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Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

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Holly Anderson 🍇

@hollyanderson.bsky.social

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Adam Bienkov

@adambienkov.bsky.social

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

In the Fourth Person | Christopher Tayler

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The New York Review of Books

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“There’s an insistent analogy in Tokarczuk’s work...between the arbitrarily constructed qualities of gender roles and the arbitrarily constructed qualities of nation-states.” —Christopher Tayler

In 1896 the French writer Alfred Jarry gave a speech introducing his play Ubu Roi, a pioneering work of avant-garde provocation, at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre

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Stephen H. Jones

@stphnhwrdjns.bsky.social

The poem in question.

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Stephen H. Jones

@stphnhwrdjns.bsky.social

Today feels a lot like the famous Mahmoud Darwish poem about the end of war, except in this case the leaders aren't shaking hands, everyone knows who sold the land, and the old woman, the girl and the children have all been killed.

Stephen H. Jones

@stphnhwrdjns.bsky.social

Throughout, Israelis are described as killed *by* Hamas, while Palestinians are killed *in* the conflict. Whoever drafted and enforces these infernal style guidelines, insisting that all Palestinian casualty numbers are queried as they are reported, I hope it weighs heavy on their soul.

Hamas presses Israel to free prominent prisoners as part of Gaza deal

Stephen H. Jones

@stphnhwrdjns.bsky.social

BBC coverage of Gaza really has been appalling. This is a case in point. All that is said about Barghouti is that he was 'convicted of deadly attacks'. Nothing on the fairness of his trial, the prison beatings, his two state advocacy, or his diplomacy and campaigning./
www.bbc.com/news/article...

It is unclear if disagreement over the list of Palestinian prisoners will affect the release of hostages within the agreed 72 hours.

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Anja Krieger

@anjakrieger.bsky.social

Finally looked up how to get rid of Google‘s automatic AI answers (and the attached waste of resources) and it‘s so easy! What relief. 😅

www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...

zensnapple's comment on "Is there a real way to shut off the Google AI overview for searches, or am i switching browsers and search engines?"

Explore this conversation and more from the techsupport community

www.reddit.com

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Brent S. Scarecrow-ta 🎃

@brentsirota.bsky.social

I have been working on a book about the separation of church and state for God knows how many years and I somehow never saw this quote from George H.W. Bush on being shot down over the South Pacific during World War II.

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Stephen Collins

@stephencollins.bsky.social

All my comics have happy endings!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)

@sundersays.bsky.social

Thanks for this kind note. I hope to do something useful with this by Nov/Dec (new Ofcom powers, new EHRC chair). I'd like more women + ethnic minorities to go through (futile) process of reporting shocking stuff (eg rape threats, p-word, n-word) & share receipts with me of one egregious example

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Race and religious hate crime rises in England and Wales, figures suggest

Stephen H. Jones

@stphnhwrdjns.bsky.social

Best song ever!

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Phil Burton-Cartledge

@philbc3.bsky.social

Hate crimes are up for the first time in three years? Complete mystery about how we got here.

The number of police-recorded race and religious hate crimes have increased in the year to March.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Rob Ford

@robfordmancs.bsky.social

A reminder of how Mrs Thatcher's Conservative party in 1983, an era featuring much more widespread racial prejudice in the public, approached the issue of race and national identity:

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Omar Khan

@omaromalleykhan.bsky.social

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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University of Chicago Professor Arrested at Anti-ICE Protest

Stephen H. Jones

@stphnhwrdjns.bsky.social

This is a scary situation. Academic folks in the UK should be paying more attention to it than they are.
chicagomaroon.com/48606/news/u...

Assistant professor Eman Abdelhadi was charged with two counts of aggravated battery to a police officer, a class 3 felony, and two counts of resisting and obstructing peace, a class A misdemeanor, af...

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Two years after 7 October and the kidnap of my parents, hate is in fashion. For all our sakes, we need compassion | Sharone Lifschitz

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Dr Jaime Ashworth

@drjaimeashworth.bsky.social

It is so important to acknowledge that some of those most directly involved in 7 October are some of the most reluctant to endorse its consequences. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So many were killed – yet on her release, my mother said ‘shalom’ to her captors. Let’s learn from that moment of grace, says Sharone Lifschitz, London-based film-maker and academic

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Simon Cox

@simonfrcox.bsky.social

The far-right is never conservative. It always attacks established social institutions, the ones important for democracy and social peace. Because it knows they will be a source of opposition.

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Paul Bernal

@paulbernal.bsky.social

A Tory party under Jenrick might take a few of the racist votes from Reform, but they’d haemorrhage bucketloads to the Lib Dems.

So, on balance…

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Chibdm

@chibdm.bsky.social

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

Stephen H. Jones

@stphnhwrdjns.bsky.social

I had zero idea, until today, who the current shadow chancellor is. Given how nerdy I am about politics, this tells you a lot about how vacant the Tories have become.

George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 9d

This isn’t a picture of Mel Stride and the shadow chancellor being misidentified on ConHome feels quite indicative of where the Tories are at.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 10d

Not sure I would have gone with headline - unless I actually wanted people to laugh out loud....

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The Guardian

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Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Mel Stride: Conservatives are the only people who tell the truth, and have a plan for growth that means something | Conservative Home

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George Eaton

@georgeeaton.bsky.social

This isn’t a picture of Mel Stride and the shadow chancellor being misidentified on ConHome feels quite indicative of where the Tories are at.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 10d

Not sure I would have gone with headline - unless I actually wanted people to laugh out loud....

It falls to us, the Conservatives, to win back the country’s trust and reverse the economic vandalism of this Labour government. We can and we will.

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Jonathan Portes

@jdportes.bsky.social

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 9d

This below is from the 2005 BNP manifesto.

Spot the difference with current Tory and Reform policy.

(p14 news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp... )

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Bob From Brockley

@bobfrombrockley.bsky.social

I’m not generally a fan of if-the-boot-was-on-the-other-foot counterfactuals, but can you imagine what the UK media would be doing if one of Corbyn’s closest politician allies was found to be a Russian agent? Why is Farage not being held over the coals for this?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Billy Bragg

@billybragg.bsky.social

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

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