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Susan Pashkoff

@susanp64.bsky.social
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Political Activist and Marxist Economist; blog writer and voracious reader. Socialist Feminism, anti-disabilism, anti-racism, Economic Policy and theory researcher. Ecosocialism, Anti-Facism Anticapitalist Resistance

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Foxglove Legal @foxglovelegal.bsky.social · 20h
Encouraging news: UK Govt is reportedly considering alternatives to Palantir in the NHS: www.ft.com/content/9a6e...
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Andy Burnham searches for UK alternative to Palantir
Prime minister’s ‘Buy British’ push triggers hunt to find replacement for controversial US tech group awarded health service and defence contracts
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No Kings Alerts @nokingsprotest.bsky.social · 6h
#NoKings #AbolishIce #HandsOff #50501 #Trump
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Amnesty International: Abolish ICE
Amnesty International: Abolish ICE · Racially discriminatory immigration enforcement operations and arbitrary detention · Harassment, intimidation,
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 6h
Andy Burnham: no new gas power stations for data centres www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
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Andy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centres
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
J'ai signé une pétition pour empêcher les géants pétroliers de faire obstacle à des vols plus propres. L'UE a déjà une loi pour développer des carburants plus propres pour l'aviation, mais Shell et BP font pression pour qu'elle soit abandonnée. Signez : action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-09...
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Pas de géants pétroliers dans notre ciel
Partage la pétition et tu contribueras à multiplier l'impact de cette campagne : Pas de géants pétroliers dans notre ciel
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Call on the UN General Assembly to suspend genocidal Israel. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
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Call on the UN General Assembly to suspend genocidal Israel
Dear supporter, World leaders are gathering at the 81st Session of the UNGA this week. On 18 September 2024, the UN overwhelmingly endorsed the ICJ ruling that Israel’s occupation is illegal and cons...
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No body, no death certificate: the bureaucratic limbo trapping the widows of Gaza’s missing men mondoweiss.net/2026/09/no-b...
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No body, no death certificate: the bureaucratic limbo trapping the widows of Gaza’s missing men
In Gaza, women whose husbands are missing or buried under rubble are facing a little-known crisis. Without death certificates for their husbands, they’re locked out of bank accounts, aid, and custody ...
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Call on the UN General Assembly to suspend genocidal Israel. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
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Call on the UN General Assembly to suspend genocidal Israel
Dear supporter, World leaders are gathering at the 81st Session of the UNGA this week. On 18 September 2024, the UN overwhelmingly endorsed the ICJ ruling that Israel’s occupation is illegal and cons...
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
anticapitalistresistance.org/the-case-for...
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The case for renewed Palestinian political struggle
Professor of international relations Gilbert Achcar argues for new ways of promoting the Palestinian cause, drawing on his recent book and in an interview with Dina Ezzat
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tonight's ACM by UnaSpenser discusses authoritarian regimes, the use of the words "socialism" & "communism" against those proposing more egalitarianism by spreading fear of the "unknown." Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Capitalism vs Socialism? Wrong Question www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Capitalism vs Socialism? Wrong Question
About why the capitalism vs socialism debate is a distraction from what we really need to examine, if we want to build a more sustainable society.
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Call for international solidarity against the crackdown on LGBTI+ people in Turkey
The crackdown on LGBTI+ people in Turkey has just escalated further. On 13 September, a large-scale police operation targeted activists, LGBTI+ organisations and organisations working to combat HIV/AI...
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Tonight's ACM by NY Brit Expat discussing the far-right "protests"in Dover and Portsmouth last weekend and what it means; has creeping fascism crept? It seems that is where we are at. ACM:  On the normalisation of the Far Right and Fascist Direct Action www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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ACM: On the normalisation of the Far Right and Fascist Direct Action
Last weekend there was an organised action by a group of hundreds of mostly white men dressed in black and wearing balaclavas blocking access to and from the port of the town of Dover on Saturday 6th…
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Greenandblue on Urban Agriculture and addressing commodification of food. Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Urban Ag and Tech Convo www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Urban Ag and Tech Convo
Agriculture, food, and tech seem relevant for most. Here in St Louis, the Wellston Loop Community Development Corporation is assisting and empowering people in some of the most neglected areas of St…
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Tunisia: Free the Sumud Four, Drop All Charges, End the Detention
After more than 170 days, four Global Sumud Flotilla organizers continue to sit in a Tunisian cell, away from their families and the movement they helped build. Wael Nawar, Nabil Chennoufi, Ghassan He...
