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Centrists beware - I am not your friend. Eighty years since the Holocaust we now get to find out how it happens when all the sensible people act like its normal to kill 50 kids a day
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If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

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On 25 March, a Shadow R1 plane departed from RAF Akrotiri, Britain’s airbase in Cyprus, at 16:50 local time and returned some six hours later. It was almost certainly heading to Gaza

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Let’s call this what it is: widespread tax avoidance by a workshy, parasite class – and at a time when the Labour government is set to drive through welfare cuts targeting some of the most severely disabled people in the UK. novaramedia.com/2025/03/18/b...

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The UN said on Tuesday that Israel's forcible displacement orders now encompass 15 percent of the Gaza Strip, roughly the same size as Manhattan in New York. www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...

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Follow the money!

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What I want to know is, will the American left, AOC, Bernie Sanders, just fold in behind another corporate Democrat to 'get Trump out', or will they start something new?

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Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

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A new occupation: The governorate of Syria's Daraa said that 5 people, including a woman, were killed by an Israeli assault on a town located nearby, Koya. Troop mobilisation on the town’s outskirts and intense shelling has so far killed 7 people www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...

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Why is Jeremy Hunt, the failed chancellor and failed health secretary, is always on short hand for BBC World at One as if he's some neutral arbiter on what is good or bad policy, austerity, budgets?

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Richard Murphy tears apart the logic of Rachel Reeves £5bn cuts plan for disability PIP payments. If as he says it will damage the so called growth agenda, are they simply doing it to create a climate of fear? So many other options to raise this money www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...

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Brighton: hundreds came out yesterday after Israel's massacre in Gaza on Monday night @pscupdates.bsky.social

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Wow: Guardian investigation finds Lord Darzi held shares and options in four healthcare companies that he did not declare on his House of Lords register of interests. The information was missing from the register when Wes Streeting appointed him to lead NHS review www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Starmer's functions since he became leader and PM are as follows: destroy the Labour party as a centre-left vehicle; protect the wealth of the asset class; immiserate the poor; protect Israel from accountability at all costs; drag UK forces into direct conflict with Russia

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A story in two parts: “I’m not going to start a war, something something…” — Trump declares victory, Nov 6, 2024 4 months later… “Trump Orders Attacks on Militant Sites in Yemen” — NYT March 15, 2025!!

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"The ability to deliver aid and adhere to humanitarian principles in Gaza, the access restrictions we're facing in the West Bank... All of these things, when you put them together, you just feel like you're watching the apocalypse," she said. www.middleeasteye.net/news/bodies-...

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Rioting is as English as tea and biscuits. Riots can be seen as outbursts of rage from the working class and poor against cruel elites, often sparked by injustice, racism, or state violence. Come and join in this talk and discussion, where I will look at major riots over the last 250 years

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I think i just heard a Labour MP from Plymouth calling for a Ukraine style military training programme for ALL adult males in UK (not sure what age cut off would be - 80 maybe?) Wow. In a country where you get locked up for opposing genocide or climate breakdown

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Why is Labour going to impose billions in welfare cuts that will drive premature deaths, suicides and force costs onto other arms of state ie NHS, prisons, police, local authorities? Data shows welfare cuts cost billions more than they 'save'. This is cruel, inhumane, economically stupid Starmerism

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Jeremy Corbyn demands 'Chilcot' style inquiry into UK complicity in Israel's war on Gaza www.middleeasteye.net/news/jeremy-...

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Keir Starmer and Reeves 2024: No more austerity! Rachel Reeves 2025: Austerity, austerity, austerity! Wealth taxes on billionaires: NO NO, NO! Cuts to welfare for the poorest: YES, YES, YES!

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I wrote about the end of neoliberalism and centrism, and what is replacing it. Clue: it's not better, it could be worse. Government by BlackRock and Elon Musk: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cent...

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I saw one episode of the Mirror and the Light and it was incredibly dull and static - what is the British obsession with the Tudors? We've rehearsed this story countless times, just court machinations by feudal power brokers. Give me the 17th century revolutions or 18th century please

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Nothing on the Guardian or BBC News about the ICC arrest warrants for war criminals Netanyahu and Gallant. Furious attempt to work out how to spin so its about Hamas....

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“Israel is reportedly using a new kind of weapon in Gaza: small drones that carry guns and fire at targets like snipers. Eyewitnesses in Gaza say these drones have killed many civilians.” www.npr.org/2024/11/20/n...

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If you are the Democrats and all you have to counter this powerful Trump vision is a lot of nice values and dancing “joy” but no material proposal to radically change people’s lives, you haven’t even brought a knife to a gunfight – you’ve brought Oprah Winfrey. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Yes: “Long-term empties are a missed opportunity to invest in and learn from retrofitting. Retrofitting empties is cheaper, faster and greener than building new homes, creating energy efficient homes, and building local skills. www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

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Just heard on ttain: 'he went to morocco by himself and he sent me pictures of him on the beach in speedos which is weird'

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The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: a great poem for troubled time...

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The discovery and dating of Watson Brake as a Middle Archaic site demonstrate that the pre-agricultural, pre-ceramic, indigenous cultures within the territory of the present-day United States were much more complex than previously thought. Yes - read Graeber's The Dawn of Everything

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I was reading the dystopian Irish novel Prophet Song - but the actual dystopia I am living in, with ever increasing repression of people opposing a genocide - journalists, activists, normal people, and our leaders gaslighting us while supporting the slaughter of kids. Reality is WAY worse

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This is my first ever post on Blue Sky. That's the post

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