Green Tom Franklin
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Climate and peace activist. One conviction for trying to close an Elbit weapons factory
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The #SpyCopsBot
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I’m down in Hastings this Tuesday to speak about
#blacklisting
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#spycops
at the Trades Council AGM Tues 18 Nov (7pm) Isabel Blackman Centre Winding St
#Hastings
All
#union
members & allies welcome (@DaveBlacklist)
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1500 people have been arrested under terrorism laws in the UK- for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. The UK’s chief prosecutors must now decide whether to prosecute them. We need to urge them not to. Add your name to the letter.
www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/end-...
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End the Prosecution of Peaceful Protestors in the UK
1500+ people have been arrested under terrorism laws in the UK- for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. The UK’s chief prosecutors must now decide whether to prosecute them....
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/end-prosecution-peaceful-protestors-uk
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3 months ago
At 78 years old, Susan Sarandon is still standing up for justice. My respect for her continues to grow with every move she makes. The embodiment of courage ❤️
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David Roberts
5 months ago
Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext
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Declassified UK
5 months ago
As the US & UK say Iran must never acquire a nuclear weapon, Israel is awaiting the delivery later this year of its German-built sixth submarine, set to carry nuclear arms. UK ministers have authorised dozens of exports of components for Israeli subs.
www.declassifieduk.org/britain-is-a...
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Britain is aiding Israel’s nuclear force
UK companies have sold £9m worth of technology for Israel’s submarines, which are believed to house nuclear weapons.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/britain-is-aiding-israels-nuclear-force/
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The Lemkin Institute calling out the G7 as
#Genocide
facilitators and supporters
www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
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Statement on the G7 Statement Related to Israel’s War of Aggression against Iran
June 18, 2025 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security believes that the G7 leaders have demonstrated unforgivable, willful ignorance about the crime of genocide and the proper...
https://www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-new-page/statement-on-the-g7-statement-related-to-israel%E2%80%99s-war-of-aggression-against-iran
5 months ago
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BBC coverage of Israel's war on Gaza 'systematically biased against Palestinians'
www.middleeasteye.net/news/bbc-cov...
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BBC coverage of Israel's war on Gaza 'systematically biased against Palestinians'
New report from Centre for Media Monitoring finds widespread bias, as Alastair Campbell says 'those who shout loudest' shape agenda
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/bbc-coverage-israels-war-gaza-systematically-biased-against-palestinians
5 months ago
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The Canary
5 months ago
Met Police putting Israeli apartheid tanks on our streets is just part of its complicity with war crimes In total, the Met Police has ordered 18 SandCats, which Israeli occupation forces have long tested on Palestinians. So yes, the Met Police is funding genocide.
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
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Met Police putting Israeli apartheid tanks on our streets is just part of its complicity with war crimes
In total, the Met Police has ordered 18 SandCats, which Israeli occupation forces have long tested on Palestinians
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/06/11/met-police-sandcats/
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New Economics Foundation
5 months ago
Looking at the more recent past, departmental spending growth under Rachel Reeves will be lower than when Rishi Sunak was chancellor. 2/2
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New Economics Foundation
5 months ago
This may not be an austerity
#SpendingReview
, but it certainly isn't the start of a decade of renewal. Departmental spending will be increasing at its lowest rate since the 2015 spending review from George Osbourne. 1/2
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Give blood. Its easy, saves lives and they give you a biscuit. Book an appointment NOW ring 03001232323 or at
www.blood.co.uk
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5 months ago
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What's not to like?
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5 months ago
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
11 months ago
I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
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Frank
5 months ago
A 63-Year-Old Medical Worker Spent Three Months as a Human Shield for Israeli Brigades in Gaza
www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinia...
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A 63-Year-Old Medical Worker Spent Three Months as a Human Shield for Israeli Brigades in Gaza
“They dressed me in military uniform, and asked me to search in homes for explosives.”
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinian-gaza-human-shield-three-months?r=1jjuzh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Helen 🏳️⚧️✊🏻💕
6 months ago
Advice for trans families facing referrals to social services NHS England is misusing health data to encourage social services to investigate families caring for trans kids. This misconduct is driven by ideologues in the NHS who, as Kemi Badenoch stated, were handpicked for their anti-trans views.
