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Truthout @truthout.org · 8h
An agricultural borderland in the heart of the historic fertile crescent, Israel has transformed southern Lebanon from small farms of tobacco, olives, and goats to a landscape set ablaze by white phosphorus munitions, littered with unexploded ordnance, and poisoned by the pesticide glyphosate.
truthout.org
Lebanon’s Environmental Defenders Say Israel Is Deliberately Targeting Them
Israel has decimated Lebanon’s land — and is also slaughtering the people who protect it.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 6h
Feel like we don't talk enough about the 50,000 North Koreans fighting in Ukraine.
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 10h
Well worth attending! Proud to count these fine journalists among my former (and current!) colleagues!
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10h
This is really good work. The level of detail they’ve managed to uncover about who invested and how they benefited is extraordinary
bbc.co.uk
Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga
An uncomfortable history, but part of Britain's story. David Olusoga reveals the fullest picture yet of the British traders who trafficked millions of Africans into slavery.
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 10h
Fascist Russia's voting figures would be comedic, if they were not also so tragic.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 8h
⚡️Ukraine receives air defense missiles for NASAMS systems, Zelensky says amid shortage. Ukraine received a new delivery of missiles for NASAMS air defense systems, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sept. 29, as the country faces a shortage.
kyivindependent.com
Ukraine receives air defense missiles for NASAMS systems, Zelensky says amid shortage
Ukraine received a new delivery of missiles for NASAMS air defense systems, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sept. 29, as the country faces a shortage.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14h
The “protect women” crowd hasn’t said a word about the Cornell rapists… It’s like they almost don’t actually care about women and abuse trans folks just to prop up their misogyny.
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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 11h
Several ships well known across the Russian Arctic are suspected of involvement in weapon deliveries from North Korea
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Ships linked with Arctic Russia spotted in North Korea
Several ships well known in Russian Arctic ports are suspected of involvement in weapon deliveries from North Korea.
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 9h
Until something breaks the stalemate, the population of Gaza will continue to be caught between Hamas and the Israeli government — both waiting for the other to make the first move.
chathamhouse.org
Can Gulf Arab countries help break the deadlock over Trump’s Gaza peace plan?
Gulf Arab states increasingly view Israel as the main obstacle to progress on the peace plan – and may hope for an opening after Israel’s October elections.
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 10h
Bloody hell. Nandy was one of the quickest to embrace Brexit once she saw how much her constituents wanted it. It’s quite something that she’s saying this - and obviously something she wouldn’t be saying without cabinet consensus…
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 11h
⚡️ More than 114,000 Ukrainians are now officially listed as missing, up from 42,000 just two years ago. united24media.com/world/more-t...
united24media.com
More Than 114,000 Ukrainians Are Missing, Up From 42,000 in Two Years
The EU sanctioned 27 more actors tied to forced deportation and re-education of Ukrainian children at the Pathways to Peace conference in Toronto.
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 13h
Today before Senate.
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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The policy of mafia states like the US is to destroy the institutions that prosecute their crimes. An example of this is the imposition of sanctions on the ICC. What is less well known is that the US barred former EU Commissioner Breton because he wanted to tackle the American tech mafia.
ft.com
US bars former EU commissioner Thierry Breton and others over tech rules
France hits out at visa sanctions as Washington targets what it calls the ‘global censorship-industrial complex’
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 10h
ICYMI: Another humpback whale was recently found entangled in fishing gear off the West Coast. Thankfully, rescuers were able to free the whale, which then swam free. This incident follows another entanglement of a humpback calf in the area in August. These entanglements are preventable.
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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 10h
I’ve not been much of a critic of the BBC over the years. I’m a daily user of multiple services and it has huge social, and also personal, value for me. I have no problem with the licence fee. I have just watched back Burnham’s speech. The post speech coverage was woeful.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h
So Congress beat itself up to pass a Russian sanctions bill, only Trump refuses to use it and now actually wants to cut sanctions for his pal.