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
To some voters, it will sound far-fetched that centrist Democrats would deliberately tank a winnable Senate race to keep the Left down. But it’s hardly unprecedented. And in Michigan, a handful of them are saying it outright.
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Centrist Democrats Are Trying to Throw the Michigan Race
Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate race could decide control of the chamber. Yet some centrist Democrats are openly working to sink his campaign — because they’d rather hand the seat to a Trump-backed Republican than let the Left gain a foothold in their party.
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Gilbert Achcar / جلبير الأشقر @gilbert-achcar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
On the impact of 9/11: "The Iraq War shattered the promise of a new world order" qantara.de/en/node/44749
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Gilbert Achcar on the impact of 9/11: "The Iraq War shattered the promise of a new world order" | Qantara.de
The attacks of 11 September 2001 fundamentally altered US foreign policy and triggered a series of wars that have reshaped the Middle East. 25 years on, Gilbert Achcar reflects on the US response to 9...
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Slander and Impunity open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
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Slander and Impunity
The World Central Kitchen Killings in Gaza
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
ofgem raises the cap again. ofgem needs to look up the words "cap" (an upper limit) "regulator" (a body regulating something). government must consider nationalisation or socialisation; countries with a nationalised system of provision had lower price rises. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ra...
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Sign the Urgent Petition - End this rip-off
People in the UK are struggling to get by while some corporations are set to announce record high profits on the back of the Iran war. Join the campaign to demand these war profiteers are taxed so we ...
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
How Israel’s efforts to expel UNRWA from Jerusalem and crack down on West Bank refugee camps are connected mondoweiss.net/2026/08/how-...
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How Israel’s efforts to expel UNRWA from Jerusalem and crack down on West Bank refugee camps are connected
As Israeli forces move to take over remaining UNRWA facilities in Jerusalem, residents of Qalandia and Shufaat refugee camps fear the assault on the UN agency is linked to the ongoing Israeli military...
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Buying Israeli weapons as well as selling Israeli weapons continues the genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanities. A full embargo is necessary to defeat them www.972mag.com/israel-weapo...
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Arms sales to Israel are slowing. But that's only half the story
By continuing to buy arms from Israel, foreign states are sustaining the infrastructure, expertise, and financing it needs to wage its next war.
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
2nd piece is by Annieli is on AI & the creation of chemical and biological weapons and the creation of viruses by AI and the creation of vaccines against the actions of bad actors, except the bad actors could be the same people. AntiCapitalist MeetUp: A.I. and CBW www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: A.I. and CBW
Some people are terrified that AI is dangerous because new research allows us to imagine among other possible terrors, the designing of novel viruses that can help and harm. The risk lies in “dual-use...
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Greenandblue's piece "Programming Sociopathy" discussing his most recent bicycle trip with Busta and on AI & the normalisation of sociopathy by AI & normalising genocide in Gaza. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Programming Sociopathy www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Programming Sociopathy
Weary and Insecure First the heat. Then the rain. Throw in some breakdowns That’s how we got here We change course but keep going Enjoying the ride You can do it We need you We need this We need you…
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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An open letter to Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’
On one side, you face the domination of the Islamic Republic; on the other, the imperialist forces that republic claims to stand against
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Dispossession in the west bank is increasing; violent far-right Jewish settlers are seizing land and the IDF (IOF) are not removing them, quelle surprise. This is Israeli government policy and ethnic cleansing has been around since the start. www.dropsitenews.com/p/qusra-sieg...
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The Israeli Siege of Palestinian Families in Qusra Is Part of an Escalating Tactic
Israeli settlers and soldiers are increasingly targeting Palestinians in Area B of the occupied West Bank to force them from their homes.
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
11 days ago Jason Arday resigned, saying he was at his limits. The press wrote 188 more articles. 9 days later Jason Arday was found dead. Enough is enough: Demand an urgent inquiry into the role the media had on his death: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Sign the petition: demand an inquiry into the culture of the press after Jason Arday's death!
Tragically, Professor Jason Arday has died after a vicious and deeply personal campaign of press attacks over the last few weeks. The Government must urgently launch an inquiry into the culture and b...
