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citizen of the universal republic / academic / born @ 338 ppm in the Capitalocene

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marc liam @vellichoro.bsky.social · 2h
“So much is owned by the 1% […] If there’s no capital to ism, what are you still fighting for?” - Theo Von interviewing Mayor Zohran Mamdani @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social youtu.be/nJ5V3pk6PEA?...
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Zohran Mamdani | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #687
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Declassified files reveal that brutal interrogation techniques used by British forces in 1970s Oman were later applied in Northern Ireland, with key officers involved in both operations. Available in EN, FR, DE and IT. buff.ly/2yUjULK
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When Britain Used Torture To Control The Strait Of Hormuz
Declassified files reveal that brutal interrogation techniques used by British forces in 1970s Oman were later applied in Northern Ireland, with key officers involved in both operations.
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In case it wasn't clear, academia is crumbling under the enormous flood of AI-generated content. The latest victim is the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) flagship EU postdoctoral fellowships. The number of submissions has more than doubled in the past 3 years.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Declassified files reveal that brutal interrogation techniques used by British forces in 1970s Oman were later applied in Northern Ireland, with key officers involved in both operations. Available in EN, ES, AR and RU. buff.ly/2yUjULK
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When Britain Used Torture To Control The Strait Of Hormuz
Declassified files reveal that brutal interrogation techniques used by British forces in 1970s Oman were later applied in Northern Ireland, with key officers involved in both operations.
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MERA25 Berlin @mera25berlin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wir fordern die sofortige Freilassung aller inhaftierten #LGBTQIA+ Personen und ein Ende der Angriffe auf queere Menschen und zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen in der #Türkei. Berlin brennt für Selbstbestimmung! Nieder mit dem Cis-tem! Hoch die internationale #Solidarität!
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 18/09/2026
+972 condemns escalating threats against ‘NAZA’ directors A campaign of incitement by government ministers and far-right activists only proves how much Israel fears the truth — whoever is speaking it. www.972mag.com/naza-yuval-a...
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+972 condemns escalating threats against ‘NAZA’ directors
A campaign of incitement by government ministers and far-right activists only proves how much Israel fears the truth — whoever is speaking it.
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A double tap airstrike on a paramedic and a 15-year-old teenager. A building damaged by genocidal assaults collapses and kills 21 people. These are all atrocities that happened in Gaza this week while mainstream media did everything in its power to distract you.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Americans did not declare independence from a king only to submit to the supremacy of a different court. @daphnarenan.bsky.social and I are in today’s Globe. Gift link:
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The Constitution belongs to ‘We the People,’ not nine justices - The Boston Globe
The Supreme Court was never meant to have the last word on self-government.
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The complicity is undeniable. "Germany and the United States supply 99% of the weapons exported to Israel... They could stop this conflict overnight if they stopped the weapons killing Palestinians." - UN Special Rapporteur Prof. Ben Saul
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify
Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 18/09/2026
#OtD 18 Sep 1974 Flora Sanhueza Rebolledo, Chilean teacher, anarchist and Spanish Civil War refugee died as a result of the torture she suffered at the hands of the Pinochet regime, aged 63 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9057...
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In 1982, an Israeli-backed Lebanese militia massacred over 3,500 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians in Sabra and Shatila, still remembered as one of the worst atrocities in modern history.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/09/2026
#OtD 16 Sep 1982 right-wing Christian militias, supported by the Israeli army, began carrying out out acts of murder, torture, rape, and abuse in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon. 800- 3500 people were killed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1271...
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Tadzio Mueller @tadziomueller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They're coming. The enemy is coming for us. "Turkish police have arrested dozens of people as part of the government's recent crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and venues." Turkey, Russia, the US, fucking Sachsen-Anhalt: they're coming for us.
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Turkey arrests dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists
The arrests are an escalation in the Turkish government's campaign targeting LGBTQ+ community and activists.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 14/09/2026
⭕️ B’Tselem report documents Israel’s “eliminationist project” in the occupied West Bank The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a lengthy new report entitled “The Elimination Project” on Monday, detailing Israel’s “systematic effort to dismantle Palestinian collective existence...

⭕️ B’Tselem report documents Israel’s “eliminationist project” in the occupied West Bank

The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a lengthy new report entitled “The Elimination Project” on Monday, detailing Israel’s “systematic effort to dismantle Palestinian collective existence in the West Bank.”

The report says this effort has accelerated since the current government took office in December 2022 and especially since October 7, 2023, identifying five interconnected mechanisms used by Israeli forces in the territory: violence and intimidation, movement restrictions, economic strangulation, social and political destruction, and ethnic cleansing and territorial takeover.

Israel has established 200 new checkpoints since October 7, 2023, the report finds, seized about 18% of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank through settlements and illegal outposts, and depopulated 64 Palestinian shepherding communities.B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم
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Israel is dismantling Palestinian collective life in the West Bank.

