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Tell tech companies: end all contracts with ICE and stop enabling Trump’s deportation machine action.eko.org/a/tech-compa...

#WATCH | Demonstration in Spain in condemnation of the attack on the "Freedom Flotilla"

Greta Thunberg MUST get the Nobel Peace Prize.

Imagine how much Donald Trump and Netanyahu would rage.

Differing political definitions of patriotism 3 of the 6 letters (4th quoted in the post) criticising Phillips 😊 Sir, Melanie Phillips expresses a very specific and slightly odd definition of patriotism as "love for the Crown, the armed forces and the common law, and attachment to faith, family and flag" ("Sorry Keir, you don't understand patriotism", , comment, Sep 30). Perhaps that is why she concludes that Nigel Farage offers “the only patriotic force on the horizon". Personally, I regard someone who had a very direct hand in diminishing the United Kingdom's GDP by 4 per cent — as a direct result of our leaving the European Union — as confirming Samuel Johnson's much-quoted remark that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel". Acts rather than words still count for some of us. Shaun Leavey Sherborne, Dorset Sir, Over thousands of years these islands have been invaded and occupied by various tribes, who, at any given moment, represented some kind of "Englishness". "In 300 years' time there might well be another kind of "Englishness", doubtless defending itself from the incursion of escapees from another foreign disaster, and claiming a threat to its purity". We were never pure, and attempts such as the present one to somehow freeze a manufactured notion of "Englishness" are doomed to failure. Jerry Stuart London SEI Sir, There is a fundamental flaw in Melanie Phillips's article. She talks of British patriotism as "attachment to faith, family and flag". °. She doesn't indicate which faith she is referring to, but presumably means the Christian faith as the traditional faith in Britain. However, the faith of Jesus of Nazareth shares much more common ground with the values she seems to dismiss - decency, reasonableness and compassion - than it does with the militarism and flag-waving she seems to endorse. I surely cannot be the only person getting worried when the Christian faith is conscripted into the support of strident nationalism. The Rev Paul Dowling

“That Brexit has made control of immigration more difficult, damaged our economy and weakened opportunities for future generations should make people think twice before putting Brexit's chief proponent in charge of running the country”

Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.

Haven't heard any outrage from Farage or that prick Jenrick about the Sikh woman that was raped and beaten in a racially motivated attack.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

The UK is set to recognise Palestine this afternoon but that is only the beginning the Genocide must be stopped or Israel will wipeout a Palestine State before it even begins.

#SanctionIsrael

Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.

British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right…
What a grim betrayal of our democracy.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

#SocialistSunday

Projections of U.S. President Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were put on display against the walls of Windsor Castle while Trump was in Britain for a state visit.

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

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Signing off for the day. Ciao.

@margaretatwood.bsky.social reaches the highest level of experiencing what @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social called Men Explain Things To Me, or #mansplaining.

Who agrees with Lisa from Oklahoma?

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"Caught on video this fox cub playing tag with my 16 year old cat 🦊😹 I’m sure the fox was having great fun but my cat was definitely peeved!"

BREAKING: The first segments of border wall have gone up in the San Rafael Valley, south of Tucson, Ariz. Construction crews have drilled at least two wells and have turned the area, a corridor for jaguars, pronghorn, bears, mountain lions, ocelots, porcupines, into an devastating industrial site.

In 1979, Castro called it a genocide: Cuba’s legacy of solidarity with Palestine morningstaronline.co.uk/article/1979... #morningstaronline

Gary Lineker just won best Presenter he was the only one to stand up for Palestine.

Well done Gary.

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In questioning of Met Police spokesperson on #Radio4Today
- massive complaint about the arrest of a homophobic celebrity at Heathrow
- no mention of almost 900 people arrested for 'terrorists' offences for holding a placard protesting against genocide
Yet again BBC glued to agenda set by Reform

We all do, Sam, we all do.

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned.

And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.

I refuse to sanitize him.

I'm sure I was put down in the wrong place on our one precious Planet 😥

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Thank you Paris 🙏@cristinaprkr

Jeffrey Epstein & JPMorgan: How the Largest U.S. Bank Enabled the Sexual Predator’s Crimes Amid growing pressure for the Trump administration to release the full Jeffrey Epstein files, a New York Times investigation reveals how the country’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, enabled Epstein’s s...

Amid growing pressure for the Trump administration to release the full Jeffrey Epstein files, a New York Times investigation reveals how the country’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, enabled Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation and profited from its ties to him.

Keep the pressure on. My guess is this is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Farage's finances ...

#BlameMillionairesNotMigrants

Funny how
supporters of Israeli genocide
are also fans of Law & Order
yet have no problem
with Israel flouting
International Law