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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 13h

Did you see this? 🤢🤮

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Meloni doesn't exactly looked thrilled as Trump calls her "beautiful"

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 17h

It says a lot when a population is frightened of both what the government is doing (cutting benefits for vulnerable people, proscribing direct action organisations, cracking down on protests, neglecting the NHS, education etc) and of what the government is facilitating on the far right!

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17h

Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change"

"All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern"

"I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened"

"And I get more scared every single day"

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 17h

The whole thing is just a bunch of men trying to show how great they are, led by the chief narcissist.
All they are interested in is how they can "profit" (financially, career and otherwise) from this and really don't care about the people affected by this.

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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 1d

For folks that couldn't access the @bmj.com article last week...

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 20h

Delighted to find I already had her blocked on here.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Ian Hamilton @ianhamilton358.bsky.social · 23h

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag

Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’

www.theguardian.com

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 22h

"After detailed and thorough assessment..." desk reject within 10 mins of submitting!!

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 22h

Disgusting! The hate and dehumanisation is so deeply ingrained that it defines these individuals. Ultimately they lose their own humanity - I cannot believe they don't take this home to their families and communities.

justiceseer.bsky.social @justiceseer.bsky.social · 1d

' #Israeli reporter Yuval Abraham collected testimonies from soldiers describing a myriad of arson methods.“Every Arab house we entered had olive oil.We poured the oil on sofas, on anything flammable in the apartment,and ignited [it]or threw in a smoke grenade.'
www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-idf...?

Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement

Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.”

www.dropsitenews.com

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 1d

Great photos.
Tyle is good and captures it well!

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely Damian! Wish I was there instead of working!

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if Rylan has contemplated which groups in society might be the target of a modern day witchhunt 🤔

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 1d

Praying to machines likely to become the new norm.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · May 26

🔴 How Our Politicians Created an 'Island of Strangers' So They Don't Have to Make Our Lives Any Better

"By vowing to tackle our 'island of strangers' through immigration, Starmer keeps us trapped on it – by not offering solutions to the real reasons for our estrangement" @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

How Our Politicians Created an ‘Island of Strangers’ So They Don’t Have to Make Our Lives Any Better

By presenting tougher immigration as a solution to people’s discontent, Keir Starmer and others sidestep the real reasons why people feel estranged in their lives – it’s a cynical and simplistic polit...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

In the UK we have Keir -island of strangers- Starmer, whose government is driving right wing anti immigrant and asylum seeker policies

In Spain, Pedro Sánchez is not only celebrating diversity, they're embracing and speaking positively about immigrants

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 2d

This is what is left of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 1d

I can no longer tell the difference between MAGA, the Tories or Labour/UK govt who manufacture crises & outrage to target organisations they don’t like (PS this includes the NHS).
Meanwhile, universities and the NHS (both gems of the UK) are collapsing on this govt’s watch to enable privatisation.

BBC News headline “Phillipson: Universities must tackle antisemitism

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 1d

Relates to this “news”:

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 1d

I can no longer tell the difference between MAGA, the Tories or Labour/UK govt who manufacture crises & outrage to target organisations they don’t like (PS this includes the NHS).
Meanwhile, universities and the NHS (both gems of the UK) are collapsing on this govt’s watch to enable privatisation.

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 2d

Well said! My take is that we have reached the stage where the super rich believe they no longer need democracy to keep workers healthy/fed/alive as AI/tech will decimate jobs, while climate change will decimate food and land. Admittedly dystopian but not seeing anything to challenge this view.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 2d

Agree, and I think that is a major problem as some in Labour/govt actually seem to think the responses on X reflect public opinion! So their policies shift to align and “lobby” to that audience, leading to a vicious cycle.

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 2d

I hear you but maybe many of them would also leave if you did. No UK public/govt body should be using X (I fear some in our govt think responses on X reflect true public opinion!), but individuals should make their own decisions.
However, if the only place to see friends is a pub full of racists…