A catastrophe is unfolding across the West Bank. Checkpoints, expulsions, killings and land takeovers are not separate events or isolated human rights violations. They are part of the same system. It is time to connect the dots.

Our new report, The Elimination Project, shows how these mechanisms form one political project: dismantling Palestinian collective life while expanding Israeli control and Jewish presence.

Since late 2022, and especially since October 2023, this process has accelerated and become more openly violent. Palestinians live under constant threat from soldiers and armed settler militias. Since 7 October 2023, Israel has killed 1,107 Palestinians, including 245 children. State-backed settler farms and outposts seize vast areas, communities are expelled, and movement restrictions fragment Palestinian space.

Israel is also strangling the Palestinian economy, criminalizing political and social organizing, shutting down civil society organizations and arresting journalists and activists.
Together, these mechanisms cut Palestinians off from land, livelihoods and one another, dismantling the conditions they need to exist as a people – with institutions, leadership, shared history and a political future.

The Elimination Project is not new. Its logic has shaped Israeli policy for decades through dispossession, fragmentation, military rule and apartheid. In 2017, Bezalel Smotrich published the “Decisive Plan,” centered on making Jewish-Israeli control irreversible. It gives Palestinians three options: relinquish their collective aspirations and live under Jewish supremacy, leave, or face military repression. Under the current government, central elements of this vision are being translated into policy, budgets, powers and practices. In Gaza, this logic has reached its most extreme manifestation: the genocide Israel is committing there.

The international community must stop treating Israel’s violence and violations as isolated incidents, stop enabling Israel’s crimes, and end the impunity that allows the Elimination Project to continue.

Connect the dots. See the system.