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Fight fascism. Stay locally informed. @justicewithjax809 @jax4epcountyd5.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#AbolishICE
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US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal @us-political-news.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Trump caught literally selling off America piece by piece to donors As no-bid contracts enrich family and allies, the administration is trading public lands and the rule of law for donor loyalty. ...
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Trump caught literally selling off America piece by piece to donors
As no-bid contracts enrich family and allies, the administration is trading public lands and the rule of law for donor loyalty.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 16/08/2026
"The hardest part about being in prison during a heat wave is like any other time: We completely lack control of our surroundings. We can make no attempt at comfort and we have no outlet to voice concern." What summer heat means for people behind bars:
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Summer Heat in Prison: Just How Hot Are Our Nation’s Prisons?
Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how hot their prisons get in the summer. One prison reached 117 degrees.
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Tonight's anti-capitalist meetup is number 12 of NeverEverAgain's series on Peter Thiel and this one addresses Objection AI. Come by and join the discussion!Peter Thiel Part 12: Objection AI www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Peter Thiel Part 12: Objection AI
PREVIOUSLY RELEASED This is part twelve of an ongoing series on Peter Thiel, which started as an eleven part series. Previously released articles are below: Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Peter Thiel Eleven…
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Understanding Israel’s campaign to destroy Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank mondoweiss.net/2026/08/unde...
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Understanding Israel’s campaign to destroy Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank
Israel has vowed to occupy another West Bank refugee camp, as it did in Jenin and Tulkarem. A new raid on the Qalandia refugee camp makes clear that the Israeli campaign isn’t only about ending Palest...
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
An incompetent greedy rentier capitalist in charge of peace diplomacy. Lacking intelligence & basic knowledge, sole interest "making money". People are dying, facing genocide & ethnic cleansing & only money is relevant. The disastrous diplomacy of Jared Kushner open.substack.com/pub/populari...
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The disastrous diplomacy of Jared Kushner
From Gaza to Iran to Ukraine, things are not going well.
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 10/08/2026
Sending out CSI for a Flock. Police priorities on display.
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
what the everloving hell is this latest pile of crap from Donald Trump and the US, no, you arseholes no one gave you permission, the islanders have opposed this, the Danes are probably not thrilled ... hope no one waiting for the cowards of the EU to do something www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
NY Brit Expat discusses Israel's rejection of Trump & Board of Peace peace deal (not treaty) & their demand that Hamas & other armed groups disarm before Israeli withdrawal; self-defence for who? ACM: Netanyahu says no ... what next for Trump "the peace maker"?! www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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ACM: Netanyahu says no … what next for Trump “the peace maker”?!
Trump’s Gaza 15 point “peace plan” has fallen apart (quelle surprise) because Netanyahu has said that Israel (which now is occupying 64% of the Gaza Strip, and that Yellow Line keeps moving) will not…
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Let's discuss the right of self-defense & the right of self-determination.Trump's peace plan was not workable; the Israeli's bailed on it as they never intended to leave Gaza. There will never be a 2-state solution and asking the Palestinians to disarm is absurd mondoweiss.net/2026/08/trum...
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Trump and Israel are demanding that Palestinians disarm. Here is why that is wrong and unjust.
Demands that Hamas disarm follow decades of international calls for a “demilitarized Palestinian state.” These demands insist that Palestinians surrender their right to self-defense, a right no people...
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Despite AIPAC, despite Palantir, he won ... it is always nice when far-right genocide deniers thrown $30 million down the toilet. at this point AIPAC and the right-wing in charge have nothing but to genocide denial, created by US provided money and weapons. ahmadibsais.substack.com/p/the-politi...
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The Political Earthquake $60 Million Couldn't Stop
Thanks Haley Stevens for wasting $30 Millions in AIPAC's War Chest & Congrats Dr. Abdul El Sayed
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed on Track to Win US Senate Primary, Overcoming AIPAC's $30 Million Onslaught www.commondreams.org/news/el-saye...
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El-Sayed on Track to Win US Senate Primary, Overcoming AIPAC's $30 Million Onslaught | Common Dreams
"We all knew they were going to spend their money," said Abdul El-Sayed. "We didn't know that they were going to outspend us $11 to $1. And yet we're still standing."
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Check out this from We Own It. Demand that your MP votes for Thames Water to be taken into Special Administration; we must decommodify water weownit.org.uk/act-now/writ...
