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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 18h
check out this call for proposals!
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Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 21h
Check out the CfP for the 2027 Decolonial Conference! We invite proposal submissions to our theme "US Imperialism and Anti-Colonial Resistance." Proposals are due January 10, 2027. On Oct. 8-9 we will have the in-person conference in Los Angeles, and Oct. 2- 3 will be fully online.
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Antonio Alcazar III @antonioalcazr.bsky.social · 20h
The Decolonial Conference is back next year (the first one was 🔥)! Consider joining this crossing, built by and with scholar-activists and movements committed to decolonisation beyond the academy. Anyone keen to co-write a proposal on US Empire and Indigenous resistance in the Philippines?
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It would be a good time to revisit the failures of the late 2010s techlash
Similar tendencies were evident in the early stages of the 2010s techlash. Where liberals saw room for improvement in social media, obsessing over mis-and-disinformation and urging the companies to do better, or else (but not really), conservatives saw opportunity to turn the platforms' foundational bad faith against them, weaponizing their weak and inconsistent commitments to free speech, taking companies' lofty talk about bias, fact checking, and censorship and literally but not always seriously, and turning Democrats' post-election fixation on "fake news" into a joke before taking ownership of the term completely. In 2022, Elon Musk simply bought Twitter, the social media company that had put the most work into its civic and institutional performances, and declared himself "Technoking." Shoot. What could a social media reformist say about that? What kind of platform safeguard or internal research would have prevented it? The problem with Twitter, the discourse-centralizer that provided a useful if deficient "global town square" only to sell it to the world's richest man, was Twitter, and the problem with Facebook was Facebook.Understanding Facebook as an institution that is merely failing to meet its full potential makes less sense now than it did five years ago, and especially ten, in part because its nominal mission keeps changing, often in ways that bear little resemblance to the company as it actually exists. In 2016, Facebook had been "connecting the world." In 2021, it was building the Metaverse, a crypto-infused, "embodied internet where you're in the experience, not just looking at it." In 2026, it is using AI to give everyone "an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about." All the while: ads. Facebook did what it wanted, told a variety of largely irrelevant stories along the way, escaped serious accountability, brushed off controversy, made more money, and recommitted, again and again, to a mission of unsentimental attention-and-data-driven growth at all costs.
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Social Reckoning is a movie about how liberal institutions utterly lost a war they barely even knew they were fighting nymag.com/intelligence...
By the time the rest of Horwitz's Facebook Files reporting came out, the controversial mechanism behind that 64 percent figure - captured in an internal presentation given in 2016, a full decade before the film
— was well on its way to eating the entire company. In its legacy products, including Facebook's News Feed, algorithmic recommendations had become more central over time, not just for pages but for the next post users would see, deprioritizing social connections in favor of what the company started calling "unconnected" content. By August 2020, the main tensions of the film
- that Facebook's self-serving algorithms were distorting its users' interactions with and views of one another, and the world in general, and that the company didn't care — were not just obvious but quaint. That's when Instagram Reels, Facebook's answer to and clone of TikTok, started rolling out to American users.
Soon, old notions of the feed, and of "public squares," and even "social" media in general, would be overwhelmed by billions of individualized and alienated For You pages, stocked primarily with "unconnected" content from strangers, brands, and influencers, filled by far more advanced algorithms than before. It was a post-social retreat into an opaque system both far larger and more thoroughly designed to serve Meta's needs.
Facebook wasn't just ignoring the problem, in other words. It actually saw, in the source of the problem, its entire future: a platform that didn't depend as much on sharing and posting to grow engagement and consumption; a social network not only supported by targeted advertising, but remade entirely in its image.
