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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · May 31

My book Bodies Under Siege tracks the far right attack on abortion rights in UK, Europe & US, via conspiracy theories, Christian nationalist networks & dark money from US, Russia & Europe… I’ve been on this story for 8 years so buy it now!!

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Bodies Under Siege

Think today's anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today's anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extremi...

www.versobooks.com

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 8h

russians steal Ukrainian homes after killing their owners or forcing them to flee the occupation.
russians loot Ukrainian homes before retreating.
russians bomb those Ukrainian homes they can neither steal nor loot.

There's no other word for it — pure evil.

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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 8h

❗️Russia dropped an aerial bomb on the grounds of a hospital in Kharkiv. As of now, four people are reported injured.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 8h

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · May 31

Bodies Under Siege

www.versobooks.com

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 8h

You can read more on ADF and how the backlash against abortion rights globally is funded by US and others in my (sadly far too) prescient book!

bsky.app/profile/sian...

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 18h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks Ramandeep! Hope you are well.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 10h

Me too, gotta say!

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 10h

lol

sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 11h

Ha but thank you 😊

sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 11h

Me 2008

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 11h

🤣

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 13h

"You've let me down, you've let the school down, you've let yourself down" geography teacher vibes going on here.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 17h

Brilliant reporting from Jane and Elizabeth Dias. As someone who has been writing about ADF's and the wider US Xtian Nationalist threat to the UK and Europe for a while now, we must be alert to the threat they pose to women's and LGBTQ+ rights here.

Jane Bradley @bradleyjane.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 20h

We're looking for a fundraising manager and the deadline for applications is this Friday. Learn more about the role and why you should apply ⬇️ www.linkedin.com/posts/gareth...

TBIJ is looking for a fundraising manager to help us tell more of the stories that matter | Gareth Davies

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is looking for a new fundraising manager. Here's why that's such an important - and exciting - role

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 20h

I should - all being well - have a story out on this issue this week!

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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 1d

Across Ukraine today – lives lost again to russian attacks.

Kharkiv region: two killed, seven injured.
Dnipropetrovsk: two killed, three injured.
Sumy: a couple killed by a drone while feeding stray dogs.
Kherson: five injured.
Zaporizhzhia: one killed.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

Spending the afternoon remembering Diane

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 1d

This was a lyceum in Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region. Russian destroyed it, injuring 5 people.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

Autumn days

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

I hate these history come to life style docs. Still not over one where they had an actor playing John Dudley strutting around and sneering at the camera while uncannily looking like Lenin in a Tudor ruff

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 1d

🤬 In Kharkiv region, Russians struck two educational institutions and a private home, injuring 5 people.

‼️ Last night, Russia again attacked Ukrainian energy and gas transportation infrastructure facilities. Energy facilities in the Donbas, Odesa, and Chernihiv were damaged.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

I declare a vested interest

sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

Moratorium on posh novelists/screenwriters writing about working class people disrupting a posh family out of spite & desire; more novels by working class people writing working class characters who occasionally have to interact with the rich and are like: what the fuck is this bullshit.

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Paul Mason @paulmason.bsky.social · 1d

An audit of Russia's hybrid war - it's the political warfare, not the drones, that is the biggest threat...
open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/r...

Russia hikes hybrid aggression...

From Foxhound incursions to red paint on the factory wall... why, and what next?

open.substack.com

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

“Legal’s on the phone”

sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

Powerful interview with Esther Njoki about her fight for justice for her aunt - and for all Kenyan women abused by British soldiers. By David Collins in today’s Sunday Times

My fight for Aunt Agnes: ‘British soldiers feel superior in Kenya’

www.thetimes.com/article/4374...

My fight for Aunt Agnes: ‘British soldiers feel superior in Kenya’

Agnes Wanjiru’s niece is heading to the UK to demand justice for her killing — and for all women wronged by the British Army

www.thetimes.com

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