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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6h
Navi Pillay receives the news while at the Courtroom 600, Nuremberg Palace of Justice The speech is worth listening to. Video by Sec Gen, Amnesty International, Agnes Callamard
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Kim van Keken @kimvankeken.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ik werk al een tijd met @jramaer.bsky.social aan Het gaat nooit om de kijker, het boek over het publieke bestel. Vanaf nu kunnen jullie bijdragen aan ons boek over de werkelijke machthebbers binnen de publieke omroep. Steunen kan hier, en delen is ❤️. www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/22...
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Het gaat nooit om de kijker door Joost en Kim
De crowdfundingcampagne Het gaat nooit om de kijker staat op voordekunst.nl. Doneer nu en maak dit project van Joost en Kim mogelijk!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW EPISODE: When asked earlier this year if he regretted not seizing voting machines and ballots after the 2020 election, Donald Trump said, "Well, I should have." Now he's telling us exactly what he plans to do in this year's midterms, and this time, we should believe him. youtu.be/MBLiMjSXros
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Trump Just Admitted His Post-Election Plans. Believe Him.
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Cathelijn Schilder @cathelijnschilder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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The Rights Forum @therightsforum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Historicus Assal Rad corrigeert al jaren koppen van toonaangevende media. De berichtgeving over Palestina ‘vertroebelt de feiten om de ergste misdaden te rechtvaardigen’, stelt ze in haar boek 'Don’t say Palestine'.
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De vernietigende mediakritiek in ‘Don’t say Palestine’ moet tot stevige zelfreflectie leiden - The Rights Forum
Voor een rechtvaardig Palestinabeleid
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 27/09/2026
Meet Howard G. Buffett - the hero Ukraine needed and ended up inspiring: www.onestnetwork.com/howard-buffe...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I spent much of this week talking with foreign officials who are in the U.S. for United Nations meetings. I was curious to know how they’re strategizing about the United States in the future. Here’s what I learned... robertreich.substack.com/p/what-to-…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
‘The eels were climbing out of the water to die’: why did every fish in this idyllic lake perish overnight?
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‘The eels were climbing out of the water to die’: why did every fish in this idyllic lake perish overnight?
Furnace Brook in East Sussex was home to carp, tench, bream, roach and trout – and 15 trailer-loads had to be buried. The mystery led to a neighbouring farm, and a story of waste, pollution and dirty rivers that reveals a lot about Britain today
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Zelenskyy at the UN: "Ukrainians understand that this winter could be very harsh for us, but in response we will have no choice but to make it harsh for Russia too"
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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 22/09/2026
Beschaving bestaat nog, concludeerde ik opgelucht na het zien van ‘Zoals het komt’. Des te pijnlijker voelde de confrontatie daags erna
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Beschaving bestaat nog, concludeerde ik opgelucht na het zien van ‘Zoals het komt’. Des te pijnlijker voelde de confrontatie daags erna
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When I said three years ago that egg companies were using the avian flu as cover to price-gouge, Fox News called me crazy. But new documents from a major federal investigation reveal the truth. Watch. youtu.be/aGa7YNNC1R0
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Fox News Mocked Me For Being Right
When I said three years ago that egg companies were using the avian flu as cover to price-gouge, Fox News called me craz
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Marcia Luyten @marcialuyten.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
💡Het gedoe over demonstratierecht raakt de kern van de rechtsstaat. Omdat in de behandeling ervan artikel 1 van de Grondwet wankelt www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...
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Het debat over demonstratierecht zweeg over burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid, terwijl dat alles verheldert
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Bart Meerdink @bartmeerdink.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Dit is ook in Nederland. De Amerikaanse persbureaus zijn bepalend voor Nederlandse kranten. En de politiek (met name de VVD met haar CIDI-connecties) steunt nog steeds Israël. De oppositie, en wij het publiek, staan machteloos. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
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Why I Correct Pro-Israel Headlines on Gaza
Read an excerpt from Assal Rad’s new book, ‘Don’t Say Palestine,’ about how the media manufactured consent for genocide.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/09/2026
In Gaza, we’ve seen horror unfold with global powers’ support. Is that a blueprint for horror elsewhere? | Ahdaf Soueif
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In Gaza, we’ve seen horror unfold with global powers’ support. Is that a blueprint for horror elsewhere? | Ahdaf Soueif
For now, it is Palestinians who are being killed and displaced. But ideologies of supremacy and domination threaten us all, says author Ahdaf Soueif
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Christine Teunissen @christinepvdd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Twee miljoen Palestijnen worden opgesloten op een steeds kleiner stuk Gaza. Ze kunnen geen kant meer op, terwijl Israël hun land inneemt en een muur in Gaza bouwt. Een volgende stap in de verschrikkelijke genocide. Kabinet-Jetten, hoeveel Rode Lijnen nog? Kom nu in actie! Kamervragen 👇
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
West Bank: Israel-Backed Settler Violence Drives Displacement Record Year for Settler Attacks on Palestinians | Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/news/2026/08...
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West Bank: Israel-Backed Settler Violence Drives Displacement
Attacks by settlers in the occupied West Bank are increasingly driving the forced displacement of Palestinian communities, with dozens at risk of erasure.
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De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl · 19/08/2026
In Oost-Barta’a op de Westelijke Jordaanoever sloopt Israël flatgebouwen en waterreservoirs van Palestijnen. Boeren kunnen niet meer op hun land, bouwprojecten liggen stil. De bezetting wordt almaar agressiever. www.groene.nl/artikel/geva...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
What else can you call it?
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NRC @nrc.nl · 17/08/2026
Extreemrechtse Israëlische minister Ben-Gvir wil dat elke dag ’30 tot 40′ Gazanen worden gedood, ‘ze zijn het leven niet waard’
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Extreemrechtse Israëlische minister Ben-Gvir wil dat elke dag ’30 tot 40′ Gazanen worden gedood, ‘ze zijn het leven niet waard’
De extreemrechtse Israëlische minister van Nationale Veiligheid Itamar Ben-Gvir wil dat er elke dag dertig tot veertig Palestijnen in Gaza worden gedood door de Israëlische…
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Laurens Dassen @laurensdassen.voltnederland.org · 13/08/2026