In Meta's profit centers, it's recommendations all the way down.This was a view that took seriously the idea, embraced by companies like Twitter and Facebook, that its projects of "democratizing" online publishing and communication were aligned with the project of democracy. The most obvious mistake here was to assume that the tech industry's Obama-era politics were inherent and stable. The bigger but more subtle mistake was to conceive of tech platforms like Facebook as para-civic institutions that, if designed correctly, and built with just the right safeguards, could actually fortify the democratic process, or at least extend the end of history for a few more years. This resulted in a weird dynamic, rendered in near-parody by Sorkin, in which many of the people attempting to hold companies like Facebook accountable — government officials, but critics and journalists too - took marketed claims about the importance of election integrity and free speech and disinformation more seriously than the companies themselves.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 14h
So Israel enforces apartheid beyond its borders? www.middleeasteye.net/news/air-fra...
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Air France enforces Israeli ban affecting pilots from Muslim countries
Israeli restrictions exclude crews holding certain nationalities, even if they also have French citizenship
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 12h
In an excited column on the "Burnham bounce", Jonathan Freedland, the notorious anti-Palestinian racist and genocide apologist, calls Zack Polanski a "charlatan and a coward". Another timely reminder that the Guardian's main role is to keep the left tethered to neoliberalism.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5h
Streeting says the UK is providing military assistance to Saudi Arabia because Houthis are attacking civilian targets there Israel has been attacking civilian targets in Gaza for 3yrs & not only are you not providing Palestinians with military assistance, you're arming Israel!
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5h
Wes Streeting accuses Russia of aggression and imperialism. Now do the United States. Illegally kidnapping the head of state of Venezuela. Launching an illegal war on Iran. Escalating an illegal blockade of Cuba. And what are we doing? Helping them!
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Séamus Malekafzali @seamus-malekafzali.com · 20h
Wrote about the third anniversary of October 7th, how the regional paradigm has shifted since the world was forcibly reoriented toward Palestine, and about the burning internal divisions within Israel that threaten to set it alight. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/three-year...
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Three Years After the Flood
The regional equation finally incorporates Gaza’s demands, but at great cost.
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 22h
There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-bb...
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How the BBC sets a trap to make sure leftwing politicians never get a fair hearing
There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Prince's mercenaries are fighting Kagame's M23 militia in eastern Congo on behalf of the Congolese governemnt who in return for money have basically turned their country's mines over to the US. Interestingly M23 is armed by Israel! So israeli weapons/training is killing US mercenaries!
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Everywhere there is money to be made from wholesale imperial murder, this bastard is to be found. Along with the conman at the top, the perfect personification of a malignant empire. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/w...
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Inside Erik Prince’s Mercenary Deal in Congo
The injury of a former Green Beret and death of an elite soldier from New Zealand have highlighted the Blackwater founder’s growing role in one of Africa’s most intractable conflicts.
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Cllr Ash Ahmed (he/him) @ashjahmed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
All week we've had a scorched earth campaign from senior Greens in our media decrying the Zionism is Racism motion as not Green values (it is). Meanwhile they have at the same time been trashing a very settled Green value - our one member, one vote led democracy because they didn't like the outcome.
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
They're Setting Up AI Surveillance To "De-Radicalize" Classrooms In Gaza Take a good look, ladies and gentlemen, because this is what they’ve got planned for the rest of us as well. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-set...
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They're Setting Up AI Surveillance To "De-Radicalize" Classrooms In Gaza
Video reading by Tim Foley:
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 09/10/2026
IRGC: "From now on, the handling of offending vessels will not be limited to the Strait of Hormuz, and any vessel that passes through an unauthorized route will be pursued throughout the region, and its punishment will be certain."


