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Lisa Cumming @lisacumin.bsky.social · 4h

"To advance its mass deportation agenda, the Trump administration has reached for any power it can find to remove people from the country as quickly as possible and without due process."

Including children as young as 14.

#R4Today #BBC

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Did You Know? The Alien Enemies Act Can Be Used Against Children As Young As 14 - National Immigrant Justice Center

To advance its mass deportation agenda, the Trump administration has reached for any power it can find to remove people from the country as quickly as possible and without due process. One of these po...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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International Committee of the Red Cross @icrc.org · 5h

We have started a multi-phase operation to facilitate the release and transfer of hostages and detainees as part of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

More details here: ms.spr.ly/6182s2AQs

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Lisa Cumming @lisacumin.bsky.social · 17h

"Somewhere south of the Scottish border I just snapped."

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 2d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 23h

Catherine Abel
Teascape with Homemade Shortbread
2024 Oil on linen

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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World BEYOND War @world-beyond-war.bsky.social · 2d

For the first time, the ICC has convicted a Sudanese militia leader for war crimes in Darfur—including gender-based persecution as a crime against humanity. It took 20+ years, but the case sets major legal precedents.

A landmark conviction for war crimes in Sudan shows the wheels of global justice do turn – albeit slowly

It has taken over 20 years, and the ICC is under intense pressure, but this week’s conviction of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman is a major win for international law.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2d

we were wrong about the Nobel peace prize but here’s some more about the emergency response rooms anyway news.un.org/en/story/202...

Youth-led ‘emergency rooms’ shine rays of hope in war-torn Sudan

With the war in Sudan triggering widespread violence and instability, youth-driven emergency response rooms (ERRs) are among a growing number of community-led initiatives reaching vulnerable civilians...

news.un.org

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

Shadow Justice Secretary has made a symbolic gesture of support for Quran burning, both in law & apparently in practice too

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Lisa Cumming @lisacumin.bsky.social · 3d

Glad to have read about this "deeply religious atheist".

www.themarginalian.org/2025/09/05/j...

By Contacts We Are Saved: The Forgotten Visionary Jane Ellen Harrison on Change, the Meaning of Faith, and the Courage of Heresy

Alpha and Omega, originally published in 1915, is the third title in Marginalian Editions. Below is my foreword to the new edition, as it appears in on its pages. “Have faith,” someone I loved said…

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Lisa Cumming @lisacumin.bsky.social · 3d

"The trial heard Ahmad, who was Syrian and had fled war-torn Homs after being injured in a bombing, had only been living in Huddersfield for a couple of weeks when he was stabbed."

www.itv.com/news/calenda...

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 3d

As an American watching our best & most crucial institutions crumble in less than a year under Trump, I suggest you make as many of these changes now, while you can.
We didn’t, obviously.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d

E.g. The Met Office is the nation’s weather service AND a global climate change research centre. It is highly vulnerable.

Ministers fund its research, influence its priorities, and appoint its leaders. With no statutory basis, its priorities and funding could be changed with little oversight. 5/11

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 3d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

RNS @rns.org · 4d

The pastors’ efforts are part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration as the president seeks to implement plans for mass deportation of immigrants.
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Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who…

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Lisa Cumming @lisacumin.bsky.social · 3d

"The Israeli cabinet meeting to decide whether to approve the Gaza ceasefire deal has been delayed to 20:00 local time (18:00 BST*), according to the country's public broadcaster, Kan."

[*13.00 ET]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

Israeli cabinet to vote on Gaza deal that would bring ceasefire and hostages' release - live updates

Our correspondents Lyse Doucet and Rushdi Abualouf are answering your questions on the deal now - watch and follow live.

www.bbc.co.uk

Lisa Cumming @lisacumin.bsky.social · 4d

In case anyone else is looking for this info...

"The Israeli government will meet on Thursday at 17:00 Jerusalem time (15:00 BST*) to vote on the deal. If the plan is approved a ceasefire will go into immediate effect..."

[*10.00 ET]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

Gaza ceasefire and hostage releases 'within days' after Israel and Hamas agree first phase of deal - live updates

US President Donald Trump says both sides agree to the first phase of his plan, which paves the way towards a ceasefire.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 4d

Hope, at last. I welcome the first phase of President Trump’s Gaza initiative.

Let’s get the hostages out and aid in – fast.

We are ready to move now, but we need safe access and full funding to turn this pause into real progress.

Every minute counts.

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 4d

In June, Tory leader hopeful Robert Jenrick, who recently complained about not seeing white faces in a Birmingham suburb, declared he is an Anglofuturist.

We got inside a secret Anglofuturist Discord server to find out what that really means 👇

🔗 hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/08/r...

Robert Jenrick says he’s an Anglofuturist. What does that mean? – HOPE not hate

In late June, the shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick took the stand at a conference. Addressing the crowd of Tories and radical-right political figures, he made an unusual statement. “I am what c...

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 6d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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Paul Parker @rcquaker.bsky.social · 7d

For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer, and non-violent action are expressions of our worship. When this is criminalised, our religious freedom is under attack.

@quaker.org.uk

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