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Advice for trans families facing referrals to social services
NHS England is misusing health data to encourage social services to investigate families caring for trans kids. We’ve commissioned legal advice for families in the firing line.
https://goodlawproject.org/advice-for-trans-families-facing-referrals-to-social-services/
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Miles King
6 months ago
The bill removes protections for SSSIs under Section 28. It's written in the bill. It couldn't be clearer.
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Just think how many more jobs the same money spent on home insulation would fund. It's not job creation. It's an insult
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6 months ago
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This is
#Genocide
being committed by
#Israel
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says
Witnesses say Israeli forces opened fire on people near distribution point run by Israel-backed foundation
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/01/palestinians-gunned-down-while-trying-to-reach-food-aid-site-in-gaza-hospital-says?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
6 months ago
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Jennifer C
6 months ago
Unbelievable! Today, San Diego witnessed a government-sanctioned kidnapping. ICE stormed Buona Forchetta in military gear ripping workers away, then unleashing tear gas and smoke on the terrified community. Full on police state, fascism now used on American citizens. Stay aware.
#OnYourSide
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Watch this bit of inside Gaza's crisis hospitals. Weep, and then get angry and Call for the BBC to show the documentary Campaign for peace and justice for Palestine
youtu.be/bXJ-b_73GRo?...
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Inside Gaza’s crisis hospitals: 16,500 children killed and counting | Israel-Gaza
YouTube video by Basement Films
https://youtu.be/bXJ-b_73GRo?si=JDBVEg5oDGwekrgK
6 months ago
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NATO's increase in weapons is expected to be responsible for more than half the UK's total CO2 emissions (200 Mtonne eq vs 380 Mtonne eq) thereby destroying the world and making conflict more likely!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: Nato rearmament could increase emissions by 200m tonnes a year
Exclusive: researchers say defence spending boosts across world will worsen climate crisis which in turn will cause more conflict
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/29/nato-military-spending-could-increase-emissions-study-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
6 months ago
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Lorna Slater MSP
6 months ago
🦩The
#FlamingoLand
decision isn’t set in stone yet. Until it is, Scottish Government ministers have the power to change the decision. That’s why we need as many people as possible to write to Planning Minister Ivan McKee, telling him he needs to act now. Add your name:
greens.scot/LochLomond
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Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW
Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW -
https://greens.scot/LochLomond
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Resist 🕎🍉
6 months ago
"I did not see or treat a single combatant during my five weeks in Gaza. My patients were six-year-olds with shrapnel through their hearts and bullets in their brains, pregnant women with their pelvises obliterated and their fetuses cut in two while still in the womb." – Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
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Caroline Lucas
6 months ago
[email protected]
are right - exempting small sites means almost three-quarters of developments would face no requirement to compensate for nature loss - let alone enhance it. Government pledges to restore nature clearly aren’t worth the paper they were written on
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Environmental rules reviewed for small housebuilders - BBC News
Ministers are considering how costs can be reduced for small firms to help them build more homes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr54q5yzkzo.amp
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Saul Staniforth
6 months ago
A British surgeon currently in Gaza: "These children are so malnourished they are wasting away. Its shocking to see this degree of malnutrition..." Israel is deliberately starving over 2 million people. Half of them are children. And the UK govt is helping them while they do it.
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IDF Hannibal Brigade
6 months ago
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Michael
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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Israeli military unveils plan to internally displace entire remaining population of Gaza
The Israeli military on Sunday unveiled a plan to occupy three-quarters of the Gaza Strip, pushing the entire remaining Palestinian population onto one-quarter of the enclave's territory.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/26/lzwi-m26.html
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This is what
#Genocide
looks like
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6 months ago
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HANDALA LIVES🇵🇸🏴🔻
6 months ago
#freepalestine
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Zack Polanski
6 months ago
3 times Keir Starmer has broken climate promises. For the real alternative, join
@greenparty.org.uk
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Oxfam GB
6 months ago
"We need to make sure that the aid does get through. Babies are facing starvation imminently." - Oxfam CEO Halima Begum
#StopArmingIsrael
SIGN:
bit.ly/Add_your_name
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Oxfam GB
6 months ago
The UK Government has suspended UK-Israel free trade talks and committed to further restrictive measures — but it’s not enough. The time for further action is now. End arms sales to Israel. No weapons. No complicity. Not in our name.
