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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 59m
Marking three years of the genocide in Gaza with a protest at City Hall in Belfast this evening. #FreePalestine
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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 20h
Fk Israel
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Dharma Bum @whyweseek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
French ppl protest stronger over school funding problems than Americans have for a hostile fascist takeover of the entire nation
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm so grateful to @camanpour.bsky.social for a long, substantive discussion of the reporting+analysis in CROSSING THE RED LINE. We covered the Biden team's callousness, hubris & timidity on Gaza — and why we should be wary of bids by officials to distract from their role www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/t...
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‘Timidity,’ ‘callousness’ and ‘hubris’: Reckoning with Biden’s Gaza policy | CNN
In “Crossing the Red Line,” journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed documents how the Biden administration supported Israel’s war in Gaza
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Nina Zeelen @ninazeelen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By the age of 14, he had survived the Holocaust; by 44, he was an Israeli diplomat; now, at the age of 94, Theodor Meron recommended the International Criminal Court seek arrest warrants of Israeli and Hamas leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity." (May 2024)
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This 94-year-old Holocaust survivor recommended arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders
Much has been said about Amal Clooney's role on the ICC's panel on war crimes, but less attention has been paid to Theodor Meron
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
European Union still refuses to sanction Apartheid Israel's genocidal regime. Israel is destroying Palestinian homes each day and taking Palestinian lives each day and EU keeps claiming it can do nothing if all member states don't agree to act. Which is not true. bsky.app/profile/good...
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For me, these are issues best addressed through open and robust conversations, in which we both speak and listen. They are not issues that should be litigated through disciplinary processes. It is the former approach that is more likely to lead to a durable outcome.
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I am Jane Doe we are not moving @auntieemwefucked.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I have been screaming this into the void since the narcoleptic pedo was sworn in. I’ve been told be patient we are working with the courts. Is this what they mean? Because Meanwhile; www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We're with you in solidarity and spirit Issa! Free Palestine!
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Wizard of Oz: Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
ALT: Wizard of Oz: Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The latest from Marge margepiercy.com/blog/garlic-...
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Garlic Time, Almost — Marge Piercy
I ordered four kinds of hard-neck garlic cloves.
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I love this Israeli commentator just straight up admitting they oppress and kill women.
"The hypocrisy of the Irish is unbelievable said one panellist not long ago they shook hands with the Afghan national cricket side - that's the same Taliban that oppresses and kills women. That's okay but when it comes to the Jews it's not okay. This is pure antisemitism" Israeli sports commentator admitting they oppress and kill women.
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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Plant-rich diets are the food system's electrification. Petrol cars only see 18-25% of their fuel energy get to the wheels; EVs 87-91%. Heat pumps are 2 or 3 times more efficient. Food has its own combustion engine: a chicken turns about 13% of its feed calories into food, worse than a petrol car.
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Woman in Black scared the living daylights out of me. I still have nightmares about her being in my house somewhere.
Still photo from the Woman in Black (ITV, 1989) 
A woman in Victorian mourning dress on a bleak marshland. She is a scary, scary bitch.
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Delaney’s of Smithfield #speirghorm
Sign on a pub door: Notice! We will not be showing Ireland v Israel. Sorry for the inconvenience
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Please subscribe to Equator Magazine. I insist. @equatormag.bsky.social
Truncated due to word limit. 

From the Editors

The most influential journals are rarely the products of tranquil times. Their significance is often measured by their ability to confront historical rupture, rather than the length of their run. In 1944, as the violence of world wor scaled toward atomic annihilation, Dwight Macdonald founded his radical journal, Politics, to survey the wreck age. A year later, Les Temps Modernes rose from the ruins of occupied France to forge the twin languages of existentialism and anticolonialism.

