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Journalist. See some stuff I've done at www.patrick-ward.uk.

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The IDF marked 7 October yesterday by killing displaced Palestinian families huddled in tents.

My friend Zainab was trying to protect her young, hungry, thirsty and terrified family against these attacks in Gaza.

Please donate to help her and share this message: gofund.me/249078196

08.10.2025 11:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Help Zainab and her family get transport out of Gaza City, they also need a tent, food and water. Israel has ordered everyone to leave Gaza City, but many, like Zainab, can't yet afford transport. Donate here to make a big difference: tinyurl.com/helpzainab

02.10.2025 08:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My friend Zainab in Gaza needs help. This is how they sleep. She says: "I need help to buy a tent and rent a car to move to the south of Gaza. I am still stuck in the north and the situation is very dangerous. There is a real danger approaching me and my family."
Donate: gofund.me/374e26d4a

22.09.2025 08:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My friend Zainab writes: "I am a journalist in Gaza. I am still transmitting pictures, sounds and news to the world ... We do not have anything to eat or drink. We and our family are suffering from extremely bad humanitarian conditions. Help us to be safe."
Donate: gofund.me/8acc05a2

18.08.2025 07:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My friend Zaineb in Gaza writes today: "We journalists are being killed by bombing and hunger. We have nothing to feed our children, and we do not even have a chair to sit on. I put my press shield up for sale to buy food and water for me and my family."
Donate: www.gofundme.com/f/hello-ever...

14.08.2025 13:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A message from my friend Zainab in Gaza: "The Israeli army killed my fellow journalists. They were helping me and my children. Now I am alone without them. Please help me help the children."
Please help Zainab and her family.
Donate: www.gofundme.com/f/hello-ever...

12.08.2025 10:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Like thousands of other Gazans, my friend Zaineb's family has been without food for a week. Despite this, she continues to help children, call for justice and, as a journalist, report on the horrors around her.
Please donate to her if you can. Thank you
www.gofundme.com/f/hello-ever...

26.07.2025 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One sexual predator endorsing another sexual predator. And they wonder why everyone hates democrats

22.06.2025 16:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My friend Zaineb is still working hard in Gaza to ensure children are looked after as the bombing and siege continue. She is also a journalist, exposing the realities of Israel's devastating war. Please donate to help her continue her work and feed her family www.gofundme.com/f/hello-ever...

20.06.2025 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love that a politician can say something like โ€œI believe mice naturally spawn out of grainโ€ and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

14.06.2025 22:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10627    ๐Ÿ” 2414    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 257    ๐Ÿ“Œ 60
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America if the news covered it like those countries Over There

08.06.2025 18:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 654    ๐Ÿ” 235    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
Keir Starmer claims soaring immigration has done incalculable damage to UK economically and politically

Keir Starmer claims soaring immigration has done incalculable damage to UK economically and politically

Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right.

Let's tackle those lies:

12.05.2025 13:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 778    ๐Ÿ” 245    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 34    ๐Ÿ“Œ 36
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100 years ago today, Tony Benn was born.

This is from 2009 when he defied the BBCโ€™s ban on a humanitarian appeal for Palestine.

For 77 years, Israel has killed & displaced Palestinians & the BBC continues to dehumanise them. Benn saw this injustice clearly & stood against it ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

03.04.2025 17:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 399    ๐Ÿ” 142    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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finally the millions of people the government is choosing to leave or propel into poverty will be safe from the constant threat of ninja attacks

27.03.2025 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 817    ๐Ÿ” 176    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 46    ๐Ÿ“Œ 29
Spray-Painted Penis Only Thing Holding Cybertruck Together

Spray-Painted Penis Only Thing Holding Cybertruck Together

Spray-Painted Penis Only Thing Holding Cybertruck Together

24.03.2025 18:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31564    ๐Ÿ” 4907    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 467    ๐Ÿ“Œ 278
- Al Overview
"Get in, Loser - We're seizing the means of production" is a phrase attributed to Karl Marx.

- Al Overview "Get in, Loser - We're seizing the means of production" is a phrase attributed to Karl Marx.

21.02.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3991    ๐Ÿ” 1255    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 67
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[Clever comment: [insert clever comment here]]

14.02.2025 01:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Canโ€™t stop reading this paragraph over and over.
open.substack.com/pub/newmeans...

27.01.2025 03:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10777    ๐Ÿ” 2593    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 375    ๐Ÿ“Œ 139

Scrooge: You there, boy! What day is it?

ChatGPT: Days were invented by the Druids in 1974

25.12.2024 20:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12653    ๐Ÿ” 2117    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 77    ๐Ÿ“Œ 36

America: our life expectancy is terrible, we must restrict the availability of-

rest of the world: guns?

America: vaccines.

17.12.2024 13:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 481    ๐Ÿ” 153    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
A section from the Wikipedia page for OK Computer in which Chris Martin is quoted as saying: "it would be interesting to see how the world would be different if Dick Cheney really listened to Radiohead's OK Computer. I think the world would probably improve. That album is fucking brilliant. It changed my life, so why wouldn't it change his?"

A section from the Wikipedia page for OK Computer in which Chris Martin is quoted as saying: "it would be interesting to see how the world would be different if Dick Cheney really listened to Radiohead's OK Computer. I think the world would probably improve. That album is fucking brilliant. It changed my life, so why wouldn't it change his?"

still livid we didn't at least try this

16.12.2024 11:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 230    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Thank god we're finally having this important discussion.

12.12.2024 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Which ideologies do Britons have a favourable view of?

Environmentalism: 64% favourable
Feminism: 56%
Liberalism: 41%
Socialism: 38%
Conservatism: 32%
Capitalism: 30%
Nationalism: 29%
Libertarianism: 24%
Populism: 13%
Communism: 10%
Anarchism: 8%
Fascism: 2%

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

10.12.2024 11:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 280    ๐Ÿ” 120    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 38    ๐Ÿ“Œ 118
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Early win for Margaret Hodge if she notices what her boss was up to today.

09.12.2024 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Understanding the rebellion in Syria Tempest asks Swiss-Syrian socialist Joseph Daher about the process that led to the fall of Bashar al-Assad's rule.

Excellent interview with Syrian-Swiss writer/activist Joseph Daher. Detail of events on the ground - for example regarding the rebellion and the politics of HTS - with sharp analysis about international politics and how the British and American left should respond.
tempestmag.org/2024/12/unde...

09.12.2024 10:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s hard to find new words for this genocidal violence but itโ€™s worth remembering every day that every day Joe Biden has had the power to stop this and instead he has sent them more money, weapons, and material political support, and Kamala Harris has backed him every step of the way.

06.12.2024 18:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 173    ๐Ÿ” 66    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide โ€œWe will look back and say, โ€˜Why did we not do more earlier?โ€ Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that itโ€™s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe itโ€™s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...

05.12.2024 01:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1830    ๐Ÿ” 1198    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31    ๐Ÿ“Œ 29

Someone arrested at a recent Kurdish solidarity protest has been given bail conditions not to "associate with Kurdish people".

He's Kurdish.

The Metropolitan Police remains a racist endeavour.

01.12.2024 16:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 119    ๐Ÿ” 54    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's outrageous to compare terrorist bus user mums with the democratically elected leader of the most moral genocide in the world.

28.11.2024 12:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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