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If you've got spare cash here are a bunch of survival funds for people in Gaza linktr.ee/divyamp

Setting up a recurring donation is a good way to provide dependable support.
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We joke but if you look, every mention of Peter on social media since 2019 has people responding with these photos, so I think we can assume important people were just mentally filing this as mean-spirited trolling or conspiracy theory. When they could see exactly what it was, with their own eyes.
Happy birthday for whenever it is, Pete.
February 6, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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Offline for health - just here because we have a match on, meaning your help will be doubled for these twenty-one families. Lately, you've helped with medical care, housing, nutrition, winter clothes, and other survival needs.

Hit "weekly" to sustain it: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
February 6, 2026 at 6:01 PM
would love to know what people are basing this on
February 6, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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You can donate to Lina’s family here: chuffed.org/project/omsh...
February 6, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Communists, so numerous they can ruin elections, but not numerous enough to be treated as people who have to be won over.
I don’t think anyone expects communists to vote for bourgeois. Do communists even vote for democrats at all? Would a communist vote for AOC or Va Hollen or Mamdani (all of whom have a D next to their name)?

Are there any Rs communists would vote for?

Do communists vote in the primaries?
February 6, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Every news outlet, pundit and analyst who tries to tell you that Epstein was a Russian intelligence operative instead of an Israeli one is just telling you they're a propagandist. View it as a big flashing sign that says "Never trust anything from this source ever again."
February 6, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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“Le modèle économique que nous défendons cherche à accorder les rythmes de la production et de la nature.

Nous allons nationaliser le temps, matière première invisible. Cette nationalisation, c'est ce qu'on appelle la planification écologique.”

- Mélenchon
January 14, 2026 at 1:07 PM
February 5, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Rebelling against the Pedo Party is bad?
Also Maskell: "Let’s rebel at every given opportunity against Starmer and the manifesto - thanks to which I got into Parliament - so hard that I was suspended for six months. And after Starmer gave me the whip back, I just carried on undermining my Labour government."
February 5, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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It is interesting that Kenneth Roth claims that the report is not substantiated by international legal principles when HRW released a virtually identical conclusion in a different report on the denial of a return to amounting to a crime against humanity in Chagos.

Why a Palestine exception?
February 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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Listening to this Starmer speech. This Pride In Place thing sounds a lot like Big Society. Unless he has a critique of austerity and commits to reversing all cuts (eg to the youth service) he's going to fail. (And so will the next PM).
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Really can’t be online but I’d appreciate some shares for this. Our friend Seraj was suspended from the bird app, and that’s where his only reach is. Usually we have zero capacity to help this family, but now they have no one & ZERO visibility whatsoever. This is a critical + priority need.
February 4, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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Imo many MPs think their authority & legitimacy is so weak that "tradition" is the only thing holding it up - inc the olde worlde harry potter building, hence they resisted the efficient solutions, like a decamp-repair. But this will leave them defending vast costs , undermining legitimacy further
February 5, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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Important new @annualreviews.bsky.social review on #AMOC collapse. 🌊⚠️

🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Here are 8 key takeaways from Dijkstra & van Westen (2026) on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and its risks.

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February 5, 2026 at 8:04 AM
One of the Palestine Action prisoners did not get bailed. Sam Corner remains in custody.
February 4, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Oh fuck off George.
February 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
February 3, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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Imagine being an actual, committed Qanon person this week; you are 1000% vindicated that there is, in fact, a paedophile cabal at the heart of western politics and capitalism. Maybe it just wasn't in the pizza basement.

But also, turns out most of your faves and heroes are ... not.
February 4, 2026 at 10:54 AM
I'm so happy those guys are getting bailed today. What a thing after a year and a half on remand.
February 4, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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Pleased to see the jury make this decision.

We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries.

People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Palestine Action protesters not guilty of defence firm burglary
The group are cleared of aggravated burglary over the alleged raid at an Elbit Systems warehouse.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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Incredible news. This is why craven corrupt, irreparably dirty Labour wants to kill jury trials: realmedia.press/filton-verdi...
THE FILTON TRIAL - THE VERDICTS - NO CONVICTIONS - Real Media - The View From Below
Following our detailed coverage of this long trial, we bring you the verdicts as they have just been announced in court.
realmedia.press
February 4, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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BREAKING: NO CONVICTIONS AS VERDICTS COME IN FOR FILTON24 TRIAL

After 8 days of deliberation, the jury have not convicted Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Ellie (Leona) Kamio, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin on any charge.

Defend Our Juries comment to follow.
February 4, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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🚨 BREAKING: Filton 6 defendants have been given a "not guilty" verdict or "no verdict" by a jury on ALL charges.

Not a single defendant was convicted of any offence.

The jury also refused to convict Samuel Corner on the charge of committing GBH against a cop

Via @RealMediaGB
February 4, 2026 at 12:28 PM
FILTON 24 members found Not Guilty or No Verdict. Zero convictions.
February 4, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Its very niave to believe they don't do this. Why wouldn't they?
OK. We are clear. You believe "so many" Ministers leak confidential info *from which a financial gain could be made* *in return for money* (current bribes or future remuneration).

I think that claim is both false and dangerous and that you can't back it up.
February 4, 2026 at 11:06 AM