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The Lever @levernews.com · 11h
While serving as Trump’s AI czar, David Sacks pushed to weaken AI safeguards as his own venture capital firm invested in AI startups that could profit from those looser rules — and now the firm is raising a new $1 billion fund.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨 FREE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINEE ISSA AMRO 🚨 Well-known Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro was detained by Israeli soldiers in the outskirts of Hebron at 5pm today, October 2nd 2026, for helping a family at risk of dispossession. Share Widely!! #FreeIsaAmro #IssaAmro
🚨 FREE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINEE ISSA AMRO 🚨

Well-known Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro was detained by Israeli soldiers in the outskirts of Hebron at 5pm today, October 2nd 2026, for helping a family at risk of dispossession.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 20h
More than 20 NHS trusts in England have stopped using Palantir’s waiting list tools, according to FT analysis that casts doubt on widely cited claims about the success of the controversial data project led by the US software giant. as.ft.com/r/6c8844ae-e...
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Over 20 NHS trusts have ditched Palantir waiting-list tools, analysis shows
FT findings prompt fresh probe by statistics regulator into health service claims over controversial data project
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 19h
Because of course Trump feels bad for the scumbags who gang raped someone for seven hours
Trump says ‘I feel badly’ for accused Cornell gang rapists because his nemesis is investigating them
Trump was prosecuted by New York AG Letitia James, who is taking over the Ivy League rape investigation, for business fraud after losing the 2020 election
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Premier League News @plnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE warns Andy Burnham it may pull billions in investment for the UK's proposed Oxford-Cambridge tech hub—dubbed the UK's Silicon Valley—in retaliation over Manchester City's guilty verdict, per The Telegraph.
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175
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Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad
James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge
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Jess Shankleman @jessshankleman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: The UK is considering cuts to its £15bn Warm Homes Plan, just months after it was launched to upgrade millions of homes. CCS and hydrogen are also under scrutiny. With @oliviarudgard.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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UK Considers Cuts to Home Energy-Efficiency Plan to Fund Defense
The UK is considering cuts to its flagship program to upgrade millions of homes, as it seeks more than £2 billion ($2.6 billion) in energy-department savings to help fund higher defense spending.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 02/10/2026
Exclusive (if you didn't read last weekend's FT) 😉
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/10/2026
Palestine Action crowdfunder for UK supreme court challenge blocked due to US sanctions
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Palestine Action crowdfunder for UK supreme court challenge blocked due to US sanctions
Exclusive: CrowdJustice platform says US firm Stripe, its payment processor, ‘cannot support accounts or transactions’ linked to group An online crowdfunder to raise money for the UK supreme court challenge to the ban on Palestine Action has been blocked as a result of US sanctions against the direct action group. CrowdJustice, a UK company, has declined to host a fundraiser for legal fees to fight proscription because the platform uses the US company Stripe as its payment processor. Continue reading...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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SwissRamble @swissramble.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today's article covers a lot of ground, including commercial growth, disguised equity funding, "sham" agreements, adjusted accounts, PSR breaches, significant spending, competitive balance, potential damages and sanctions, so strap yourselves in #MCFC swissramble.substack.com/p/financial-...
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Financial Implications of the Manchester City Decision
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Latest piece out. There was some confusion about why the UK, France and the Baltics were not invited by the US to its NATO meeting. Its actually brutally simple and part of a US strategy of divide and rule towards European security. And it might work. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/divide-and...
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Divide And Rule: The US Strategy Towards Europe
And Why It Could Work
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
CEO compensation has increased 1,316% since 1978. And worker compensation? Just 28%. The system is rigged. We need to start taxing the rich so they pay their fair share.
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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 01/10/2026
Gas-fired power stations to run new US data centers will generate as much emissions of the entire United Kingdom. This week @ketanjoshi.co joins @parismarx.com to discuss how the data center buildout is driving a surge in fossil fuel investment. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/348_...
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This entire City story - and especially the last stories of Etihad, Burnham and Khaldoon’s diplomatic immunity - crystallises why states and state actors should not be allowed own clubs The longer it goes, the more chaotic it gets www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Why Andy Burnham has got it wrong on Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners
Andy Burnham confessed he would be ‘really concerned’ if Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners sold but, as Miguel Delaney writes, the prime minister’s view clashes with those inside football and a pressing nee...
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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No notes... Sham City.

