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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 29m

Nobody ever wants to talk about or admit this but it happened.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 38m

Taking in refugees isn't just a nice thing we do — we have a legal obligation. The 1951 Refugee Convention came about specifically because countries like the US refused entry to Jews who were trying to escape Germany, because the world didn't ever want that to happen again.

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 9h

📣URGENT more than 14,000 people have signed our petition calling on Ofwat to REJECT Thames Water's latest ridiculous proposal.

🤑Their creditors want to pollute our rivers & seas illegally for the next 15 years.

✍️Ofwat makes its decision next week. Add your name, 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 & 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 today!

Thames Water wants to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.

Thames Water wants to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 1h

“Iraq’s new Personal Status Code further institutionalizes discrimination against women, legally relegating them to second class citizens...It should be repealed immediately.” - Sarah Sanbar, Iraq researcher at @hrw

Read more: https://bit.ly/4n4E9oA

Iraq: New Personal Status Code Makes Women Second Class

Iraq’s new Ja’afari Personal Status Code, passed by parliament on August 27, discriminates against women by favoring men in matters of marriage, divorce, inheritance, and children’s guardianship and c...

www.hrw.org

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 1h

Care workers supporting elderly and disabled people have been advised to travel to work in racially mixed groups and carry panic alarms.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 16h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 16h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 1h

the hell in which american jewry is now trapped — everything is antisemitism except actual antisemitism

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4h

This is straight up white nationalist talking points posted by the DHS.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 4h

the same administration that is cracking down on free speech, protest, and academic freedom in the name of combatting antisemitism is dismissing out-of-hand the fact that their party is absolutely brimming with nazis

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1h

People in my city desperately need affordable housing, Labour is selling them short and building for the rich instead.

A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty

Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 3h

In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 4h

Winter Programme has dropped!

2025 brings us a winter of community action with gardening, art, plenty of good food and supplies, an emergency shelter, a festive dog show, radical archiving, Christmas Extravaganza, sober wassailing, film club and more.

museumofhomelessness.org/news/winterp...

Winter Programme 2025 has dropped — Museum of Homelessness

Winter 2025 is a winter of community action which includes gardening, art, plenty of good food and supplies, an emergency shelter, a festive dog show, radical archiving, Christmas Extravaganza, sober ...

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 4h

'Crossing', Petticoat Lane (2024) bu Doreen Fletcher
doreenfletcherartist.com

👤 @doreenfletcher.bsky.social

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 4h

“You’re not paid according to the value you bring you’re paid according to the strength of your union. Use your industrial strength, or you’ll be taken for granted.”

✊ Powerful words from @rmtunion.bsky.social Eddie Dempsey on last night’s UCU Live. Thank you for the solidarity

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Kim Johnson MP @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social · 5h

Great show of solidarity with @rmtunion.bsky.social today ✊🏽

These unnecessary changes to the Skilled Worker visa will have a devastating impact - threatening job security, livelihoods & creating gaps in the workforce.

Hundreds of rail and Tube staff are at risk. This must be stopped immediately.

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Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey.bsky.social · 4h

This is fascinating by @chrisgiles.ft.com.

What if the massive rise in people claiming out of work benefits is actually because we've raised the state pension age?

www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 4h

Trading in human lives won't stop people making dangerous journeys - it just sends them back into the hands of people smugglers. It's a dangerous and unworkable gimmick and a fundamental attack on the right to seek safety.

Human rights groups call for France to suspend ‘one in, one out’ treaty with UK

UK and French organisations file legal challenge against July agreement to swap asylum seekers

www.theguardian.com

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Cllr John Haywood @ringwodian.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry for this folks, I'm a Labour Party member and a member of the Fabians.

But can someone tell me where I can get hold of this globalist cash?

Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 8h

Ah great, an article to remind me that the FT commentariat are just as mad as those of any other paper.

We haven't lost control of our Border.

There is a coordinated effort, conducted at the highest levels orchestrated by fabian society, communist and Labour Party members to destroy Britain.

It's not a mistake. It's on purpose. There is a massive malign element within public sector, quangos, and the blob. They want to destroy our country. Destroy our business's. Silence us. Attack our flag. Funded by our tax money and foreign globalist institutions.

Open your eyes. Wake up

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Nima (Doctor Yak) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @doctoryak.bsky.social · 2d

If Elon Musk is paying all of "Tommy Robinson'"'s legal fees, where's all the money from his recent GoFundMe gone...?

Any ideas?

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Caroline Churcher @newforestchild.bsky.social · 4h

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Music and the Holocaust @holocaustmusic.bsky.social · 4h

Violinist Bram Rodrigues was born #OTD in 1924 and died aged 18 with his father in Auschwitz in 1943. He played violin in a string band and although he did not survive, his violin did, after giving it to his friend Johnny awaiting his return to Holland.
blogs.timesofisrael....

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

"We need more teachers, but no one has a plan for how to get more teachers, except for Zohran Mamdani.” - John Liu, State Senator and Chair of Standing Committee on NYC Education.

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 4h

Trump supporters beat a capitol police officer to death on January 6th, 2020 and Trump pardoned them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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John Wilks @johngwilks.bsky.social · 4h

Reform's Russian connections should concern all who value our democracy. They are traitors hiding behind our flag.
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...

Reform’s Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

'Tice and Oakeshott stayed at the Chernukhins’ “turreted villa” with “a stunning view of the Mediterranean” and had supper with them at a Michelin-starred restaurant'

leftfootforward.org

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