600 dagen opgesloten. Dat is geen goed beleid. Dat is onmenselijk. CDA, D66 waar is jullie menselijkheid?!
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12/08/2026
Pls watch, if you haven’t yet Follow China’s Money. A New Global Order Is Taking Shape. youtu.be/Rk--1aErR8s
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Follow China’s Money. A New Global Order Is Taking Shape.
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Bart Meerdink @bartmeerdink.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Israel is the model for total moral bankruptcy. And what makes things worse is the indifference of most of the establishment in Western countries. In politics and media. Meaning they have been corrupted by Israel's relentless lobby over the years. Out with them and out with Israels enablers.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 10/08/2026
ZEIT has collected all the info from the attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport and it was as dangerous and deliberate as we feared: (Translation in alt. Full article: www.zeit.de/politik/deut...)
The videos show the Antonov cargo aircraft parked at the airport. And they appear to show that, as early as Tuesday evening at around 7.30 pm, an object flew directly towards this aircraft. It eventually struck one of the wings. The wings are particularly vulnerable parts of the aircraft because they usually contain fuel tanks. Anyone wishing to cause an aircraft to explode would detonate a bomb there. However, that is not what happened in Leipzig. The footage suggests that the object bounced off the wing and fell to the ground. Marks on one of the Antonov’s wings confirm this presumed sequence of events. It is as yet unclear why the explosive device did not detonate.It is now clearer exactly how the drone approached the aeroplane: not cautiously, but with the obvious intention of damaging it.
It is also clearer what purpose it served. Until now, one of the hypotheses under investigation was that it might simply have been intended as a kind of warning. Armed, yes, but not intended to actually explode. This hypothesis can now hardly be sustained. Leipzig Airport narrowly escaped a devastating attack.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
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Our last, best chance to cool the Earth
We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...
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Paul te Stroete @paultestroete.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Trump vertrouwt op onderbuik en stort wereld in chaos, schrijven journalisten in verbijsterend boek over hem www.volkskrant.nl/boeken/trump...
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Trump vertrouwt op onderbuik en stort wereld in chaos, schrijven journalisten in verbijsterend boek over hem
Het ongelooflijk goed gedocumenteerde ‘Regime Change – Het tweede presidentschap van Donald Trump van binnenuit’ is een verbluffend staaltje politieke verslaggeving. Journalisten Maggie Haberman en Jo...
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Roos Vonk @roosvonk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
De gedachte dat we leven in een democratisch land met gelijke rechten voor iedereen, moeten we zo onderhand misschien eens loslaten.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/08/2026
The pro-Israel lobby has swayed US presidents since Truman. It must end with Trump | Ian Lustick and Eli Clifton
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The pro-Israel lobby has swayed US presidents since Truman. It must end with Trump | Ian Lustick and Eli Clifton
Our new book tracks the growth over nearly eight decades, of the most powerful foreign policy lobby in US history
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/07/2026
Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner
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Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner
Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis
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Bart Meerdink @bartmeerdink.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
👍NRC benoemt expliciet Israels moordpartijen op burgers als oorlogsmisdaden, leugens als leugens, en we zijn zo gewend aan koppen over Palestijnse gezinnen die vermoord worden dat gewoon "Gezin" ons er op wijst dat zij mensen zijn net als wij. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/... (gift link)
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Gezin gedood bij luchtaanval op Gaza, waar watertekorten de gezondheidscrisis steeds verder verergeren
Bij een Israëlische luchtaanval op Gaza-Stad is dinsdag een gezin van zes gedood. Het gaat om een vader, moeder en hun vier kinderen. Hun woning werd geraakt en vloog in brand. Het Israëlische leger I...
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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Gaza is inmiddels voor 65% door Israël bezet. Bezetting op bezetting, boven op etnische zuivering en genocide. Met de politieke en diplomatieke rugdekking van onze regering en een groot deel v/d internationale gemeenschap. Palestijnen worden steeds verder uitgeknepen, totdat er niemand meer over is.
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Israël kondigt plannen aan voor drie nederzettingen in Gazastrook
De Israëlische minister van Defensie heeft plannen aangekondigd voor drie nederzettingen in Gaza. Deze zouden moeten worden gebouwd in het deel dat Israël nu als ‘bufferzone’ aanhoudt – een gebied dat...
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Nature @nature.com · 14/07/2026
Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact go.nature.com/4wLiPda
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‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized
Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact.
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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 09/07/2026
In Eindhoven is het gelukt: woningen bouwen die ook in de zomerhitte lekker koel blijven
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In Eindhoven is het gelukt: woningen bouwen die ook in de zomerhitte lekker koel blijven
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/07/2026
My nine-year-old son Mohammad, killed by Israeli soldiers, is not just another number | Alia Abdel Majid Al-Hallaq
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My nine-year-old son Mohammad, killed by Israeli soldiers, is not just another number | Alia Abdel Majid Al-Hallaq
Mohammad was shot after going to play football – and we joined the 54 families in the occupied West Bank whose children were killed by Israel in 2025 alone, says Palestinian mother Aliyah Abdel Majid al-Halaq
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/07/2026
The immorality of world leaders is contagious. Thank heavens for the pope | Simon Tisdall
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The immorality of world leaders is contagious. Thank heavens for the pope | Simon Tisdall
In a political wasteland dominated by billionaires, war criminals and mega-corporations, the head of the Catholic church is a rare figure of moral leadership, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Got a quick minute? Let's talk about the raid on the Ohio Organizing Collaborative. Oh, you haven't heard of it? That's the problem. The Trump Admin isn't just going after the high-profile names. It's widening its target.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot
The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Precision fermentation could radically transform our food system — without radically transforming what foods we eat. That's why we're teaming up with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social to make a short film about it, and we need your help to make it happen. ⬇️🐄❌ www.gofundme.com/f/no-cows-ne...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
New statement from Scott Pelley:
 
