Lucy Fyson
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Cynical Optimist. Docs Filmmaker Trade Unionist. Studs Terkel & MillwallFC fan. South London š¹
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8 days ago
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing āHey-Oh, we wonāt be silent while our friends are gunned down.ā Really listen to it.
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For all who say the word āFascistā is hyperbole when it comes to the Trump regime. ššš
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jamelle
about 2 months ago
this is just gutter racism
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Adam Bienkov
2 months ago
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
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Are the Labour government still - naively - intent on "injecting ai into the uk public's veins" ??!! šš FFS
#RegulateBigTech
#ai
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn
Tools that help people scan applications and find grounds for objection have potential to hit governmentās housebuilding plans
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/09/ai-powered-nimbyism-could-grind-uk-planning-system-to-a-halt-experts-warn
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
2 months ago
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Bernie is right - "the whole bloody world is watching". Londoner here, rooting for New York to do the right thing today. C'mon, give us the hope we all need!! šŖ
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As AI decimates jobs and creates racist lies like this.šš - we are utterly fucked unless governments wake up now and start regulating the horrifying use of this technology.
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Indivisible āš
3 months ago
Frogs for freedom.
#NoKings
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George Monbiot
3 months ago
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent ā persistence ā is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies.
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Hereās what you need to know about Starmerās illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/13/keir-starmer-protest-labour-rights-uk
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Raider
3 months ago
This Is Fascism
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Josiah Mortimer
3 months ago
The BBC has been accused of āextraordinaryā anti-Green bias, after the party says a long-promised conference interview with new leader Zack Polanski was cancelled by the Laura Kuenssberg show just days before going to air Every major political party leader, aside from him, was interviewed recently.
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BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview
The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/bbc-laura-kuenssberg-interview-zack-polanski-accused-anti-green-party-bias-farage-reform/
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Dr. Thrasher's The Overseer Class is now available for pre-order
4 months ago
"NO CASH ACCEPTED" is a global crisis. I have seen this on three continents now. It's anti-poor, anti-youth, anti-immigrant and pro-surveillance. I had thought it was an American problem, then a Western one, but surveillance capitalism is taking over even the smallest transactions globally.
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Just when you think you canāt be more repulsed - the white supremacist Trump regime is now firing cops who dare to show theyāre against racism.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 George Floyd protests
The agentsā firing comes amid a broader wave of terminations at the FBI, which some see as a form of political retribution.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/27/fbi-fires-agents-photographed-kneeling/
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Brian Goldstone
4 months ago
Truly outrageous. Erasing the evidence of mounting suffering won't make it go away. It's just a matter of time before he cancels the annual homeless count.
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Hannah
4 months ago
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirkās assassination and the Trump administrationās promise to go after the āradical leftā a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
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Start of the anti- Trump protests In London.
#London
#NoFascism
#FuckTrump
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We donāt want US fascists here.
#FuckTrump
stoptrump.org.uk/protest/
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Trump Not Welcome | 17 September 2025
Stop Trump Coalition
https://stoptrump.org.uk/protest/
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This is the kind of thing our broadcasters should be doing. š Well done
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Mehdi Hasan
4 months ago
I hadnāt seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirkās killing. Both sides!
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Charlie Kirk: Joe Biden should be "put in prison and/or given the death penalty for crimes against America"
https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-joe-biden-should-be-put-prison-andor-given-death-penalty-crimes-against
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Aaron Rupar
5 months ago
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
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100% right from
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Musk, a far right, white supremacist billionaire who is a wrecking ball for democracy worldwide, should be nowhere near our energy supplies.
#RenationaliseUtilitiesNow
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Wajahat Ali
6 months ago
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Finally, a Democratic Leader
The Democratic establishment could learn from Zohran Mamdani, who hasn't caved to Trump's bullying, but has instead lifted up immigrants, workers, and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
https://progressive.org/magazine/finally-a-democratic-leader-ali-20250805/
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Prem Sikka
6 months ago
Thames Water shareholder funds in 1990, £1.3bn; invested ZILCH since Extracted £10.4bn dividends Paid £13.6bn interest Now borrowing at 9.75% One-third customer bills service debt Pays £200m a year to consultants Billions would have gone into infrastructure, if not privatised. Must nationalise.
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Public ownership is the only way to save the water industry
Public ownership is the only viable alternative but is opposed by the government
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/07/public-ownership-is-the-only-way-to-save-the-water-industry/
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
7 months ago
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until itās done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
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Elizabeth Warren
7 months ago
I'm on my way to the Senate floor to talk about the assault on my colleague, Senator Alex Padilla. This is a horrifying moment in our nationās history.
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Christopher Webb
7 months ago
Truth-tellers, not rioters. Protect these two men at all costs. āYou feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. Youāre on the wrong side of history.ā āJohn Lewis said make good trouble⦠that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.ā
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat
7 months ago
Fake emergencies to justify crackdowns-not very original
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We Own It
8 months ago
šØURGENT: Sign and share our petition. āKKR, the predatory US private equity firm lined up to rescue Thames Water, has pulled out. Thames Water is back in crisis. It's time for Steve Reed to cut the š©and bring it into public hands.
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Brian Merchant
8 months ago
I'm biased, but this report is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the state of AI in 2025. It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workersāand how there's still time to refuse all that.
