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Before you follow, READ pinned post! I DON'T follow Starmeroids nor Blue Wave/Blue Crew/💙🌊 eejits!

Curator of Grumpy Old Lefty Gits - International Division starter pack & blogsite: golg2.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/so-you-want-to-be-a-grumpy-old-lefty-git
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Do NOT follow me if you're an admirer of Starmer, von der Leyen, Scholz, Biden, and/or Harris. They all support a GENOCIDAL Israel... and ALL helped pave the way for Trump 2.0

If you say "At least they're not as bad as Tories!", " #BlueCrew", or "Blue Wave"... FUCK OFF! You're part of the problem.
The Grumpy Old Lefty Gits (International Division) starter pack has been launched!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
The original manifesto can be read in the ALT text to this generic JPG👇, but - for technical reasons - had to be edited down

Applicants for membership should form an unruly line (e.g. here👇👇)
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"ICE was fine when I didn't pay attention to anything they did" is a stance we're going to see a lot more often and I'm going to have a very hard time being nice about it.
December 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Fun facts:

1) Lennon is given sole credit for writing "Imagine". He later admitted that much of the lyrics was lifted from Ono's book "Grapefruit".

2) He & Ono owned THREE apartments in the Dakota building (plus other houses).

3) One was used exclusively to store their collection of fur coats.
December 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I stopped using Farcebook in 2020 when I was temporarily banned pending my surrendering my private data ("to prove that you're not a robot"!), & dropped out of WhatsApp when it demanded the same in order to maintain my account.

I was never on Instagram nor other Meta crap, & have never used Amazon.
December 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Something I learnt today (from this👇post + a bit of surfing): if you go to bsky.app/profile/mode..., there's a [longer] list of filters (including "Rude"). Click "Off" and the posts aren't hidden.

(I currently follow 3 anti-genocide accts which moderators - in their finite wisdom - mark as "Rude".)
For those of you who are having trouble seeing my limited posts (thanks @moderation.bsky.app ), apparently you change your settings to show “rude” posts/accounts.
December 28, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Netanyahu Is Visiting Trump For The FIFTH Time This Year

But it would be antisemitic to suggest that there’s anything strange about the US president meeting with the Israeli prime minister more frequently than with any other foreign leader on the planet.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/netanyahu-...
Netanyahu Is Visiting Trump For The FIFTH Time This Year, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley:
www.caitlinjohnst.one
December 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Did you know that International Law says that any occupied people have the right to resist their occupiers - violently if necessary?

George Washington and Nelson Mandela were both considered "terrorists".

FYI, it didn't start with Netanyahu... and it CERTAINLY didn't start on Oct 7, 2023!
Many of those killed or taken hostage by Hamas were off-duty IOF soldiers.

100s were killed by ISRAEL. (See "Hannibal Directive")

NO local hospitals reported women who'd been raped by Hamas. This was an 🇮🇱 lie.

🇮🇱 ADMITTED that NO babies had been beheaded.

Lies that Harris repeated 11 months later
December 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Many of those killed or taken hostage by Hamas were off-duty IOF soldiers.

100s were killed by ISRAEL. (See "Hannibal Directive")

NO local hospitals reported women who'd been raped by Hamas. This was an 🇮🇱 lie.

🇮🇱 ADMITTED that NO babies had been beheaded.

Lies that Harris repeated 11 months later
December 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Hey, Shitlibs, it DIDN'T start with Trump!

ALT text of image #4:

Picture of Obama at AIPAC conference, shaking hands with Michael Kassen, AIPAC President 2012-2014, and leading media executive who lobbied extensively to weaken media consolidation regulations.
dawnmena.org/michael-kass...
December 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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"Children are losing their lives because they lack the most basic items for survival ... Babies are arriving to the hospital cold, with near-death vital signs: Even our best efforts are not enough. They say the war has ended, but people are still having to fight for their lives."
"Gaza remains in a man-made hunger crisis."

"1.6 million people (77% of the population [..]) faced high levels of acute food insecurity."

"[M]ore than half a million people in emergency (IPC Phase 4) and over 100,000 people in catastrophe (IPC Phase 5)."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Food #Genocide
Gaza No Longer Officially Facing Famine—But 1.6 Million Palestinians Still in 'Man-Made Hunger Crisis'
A global tracking initiative said teh Gaza Strip no longer faces a formal famine, but critical food insecurity persists due to over two years of Israel's assault and blockade.
www.commondreams.org
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
That quote is crap.

"The [NC] GOP's effort to rein in executive power at the STATE level *works hand-in-glove* with the Trump administration's efforts to expand such power FEDERALLY."

(ALL power to Trump + MAGA.)

There: fixed it.

