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Peter Duffy

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campaigner, journalist, author 🌱 Works: crisisaction.org; formerly: aidsfreeworld.org peterduffy.net

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Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
thank you the new yorker and françoise for having me do this cover for the late, great dolly parton
dolly parton new yorker cover
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
People have long memories when it comes to atrocity crimes. Might be relevant to current events. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Pinochet-era soldier jailed for killing folk singer Víctor Jara 53 years ago
Nelson Haase Mazzei was sentenced for murdering Jara in 2023, but fled from authorities in Chile
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Peter Duffy @pppduffy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Sonny Rollins Changed New York. There’s a Fitting Way to Honor Him. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...
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Opinion | Sonny Rollins Changed New York. There’s a Fitting Way to Honor Him.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/06/2026
SPEECHLESS. LFGK
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95
A photo of Sonny Rollins
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/05/2026
@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 12/05/2026
High-profile arrests and domestic prosecutions in Syria have raised high hopes for justice-but in order to deliver it, Syrian authorities must engage closely with civil society who offer thoughtful options for accountability, writes Hanny Megally. More here: #Syria #SyriaInTransition #Justice
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Syria’s Accountability Dilemma and Pathways to Justice
Syria launches trials for Assad-era crimes. Civil society outlines pathways for credible transitional justice.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 20/03/2026
The New York Post is printing misinformation to stir up a frenzy about Mayor Mamdani's move to stop issuing *criminal* summonses to cyclists for the same infractions that earn drivers a regular moving violation. @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social breaks it down: youtube.com/shorts/rkCn6...
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Debunking misinformation about e-bike laws in NYC #nyc #nypost #ebike #cycling #mamdani
YouTube video by Streetsblog NYC
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 08/03/2026
1/ I was in Toronto last night to surprise my incredible mother, Michele Landsberg, as she received the Ursula Franklin award from Canadian Voice of Women for Peace.
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✶ MarcusD ✶ @marcusd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Full Bad Bunny speech
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 06/01/2026
📌 Sudan: Fighting kills at least 114 in Darfur At least 114 people were killed in western Darfur last week in clashes b/w the Sudanese Army & the paramilitary RSF, medical sources told Agence France-Presse (AFP). RSF attacks around Kernoi killed 63 people, while 51 were killed in army drone...
 War Monitor via X (@sudanwarmonitor): 

"Video 2: This is what combat looks like in North Kordofan. Filmed in November 2025 by SAF-allied Joint Force troops during clashes with RSF."

https://x.com/sudanwarmonitor/status/2008424729560916044?s=20
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/12/2025
Our 23rd most-read article of 2025.
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The Problem with My City Is That It’s a City
Our 23rd most-read article of 2025. - - -I’ve lived in this city for decades, but I’m noticing more and more problems. There’s crowding, congestio...
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Kamisaka Sekka, Sparrow and Bamboo From Momoyogusa (A World of Things) 1909-1910
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 06/12/2025
READ: Most Palestinians in Gaza say they don’t feel the relief they expected after the ceasefire. Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on supplies, while people go hungry every day. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/a-ne...
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‘A new form of genocide’: Gazans feel little relief from Israeli strangulation since the ceasefire
Most Palestinians in Gaza say they don’t feel the relief they expected after the ceasefire. Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on…
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
By Japanese artist Kobayakawa Kyoshi (1897-1948)
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
For the AIDS Dead by Frank Bidart www.divasofverse.com/2017/12/for-...
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For the AIDS Dead by Frank Bidart
For the AIDS Dead   The plague that you have thus far survived.  They didn't. Nothing that they did in bed that you didn't. ...
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Philippe Dam @philippedam.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Absolutely shameful vote by most @eppgroup.bsky.social which apparently agrees that the only thing EU can do when #UnitedArabEmirates fueling conflict & violence in #Sudan with arms is to pay the humanitarian bill. Lack of principles & bad politics. www.politico.eu/newsletter/p...
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Kareem Chehayeb @chehayebk.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Most of #Gaza’s schools are destroyed and hundreds of thousands of children cannot go back to class apnews.com/article/gaza...
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Most of Gaza's schools are destroyed and hundreds of thousands of children cannot go back to class
More than 600,000 Palestinian children in Gaza have missed the past two years of school because of the war between Israel and the militant Hamas group.
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Dan Barry @danbarry58.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I went up to Albany all of a rainy night and what mug do I find but William Kennedy, THE William Kennedy. Author of "Ironweed," "Roscoe," and so many other novels that endure. He's 97, he's still writing - and he'll drink you under the table. So here: Your "Great Read."
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William Kennedy, Albany’s Bard, Reads a Story With Legs
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Alberto Giacometti, Still-Life with Bottles, 1958
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 02/11/2025
What is unfolding in Sudan, where the armed group RSF has taken control of the key city of El Fasher, is "the sum of all our fears," says human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond. "RSF is killing at a scale and a velocity that I haven’t seen since Rwanda."
democracynow.org
Mass Killings Reported in Sudan as RSF Seizes El Fasher; 460 Killed at Hospital
Sudan’s military is accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of killing at least 2,000 people since seizing control of El Fasher in the Darfur region, including some 460 at the Saudi Maternity H...
