John Hedges
@johnhedges109.bsky.social
Lefty Londoner in Lanarkshire. 🏴 😉
Scottish independence. 🏴 👍🏻
Up the Republic! 🇮🇪 ✊🏻
Scottish independence. 🏴 👍🏻
Up the Republic! 🇮🇪 ✊🏻
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Another excellent example of Trump behaving totally normal and sane.
Trump: “I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean “THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it."
December 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Another excellent example of Trump behaving totally normal and sane.
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How do you stop people protesting against genocide?
Our news media has decided the answer is to stop reporting genocide, rather than to insist that politicians stop supporting genocide.
This is the world we live in.
The world Palestinians die in.
Our news media has decided the answer is to stop reporting genocide, rather than to insist that politicians stop supporting genocide.
This is the world we live in.
The world Palestinians die in.
There is no ceasefire in Gaza - hundreds of Palestinians have been murdered in recent weeks. Instead, there is a news blackout arranged under the pretence of a ceasefire to suppress public outrage while Israel keeps killing.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers
Since the ceasefire took effect, Israeli attacks have killed at least 377 Palestinians and injured 987.
www.aljazeera.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
How do you stop people protesting against genocide?
Our news media has decided the answer is to stop reporting genocide, rather than to insist that politicians stop supporting genocide.
This is the world we live in.
The world Palestinians die in.
Our news media has decided the answer is to stop reporting genocide, rather than to insist that politicians stop supporting genocide.
This is the world we live in.
The world Palestinians die in.
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Canada announced a $1.2 billion initiative to attract more than 1,000 doctors, researchers, and scientists in fields targeted by the Trump administration’s restrictive immigration policies and funding cuts.
Canada Launches $1B Plan to Lure Researchers Sick of Trump
The move seeks to position Canada as a safe haven for researchers and scientists targeted by the administration.
trib.al
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Canada announced a $1.2 billion initiative to attract more than 1,000 doctors, researchers, and scientists in fields targeted by the Trump administration’s restrictive immigration policies and funding cuts.
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If only... I suspect people who visit here know exactly what I think about hotel shouters & flag hijackers...
These so called 'Christian' people who denigrate people fleeing war & persecution will be the very same people who will sit around the table on Christmas day to celebrate a refugee's birth.
These so called 'Christian' people who denigrate people fleeing war & persecution will be the very same people who will sit around the table on Christmas day to celebrate a refugee's birth.
December 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
If only... I suspect people who visit here know exactly what I think about hotel shouters & flag hijackers...
These so called 'Christian' people who denigrate people fleeing war & persecution will be the very same people who will sit around the table on Christmas day to celebrate a refugee's birth.
These so called 'Christian' people who denigrate people fleeing war & persecution will be the very same people who will sit around the table on Christmas day to celebrate a refugee's birth.
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There are 33 Palestine Action activist prisoners in British jails being held without trial. Six are on hunger strike, protesting against being labelled as 'terrorists' & their pre-trial detention. They are nearing death & will refuse food until Elbit Systems, the real terrorist, is shut down.
December 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
There are 33 Palestine Action activist prisoners in British jails being held without trial. Six are on hunger strike, protesting against being labelled as 'terrorists' & their pre-trial detention. They are nearing death & will refuse food until Elbit Systems, the real terrorist, is shut down.
🇺🇸⚽🏅 Every FIFA representative at a media launch and briefing should be grilled about how and why this 'inaugural peace prize' came about and who agreed to award it to Donald Trump. #FOI
December 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🇺🇸⚽🏅 Every FIFA representative at a media launch and briefing should be grilled about how and why this 'inaugural peace prize' came about and who agreed to award it to Donald Trump. #FOI
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Bit rich of Donald Trump to accuse Zelenskyy of not reading ‘his’ peace plan, given Trump himself notoriously doesn’t read anything longer than half a page long. And even that needs to be bullet points.
December 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Bit rich of Donald Trump to accuse Zelenskyy of not reading ‘his’ peace plan, given Trump himself notoriously doesn’t read anything longer than half a page long. And even that needs to be bullet points.
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The tech oligarchs are the most organised, determined anti democratic force we’ve seen this side of World War II
For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated
What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated
What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The tech oligarchs are the most organised, determined anti democratic force we’ve seen this side of World War II
For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated
What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated
What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
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I hope the Scottish media presses Malcolm Offord on the hypocrisy of a man who set up the Vote No Borders campaign announcing he'll be standing for a party which wants to close borders to everyone who's not white and rich.
But I won't be holding my breath
But I won't be holding my breath
December 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I hope the Scottish media presses Malcolm Offord on the hypocrisy of a man who set up the Vote No Borders campaign announcing he'll be standing for a party which wants to close borders to everyone who's not white and rich.
But I won't be holding my breath
But I won't be holding my breath
⚽️🤦🏻♂️🫣 FIFA credibility on respect, self-respect and FIFA’s very own ‘No Discrimination’ campaign just took a huge nosedive with this embarrassing FIFA nonsense to feed the insatiable ego of the racist, anti-immigrant Trump and his ICE goon squads impersonating 1930s Brownshirts. #NoKings
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
⚽️🤦🏻♂️🫣 FIFA credibility on respect, self-respect and FIFA’s very own ‘No Discrimination’ campaign just took a huge nosedive with this embarrassing FIFA nonsense to feed the insatiable ego of the racist, anti-immigrant Trump and his ICE goon squads impersonating 1930s Brownshirts. #NoKings
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Trump calls human beings “vermin,” “garbage,” “diseases,” “poison,” and “animals.”
