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RichWood

@richwood.bsky.social
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Writer, living close to the wild, politics, religion, arts, sciences, hiking, wilderness, climate change, Free Palestine! Free Syria! Black Lives Matter! Indigenous people’s power; power & freedom for Women. Overthrow Trump! Abolish ICE, Stop the Fascists.

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HyperbolicDub 🍉 @hyperbolicdub.bsky.social · 10h
The level of Israeli hasbara is almost impressive in it's shamelessness
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 13h
"Funeral prayers were held at #Gaza City’s Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church for a Palestinian mother & daughter who were among 5 killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike on an apartment." www.instagram.com/reels/DeDB0n... #GazaNews #GazaStrip #Israel #News #Palestine #PalestineNews #WorldNews
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 6h
Green Party members voted for the ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion on 4 October at the annual Green Party conference, which called for the party to define Zionism as a racist, settler-colonial ideology and declare itself against it. The motion sparked intense discussion within the party and in the media.
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 21h
Robert Glasper Jazz 2026 youtu.be/c0rJ770SLB4?...
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[HD] Robert Glasper – Concert in Paris (Part 1/2), 2026 – RIP Casey Benjamin
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Ahmad Algohbary @ahmadalgohbary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The military spokesman for Yemen AnsarAllah the Houthis said the group launched a military operation targeting Saudi Aramco in Riyadh with ballistic missiles and drones, in response to Saudi strikes on Sana’a and other areas.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oil tankers hit in the Strait of Hormuz and intense fighting in Yemen: www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Oil tankers hit in Hormuz as Yemeni forces strike Sanaa ‘military targets’
Reports of oil tanker attacks in Strait of Hormuz as Yemeni government forces say they are striking Houthi-held Sanaa.
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Somalian President rejects an Israeli presence anywhere in Somalia, including Berbera: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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Somalia won’t accept Israeli presence ‘under any circumstances’: President
In exclusive Al Jazeera interview, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says Israel planning a naval base in Berbera.
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Most Arab states play a stupid game with Israel: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/neta...
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Netanyahu's UAE visit highlights Arab leaders' dangerous gamble with Israel
Deepening diplomatic and military ties amid the Gaza genocide risk compounding public anger over repression, corruption and economic hardship
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Joseph Massad is right, as usual. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/russ...
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Why Russia remains stubbornly insignificant to the Middle East
Moscow's call for Palestinian statehood is empty rhetoric from a state that chose Israel in 1948 and stands by it today through genocide in Gaza and war on Iran
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am not a Marxist-Leninist, and I don’t think they should be purged from the DSA, but I am a radical advocate of social justice and I support this critique of the DSA that Jon H. Has written: www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/02/t...
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The False Framing of the DSA Debate
In response to my recent critiques of the Democratic Socialists of America’s Red Star caucus, a Marxist Leninist faction one of DSA’s two co-chairs
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yesterday's pogrom in Jaloud proves that, even in the rare case that the IDF is sent to protect Palestinians from settler violence in the West Bank , it is unwilling/unable to do so. As @nirhasson.bsky.social says, it is time for international peace keepers. www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-bl...
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PM blames ‘small number’ of West Bank rioters as mass settler attack draws wide condemnation
Some right-wing politicians echo Netanyahu's rare rebuke of settler violence, after over 100 extremists attack Jalud; top settlement leader calls for police crackdown on attacks
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What Israel and the US have done to Gaza and what they have done to immigrants in the U.S. is what they intend to do with all of us. It’s only a matter of time. Resist the end time fascists.
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Frankenstein’s monster is on the loose… www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/t...
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Anthropic says its AI models pose ‘existential risk to humanity’ in leaked IPO filing: report | CNN Business
Anthropic says its AI models could pose a “catastrophic or existential risk to humanity” and can “resist shutdown,” according to an initial public offering prospectus obtained by Reuters.
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teuskat @teuskat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 28/09/2026
Immigration reform is one of the reasons why I ran for Congress. It is devastating to see the amount of grief and generational trauma that our country's immigration policies are creating.
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Spanish protest eviction of 87 year old woman and demand protection for tenants. www.democracynow.org/2026/9/28/sp...
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Forcible Eviction of 87-Year-Old Madrid Woman Sparks Protest Encampment over Spain’s Housing Crisis
The eviction of 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal Martín in Madrid, after an investment fund bought her apartment building and more than tripled her rent, has become a symbol of Spain’s rising cost...
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Zionism’ s greatest hits continued: www.middleeasteye.net/news/do-ther...
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'Do there what we did in Gaza': Smotrich calls for full-scale war in occupied West Bank
Finance minister says Israel should dismantle the Palestinian Authority and expand Israeli territorial control of occupied territory
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The man is doomed. Zionism’s greatest hits. www.middleeasteye.net/news/netanya...
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Netanyahu asked UAE leader to publicly deny 7 October 2023 warning to Israel: Report
Israeli prime minister travelled to UAE on Sunday in a bid to discredit reports he received advanced warning from Arab states about attacks on southern Israel
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Iran U.S. War puts pressure on Egypt, Türkiye and Pakistan www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-...
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How the Iran war is squeezing Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt from every direction
Disruptions at Hormuz, Bab al-Mandeb and Suez are only half the story. Pressures are also piling up along their land borders
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Josh Frank shows how much socialism has already helped the U.S.: www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/28/c...
