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efemera
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Thinking member of the human race. Prone to sarcasm.

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bradfordgreens.bsky.social
🎬 Here's why 100,000 people have recently joined the Green Party ⤵️

✅️ Be the next: Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
efemerabis.bsky.social
So my typo prone mum messaged she'd got the loto. And my first thought was how she'd bumped into Kemi Badenoch.

I might need to dial back on the politics a bit!
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
efemerabis.bsky.social
Brilliant conversation here, addressing some of the usual attack lines eg NATO, nimbyism.

And, as usual, a BS free zone. Just plain speaking and authenticity.
November 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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encantinada.bsky.social
If you're going to read one article this weekend, make it this interview with the wonderful Zack Polanski.
Share it widely.

Honest answers to warm your heart fill you with hope. 💚
“Migration is really important for this country. People are worried about the lack of council homes, the difficulty of getting NHS appointments and the sense that the country is broken. They’re right to feel all of those things but those are not the problems of migrants – they are the problems of multimillionaires and billionaires, and politicians who have refused to tax them and invest in their community.”
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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chrisgrey.bsky.social
"Sir Keir told the BBC: 'Every minute that is spent talking about anything other than cost-of-living is a wasted minute in my book.'"

OK, so why does his government keep banging on about immigration?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Judge me at next election, Keir Starmer tells doubters
The PM tells the BBC he has made
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
efemerabis.bsky.social
I knew we were flying but WOW!

My jaw just dropped so hard I think I may have dislocated it!!

Huge welcome to all 100,000 new members! And team fistbumps to the 70,000 "old" ones!! 🌱💚🌱
zackpolanski.bsky.social Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d
Since I was elected leader of the Green Party, 100,000 new people have joined.

In just over two months:

170,000 people ready to make hope normal again.

This is only the beginning.

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November 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Breaking: Nigel’s mate nathan gill jailed for 10 years for taking Russian bribes www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
efemerabis.bsky.social
There's no crap in the water here either!

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November 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
efemerabis.bsky.social
10.5yrs for Gill.

The media are definitely going to start holding Reform to account now, right.

Right?!?!
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Left: New York: to protect you from flu and covid, everyone over 6 months can get vaccine boosters

Right: @ukhsa.bsky.social : mate, just cough into your elbow like Dracula
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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marcusjdl.bsky.social
Ok we said Labour is in the service of elites and not workers but you didn’t need to make it that fucking obvious Shabana
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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greenparty.org.uk
"I always believed in working with people to achieve the best for our city..."

@russell-moyle.co.uk on the reason he decided to leave the Labour Party for the Green Party.
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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It's almost like they feel entitled to tell us that we should be happy in poverty while they hoard all the resources that they don't need based on some weird ego trip that only the rich and powerful feel entitled to.
zackpolanski.bsky.social Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d
Entitled to lower bills.

Entitled to a liveable planet.

Entitled to make hope normal again.

Know your entitlement. Know our collective power.

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The revenge of the entitled. From Zack Polanski to Zohran Mamdani, the angry bourgeoisie is in revolt against populism
November 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Also from the leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social on TdoR
Image of Zack Polanski with the quote; "Trans women are women and trans men are men, and non-0binary identities also exist... I think its always important to be really clear about that."
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
Are you a trans person with a supportive parent?

Tell them about Transparent Action and the Transparent Pledge. It’s a way for trans-supportive parents voices to be heard, and for parents who want to *do* something, to get support in taking action at a level that suits them.
transparentaction.bsky.social Transparent Action @transparentaction.bsky.social · 4d
📜 Today we are launching the Transparent Pledge.

Please read and sign it here: 👉 tinyurl.com/TransparentAction

Transparent Action is a group of parents who want to take action in support of their trans, non-binary and gender diverse loved ones and the wider trans+ community.
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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nionwomen.bsky.social
🕯 Today we pause to remember the trans people whose lives were taken by violence this year. Those lost to hatred, and those lost to the unbearable weight of living in a world that too often refuses to see their worth.

We hold every name and every story in our hearts.

#TDOR
We see you. We remember you. We stand with you. You are not alone. #TDoR NION logo
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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greenparty.org.uk
Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence.

The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence. The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Since 31st October 2024, at least 340 trans people have lost their lives to anti-trans violence, or suicide. Transphobia kills. Please be an ally every day. tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from...
Remembering Our Dead - Reports
1 Nov 2024 to 20 Nov 2025
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November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
efemerabis.bsky.social
When you deny others their humanity, you relinquish your own.

We all deserve better.

