”

Either way, the protest wins.

(Photo: Rusty Elias, Manchester, May 31, 2025)

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 22h

Starmer raps his own diss track. Cold.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8uO...

Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 1d

Netanyahu’s brand is brutality. His own supporters call him a “belligerent piece of shit” — and they cheer for it.

That’s who the UK is arming to the teeth: a war criminal turning Gaza into rubble for profit.
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Netanyahu: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses Benjamin Netanyahu’s grip on power in Israel, why he’s allied with some of the most extreme voices in his country today, and finally, a summary of one iconic meltdown we think…

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 1d

Netanyahu has clung to power for decades through corruption, war, and alliances with extremists. Time for the world to say: enough.
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Netanyahu: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses Benjamin Netanyahu’s grip on power in Israel, why he’s allied with some of the most extreme voices in his country today, and finally, a summary of one iconic meltdown we think…

www.youtube.com

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 2d

🐦 Bird flu, Long COVID, collapsing health. We exploit animals, pollute rivers, burn futures—and wonder why plagues rise. Every pandemic is a mirror.

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 2d

Over a million starving in Yemen. The world shrugs.

We cannot claim civilisation while we let children die for oil, greed, borders.

Humanity is on trial.

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 2d

🌍 “3°C warming by 2050 is on the table,” scientists say. Crops fail. Famines spread. Populations shrink. This isn’t a prediction—it’s a death sentence.

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 3d

The government overplayed its hand by banning Palestine Action — now it wants to ban chants like “Globalise the Intifada (Resistance)”.

I agree that a pause after the terror attack would’ve shown respect. But criminalising protest only deepens division.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Starmer targets inflammatory chants at Palestine protests for further curbs

PM says Labour will address suggestions of antisemitic hate as he orders review of protest policing powers

www.theguardian.com

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 3d

Hundreds are sailing into danger to break the siege on Gaza.
They know Israel may seize them, beat them, jail them.
And they go anyway.
That’s what moral courage looks like in 2025.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We fear what Israel will do to us if they seize our ship. But we are not turning back | Naoise Dolan

Our captured flotilla colleagues have been subjected to violence and degrading conditions in an Israeli prison. This has only made us more determined, says Irish writer Naoise Dolan

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 3d

Even the spies are scared.
Britain’s intelligence chiefs say the climate crisis threatens our national survival — and Number 10 buries the report.

When truth itself becomes a threat to power, revolution is inevitable.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 4d

🏔 Forests in Canada store nearly 20,000 megatonnes of carbon. But species loss, fires, and logging threaten to flip them from carbon sinks to sources. Imagine the fuse burning.

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 4d

🌡 German cities broke records for their warmest September night. Heat creeps even into the dark. Where will we find rest when the night itself burns?

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 4d

🐟 North Sea cod face “grave danger of collapse.” Centuries of abundance gone in decades. We are living through the death of oceans.

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 5d

💧 Lake Gatún, the Panama Canal’s heart, is projected to “decline substantially.” Less water means collapsing trade. Climate chaos will choke the arteries of globalisation.

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 5d

Corruption trials, luxury living, far-right allies, and genocide in Gaza. Netanyahu isn’t protecting Israel—he’s protecting himself.
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Bw...

Netanyahu: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses Benjamin Netanyahu’s grip on power in Israel, why he’s allied with some of the most extreme voices in his country today, and finally, a summary of one iconic meltdown we think…

www.youtube.com

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 5d

Ostatnie Pokolenie has occupied the Polish Parliament since Sept 26 🇵🇱✊

Their Last Generation bill to fund rail over roads just entered public consultation — a real win for people & planet.

The oil lobby won’t give up easily, and neither will they.

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 5d

There are 383kg of rubble for every metre of Gaza 🏚️

Dozens killed this week alone. Millions have marched — and nothing changes.

It’s time for sustained, mass nonviolent rebellion: occupy workplaces, disrupt the machine, stop the flow of blood and money.

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 6d

War grinds on in Ukraine.

Airstrikes, fires, new conscriptions, and collapsing defences mark a war with no end.

A Russian drone strike on a farm created a fire that killed 13,000+ pigs.

Every bomb burns the future we all share.

Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 6d

🏚 In Belém, Brazil, landlords are evicting tenants to make way for COP30 tourists. Climate summits built on human sacrifice—irony burns hotter than the planet.

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 7d

🏙 80% of the US northeast is in drought. Yes—New York City too. Imagine wildfires in Manhattan.

Collapse isn’t distant. It’s on our doorstep.

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 7d

Always worth remembering that the actions of the Suffragettes were often not 'peaceful': sustained campaigns of arson, vandalism & in some instances assault. If anyone tried that today they would likely end up in prison for a very long time. @rogerhallam.com got 5 years for attending a Zoom call.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 7d

On reports the Home Secretary plans to grant police more powers to prevent ‘repeated protests’, Greenpeace UK:

“Protest works because it is repetitive. If police had told the Suffragettes or civil rights activists ‘you’ve made your point,’ they would never have won the victories we all enjoy today"

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 7d

After a year in prison, my friend Roger Hallam is back — already doorknocking and organising assemblies in Brixton to tackle homelessness and rebuild community.

Revolution isn’t just protest.
It’s rebuilding society from below. 🌱

Extinction Rebellion founder to tackle street homelessness and drug addiction in Brixton

New community organising group Assemble held a meeting on Thursday evening at the Edmundsbury Community Hall to hear local views on the problems of street homelessness, drug addiction and mental il…

www.brixtonbuzz.com

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