From ICE-style enforcement to attacks on protest and free speech, this isn’t just the US. The same trajectory is emerging in the UK. Democratic backsliding is contagious. Pretending otherwise is how it takes hold. Thanx: @martingelin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

“The absence of peace and self-determination for the Palestinian people is the original sin; all flows from there." @nesrinemalik.bsky.social 💚 #StopTrumpsWar #Peace #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We’ve not had a British prime minister say no to an American president since Vietnam. This is a big deal!!” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

When gas prices spike, the right blames net zero. But the truth is the exact opposite: the more dependent you are on gas, the more exposed you are to geopolitical chaos and profiteering. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #TellTheTruth #NetZero #ClimateAction

Anti-Muslim bias in British media is off the charts. Will anyone step in? www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/anti... #StopTheHarm #AntiRacist #HopeNoteHate

Israel’s military advocate general just gave his soldiers license to rape -- so long as the victim is Palestinian,” said Sari Bashi, aje.news/k6lwju #Justice #StopTheHarm #FreePalestine

RIP Country Joe McDonald!! (01/01/1942 - 07/03/2026) #FixinToDie #Woodstock #60sCounterCulture

Cor, sure would feel great right now if we were self-sufficient in renewable energy, and laughing at all the rubes reliant on global oil supplies. We'd have a bit of a swagger in our step today.

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

This is what ecocide looks like.

“There are straight lines between what Israel has attempted to do… in Gaza, to completely decimate and collapse the systems that existed there, to what we are seeing in Iran,” www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/... #StopTrumpsWar #Peace #Freedom

Keir Starmer is gaslighting the country. The UK has followed the US into an illegal war against Iran.

The fantasy is that America can bomb Iran and walk away untouched. The reality is missiles hitting Gulf states, oil markets shaking and escalation spreading across the region. Wars have consequences, especially in the most strategically important energy corridor on Earth. #StopTrumpsWar #Peace

"One of the great weaknesses of our era is that we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort… The counter to Trump always has been and always will be civil society"

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin photo: @misanharriman.bsky.social #StopTheHarm #HandsOffIran #FreePalestine

“Israel has long enjoyed a unique position of near-total impunity when it comes to harassing Palestinians, and now the green light to aggression seems to extend to its unending wars and spreading of terror across the region.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Quelle surprise!! 🤷‍♂️ www.reuters.com/legal/govern... #AntiRacist #AntiFacist

@julieburchill.bsky.social trick is simple: take women forced to veil in authoritarian states, mash that together with women freely choosing modest fashion in London, shout “civilisational decline” and call it feminism. spectator.com/article/we-d... #Women #Feminism

While governments pour resources into war, the planet keeps heating. New research shows global warming has accelerated sharply in the past decade. On current trends we breach 1.5°C before 2030. The real emergency isn’t waiting. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #StopTheHarm #ClimateAction

BP’s new CEO will take home £11.7m this year. The same industry driving the climate crisis is still rewarding its leaders like hedge-fund traders. And we’re supposed to believe the transition will come from inside the system? www.theguardian.com/business/202... #ClimateActionNow #StopTheHarm

Most people think the Epstein scandal was about one man. This essay argues it exposed something bigger: a network of tech billionaires, elite universities and celebrity intellectuals flirting with eugenics & genetic superiority. Disturbing reading, but important. www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Who says war doesn't pay? 😢 www.timesofisrael.com/defense-gian... #StopTheWar #HandsOffIran #Peace #Elbit

We’re told Iran is run by religious fanatics. Yet US commanders at 30+ bases reportedly told troops the Iran war is part of “God’s plan,” even calling Trump “anointed by Jesus” to spark Armageddon. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation reports 110+ complaints.

She has served us well” is political code for: YOU'RE FIRED

Heading to London on Saturday. We’ve seen this movie before: Iraq, Libya, endless war sold as “liberation”. Not again. #HandsOffIran #StopTheWar #TellTheTruth #Peace 🕊️ www.stopwar.org.uk/events/hands...

