Sally Hunter
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“To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing” - Raymond Williams
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First Nations communities in the US are like 👀
Trump: "I'm a fan of Denmark too. They've been very nice to me. But the fact that they had a boat land there [Greenland] 500 years ago doesn't mean they own the land. I'm sure we had lots of boats go there also."
January 9, 2026 at 9:13 PM
First Nations communities in the US are like 👀
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I am well aware that this isn't new, and that this murder happened four blocks from where George Floyd was murdered.
The specific reaction from Trump, Vance, Noem et al is very telling though. It's saying "if you protest, if you don't go along with everything we do, we can kill you on the spot. 2/2
The specific reaction from Trump, Vance, Noem et al is very telling though. It's saying "if you protest, if you don't go along with everything we do, we can kill you on the spot. 2/2
January 8, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I am well aware that this isn't new, and that this murder happened four blocks from where George Floyd was murdered.
The specific reaction from Trump, Vance, Noem et al is very telling though. It's saying "if you protest, if you don't go along with everything we do, we can kill you on the spot. 2/2
The specific reaction from Trump, Vance, Noem et al is very telling though. It's saying "if you protest, if you don't go along with everything we do, we can kill you on the spot. 2/2
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It's not exactly new, but it is bloody disturbing how we live in a day and age where you have video evidence of a woman being shot in cold blood, multiple eye witnesses saying she was shot in cold blood, and you still have people claiming it was Renee Good's fault for being shot in cold blood. 1/2
January 8, 2026 at 7:54 PM
It's not exactly new, but it is bloody disturbing how we live in a day and age where you have video evidence of a woman being shot in cold blood, multiple eye witnesses saying she was shot in cold blood, and you still have people claiming it was Renee Good's fault for being shot in cold blood. 1/2
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Due to popular demand we’re now offering this course hybrid so you’re welcome to join us wherever you are in the world! #trauma #theology #learning
Drawing on contemporary psychological, pastoral, theological, and biblical research, this short course led by Dr Karen O’Donnell, Dr Alison Gray and Robin Barden will provide an introduction to trauma, theology and more. Scan QR for full course details or visit: https://buff.ly/3d012Np
January 8, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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They shot her and then prevented a doctor from trying to save her. Meanwhile right wing commentators make out having pronouns in her bio somehow 'justifies' this.
This is the organisation Badenoch wants to replicate here, while Starmer panders to the man currently painting the victim as the villain.
This is the organisation Badenoch wants to replicate here, while Starmer panders to the man currently painting the victim as the villain.
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 9:27 AM
They shot her and then prevented a doctor from trying to save her. Meanwhile right wing commentators make out having pronouns in her bio somehow 'justifies' this.
This is the organisation Badenoch wants to replicate here, while Starmer panders to the man currently painting the victim as the villain.
This is the organisation Badenoch wants to replicate here, while Starmer panders to the man currently painting the victim as the villain.
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Smugglers often force people to pilot boats, using threats against them or their families. Prosecuting an Afghan 18 year old seeking asylum for this is twisted and shows how Labour is more interested in playing to Reform than ensuring people are provided with safety.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
First person charged under new small boat Channel crossing law - BBC News
Aman Naseri, 18, denies endangering 46 people during a boat crossing to the UK on 5 January.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Smugglers often force people to pilot boats, using threats against them or their families. Prosecuting an Afghan 18 year old seeking asylum for this is twisted and shows how Labour is more interested in playing to Reform than ensuring people are provided with safety.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
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Worth noting that even as Trump bombs Venezuela to unilaterally seize Maduro on domestic US charges, the ICC judges who voted to investigate US war crimes in Afghanistan face such severe US banking sanctions that they are for all intents and purposes excluded from modern life.
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
www.irishtimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Worth noting that even as Trump bombs Venezuela to unilaterally seize Maduro on domestic US charges, the ICC judges who voted to investigate US war crimes in Afghanistan face such severe US banking sanctions that they are for all intents and purposes excluded from modern life.
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Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
January 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Maduro has overseen the largest refugee crisis in Latin America, and at one point the second largest in the world.
That still does not allow Trump to launch military attacks against a sovereign nation.
If the benchmark was the leader was an inhumane arse then everyone would be invading America.
That still does not allow Trump to launch military attacks against a sovereign nation.
If the benchmark was the leader was an inhumane arse then everyone would be invading America.
Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
January 3, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Maduro has overseen the largest refugee crisis in Latin America, and at one point the second largest in the world.
That still does not allow Trump to launch military attacks against a sovereign nation.
If the benchmark was the leader was an inhumane arse then everyone would be invading America.
That still does not allow Trump to launch military attacks against a sovereign nation.
If the benchmark was the leader was an inhumane arse then everyone would be invading America.
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She is a British citizen. She was groomed by grown men when she was a CHILD. I’m not saying there should be no consequences, but stripping her of citizenship is wrong. She’s also had children who died. My goodness, she has learned the hard way. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shamima Begum: Home secretary to 'robustly defend' citizenship decision
The ECHR questions whether it was considered if Shamima Begum was a victim of grooming and trafficking.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 8:18 PM
She is a British citizen. She was groomed by grown men when she was a CHILD. I’m not saying there should be no consequences, but stripping her of citizenship is wrong. She’s also had children who died. My goodness, she has learned the hard way. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This is exactly right and applies to climate as well as immigration policy. There’s a real chance the next UK government could deny climate science, repeal the Climate Change Act, quit the Paris Agreement, axe all clean energy and efficiency policies, and deliver coal mining and fracking projects.