#StopArmingIsrael
#CeasefireNow
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Molly Shah
6 months ago
Here are the current 246 signatories of this letter. We are all active Bluesky users, many of us from Gaza but most of us are not. We all however think this app is a better place when the voices of Palestinians in Gaza are heard. Add your own name here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Molly Shah
6 months ago
We were hoping that this letter to
@bsky.app
could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first. You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Natalie Bennett
6 months ago
#ClimateEmergency
- those who have done least to contribute to it suffering most.
#Salination
#FoodSecurity
phys.org/news/2025-05...
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When the sea moves inland: A global climate wake-up call from Bangladesh's Delta
As sea levels climb and weather grows more extreme, coastal regions everywhere are facing a creeping threat: salt.
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-sea-inland-global-climate-bangladesh.html
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Chris Guiton
6 months ago
On the button!
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Ross Greer (he/him)
6 months ago
In just one week 40,000 people have demanded that Scottish Government Ministers recall and reject the Flamingo Land mega-resort application! Send your message to the Planning Minister today 👇
greens.scot/LochLomond
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Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW
Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW -
https://greens.scot/LochLomond
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Ed Finch
6 months ago
Sign the petition now to show the public still backs this nature-friendly fix:
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/swifts-p...
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Sign the petition: Save Our Swifts
Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition ...
https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/swifts-petition
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Caroline Lucas
6 months ago
WTF? If this Government can’t even agree to this smallest of initiatives, which has no cost to them & absolutely no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesn’t come close …
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Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/23/labour-blocks-proposal-for-swift-bricks-in-all-new-homes
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Natalie Bennett
6 months ago
My letter in today's Times, calling for a
#PublicHealth
response to the crisis in
#MentalHealth
, rather than a punitive kneejerk reaction playing into the Culture Wars
www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...
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Tom Scott
6 months ago
Gaza doctor receives charred bodies of her 9 children while on duty Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by a strike on their home. Unimaginable horror & cruelty.
#Genocide
with impunity.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-do...
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Gaza doctor receives charred bodies of her nine children while on duty
Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed in a strike on their home
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-doctor-receives-bodies-her-nine-children-while-duty
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Keir starmer sees everything about votes. Eliminating (or reducing) poverty isn't seen as a good thing, but a vote winner or loser. The man has no morals and no purpose.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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No 10 delays child poverty strategy with tens of thousands more facing hardship
Exclusive: Flagship policy put back until at least autumn amid fears cost of removing two-child benefit cap will outweigh political benefit
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/23/no-10-delays-child-poverty-plan-despite-tens-of-thousands-more-hardship?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
6 months ago
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Guy Shrubsole
6 months ago
"It's been a fantastic victory to see wild camping rights on Dartmoor confirmed... but we want to see those rights extended" ICYMI here's my interview with Channel 4 News yesterday evening from outside Alexander Darwall's estate at Cornwood, Dartmoor:
www.channel4.com/news/supreme...
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Supreme Court rules public have right to wild camp on Dartmoor
The Supreme Court has given the public permission to go wild … wild camping that is.
https://www.channel4.com/news/supreme-court-rules-public-have-right-to-wild-camp-on-dartmoor
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Guy Shrubsole
6 months ago
Victory for wild camping on Dartmoor was just the start. On Monday we’ll be rallying to call for a Right to Roam Act to extend the public’s right to responsibly access nature. Come join us on Haytor on Dartmoor, details below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/dartmoor-r...
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Dartmoor rally to extend public access to the countryside
Wild camping is safe on Dartmoor. Now the government must pass a Right to Roam Act to provide more access to the countryside across England
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dartmoor-rally-to-extend-public-access-to-the-countryside-tickets-1097127049539
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