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TensegrityFan🐝🍯 @tensegrityfan.bsky.social · 12h
Oh wow, that article you’ve linked is a *chef’s kiss’ level of absolute beauty, Otto! Thank you for sharing! searchlightmagazine.com/2026/09/the-...
searchlightmagazine.com
The tears of a clown: Tommo weeps in court as Robinson heads off to the sun | Searchlight
Danny Tommo has been denied bail over the slashing of a Channel dinghy, leaving his mate Tommy Robinson to rattle the begging bowl while juggling threats, c ...
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 12h
Encouraging words from the PM on social housing but STILL no new funding for councils to buy existing homes at scale. Fixing the devastation of Right to Buy cannot be achieved just through sluggish building. Time for Buy the Supply. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Fund Councils to Buy the Supply of Council Homes
We urgently need to replenish our decimated council housing stock, and part of the answer is real funding for councils to Buy the Supply. Over 169,000 children are homeless and living in overcrowded ...
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 12h
on top of the emails showing Epstein directly supporting individual predatory professors, a professor who planned a "campus rape and consent" conference with the intention of undermining mid-2010s attempts at progress around Title IX requested funding for it from Epstein
chron.com
Former UT professor sought money from Jeffrey Epstein Foundation
He sought $10K-$20K to cover the costs of a campus rape policy event.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There’s two separate cases in the UK right now of husbands drugging and raping their wives while soliciting men on the internet to join in. One case went on for over two decades. Two decades and not a single man tried to help her, warn her or stop the husband.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 12h
I have said before and will again: any electoral reform commission must NOT rule out a change of system BEFORE the next election if needed. We cannot risk a minority vote handing a huge majority to any party that would take a shredder to democracy itself.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13h
Sadly there was a climate & nature shaped hole at the heart of Burnham’s speech. Nothing on the benefits of nature restoration & same old words on a “pragmatic” approach to N Sea drilling. There’s nothing pragmatic about pouring fuel on a scorching earth - he should rule out Rosebank & Jackdaw now
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 28/09/2026
A U.S.-based data-extraction firm accused of being secretly run from Russia has worked on EU-backed projects and sold its services to European law enforcement agencies, according to documents seen by POLITICO. www.politico.eu/article/russ...
politico.eu
Russian tech surveillance company infiltrated Europe’s law enforcement agencies
The same technology used by Western police was allegedly being developed in Russia and sold to Russian security services.
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 15h
Bad drama with Meta over at GIFCT www.wired.com/story/indepe...
wired.com
Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers
Meta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism that outside researchers allege will weaken oversight of an already embattled consor...
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 15h
and right when people were making algorithmic bias/inequality more visible, many of those processes were **mysteriously** relabeled "AI" and that whole conversation got erased...
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 21h
Thoughtful piece reminding us that the science of hormones is much more nuanced and questioning the lack of evidence and inconsistency behind RFKJr and Hesgeth’s testosterone claims
theguardian.com
Trump and Hegseth want men to take risky testosterone boosters. It’s all based on shoddy science
Hoping to win back male voters, the Trump White House is pushing the regressive idea that one hormone could be a magic elixir of masculinity
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h
Scientists think Alzheimer’s might be reversible.
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NEWSLETTER: Genetic discovery yields clues toward reversal of Alzheimer's brain damage
Today we highlight a discovery with potentially important implications for future Alzheimer's research and treatments. We also report on an experimental Gilead therapy showing great promise ​against a...
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Anonymous @opsnowcrash.bsky.social · 19h
Meta’s ad ban on progressive Lula shows US #tech #billionaires aren't just aiding far-right figures—they ARE the transnational #oligarchy seizing power across borders. Big Tech, Donald #Trump, and jailed Jair Bolsonaro’s son Flávio operate as one global network targeting democracies. #Zuckerberg
News graphic featuring side-by-side portraits of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva looking serious on the left and Mark Zuckerberg smiling on the right. White text below reads: "Facebook Blocks Lula’s Campaign Ads Days Before Brazil Election / But allows paid posts calling for the military to ‘take back power’."
