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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 11h

Palestine solidarity protestors around the world brought parts of their cities to a standstill as they took to the streets to commemorate three years since Israel's brutal military campaign and genocidal war on Gaza began

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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 15h

The names of 22,434 Palestinian children killed since 7 October 2023 were written on a 20-metre-long shroud displayed during a silent demonstration in Cape Town on Wednesday. Read groundup.org.za/article/sile... by Matthew Hirsch

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Silent protest honours the children killed since 7 October 2023

More than 20,000 children have been killed in Palestine over three years

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 15h

And so it begins: the very first proposal of the new regional parliament in which the AfD is the strongest faction is about an immediate end to sanctions against Russia and the normalisation of relations. (Which, of course, they cannot decide at the regional level.) www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

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Sachsen-Anhalt: BSW will mit AfD Ukraine-Antrag verabschieden

Das BSW und die AfD wollen im Landtag in Sachsen-Anhalt den ersten gemeinsamen inhaltlichen Antrag beschließen: Ukrainehilfen sollen eingestellt, Russlandsanktionen aufgehoben werden.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 15h

Today in Russian Disinformation/AI Cringe, Russia's ongoing disinformation campaign is now using fake ChatGPT screenshots to "verify" the fake news clips it's distributing on X and TikTok.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

wow -- Fox Business is now treating Trump's completely made up economic boasts as though they are factual. Note the citation here -- "The White House" Reminder that the entire US economy is about $32t. If we really had $21t flowing in, you'd notice it Fox thinks their viewers are really dumb

Fox Biz screencap that says: "$21 TRILLION INVESTMENTS POURING INTO THE US"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

this is a beautiful picture book.

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 23h

hey remember when NSW Police were “training” on the streets of Sydney and dressed a white dude in a keffiyeh carrying an automatic rifle to be the bad guy while an IS flag was used as a prop to simulate hostage taking. www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10...

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Police apologise after Palestinian diplomat 'upset' about terrorism training video

NSW Police admit "we are wrong" after a video of a terrorism training exercise drew the ire of Palestine's most senior Australian diplomat.

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Apothetes (he / him) @apothetes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"The FBI conducted a raid at a BAPS temple construction site in Robbinsville, New Jersey, to rescue about one hundred workers trapped in exploitative conditions, and consequently launched a criminal investigation that has continued for five years now." reactionary.international/cases/behind...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Two organizers who helped build the tech worker movement ask why its victories proved so difficult to turn into lasting power.

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Reckoning With the Failures of Tech Worker Organizing

Two organizers who helped build the tech worker movement ask why its victories proved so difficult to turn into lasting power.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026

After four of their children died, the parents told officers they hadn’t taken them to the doctor because of their religion, which considers the use of modern medicine a sinful lapse of faith in God. Under Idaho law, authorities couldn’t step in.

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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.

An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...

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Rationalist Society of Australia @ausrationalist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We're calling on the Cook government to prioritise the wellbeing needs of Western Australia’s public schoolkids, instead of the coffers of religious labour-hire agencies, by allowing schools to directly employ professional wellbeing staff. Read more: rationalist.com.au/prioritise-s... #WApol

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Prioritise student wellbeing instead of funding faith-based recruitment agencies, RSA tells WA government | Rationalist Society of Australia

The Rationalist Society of Australia is calling on the Cook government to prioritise the wellbeing needs of Western Australia’s public schoolkids, instead of the coffers of religious labour-hire agenc...

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wow! Senator @ChrisMurphyCT is denied entry to U.S. military facilities in the Persian Gulf. He wasn't even allowed to meet with military leaders! He believes this is on the order of Pete Hegseth, who is trying to hide the damage and the cost of this war of choice with Iran.

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Albanese shows his true colours, he’s not representing us at all. Received his orders from Trump recently to destabilise our country and surrounding Pacific nations so American exploitation and expansion of military bases won’t be questioned.

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Apothetes (he / him) @apothetes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"He intended to recruit 71 additional Jewish attackers and divide [them] into 12 six-person terrorist cells. The cells were allegedly to arm themselves with pistols, rifles, axes and hammers and launch simultaneous surprise attacks..."

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 06/10/2026

Something about “some bad things happening” just irks me. It’s hard to explain why but just like, stop with the lowercase letters birthday boy talk. You’re making, like, a sinister declaration. Grow up and talk about it like an adult. “Some bad things happening” lol.

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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I usually ignore what Trump says and does. But look at the joyful reaction of his followers when he mentions Iran nuking Los Angeles or San Diego. How did they become this? How?

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Made this thread with excerpts from this very partisan take because I do think the Yemeni republican line gets lost in Western discourse dominated by Houthi agitprop There's a lot of history underlining the Yemen conflict. The Imamate. Revolution. The Southern Issue. It's important to know it.

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 06/10/2026

“What we are witnessing is a spectacle of computational power staged to acquire market share, and with it control of a landscape that extends well beyond mathematics.” —Dan Rockmore

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The Work of Math in the Age of Artificial Reproduction | Dan Rockmore

There are seven questions in pure mathematics deemed important enough by the Clay Mathematics Institute, a nonprofit foundation devoted to “furthering the

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 06/10/2026

Superpersuadees

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Ernesto @ernest33141.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"I'm supposed to be tough. What happens if I faint?" - here's fun footage of Curtis Sliwa & @mayor.nyc.gov getting their flu shots together, including #Mamdani offering to hold Sliwa's hand Sliwa takes him up on it!) Flu season is approaching & NYers can find free flu shots at nyc.gov/healthmap

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ThatKaren @wokekaren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Oh and by the way, the world isn't stopping us". Israelis are not out on the streets revolting. The Zionist project is in full swing and Arabs are paying the price for this expansion/genocide. #ZionismIsRacism bsky.app/profile/then...

