John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social
@johnlowe56.bsky.social
Contemporary History and Politics MA. Green Party. Appalled by world events currently. Like football, cats, dogs, Scotland.
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Just like Hitler wanted Poland to succeed.
"Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine, succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
Donald Trump
"Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine, succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
Donald Trump
December 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Just like Hitler wanted Poland to succeed.
"Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine, succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
Donald Trump
"Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine, succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
Donald Trump
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BBC: "Executions in Iran estimated to have doubled in 2025, report says"
Ok. Now, here's what BBC will not talk about:
Executions in USA have doubled in 2025 ( 25 vs 47 )
Brave BBC...
Ok. Now, here's what BBC will not talk about:
Executions in USA have doubled in 2025 ( 25 vs 47 )
Brave BBC...
December 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
BBC: "Executions in Iran estimated to have doubled in 2025, report says"
Ok. Now, here's what BBC will not talk about:
Executions in USA have doubled in 2025 ( 25 vs 47 )
Brave BBC...
Ok. Now, here's what BBC will not talk about:
Executions in USA have doubled in 2025 ( 25 vs 47 )
Brave BBC...
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I already agree with this in principle - citizenship is an untouchable status or it is nothing - but also for reasons of prudence. “The Home Sec can revoke citizenship when he/she deems someone’s online output sufficiently offensive” is a v dangerous precedent to set with Reform leading all polls.
Hell, I'm not convinced we should revoke citizenship at all.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
December 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I already agree with this in principle - citizenship is an untouchable status or it is nothing - but also for reasons of prudence. “The Home Sec can revoke citizenship when he/she deems someone’s online output sufficiently offensive” is a v dangerous precedent to set with Reform leading all polls.
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Not a single Sensible Holder of the Left to Account for Antisemitism has noticed let alone condemned this appalling racism. Complete crickets
No idea who Laurent Brindeau is, but isn’t this caricature of @zackpolanski.bsky.social in today’s @dailymailpolitics.bsky.social ragingly antisemitic?
December 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Not a single Sensible Holder of the Left to Account for Antisemitism has noticed let alone condemned this appalling racism. Complete crickets
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2025 in the UK in a nutshell, folks: some of the country's most odious racists, who also never shut up about free speech & the right to offend, calling for a man from a racialised minority to have his citizenship cancelled over alleged racist speech, while the media dutifully jots it all down
Home secretary urged to strip activist of British citizenship
Shabana Mahmood is facing growing calls to revoke the citizenship of British-Egyptian dual national Alaa Abdel Fattah after the emergence of social media posts.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
2025 in the UK in a nutshell, folks: some of the country's most odious racists, who also never shut up about free speech & the right to offend, calling for a man from a racialised minority to have his citizenship cancelled over alleged racist speech, while the media dutifully jots it all down
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Fun fact.
Bluetooth is the Anglicised version of the Scandinavian Blåtand, the epithet of King Harald Bluetooth, who united the disparate Danish tribes into a single kingdom
The Bluetooth logo merges the Younger Futhark runes ᚼ, Hagal and ᛒ, Bjarkan, Harald's initials.
Bluetooth is the Anglicised version of the Scandinavian Blåtand, the epithet of King Harald Bluetooth, who united the disparate Danish tribes into a single kingdom
The Bluetooth logo merges the Younger Futhark runes ᚼ, Hagal and ᛒ, Bjarkan, Harald's initials.
December 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Fun fact.
Bluetooth is the Anglicised version of the Scandinavian Blåtand, the epithet of King Harald Bluetooth, who united the disparate Danish tribes into a single kingdom
The Bluetooth logo merges the Younger Futhark runes ᚼ, Hagal and ᛒ, Bjarkan, Harald's initials.
Bluetooth is the Anglicised version of the Scandinavian Blåtand, the epithet of King Harald Bluetooth, who united the disparate Danish tribes into a single kingdom
The Bluetooth logo merges the Younger Futhark runes ᚼ, Hagal and ᛒ, Bjarkan, Harald's initials.
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The Conservative Party is simultaneously arguing people shouldn’t be jailed for social media posts directly calling for violence, but also that people’s citizenship should be revoked over social media posts they don’t like.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
December 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The Conservative Party is simultaneously arguing people shouldn’t be jailed for social media posts directly calling for violence, but also that people’s citizenship should be revoked over social media posts they don’t like.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
Very concerning about the newly released British citizen jailed in Egypt. He has rights. These must be respected. It is fine for Farage to be Islamophobic or for Patel or Rees-Mogg to make anti Irish statements but as soon as you criticize Israel there are calls for citizenship to be removed.
December 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Very concerning about the newly released British citizen jailed in Egypt. He has rights. These must be respected. It is fine for Farage to be Islamophobic or for Patel or Rees-Mogg to make anti Irish statements but as soon as you criticize Israel there are calls for citizenship to be removed.
We don't have to eat meat. Nor if we do, must we buy Australian imported.
December 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
We don't have to eat meat. Nor if we do, must we buy Australian imported.
