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Left of centre, social liberal, animal lover, alternative music, LFC supporter, atheist, European.
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Resist 🕎🍉
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Palestinians confront settlers who attempted to seize a home south of Nablus under the protection of Israeli soldiers.
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Stuart Bailie
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Pertinent song about the Democratic Unionist Party, homophobia and culture wars. Released by Hand Models in 2019, assisted by Wynona Bleach, Problem Patterns, Joel Harkin and others.
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Hand Models - Last Leaves on a Tree
YouTube video by Hand Models
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2alcKM-Tzro
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Emma Monk
4 days ago
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
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Saul Staniforth
4 days ago
"A breast feeding baby was shot by a quad copter through the head" Yesterday the UN commission of inquiry published a report detailing how Israel deliberately targets & kills Palestinian children
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The Empty City
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Good use here by a local authority of its power to apply for injunctions.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Nationalist group leaders agree to stop hoisting St George’s flags in Oxfordshire
Local council secures high court injunction against four leaders of Raise the Colours campaign and ‘persons unknown’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/23/nationalist-group-stop-hoisting-st-george-flags-oxfordshire-court-injunction
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Saul Staniforth
4 days ago
"Drs told us many of the amputations they had to carry out on babies/very young children were without anaesthesia.. you can imagine the agony those children went through" The UN commission of inquiry has published a report on how Israel deliberately targets Palestinian children
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Ruth Speare
5 days ago
BBC News - UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children
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UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children
Israel rejects the new report by the three-member expert panel, calling it a "libellous sham".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jy96w6pw2o
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Led By Donkeys
5 days ago
Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.
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Peter Jukes
5 days ago
Labour at that time were committed to reinstating it. Check your facts. Then this happened
bylinetimes.com/2024/07/23/l...
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Labour Fails to Deny Secret Murdoch Deal to Drop Leveson Press Inquiry in Exchange for Endorsements
Labour Government Fails to Deny Secret Deal Between Rupert Murdoch and Keir Starmer to Abandon Leveson Press Inquiry
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/07/23/labour-reports-secret-rupert-murdoch-keir-starmer-deal-endorsement-sun-leveson-inquiry/
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Philippe K🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇱 🇸🇩 🇵🇸
8 days ago
"Hind Rajab from Gaza city and Zahraa Shuaib from Lebanon were killed on different dates, yet both lost their lives by the same Israeli army battalion"(QNN)
#Israel
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Lebanon
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Quakers in Britain
17 days ago
Quakers in Britain has released the following statement on the EHRC's draft code of practice around the UK Supreme Court's ruling on the meaning of sex in the Equality Act . 👇🕯️❤️
https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quaker-response-to-draft-guidance-around-definition-of-sex
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Quaker response to draft guidance around definition of sex
Quakers in Britain statement on the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s draft code of practice around the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on the meaning of sex in the Equality Act, which is currently before Parliament.
https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quaker-response-to-draft-guidance-around-definition-of-sex
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Sam McBride
6 days ago
Sharp criticism of BBC NI from an ex-insider: He says it has "sucked money away from" in-depth journalism to online stuff, much of which is "news generated from pressure groups...producing the ever-present headline of 'X has called on the Executive to’."
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I once caused a ‘tumbleweed’ moment at a BBC NI strategy meeting... but now it’s time chiefs saw reality over future
Savings aren’t the answer, it’s the funding model that needs to change
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/opinion/i-once-caused-a-tumbleweed-moment-at-a-bbc-ni-strategy-meeting...-but-now-its-time-chiefs-saw-reality-over-future/a/157548624.html
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That prose is so bad that it would make ChatGPT blush from embarrassment.
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Resist 🕎🍉
8 days ago
Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Washah killed in Israeli strike on home in central Gaza Qatar-based channel says airstrike targeted his residential home in Al-Bureij refugee camp
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Al Jazeera cameraman killed in Israeli strike on home in central Gaza
Ahmed Washah killed in Israeli airstrike targeting Al-Bureij refugee camp, says Qatar-based news channel | Anadolu
https://v.aa.com.tr/3973276
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Alejandra Caraballo
9 days ago
This is a pro rape policy. They want to facilitate the rape and abuse of trans women.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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Sweary Spider
9 days ago
Pochin doing her thing for the sisterhood. Holy fucking shit. I have no words for how utterly messed up this is.
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Marisa Kabas
11 days ago
NEW — Belfast-based writer
@hleehurley.com
talks about the racist pogroms that have terrorized his city, how existing tensions in Northern Ireland (and *not* Elon Musk) primed local factions to turn violent, and how Minnesota’s response to ICE inspired their community to care for one another:
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Elon Musk alone isn’t responsible for Belfast's racist pogrom
The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/elon-musk-belfast-pogrom-lee-hurley
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Saul Staniforth
12 days ago
Anne Read: "of course I do not class myself as a terrorist. I accept that I am classed as one by a govt that supports terrorist regimes" Trudi Warner: "One of the tricks that authoritarian govts play is to label opponents.. as terrorists" Both women were arrested yesterday.
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Belfast Telegraph
13 days ago
A Muslim tech shop worker was allegedly threatened with a knife and a baseball bat at a customer’s home in Belfast, a court heard today.
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Belfast man said to be pointing at ‘tattoo of Jesus’ while ‘trying to set dog on Muslim worker’
Knife and bat threats to a Muslim tech worker in Belfast spark a shocking court case against Christopher Parks
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/area/east-belfast/news/belfast-man-said-to-be-pointing-at-tattoo-of-jesus-while-trying-to-set-dog-on-muslim-worker/a/157249208.html
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Jason Blean
13 days ago
Sam McBride: You can hear the full unedited audio of loyalist paramilitaries (unsuccessfully) ordering me out of 'their' area, with film footage shot by Sky News above capturing pt of the incident.These are the people we need to reject - not foreign nurses.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video/sam-mc...
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Sam McBride assaulted as he questioned protesters in east Belfast after nights of rioting
Sam McBride was assaulted as he questioned protesters in east Belfast this week after nights of rioting. To read his full account of what happened, click here. Warning: this video contains strong lang...
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video/sam-mcbride-assaulted-as-he-questioned-protesters-in-east-belfast-after-nights-of-rioting/a/157182647.html
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TheBossRoss 🧶
15 days ago
How much does
#Brexit
cost Britain in under 30 seconds:
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Sunderland Lollipops
14 days ago
Dont feed birds seeds or peanuts between May & October as we may be unintentionally killing millions of them. 🙏 Feed them other items - see Dr Armi Khan's RSPB video!
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Raider
14 days ago
A small number of far right agitators were overwhelmingly surrounded and forced to flee Brighton today after thousands of antifascists assembled in the city.
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Lee Hurley
15 days ago
Stuff we need. The demand has been crazy. I've lost track of how many families we've organised food and other essentials for but it must be 100 at least.
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Belfast Telegraph
15 days ago
Knife attack victim Stephen Ogilvie — whose stabbing sparked two days of race-hate rioting — was previously tortured by a UVF-linked gang led by a double killer and overseen by a Shankill Butcher.
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Notorious Shankill Butcher and a UVF double killer headed gang that set fire to Belfast knife attack victim
Paramilitaries branded hypocrites for using gruesome stabbing as excuse for race-hate riots
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/notorious-shankill-butcher-and-a-uvf-double-killer-headed-gang-that-set-fire-to-belfast-knife-attack-victim/a/156824253.html
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Green Party Northern Ireland
15 days ago
After the worst week, Belfast answered. Five thousand voices. One message.
#WeAreBelfast
#TogetherAgainstHate
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Belfast Telegraph
15 days ago
An ethnic minority family whose home was among the addresses on a so-called ‘hit-list’ circulating on social media following the race riots are living in fear of being targeted.
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‘My daughter was crying, saying she doesn’t want to die’: Family on HMO ‘hit-list’ fear being targeted by race hate thugs
Father reveals trauma of wife and little girl after online circulation of migrants’ property details
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/northern-ireland/my-daughter-was-crying-saying-she-doesnt-want-to-die-family-on-hmo-hit-list-fear-being-targeted-by-race-hate-thugs/a/156971507.html
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elia ayoub
16 days ago
I wrote about the pogrom in Belfast, with quotes from
@hleehurley.com
shado-mag.com/articles/opi...
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The Belfast pogrom was predictable
shado editor Elia Ayoub writes about racist riots in Belfast, press choices the need for media accountability and political cowardice
https://shado-mag.com/articles/opinion/the-belfast-pogrom-was-predictable/
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Jane
16 days ago
As I understand it, when they proscribed Palestine Action it was on the back of evidence of coordinated attempts to organise trespass and cause damage. Everyone who supported them by so much as holding a paper became arrestable for terrorism. Are they going to do the same for "Patriot Platform"?
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Sam McBride
15 days ago
The Stormont Executive is far more to blame for this week’s chaos than it wants to admit. While happily debating immigration - which isn’t their job - ministers aren't so keen to admit where their failures have encouraged the thuggishness we've seen.
