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Works in & around conflict grappling. (Local peacebuilding • Nonviolence • Peace practice & thinking.) Worries in the valley, dreams on the moors. Personal account.

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State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’ The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."

My report:

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The government’s restrictions on immigration will turn this around any day now.

14.10.2025 13:14 — 👍 270    🔁 40    💬 24    📌 0

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

14.10.2025 14:16 — 👍 436    🔁 153    💬 20    📌 4

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

13.10.2025 08:04 — 👍 1149    🔁 807    💬 17    📌 27
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Did You Know? The Alien Enemies Act Can Be Used Against Children As Young As 14 - National Immigrant Justice Center To advance its mass deportation agenda, the Trump administration has reached for any power it can find to remove people from the country as quickly as possible and without due process. One of these po...

"To advance its mass deportation agenda, the Trump administration has reached for any power it can find to remove people from the country as quickly as possible and without due process."

Including children as young as 14.

#R4Today #BBC

immigrantjustice.org/blog/did-you...

13.10.2025 07:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

13.10.2025 05:38 — 👍 563    🔁 300    💬 26    📌 32
We have started a multi-phase operation 
to facilitate the release and transfer of 
hostages and detainees as part of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. 

The complex operation, which takes place 
at the request of the parties, is crucial to reuniting separated families.

The ICRC’s role in this operation is that of 
a neutral intermediary, and is strictly humanitarian. 

The parties to the conflict determined the terms of the ceasefire agreement, including 
the individuals to be released and the timeline; the ICRC was not involved in the negotiations.

It is the responsibility of the parties to the agreement to ensure these operations are conducted safely and with dignity.

We have started a multi-phase operation to facilitate the release and transfer of hostages and detainees as part of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. The complex operation, which takes place at the request of the parties, is crucial to reuniting separated families. The ICRC’s role in this operation is that of a neutral intermediary, and is strictly humanitarian. The parties to the conflict determined the terms of the ceasefire agreement, including the individuals to be released and the timeline; the ICRC was not involved in the negotiations. It is the responsibility of the parties to the agreement to ensure these operations are conducted safely and with dignity.

We have started a multi-phase operation to facilitate the release and transfer of hostages and detainees as part of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

More details here: ms.spr.ly/6182s2AQs

13.10.2025 06:52 — 👍 17    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 1
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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

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Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

"Somewhere south of the Scottish border I just snapped."

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

12.10.2025 18:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

11.10.2025 12:20 — 👍 217    🔁 185    💬 1    📌 0
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Catherine Abel
Teascape with Homemade Shortbread
2024 Oil on linen

12.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 63    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 1

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

11.10.2025 14:04 — 👍 2314    🔁 1100    💬 26    📌 21
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A landmark conviction for war crimes in Sudan shows the wheels of global justice do turn – albeit slowly It has taken over 20 years, and the ICC is under intense pressure, but this week’s conviction of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman is a major win for international law.

For the first time, the ICC has convicted a Sudanese militia leader for war crimes in Darfur—including gender-based persecution as a crime against humanity. It took 20+ years, but the case sets major legal precedents.

11.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

11.10.2025 04:58 — 👍 17606    🔁 2434    💬 276    📌 93
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England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

10.10.2025 13:10 — 👍 765    🔁 468    💬 68    📌 57
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Youth-led ‘emergency rooms’ shine rays of hope in war-torn Sudan With the war in Sudan triggering widespread violence and instability, youth-driven emergency response rooms (ERRs) are among a growing number of community-led initiatives reaching vulnerable civilians...

we were wrong about the Nobel peace prize but here’s some more about the emergency response rooms anyway news.un.org/en/story/202...

10.10.2025 13:16 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 2
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Shadow Justice Secretary has made a symbolic gesture of support for Quran burning, both in law & apparently in practice too

10.10.2025 07:56 — 👍 183    🔁 58    💬 40    📌 30
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By Contacts We Are Saved: The Forgotten Visionary Jane Ellen Harrison on Change, the Meaning of Faith, and the Courage of Heresy Alpha and Omega, originally published in 1915, is the third title in Marginalian Editions. Below is my foreword to the new edition, as it appears in on its pages. “Have faith,” someone I loved said…

Glad to have read about this "deeply religious atheist".

www.themarginalian.org/2025/09/05/j...