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Equator was not founded to issue political blue-prints, but to be a home for this reclamation of the future to begin. In these early days of an era whose outcome no one can predict, we want to capsize dogmes and tell new stories. Our aim is to cultivate a fresh canon of think-ers who can reveal the world in unfamiliar ways, yield-ing vocabularies capable of comprehending new political horizons and to advocate a renewed cosmopolitanism. In a globalised world, cosmopolitanism has been degraded by association with Davos elites and obscene wealth. The cosmopolitanism we pursue is different. We do not want, in Aimé Césaire's phrase, to become lost in a disembodied universalism, but to embrace instead what he called "a universal rich with all that is particular". Our ambition is to make Equator a living experiment in this philosophy: one that does not flatten differences into a bland global citizenship, but seeks instead the shock of recognition that comes when people separated by geography encounter one another's entangled histories and experiences and find, unexpectedly, that they recog-nise themselves.
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
4 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators.
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Josep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Israeli forces storm a wedding hall in Abu Dis, east of occupied Jerusalem.
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Natalie O'Regan @natalieoregan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Garvaghy road 🥰
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires I discovered via an FOI request that DEFRA’s commitment in the National Adaptation Programme to run a “wildfire risk programme” since 2023 “was not brought into effect”. #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires
FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good work! Thank you ✊
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨 Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road 🚨 We feel compelled to speak publicly about what is happening in Portadown 🚨Over the past few hours we have collected over 140 signatures
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Your poor wee cat, I'm sorry.
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
3 years of genocide in Gaza
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Solidarity Issa! Your friends in Belfast are glad you have been released but worried for your safety 🙏🇵🇸
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Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Beyond the Pale Books @btpbooks.bsky.social have made available a Pdf of ‘Garvaghy: A community Under Siege’ published in 1999. It is highly recommended, esp for the NIO and PSNI to understand the community’s trauma and the extent of violence associated with past Orange Order marches in Portadown.
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reusing her tinfoil 👌
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Disabledjournalist 🇵🇸 @disabledjornalist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pray for us here 😭💔🇵🇸
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's heartbreaking to see that little injured child clutching his football.
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Israeli artillery shelled areas east of Deir al-Balah and east of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza while simultaneously opening fire on surrounding locations."
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Issa Amro @issa-amro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ISSA IS OUT! TORTURED! He just wrote me: "I am back now I was detained and ill treated" They released him yesterday at 12:30At night. But now he is very tired because of his hand. They did hit him on the legs. And more... Now I hand this account back over to Issa Amro!
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Issa Amro @issa-amro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Israeli occupation force arrested my friend and human rights activists Issa Amro from Hebron. This is not Issa writing here, but a friend who has access to his account for emergency situations. WHICH IS NOW! Share this! Call the Israeli Embassy! Call politicians! Mention him on demonstrations!
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
turns out that everything in PEN’s “report” on anti-semitism was a gross distortion or a lie. Thank you @jewishcurrents.bsky.social for this investigation jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'“I had a painful meeting with a group of very young people, & I heard... statements calling for killing everyone and claiming that there are no innocents,”... ...“Even babies?” ...“Babies too, because eventually they will grow up and become terrorists.”' www.middleeastmonitor.com/20261002-isr...
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Israeli opposition leader says young Israelis backed killing ‘everyone’ in Gaza
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said he met a group of young Israelis who expressed support for killing all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including babies, Anadolu reports. Lapid made the re…
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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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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On this episode of On the Nose, Arielle Angel speaks to Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing) and Rami Younis (Lyd) about NAZA and the function of cinema focused on the perpetrators of genocide. jewishcurrents.org/naza-and-the...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And, as I wrote over a year ago, this kind of ethnographical skull-measuring will always lead to outright racism and - in the attempt - utter absurdity. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
When, this week, the Telegraph printed a rabidly scaremongering report that “White British people will be a minority in 40 years”, they clarified this cohort as “the white British share of the population — defined as people who do not have an immigrant parent”. 

Leaving aside how garbled that formulation is — there are millions of non-white Brits who meet that definition perfectly — it carried with it a parallel consequence. I myself do not have an immigrant parent.

In fact, every single pale and freckled ancestor of mine since 1800, Irish farmers to a soul, was born and raised in something called the United Kingdom. This is true for a large number of Irish people in the North. And since the late Prince Philip was himself a Greek immigrant, it gives me great pleasure to point out that they’d settled on a definition of ‘White British’ which includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles III.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tomorrow in Belfast ✊️ 💚
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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Really a fine piece of opinion, analysis and commentary. You won’t find much better anywhere in my view. I hope you know the value of this @saraita101.bsky.social because it really matters when the community is put into such distress, again.
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've chosen not to follow this story at all because it stinks like a big pile of horse dung.
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John Barrington @johnbarrington.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Keep hearing of the cost of disability, and state payments. I don’t qualify for Carers Allowance despite being a 24/7/365 home carer for past 20 years.
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Writer of “Rape Apologists Must Die!” @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Naomi Klein is always excellent.
NAOMI KLIEIN to SAM ALTMAN:
...you ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not 'liberating human creativity' --you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft 'training data'."
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I looked up from a spreadsheet and there it was, prancing before my eyes.
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Curlicued cloud on a Belfast day
Photo of clouds with curlicues in Belfast
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 01/10/2026
I will never forget all the cynical gainsaying and disinformation about the strike on Al-Ahli hospital ten days into Israel’s destruction of Gaza. ‘Fog of war’. Almost three years later, fewer than half of Gaza’s hospitals remain even partially functional and there is no fog. Only dust and rubble.
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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh, fuck off, #EdMiliband. The #PalestineAction ban was absolutely intended to criminalise opponents of the British government's support for the #genocide in #Palestine, "grannies" or otherwise.
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omar El Akkad in conversation with Michael Magee in Mandela Hall, Belfast tonight. A profound discussion about the genocide in Palestine, settler-colonial violence, rapacious capitalism and the liberal middle-ground chasm of nothingness. Free Palestine!
Omar El Akkad and Michael Magee on stage in Mandela Hall. A packed audience in the foreground.
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Viktor Orban travelled to Belfast yesterday, appearing alongside the Northern Irish anti-abortion group Precious Life, "celebrating" preventing Belfast City Hall from joining"International Safe Abortion Day" Precious Life's former director, Jim Dowson, is a far-right extremist with ties to Hungary.
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Viktor Orban was in Belfast last night at City Hall

Precious Life and other prolife groups were celebrating after successfully preventing City Hall from being lit up to celebrate 'International Safe Abortion Day' 

📸 Precious LifeAnti-abortionist resigns from job
Anti-abortion poster The anti-abortion campaign has come in for criticism

The leader of the controversial anti-abortion group Precious Life is reported to have quit his job because of his views.

Jim Dowson, 33, who has admitted previous involvement with hard-line loyalist groups in the west of Scotland, was told he should curb his activities or face dismissal. Notorious far-right extremist returns to Scotland to fund growing anti-immigration protests
Jim Dowson has spent the last 20 years fundraising for the far-right in ­Scotland, Northern Ireland, Hungary and the US.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians & injured at least 13 others, incl. children & displaced people, in attacks across the #Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to medical sources & Palestinian media reports." Israeli Attacks Kill Ten Palestinians in Gaza imemc.org/article/isra... #GazaNews #Israel
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