BREAKING: #ManCity will attempt to prove innocence by arguing the government of Abu Dhabi part-funded sponsorships, rather than the club's owners Abu Dhabi United Group - a private company owned by Sheikh Mansour - as such, no rules were broken.

#MCFC's 'irrefutable evidence' referred to throughout the case relates to government bank and witness statements presented at the hearing, showing money transferred to sponsors from government accounts, then used by

sponsors.

[Mike Keegan, MailSport]
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JosimarFootball @josimarfootball.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ny! New! The City case should be a starting point for naming and understanding the ways in which football has been colonised by economic and political power and how we might resist them. By @davidgoldblatt.bsky.social josimarfootball.com/2026/10/01/y...
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You're Manchester City and we know what you are - josimarfootball.com
The City case should be a starting point for naming and understanding the ways in which football has been colonised by economic and political power and how we might resist them.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our full report, which goes into much more detail on the law and the facts: taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/10/01/m...
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Did Manchester City cheat HMRC out of £12m?
Manchester City’s sham consultancy raises questions about £12m in unpaid UK tax. We examine the evidence - and the case for a criminal investigation.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
FT exclusive: The Premier League football club’s Emirati chair, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, was granted immunity six years ago in a move that could complicate any legal action resulting from findings that it artificially inflated its finances by more than £900mn. ft.trib.al/o3eobE1
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Amichai Chikli, minister of diaspora affairs in Israel says British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood (like New York Mayor Mandami) is a dangerous Islamist. The occasion for this prejudice is new phase of community sponsorship of refugees (begun by David Cameron 2016) + Likud's election campaign
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/09/2026
Breaking News! The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly for Sept. 29th came in at 3.18°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This marks yet another record all-time high and the 123rd consecutive record daily high at 1.1°C above the previous daily record set in 1997.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pep's "legacy": shamelessness, compromission, hypocrisy.
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Pep Guardiola: I stand behind Man City more than ever
Former manager releases defiant message on social media as Premier League rivals demand the case against the club is closed by the end of the season
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 30/09/2026
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Legacy
One of the key fallouts from the guilty verdict against Manchester City for 114 charges of what I will politely refer to as ‘financial chicanery’ is deep introspection. The idea that a decade’s worth of Premier League football has been tainted by, in the words of the Premier League, a move to ‘artificially inflate the […] The post Legacy appeared first on Arseblog ... an Arsenal blog.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
Sham City: verdict on financial breaches is damning and punishment must be severe | Jonathan Wilson
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Sham City: verdict on financial breaches is damning and punishment must be severe | Jonathan Wilson
How can Manchester City be trusted under these owners after they were found to have devised £900m of ‘sham’ contracts?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
World’s seas heated by a record 23 zettajoules last year
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World’s seas heated by a record 23 zettajoules last year
The injection of thermal energy, 40 times that used by humanity in total, comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification A record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat was sunk into the world’s seas last year, leaving ocean waters hotter, higher and less hospitable, a report has found. The explosive addition of thermal energy, which was almost 40 times greater than all the energy humanity used that year, comes amid far-reaching changes to the deep water bodies fundamental to life on Earth. Continue reading...
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 29/09/2026
The new AJ app is the fastest way to find vital UK architecture news, essential regulatory updates and the latest building reviews. And everything on the app is free to read until 8 October!
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Introducing the AJ app – free until 8 October
Introducing the AJ app – free until 8 October
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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sham City CEO Ferran Soriano statement: “The whole Premier League case against us is based on a single false accusation.” Sure, try harder buddy...
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Cartoon Steve Bould. @cartoonstevebould.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 29/09/2026
www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727... This is incredible. £900m. Almost a billion that we know about, between 2010 and 2018 (if it stopped right there). The scale of it is enormous.
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Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC
An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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...
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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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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These people would have voted Reform, expecting change. Not realising that the billionaires are paying Reform to strip what’s left on the bones, off the carcass of the country.
