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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 14h

The fundamental divide is between…

Those who live off wages

And those who live off wealth

But those who live off wealth will do everything in their power to convince you the divide is between immigrants & non-immigrants, brown and non-brown, trans and non-trans…

… ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE REALITY

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 41m

Yet again the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen is misrepresenting a key issue in Gaza – and as always, he is doing so in a way that places Israel in the most flattering light possible.

Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-onc...

Listen: Once again, Jeremy Bowen is misleading the public about Gaza

Read by Matthew Alford

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 39m

Has Israel stopped starving & murdering Palestinians? Have all the Palestinian hostages been released? Are the settlements being dismantled? Is the occupation over? Do Palestinians have the right to return to their homes? Do we have accountability &justice for Israels war crimes?

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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 46m

🤔 Good to see Labour MPs outing themselves as the callous people they are, but they need to know there are a plethora of issues that opponents can mobilise against them.

Even vote Labour to stop Reform isn’t going to do it

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 18h

Labour MPs reckon that if the ceasefire holds it will be harder for opponents to mobilize against them over the Israel-Palestine issue in the next election. There are concerns though about whether the fragile agreement will hold. More in London Playbook PM.

London Playbook PM: Has he Don Keir a favor?

Presented by Rolls-Royce By EMILIO CASALICCHIO with NOAH KEATE PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser SCOOP — LOBBY TO LOBBIED: Sky News Poli…

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 22h

BOOK! For those interested in diving deeper into David Graeber's work.

'The Ultimate Hidden Truth Of The World,' is a collection of essays by David Graeber that was published in 2024.

The book is edited and introduced by @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1h

Yay! Finally the most oppressed and suffering of people in the world are getting some relief.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1h

Breaking news: The Bank of England will cut the time senior bankers have to wait before receiving their full bonuses from eight years to four years on.ft.com/48xnmHm

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 5h

Here’s what the difference looks like between a neighborhood very heavily damaged by airpower and combat (left) and one razed fully by earthmovers (center and right, the signature IDF tactic since March).

Once the earthmovers have been through, the shadows disappear on overhead imagery.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 1h

Over 7,000 people have asked Virgin gyms to stop following transphobes, and follow the law.

Will you ask the gyms to stop their changing room and bathroom ban on trans people?

https://action.goodlawproject.org/virgin-active-stop-following-transphobes-follow-the-law

Tell Virgin Active: Stop following transphobes, follow the law

After a legal threat from GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry, Virgin Active turned their back on the trans community and enforced a changing room and bathroom ban on trans people across all their gym...

action.goodlawproject.org

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Mike Sivier @midwalesmike.bsky.social · 1h

Survivors of child sexual abuse are being betrayed all over again.
Labour’s national grooming gangs inquiry has descended into chaos — no chair, no remit, no justice.
#Labour #GroomingGangs #JusticeForSurvivors #bbcnews #itvnews #politicslive
voxpoliticalonline.com/2025/10/15/s...

Labour grooming inquiry chaos betrays survivors

Labour’s child grooming gangs inquiry stalls amid chaos and confusion, leaving survivors betrayed once again.

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Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform.bsky.social · 1h

From keeping a chauffeur-driven Mercedes waiting for four hours, to now complaining about their speeding fines. This sounds more like antics from a private member's club, rather than part of our parliament. buff.ly/niNnvUb

Peer faces Lords ban for raising speeding fines with police chief

Ex-Lords speaker Baroness D'Souza complained to Sir Mark Rowley she could lose her licence after a speeding fine.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own bunker, who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves.'

The techbros will be the first to be torn to pieces by mobs if society collapses

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Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · 1h

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Stanley Keen @stanleykeen.bsky.social · 1h

Prominent falconer and eagle breeder Andrew Knowles-Brown fined almost £14,000 for ‘shocking’ animal cruelty: investigators found around 90 birds living in ‘unimaginable squalor’ at his Scottish Eagle Centre in Elvanfoot, Scotland | Raptor Persecution UK raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/15/p...