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November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
It's time we asked a different question about migration: Why are so many British people leaving the UK?

inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
efemerabis.bsky.social
“I voted for Labour but I will be voting for the Greens next time, I think Zack Polanski talks a lot of sense, I’m fed up with Labour, they are targeting the wrong people.”

inews.co.uk/news/britain...
Inside Britain's hardest-working town that doesn't trust Labour with its taxes
The average salary for a resident in Warrington is £48,000 - more than what the Government is rumoured to consider a 'working person'
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November 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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greenparty.org.uk
At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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mothinali.bsky.social
It's international men's day, men are suffering from social isolation as a result of breakdown of community, the pressures and strains of being a man trying to fit into societal expectations can feel tough. We need to feel like we can talk more
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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xrglobal.bsky.social
The collapse of civilisation is on the horizon, but it’s never on the front pages.
The collapse of civilisation is on the horizon but it’s never on the front pages. Photo: frostfire
November 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Tried to get this published but no luck, so might as well ‘publish’ it here so it’s not a complete waste!

➡️ Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow

#asylum #Mahmood #history #humanrights
Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow   When I was 13, I visited a Nazi concentration camp for the first time, confronting my country’s dark history always—and rightly—a bedrock in my growing up.    One image from that visit has stayed with me ever since: a display of prisoners’ personal possessions.    It revealed a world in which those imprisoned were stripped not only of their freedom but of the last tangible traces of their humanity. That systematic erasure was the most important precondition for murdering millions.   Now, as a historian, I know that history does not flow into the present in a straight line, and direct comparisons are rarely appropriate. They certainly are not here.   But history is the one compass humanity has. Too often we choose to ignore it.    The Home Secretary’s proposals for changes to the UK’s asylum system represent such a moment of failure.    Yet the most troubling aspect of Labour’s frantic efforts to appear tough on immigration is not even the historical echoes that taking refugees’ possessions invokes. It is that cost recovery is not the real purpose of the rationale behind it.    The true aim is to appeal to a particular audience—those who take satisfaction in seeing people seeking refuge deprived of what little they have. It is hard to imagine a more troubling approach to policymaking, and that becomes even clearer when we consider the Home Secretary’s proposals in context.   As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% are hosted by low- and middle-income countries. The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. Around 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.   It is unconscionable that such a small and vulnerable population can be targeted with deliberate cruelty and weaponised for assumed political gain.   And that is all this will ever be. The core miscalculation is believing that adopting these positions will neutralise Reform.    Both historical knowledge and current research show the opposite. Mainstreaming extremist policies legitimises them further and aids only the original. Each step towards Reform’s territory simply gives Reform more power.   But our political discourse has been so degraded over the last decade that many no longer even recognise policies—or the language that frames them—as extreme.    That is how the Home Secretary can speak so casually of desperate people seeking sanctuary as recipients of a ‘golden ticket’ as though the context is Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory rather than countries torn apart by war and starved by famine. Speak of her ‘moral mission’ to withdraw support, alleging that ‘illegal migration is tearing our country apart.’ And warn of ‘dark forces stirring up anger,’ oblivious to her own role: from the use of blurry, dehumanising images of refugees to spread falsehoods about their impact on communities, to the equally false description of refugee movements as illegal migration.    I suggest the Home Secretary find a mirror if she is keen to understand who is helping turn anger into hate.   Because it is the mainstreaming of far-right talking points that the Home Secretary’s proposals represent that is really tearing our country apart.   For when a policy looks like the far right, speaks to the far right and is hailed by the far right as being far right, it is far right. There is a reason Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is jubilant and speaks of ‘the Overton window having been obliterated.’   This makes a mockery of the Prime Minister’s recent comments on the urgent need to tackle racism. But it also raises alarming questions about the impact this will have on communities around the country, many of which are already deeply divided.    The proposed policies will do nothing for these struggling communities, because their problems simply do not stem from people seeking sanctuary with us. In fact: for as long as politicians focus on immigrants and refugees as the cause of our problems, they will fail to deliver for the British people.   But it is important to grasp the impact of the Home Secretary’s proposals as they carry broader consequences for all of us. Suggestions for changes to how the European Convention on Human Rights is applied are particularly concerning. Requiring judges to prioritise ‘public safety’—falsely implying refugees pose a threat—would qualify human rights for a specific group.   And once one accepts that human rights can be qualified for one group, one creates tools that can be used against anyone.   So what these proposals really mean goes far beyond asylum policy. This is about the kind of country we will have in the future. If human rights are no longer universal, they become a means for exclusion and control.    That is why stripping rights from refugees today can only enable a system that endangers all our rights tomorrow.    And that is why our historical compass matters and why we have to use it now. Because that compass tells us without doubt that when first they come for one group that is never where it ends. 
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM