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"Art shouldn't be destroyed because it criticises the government"
- Jo Maugham
@goodlawproject.org
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/arts/design/banksy-destroyed.html
British Courts Service Destroys Banksy Mural Depicting Attack by Judge
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Dutch parliament votes to criminalize gay conversion therapy
Dutch parliament votes to criminalize gay conversion therapy
Therapy practices meant to “cure” homosexuality are set to become punishable by law. A majority in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, voted in favor of a bill by D66 and the VV...
nltimes.nl
September 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Thank you to @northwestbylines.co.uk for publishing my article on the horrifying discrimination faced by trans people right now in the UK.

Please share 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/equalit...
Left in the dark: how the recent court ruling has affected trans people
Since the UK Supreme Court ruling in April 2025, being themselves has become more difficult especially for trans women
northwestbylines.co.uk
July 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

2/20

Love Is In The Air - Banksky (2003)
September 8, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Greta Thunberg: "This genocide is being enabled and fuelled by our governments, our institutions, our companies, our elected officials who are supposed to represent us. End your complicity!"
September 8, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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People are exhausted.

Our high streets, public spaces, whole communities left unloved.

Blaming migrants won’t fix this.

Tackling inequality will. Tax the super-rich. Fund public services.

#DrawTheLine

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘We have to tell an alternative story’: Green leader Polanski chats to Nigel Farage’s constituents
Visit to Clacton-on-Sea part of social media strategy that Zack Polanski feels can rebut Reform’s rhetoric
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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September 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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We will bring ANY police force to court if they try to claim that malicious deadnaming or persistent intentional misgendering is ‘free speech’

To their chiefs, if you want to follow GMP throwing tens of thousands away in legal costs, that’s up to you, but we never give up and never walk away.
September 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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BREAKING 🚨

The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared.

It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating.

But politicians still have time to stop this.
September 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Hani Mahmoud: Israel is systematically turning entire neighbourhoods in Gaza City into vast fields of rubble.
September 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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"We need to change the law. Its ridiculous, we're called terrorists and its absolutely stupid.. if we want to change it we've all got to do something about it"

Well said Margaret from Dorset.
September 7, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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New @motherjones.com: What to know about the emotional bipartisan press conference w/ Epstein survivors on the Hill today.

The TL;DR: They begged Trump for more transparency. He called their claims a "hoax."

Hear them in their own words ⤵️

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Epstein survivors begged Trump to release their files. He called it a “hoax.”
"President Trump: You have so much influence and power in this situation. Please use [it] to help us."
www.motherjones.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Powerful visual story about a transgender asylum seeker from Honduras who fled to the U.S. due to safety concerns—and is now fleeing because of Trump.

"The U.S. is no longer a free country,” she said. “When it changes, I’ll go back.”

www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
An asylum seeker abandons her claim and leaves Trump’s America
Kataleya Nativi Baca, permitted in 2021 to stay in the country while her claim was being decided, was awaiting an interview with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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One person died in federal prison after being kept in restraints for over two days. Another was restrained so tightly that part of a limb had to be amputated.

A new report by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog comes after investigations by The Marshall Project & NPR exposed similar abuses.
Shackled For Days and Weeks: A Federal Report Finds Widespread Abuse in Prisons
The report, by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog, comes after an investigative series by The Marshall Project and NPR exposed similar abuses.
www.themarshallproject.org
July 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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New @motherjones.com: Is the FDA about to keep pregnant women from taking antidepressants?

Yesterday they quietly convened a panel whose participants suggested that women just feel emotions more deeply than men & that SSRIs cause autism (false).

Meanwhile, mothers' mental health is plummeting.
Is the FDA about to keep pregnant women from taking antidepressants?
A panel of experts repeated what one women's health expert called "MAHA talking points."
www.motherjones.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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In a marathon hearing on Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee, RFK Jr. faced a barrage of questions from senators who were outraged by his recent actions.

In some cases, Kennedy appeared to promote flat-out lies.
RFK Jr. is living in a pretend anti-vax world
Unfortunately, he is wreaking havoc in the real one.
www.motherjones.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Vaccines don't cause autism. What does? Mostly genes.
The number of people diagnosed with autism as screening has improved and the definition of autism has been expanded.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Vaccines don't cause autism. What does?
Scientists say most brain changes that contribute to autistic traits occur before birth.
www.nbcnews.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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#BBCLauraK: "More than 100,000 people are starving, including tens of thousands of children. Is it not therefore for America.. to tell [Israel] to stop so those people don't die"

Huckabee, US ambassador to Israel: "It would be better if everyone would give that message to Hamas"
September 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Steven Methven:: "Whats the strategy going to be for Reform, for taking them on?"

Zarah Sultana: "You can't take on Reform by mimicking them.. we have to provide a real alternative, We have to show we will defend migrants rights, we will address peoples material concerns"
July 29, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Pettiest man alive.
September 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this.
Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
#ItsOurNature
#ItsOurNature
www.wwf.eu
September 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM