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bobfrombrockley.bsky.social
Middle aged anti-fascist and left libertarian in South London. In to: dub, country and western, critical theory, Yiddish, black history, internationalism, trade unions, salt beef. Fan of: Omar Aziz, Bayard Rustin, Hannah Arendt, Cesaria Evora.
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Greeted the solstice sunrise today from the Brockley standing stones in Hillyfields.

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My MP taking a principled stand

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Thread of police violence against No Kings protests bsky.app/profile/brai...

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Useful thread on Vance Boelter, suspect in Minnesota shootings. (Summary: evangelical Christian Zionist, wannabe-cop.)

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With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

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New fascist grift: Nick Tenconi (UKIP’s bearded poundshop führer) has been over to Calais to harass migrants there, supported by the ex-BNP thugs of “Patriots of Britain”, and is now crowd-funding to “stop the boats” through “direct action”. Apparently just £50K will save this island nation.

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This line really struck me too, and I think it is a good tell about Trump’s way of thinking (which he shares with Erdogan for example). His geopolitical vision is not of ideological camps (as Cold War conservatives or neocons saw the world), but of competing civilisational dynastic monarchies.

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I shed no tears for IRGC criminals like Hossein Salami, but direct war on Iran is an insane escalation (that will make Israel’s people less safe). There is no logic of self-defence left, just the logic of power (Netanyahu’s unpopular government’s survival) and war’s own dehumanising internal logic.

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Why are far right grifters blaming “antifa” for the LA protests? When this happened with BLM in 2020, I explained the antisemitic roots of this conspiracy theory in an @igd.bsky.social interview. itsgoingdown.org/the-anti-bla...

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Jewish space laser lady: “why won’t Congress talk about it crimes against white people? Max Blumenthal: “so brave” archive.ph/2025.06.10-1... HT @vorkoz.bsky.social

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