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زن زندگی آزادی Abolish the Home Office LGBT ally
Sanctions relief on IRGC assets doesn’t fill me with hope
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 9h agoThe United States has removed counterterrorism sanctions from two aircraft and three airlines with links to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to details posted to the U.S. Treasury Department's website on Wednesday. ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actio...
25 years after the tired American cliche of “why do they hate us,” helped instigate two forever wars (Afghanistan + Iraq), this is how @nytimes.com chooses to explain Iran’s political system:
Not a single Israel defender has ever been able to defend this. They just pretend it doesn't exist, even though it defies any of their supposed 'arguments'.
The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 14h agoIsraeli forces used small aircraft to cross the border and spray high concentrations of the herbicide glyphosate over farmland in southern Syria and Lebanon, a new report has revealed. According to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the spraying halted the growth of several crops
Clearly this is stupid as is being condemned as such elsewhere, but I note even in the text the only thing it actually says about Corbyn is that he was seen as anti-Israel - is Behr implying that having anti-Israel politics alone puts one beyond the pale?
I do find it really quite striking, from a European perspective, how l centre-left & centrist Americans talk about Muslims
Just a reminder that: - this isn't for workplaces and if your work is trying to implement it scare them over discrimination claims - the onus is on the service provider, not the service user to comply - the code *itself* says enforcement of toilet facilities is unworkable and low priority
Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 17h agoEHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.
Ex-PM Starmer said, in response to Raise the Colours terrorising people, ‘I am supporter of flags’, ‘I’m very encouraging of flags. I think they’re patriotic and I think they’re a great symbol of our nation’ and his family had ‘got St George’s flag in our flat’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Cllr Dr Alex Powell@apowelllaw.bsky.social · yesterdayThe campaign of harassment and intimidation Raise the Colours have undertaken against council staff, contractors, and members of the public as reported by the Clarion today is shocking if not surprising. Excellent reporting. oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
Well we know which strategic litigation to thank for this! 🤷♀️
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British law is truly fascinating*, you can say "Jewish people don't face discrimination and actually they secretly run the world" and your employer can't sack you but protest against a genocide Britain is facilitating and you're an antisemitic terrorist *utter dogshit
Said by song who is a fully participating member of a party with a mass deportation policy on the books
This is, imo, absolutely the consequence of politicians, media figures and others being actively unwilling to condemn this behaviour
Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · 2d agonews.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
Centre left opinion writers suddenly thinking maybe he wasn’t so bad
Ben Austwick@benaustwick.bsky.social · 2d agoDead at 66 is it
Think there’s an interesting discussion to be had exploring how this government ises the word ‘dignified’ when it knows it’s committing harm - see also asylum seekers, trans rights rollbacks
Andrew Sissons@acjsissons.bsky.social · 3d agoI really don’t know what to say about this to be honest, but there it is
someone needs to tell him that even the israelis have started using the "hamas-run health ministry" numbers because they know the real number is hundreds of thousands higher
29 U.S.C. § 157@organizingpower.bsky.social · 3d agoThis guy has 20,000 followers and is using his platform to do Gazan holocaust denialism
"Iranian diplomatic sources tell N12 News" No they don't
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3d agoIranian diplomatic source tells N12 News the IRGC is weighing preemptive strikes should diplomatic efforts fail.
Not all Gulf countries are pushing for de-escalation. Some, such as the United Arab Emirates, have lobbied Trump in recent days to take more decisive action against Iran, according to senior Gulf officials familiar with the discussion.
Just a reminder that the cruelty of all this is the point
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d agoEU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’
The UK came 19th in the table of covid deaths per capita, which for the 5th richest country in the world by GDP is extremely poor. Yet sensibles are debating about whether we went too far with lockdowns
There were high-level U.S. discussions Friday about cutting electricity across Tehran, but no decision had been made as of Friday afternoon - CBS
I think when people say stuff like this there needs to be a bit more acknowledgement that some users are being directly harmed by government policies - be they dismantling trans rights, immigration changes, wars - and some users aren’t. You can understand why some people might feel resentful.
John C@badsocialism.bsky.social · 4d agoIt is fundamentally true that half this site is mad that the other half isn't as miserable as they are
The pro-Israel argument is that you can't be anti settlements without being anti-Israel
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 4d agoYesterday the Labour Friends of Israel resurfaced from the dead and released a "new report" which urges the Andy Burnham government to not impose a comprehensive ban on trade with Israeli settlement goods and services because.......this would "become a de facto boycott of all of Israel". Oh really?