"We're going to stop the reckless and costly policy of regime change overseas." - Donald Trump, 2016 This man is a walking talking lie machine .... why the hell are Americans falling for this BS? #TellTheTruth #StopTheWar #HandsOffIran #Peace

Even US senators leaving classified briefings say the Trump administration has no clear plan for how this war with Iran ends. No strategy. No definition of victory. History has a name for wars like that, Iraq. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... #StopWar #Peace #HandsOffIran

The surveillance infrastructure built by Palantir Technologies sits at the intersection of AI, policing, immigration enforcement and protest monitoring & the company already has major UK government contracts. subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/83/d... #surveilance #iceout #monitoring

The #UN is beginning to say it out loud: An economy designed to serve the ultra-rich is incompatible with planetary survival. Climate crisis and inequality are the same problem. #degrowth #inequality #socialjustice #tellthetruth #taxtherich

Today Badenoch, gracelessly, claimed Labour is “pathetic and weak” to spend money on welfare instead of defence during today's PMQ's The old Tory trick: frame compassion as weakness and militarism as strength. It’s the politics of cruelty dressed up as patriotism. #SocialJustice

Macron says the US-Israeli strikes on Iran are illegal. Suddenly Pedro Sánchez doesn’t look like the outlier the Telegraph claimed. Maybe Europe is remembering Iraq. Question now is whether Starmer will say the same out loud. www.politico.eu/article/us-s... #StopTheWar #Peace #HandsoffIran #CND

Six years ago, his principles were entirely different.

Side by side on the BBC website. When Iranians are the victims, the perpetrator is not named and it’s reduced to a “reported” strike. But when Israelis are the victims, the headline is unambiguous and it’s clearly attributed to an Iranian “missile attack”. #TellTheTruth #StopTheWar #Peace

Ban kids from social media? You can’t without ID checks for everyone. That builds surveillance infrastructure that won’t just “protect children," it will track dissent. We’ve seen this before. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #FreeSpeech #Surveillance #SocialMedia

Brandi Carlile plays Minneapolis and tells Trump voters it's OK to change your minds: "There are a whole lot of people out there feeling duped" www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

With the world’s largest prison population, the U.S. criminal legal system is marred by vast racial disparities. The SPLC defends and seeks justice for victims of discriminatory practices and laws that target and incarcerate lower-income individuals and people of color.

Well said Salma 💚💚💚

Make no mistake. The US/Israel attack on Iran is colonial power politics. Like Gaza, Iraq, Libya, Vietnam and Laos, it’s about dominance and crushing resistance in the global South. Empire never brings peace, only trauma and chaos. Colonialism has no place in our shared future. #PeaceNotWar

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One in the eye for the posh boys & girls!! Whoop whoop 💚💚💚 www.politico.eu/article/uk-b...

Nobel prize for fiction? 🤔 #TellTheTruth #StopTheHarm #LieMachine

It's hope vs hate. It's Greens vs Reform. Hope can win. 🙏 #HopeNotHate #HopeOverFear #SocialJustice #HannahSpencer

Anyone who thinks “that could never happen here in the UK” should read this. An ICE-style deportation force. Ending settled status. Leaving the ECHR. Expanded detention & stop-and-search. The playbook isn’t hypothetical, it’s being openly proposed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... #StopReform

First immigrants. Then protesters. Now trans kids. Different targets, same machinery. Bureaucratic violence wrapped in policy language. This is how rights are stripped, incrementally www.thenation.com/article/soci... #SocialJustice #TransRights #IceOut

Everyone deserves the right to safe, affirming and inclusive environments in which to learn or work. The SPLC is dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights, dignity and freedom of the LGBTQ+ community in the Deep South and beyond. #LGBTQRights

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social reminding us that #MeToo wasn’t a moment, it was a movement decades in the making. Power wasn’t suddenly exposed. Society finally became willing to listen. Accountability doesn’t fall from the sky. It’s built. Backlash is proof something shifted

There is only one way we will defeat Reform: together. That’s why I’m backing the Greens in the Gorton and Denton by-election. We are a mass movement of all ages, backgrounds and faiths — united in a belief that things can, and will, change.