the president wont see your cheap dunks against jeffery epstein . But your friends who have ties to state sponsored pedophilia will

Today is International Sex Workers' Day. The criminalization of sex work increases the risk of harm to sex workers -- including harm from arrest, jailing, conviction, stigmatization, violence, and exploitation. Sex work should be decriminalized.

You know it is garbage straight out the gate when 1. Tony Blair says it, and 2. He describes patients as "customers"

This angered me even at the time. I was still at the NHS then, as was another housemate, and inevitably Covid came into our home multiple times, early, before tests were available. We'd enough exposure to anecdotally attribute then-unlisted symptoms to Covid but thousands of people did not, and died

Good to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social on BBC News this morning, refusing to cave in to a line of questioning, calling it absurd & holding the line - and being explicit about genocide in Palestine on a panel where another person claimed starvation is an "understandable" tactic by Israeli government

Solidarity between public sector workers is strong; workers in e.g. education or healthcare want the public sector to rise together. The govt knows every public sector worker is vital; this is divide and rule; coordinated industrial action is the only way forward www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Data Justice Lab for TUC Cymru has uncovered the risks AI poses to workers based on age. Read more: www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/ai-ine...

As we cross over to a new platform, I've made a starter pack of active trade unionists and worker organisers so we can link in with one another - message if you'd like to be added 💖 go.bsky.app/JTVKG6z

Goaldiggers FC are a grassroots trans-inclusive women and non-binary football club. This walk was a fundraiser split between them and Not A Phase, a trans organisation, to help them continue to offer a safe space for trans people to play. Donate if you can 👇 edge.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

ICB shrinkage will mean service cuts. Unions were not consulted, and that's the red flag. Industrial action & union activity will also be stifled as focus shifts from working conditions to job retention. Health service workers & health service users (many people are both) will pay the price. Again

"It’s very emotional for me because I am very much part of a community" except when it comes to paying taxes towards health and social care, transport, roads, sanitation, sewage, clean water, emergency services, the welfare system, public parks, libraries, schools, hospitals, housing, pensions,

someone is playing movin too fast from their balcony and a group of kids in the primary school are shouting along to it with the type of energy that could save london's night scene

Big show of solidarity at the emergency Downing St demo tonight. Israel broke ceasefire to strike & kill over 400 in Gaza overnight; the Israeli blockade denies even the most basic supplies to more than 1 million Palestinian children. In our millions, in our billions We Are All Palestinians 💖🇵🇸

🚨 Emergency Protest - Stop Bombing Gaza ⏰ 18 March, 6PM 📍 Downing Street, London Israel has resumed its genocidal assault on Gaza, killing at least 330 Palestinians overnight. Join us today to demand our government immediately #StopArmingIsrael and push them to #CeasefireNOW

loved ones when they’re having brain surgery, or other frightening neurological procedures. I know times are really tight for everybody but if you can spare even a couple of quid to support my mum’s fundraising I’d be really grateful. www.thewaltoncentrecharity.org/Fundraisers/...

Union repression is a daily reality across our network! Our friends from National Garment Workers Federation in Bangladesh report the shocking unlawful arrest of Md. Kabir Hossain, the Joint General Secretary of NGWF in relation to a case he wasn't even named in. We support the call for his release!

Counting up all the International Womens Day ‘woman holding a gun’ posts from men on the left and asking them how many times they have offered to run the childcare or cook the food at a political meeting

Anti-misogyny, anti-imperialism, antifascism, the care and domestic labour that keeps the world turning, and trans rights. Happy international women's day from a beautiful demo 💖🩷

If you were arrested or charged in relation to the Palestine protest on 18 January 2025, please join our meeting with legal representatives from various firms. Attendance is subject to verification, so please fill out the form below. ⏰ 5 March, 6-9pm palestinecampaign.org/arrestee-sup...

BREAKING: United Farm Workers and Bakersfield residents sue border patrol for unlawful practices. CBP’s January immigration raids terrorized communities and tore apart families. More at ufw.org/united-farm-...

⏰ Final chance to vote in the higher education ballot. Your completed ballot paper must be received by 4 March for your vote to be counted. So get down to your local post box today and return your vote 📮 https://buff.ly/4hNu7GA

As pension age climbs, life expectancy stagnates. It's a real danger that entire adulthoods are given to work with no opportunity to chill after a life grafting. Everyone deserves to finish work in good personal and financial health, to enjoy a decent retirement www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A starter pack of groups directly providing & expanding access to free reading materials for incarcerated people. We're actively trying to find other Bluesky accounts in our community who migrated from Twitter, so let us know who we've missed! go.bsky.app/LW64Hb8

Finally getting round to this by @garethdennis.bsky.social and so far, literally so good. Not just for including a Chico Mendes quote less than 4 pages in, but for doing what many still fail to do - link climate struggle to trade unionism and class struggle, and in a way that respects its reader

