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Michael Forshaw @michael4shaw.bsky.social · 5h

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 5h

The bbc focussing on what the ceasefire means for the hostages way more than what it means for Gazans, again seeing that disproportionately we’ve become accustomed to for years, this isn’t new, and it’s certainly not ok

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 5h

This isn’t about whether the hostages being returned is good or not, it’s about their lives meaning more than the thousands of people living in Gaza

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 5h

Also once the hostages are home, they are home in liveable conditions, sure many will need MH support but they have a home, many Gazans are returning to a pile of rubble also enduring trauma

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 15h

This is why the costumes are honestly brilliant. Ngo, who has never said a truthful thing in his entire life (remember the concrete milkshake?) now has to convince people inflatable Sesame Street and animal costumes are violent terrorists.

Sometimes you just need an image too silly to demonize.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 16h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 7h

I just dont think its just for the money, the idea their actions are separate from real world politics is the whole point. They just want to do a cool project and tell themselves its okay and that insulation is the whole point and the whole media nurtures that very bubble

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 7h

No consequences to being transphobic, in fact you’ll be praised for looking the other way if not full on going anti trans bigot

Alex Ries @alexries.com · 9h

What are your theories as to why nominally 'liberal' people like Simon Pegg and Matt Berry are willing to work with Rowling?

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 7h

No consequences to being transphobic, in fact you’ll be praised for looking the other way if not full on going anti trans bigot

Alex Ries @alexries.com · 9h

What are your theories as to why nominally 'liberal' people like Simon Pegg and Matt Berry are willing to work with Rowling?

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 15h

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 6d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show

Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.

www.ok.co.uk

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 15h

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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Michael Forshaw @michael4shaw.bsky.social · 8h

they both look beautiful

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 8h

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 22h

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 22h

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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spice-melange.bsky.social @spice-melange.bsky.social · 10h

When you get a leader like Zack who doesn’t bluster or shill for private companies but actually talk sense on the issues 99% of us face and a way to fix the issues then this will continue to grow

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 8h

😍 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army are trash

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9h

A new week - and a new huge milestone!

@greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!!

We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Michael Forshaw @michael4shaw.bsky.social · 8h

🤣 they really aren't

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 9h

Dominic Waghorn reports that Israel refuses to release Marwan Barghouti, "who is arguably the Nelson Mandela of Palestinians".

The release of Mandela heralded the end of apartheid South Africa. Its not hard to see why the Israeli apartheid regime wants to keep him locked up.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 13h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 15h

If Israel has backed militias dotted around Gaza doing their dirty work despite what someone told me earlier that this isn’t a breach of the ceasefire because they aren’t the IDF, is a nonsense

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Michael Forshaw @michael4shaw.bsky.social · 15h

The New Fesstament: The Very Best of Fesshole

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 15h

It's so strange seeing everyone say over and over again that there's no such thing as a trans kid when I literally was one. I was homeschooled and I still told my parents I was a girl at eight years old. They were doing conversion therapy on me years before I met a trans person for the first time.

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