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Clive Lewis MP
8 months ago
By taking public ownership off the table from the start, the governmentās "largest review of the water sector since privatisation" is just moving deck chairs on the Titanic. Privatisation is not a problem - it is THE problem. Sign my letter to Sir Jon Cunliffe:
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Carl Quintanilla
8 months ago
REUTERS: āU.S. President Donald Trump showed a screenshot of Reuters video taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of what he falsely presented on Wednesday as evidence of mass killings of white South Africans.ā
@reuters.com
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Judd Legum
9 months ago
1. Trump says imposing tariffs on nearly every nation on earth is essential to force companies to make investments in the US instead of abroad But since taking office, the Trump Organization has announced new multi-billion $ development deals in the UAE, Qatar, India and Vietnam And NONE in the US
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Trump promised no new business deals with foreign governments. He lied.
On January 10, 2025, President Trump released an "ethics agreement" detailing how he would handle his personal business interests while in the White House.
https://popular.info/p/trump-promised-no-new-business-deals
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Mark Joseph Stern
9 months ago
Heartbreaking piece by
@alexsammon.bsky.social
from inside the ICE facility where Mahmoud Khalil remains illegally imprisoned for his free speechāon the day when Khalil first saw a photo his newborn son.
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What Trump Is Doing in Louisiana Is Quiet but Devastating. One Afternoon Showed It All.
One hour inside the prison holding America's political prisoners.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/donald-trump-mahmoud-khalil-immigrants-deportation.html
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Liberty
9 months ago
"A unanimous court of appeal victory that, alongside chastening election results, must now trigger a total Labour rethink on how we treat protesters in this country" Liberty Director Akiko Hart on our victory against anti-protest laws today
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We fought and beat the government in the courts because every Briton has the right to protest | Akiko Hart
The appeal court verdict makes clear these anti protest laws should never have existed. Labour must now reflect on what sort of democracy it wants us to be
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/02/government-britain-protest-laws-appeal-court-labour-democracy
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jamelle
9 months ago
they are literal segregationists
apnews.com/article/scho...
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The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a āhistorical wrongā and suggesting that others across ...
https://apnews.com/article/school-segregation-order-civil-rights-justice-department-7fc5e2e4ef8e9ad4a283f563c042ae7c
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Thank god at least one US university is standing up to Trump's fascism. Well done Harvard.
#Harvard
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Harvard says it will not āyieldā to Trump demands over $9bn in funding cuts
In a message, the universityās president said it will not āsurrender its independenceā amid crackdown on education
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/apr/14/harvard-university-trump-administration
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Zarah Sultana MP
9 months ago
Donāt stop at Scunthorpe steel ā nationalise water, mail, all of rail and energy. Bring them all into public ownership.
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Mehdi Hasan
9 months ago
Itās a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.
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Rebecca Solnit
10 months ago
If one of us stands up, they can pick that person off. If ten or a hundred or a thousand, they can pick those people off. And they're picking off people--immigrants, dissidents--to make an example of them. But if ten million people stand up, they cannot stop us all.
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Millions Stood Up: April 5 Hands Off Day of Action
I was the closing speaker at the ebullient San Francisco Hands Off rally, and when I got home later I scoured the news for Ā reports on the more than one thousand other rallies. Of course people would ...
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/millions-stood-up-april-5-hands-off-day-of-action/
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Tesla Takedown UK
10 months ago
We now have 10
#TeslaTakedown
events across the UK today: England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Please RT to help folk find their nearest protest.
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Krassensteins
10 months ago
BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against ErdoÄanās corrupt and repressive regime. Keep sharing everywhere.
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Adam Bienkov
10 months ago
So tax breaks for tech bosses and welfare cuts for the disabled
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Caroline Lucas
10 months ago
How many times do we have to say it? *Austerity doesnāt work*. More cuts to public spending is economically illiterate and morally indefensible - people didnāt vote Labour to get more Tory austerity. FFS tax extreme wealth, donāt slash public services
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Lindsay Toczylowski
10 months ago
Posting tonight ti shine a light on what the Alien Enemies Act looks like IRL. Our
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client fled Venezuela last year & came to US to seek asylum. He has a strong claim. He was detained upon entry because ICE alleged his tattoos are gang related. They are absolutely not. š§µ
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Anton Gerashchenko
10 months ago
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
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Alt National Park Service
10 months ago
WTF?!? Elon Musk reposted this on X before quietly deleting it: āStalin, Mao, and Hitler didnāt murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.ā
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Caroline Lucas
10 months ago
Choosing to take money from disabled benefit claimants rather than levy a wealth tax is simply immoral š
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Labour mollifies the rich, targets disabled people and claims moral justification. There isnāt any | Frances Ryan
Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and itās immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/10/disabled-people-labour-benefits-system
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Seth Abramson
10 months ago
Fascism is here. The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich. š:
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The New Republic
11 months ago
There is no way to understate what is happening in America ā a sinister alliance between a demagogue, the worldās richest man, and right-wing activists is remaking the federal government.
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It Keeps Getting Worseāand No One Is Safe
Donald Trump and Elon Musk arenāt just inflicting pain on poor people abroad or imagined āenemies within.ā Their parade of cruelty is coming for MAGA country too.
https://newrepublic.com/article/192116/trump-musk-doge-cruelty-usaid-workers
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