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
 
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. 
 
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
 
The waste is heartbreaking.
 
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all. 
 
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
 
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
 
Scott Pelley
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/06/2026
Not yet worried about tyranny in Britain? This is why you should be | Owen Jones
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Not yet worried about tyranny in Britain? This is why you should be | Owen Jones
Chilling comments by Reform figures can’t be dismissed when you consider the overwhelming power of the UK’s centralised state, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you want there be to rules in government beyond Trump’s whimsy, now is a good time to say something. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...
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This new OMB Rule Is Bigger Than Science. Much Bigger.
This image was generated by Google AI (Gemini)
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Bart Meerdink @bartmeerdink.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Israel is a terrorist nation, but has been allowed to build an extensive network of supporters in most Western countries in influential positions, including politics and media. That's why it holds a chokehold over US, UK, Germany, France, Netherlands etc and continues to escape accountability.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📣 Just out: our new study on the 'cold blob' in the Northern Atlantic. Is that due to ocean currents bringing less heat there, or due to more heat being lost through the sea surface? Our data analysis strongly suggests it's due to #AMOC slowing. 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Bart Meerdink @bartmeerdink.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Israel is an abomination, this is further proof. Everyone who still supports Israel is exposed as evil. The 1947 UN Resolution might have been the basis for legitimate Arab and Jewish states. It was swept aside. From the very start, Israel was based on ethnic cleansing and land theft, not UN 181 II.
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Arvindjadwa @arvindjadwa.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Nearly 2 billion people live in the red area. It is becoming completely uninhabitable. What do the climate deniers, who also hate immigration, think is going to happen?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Yesterday Israel ordered the inhabitants of Nabiteh to leave (population of 100,000) They then ordered the inhabitants of Tyre to leave (pop of 200,000). Now they've ordered the entire south to leave - up to 300 towns & villages. Alex Crawford reporting from Lebanon today
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Hendrik-Jan @slowpokedj.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Emotioneel Interview op RTE, Ierse nationale zender met Margaret Connolly #Flotilla bsky.app/profile/koka...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Stephen Colbert aired his final show last night after Paramount fired him to appease Trump. The Ellisons are now eyeing Warner Bros — and Trump is eager to give it to them. His takeover of the media is happening in broad daylight. Here's what we can do about it.
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Trump's Scheme to Control the Media
Our media is controlled by just a handful of billionaires and their corporations. And Trump is making things even worse.
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Christine Teunissen @christinepvdd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Ik was op Schiphol om een aantal van de Flotilla opvarenden te ontvangen en te steunen. Deze moedige mensen zijn gemarteld, vernederd en hebben hun leven geriskeerd. Kabinet-Jetten, hoeveel rode lijnen nog? Stop de genocide. Maximale sancties, nu!
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