Saira
@sairai.bsky.social
You’ll get a mix of all kinds; politics, justice and all things arty and crafty with a bit of nature photography and writing thrown in.
GPA Vasculitis.
Always hopeful.
She/her.
GPA Vasculitis.
Always hopeful.
She/her.
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“Free speech for me, but not for thee”
Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
September 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
“Free speech for me, but not for thee”
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Privileged and honored to be speaking tonight at Wembley Arena at the Together for Palestine (@T4Plive) concert, alongside some big names from across the world, at 7pm UK time.
You can watch live on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...
You can watch live on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...
September 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Privileged and honored to be speaking tonight at Wembley Arena at the Together for Palestine (@T4Plive) concert, alongside some big names from across the world, at 7pm UK time.
You can watch live on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...
You can watch live on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...
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Well done @channel4tv.bsky.social
If this became a weekly series, it would run longer than The Simpsons.
September 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Well done @channel4tv.bsky.social
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There's no excuse of ignorance any more. Every single person on that fascist march knew who Tommy Robinson was and every single one of them knew why they were there.
This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.
This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.
September 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
There's no excuse of ignorance any more. Every single person on that fascist march knew who Tommy Robinson was and every single one of them knew why they were there.
This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.
This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.
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I have to agree. You don’t actively attend a march, led by such people, if you don’t know what they stand for.
You can try to dilute your reasons for being there all you like… but if you join in with an event like this, then you have to own it ALL.
You can try to dilute your reasons for being there all you like… but if you join in with an event like this, then you have to own it ALL.
There's no excuse of ignorance any more. Every single person on that fascist march knew who Tommy Robinson was and every single one of them knew why they were there.
This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.
This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.
September 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I have to agree. You don’t actively attend a march, led by such people, if you don’t know what they stand for.
You can try to dilute your reasons for being there all you like… but if you join in with an event like this, then you have to own it ALL.
You can try to dilute your reasons for being there all you like… but if you join in with an event like this, then you have to own it ALL.
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Football is about respect and fairness. Not sports-washing genocide. Italy is set to host Israel for the World Cup qualifiers while people in Gaza starve and die. Sign now to demand FIFA and UEFA ban Israel from international football! #banisrael action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-09...
Kick Israel out of the 2026 World Cup
Football is about respect and fairness. Not sports-washing genocide. Italy is set to host Israel for the World Cup qualifiers while people in Gaza starve and die. Sign now to demand FIFA and UEFA ban ...
action.wemove.eu
September 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Football is about respect and fairness. Not sports-washing genocide. Italy is set to host Israel for the World Cup qualifiers while people in Gaza starve and die. Sign now to demand FIFA and UEFA ban Israel from international football! #banisrael action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-09...
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I look at the ugly state of politics in the USA and ask myself how anyone with a brain would want that imported here... but then ... Reform...
September 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I look at the ugly state of politics in the USA and ask myself how anyone with a brain would want that imported here... but then ... Reform...
All of this except the government is not meekly nodding along.
Nearly every day hateful anti immigration rhetoric is being pumped out.
The government is actively dismantling the human rights of disabled, trans and older people.
All of this is f-right and they’re the ones in power.
Nearly every day hateful anti immigration rhetoric is being pumped out.
The government is actively dismantling the human rights of disabled, trans and older people.
All of this is f-right and they’re the ones in power.
Overt racism on our streets, flags as threats, Reform strutting around like they’re in power already, toxic radicalisation by Musk on X, politicians howling to leave the ECHR and to hell with the consequences…
How can the govt just meekly nod along?
FFS and for all our sakes, stand up to this shit.
How can the govt just meekly nod along?
FFS and for all our sakes, stand up to this shit.
September 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
All of this except the government is not meekly nodding along.
Nearly every day hateful anti immigration rhetoric is being pumped out.
The government is actively dismantling the human rights of disabled, trans and older people.
All of this is f-right and they’re the ones in power.
Nearly every day hateful anti immigration rhetoric is being pumped out.
The government is actively dismantling the human rights of disabled, trans and older people.
All of this is f-right and they’re the ones in power.
@fazalbaloch.bsky.social thank you for doing this work.
So happy! Can’t wait to read these.
Two wonderful books!
These are like gold dust to me - access to words and prose that are from people from whom one ancestrally belongs. For some of us in this world this is rare.
💚🤲🏽☀️
So happy! Can’t wait to read these.
Two wonderful books!
These are like gold dust to me - access to words and prose that are from people from whom one ancestrally belongs. For some of us in this world this is rare.
💚🤲🏽☀️
September 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
@fazalbaloch.bsky.social thank you for doing this work.
So happy! Can’t wait to read these.
Two wonderful books!
These are like gold dust to me - access to words and prose that are from people from whom one ancestrally belongs. For some of us in this world this is rare.
💚🤲🏽☀️
So happy! Can’t wait to read these.
Two wonderful books!
These are like gold dust to me - access to words and prose that are from people from whom one ancestrally belongs. For some of us in this world this is rare.
💚🤲🏽☀️
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September 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Imagine being so ‘patriotic’ you spend your Saturday vandalising roundabouts like Temu Banksy.
