Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮🌈✌🏼🌱💚🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼

Fight back with literacy.

#BookTok #books #booksky #booksarepolitical #literacymatters #littlefreelibrary @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

"Book banning has long been used to silence those who want to speak out, those who are unwilling to be gaslit into thinking they're living in the best of all possible worlds."
- Samira Ahmed, "This Book Won't Burn"
#booksky #bannedbooks #readingispolitical #books #reading

It's Black History Month.

Whether you want to participate in our discussion or not, everyone should read novels by Toni Morrison. #BannedBookSkyClub #BookSky

Indie Author Bookstore | Discover & Support Independent Authors - Browse a curated indie author bookstore featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more. Discover and support independent authors across genres.

I curated an indie online bookstore for readers who love wandering until something unexpected finds them.

All buy links go directly to where the author chooses. No gatekeeping. No middlemen.

Browse by genre and discover indie voices 📚
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#booksky #indieauthors

Small towns raise resilient storytellers.

Indie authors are proof that you don’t need a big machine to build something meaningful.

#booksky #readersky

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi A true activist doesn’t just change minds; they make changes that improve the lives burdened by racist policies and racist societal structures. I was only partway through this book when I realized thi...

If you read one book by a black author for #blackhistorymonth, let it be “How to Be an Antiracist” by @ibramxk.bsky.social

We need to be looking to black leaders in these dark times and listen to their voices.

#booksky #bookreview

damienkanerigden.com/blog/f/how-t...

Wow, let me tell you how different a book can hit upon re-reading.

Revisit your favorites. And even some of your misses. Perspectives change.

#booksky

Despite what some of the gym bros say, getting enough protein as a vegan is no problem! Many plant-based foods, like nuts, seeds, beans, lentils, oats, whole wheat and tofu are packed with protein, and many elite athletes thrive on a plant-based diet.

Nigel Farage was mentioned 43 times in the Epstein files.

But you don’t see any of the ‘political’ journalists mention this do you?

Instead it’s the usual diatribes against Starmer.

These people are an embarrassment

JPMorgan should ‘threaten’ UK over banker tax, Mandelson told Epstein.

Mandelson was Business Secretary at that time in 2009.

After leaving govt in 2010, Mandelson set up an advisory firm called Global Counsel, JPMorgan was a client.

Must be investigated.
archive.is/rzjnQ

Remember when Epstein-fanboy Mandelson said he 'worked every day' against Corbyn? A clip longtime Epstein friend Peter Mandelson stating his robust opposition to Jeremy Corbyn is doing the rounds - awks

#PeterMandelson has quit #LabourParty over his extreme closeness to #serial-child-rapist #JeffreyEpstein.

Here's #Mandelson in 2017,TELLING an interviewer he WORKED EVERY DAY to bring down #JeremyCorbyn.
(They claimed #Corbyn was a "security threat"🙄!
#The-Irony!)🤬
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Keir Starmer: "I grew up in a working class family, so I know what it's like for parents trying to make ends meet.

That’s why tackling the cost of living is my number one priority.

From April, 300,000 children will benefit from free breakfast clubs, putting money back in parents' pockets."

The Peter Thiel connections to Epstein, Ehud Barak, Palantir and...of course....JD Vance should get more scrutiny.

Thiel created Vance and essentially hand delivered him to the White House.

Thiel is a white nationalist billionaire, part of the "Pay Pal" mafia. Buddy David Sacks is Trump's AI Czar

AND child detention skyrocketed once Trump 2.0 took office. There are so many Liam Ramos' whose names we do not know. And so many adults with stories that matter, too.

And we already know that CSA & other abuse of children is widespread in these facilities; those stories have been coming out for years + reporting about the fact that the majority of cases aren't investigated. And Sen Ossoff pubbed a report this summer on abuses since Trump 2.0 began.

into detention since Trump took office last year. At least 1,000 children were held longer than 20 days, a court-ordered limit on child detention.

The conditions at Dilley, where a lot of children are held, are horrific.

(IMAGE: A drawing by a 5-year-old detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas with her mother Hayam El-Gamal. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top of the page. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” You don't have to know your Bible to hear echoes of oppressions throughout history, or to know what side the oppressor is. But those other echoes sure do resonate, too.)

1/x 🧵

ICE has booked at least 3,800 children +

(Drawing by a 5-year-old detained in Texas with her mother. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” You don't have to know your Bible to hear myriad echoes here, but phew, those too.)

House of Lords should strip Mandelson of peerage, says Starmer PM believes ex-Labour minister should not be member of House of Lords or use title, No 10 spokesperson says

House of Lords should strip Mandelson of peerage, says Starmer.

That alone won't do. Mandelson leaked sensitive govt info. How many times did he do so? Who benefited from the leaks?

Mandelson advised Starmer. Starmer made him US ambassador. What did Starmer know?

It was an outstanding speech and he later destroyed the mudslinging and incoherent nonsense from Badenoch ! Well worth watching the whole speech on parlt tv

Today, I am thinking of the countless victims of Epstein’s vile abuse.

The files are an appalling reminder of a rotten political system that shields the rich & powerful from accountability.

We need to build a new kind of politics — one that protects the safety & dignity of all.

PM's chief secretary, Darren Jones, tells MPs in Commons that the Govt believes Lord Mandelson "lied" on his disclosure and vetting before he became ambassador to the US:

"when someone lies in their declarations of interest, there must be a consequence.... removal from the HOL and loss of peerage."

Headline form independent September 12th 2025 highlighting Peter Mandelson failed security service vetting

For those that can’t remember tiny bits of news from September 2025:

Lord Mandelson failed security services vetting & agency officials went on the record saying Mandelson was a bad idea.

This was ignored by UK Gov/PM.

SpaceX, xAI merger sparks blunt 5-word Palantir billionaire take A billionaire insider weighs in, and his answer isn’t what you’d expect.

When America jails Dump and wipes away the foul stench of him, Palantir, SpaceX, etc we will need to rebuild all systems and infrastructure, which takes time. Better that the rest of the world shore up their systems now - especially by removing Palantir and stop relying on anything Muskrat #toxic

America's Sleeping Giant roared when police attacked civil rights marchers.

And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate.

Today it roars in Minneapolis and around the country — at the jack-booted thugs occupying our cities.

since we're living through fascism part 2 it's good to remember that the original nazis invented privatizing large government services

Cartoon: no lineups for Melania compared to a huge lineup for root canals.

Globe and Mail cartoon

I assume Chris Mason's absence from the TV screens is to do with him spending hours researching the significance of Nigel Farage's name in the Epstein Files.

Steve Bannon boasted about Farage ties in exchange with Epstein Revelation comes as image surfaces of Bannon with Matt Goodwin, candidate for Farage's Reform UK in crucial Gorton and Denton by-election

Steve Bannon boasted about Farage ties in exchange with Epstein
Revelation comes as image surfaces of Bannon with Matt Goodwin, candidate for Farage's Reform UK

www.middleeasteye.net/news/steve-b...

So much of this sleaze was in plain sight. When US Ambassador, Mandelson took Starmer for a photo opp at Palantir, a client of Global Counsel in which he had a huge stake. This was a monstrous conflict of interest and it was all public domain. Why did Starmer think it appropriate to go?

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.