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⭕️ IRGC says the LPG tanker "NV Sunshine" was hit and caught fire after using the US-backed corridor in the strait of Hormuz.

The Statement adds: "From now on, the handling of offending vessels will not be limited to the Strait of Hormuz, and any vessel that passes through an unauthorized route will be pursued throughout the region, and its punishment will be certain."
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 09/10/2026
🌊 Two new attacks on Friday:

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Another vessel was struck off the coast of the UAE. Just a short while ago, the IRGC also announced that they had struck a large LPG tanker named "NV Sunshine" and that the attack resulted in a fire in the engine room. This is unusual and I believe the first time that a formal statement from the IRGC has been issued on the striking of a commercial vessel in weeks.
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UKMTO WARNING 160-26

Click here to view the full warning⤵️
https://ukmto.org/-/media/ukmto/products/20261009-ukmto_warning_160_26.pdf?rev=533f66aad4d541f1b9a9e832132635fc

#MaritimeSecurity #MarSec
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 09/10/2026
Video: Steve Sweeney via X (@SweeneySteve)
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 09/10/2026
Video: Steve Sweeney via X (@SweeneySteve)
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 09/10/2026
🇱🇧 Israeli forces uproot olive trees in southern Lebanon amid airstrikes & artillery shelling: Nabatieh: Israeli infantry accompanied by a D9 bulldozer advanced to w/in 50 meters of a Lebanese army position in Zawtar Al-Gharbiyeh, continuing to uproot olive trees in an operation that began Thu...
🇱🇧 Israeli forces uproot olive trees in southern Lebanon amid airstrikes and artillery shelling:

Nabatieh: Israeli infantry accompanied by a D9 bulldozer advanced to within 50 meters of a Lebanese army position in Zawtar Al-Gharbiyeh, continuing to uproot olive trees in an operation that began Thursday, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.
Israeli warplanes also struck the outskirts of Kfar Tebnit, following overnight shelling near Nabatieh Al-Fawqa, Kfar Tebnit and Mayfadoun.

Marjayoun: An Israeli Merkava tank advanced from Khiam toward the Ibl al-Saqi spring, with Israeli forces firing machine guns toward the surrounding area. Artillery also struck Wadi Al-Salouqi.

Tyre (Sour): Israeli forces shelled Mansouri, Majdal Zoun and surrounding valleys overnight.

Bint Jbeil: Israeli shelling targeted Wadi Zibqin and areas near Baraachit and Hadatha.Steve Sweeney
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I$rael destroys olive trees in Zawtar Al Sharqieh as locals in neighbouring Zawtar Al Gharbieh harvest their crops. As we filmed Merkava tanks and D9 bulldozers made their way through the streets of the occupied zone. This is olive season in southern Lebanon. 

Full film to follow…
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Rasha is raising funds to provide winter clothing for about 400 displaced children in three shelter camps in western Gaza City. You can support her campaign here:
rashaaboujalal1.substack.com
Winter Clothing Campaign for Gaza’s Children
My dear readers and followers, to everyone who believes in freedom and humanity,
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“The war lives with me at home, even when I do not have a notebook, a phone or a deadline for a story.” Journalist and mother of five Rasha Abou Jalal on reporting from Gaza, where her family has been displaced 13 times during the genocide. Read now on The Key:
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Journalists in Gaza are Still Living the Headlines
“The war lives with me at home, even when I do not have a notebook, a phone or a deadline for a story.”
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The Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Read the cultural analysis, "The Militarization of Toys," part of the Consuming War series: costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/consum...
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Consuming War: How Pop Culture Captures Our Attention and Fuels Forever Wars
This cultural analysis series showcases how, every day, Americans are inundated with cultural products promoting militarism. Consuming War papers provide case-by-case introductions to the militarizati...
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The Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
From 1989 to 1991, over 60,000 military Barbie dolls were sold on U.S. military bases around the world. Embedding military values into toys blurs the line between play and real-world militarism.
For over two centuries, mass-produced toys have spread war-related worldviews. Mattel created its "Military Barbie" by partnerin with the Pentagon in 1989. According to an Army public affairs officer, the doll was intended to inspire girls to become soldiers. From 1989 to 1991, over 60,000 military Barbie dolls were sold on U.S. military bases around the world.
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Arms trade with Israel is immoral and illegal.
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The BDS movement calls on unions and civil society groups in France to take immediate action.
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
BREAKING: This is a major win, but the fight isn't over. The military cargo is now due to depart onboard an El Al flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on Saturday, 10 October.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In his report on Israels response to Pillay winning the Nobel peace prize Parsons reports "she is a divisive figure" You mean a regime (& its enablers) thats spent 3yrs bombing hospitals, murdering journalists, starving families & slaughtering thousands of kids doesnt like her?
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What’s shameful is that no party before the Greens called Zionism racist. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/what...
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What’s shameful is that no party before the Greens called Zionism racist
Israel was forged out of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. The Greens have very belatedly recognised what should have been obvious all along
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide By Navi Pillay share.google/o4YK5nLqcHsG...
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Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide (Published 2025)
The chief judge of the Rwandan genocide tribunal has concluded that Israel is guilty of the “crime of crimes” in Gaza.
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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New It Could Happen Here 🇵🇸 @danaelkurd.bsky.social talks with @yara-asi.bsky.social about the attacks on Palestinian health in Gaza and the West Bank, and the Israeli policies and objectives driving these attacks. linktr.ee/ICHHpod
New It Could Happen Here 🇵🇸