An important dimension to this, aside from fact it is blatant union victimisation loophole or otherwise - when workers inform an employer "I'm not in a union" what they actually do is paint a target on their back as someone who both *splits the bargaining unit* and *doesn't have union protection*

Retail workers should not have to face abuse at work; consumers should not be so stretched by scarcity or precarity they've to risk arrest just to live. Maybe these major retailers could prevent this by... not consistently hiking prices, on the back of a crisis they have invented, just to fleece us

Rest in peace Clemenza you beautiful plush, when you were adopted into our house you were so sick I thought you only had like 3 months left in you, but you rallied like a champion and spent 3 and a half years being weird and wonderful and making everyone fall in love with you 💖

Does this sound familiar? Do you want to help fight for better? Health and Safety reps can make a real difference. Interested in becoming one? Express you interest here: rcn.org.uk/Get-Involved/rcn-reps

🏳️‍⚧️ Paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives! Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? Trans+!? This is for you. With @transhistoryweek.bsky.social we're investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to create official content for Trans+ History Week Deadline 16th Feb 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🧵 The details 👇

Great to see @gftuwinwin.bsky.social now on Bluesky alongside @gftu.bsky.social and @gftuet.bsky.social - highly recommend trade unionists follow them, particularly for updates on trade unionist education programmes 💖

the traitors finale is the british super bowl

🚨NEW EVENT: DEFEND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST ⏰ Sat 25 Jan, 2-4PM 📍 The Atrium, London We are facing a concerted attempt to supress our right to protest. Join us at this meeting to find out how we can push back. Speakers will include Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham. Register: eventbrite.ca/e/free-pales...

Just reminded of when my boyfriend and I saved to visit Iceland to see the northern lights, and didn't see them, while everyone back in Essex was watching them from their garden. Fair play

Job vacancy: Bar manager at the Old Spotted Dog Ground, Clapton CFC's home www.oldspotted.dog/news/new-vac...

In 2023, the Elizabeth line saw £7.6 million in private dividends flow out of the network - an amount equivalent to a 2.4% reduction in passenger fares. These profits are leaving the capital just to subsidise shareholders. The Elizabeth line should be under direct public control.

An excellent start to 2025 for our history series with Marx Memorial Library and @wcmlibrary.bsky.social. Register now to join February's session - Anti-Fascism 19302/40s with Steve Silver: gftuet.org.uk/courses/trade-union-and-working-class-history #GFTU #GFTUET #TradeUnions #History #Workers

Nothing says "work ethic" like refusing staff a real living wage so you can duck out with the profits & go travelling 💖 (UK workers do approx 2 hrs more per week than EU avg while CEOs work just 38 hrs to amass the average annual income of a full-time worker) www.independent.co.uk/business/bre...

"Go to hell," I explained thoughtfully

We should not be on the streets chanting "Stop bombing hospitals". Healthcare workers saving lives are heroes, it's horrific that they are being targeted by the Israeli military. Free Dr Hussam Abu Safiya and all health workers now in Palestine now.

The widow of Thomas Mason, a steelworker from Stourbridge who died of asbestos-related cancer, is seeking info from former colleagues to link his illness to work history. More details here: bit.ly/3PueRlA

Three days left to apply for the role of Foster Care Workers Branch Organiser! Support inspiring foster carers to fight and win the rights and pay they deserve. Apply now: iwgb.org.uk/en/post/fcw-...

Unsafe and undignified treatment in corridors, cupboards and car parks is not acceptable and must end. Read our full letter to Health Secretary Wes Streeting MP and NHS England, calling for an end to treating patients in unsafe spaces ➡️ bit.ly/424Q8f7

Either Keir Starmer is the biggest mark to ever live or he's still hoping for a few 'freebies' from his corpo mates. I cannot understate how atrocious this is.

It is a grim, shameful statistic that 1 in 10 workers in Britain skip a meal each day. This is a political choice. Successive governments and employers are to blame. Not your neighbour, your fellow worker or someone born overseas. Bosses & politicians caused this www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is a great statistic - I use the Elizabeth line a lot, particularly for work, and it is so useful. It does also leave a sour taste (and Londoners are not to blame for this, before anyone suggests it) that transport infrastructure elsewhere in rural and northern England remains so inadequate

Being a ‘primary dealer’ means that Barclays buys Israel government bonds and sells them on to investors. This money is used by Israel to fund its atrocities against Palestinians. (3/8)

Mick Lynch - like the @rmtunion.bsky.social more broadly - engages so many workers into the movement, and galvanises trade unionists across all sectors. What a comrade and what a legacy www.rmt.org.uk/news/retirem...

Keen to find accounts for specific workplace branches, alongside individual trade unionists - please tag them so I can add to this starter pack. The workplace, but also your branch, is where you challenge union bureaucracy - sometimes as big a fight as those taking place on the shop floor