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I will never regret being part of the movement to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, or writing the foreword to his extraordinary book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated.
Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom.
#FreeAlaa Always.
freealaa.net/alaa-response
Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom.
#FreeAlaa Always.
freealaa.net/alaa-response
Statement in response to historic tweets
I am shaken that, just as I am being reunited with my family for the first time in 12 years, several historic tweets of mine have been republished and used to question and attack my integrity and valu...
freealaa.net
December 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I will never regret being part of the movement to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, or writing the foreword to his extraordinary book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated.
Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom.
#FreeAlaa Always.
freealaa.net/alaa-response
Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom.
#FreeAlaa Always.
freealaa.net/alaa-response
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Dogs during bath time: absolute chaos, zero regrets
December 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Dogs during bath time: absolute chaos, zero regrets
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“The consultant at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust described dilemmas facing hospital managers when some patients are having to be given end-of-life care in A&E corridors”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hospitals warned end-of-life care crisis threatening treatment
A rising number of patients in hospitals could affect the level of treatment carried out this winter, a group of regional NHS leaders have been told.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
“The consultant at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust described dilemmas facing hospital managers when some patients are having to be given end-of-life care in A&E corridors”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Brexit - truly the gift that keeps on giving.
December 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Brexit - truly the gift that keeps on giving.
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European Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia): This white bird gets its name from its remarkably shaped bill. It is native to Europe, North Africa and Asia all the way east to Japan. Photo taken by Brian Hardy at Abberton, Essex, UK #spoonbill #bird #birds #wildlife #abberton #essex #nature
December 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
December 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
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Sad news: Daniel Brélaz was elected as a Green Party member of the Swiss National Parliament in 1979, making him the first Green Party member of parliament in the world.
Mayor of Lausanne for 15 years, "significantly developing public transport"
RIP
www.humanite.fr/carnet/deces...
Mayor of Lausanne for 15 years, "significantly developing public transport"
RIP
www.humanite.fr/carnet/deces...
Mort du « Géant vert » Daniel Brélaz, premier parlementaire écologiste élu au monde - L'Humanité
L’ancien maire de Lausanne et premier député écologiste au monde à être élu à un parlement national, Daniel Brélaz, est mort d’une crise cardiaque à 75 ans, a annoncé sa fami...
www.humanite.fr
December 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Sad news: Daniel Brélaz was elected as a Green Party member of the Swiss National Parliament in 1979, making him the first Green Party member of parliament in the world.
Mayor of Lausanne for 15 years, "significantly developing public transport"
RIP
www.humanite.fr/carnet/deces...
Mayor of Lausanne for 15 years, "significantly developing public transport"
RIP
www.humanite.fr/carnet/deces...
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The deployment comes after deadly unrest amid protests by the Alawite minority in the coastal cities.
Syrian gov't troops deployed to Latakia, Tartous after deadly clashes
The deployment comes after deadly unrest amid protests by the Alawite minority in the coastal cities.
www.aljazeera.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The deployment comes after deadly unrest amid protests by the Alawite minority in the coastal cities.
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Trump is no JFK
Trump is no Nixon
Trump is a 34 count felon, adjudicated rapist and a pedophile.
#EpsteinFiles
#PedoTrump
Trump is no Nixon
Trump is a 34 count felon, adjudicated rapist and a pedophile.
#EpsteinFiles
#PedoTrump
December 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Trump is no JFK
Trump is no Nixon
Trump is a 34 count felon, adjudicated rapist and a pedophile.
#EpsteinFiles
#PedoTrump
Trump is no Nixon
Trump is a 34 count felon, adjudicated rapist and a pedophile.
#EpsteinFiles
#PedoTrump
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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⚡️ 🔻🔹Channel 14 from a senior Trump administration official:
I don't think President Trump wants to launch a new attack on Iran, at least not at the moment.
I don't think President Trump wants to launch a new attack on Iran, at least not at the moment.
December 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
⚡️ 🔻🔹Channel 14 from a senior Trump administration official:
I don't think President Trump wants to launch a new attack on Iran, at least not at the moment.
I don't think President Trump wants to launch a new attack on Iran, at least not at the moment.
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Cats are ok (slow intro), no dogs, a quiet adult only home, love, patience & an amazing human is all MELIA needs. She can also be pulled by a rescue, can be fostered - To the right person. Repost to help her 🙏
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
December 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Cats are ok (slow intro), no dogs, a quiet adult only home, love, patience & an amazing human is all MELIA needs. She can also be pulled by a rescue, can be fostered - To the right person. Repost to help her 🙏
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
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Israel has a larger population of Muslims (i.e. Muslim Palestinian citizens of Israel incl. Bedouins, other Arabs, Circassians, even a few thousand Sudanese) than Arab League members Comoros, Djibouti and Bahrain.
December 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Israel has a larger population of Muslims (i.e. Muslim Palestinian citizens of Israel incl. Bedouins, other Arabs, Circassians, even a few thousand Sudanese) than Arab League members Comoros, Djibouti and Bahrain.