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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · 16h

#hope is possible 🥰.

Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · 11d

A 70-hour week in the NHS isn’t enough?
Labour now demands that immigrants volunteer to “earn” status.
This isn’t fairness. It’s cruelty.

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Doing Your Job Isn’t Enough Anymore

Labour, Reform, and the quiet cruelty of polite racism

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · 19d

I'd argue that hearing the paternalistic Karen saying that she has "concerns" is as damaging, as hearing it from the blood guy. You expect it from the guy. The Karen was supposed to be your bulwark against that type of things. Distinctions between the two become immaterial once the line is crossed.

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · 19d

Now, I'm not saying that the racist politicians in the Deep South weren't horrendous. But just because the Reform representatives don't voice the same sentiments in the same way, doesn't mean that they don't feel them. They are just adjusted to a context that they are shaping to be more permissive.

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · 21d

But your crew is till voting for Charlie Kirk day soooo....

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 22d

The proposed EHRC guidance is more extreme and discriminatory than the anti-trans regulations currently in place in any US State.

The current assault on trans healthcare implemented by Starmer and Streeting is more comprehensive and extensive than that in place across the whole USA.

Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 22d

Trump has declared war on the transgender community, leaving Americans to seek asylum — from America

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Trump’s war on trans people has left Americans seeking asylum — from America

Four trans Americans claiming refuge abroad tell Io Dodds why they no longer feel safe in their home country, from fears of martial law to being arrested in changing rooms

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · 21d

Why are you here? Feeling lonely?

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · 24d

A 9-year-old girl was shot at. A young Sikh woman was assaulted. 100,000 marched in London chanting hate. Britain isn’t becoming an island of strangers - it's being made into one.

This Wasn’t an Island of Strangers – They Made It One

How Britain’s leaders manufactured a hostile nation

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · 25d

We don't have to mourn #CharlieKirk. You can't make us.

Charlie Kirk Is Dead – But His Violence Still Echoes

You don’t owe grief to someone who spent his life denying yours

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · Sep 6

He’s paid taxes for 10 years. The #HomeOffice didn't care. Our #immigration enforcement is out of control.

29 Days in Detention, for being a delivery driver...

The Home Office doesn’t care if you work, pay taxes, or follow the rules—if you look foreign, you’re next.

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · Sep 2

I”m #angry. This is a #rant. 🤬 #labour and #keirstarmer

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · Aug 30

On #genuineconcerns, #asylumseekers, #immigration and the hoops we jump through to not call people racist/

Genuine Concerns: The Language of White Comfort

When racism is rebranded as reasonableness, lives are lost.

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · Aug 13

Conditional Whiteness, Corporate Pride, and the Illusion of Safety

They stayed silent on everything—until their comfort was threatened.

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · Aug 12

Clarissa Ward's statement on the murder of Anas Al-Sharif and it annoyed me.

They Didn’t Miss the Genocide. They Helped It Happen.

Western media didn’t fail. It prioritised the stories that preserved its comfort—and buried the ones that didn’t.

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · Aug 4

Who hurt you dude?

Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · Jul 22

Always 🥰

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · Jul 21

I added my name to demand real action from the UK government – not just words - to protect civilians and humanitarian workers in Gaza with @dotwuk.bsky.social. 💙 Please take a minute to do the same.
petition.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/page/171651/...

PETITION : The UK must put pressure on Israel

Doctors of the World humanitarian workers are responding to the mass violence in Gaza and the West Bank. Please sign the petition to protect civilians and medical workers.

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · Jul 18

jupiterbaal.github.io/Palestine-fo...

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · Jul 14

The writer of this disgusting article wrote a book called what went wrong with capitalism. He could’ve just written this inhumane, ahistorical, piece of poorly poor researched trash and spared the world from the carbon impact of his book.

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · Jul 7

Obrigado 🥰

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João Serrano @imutley.bsky.social · Jul 6

É afinfar-lhes!
O Hélio @heliof.bsky.social dá manual.
Ainda estou para ver se alguma coisa sai daqui.

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · Jul 2

The precedents we set for authoritarianism

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · Jun 26

The proscription threat on Palestine Action isn't the start of something, it's the end of a process.
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Why the UK Is Labeling Palestine Action as Terrorism: Authoritarianism, Industry, and Moral Panic

How the UK government redefined protest as terrorism to protect industry and empire.

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Jupiterbaal @heliof.bsky.social · May 12

Yes. I will. Because people like you are more offended by someone being called racist than by someone actually being racist or xenophobic. So until the time you are the target of these “concerns” I’d just advise you to just shut up because it’s free.

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · May 12

When will Starmer learn that no matter how good his Nigel Farage impression gets, it won't save him from wipeout at the hands of Reform? Here's another idea - how about doing the work that's needed to actually make people's lives better? 🧵

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