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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Deeply ashamed that, despite a sizeable majority of Greeks opposing the genocidal Apartheid state, we have allowed our ruling class to taint Greece through this despicable deal. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
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Greece, Israel to sign $3.6 billion defense deal amid Turkey, Iran threats | The Jerusalem Post
The agreement, which has been under discussion for three years, will provide Athens with a multilayered air defense system against potential threats from Turkey and Iran.
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi)
So when you read about eight members of an NBC News Team being beaten by Israeli settlers today in the West Bank, it's important to note two things: 1. The settler wouldn't do this to Americans had t...
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
You'll Own Nothing and Be Happy: Why It's So Hard to Break John Deere's Control Over Farming open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...
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You'll Own Nothing and Be Happy: Why It's So Hard to Break John Deere's Control Over Farming
It's not hard to help America's farmers escape from John Deere's monopoly. But actually breaking the firm's inefficient control over equipment would cut against our strategy of Number Go Up.
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Palestinians Are Being Denied Return to West Bank Refugee Camps After Israel Bulldozed Their Homes open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
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Palestinians Are Being Denied Return to West Bank Refugee Camps After Israel Bulldozed Their Homes
In Jenin, Israel is building the first permanent military base in Area A since the Oslo Accords in the 1990s.
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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David Sirota (@sirota)
The Iron Law of American Politics is this: The more a candidate is perceived to be a genuine threat to oligarchy, the more the entire political establishment and elite media will try to destroy them ...
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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David Sirota (@sirota)
A day into vacation, with my brain (mostly) offline and now slowly healing from daily Internet poisoning, I’ve been meditating on one thought: In many controversies, multiple things can be true at the...
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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David Sirota (@sirota)
"If Graham Platner – oysterman, veteran and alleged prep-school kid – weren’t advocating for broad revolt against America’s economic elite, both The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal would ha...
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
How corporate media slings irrelevant dirt to distract from the issues. substack.com/@sirota/note...
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David Sirota (@sirota)
I’m asking you to take 180 seconds of your life to watch this one clip. It is about something WAY bigger than just the Maine Senate race and Platner, it is about how you are being imperceptibly and al...
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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I Just Got Banned From Britain!
A recording from Cenk Uygur's live video
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 31/05/2026
Very pleased to see that ENSHITTIFICATION won the @locusmag.bsky.social Award for Best Nonfiction last night! locusmag.com/2026/05/2026...
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2026 Locus Awards Winners - Locus
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2026 Locus Awards on May 30, 2026, during the Bay Atea Book Festival. Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, and Nnedi...
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Crazy Town: Episode 125. The Lighter Side of Dark Ages with Chris Smaje www.resilience.org/stories/2026...
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Crazy Town: Episode 125. The Lighter Side of Dark Ages with Chris Smaje
Chris Smaje visits Crazy Town for some farmer-to-farmer straight talk. We cover Viking raids to agrarian populism, from societal collapse to the practicalities of making your way in a failed state. An...
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
For many Americans, data centers represent higher utility bills, noise pollution, tax giveaways, and very few local jobs — all to enrich distant tech giants. www.levernews.com/nobody-wants...
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Nobody Wants AI Next Door
For many Americans, data centers represent higher utility bills, noise pollution, tax giveaways, and very few local jobs — all to enrich distant tech giants.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 31/03/2026
Today's threads (a thread) Inside: State Dems must stop ICE from stealing the midterms; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/31/a... #Pluralistic 1/
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Democrats’ Stall Tactics Delay Iran War Powers Vote www.levernews.com/democrats-st... Reporting shows that Dem Congress members are ready to vote but leadership continues to delay. Why? Because leadership is compromised in favor of a foreign country with an interest in continuing this senseless war.
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Democrats’ Stall Tactics Delay Iran War Powers Vote
Democrats' procrastination is sustaining Trump’s war on Iran.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/03/2026
Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Blowtorching the frog; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/05/e... #Pluralistic 1/


Elon Musk wielding a flamethrower; he is roasting the snout of a giant frog


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Belly of the Beast @bellyofthebeastcuba.com · 25/02/2026
During a televised address earlier this month, Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel told the nation that during daylight hours, 38% of Cuba’s electricity is now generated from solar power.
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
An industry-backed lawmaker’s proposal could undercut state efforts to loosen Wall Street’s grip on the housing market — while carving out exemptions for large investors. www.levernews.com/gop-housing-...
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GOP Housing Bill Could Block States From Regulating Corporate Landlords
An industry-backed lawmaker’s proposal could undercut state efforts to loosen Wall Street’s grip on the housing market — while carving out exemptions for large investors.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 09/02/2026
An Irish immigrant with a valid US work permit has been held in ICE detention in Texas for nearly 5 months despite having no criminal record, the Irish Times reports. Seamus Culleton, who has lived in the US for over 20 years, is married to a US citizen & was in the final stages of a green card...
An Irish immigrant with a valid US work permit has been held in ICE detention in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record, the Irish Times reports. Seamus Culleton, who has lived in the US for over 20 years, is married to a US citizen and was in the final stages of a green card application when he was arrested in September. He describes detention conditions akin to a “concentration camp,” limited access to outdoors, and constant hunger. A judge initially approved his release on bond, but the US government later blocked it. 

His lawyer says the case is highly unusual and reflects arbitrary enforcement by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE did not respond with comment on the story at the time of publication.

(Photos from Irish Times)
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Annexation Breaks Containment open.substack.com/pub/infinite...
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Annexation Breaks Containment
With a new package of cabinet decisions, Israel’s message to Palestinians in the West Bank is clear: take the money and run.
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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Jason Egenberg (@jasonegenberg)
Trump flooded the zone this weekend with threatening to deploy the 11th Airborne into Minneapolis, Greenland, and the daily executive order circus, but don’t lose the plot: Jack Smith is scheduled to...
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Sharing because transparency matters. substack.com/@majorleeg/n...
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Major Leeg (@majorleeg)
This is the pic of Donald Trump on Epstein's plane with a child. This is the pic the DOJ deleted yesterday. Now they want to scrub this from the Internet. Share this everywhere.
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 10/12/2025
“A debt is not owed to Chevron. A debt is owed to the Amazonian families still waiting for truth, justice, and full reparation.”
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‘Defeat for justice’: Ecuador to pay Amazon-polluting Chevron $220 million
“A debt is not owed to Chevron. A debt is owed to the Amazonian families still waiting for truth, justice, and full reparation.”
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Tech Giant Says AI Has A First Amendment Right To Raise Your Rent www.levernews.com/tech-giant-s...
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Tech Giant Says AI Has A First Amendment Right To Raise Your Rent
Fresh off a Trump settlement, RealPage is trying to overturn New York’s anti-rent-gouging law.
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Enlightening! Cory Doctorow joins Faisal Al Yafai to discuss his new book “Enshittification,” how he fell in love with tech, how it became terrible. How monopoly power fuels inflation, Apple, Amazon, the right to repair movement, corporate power and the future of AI. newlinesmag.com/podcast/why-...
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Why the Internet Got Bad, and How To Fix It
Cory Doctorow joins Faisal Al Yafai on the podcast to discuss his new book “Enshittification” and how the internet got so bad.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 25/11/2025
⚡️ In a new Drop Site investigation, Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain reveal that Jeffrey Epstein quietly helped Alan Dershowitz orchestrate the smear campaign against John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 2006 paper “The Israel Lobby,” newly obtained emails show. The scholars had argued in the paper...
The scholars had argued in the paper that a network of pro-Israel donors and advocacy groups routinely pulled U.S. Middle East policy away from what was truly in America’s interest. Their analysis triggered a fierce backlash: institutions denounced them as antisemites, The Atlantic killed the article, and the Kennedy School stripped its logo from the paper.