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Write to your MP: reject the creditors' last-ditch attempt to keep Thames Water privatised
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Tonight's ACM by Strawbale discussing Data Centers & what they are doing & that they are impacting the environment and our lives on a day to day level & they are not being regulated. Who benefits? Not us! Anti-Capitalist Meet-up: What Are Data Centers Doing? www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Anti-Capitalist Meet-up: What Are Data Centers Doing?
Whether you finish that question with “…for us” or “…to us” probably depends on how close to one you live. And whether your retirement fund is invested in AI, which is looking very bubbly.
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Data Centers, "Freedom Cities", and Alligator Alcatrazes www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Data Centers, “Freedom Cities”, and Alligator Alcatrazes
As a gift of nature, bees are simply at scale more important rather than spiders, even as some humans admire predation. It’s called Shark Week, not Remora Week. And like Trump’s shark fascination…
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
www.972mag.com/israel-west-...
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Israel seizing West Bank heritage sites ‘piece by piece’
The army is expropriating thousands of dunams in Sebastia and Nabi Samwil, using archaeology as a pretext to further isolate Palestinian communities.
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
www.972mag.com/podcast-meta...
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PODCAST: Inside Meta’s war on Palestinian content
A new report by 7amleh examined over 3,500 cases of digital censorship relating to Palestine. Nadim Nashif explains what they discovered.
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Did you know a barrister is facing jail just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has kept trials fair since 1670. We can't let it be silenced now. We must stop this, so add your name to defend fair trials👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Sign to protect the right to a fair trial
Imagine being called for jury duty, but advised against using your own common sense. ❗A top barrister is now facing contempt of court proceedings, simply for reminding a jury of their rights. If judg...
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Greenandblue gives us the parable of the Cinnamon Queens chickens ... a parable for our times. Capitalism and farming: what is the life of animals bred for food production in a system where profits are everything? Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Chickens at a fork www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Chickens at a fork
Henny, Penny and Fenny were inseparable sisters ever since they hatched 45 days ago. These Cinnamon Queen siblings had seen others come and go, but being together was what they knew.
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Britain's Juries
Juries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Pride: the musical
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Pride: the musical
Pride: the musical is an evocative show, but could do more to inspire political action against rising homophobia writes Philip Inglesant
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
NY Brit Expat on an attack on trans people in the UK that threatens to drive them out of public spaces. Judicial decisions, codes of practice & continuing attack on trans people's bodily autonomy & human rights. Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Trans Rights are Human Rights www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Trans Rights are Human Rights
On the 9th of July 2026, the Parliamentary stage on a code of practice proposed by the Equality and Human Right’s Commission’s (EHRC) of 40 days was ended. Since the government had decided that there…
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A new ‘strategic’ plan being pushed by the Israeli settler movement would establish 100 outposts in the heart of Palestinian cities. No pretences anymore; Oslo Accords were a lie & there is no possibility of a Palestinian state in a two-state solution, there never was mondoweiss.net/2026/07/a-ne...
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A new ‘strategic’ plan being pushed by the Israeli settler movement would establish 100 outposts in the heart of Palestinian cities
The Israeli settler movement and its allies in the government have submitted a plan to build 100 new outposts in Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank. The move would effectively eliminate the...
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
NeverEverAgain responds to the question of what is communism? People like using words that they do not understand ... socialism, anarchism, communism, fascism. Let's start with how NEA views communism. Communism 101 Q&A Open Thread - Anti-Capitalism Meetup www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Communism 101 Q&A Open Thread - Anti-Capitalism Meetup
This is a short diary in reaction to my comments on a recent story on Trump’s insatiable need to grift with all roadblocks seemingly unable to stop him I wrote the following. I have included replies…
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
For 250 Years (Happy Birthday!) America Has Been a Democratic Socialist Country open.substack.com/pub/americas...
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Susan Pashkoff on A Fight Worth Having
are you actually saying that democratic socialism co-existed with slavery and genocide? Imagine that we can have democratic socialism without public healthcare for all? I have read a lot of ignorant p...
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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
www.972mag.com/israel-bonds...
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The divestment drive that could shake Israel’s economic foundations
To fund perpetual war, Israel has grown ever more reliant on issuing bonds. Relinquishing these holdings, often invested passively, disrupts that equation.
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