NHS underfunded, schools crumbling, but don’t worry — we’ve got freshly glossed patriotism between Tesco and the A46.
NHS underfunded, schools crumbling, but don’t worry — we’ve got freshly glossed patriotism between Tesco and the A46.
September 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Imagine being so ‘patriotic’ you spend your Saturday vandalising roundabouts like Temu Banksy.
NHS underfunded, schools crumbling, but don’t worry — we’ve got freshly glossed patriotism between Tesco and the A46.
NHS underfunded, schools crumbling, but don’t worry — we’ve got freshly glossed patriotism between Tesco and the A46.
This 🧵 details the extent that the various factions of the f-right are wanting to go to with support from the richest man on earth.
The ever-more radcalised Elon Musk regularly shares content from Steve Laws.
Laws leads breakaway faction quitting Homeland for its leader only supporting the voluntary, not forced repatriation of British-born minorities
"I don't care if they were born here, every single one must go" i
Laws leads breakaway faction quitting Homeland for its leader only supporting the voluntary, not forced repatriation of British-born minorities
"I don't care if they were born here, every single one must go" i
September 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
This 🧵 details the extent that the various factions of the f-right are wanting to go to with support from the richest man on earth.
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Brexit - the gateway drug to a dangerous obsession with immigration - next come deportation schemes, #Farageriots, increasing authoritarianism, overt racism from politicians and media, cruelty as policy, leaving the ECHR…
On and on. Relentless, ruinous failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
On and on. Relentless, ruinous failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik
The facts and the numbers are irrelevant: Donald Trump and Nigel Farage just find new excuses and increase the toxicity, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Brexit - the gateway drug to a dangerous obsession with immigration - next come deportation schemes, #Farageriots, increasing authoritarianism, overt racism from politicians and media, cruelty as policy, leaving the ECHR…
On and on. Relentless, ruinous failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
On and on. Relentless, ruinous failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children.
They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
September 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children.
They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
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Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from.
I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR."
It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR."
It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
September 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from.
I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR."
It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR."
It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
Every single place we look, hypocrisy reeks from those who have power and use it to manipulate and influence according to their spurious ends.
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So you're saying if we'd sprayed stuff white and then put a red cross on it the media would have supported us?
You live and learn I guess.
[Below, a roundabout in England painted with St George's flag]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ysg7hp6kgncoryoll2fz2pgk/bafkreigk4oedxcpckuvxaegjqc4atmjkfmb3guwybbialo6o5aiaq6m5jq@jpeg)
September 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Every single place we look, hypocrisy reeks from those who have power and use it to manipulate and influence according to their spurious ends.
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I’ve just seen a statement “model minority”.
Within this lies deep rooted racism.
Everyone, regardless of meeting some set of ‘humanising’ standards from those rooted in ‘whiteness’ are STILL human and should have the SAME rights, regardless.
Stop with this patronising cr#p!
Within this lies deep rooted racism.
Everyone, regardless of meeting some set of ‘humanising’ standards from those rooted in ‘whiteness’ are STILL human and should have the SAME rights, regardless.
Stop with this patronising cr#p!
August 31, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I’ve just seen a statement “model minority”.
Within this lies deep rooted racism.
Everyone, regardless of meeting some set of ‘humanising’ standards from those rooted in ‘whiteness’ are STILL human and should have the SAME rights, regardless.
Stop with this patronising cr#p!
Within this lies deep rooted racism.
Everyone, regardless of meeting some set of ‘humanising’ standards from those rooted in ‘whiteness’ are STILL human and should have the SAME rights, regardless.
Stop with this patronising cr#p!
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There can be absolutely no “shock” about this. The media has been shamelessly platforming Reform all summer. All summer, we’ve had hate-mongering headlines about immigration. It’s a tedious and grim inevitability that you’ve made people angry enough to want to vote for this shit in response.
August 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
There can be absolutely no “shock” about this. The media has been shamelessly platforming Reform all summer. All summer, we’ve had hate-mongering headlines about immigration. It’s a tedious and grim inevitability that you’ve made people angry enough to want to vote for this shit in response.
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Holy fck.
Why is the UK full of white, male fcking idiots with a platform?
Why is the UK full of white, male fcking idiots with a platform?
August 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Holy fck.
Why is the UK full of white, male fcking idiots with a platform?
Why is the UK full of white, male fcking idiots with a platform?
Just seen one of these where I live. No one has countered it yet. I hope they do.
August 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Just seen one of these where I live. No one has countered it yet. I hope they do.
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There is not one marginalized, racialized, or oppressed group whose oppression or destruction is an acceptable cost for saving "democracy." Not one.
If saving democracy requires leaving marginalized people behind, that's not a democracy worth saving.
Either we all get saved or none of us do.
If saving democracy requires leaving marginalized people behind, that's not a democracy worth saving.
Either we all get saved or none of us do.
August 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
There is not one marginalized, racialized, or oppressed group whose oppression or destruction is an acceptable cost for saving "democracy." Not one.
If saving democracy requires leaving marginalized people behind, that's not a democracy worth saving.
Either we all get saved or none of us do.
If saving democracy requires leaving marginalized people behind, that's not a democracy worth saving.
Either we all get saved or none of us do.