You're welcome!
"The [NC] GOP's effort to rein in executive power at the state level stands in sharp contrast to the Trump administration's efforts to expand such power federally. ... [T]he administration has argued for a 'unitary executive' theory that would allow the president near-total control over personnel."
NEW: For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections.

This year, it finally succeeded.
December 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Let's not be partisan about this!

Reminder that Clinton ordered the bombing of Baghdad (NOT at war with 🇺🇸 at the time) the evening before he was due to testify before Congress re: Monica Lewinsky.

He, too, was willing to kill in order to deflect public attention from his sexual pecadillos.
December 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
CORRECTION!

ICE is MUCH more than "the partisan militia of MAGA". ICE agents don't care WHICH party is in power: they're pathetic little hitlers with delusions of grandeur who get off on strutting about and causing misery.

The white ones are racist scum and the non-white ones are traitorous shits.
ICE have revealed themselves to be nothing more than the partisan militia of MAGA. When Trump became president, he did not "execute Order 66." They have been yearning for the Day of the Rope since their founding, and all Trump did was give free rein to their basest impulses.
December 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
>>[His] illegal hacking of this website in 2021 has been placed front and centre in the national news after Steve Reed, the MP for Streatham (and Croydon North when he can be bothered), chose to question someone else’s morality on Christmas Day.<<

(He'd previously hacked fellow Labour councillors.)
"Reed being let loose as a Christmas Day attack dog shows how worried Labour have become about Polanski and the Green Party,”

Really awkward for Steve Reed that it just drew lots of attention to the unlawful hacking of a website!

insidecroydon.com/2025/12/27/m...
MP Reed spent Christmas tweeting link to Inside Croydon
Housing minister’s attack against the Green Party leader may have back-fired, as the cabinet member flagged up reports linking him to the unlawful hacking of this website. By STEVEN DOWNES Th…
insidecroydon.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Today's reminder that in 🇬🇧, if you protest against a regime that TORTURES CHILDREN in its prisons, and has killed over 17,000 children (often targeting them), YOU are a terrorist... according to 🇬🇧's Prime Minister, a former HUMAN RIGHTS lawyer!

I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION.
#ISupportPalestineAction!
December 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
>>This framing [...] sets a dangerous precedent that any occupied or colonised people who resist must lay down their weapons or face the same fate as Gaza. It whispers to every oppressed population that their survival depends [...] on their perfect submission to those who seek to erase them.<<
December 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
@leftwardswing.bsky.social

I used to admire Bernie, but - even back in the 2020 Dem primaries, and after saying that we need to call out corruption & bad politics in BOTH main parties - he pulled his punches with "my good friend Joe Biden" and got ANGRY WITH / DISOWNED his own supporters who were👇
"too" critical of Joe.

He COULD'VE won if he'd pointed out every time (there were many!) that Biden told an outright lie or misrepresented what he [Bernie] was saying.

Bernie HELPED Joe get the nomination.

And now his "🇮🇱 has a right to defend itself" in the middle of a genocide?!

Go to hell, B!
December 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The Shitlib post to which this👇 was a quote-reposting got deleted.

Don't let up. Give them hell.
"Sorry but this is just not the hill to die on at the moment. Pro-Black rights here but come on guys..."

What you're saying now about trans and immigrant people is what you would have said during the push for the Civil Rights Act. You are the moderate King complained about.
December 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Said: "Charlie Kirk [...] Caleb has persisted with the same grift. Excuse me. [...] Trust me, honey. You're not a grifter."

Unsaid: "Believe me, I should know. I lived with one for over four years!"

And am I the four thousanth person to point out that there are 3 Ks in eriKa KirK?
December 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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"[O]ne-year anniversary of Israel abducting Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya."

"Abu Safiya's mother died of a heart attack [..] attributed to 'severe sadness.'"

"Don't forget him. And don't stop calling for his release."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Healthcare #Genocide #Incarceration #Torture #SexualAssault
'Free Them All': One Year After Dr. Abu Safiya Abducted, Israel Urged to Release Gaza Health Workers
"We won't forget him nor the 360+ health workers Israel has abducted from Gaza since October 2023," said CodePink.
www.commondreams.org
December 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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fun fact: ICE was created in 2002 with near unanimous support from congressional democrats!
April 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been abducted by Israel for 365 days.
December 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Think about how little barrier exists now between the cocaine thoughts of any given CEO or executive, and you.

They're *all* drunkenly slurring their fucked up thoughts openly and publicly now.

Zero inhibition, you *will* be forced to know what arouses Elon
December 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Spot the terrorist.

(Hint: it's not the ones you think!)

I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION.
#ISupportPalestineAction!
December 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM