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Tired and Angry @dndnerd69.bsky.social · 6h

I support animal rights—do I look like a fucking alpaca?!

I’m a woman, and Carole Malone does not speak for me.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 7h

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you to @scotnational.bsky.social for picking this up and putting it on their front page

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rhonda611.bsky.social @rhonda611.bsky.social · 6h

Great source of tax revenue, would break link between drugs and crime, would improve public safety. Drugs should be treated like alcohol and smoking. The “war” on drugs has been lost. Time for some common sense.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

Legalise *and* regulate drugs.

This morning on @jeremyvine.bsky.social:

youtu.be/kBjqQAFdBRQ?...

Should we legalise all drugs? feat. Zack Polanski & Carole Malone | Jeremy Vine

YouTube video by Jeremy, Storm & Vanessa On 5

youtu.be

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 5h

Only two days ago Shabana Mahmood was smearing those who carried on protesting after the so-called ceasefire. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel limits aid into Gaza in dispute over hostage remains as ceasefire faces test

Hamas accused of breaching agreement by withholding bodies of hostages but Palestinian militants say they face obstacles in retrieving them

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 19h

It's revealing the importance being placed on Hamas returning the bodies of Israeli captives.

And yet no one cared about Israel's decades-long refusal to hand back many hundreds of bodies of Palestinians it was holding.

Did their families not need a grave to grieve over?

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 12h

"Whether you agree with Zack Polanski or not it is important to have a different view articulated as effectively as some of the radical right have been doing.

"Potentially it helps rebalance the scales a little bit in everyday media discourse"

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...

Zack Polanski: Can the Green Party leader ‘rebalance the scales’ of UK politics? | The News Agents

In little more than a month of leadership, Zack Polanski has grown the party’s membership and become a powerful figure on the left-wing of UK politics. Can he, and the Green Party, take this further…

www.thenewsagents.co.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12h

UK faces highest inflation in G7 this year and next, IMF warns.

Biggest cause is profiteering led by energy, water and food businesses. No govt checks it.

Real average wage stuck at 2008 level. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Govts needs to remove cash from the rich.

UK faces highest inflation in G7 this year and next, IMF warns

According to fund’s World Economic Outlook, Britain is on course to average 3.4% this year and 2.5% in 2026

www.theguardian.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 11h

Labour is telling you VERY LOUDLY who to vote for if you value human rights. And it's definitely NOT LABOUR.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 11h

Norwich train station used to have lovely independent coffee shop with great locally made cakes. Now it has been chain-stored like all the rest ☹️

Soulless. Dull. Tasteless

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11h

Israel is using the failure to return the bodies of hostages as a pretext to violate the ceasefire themselves, but as Nour Odeh points out, the ceasefire agreement did not contain a timeline for the handing over of the bodies & Israel already knew it might take weeks or months.

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Susan Buckingham @susanjb7.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth

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‘For the sake of peace’: why a Palestinian forgives the Israeli soldier who shot him

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 1d

'Peace deal' or not, Gaza remains the holocaust of our time - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/peace-deal-or-not-gaza-holocaust-our-time

'Peace deal' or not, Gaza remains the holocaust of our time

Two years into Israel's war of extermination, there can be no peace without accountability for the industrial-scale killing or justice for Palestinians who continue to count their dead

www.middleeasteye.net

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Susan Buckingham @susanjb7.bsky.social · 1d

Build what? Yes to social housing for those priced out of the housing market (council, co-op), but we need to recover long term empty homes and restructure the housing market to ensure it provides homes not speculative profit. And protect the environment while we’re at it.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

'When I said build baby build I absolutely meant it'

Housing Secretary Steve Reed tells #BBCBreakfast about new powers to support more building in England

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 1d

Every person on the planet has countless numbers of microplastic particles in their body and we have no idea how much damage this will do over a lifetime. Yet plastic production is still increasing.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds

The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

www.theguardian.com

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 2d

Opposite them stand Jews faithful to our people’s ethical tradition, who learned from the Holocaust an entirely different lesson: the calamity we endured was not meant to make us cruel but compassionate; not to harden our hearts but to bind us deeply to conscience
open.substack.com/pub/avrumbur...

Jews Rebel #2

The Jewish People After Gaza

open.substack.com

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 2d

After two years of seeing children shredded, buried under rubble, and starved, our establishment newspapers' front pages finally have something to care about: Israeli hostages.

If only they had been this worked up about the dead, mutilated and malnourished children of Gaza.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 2d

Israel violates the ceasefire - and threatens more genocidal violence.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/israel-vio...

Israel violates ceasefire, threatens more violence

Palestinians in Gaza are celebrating - but danger remains

www.owenjones.news

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

"Israel arms gangs inside Gaza. They carried out violent attacks yesterday & killed more than 20 people, [including] a prominent journalist"

Mohamad Elmasry on the issue of Hamas disarming (or not).

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'.

Brexit is the biggest self-harm. UK economy hasn't recovered.

Farage, the part-time MP, collects millions from 2nd/3rd jobs, full time MP pay+exps; often missing from the Commons.

Pushes hatred to grab power.

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

www.mirror.co.uk

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 2d

This is the man the BBC elevated & is refusing to investigate despite @carolecadwalla.bsky.social l & @bylinetimes.bsky.social
having done all the work for them .
Do we have a precedent for a this ? A national broadcaster ignoring possible treason , isn’t that in itself sort of treasonous 🥴 ?

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4d

Seems @Nigel_Farage is trying damage limitation on the Reform Russian Bribes scandal.

He’s known Nathan Gill for 20 years, and claims he knew nothing.

No one believes you, Nigel.

Keep the story moving. Questions must be answered.

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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 3d

Byline has become one of the most important sources of news in the country! Amazing what a difference it makes when you're not owned/controlled by a foreign billionaire x

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Rob Larter @polarrobs.bsky.social · 2d

We need to talk more about the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Whether or not you call it a tipping point, loss of its marine based part now looks inevitable. This equates to a commitment to more than 3 m of global mean sea level rise. Complete loss may take several hundred years, but it is underway.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Coral reefs, ice sheets and Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point due to global heating, report says

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report. The report from scientists and conservationists warns the world is also “on the brink” of reaching other tipping points, including the dieback of the Amazon, the collapse of major ocean currents and the loss of ice sheets. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

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Susan Buckingham @susanjb7.bsky.social · 2d

The antidote to this is not ‘growth, growth, growth’. It’s respect for nature and a major redistribution of wealth. Meanwhile our governments are planning more destruction. Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 2d

“Debt trap nation is a chilling and eye-opening expose on how the British state keeps some of the most vulnerable women in society trapped in a cycle of debt, homelessness, and domestic violence."

My endorsement for this brilliant book, which you can order here: www.waterstones.com/book/debt-tr...

Debt Trap Nation by Katherine Brickell, Mel Nowicki | Waterstones

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