@danaelkurd.bsky.social talks with @yara-asi.bsky.social about the attacks on Palestinian health in Gaza and the West Bank, and the Israeli policies and objectives driving these attacks.

https://linktr.ee/ICHHpod
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As long as tanker costs (and their insurance premiums) are this high, it doesn't matter how many actual barrels come out of the Strait of Hormuz (using US air cover or US Navy sailors aboard). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Hiring US-to-China Oil Tanker Costs More Than Launching a Space Rocket
For a sign of just how extraordinary oil shipping costs have become, consider this: It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nasser Abourahmeh is one of the best theorists of Palestinian liberation writing right now. Every paragraph, every sentence of this piece is quotable, and the whole thing is brilliant: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/sto...
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Stones Are the First Words We Speak — Parapraxis
Anti-Zionism as Praxis nasser abourahme
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s time to end medical complicity in Israel’s ongoing and longstanding atrocity crimes against the Palestinian people.
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
BDS pressure against these complicit companies and institutions is working.
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Join healthcare workers, activists, and organizations worldwide in demanding the suspension of the Israeli Medical Association from the World Medical Association, and to boycott Teva.
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
📢 🇨🇳NEW EPISODE 📢 🇨🇳 - Teemu Ruskola on his new book, The Unmaking of the Chinese Working Class: How Communism Built a Capitalist Superpower:
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The unmaking of the Chinese working class w/ Teemu Ruskola | Politics Theory Other
Teemu Ruskola joins PTO to talk about his new book, The Unmaking of the Chinese Working Class: How Communism Built a Capitalist Superpower.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Navi Pillay last year: "The commission finds it is genocide" Pillay has just won the Nobel peace prize.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?" Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Will Hegseth deliver the coup de grâce? www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaking to the conservative TV outlet Real America’s Voice News on Wednesday, said the execution of Hasan will take place at Fort Hood on Dec. 3.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Last year Navi Pillay reported that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. She has just won the 2026 Nobel peace prize. "this is definitely a message to those who are attacking, undermining the international rules based system & [its] institutions"
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s time to end medical complicity in Israel’s ongoing and longstanding atrocity crimes against the Palestinian people. Boycott Teva.
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Teva is complicit in Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid and genocide against Palestinians and in the deadly opioid crisis in the US and elsewhere.
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Palestinian-led BDS movement salutes the Royal College of Nurses Unions for their moral courage and thanks all civil society groups who made this victory possible.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"When we talk about a ceasefire we have to look at what's actually happening on the ground" A doctor from Gaza speaking this morning
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The US is truly depraved. apnews.com/article/fort...
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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Also, the Onion scooped Hegseth by 6 months: theonion.com/doj-to-bring...
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The first response to Robinson has a beeper emoji in his name, the second uses eugenicist language. Basically made his point for him.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 08/10/2026
🔴🇵🇸Over the past 24 hrs, 4 Palestinians were killed & 28 injured across Gaza, according to the Palestinian Min. of Health. The total recorded death toll since Oct. 7, 2023 is now 74,254 killed, w/ 175,306 injured. Since Oct. 11, 2025, the 1st full day of the so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed...
🔴🇵🇸 Over the past 24 hours, four Palestinians were killed and 28 injured across Gaza, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 74,254 killed, with 175,306 injured. Since October 11, 2025, the first full day of the so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,471 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 5,189, while 836 bodies have been recovered.
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