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This dreadful Stormont Executive is far more to blame for this week’s chaos than it wants to admit
Ministers are happy to debate immigration — which isn’t their job; they’re keen not to talk about their appalling running down of the PSNI, which is their responsibility
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/this-dreadful-stormont-executive-is-far-more-to-blame-for-this-weeks-chaos-than-it-wants-to-admit/a/156924964.html
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Carsten Timmermann
18 days ago
Meanwhile, pensioners who sat on pavements holding Palestine Action placards are being prosecuted under the Terrorism Act.
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Defend Our Juries
16 days ago
Same sit, different day! Arrested under terrorism charges for holding a sign saying “Saving Lives Is Not Terrorism - I support Palestine Action” despite the Government's ban being found unlawful by the High Court. "How ridiculous!" Support at:
www.defendourjuries.net/savinglives
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Belfast is full... of beautiful people. The ugly hateful racist people are a noisy minority.
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Reuters
16 days ago
After anti-immigration violence in Belfast left some residents too afraid to leave home, Ruchira Rangaprasad, a sales and marketing professional, took to social media to offer food.
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Bob Shields
about 2 months ago
Singer of the Angelic Upstarts predicted it.
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Keith
17 days ago
Social care services in Northern Ireland could not be delivered if international staff members are forced out through racist intimidation. NI Social Care Council chief executive, Tracey Reid, says more than one fifth of the 50,000-strong social care workforce comes from outside the UK and Ireland.
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Belfast knife attack latest: Police vow 'robust' response to Northern Ireland riots - follow live
The Northern Ireland secretary has warned of a sense of fear among ethnic minorities after the unrest prompted by a serious knife attack.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c70y4pppp4wt#asset:99ba9e6c-45d0-4e8f-a7c3-4ab9a794480b
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The Canary
16 days ago
GB News host denies there were 'riots' in Belfast GB News host Bev Turner said 'no house burned down' and that the police weren't calling it a 'riot', Both statements are entirely false. Will Ofcom act?
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GB News host denies there were 'riots' in Belfast
GB News host Bev Turner said 'no house burned down' and that the police weren't calling it a 'riot' - both statements entirely fals
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/06/11/gb-news-host-denies-there-were-riots-in-belfast/
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End Deportations Belfast
17 days ago
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) have called out the PSNI for saying that ‘international’ healthcare workers should provide ID to masked paramilitary / far-right if stopped and told to produce it. Who are the PSNI serving exactly? This is akin to ‘Klansman’ policing. Reported by U105.
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Some plain speaking about the racist violence from Belfast's own
@saraita101.bsky.social
with Owen Jones.
youtu.be/g7-4wiRMGJs?...
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Belfast: What You’re NOT Being Told - w/. Sarah Creighton
YouTube video by Owen Jones
https://youtu.be/g7-4wiRMGJs?si=AubHxzzfeKG1-PSq
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Dale Vince
17 days ago
They say banning trail hunting will mean thousands of hounds have to die. But they already kill them. Our hidden camera footage shows hunt staff tossing the bodies of healthy dogs into skips like rubbish. Routinely. Casually.
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Sarah Kay
17 days ago
The PSNI is now advising ethnic minority health care workers to comply with white supremacist check points claiming to “verify immigration status” (against what?) this is despicable. Another way the police entirely facilitates the pogroms.
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Lee Hurley
17 days ago
They don't have a go fund me. My gf just harassed a load of churches using her job connections. If you want to send it to me I can pass it on. Put Belfast in the note so i know what it's for.
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Pay Lee Hurley using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/LeeHurley and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/leehurley
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Sign of the times.
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This dialogue is "mwah!"
YouTube video by BINGE
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Her Loyal Voice
17 days ago
If you're an LGBTQIA+ woman who has been affected, or you know someone who has, please get in touch with the brilliant
@hereni.bsky.social
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Rob Mullins
17 days ago
I gather this guy is a respected journalist in the UK. He just posted this on a trans woman's linkedin post. I don't think he knows her personally. What is happening to people?
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Anti-Reform
17 days ago
Every millionaire who avoids paying tax means we each have to pay that much more for the vital services we take for granted schools, housing, transport, health they've been blithely using since birth and complain when they fall into disrepair "Aggressive tax avoidance" via Anonymous Participant
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Green Party Northern Ireland
17 days ago
“We’ve had racist pogroms on our streets for three summers in a row now. Hand wringing and platitudes from Executive parties is not enough. If we don’t see concerted policy responses from the parties in government this will happen again next year.” Mal O’Hara on Talkback
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