09.10.2025 19:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"The trial heard Ahmad, who was Syrian and had fled war-torn Homs after being injured in a bombing, had only been living in Huddersfield for a couple of weeks when he was stabbed."

www.itv.com/news/calenda...

09.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As an American watching our best & most crucial institutions crumble in less than a year under Trump, I suggest you make as many of these changes now, while you can.
We didn’t, obviously.

09.10.2025 17:47 — 👍 94    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 2

E.g. The Met Office is the nation’s weather service AND a global climate change research centre. It is highly vulnerable.

Ministers fund its research, influence its priorities, and appoint its leaders. With no statutory basis, its priorities and funding could be changed with little oversight. 5/11

09.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 93    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 2
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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

1/11

09.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 641    🔁 417    💬 21    📌 56

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

09.10.2025 17:19 — 👍 449    🔁 154    💬 2    📌 13
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Israeli cabinet to vote on Gaza deal that would bring ceasefire and hostages' release - live updates Our correspondents Lyse Doucet and Rushdi Abualouf are answering your questions on the deal now - watch and follow live.

"The Israeli cabinet meeting to decide whether to approve the Gaza ceasefire deal has been delayed to 20:00 local time (18:00 BST*), according to the country's public broadcaster, Kan."

[*13.00 ET]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

09.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gaza ceasefire and hostage releases 'within days' after Israel and Hamas agree first phase of deal - live updates US President Donald Trump says both sides agree to the first phase of his plan, which paves the way towards a ceasefire.

In case anyone else is looking for this info...

"The Israeli government will meet on Thursday at 17:00 Jerusalem time (15:00 BST*) to vote on the deal. If the plan is approved a ceasefire will go into immediate effect..."

[*10.00 ET]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

09.10.2025 11:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hope, at last. I welcome the first phase of President Trump’s Gaza initiative.

Let’s get the hostages out and aid in – fast.

We are ready to move now, but we need safe access and full funding to turn this pause into real progress.

Every minute counts.

09.10.2025 06:56 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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Robert Jenrick says he’s an Anglofuturist. What does that mean? – HOPE not hate In late June, the shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick took the stand at a conference. Addressing the crowd of Tories and radical-right political figures, he made an unusual statement. “I am what c...

In June, Tory leader hopeful Robert Jenrick, who recently complained about not seeing white faces in a Birmingham suburb, declared he is an Anglofuturist.

We got inside a secret Anglofuturist Discord server to find out what that really means 👇

🔗 hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/08/r...

08.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 125    🔁 83    💬 19    📌 12
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If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

07.10.2025 06:34 — 👍 1572    🔁 548    💬 85    📌 34

For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer, and non-violent action are expressions of our worship. When this is criminalised, our religious freedom is under attack.

@quaker.org.uk

05.10.2025 16:20 — 👍 21    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0
Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli tweet on X
"The @BoardofDeputies
 has, regrettably, become first and foremost a political organization - openly aligned with left-wing, woke, pro-Palestinian parties.

Just hours after Jews were murdered in Manchester, instead of demanding protection or holding the government accountable, the Board rushed for a photo-op with the Prime Minister.

Once proudly Zionist, now politically adrift, 
If only they showed the same energy attacking Britain’s recognition of a Palestinian terror state as they do attacking me and 
@TRobinsonNewEra
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10:51 PM · Oct 4, 2025
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Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli tweet on X "The @BoardofDeputies has, regrettably, become first and foremost a political organization - openly aligned with left-wing, woke, pro-Palestinian parties. Just hours after Jews were murdered in Manchester, instead of demanding protection or holding the government accountable, the Board rushed for a photo-op with the Prime Minister. Once proudly Zionist, now politically adrift, If only they showed the same energy attacking Britain’s recognition of a Palestinian terror state as they do attacking me and @TRobinsonNewEra . 10:51 PM · Oct 4, 2025 "

Extraordinary.

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