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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14h
New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
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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 An update to Google Maps has revealed the extent of devastation during the three-year Gaza war and the severity of the continuing humanitarian crisis faced by the territory’s 2.3 million inhabitants. The images were taken in June this year and show further destruction of homes, businesses, places of worship and infrastructure since a fragile ceasefire came into effect almost 12 months ago. Continue reading...
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Nicola Macbean @nicolamacbean.bsky.social · 11h
Hideous. This is not criminal punishment it’s torture. Worth reading this from a UN expert www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Tennessee woman on death row taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections
Christa Pike, sentenced to death over 1995 murder, was heard snoring 40 minutes after lethal doses administered, witnesses said
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Christa Pike was first sexually abused when she was just two years old. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Semafor @semafor.com · 20h
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Paris has been praised in recent years for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get enough credit for just being really pragmatic! Everything they’ve been doing is common sense. They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air and cooling the city.
People riding bikes in a full separated bike-lane in Central Paris.Cars jamming a street in central Paris.
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Bill Tubbs @billtubbs.bsky.social · 14h
Copenhagen during rush hour. If they were in cars it would be grid lock.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
💥 Jack Posobiec BUSTED on PizzaGate Conspiracy Jack lied about his involvement when confronted on Piers Morgan by @wajali.bsky.social /milkbartv
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 14h
🧐 NAZA [Trailer] Award-winning documentary produced by the Guardian @theguardian.com that details the systems behind Israel’s mass killings in Gaza 🔻
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 22h
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
First EU reactions to Burnham suggestion that UK might rejoin EU: French President Macron: “Welcome back” Spanish PM Sanchez: Brexit was a “huge loss” for both the UK and the EU, and if Britain takes a decision to rejoin, Spain will “open its arms” again to the British people.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the Convention [ECHR]. It is whether, in an increasingly dangerous world, we can afford not to” Political liars and lightweights, like Badenoch and Farage, must never be allowed to take that risk. www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...
The Law Society
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In short, if Britain were to leave the ECHR, it would not be
'taking back control. It would be surrendering influence over the rules and institutions that help keep us safe.
The debate about the ECHR is too often conducted as though it were a choice between national sovereignty and international law. That is a false choice.
The Convention advances British interests because it reflects British values: liberty under law, democratic government and the accountability of power.
Walking away would not make Britain freer. It would make Britain weaker.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That’s the amount of heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. A number so huge it’s almost meaningless…until you realise it’s roughly 40× humanity’s annual energy use. The ocean is buying us time. We’re running out of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Andy Burnham, "We could stay as we are.. We could look at what George Osborne has said about a Customs Union.. We can look at what the Liberal Democrats have said about the Single Market" "Or we could go all the way" #RejoinEU
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Politicians who demand we leave the ECHR and don’t actually believe in freedom of speech or a free press. What could possibly go wrong for the rest of us with that?
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yup.
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rowan-adams.bsky.social @rowan-adams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The irony is that councils still can't afford to pay for adequate care for the people whose care they pay for. And a lot of that is because local council funding is still far too low. Sixteen English councils spend more than 80% of core funding on social care www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Sixteen English councils spend more than 80% of core funding on social care
Councils collectively spent record 71.9% of core spending on adult and children’s care last year, analysis shows
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here’s the moment @labourlewis.bsky.social read out the letter at a fringe event at Labour conference hosted by @the-citizens.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/the-...
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 25/09/2026
"Netanyahu not only has unleashed vicious crimes onto Palestinians, but he failed his own people."​
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NYT Affirms Haaretz Report: Netanyahu Was Warned About Oct. 7
"Netanyahu not only has unleashed vicious crimes onto Palestinians, but he failed his own people."
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Big news from Labour Conference: the PM has announced the government's plan to scrap first past the post. Seats that match votes would change British politics for good, but only if it happens. I've added my name. Join me? action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/201578/...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk
The PM used his big speech to promise to fix Westminster's broken voting system.
We've heard promises before. I've signed to make sure this one is kept. It takes 30 seconds
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He really is the Antichrist. Who needs nuclear weapons when you can destroy the world with orange stoopid?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When i rag on the newspapers, people often say "who even reads the newspapers anymore tho!!?" Talk-TV producers. Then they give them to their presenters, who are - right now - using exclusively right-wing titles as their teleprompter.
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The heart of FireSat is a pair of midwave infrared bands — one extremely sensitive, designed to monitor small and cool fires. The other attenuated, like a pair of eclipse glasses, for precisely measuring the intensity of hot fires.
Satellite image with a grayscale thermal infrared background, and highlighted fires in midwave infrared, colored dark burgundy to light yellow.Attenuated midwave infrared satellite image of the Big Grass fire along the Oregon/Idaho border. Small clustered bright spots indicate active fire, mostly along the eastern (right) edge of the fire. Cool areas are dark burgundy, hot fires light yellow. The fire perimeter is outlined in white, and accompanied by an inset locator map.Four satellite images, showing a shortwave infrared, near infrared, red composite, midwave infrared, attenuated midwave infrared and thermal infrared. Different wavelengths reveal different aspects of the fire. From smoke, to fire intensity, to the temperature of the surrounding landscape.Color shaded relief map with detailed insets showing bright midwave infrared and thermal infrared images of a woodland fire in Portugal. The fire was in the hills above a steep river valley.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 26/09/2026
Are we getting in our own way? Adam Met from @planetreimagined.bsky.social and I discuss climate hushing, infighting over words and framing, and how a constant focus on what's going wrong can distract us from the solutions already moving forward. Watch: www.talkingclimate.ca/p/are-we-get...