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Chamber of Commerce Tour – Ignores 250 Years of America’s Socialism
On September 18, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced it is launching a six-week, 20-state “Free Enterprise Express Bus” tour to back Republican
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The billionaires who oppose CA prop 40, Tax Billionaires www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/28/m...
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Billionaire Bankrollers: Meet the 22 California Billionaires Opposing Prop 40
On November 3, 2026, California voters will vote on Proposition 40, a one-time 5 percent levy on the net worth of billionaires who were California
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The billions of dollars we send to a foreign military to drop bombs on somebody else should have been spent to build schools, housing, and to provide healthcare HERE.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Do you think the government of Israel is committing a genocide?”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An ICE goon threatened to kill a person as they were legally observing a detention in Chicago. This same goon was videoed September 20 in Evanston, IL, where he and his team injured a US citizen whom they attempted to detain. Chicago | 9.25.26
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The man who groomed and hand delivered JD VANCE to the White House.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We don’t allow corporations to come up with new nuclear weapons or biological pathogens. If a product is potentially dangerous, it should be regulated and corporations should be held accountable for wrongdoing. Why would AI be any different? www.commondreams.org/news/ai-securi…
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AI Giants Probe 'Tens of Thousands' of Security Incidents—Some Involving Government Sites | Common Dreams
Security researchers investigate tens of thousands of artificial intelligence security incidents, fueling fresh calls fo
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israel wiped Gaza from the face of the earth.  Everyone knew exactly what they were doing!  A crime more confessed to as it happened than any other in history. A crime more documented as it happened than any other in history. There are no excuses. None at all
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why on earth?
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We are asking 250 billionaires in California, worth 2.2 trillion, to pay a one-time 5% tax so California kids do not lose healthcare. Excited to join Bernie Sanders, SEIU-UHW, and Jane Kim to stand with working families in California.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rich would prefer you to believe that the "free market" is subject to the immutable law of supply and demand. But for years, the wealthy and powerful have manipulated the market for their own gain. There is nothing “free” about it. Watch.
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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is active treason. These traitors are attacking your Constitutional rights and should be urgently forced out of office.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/09/2026
"It turns out that many Americans did not know they were fascists—but when the time came, they did indeed find out." @jvl.bsky.social on the hard lessons of Springfield in today's Triad:
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The Hard Lessons of Springfield
There are plenty of people happy about what is happening to the Haitian community.
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICE is everywhere. Resist this death squad that imprisons and shoots your neighbors and friends! www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
DSA co chair Megan Romer, who destroyed DSA’s reputation this summer is a Marxist-Leninist in the Red Star caucus. She does not represent DSA membership. www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/28/d...
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DSA’s Leadership is Ideologically Unrepresentative
Something I’ve found mysterious, since joining the Democratic Socialists of America, is that the national leadership seems wildly out of step with the
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mamdani and El Sayed have transformed US politics by their brilliance, courage and charisma. It is a new day and these two men deserve much of the credit. Let’s bury Trump, stop the War, Free Palestine and begin a new era.
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you listen to Ezra Klein’s podcast with Abdul el-Sayed, candidate for Senate in Michigan in the New York Times, yesterday, Sept 25 proves that he is the best and most brilliant candidate for public office who has ever run in the U.S. Reading the transcript is good too, but listening is best.
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump has made at least $1 million an hour in his second term. This maniac has to be stopped before he uses nuclear weapons against Iran.
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gaza day by day: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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We followed five people in Gaza from dawn to dusk – this is what the headlines don’t tell us
Behind the stories of bombings and mass deaths, the everyday challenges facing Palestinians living under siege portray a quieter tragedy we rarely hear
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump’s genocidal taunting of Iran is disgraceful and is in itself a war crime: www.democracynow.org/2026/9/23/tr...
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“New Low in U.N. History”: Trita Parsi on Trump’s Threat to Annihilate Iran at General Assembly
The annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly opened this week in New York City. On its opening day, President Trump in his address to all 193 U.N. member states threatened to annihilate I...
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Al-Sharaa of Syria: www.middleeasteye.net/news/syria-p...
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No peace with Israel 'if rights of Syrians are usurped', Sharaa says
Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the Syrian president said areas occupied by Israel since 2024, as well as the Golan Heights, remain core concerns
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is human trafficking on a massive scale.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
ICE are currently chasing and kidnapping immigrants in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a town that is at this point probably most famous for being the starting point for Ishmael’s journey in the great American novel Moby-Dick, which portrays a multiracial crew including many immigrants, working together
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#Poetry #Painting #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nature as angry deity. This is the way we need to understand the world: scientific animism. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
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Opinion | Wildfire Converted Me From Tree-Hugger to Tree-Worshipper
I used to view trees as ecologically angelic beings. No longer.
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No machine masters! www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/18/a...
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AI Alarmism:  Sound and Fury Signifying What?
Our lives changed from analog to digital, and so the very way we confront and deal with information, and thoughts and memories had to be readjusted.  The technology world exploded—computers everywhere...
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
25 years after 9/11 and three years since Oct. 7, the U.S. is finally waking up to the nightmare of its support for Israel and what it has done to it’s people and to the world. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra...
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Israel has lost the American people. The politicians are next
After two years of genocide in Gaza, most Americans oppose the war on Iran, House Democrats are voting to cut military aid and Aipac's candidates keep losing
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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bin Ladin, Cheney and Trump have destroyed the U.S. In just 25 years theintercept.com/2026/09/11/b...
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Osama Bin Laden Won
The architect of the September 11 attacks dreamed of the destruction of America. In the last 25 years, his wish has come true.
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