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Feroze Sidhwa @ferozesidhwa.org · 12/10/2025
Proud to be a small part of this effort with others who've volunteered in Gaza. www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Lou Charbonneau @loucharb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🚨 New from @hrw.org's @idasawyer.bsky.social: Disturbing Reports of #Sudan’s Military Using Chlorine Gas Chlorine's Use as a Weapon Prohibited Under International Law
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Disturbing Reports of Sudan’s Military Using Chlorine Gas
The United States government sanctioned General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan’s de facto head of state, in January 2025, alleging that the SAF had used ...
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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Avaaz @avaaz.org · 25/09/2025
Imagine being trapped in a city of 260,000 people, cut off from food, medicine, and safety — waiting for a massacre everyone sees coming. This is the reality of people in El Fasher, Sudan, right now. Read this harrowing investigation from The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Hafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Read every word. A harrowing, ugly, disturbing account of the last few months of the 500+ day siege on El Fasher, North Darfur in Sudan. ‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher
For 500 days, 260,000 people have been trapped by the paramilitary RSF. While political progress stalls, those who attempt escape are killed and those who remain inside are starving. Experts believe t...
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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
“This is no longer a policy debate. This is now an urgent question of basic humanity. Will the United States continue to arm genocide in Gaza? Will legislators continue to support an unconscionable crime against humanity—or act to end it?”
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Will the US Continue to Aid, Abet, and Arm Genocide in Gaza?
Every leader should move now to end our complicity.
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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Israel is forcing 1 million+ Palestinians out of Gaza City. Israel has made it clear that those who don’t leave will be killed. “I have endured starvation, thirst, missiles, & unbearable loss. I may not survive my 15th displacement.”
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In Gaza City, death seems easier than displacement
An Israeli bomb killed my grandfather and destroyed his home where I was staying. Now I am homeless and grieving again.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
In a historic letter, 123 doctors from around the world who've served in Gaza demand international action to stop the horrors their Palestinian colleagues & Palestinian people face. “We reject the violence of silence and supposed neutrality while our colleagues are starved and shot at by Israel.”
zeteo.com
EXCLUSIVE: 100+ Doctors Who Worked in Gaza Demand Global Action as 'Colleagues Are Starved and Shot by Israel'
Many Palestinian health workers 'suffer from hunger, dizziness and fainting episodes while performing operations and triaging patients,' reads an open letter signed by the healthcare professionals.
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/08/2025
Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...
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The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children
Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 24/07/2025
“Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s healthcare system are part of a broader strategy to render the territory unlivable for Palestinians” Dr. Thaer Ahmad, a Palestinian-American physician who served in Gaza, writes about the systematic targeting of health workers in Palestine. zeteo.com/p/israel-war...
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John Sanbonmatsu @jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
After 12+ years of labor, "The Omnivore's Deception" is out today. I chronicle the rise of the meat industry, show its catastrophic ecological effects, demolish the myth of the "enlightened" omnivore, show why animals are worthy of our respect, and advocate the abolition of the animal food economy.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 06/07/2025
Thirty-two years in, Punjabi Deli is still serving delicious vegetarian Indian food at shockingly reasonable prices from a narrow storefront in the East Village.
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East Village Icon Punjabi Deli Remains Bustling, Beloved, Perfect
Thirty-two years in, the narrow storefront is still serving delicious vegetarian Indian food at shockingly reasonable prices.
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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A devastating report on an appalling pattern. “It's a killing field," one soldier said. “They're treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable.” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
haaretz.com
IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid
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Robbie Corey-Boulet @rcoreyb.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Gay and bisexual men in Nigeria who lost access to PEPFAR-funded PrEP because of the Trump administration's aid cuts are testing positive for HIV. It's an example of how HIV prevention is under threat across the continent. Latest for Reuters: www.reuters.com/business/hea...
reuters.com
Trump aid cuts deal a blow to HIV prevention in Africa
Trump's cuts restrict the availability of drugs that millions of Africans have taken to prevent infection.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Never more proud of my incredible father-in-law, which is saying a lot!
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
newyorker.com
What Israeli Officials Are Privately Saying About Starvation in Gaza
And how the humanitarian response intersects with Netanyahu’s ability to continue waging war.
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PassBlue @passblue.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
reliefweb.int/report/occup...
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Israel’s New INGO Registration Measures Are a Grave Threat to Humanitarian Operations and International Law – 55 Organisations Say (6 May 2025) - occupied Palestinian territory
News and Press Release in English on occupied Palestinian territory and 1 other country about Protection and Human Rights and Safety and Security; published on 6 May 2025 by ACPP, ActionAid and 36ount...