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This makes no sense to me Will GB Grid OWN any of the infrastructure? How can it "compete" in the natural monopoly that is energy transmission + distribution? Sounds like the public coughs up while privatised grid keeps getting profit margins of 38% ⁉️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham to announce government-backed body to invest in electricity grid
Exclusive: Creation of GB Grid will be major step towards putting Britain’s utility companies into public control
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tomorrow's front page 📰 New satellite pictures lay bare Israel's destruction of Gaza
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW | It’s more horrifying than Gove as PM… IN THE TERRIFYING WORLD OF DR. STRANGEGOVE. Sky’s The War Game put ex-politicians in a simulation where nuclear conflict was inevitable. It was arms industry propaganda pretending to be something serious. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/in-the-ter...
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In the terrifying world of Dr StrangeGove
Sky’s The War Game put ex-politicians in a simulation where nuclear conflict was inevitable. It was arms industry propaganda pretending to be something serious.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Tory Fibs @toryfibs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
• Article 11 of the European Convention of Human Rights (to which the UK is signed up) allows for “spontaneous demonstration” where no adequate means to lodge notification exists • Such as court overturning a Drumcree ban at 2am on a Sunday morning! Garvaghy’s demo was legal
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israeli police guard 1,500 Jewish settlers storming Al-Aqsa mosque as Palestinians face restrictions - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Israeli police guard 1,500 Jewish settlers storming Al-Aqsa mosque as Palestinians face restrictions
<article data-history-node-id="448437" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-police-guard-1500-jewish-settlers-storming-al-aqsa-mosque" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-police-guard-1500-jewish-settlers-storming-al-aqsa-mosque" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli police guard 1,500 Jewish settlers storming Al-Aqsa mosque as Palestinians face restrictions</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Israeli police imposed tight restrictions on Palestinians while helping around 1,500 Jewish settlers storm into Jerusalem’s occupied Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard on Sunday, according to the Jerusalem Governorate.</p> <p>The settlers entered in waves through the Mughrabi Gate on the second day of the Jewish “Feast of Tabernacles”. Israeli authorities shut the gate after the incursions.</p> <p>Inside the compound, settlers held prayers and Talmudic rituals, particularly near the Cotton Merchants’ Gate, and brought in “plant offerings”, the governorate said.</p> <p>Others prayed outside Bab Hutta, another entrance to Al-Aqsa, as Israeli forces maintained restrictions around the mosque and across occupied Jerusalem’s Old City.</p> <p>The governorate recorded about 40,661 Jewish settler incursions into the mosaue between January and the end of August.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lord Walney: "The idea of calling this a genocide is repugnant.. the way that Ireland made a fuss about this [football match] is reprehensible" How does genocide happen? Because of people like Lord Walney. There is no genocide without genocide denial
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The obvious questions regarding the Kindertransport is: why it was privately run and didn’t permit Jewish parents to accompany their children? There is continuity between the British govt’s refusal to accept hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees and its present-day refusal to accept refugees
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000 — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 28/09/2026
Bangkok received nearly a month’s worth of rain in a single weekend, flooding roads and homes across the Thai capital, and forcing the government to close public offices and postpone economic data releases.
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Bangkok Gets a Month of Rain in Weekend, Disrupting City
Bangkok received nearly a month’s worth of rain in a single weekend, flooding roads and homes across the Thai capital, and forcing the government to close public offices and postpone economic data releases.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Three Thames Water vans arrived, put up some barriers and then left.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sorry but this is bullshit and not a reason anybody should leave the country of their birth. But frankly this guy has a track record of working abroad, having been in the US for 20 years and having set up a private equity firm in the US.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Translation: the W Bank is under full siege. Defense Minister Israel Katz says he has instructed the military to impose a "general closure" on the West Bank, preventing Palestinian labourers from entering settlements.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 26/09/2026
Microsoft's data center subcontractor in New Jersey illegally runs a bunch of gas "backup" generators on site, figuring they won't get caught or will just eat the wrist-slap fines if they do. Regulatory enforcement is so bad that a third party had to take drone images to get the state to act.
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New Jersey datacenter fined $1.1m after visual investigation showed dozens of unpermitted generators
State regulator’s record fine for DataOne facility in Vineland follows Floodlight investigation with the Guardian
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Following the news that Manchester City FC has been found guilty of 114 breaches of the PL's rules and regulations, @josimarfootball.bsky.social has lifted the paywall on articles of ours focusing on MCFC and its commercial partners since 2018. Links follow in this thread.
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The Men Behind Manchester City: The Dark Side | Josimar
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