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Rob Ibbotson

@donnyred.bsky.social

Recently retired English, Film and Media teacher from the north of England. Socialist. Atheist. Likes: music, walking, crafts, art, science, sport and reading. Dislikes:, fascists, zionists, rascists, homophobes, Tories, UK Reformists, MSM, etc etc etc

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RT @RyanRozbiani: These are the names and faces of the 238 Silenced Journalists from Gaza

@embpalestina

Palestine Under Attack

12.08.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Jodie Ginsberg from the Committee to Protect Journalists is asked why her organisation had warned that Israel would target & murder journalist Anas al Sharif.

12.08.2025 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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An outpouring of grief and condemnation has followed the Israeli assassination of five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including prominent correspondent Anas al-Sharif.

πŸ”—: aje.io/hjlcxx | #JournalismIsNotACrime

12.08.2025 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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ITVs News at Ten: "Tragically there is already a long roll call of journalists, the UN estimates more than 200, who've lost their lives trying to bring us the truth about the war in Gaza"

Lost their lives. How careless of them.

12.08.2025 05:07 β€” πŸ‘ 150    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 7

Palestinians told you they were being killed at U.S.-run aid sites in Gaza.

Israeli soldiers admitted they were killing Palestinians at those same sites.

A U.S. security contractor who worked there said the aid sites were engineered death traps.

31.07.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 162    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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β€œThat settler that Trump emboldened killed the man that Trump deported.”

@premthakker.bsky.social unpacks how a violent β€”and previously sanctioned β€” Israeli Settler killed Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian teacher and crew member of the Oscar-winning film β€˜No Other land.’

30.07.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 184    πŸ” 106    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6
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Holocaust Memory in a Time of Genocide Israeli historian Amos Goldberg asks: What is the meaning of Holocaust memory in a reality where Israel is committing genocide?

"Holocaust Memory in a Time of Genocide"

Writing for Zeteo, Israeli Holocaust historian Amos Goldberg asks: What is the meaning of Holocaust memory in a reality where Israel is committing genocide?

31.07.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1209    πŸ” 321    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 15
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Yesterday, I published an article about yourparty.uk

I want to issue a public correction and a sincere apology for an error.

In that article, I said 500,000 people had signed up. That was incorrect.

It is now 600,000 β€” and counting.

Real change is coming.

30.07.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1396    πŸ” 390    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 46

The worst thing Donald Trump has ever done is commit genocide in Gaza. Everything else pales in comparison. He could end the Gaza holocaust with a phone call just like Biden could have, and he hasn't. For that reason alone he deserves to die in a cage.

26.07.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 248    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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Genuinely clueless why we're even still having this debate.

Apparently it's totally unreasonable in the 6th richest world economy to pay people saving our lives Β£22.67 an hour so we can continue to have a functioning health service.

And yes, it really is THAT simple. #ResidentDoctorsStrike

25.07.2025 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
Green blue background with two piles of silver coins, one on the left indicating a lower pile. 
On the left is labelled 'a fully qualified first-year hospital doctor will make just Β£18.82 per hour. 
On the right is labelled 'a doctor's assistant (physician assistant) in their first year will earn over Β£24 per hour. 

Resident doctors are asking for Β£4 per hour more. 

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Green blue background with two piles of silver coins, one on the left indicating a lower pile. On the left is labelled 'a fully qualified first-year hospital doctor will make just Β£18.82 per hour. On the right is labelled 'a doctor's assistant (physician assistant) in their first year will earn over Β£24 per hour. Resident doctors are asking for Β£4 per hour more. BMA logo

This is why Resident doctors in England are taking a stand against the Government - it’s time to pay us what we're worth.
Support us on the picket lines πŸ“’ 25 to 30 July
#PayRestoration #DoctorsStrike
bma.org.uk/residentspay

25.07.2025 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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It will go higher.

Sign up at yourparty.uk

25.07.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 964    πŸ” 307    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 47
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They also laugh about having to shoot some immigrants eventually, and the $30,000 bonus money they get for being ICE agents making it ok to smell people’s urine when they piss their pants after being tased.

Trump and Stephen Miller’s America. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

25.07.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 977    πŸ” 627    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 54

Water privatisation has been a complete & utter failure.

It is absurd that the government's report into the water industry didn't even consider public ownership.

That's not a report. That's a political broadcast for the private sector.

Put water back into public hands, now.

21.07.2025 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 6316    πŸ” 1514    πŸ’¬ 178    πŸ“Œ 74
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Never thought I would agree with the Queen tbh.

But she had this one bang on.

17.07.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 325    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 8
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Trump Invites Jeffrey Epstein On Stage To Explain There No Conspiracy WASHINGTONβ€”During a speech Friday in which he sought to convince MAGA supporters that his administration did not withhold any important information from its partial release of β€œthe Epstein files” in F...

Trump Invites Jeffrey Epstein On Stage To Explain There No Conspiracy

17.07.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 6092    πŸ” 893    πŸ’¬ 90    πŸ“Œ 31
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High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

How do you ensure a nation fails to cope with drought? Privatise its water system.

Almost everyone wants our water renationalised. Almost everyone, that is, except the government.

This week's column.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

17.07.2025 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1707    πŸ” 707    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 48

This is what she got suspended for? She didn’t tell any lies, as someone who once had a group of young men I did not know run after me chanting β€œYou Black Bastard”

17.07.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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It is absolutely absurd that Diane Abbott has been suspended for this.

She's describing the lived experience of anti-Black racism.

She wasn't saying Jewish people and Travellers don't experience racism. She's saying that racism takes different forms.

17.07.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1471    πŸ” 327    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 37
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Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying β€˜Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

Labour knew this would happen and didn't care. Is this the most right wing Government Britain has ever had? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

17.07.2025 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 646    πŸ” 198    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 25
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Imagine. If. Biden. Had. Done. This.

16.07.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6778    πŸ” 1941    πŸ’¬ 259    πŸ“Œ 177
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"More than just being a lawyer [for Jeffrey Epstein], Alan was a friend of Epstein's, and a friend of Ghislaine Maxwell, and went to the mansion, and went on the plane... I am questioning Alan's judgement on this and many other issues."

Me vs Dershowitz.
Full debate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFCg...

17.07.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8947    πŸ” 2121    πŸ’¬ 491    πŸ“Œ 112
Cartoon. A woman holds a placard reading β€œStop Killing People” as two men wearing suits walk past, one says β€œbloody extremists”.

Cartoon. A woman holds a placard reading β€œStop Killing People” as two men wearing suits walk past, one says β€œbloody extremists”.

While this cartoon is probably referencing a particular activist group in the UK, it tends to hold true for others, protesting different issues non violently around the world.

07.07.2025 07:20 β€” πŸ‘ 624    πŸ” 151    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
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MSF survey of staff and their families in Gaza shows almost half of those killed in the war were children Israel’s disregard for children’s lives clearly indicates that this war is being waged against all Palestinians.

β€œThe children of Gaza are being decimated."

We surveyed MSF staff and their families- this covered 2,523 people.

Just one of the horrific numbers in the survey: 19 children (under 18 yrs old) died from blast injuries among our colleagues' households. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-s...

11.07.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Yvette Cooper- Proscribe the IDF The "IDF" has repeatedly carried out large-scale, deliberate acts of violence against civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. It is our sincerely held belief that the atrocities and tactics use...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/yv...

12.07.2025 07:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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