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Sam Mednick @smednick.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Aid groups working in #Gaza fear an Israeli proposal for controlling aid will forcibly displace people and could push them into “de facto internment conditions". We obtained more than 40 pages of notes summarizing Israel’s proposals and aid groups’ concerns about them. apnews.com/article/gaza...
apnews.com
Groups fear Israeli proposal for controlling aid in Gaza will forcibly displace people
Israel has blocked aid from entering Gaza for two months and says it won’t allow food, fuel, water or medicine into the besieged territory until it can prevent Hamas and other militants from siphoning...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
In addition to violating Mr. Mahdawi’s First Amendment rights, the Rubio
Determination and Mr. Mahdawi’s unlawful detention also violates Mr. Mahdawi’s statutory rights
and due process rights.
PARTIES
8. Petitioner Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian who was born and raised in a refugee
camp in the West Bank. He is a lawful permanent resident of the United States and has been for
the last ten years. He is a recent student of Columbia University, with an expected graduation date
of May 2025. He has been admitted to a Master’s program at Columbia University’s School of
International and Public Affairs (“SIPA”), to begin in the fall of 2025.After growing up in a refugee camp, Mr. Mahdawi felt compelled to advocate for
Palestinian human rights upon moving to the United States.
22. Mr. Mahdawi is also a committed Buddhist and believes in non-violence and
empathy as a central tenet of his religion. In fall of 2021, he became the president of the Columbia
University Buddhist Association and led it for two years.
23. In fall of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi co-founded the Palestinian Student Union (“Dar”) at
Columbia University which “serves to engage with and celebrate Palestinian culture, history, and
identity.” Mr. Mahdawi co-founded this organization with Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian lawful
permanent resident who was also recently detained by ICE for his expressive conduct related to
Palestine. Mr. Mahdawi appeared in numerous televised interviews and print news articles
regarding the military campaign in Gaza and related protests. In December of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi
appeared on 60 Minutes where he shared that, as a child, he watched an Israeli soldier shoot and
kill his best friend in the West Bank.
27. Throughout his time as a student and a leader of Dar and the Columbia University
Buddhist Association, Mr. Mahdawi was always willing to engage in dialogue with people whose
views and beliefs differed from his own. Mr. Mahdawi believed, and continues to believe, that
more speech is the solution to disagreement, rather than less, and that empathy and understanding
through communication are a way to resolve conflicts peacefully.…and a peaceful political solution. Mr. Mahdawi gave speeches at several of these protests. In his
speeches, Mr. Mahdawi advocated for Palestinian human rights, a permanent ceasefire, and a
peaceful resolution that affirmed the human dignity of all.
25. During one protest, Mr. Mahdawi vocally denounced an unaffiliated passerby who
made an antisemitic comment, chanting “shame on him”. Mr. Mahdawi stated that “we are against
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antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to
justice everywhere.” The confrontation was documented by the Columbia Spectator
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say
Senior doctor who saw bodies says men appeared to have been ‘executed’, adding to evidence of potential war crime
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Donald Trump ended my Social Security payments, gave my grandkids measles, and crashed the plane I was supposed to take home from Florida. But at least I know those kids at Oberlin won't be asking for trigger warnings anymore.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
They have nothing. Nothing. They kidnapped a legal resident, shipped him across the country, denied access to his attorney, and are now trying to deport him. And their only justification for it is either protected speech or vague descriptions of alleged crimes committed by other people.
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Middle-East Tracker @me.skyfleet.blue · 06/01/2025
Gaza didn’t get enough winter shelters. Now babies are dying in the cold.
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Gaza didn’t get enough winter shelters. Now babies are dying in the cold.
At least seven infants have died from the cold in recent weeks, the Gaza health ministry says, as displaced families struggle to find refuge from the elements.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/01/2025
The Indonesian Hospital in north Gaza is no longer treating patients or wounded, the Gaza Ministry of Health said. 🔗: aje.io/8dwco1
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 01/01/2025
60 Minutes's story on Israel’s pager attack that killed dozens and injured thousands of Lebanese featured no Lebanese voices and was told completely from the Israeli perspective. In the process, it justified war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2024/12/60-minutes-p……
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’60 Minutes’ program on Lebanon pager attack was nothing more than Israeli propaganda
60 Minutes’s story on Israel’s pager attack that killed dozens and injured thousands of Lebanese featured no Lebanese voices and was told completely from the Israeli perspective. In the process, it...
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
The most Christmassy of Australian birds. A red-capped robin. (Not at all related to the northern hemisphere robins, btw.) 🪶 #birds
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jasoing @jimcantswim.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
fatherhood
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 17/12/2024
NEW: The state of a mass grave in Damascus and statements by people living in the surrounding area suggest that the area is a mass crime scene and may have been the site of other summary executions.
hrw.org
Syria: Mass Grave in Damascus Should be Protected, Investigated
The state of a mass grave in Damascus and statements by people living in the surrounding area suggest that the area is a mass crime scene and may have been the site of other summary executions
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