This is both entirely correct and misses the point completely, which is that the 'online weirdos" are effectively writing Conservative and Reform policy & have significantly influenced the government's own worst and most xenophobic policies.
Trump should have taught us not to laugh this stuff off.
Trump should have taught us not to laugh this stuff off.
Real talk: there's this circle of extremely online weirdos who firmly believe they're on the verge of victory and are going to expel millions of people from Britain.
Play acting Napoleons planning their March through Moscow from a Daventry bedsit
Play acting Napoleons planning their March through Moscow from a Daventry bedsit
January 1, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This is exactly right and applies to climate as well as immigration policy. There’s a real chance the next UK government could deny climate science, repeal the Climate Change Act, quit the Paris Agreement, axe all clean energy and efficiency policies, and deliver coal mining and fracking projects.
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This is both entirely correct and misses the point completely, which is that the 'online weirdos" are effectively writing Conservative and Reform policy & have significantly influenced the government's own worst and most xenophobic policies.
Trump should have taught us not to laugh this stuff off.
Trump should have taught us not to laugh this stuff off.
Real talk: there's this circle of extremely online weirdos who firmly believe they're on the verge of victory and are going to expel millions of people from Britain.
Play acting Napoleons planning their March through Moscow from a Daventry bedsit
Play acting Napoleons planning their March through Moscow from a Daventry bedsit
Yeah it's probably because you're talking about 'English-Jewish relations' and threatening to deport us all if we don't fall in line with your ramblings
January 1, 2026 at 11:29 AM
This is both entirely correct and misses the point completely, which is that the 'online weirdos" are effectively writing Conservative and Reform policy & have significantly influenced the government's own worst and most xenophobic policies.
Trump should have taught us not to laugh this stuff off.
Trump should have taught us not to laugh this stuff off.
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What's needed is a genuinely progressive asylum policy which focuses on protection over penalisation. We need genuinely safer options for people to be able to seek asylum in UK, coupled with policies here to ensure people can live safely and securely. You know the opposite of Labour's policies. 3/
January 1, 2026 at 10:23 AM
What's needed is a genuinely progressive asylum policy which focuses on protection over penalisation. We need genuinely safer options for people to be able to seek asylum in UK, coupled with policies here to ensure people can live safely and securely. You know the opposite of Labour's policies. 3/
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Begum may be 'distasteful', but it is pretty clear she was a victim of grooming and trafficking. The decision to make her defacto stateless is also clearly incompatibile with the principles of international law. Labour doubling down doesn't change that it is bad. 1/2
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Shamima Begum: Home secretary to 'robustly defend' citizenship decision
The ECHR questions whether it was considered if Shamima Begum was a victim of grooming and trafficking.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Begum may be 'distasteful', but it is pretty clear she was a victim of grooming and trafficking. The decision to make her defacto stateless is also clearly incompatibile with the principles of international law. Labour doubling down doesn't change that it is bad. 1/2
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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We are now at 75k signatures, with many messages of support on Instagram, Facebook and here.
This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls.
Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜
notinourname.org.uk
This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls.
Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜
notinourname.org.uk
Home - Not in our name
Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community
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December 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
We are now at 75k signatures, with many messages of support on Instagram, Facebook and here.
This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls.
Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜
notinourname.org.uk
This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls.
Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜
notinourname.org.uk
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Giveaway!
I’m giving one lucky person the chance to pick one shelf of books from our Bertvent bookcase.
Follow and repost by midday on Saturday 27th and I’ll pick someone at random! Which shelf will you choose?
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I’m giving one lucky person the chance to pick one shelf of books from our Bertvent bookcase.
Follow and repost by midday on Saturday 27th and I’ll pick someone at random! Which shelf will you choose?
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December 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Giveaway!
I’m giving one lucky person the chance to pick one shelf of books from our Bertvent bookcase.
Follow and repost by midday on Saturday 27th and I’ll pick someone at random! Which shelf will you choose?
(UK only)
I’m giving one lucky person the chance to pick one shelf of books from our Bertvent bookcase.
Follow and repost by midday on Saturday 27th and I’ll pick someone at random! Which shelf will you choose?
(UK only)
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These are not people serving sentences. They are people awaiting trial. And yet the conditions they describe – prolonged pre-trial detention, restrictions on communication, isolation – are indistinguishable from punishment.
www.thenational.scot/news/2570995...
www.thenational.scot/news/2570995...
In Common: Palestine Action saga reveals the fiction of the law
Good evening! This week's edition of the In Common newsletter comes from Megan Davidson, policy communications officer at Common Weal.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
These are not people serving sentences. They are people awaiting trial. And yet the conditions they describe – prolonged pre-trial detention, restrictions on communication, isolation – are indistinguishable from punishment.
www.thenational.scot/news/2570995...
www.thenational.scot/news/2570995...
“I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why”| Amu Gib www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib
Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why”| Amu Gib www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison – all without even facing trial.
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
December 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison – all without even facing trial.
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
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Mears, Serco, and Clearsprings oversee most asylum accommodation in UK and make huge profits doing so, despite a significant proportion of accommodation being substandard. It isn't people seeking safety costing taxpayers money, it's the firms making profits off of them.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Mears: Life in the asylum hotels generating 'excessive profit'
Asylum accommodation provider Mears has had to return £13.8m to the Home Office after making more profit than its contracts allow.
www.bbc.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Mears, Serco, and Clearsprings oversee most asylum accommodation in UK and make huge profits doing so, despite a significant proportion of accommodation being substandard. It isn't people seeking safety costing taxpayers money, it's the firms making profits off of them.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...