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Apothetes (he / him) @apothetes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Journalists staged a sit-in outside the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate (EJS) in Cairo, demanding the release of the Matsadaash staff. Members said they would keep the sit-in open ended until the journalists were released, and the EJS said it would convene an emergency meeting on Monday."

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The motion also restates the Green Party's backing for the right to self-determination and calls for the establishment of a single democratic state throughout historic Palestine"

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 05/10/2026

We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind the global buildup of artificial intelligence.

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The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is no justification for murder: “The Trump admin has said the legal justification cannot be released due to national security implications & has not yet told the American public what the legal rationale is for conducting the boat strikes on what they say are drug traffickers headed to the US.”

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US could be forced to release legal justification for boat strikes on drug traffickers

The Trump administration previously said the legal justification cannot be released due to national security implications.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

4 on the 4th, added to the growing list of war crimes committed in our name. This isn’t a presidential administration, it’s a global killing spree

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026

“The day after I lost $1,800 on basketball in one night … an email popped into my inbox. ‘Welcome to the DraftKings VIP Showcase,’ the subject line read. I couldn’t believe it. My night of loss chasing was being rewarded.”

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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and…

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"William Davies guests on podcast episode of London Review of Books’ On Politics, hosted by James Butler, to discuss the fate of the ‘intellectual’, a fairly well-worn topic in many ways, but one that has achieved fresh salience" willd10.substack.com/p/what-hope-...

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What hope for ‘intellectuals’?

and what use were they anyway?

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Apothetes (he / him) @apothetes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"It is worth... considering how Ethiopia’s brand of federalism contributes to ethnic polarization. Existing research shows that the creation of ethno-states after the end of the civil war increased the salience of ethnic difference."

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Rachel Strohm @rachelstrohm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very good piece from @kopalo.bsky.social about the structural drivers of the conflict in Ethiopia, including a thought-provoking bit about the challenges of federalism in an ethnically polarised state www.africanistperspective.com/p/on-the-esc...

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On the escalation of war in Ethiopia

The coming proxy wars will be devastating for civilians and do little to improve governance and human welfare in Ethiopia and the wider Horn

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

May his memory be a blessing 💙

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 04/10/2026

It’s been nearly a year since the so-called ceasefire in Gaza was brokered by Trump. "So far, only one item of the 20 items on the Trump plan has been fulfilled, and that is the release of every single Israeli hostage in Gaza," says writer and analyst from Gaza Muhammad Shehada.

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“Buying More Time for the Genocide”: Muhammad Shehada on Trump’s Gaza Plan 1 Year Later

The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has surpassed 74,000, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. While this figure represents the official death toll as confirmed by local autho...

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Gobbo, Allegedly MILF @missbarbiet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

thread of good books

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Tikun Olam @richards1052.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How to make a genocide: perpetrators must 1st feel a sense of victimhood & grievance. They must be urged to self pity at their victimization. Only then can rage & aggression be harnessed in the cause of genocide. It was nursed by Hitler & the Nazis; as by Netanyahu & Ben Gvir.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It called Lectures on Tap and it started in NYC. There are different variations of this happening too. The Center on Brooklyn History has Sips and Scholars which is the same theme.

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Apothetes (he / him) @apothetes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Broader context than you need but your thread caught my eye the other day because I'd just been reading, in Subrahmanyam's 'Across the Green Sea', about "a period when distinct, and often radical, political ideas found a ready audience in the Timurid Empire" :-)

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Apothetes (he / him) @apothetes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The National Institute for the Dutch Slavery Past and Heritage (NiNsee) lauded the king for commissioning the study but said it should lead to a next phase."

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Israel continues to disable Palestinians it has maimed. 'One shipment of prosthetics and assistive devices had been rejected four times over the past six months. “Every rejection means another delay for someone who has already lost a limb and is simply waiting for the chance to walk again.”'

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

NEW: At least 66 Palestinians in Gaza were killed by Israeli forces between Aug. 23 and Sept. 6, 2026. Over 1,400 have been killed since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire signed in Oct. 2025. This video features four instances of unprovoked Israeli attacks on Palestinians Gaza City from 8.23.26 - 9.6.26.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 03/10/2026

Once, I was filming an ICE flight load from a public parking lot when agents saw me, sent over a guy in a hoodie & Punisher balaclava. I walked away behind an F150. He filmed an old couple who by coincidence were taking suitcases out near where I’d been. Guess they’re in the Palantir database now!

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ICHTHYS project in the NT, two thirds owned by Japanese company INPEX (incl part owned by the Japanese govt). $52bn in income. $0 in company tax $0 in PRRT But apparently if we do a 25% export tax they might get upset so we can't do it because it is vital for our economy

Year Total income $ Tax payable $ PRRT
2018-19 $802,110,813 $0 $0
2019-20 $6,378,812,227 $0 $0
2020-21 $6,106,449,154 $0 $0
2021-22 $7,281,757,071 $0 $0
2022-23 $11,973,514,434 $0 $0
2023-24 $10,661,856,034 $0 $0
2024-25 $172,738,325 $0 $0

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