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19h
Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with a false positive and no arrests
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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with a false positive and no arrests
Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert A six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London’s railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time ended in one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. More than half a million faces were scanned between February and July this year in some of the capital’s busiest transport hubs during the British Transport Police (BTP) trial of the surveillance technology, which aimed to help catch offenders and people breaching court orders. Continue reading...
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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 19h
This is much needed reform👏 The privatisation of the electricity grid has meant excessive profits for shareholders at the expense of us, the bill payers. It's time the government started to right this wrong. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Burnham promises to roll back privatisation with government-backed grid plan
Exclusive: Creation of GB Grid will be major step towards putting Britain’s utility companies into public control
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 19h
The daily grind begins again. Trying to alert the world to the crimes of an aggressor, terrorist nation in the hope the world can ensure justice and stabilise again. Even the dumbest or most ardent Russophile must now realise Putin leads a Terrorist State. Day 1679 of his war.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 22h
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 20h
Don't get me wrong Public debt is a costly problem But framing it as the moral root of all problems is a recipe for continuity, not change And jars with the promise of drawing a line under an economic model that has been broken for 40 years
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.
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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here it is...by delegating decision to non transparent AI models we generate an incentive for grant applicants to use AI writing to tweak system and the vicious/absurd feedback loop is set (which all started by an overload of grant application driven by AI writing). www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed
The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 29/09/2026
A major escalation around the Philippines: China has rehearsed boarding, intercepting and forcibly towing vessels around Scarborough Shoal, while deploying its WZ-7 high-altitude surveillance drone there for the first time.
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Bex 🖤🏴 @thinlyveiledtruth.cryptoanarchy.network · 28/09/2026
People are disappearing incredibly quickly. And part of the invisibility is that just when we need even more capacity for rapid response and patrols, public interest has turned away because people don't think it's a problem anymore. We're tired.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21h
Every month of 2026 has been warmer than average in the UK. #climatecrisis
bbc.co.uk
UK weather: Temperatures to hit 26C in burst of late September warmth
Temperatures are expected to rise well above the late September average on Tuesday with a very warm night to follow, as Simon King explains.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23h
Israel engaged in the demolition of a city with families still inside the buildings. Real life horror.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.
washingtonsun.com
White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers
The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Robert Jenrick here.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1/ Ukraine has taken a reported 250 Russian prisoners and claims to have killed 2,000 more Russians in its ongoing Operation Vivaldi near Lyman. A Russian warblogger says that Ukraine has overturned Russian assumptions about its capabilities. ⬇️
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Russia escalated its attacks on Ukraine’s civilian centres. Hospitals, offices, data centres, railways, warehouses and publishers hit. 90% of retail food-logistics capacity has been destroyed; millions of books and hundreds of locomotives lost or damaged.
yacnews.com
Russia declares total war on Ukraine's economy, from data centres to school textbooks
Warehouses, locomotives, internet providers, publishers and now the national science academy have become targets. Ukraine's economy ministry puts the cost at up to $10 billion this year, and growth fo...
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At what environmental cost? "Spacecraft is being landed in the sea with no plan to recover and recycle it...exploded in a huge fireball once it had hit the water" #PlanetaryBoundaries www.independent.co.uk/tech/spacex-...
independent.co.uk
SpaceX’s Starship dramatically explodes after first orbital trip
Mission was hit by technical problems as it flew around Earth
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Henry Foy @henryjfoy.ft.com · 23/09/2026
So it's official. EU sanctions on Russia are no longer only for the benefit of Ukraine's existential fight against Moscow's invasion - they are now currency for EU capitals to trade for prisoners. Welcome to the Brussels bazaar.
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B4Ukraine @b4ukraine.org · 28/09/2026
Bacardi grew its revenue in Russia by 70% and is set to mass-produce Dewar’s Scotch whisky in the country, according to @thetimes.com. The Scottish Gov said: ”We are using all available powers to prevent trade and investment activity with Russia and would expect this private company to do likewise.”
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 22h
Still putting ‘bomb plot’ in headlines in the glaring absence of any bombs. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford bomb plot
The US secretary of state offered no evidence for his claims, and also said many people were ‘disturbed’ that the five suspects had been released on bail
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