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David Barber

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Hay un asunto en la tierra más importante que Dios. Y es que nadie escupa sangre pa que otro viva mejor. Atahualpa Yupanqui, "Preguntitas sobre Dios"

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David Barber @david24barber.bsky.social · 8h
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11h
Many voters in Brazil are reporting that the website says they didn't vote even though they did. Brazil elections are entirely done on electronic voting machines, was it rigged?
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David Barber @david24barber.bsky.social · 17h
The lessons of Chile 1988 #Pinochet #Trump by Ariel Dorfman. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I witnessed the Pinochet regime’s fall. It offers hope – and a warning – for the US | Ariel Dorfman
November’s midterms bring parallels with a moment in October 1988. But Pinochet’s exit wasn’t the end of his influence
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 05/10/2026
Indigenous Languages Decade (2022-2032) Building a global community for the preservation, revitalization and support of indigenous languages worldwide. www.unesco.org/en/decades/i... #indigenous_language
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Indigenous Languages Decade (2022-2032)
Building a global community for the preservation, revitalization and support of indigenous languages worldwide.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 21h
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𝚼𝖆𝖑𝖉𝖆 @yal-da.bsky.social · 21h
Women’s arrests in different cities across Iran continued in recent days alongside the issuance of judicial sentences and the ongoing uncertainty surrounding some detainees. wncri.org/2026/10/05/w...
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Women’s Arrests, Ongoing Detention, and New Judicial Sentences
Women’s arrests ongoing detention, and new judicial sentences, including prison terms and flogging, mark recent cases involving women.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21h
MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvalt: “Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and…hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 23h
Will a government minister be making a statement and visiting? Of course not - not MANLY jobs in STEEL or CHEMICALS or CARS
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The world isn’t stopping you because the United States has given Israel over $200 Billion worth of weapons.
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
University of Nottingham confirms it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students www.timeshighereducation.com/news/notting... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
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Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected
Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Israel is at risk of civil war or state collapse, a classified CIA assessment warns, as years of genocide in Gaza and war in Lebanon and Iran deepen political, economic, and social fractures within the country. The report, titled “Fracture From Within,” was compiled by experts in the CIA’s Red Cell
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CIA Report Warns Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total Collapse
U.S. intelligence raises fears of civil unrest and state breakdown in Israel ahead of October 27 elections.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 05/10/2026
Binance guy says what now? www.ft.com/content/534b...
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Solidarity with all at University of Nottingham combatting this violent dismantling of their university
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Israel retaliated against allies that broke with it over Gaza while pouring millions into foreign influence. Israeli-linked networks targeted Canadian politics and media, while figures tied to Israel trips became prominent voices in Alberta’s separation movement. #Cdnpoli
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Punish, pressure and manipulate: how Israel's government attacks Canada and other allies that break ranks
Israel's government has run fake accounts aimed at Canadians, retaliated against Canadian MPs and diplomats, and punished Norway, Ireland, Spain, Australia, France and Britain for recognising Palestin...
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Left Of Center Orange Hater @leftocorangehater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 02/10/2026
Le Liban dit qu’il n’a pas les moyens de reconstruire les zones détruites par la guerre avec Israël
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Le Liban dit qu’il n’a pas les moyens de reconstruire les zones détruites par la guerre avec Israël
Selon le premier ministre libanais, le pays a besoin d’« un important financement » pour la reconstruction, après deux guerres entre le Hezbollah et Israël.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
To those who somehow don't seem to understand: Which part of authorising weapons sales to a state committing genocide, banning the protest movement trying to stop these sales, using the RAF to provide surveillance flights for Israel and providing major diplomatic and media support is NOT complicity?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.” — Dolly Parton
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LuxJude352 @luxjude352.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Menacing 92 year olds in the middle of the night, whose side do these people think they’re on? #Fascism #Crowborough
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The USA is a place with no healthcare, but 1000 billionaires. At least 49 of those billionaires made all their money from Private Healthcare. Perhaps you can connect the dots.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Super-rich UK energy/food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises Working-class face soaring prices, worsening climate impacts. Billionaires owning food/energy companies profit from hardship The same class funds political parties, uses tax havens, preaches low wages to workers.
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Super-rich UK energy and food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises
Analysis has shown the costs of daily essentials soaring in recent years, thanks in part to climate shocks, wars and geopolitical tensions
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK public sector bodies spent £17bn with offshore-owned private equity firms last year. The same vultures received £31bn public sector contracts. Profiteering, low wages, tax dodging, asset-stripping is their business model. Enriched by public money. How many have politicians on payroll?