Emails from Epstein’s Yahoo account show him reviewing early drafts of Dershowitz’s attack piece, accusing the authors of recycling “neo-Nazi trash,” and agreeing to distribute it through his network. The cache also highlights Epstein’s influence at Harvard and his role managing the finances of billionaire Leslie Wexner, whose foundation poured nearly $20 million into the Kennedy School.

The covert effort to smear the scholars mirrored the very dynamics the paper described: wealthy, well-connected actors mobilizing elite institutions to police criticism of Israel. The emails also show Epstein, during that same week, working with his lawyer on strategies to discredit a young woman who had accused him of sexual abuse.

🔗 Read: https://dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-aided-alan-dershowitz-mearsheimer-walt-israel-lobbym

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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Review judge pulled from Palestine Action hearing at last hour, in patent stitch-up open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
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Review judge pulled from Palestine Action hearing at last hour, in patent stitch-up
Having a ruling from a panel of three judges is a desperate attempt to create a veneer of judicial authority in support of the actions of Keir Starmer's outlaw government
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Hundreds of Former Israeli Spies Are Working in Big Tech, Database Shows www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-tec...
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Hundreds of Former Israeli Spies Are Working in Big Tech, Database Shows
A $25 billion deal is the latest acquisition to strengthen the link between the U.S. tech sector and Israeli intelligence.
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Israel Activates Its Cells (against the press and free speech) consortiumnews.com/2025/08/03/i...
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Israel Activates Its Cells
The conflation of Zionism with anti-Semitism is the test in the Zionist lobby case against Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis for her Gaza reporting and the outcome will be of great international s...
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Millions in Public Funds, Zero Public Input: Flock's Surveillance System Might Already Be Overseeing Your Community www.dropsitenews.com/p/flock-publ...
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Millions in Public Funds, Zero Public Input: Flock's Surveillance System Might Already Be Overseeing Your Community
The $7.5 billion surveillance company Flock Safety is operating in 49 states and over 5,000 communities, but the residents of Scarsdale, NY, are fighting back.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/07/2025
A Korean-born researcher and longtime U.S. legal permanent resident has spent the past week detained by immigration officials at the San Francisco International Airport without explanation and has been denied access to an attorney, according to his lawyer.
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Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says
A Korean citizen studying in Texas on a green card was detained in San Francisco after a trip overseas. His lawyer says authorities won’t give a reason.
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Genocide’s Hard When You’ve Got a PR War to Win consortiumnews.com/2025/07/28/g...
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Genocide's Hard When You've Got a PR War to Win
Israel's quest to cleanse Gaza of Palestinians through expulsion or extermination keeps getting interrupted for photo ops of aid airlifts or a few aid trucks to satisfy feigned Western grievance, writ...
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Israel Is Now Blaming the UN for Its Famine. Here’s the Reality. open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
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Israel Is Now Blaming the UN for Its Famine. Here’s the Reality.
A man-made famine is imminent in Gaza and its people require at least 600 trucks a day to stave it off, as Israel deflects blame to the UN.
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
UnitedHealth pressured Amazon to remove a critical docuseries by filmmaker Mary Strause, part of a broader legal campaign to silence critics of the health care giant. Read the full story in the Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/b... 90-second trailer at www.youtube.com/watch?v=knTb...
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UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This regime needs change. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Exclusive: Hundreds at Alligator Alcatraz have no criminal charges, Miami Herald learns
Descriptions of the Everglades detention center as a place for violent criminals tell only part of the story.
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May @dawbyrose.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to overhaul elections in the U.S., siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the effort as unconstitutional. Updated 2:57 PM EDT, June 13, 2025 apnews.com/article/trum...
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Judge blocks Trump’s election executive order, siding with Democrats who called it overreach
The attorneys general for California and New York are praising a federal judge's decision to block President Donald Trump’s executive order on elections.
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