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🔴The BBC Must Be Mutualised to End Its ‘Pro-Establishment Bias’ Warns Report It finds that BBC reporting is overwhelmingly focused on the concerns of senior politicians and business people around Westminster, rather than the country at large bylinetimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

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The man who wanted to ban all Muslims from entering the United States because of terrorism is meeting this week with the former head of Al Qaeda in Syria.

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After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.

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Shocking situation in Alsace in France where 3000 people have been forbidden from drinking their tap water because off forever chemicals in the supply. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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Eveyone & their brother is using ChatGPT to avoid doing the reading/homework & we’re all going to suffer bc of it.

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Even Tory MPs are calling out Starmer's support for Israel. People are beginning to realise the savage judgement that will befall all those who failed to do something when they had the chance.

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100 men vs. 1 gorilla? How about the working class against the oligarchy? The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. This is the real fight we need to be talking about.

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Today the rich and their minions do not want peace. That's why all peoples and have nots must unite, beneath and beyond the union of nations and continents, as one.

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Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵

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Paul Robeson was a real one. An amazing man. "Wherever I've been in the world, the first to die in every struggle against fascism, were always the Communists." I love everything this amazing man stood for. A great artist, athlete, and Pan-African socialist and civil rights activist. Amazing man!

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Flour is $500 a bag in Gaza.

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a formerly enslaved Black anarchist woman led the first American May Day parade in Chicago in 1886 and don’t you forget it!!

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happy may day here is a painting I did a long time ago

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THEATRICAL THURSDAYS! May Day! International Workers Day! And so today’s selection is MATEWAN, the great John Sales film set in West Virginia during the coal wars as the miners’ attempts to unionize were met with violence by Big Coal thugs. #UnionStrong #Solidarity #MayDay

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Not to point out the stupidly obvious, but if you can get deported from the U.S. for protesting a conflict between two sides that are ostensibly NOT the U.S.? REALLY sounds like one of those sides might actually be an arm of the U.S.

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Happy May Day!

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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

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47 years ago today The Clash: Rock Against Racism London 1978 #punkrock #theclash #fightracism #fucknazis #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

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Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

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So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.

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Where’s the outrage over ‘systematic’ sexual violence against Palestinians? Despite mounting evidence of the army’s gender-based crimes, Israeli & Western women’s groups have largely ignored or denied the UN’s damning new report. www.972mag.com/systematic-s...

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One of the most grotesque contrasts in the history of human civilisation.

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Never thought we'd do this but... Use discount code ALGORE for 30% off titles from Theodor Adorno

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In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is not a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

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@booker.senate.gov ? Guest at your org said: "[Lawmakers] expressed support for my very clear position on how to act in Gaza and that the food and aid depots should be bombed in order to create military and political pressure to bring our hostages home safely” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The moment the penny drops for former Tory minister Simon Clarke...

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" Three students excluded from [prestigious French university] Science Po for participating in demonstrations of solidarity with Palestine "

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Incroyable

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there's a local kebab place whose website claims to have a PDF of the menu, but when you open the PDF it's just a single photo of a kebab and chips

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R.I.P. David Thomas of Pere Ubu . Really some of the best concerts I saw in the 70’s . Mind blowing in fact. Absolutely unique individual. Here’s one of my all time fave songs youtu.be/Leax63ullPE?...

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Study financed by the beef industry finds ... drumroll please ... That plant protein is just as good as meat for building muscle. news.illinois.edu/omnivorous-v...

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one of the tasks of the American left is to explain to retail and service workers that this is the future that America has planned for them

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One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

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Unpopular Pete Hegseth Forced To Drink Lunch Alone

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Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘

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"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the “illegals” are only guilty of being poor." -Feminist News

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The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships. The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”

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When ICE agents descended upon 19-year-old Merwil Guttiérez in New York City, they realized he was not the intended target of their operation — but they arrested the boy anyway. Merwil was, in fact, in the United States legally — from Venezuela, seeking asylum. Merwil’s father, Wilmer Guttiérez,…

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland with his wife and their three children, and has never been charged with any crime. The Department of Homeland Security issued him a work permit, and he joined a union, working full time as a sheet metal apprentice.

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