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£17 billion taxpayer cash went to offshore private equity last year
We need to buy British, GMB tells Labour conference
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Sixes All The Way @sixesalltheway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
According to Age UK, 1.7m pensioners live in poverty with almost double that struggling to manage financially. Also, since 2010 the est. of uncollected tax is around £500bn & the option of progressive taxes would also help redress wealth inequality. State pensions:
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham could change tax relief on pension contributions for his projects. Gross tax relief in 2024-2025 was £83.9bn. 71% went to 7.7m additional & higher rate taxpayers. 29% to 30.4m basic rate taxpayers. Giving relief to all at 20% leaves £14.5bn spare for social care. But equality/equity?
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 30/09/2026
West Bank's violent settlers part of a new generation fuelled by ideology. A mass attack by Israeli settlers on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank has placed new focus on the emergence of a generation of radicals in the territory u.afp.com/S9hg
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham announces end of triple-lock on the state pension from 2030. It will be replaced by double-lock, slower growth in state pension. Full state pension is already less than 50%of the minimum wage. Poverty awaits future retirees. £500bn of taxes not collected by HMRC since 2010.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has dropped his $10bn charge against the BBC after he was told he would have to give the BBC his Financial Records. Not suspicious at all...
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The judge later asked a group of 15 minors without attorneys: “Is this your first time in immigration court?” They all answered, “Yes.” “Do any of you want voluntary departure?” the judge asked. No one raised their hand. Another child stretched her hands playfully toward the sky.
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Inside a Texas immigration court where children fight to stay in the US | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love it!! 🤣😂🤣
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rich would prefer you to believe that the "free market" is subject to the immutable law of supply and demand. But for years, the wealthy and powerful have manipulated the market for their own gain. There is nothing “free” about it. Watch.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reform UK's Suella Braverman promises ‘consequences’ if pupils don’t sing Christian hymns. That would be policed. So what happens to atheists, agnostics, non-believers and other religious denominations. Will they be persecuted, imprisoned? Reform UK getting desperate and bizarre.
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No progress or real focus from this government on the crucial issue of #resilience: the government needs to focus on ensuring basic essentials. Which demands reshoring and near-shoring supplies www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Hospitals in England hit by shortages of common drugs such as paracetamol
NHS trusts also report disruption to supplies last winter of co-codamol and blood pressure medication ramipril
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow, this is monstrous. As if teachers aren’t under enough stress. People do not do their best work when they are surveyed, belittled and menaced. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ AI teacher monitoring system
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Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
midwit dystopia of the Blair hegemony update www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system
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Scuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃 @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"We will make sure that Britain wins in the AI revolution." There’s a story in the Guardian today about how Euan Blair is using AI to make his employees mentally ill.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The panopticon encroaches yet further — this sounds truly horrible www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Léopold-Franz Kowalski's picture reminds me that there is a long history of artists featuring newspapers in their work. A favourite coffee table book is 'The Newspaper in Art,' which features scores of examples of people shown reading papers in paintings.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A reminder that all the aspects of our economic system are made up and we can have a better system if we wanted to. Homelessness for example. We could have an economy that builds homes for homeless people. It does not have to be this way.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
'The Oyster Eater.' (1882) In the years just after Ensor left the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, he painted several still lifes and interiors that depict different ingredients for meals or, as here, meals that are about to be eaten.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 26/09/2026
#OtD 26 Sep 1940 German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist, Walter Benjamin died in Portbou at the French-Spanish border while attempting to escape from invading Nazi forces. The most likely cause of death was suicide stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9870...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”
Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At the end of April 1888, Monet returned to Givervy from the South of France. Moulin de Limetz is one of two paintings in which he pictured the mill at Limetz-Villez, a village just over a mile south of Giverny, with a branch of the Epte, flowing gently past.
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Karl Drinkwater 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 ☮️ 🥗 @karldrinkwater.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Palestinians are responding to Israel’s stranglehold on the West Bank economy by forgiving each other’s debts en masse mondoweiss.net/2026/09/pale...
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Palestinians are responding to Israel’s stranglehold on the West Bank economy by forgiving each other’s debts en masse
As Israel’s financial strangulation of the Palestinian economy enters its third year, Palestinians are turning to each other — forgiving debts worth millions of shekels in a viral solidarity campaign ...
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𝚼𝖆𝖑𝖉𝖆 @yal-da.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#Iran The lack of essential hygiene supplies, basic symptom-relief medications, a resident doctor, and the overall poor performance of the clinic have severely worsened the prisoners’ conditions. wncri.org/2026/09/24/d...
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Disease Outbreak in Fardis Prison; Women Prisoners Without Doctors or Medication
A major disease outbreak in Fardis Prison has left women inmates struggling with a severe shortage of doctors, medicine, and basic healthcare.
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