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Are we getting in our own way?
AJR’s Adam Met on climate optimism, infighting, and why the way we talk about climate matters.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 29/09/2026
Don’t ask an elected official if they “believe” in climate change, it’s not a religion. Don’t ask if they think it’s serious: it is. Ask them what matters most: what are they doing about it? Excellent application here, 10/10 no notes 👏⬇️👏
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Trump says Democratic concerns about AI are a hoax like global warming 🥴
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There was a moment when the US was taken over by enemies and criminals, the incompetent, the corrupt, and the malevolent. They control our government now and will use every means at their disposal, legal and illegal, to try to stop the rest of us from restoring law, order, and decency to US society.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 29/09/2026
The War on Terror "never ended," said @rozinaali.bsky.social at "The Forever War and the First Amendment." One of 9/11's lasting legacies, she said, is that it has "entrenched us in a wartime mentality," with the structures built in its wake still firmly in place. youtu.be/gTYQkE_CCKE
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thefawcette.bsky.social @thefawcette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hysterical. Republican is foaming at the mouth, excited that he thinks he has caught special-prosecutor Smith in perjury when, in fact, his whole line of inquiry is based on him confusing the NBA "Hawks" with college "Hawkeyes" that played in a different city and state. Vile & comically incompetent.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dear BBC, I'd actually argue that the divisions crippling British society for the last 10+ years — also in Holborn — can only be helped by rejecting the warmongering fascism of authoritarians like Netanyahu, Putin and Trump. We need to get back to an idea of shared humanity on a shared planet. 🌻
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Siri, show me the deliberate destruction of eight decades of American-led international diplomacy and cooperation in one photograph:
Screenshot of a September 28, 2026, post on ex-Twitter by right-wing foreign policy analyst, professor, author and former Trump Department of Defense senior policy adviser Matthew Koenig, showing the lobby of the US State Department adorned with 200 American flags:

“The US State Department lobby used to display the flags of the roughly 200 countries with which the US maintains diplomatic relations. Now, it displays 200 American flags, to remind State Department employees who they work for.”
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pope Leo, "Today relations between people between and states are becoming increasingly barbaric" "Lies and deceit are boasted about" "Europe can overcome this by coming together"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For all we know at the moment, the 5 men arrested near RAF Fairford might have been on a stag night. But the wild claims by Trump and Rubio suggest that, if they'd been apprehended in the US, they would have been denied due process. I hope our government tells them to butt out of our justice system.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#Starbucks retreats from green goals amid $2bn cost drive. The pullback comes amid a broader US corporate retreat from environmental commitments as political pressure rose under President #DonaldTrump www.ft.com/content/f537... via @FT #oilandgas #billiionaires #ClimateEmergency
ft.com
Starbucks retreats from green goals amid $2bn cost drive
Early corporate champion of climate action scales back or reviews targets to halve emissions, waste and water use
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June Lewins @joonloons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Laura Kuenssberg is a Tory shill.
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Neil White @neilwhite30.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Her and Mason are the reasons I never use the BBC for news anymore
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Personally, I would look at State welfare for billionaires - perhaps means-test it... People like Ratcliffe who are Outeos when it comes to paying taxes but very much Ineos when it comes to receiving taxpayer handouts.
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victoria1921.bsky.social @victoria1921.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
She was (allegedly) 'up for it' with world beating liar and serial sex pest, Johnson. Probably the worst Prime Minister this country has ever seen. Absolutely disgraceful that this awful woman and a shockingly bad journalist still has a job with the BBC.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Between that and AB: "I think it's right to listen to what people say during the consultation and then decide on the right way forward." LK: "It sounds like you're not up for it." ... a decent boss would be telling Kuenssberg to start polishing her CV. Lucky for her she only has indecent bosses.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AB: "I don't think you get the welfare bill down with crude cuts. It plunges people into crisis and they show up in other parts of the system which end up costing more." LK: "Yeah, you've said this before, but I'm looking for a specific commitment you will cut the bill by the next election." WOW
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ed Miliband, 'Every experience I've had in the two months that I've been Foreign Secretary tells me: our future lies in a deeper, stronger partnership with the EU." So much more refreshing and honest than Keir Starmer's disastrous make Brexit work nonsense.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great work by the Tech Bros. They managed to trash their own reputations and that of their products in a matter of years. Techno Optimism to Techno Nihilism and it’s all down to Musk, Zuckerberg, Altman and the rest.
IPSOS chart showing nearly two-thirds of Brits now saying “I fear that technical progress is destroying our lives”, up from under a third
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