Then, when I rightfully point out that the same dehumanizing language has been used by fascist regimes to justify humanity’s worst atrocities—Republicans lose their minds.
Give me a break.
Then, when I rightfully point out that the same dehumanizing language has been used by fascist regimes to justify humanity’s worst atrocities—Republicans lose their minds.
Give me a break.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Trump calls human beings “vermin,” “garbage,” “diseases,” “poison,” and “animals.”
Then, when I rightfully point out that the same dehumanizing language has been used by fascist regimes to justify humanity’s worst atrocities—Republicans lose their minds.
Give me a break.
Then, when I rightfully point out that the same dehumanizing language has been used by fascist regimes to justify humanity’s worst atrocities—Republicans lose their minds.
Give me a break.
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MSNBC (1938): Hitler takes a different view on Jews.
MSNBC reporter presents Trump's shameful racism towards Somalis as merely "a different view"
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
MSNBC (1938): Hitler takes a different view on Jews.
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🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS: The police have banned anti-monarchy protests in Windsor. This is an attack on British democracy and the right to free speech. #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy
December 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS: The police have banned anti-monarchy protests in Windsor. This is an attack on British democracy and the right to free speech. #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy
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Michelle Mone who got paid nearly triple the cost of her useless PPE, is still jetting and sailing around the world in her megayacht with her £232m.
Crime pays when you are rich, because they never send you to jail.
Crime pays when you are rich, because they never send you to jail.
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Michelle Mone who got paid nearly triple the cost of her useless PPE, is still jetting and sailing around the world in her megayacht with her £232m.
Crime pays when you are rich, because they never send you to jail.
Crime pays when you are rich, because they never send you to jail.
🤔 So is Trump and GOP going to expel all Afghan 🇺🇸 allies and sacrifice them to the Taliban, and what do US military chiefs think of this idea?
Q: You said this suspect was flown in under the Biden admin. But was he granted asylum under your administration?
TRUMP: Uh, when it comes to asylum, when they're flown in, it's very hard to get them out no matter how you want to do it. But we're gonna be getting them all out now. *slams table*
TRUMP: Uh, when it comes to asylum, when they're flown in, it's very hard to get them out no matter how you want to do it. But we're gonna be getting them all out now. *slams table*
November 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
🤔 So is Trump and GOP going to expel all Afghan 🇺🇸 allies and sacrifice them to the Taliban, and what do US military chiefs think of this idea?
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Pro-Israel lobby groups -- Labour Friends of Israel, Conservative Friends of Israel, Reform Friends of Israel and the European Leadership Network (ELNET) -- have flown British MPs out to the country at least 56 times since the Gaza genocide started.
www.declassifieduk.org/friends-of-i...
www.declassifieduk.org/friends-of-i...
‘Friends of Israel’ groups have funded 56 trips for British politicians
Lobby organisations spent £133,000 flying MPs to Israel in two years since the genocide began
www.declassifieduk.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Pro-Israel lobby groups -- Labour Friends of Israel, Conservative Friends of Israel, Reform Friends of Israel and the European Leadership Network (ELNET) -- have flown British MPs out to the country at least 56 times since the Gaza genocide started.
www.declassifieduk.org/friends-of-i...
www.declassifieduk.org/friends-of-i...
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior
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Israeli attacks target Palestinians in their cars, shelters and homes in latest violation of the US-brokered truce.
Israeli forces kill 24 Palestinians in Gaza; Hamas urges US to intervene
Israeli attacks target Palestinians in their cars, shelters and homes in latest violation of the US-brokered truce.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Israeli attacks target Palestinians in their cars, shelters and homes in latest violation of the US-brokered truce.
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Israel's military has bombed Beirut for the first time since June, claiming to target a Hezbollah member in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh.
It's the latest violation of a ceasefire Israel signed with Hezbollah a year ago, which Israel has broken with near-daily attacks on southern Lebanon.
It's the latest violation of a ceasefire Israel signed with Hezbollah a year ago, which Israel has broken with near-daily attacks on southern Lebanon.
November 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Israel's military has bombed Beirut for the first time since June, claiming to target a Hezbollah member in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh.
It's the latest violation of a ceasefire Israel signed with Hezbollah a year ago, which Israel has broken with near-daily attacks on southern Lebanon.
It's the latest violation of a ceasefire Israel signed with Hezbollah a year ago, which Israel has broken with near-daily attacks on southern Lebanon.
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Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
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Maybe it wasn’t really about Zelensky’s suit after all? 🤨
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Maybe it wasn’t really about Zelensky’s suit after all? 🤨
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To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?
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An important part of the job for any WH Press Secretary is to clean up remarks made by the president or offer explanation/context or apology when warranted. But Leavitt never does that. She always crafts a response that makes it even worse by adding her own toxic twist.
November 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
An important part of the job for any WH Press Secretary is to clean up remarks made by the president or offer explanation/context or apology when warranted. But Leavitt never does that. She always crafts a response that makes it even worse by adding her own toxic twist.