Proud Baba. Author of four poetry collections and a novel. Now: The Nightmare Sequence (UQP, 2025). https://linktr.ee/OmarjSakr 🇱🇧🇹🇷2170
Omar Sakr
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THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.
I'm sorry but no, I won't stand for this. If you run a public hospital paid for with public money for the public you don't get religious exemptions on the care you provide.
"Queensland's new public hospital to refuse voluntary assisted dying care, abortions and contraception for religious reasons"
Since I do not see the New World Screwworm issue going away any time soon, I’m just gonna make a thread I can pin to my profile.
Do you want to know why the screwworms have come back? Check this thread: bsky.app/profile/tkin...
This is a pogrom, incited and instigated by Elon Musk.
This is now the second set of pogroms incited by Elon in the UK in 2 years.
The Queensland premier has opened the state's first major new public hospital in almost a decade — at Springfield, south-west of Brisbane — but it won't offer some services for religious reasons.
www.abc.net.au
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Alejandra Caraballo
A good thread on screwworms. Talking to an entomologist last year, he also added that the pandemic was the first domino. Scientists couldn’t get to the facilities, couldn’t get out into the field to check outbreak reports.
My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
As a support worker of many years, I see the direct impact on clients and their families. The stress, injuries, exhaustion and illness that comes from not only having inadequate funding but being subjected to constant systems trauma when dealing with bureacracy
Have you read this exposé of Australia manufacturing coveted high-quality explosives for Israel in Victorian factories, transporting it under the cover of night, shipping it from 🇦🇺 ports, obscuring it's origins & final destination by trading it via arms dealing ops in Singapore❓️
New article about Israel reigniting the regional war with Iran, the sickening Islamophobic hierarchy the West demonstrates daily in ignoring the mass murder of Shia Muslims, and disturbing developments in the US-Israel relationship. sakr.substack.com/p/israel-rei...
I need to stop banging on about this, but I honestly believe that these Digital Safety Acts that they're forcing on us, around the world, are to try and eliminate resistance to the way that the billionaire class is just dictating policy now.
We don't get a say anymore. That's done.
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5/ Experts point to several factors for why it came back:
1️⃣Cattle smuggling outside control zones
2️⃣In early 2025, roughly 15,000 USDA positions were eliminated, and a USAID-funded monitoring project was terminated
3️⃣ The loss of specialized expertise as generations of entomologists retire
