"In the aftermath of the attack, TUV MLA Gaston spoke of the importation of an “alien culture” but the only thing that seemed to separate the attacker from loyalism’s long bloody history was the lack of political motive and collusive backup from the highest echelons of the British security state."

Loyalism’s Long, Fascist Shadow - Prometheus Magazine

Odrán de Bhaldraithe argues that the recent Belfast pogroms are nothing but the latest expression of a centuries-long paramilitary tradition.

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What is going on here? Why has one man turned blue like he ate too many blueberries in Wonka's chocolate factory, and what did the other man smell?

Final figure is in. 1,653,999 people through Belfast city centre between the 2nd and the 9th of August. Saturday alone was 289,560, the busiest day the city has had all year. They forecast eight hundred thousand. forlouth.medium.com/catching-up-...

Catching Up: 1.65 Million People And Nobody Asked Permission

Our Own Ground • No. 2

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No better hallion.

Green Party Northern Ireland@greenpartyni.org · 2d ago

East Belfast is struggling, and it's time someone said so plainly: meet Brian Smyth, our 2027 Assembly candidate. 1/3

“A banner on the Bristol Rises side read: “Liberal white women and modern feminism have destroyed western society.” Not content with targeting migrants, LGBTQ+, unions, The Patriots are turning their attentions toward women, a narrative also pushed in NI by ‘Freedomdad’, Lynsey Brown & Sarah White.

Netpol@netpol.org · 2d ago

Anti-fascists show up in their hundreds for counter-protest against far-right "Bristol Rises" www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

Almost one in 10 posts on X relating to the Belfast riots contained calls for violence or paramilitary or vigilante action. A third of tweets were racist. One claimed they hoped the Belfast attacker was British-born because “race is the issue, not immigration status”. The post registered 2m views.

Most X accounts posting about Belfast and Southampton unrest were based outside UK

Exclusive: Analysis shows 55% of accounts were overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US

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Wrong. Being unable to withstand the scrutiny leading to the decision to remove the artwork cost £150k

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

A pretty penny: three Banksy artworks cost taxpayers £150,000 in upkeep

A significant police presence enabled a far right rally through Bristol yesterday. Horses and police forced the far right through the city, a rally led by well known far right actors inc Ryan Ferguson, fined last month for Nazi salutes and antisemitic insults at Bristol rally in March.

We are aware of ‘true crime’ filmmakers planning to film in Lurgan in the upcoming week, on the case of Natalie’s murder. We don’t think the format of such a production is appropriate and so it doesn’t have our approval. If you are approached to contribute, please decline.

Terror bosses ‘laughing’ at authorities as Sinn Féin department and PSNI play pass the parcel on UDA flag which police only removed after our questions. When in opposition, SF demanded terror flags be taken down; when in power, not one has been touched.

Terror bosses ‘laughing’ at authorities as Sinn Féin department and PSNI play pass the parcel on UDA flag which was only removed after our questions

Declassified files show SF once demanded the infrastructure department remove paramilitary flags. Now in charge, the party doesn’t want to know

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Thank you to everyone who came to today's "One Day in Brighton" launch. The report is available on our website netpol.org/2026/08/07/o... - and the plaque on Trafalgar Street is wonderful!

Things in NI that ARE in the public interest: ✅ Neo Nazis parading through Portrush and Coleraine; ✅ “Concerned parents” terrorising asylum seekers outside the buildings where they are housed; ✅ Loyalist paramilitary flags on lampposts; ✅ Arresting grannies for wearing a Palestine Action t-shirt.

If you ever needed an illustration that the PSNI work on behalf of private and not public interest, this is it. Hey private company, how much: shit is in our water? cancer in insecticides? chlorine in food? guns on streets?

PSNI won’t release details on weapons missing from custody

It says it’s not in the public interest.

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"Chief constable Sanford said his officers had been required to move residents of the properties away “for their safety”." In Belfast, the PSNI allowed mobs to go door to door unimpeded looking for migrants. It was Belfast residents that snuck people out back doors to getaways cars in alleyways.

End Deportations Belfast@enddbelfast.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is a pogrom. Northern Ireland was the template. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

And everything to avoid naming another attempted pogrom. Three cities in the last two months where violent mobs tried to or did gain access / destroy buildings housing people of colour, and the media and politicians are still talking about this like we don't know where this ends.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 4d ago

And again with the nonsensical term “anti-immigration protester” in the media. Are they attacking any immigrants? Are white french ppl targeted too? Or are they specifically targeting people who look like they’re from the global South? Everything to avoid saying racist or xenophobe.

And again with the nonsensical term “anti-immigration protester” in the media. Are they attacking any immigrants? Are white french ppl targeted too? Or are they specifically targeting people who look like they’re from the global South? Everything to avoid saying racist or xenophobe.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 5d ago

BBC report on violent disorder in Thetford, Norfolk. A lot of effort to balance here re violence & anti-immig protest. What report describes violence targeting people's homes: whether the "alleged asylum seekers" are being misidentified or not is beside the point www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ever get the feeling you're living through the intro sequence to a disaster movie?

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 5d ago

Breaking news: Scientists in the US have for the first time used artificial intelligence to create viruses unknown in nature, a milestone that promises advances in healthcare but also raises important biosafety and biosecurity concerns. ft.trib.al/Uk6VCRG

Very kind of the Moroccan army to take a break from occupying Western Sahara in order to facilitate the occupation of Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace issues first building contract – for a military base

Exclusive: Louisiana firm awarded tender to build rudimentary outpost to house Moroccan troops

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“At least 80% of Gaza’s buildings were damaged or destroyed in the war. Ten months after the ceasefire, most of the territory’s 2million people are still living in makeshift and unsanitary camps.” A military base. Not schools, hospitals, houses. Israel and USA annexed Gaza in front of the world.

Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace issues first building contract – for a military base

Exclusive: Louisiana firm awarded tender to build rudimentary outpost to house Moroccan troops

theguardian.com

He asked if there anything else I had concerns about. Told him again my periods were still irregular. He said they would settle down with age. I was 32. A year later, after demanding a referral, diagnosed with PCOS by a diff doctor (a woman) who explained how dangerous undiagnosed PCOS was.

Heather Hill@rollin-academic.bsky.social · 6d ago

A question from Reddit that I'll answer here: "What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"

You are being told, on a daily basis, that there is a ceasefire in Lebanon while Israel regularly bombs Lebanon

Megaphone News@megaphone.news · 6d ago

The Israeli army continued its attacks on Mansouri overnight after issuing an evacuation order for the area earlier in the day. Israeli warplanes also struck the Burj al-Shemali area once, while drones targeted it four times.

"...they urged white men to take action against non-white people and “make them terrified they are trapped on an island with you”. Posting images of POC in public space with unfounded claims, posting their addresses, racist graffiti/murals etc all create a hostile environment for non-White people.

Global network of white supremacist groups ‘involved in organising’ Belfast race hate riots

Proud Boys chief Enrique Tarrio brands NI as the ‘frontline in cultural reckoning’ in riot film

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

In the month or two before June 2026 pogroms a network of racist anti immigration social media accounts were ramping up in rhetoric and activity, priming their NI followers for violence, waiting for a spark. The past few days has felt similar, with pages sharing increasingly inflammatory content.

There are around 15 - 20 disinformation sites and accounts in Northern Ireland. The PSNI have a duty to tackle these when disnformation is being used to incite violence. PSNI again are allowing known far-right hate sites to incite the next pogrom without intervention. Who are PSNI protecting?[1/2]

Social media claim man in Belfast had knife during Fleadh ‘inaccurate’, say police

They confirmed a man had been arrested on suspicion of disorderly behaviour

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A conspiracy theory that "The Real IRA" are coming out of retirement, joining forces with Loyalist paramilitaries to ethnically cleanse Northern Ireland of migrants is doing the rounds on social media. And like would yis ever cop yourselves on.

Thread worth reading. This isn't "legitimate concerns", this isn't hearing out "concerned parents". This is local government placating and rewarding self confessed neo Nazis and White supremacists, something which would have gone unnoticed but for the work of groups like @enddbelfast.bsky.social

End Deportations Belfast@enddbelfast.bsky.social · 7d ago

Irish News covers our FOI on this extraordinary meeting. This far-right group is comprised largely of National Front & neo-nazi linked individuals and target migrant properties on the North Coast. A recent human rights report highlighted the targeting an immigration law practice in Coleraine.. [1/n]

Great piece about what has been happening in Ceuta and the far right using vulnerable people and migration panic to divide and conquer. We saw similar tactics here after Russia attacked Syria, and images of refugees were weaponised by the right in the campaign for Brexit.

The right’s exploitation of the Ceuta migrant ‘crisis’ almost guarantees that it will happen again | Ruben Andersson

The EU’s panic and the lack of solidarity emboldens smugglers and the far right – and makes Spain even more vulnerable, says Ruben Andersson, professor of social anthropology

theguardian.com

Let's all collectively imagine what the coverage would be like if it were a 'former Hamas supporter selected as Green candidate'

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election