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Yesssssss!!!!!!! McDavid!!! Canada!!!!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 #canusa

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This is my three-point plan for standing up to the far right and the billionaire bullies | Sadiq Khan

As we head into the Christmas break, GONUJ want to thank everyone who has supported us, with donations, statements, letters, reposts, and of course joining us on our strike days. Your solidarity is so much appreciated. We also wanted to update you all on where things stand. 🧵 (1/8)

Going to be a must read. Just pre-ordered Lawless by @leahlitman.bsky.social from @bookshop-org.bsky.social BookSky 💙📚 bookshop.org/p/books/lawl...

The Observer strike is about the future of liberal journalism - in the same week when the Murdoch succession drama plays out in court. My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

We've come to the end of our second 48-hour strike. Thank you to everyone who joined us today. Another great day with homemade mince pies, Christmas carols and guests such as Emily Thornberry and Gary Younge. You've all been amazing. To quote the great Billy Bragg: "Solidarity forever!" ✊

Cartoonist-legend Martin Rowson, drawing live before our very eyes! #savetheobserver 🙏🏻 @martinrowson.bsky.social

True Person of the Year!

Another grey day cheered by the warmth, humour & spirit of my Observer & Guardian friends & colleagues on the picket line. Bravo to everyone who has worked so hard to organise these 4 days of action, especially @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social & @carolecadwalla.bsky.social #savetheobserver 💪🏼🪧

Thank you for joining us on the picket line, novelist Amanda Craig, whose first article was published in The Observer. Lovely to see you 🙏🏻 #savetheobserver

It’s the return of #dogsfortheobserver #savetheobserver 🙏🏻 🐶

“An Early Day Motion, put down by MPs, called on ministers to issue a “Public Interest Intervention Notice (PIIN), to allow for further regulatory consideration of sale’s likely impact” Lisa Nandy urged to intervene (& Guardian cancels table at tonight’s press awards) inews.co.uk/news/media/g...

Our merch stand is up and running this morning! You can support us by making a purchase or a donation - all proceeds go to our hardship fund www.nuj.org.uk/resource/gua....

"In full support of the Guardian/Observer journos striking for the future of The Observer, threatened by The Scott Trust's plan to sell to Tortoise Media. There's no logic behind the decision. The Observer risks becoming a stripped-down website" @carolvorderman.bsky.social ✊ #savetheobserver 🙏🏻

Good morning. In this letter published by @pressgazette.co.uk, former Guardian and Observer journalists ask: “If the Scott Trust is so bad at business and so bad at maintaining relations with the papers’ journalists, what is the Scott Trust even for anymore?” pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

RIPete. If you're a certain age, you get it. deadline.com/2024/12/mich...

And here's my last column for the NYT. But I'm not going to vanish. Watch this space. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...

Yesterday afternoon the Guardian and Observer NUJ chapel met to discuss the news that the Scott Trust had signed off the deal to transfer the Observer to Tortoise media. The deal was done on Thursday evening, while members were still on strike protesting the deal. The following motion was passed 🧵

"An agreement to sell The Observer to news start-up Tortoise Media prompted a row at an all-staff company meeting hours after the deal was struck. "Bosses were jeered & accused by staff of concocting an 'establishment stitch-up' & 'riding roughshod over our values'" www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...

@thejohndimaggio.bsky.social Dude, just saw you on Blue Bloods. When you got asked your name I hoped to hear Bender Bending Rodrigues. I guess that take did not make the final cut.

Russell T Davies, screenwriter: "In support of Observer & Guardian journalists on strike, all of them opposing the sale of the Observer to Tortoise. It doesn't have the resources to support such a vital voice, an island in the swelling oceans of right-wing media. Good luck!" #savetheobserver 🙏🏻

In further #dogsfortheobserver news: Here’s Gruff (in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) or Griff (in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿). 🐕 #savetheobserver 🙏🏻

Thanks so much for coming down to support our strike today, @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social ! #savetheobserver 🙏🏻

If you're driving down York Way today, give us a honk to #savetheobserver!

Thank you to the extremely lovely Green Gartside and Alice for coming down to support us on day two of the strike. 🙏💪🧡 #savetheobserver #keepthefreepressfree

“This cannot happen” The wonderful Jemma Redgrave speaking at our picketline. Of course it couldn’t be a protest against injustice without a #redgrave. 🧡 Thank you thank you thank you Jemma 🙏 #savetheobserver