Prominent falconer Andrew Knowles-Brown fined almost £14,000 for ‘shocking’ animal cruelty

Prominent falconer and eagle breeder, Andrew Knowles-Brown, 70, has been sentenced after investigators from the Scottish SSPCA found approximately 90 eagles and other birds were living in ‘un…

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The Ferret @theferret.scot · Jul 30

NEW: A group campaigning for freedom of expression has condemned multinationals for “years of legal threats” against an activist who spotlights environmental and animal welfare issues cause by industrial salmon farming. bit.ly/3IQe7Hn

Freedom of expression group condemns “years of legal threats” against activist who spotlights environmental issues

A group campaigning for freedom of expression has condemned multinationals for “years of legal threats” against an activist.

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 27d

The salmon farming giants are dragging Don Staniford through the courts to shut him up. This is the same industry that spied on him with ex-paratroopers - just for exposing the truth: salmon farming is cruel and cruel filthy business and does enormous environmental harm.

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Graeme Tiffany @graemetiffany.bsky.social · 19d

I, for one, think Don Staniford is doing a good job, and in the public interest. I'd go as far as saying that when the totality of what happens in the name of #salmonfarming comes out it will rank up their with the post office as a national scandal: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Salmon farmer accused of blocking UK investigations into alleged animal rights breaches

Faroese firm Bakkafrost wants to ban campaigner Don Staniford from going within 15 metres of its fish farms

www.theguardian.com

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 3d

Jeremy Clarkson has been forced to kill his first calf after a TB outbreak — despite bragging he’d already “shot all the badgers.”

Turns out, the real problem isn’t badgers. It’s a broken testing system. 🦡

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 5h

What’s that Jeremy? Your private healthcare couldn’t save your life but the NHS could?

People need to think long and hard about voting for Reform, Farage openly says we need insurance based healthcare, but what about people who can’t afford it?

They die. It’s simple.

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.

Jeremy Clarkson reneges on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment

Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster’, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him

www.independent.co.uk

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4d

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 1h

Trust has eroded because successive governments have failed on the cost of living, housing & child poverty crises - not because of our borders.

Politicians have failed to tell the truth about how reliant we are on migration - and how it benefits all of us.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Border failings in Europe are eroding trust in nation states, warns Mahmood

Home secretary to tell meeting of interior ministers that international cooperation is way to curb irregular migration

www.theguardian.com

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 1h

A few moments of sublime beauty and sheer magnificence

#Pavarotti #GOAT

youtu.be/SLk_9TJXxbg?...

Bellini: I Puritani / Act 1: "A te, o cara"

YouTube video by Luciano Pavarotti - Topic

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 2d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 1h

People still haven't forgiven the Lib Dems for tuition fees and Labour MPs think that everyone is going to forget their utter lack of failure to act in a literal genocide?! Politicians are so detached from reality.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 18h

Labour MPs reckon that if the ceasefire holds it will be harder for opponents to mobilize against them over the Israel-Palestine issue in the next election. There are concerns though about whether the fragile agreement will hold. More in London Playbook PM.

London Playbook PM: Has he Don Keir a favor?

Presented by Rolls-Royce By EMILIO CASALICCHIO with NOAH KEATE PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser SCOOP — LOBBY TO LOBBIED: Sky News Poli…

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 1h

The lesson? Nature can heal - but only if we stop destroying it.

Cut fossil fuels. Protect the ocean. Let ecosystems recover.

Take action now for our oceans: act.gp/4oo5ovr

Keir Starmer: deliver a Global Ocean Treaty now

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 1h

But here’s the good news: when we give nature a break, it fights back.

A 26-year study found that banning bottom trawling let corals, sponges and mussels return - thriving again when the seabed was left alone.

oceanographicmagazine.com/news/26-year...

26 years of video footage shows benefit of bottom-trawling bans - Oceanographic

The University of Gothenburg deployed machine learning to analyse 26 years of underwater footage and analyse seabed changes since trawling ban

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