Read more in our new report.
https://btselem.org/the_elimination_project/?lang=en
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14/09/2026
UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY
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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Arrival of refugees from Málaga to Barcelona's Estació de França, 1937. They had escaped from the worst single massacre of the war, when 3000-5000 civilians fleeing from the city were killed, including numerous children, in air and ground attacks along the road to Almería known as La Desbandá.
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 14/09/2026
#OTD 25 years ago, Rep. Barbara Lee cast the sole vote against rushing to war in the days after 9/11. Although she endured terrible backlash, Rep. Lee was backed every step by broad, anti-war grassroots movements. This is what principled leadership looks like.
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Place names in Irish show the deep connections our ancestors had with wildlife, from wolves and eagles to wild boar and oak forests. The names are still there but the animals are long gone www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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Eagles and wolves: The long-lost animals that live on in Irish place names
Long-standing Irish place names hark back to a world alive with cranes, wolves and eagles. Now these old names are piquing the interest of nature-lovers and ecologists.
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marc liam @vellichoro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“We broke open the world. Despite our century of distance, Itka and I share a few common experiences. We both have taken over a street and mistaken it for a country, both grabbed hands with a stranger and mistaken it for a vow.” - Molly Crabapple, Here Where We Live Is Our Country
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Burning Towers Foreshadowed a Burning World – Viet Thanh Nguyen on the 25 Years After 9/11 zeteo.com/p/the-burnin...
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is an important response to the recent nonsense spewed by some “pro police socialists” in Jacobin magazine and a few other venues. tempestmag.org/2026/09/in-d...
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In defense of abolition
In defense of defund the police and abolish ICE movements, and in response to the growing anti-abolition and anti-woke political discourse.
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Caroline O'Doherty @codohertynews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"We cannot keep treating every prolonged wet period or drought as an isolated crisis" @ccacireland.bsky.social criticises Dept of Agriculture failures in cutting farm emissions & helping farmers adapt to climate change www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Irish farming is unprepared for impact of climate change, says advisory council
Extreme weather events being treated as ‘isolated incidents’ rather than fundamental change, says Climate Change Advisory Council
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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
24 israelische Soldaten berichten, wie sie in Gaza ganze Familien ausgelöscht und Tausende Menschen gezielt getötet haben. Yuval Abrahams neuer Film NAZA hat heute Premiere. Bin ja gespannt, wer und wie in D über dieses weitere Zeugnis des Genozids in Gaza berichtet. www.972mag.com/naza-exposin...
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‘NAZA’: Exposing Israel’s killing machine in Gaza
Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor. Donors make huge profits while workers get shafted. Repeat. This is not a coincidence. It's a political-economic system that's been corrupted by design.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This government is still sitting on parts of a buried report laying bare catastrophic risks facing us from ecosystems collapse. My message to @andyburnham.bsky.social: tell the truth. Release the report in full. And prepare the country for what's coming. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full
Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So pleased to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social demanding the Government’s suppressed then redacted report on ecosystem collapse be published in full. People can’t prepare for what they don’t know - concealing this report is unforgivable #WildSummit
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Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full
Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 08/09/2026
#OtD 8 Sep 1901 the Escuela Moderna (Modern School) in Barcelona was opened by libertarian educator Francesc Ferrer. For his secular, rational ideas, Ferrer was jailed and executed and the school shut down, but his influence would spread widely shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/ana...
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marc liam @vellichoro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 07/09/2026
It's not enough that they pay half the price that households pay for electricity. Now they're going to get cut price gas too! It's time we stopped pandering to Big Tech and their data centres which create no jobs, and use our electricity, water and gas. No more data centres!
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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Während sich die dt. Öffentlichkeit zu Recht über den Siegeszug einer faschistischen Partei die Haare rauft, verteidigt sich Deutschland gerade live vor dem IGH mit grotesk formaljuristischen Argumenten gegen den Vorwurf der Beteiligung am Genozid in Gaza (und inszeniert sich als Opfer Nicaraguas).
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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Most of Germany is rightfully horrified by a far-right party almost gaining an absolute majority in Sachsen-Anhalt. The simultaneous disinterest in a possible breach of the genocide convention is mystifying, to say the least. Nicaragua v Germany at the ICJ this week www.un.org/unispal/docu...
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ECCHR - European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights @ecchr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Neue ECCHR-Analyse zeigt: Trotz internationaler Warnungen lieferte Deutschland von 2023 bis 2026 kontinuierlich Rüstungsexporte nach Israel in Milliardenhöhe - und widersprach damit seiner eigener Verteidigung vor dem Internationalen Gerichtshof 👉 www.ecchr.eu/fileadmin/Pu...
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The demographic which voted the least for the AfD was socialized entirely in the GDR, the highest share at 53% (35-44) were children or infants when the wall came down and 42% of those born in the 21st century voted for them.
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marc liam @vellichoro.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Now that the reality of planetary heating has become undeniable, all that is left to deny is the humanity of our fellow humans.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In our new essay for the @financialtimes.com (you read that right), @astra.bsky.social and I link the extreme weather events we have all been living through to the rise of a new iteration of futureless fascism, wherein the rich and powerful plan for their bunkered survival behind fortressed borders.
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The Dig @thedigradio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We asked Molly Crabapple to recommend five books on the Jewish Bund, here's what she picked. Listen to Molly's episodes on The Dig now. pod.fo/e/507d32
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 30/08/2026
#OtD 30 Aug 1800 an enslaved blacksmith known as Gabriel Prosser had planned to launch a rebellion in Richmond, Virginia. They planned to capture the Governor and force him to endorse race equality, however they were betrayed and 26 were executed. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1026...
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 28/08/2026
For violinist Michael Barenboim, Germany’s memory culture has become a tool for upholding complicity in Israel's crimes and rendering Palestinians invisible. By @hahauenstein.bsky.social Read more: www.972mag.com/michael-bare...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 26/08/2026
#OtD 26 Aug 1921 workers in the mills and bakeries declared a soviet (aka: a workers' council) in Bruree, Ireland. A rare photograph features a sign workers affixed to one of the mills, reading "Bruree Soviet Workers Mills. We make bread not profits." stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9804...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/08/2026
Listen to “Paper Trail” on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... On Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7gaH...
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The True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment Building
Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · August 20 · 42m
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026
I’ve lost track of the number of times an immigrant has told me they had to sit on a prison bus in the back of an airport for six, 10, 20 hours with no food or water and being told to urinate in a corner or onto themselves.
A screenshot of a White House tweet styled after The Magic School Bus cartoon but this one says “The Magic Deportation Bus” and shows shackled brown men in the back. The White House account says “Please let this be a normal field trip…” One put gray text over the whole thing that says “FASCIST PROPAGANDA.”
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marc liam @vellichoro.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“But rather than succumb to despair, we have to find ways to mobilise towards alternative horizons: to insist on envisioning and bringing into being, through struggle, other possible worlds.” @marralsham.bsky.social www.historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-sol...
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Radical Horizons
How have various radical and internationalist traditions attempted to overcome forms of domination and build alternative, emancipatory futures? Marral Shamshiri introduces a new History Workshop serie...
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marc liam @vellichoro.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“In Canada we are masters of our own home.” - Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, defiant in the face of a foreign despot. Meanwhile, Canada’s head of state:
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/08/2026
In an address at West Jerusalem’s Gush Katif Museum, Israel’s Chief Rabbi David Yosef denied that Palestinians exist as a people and said they ‘have no rights’. He also claimed Gaza and occupied West Bank cities for Jews and called for Gaza’s destruction and Jewish settlement.
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marc liam @vellichoro.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"The Bund is memory, but as a way to narrate the present. Rather than "ideology," as Aleida Assmann writes, "memory" becomes the modality through which solidarities are articulated…one’s politics are less a question of what one believes or what politics one aligns with, but what one claims as past."
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marc liam @vellichoro.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Irish wildfires: Rewilding is an existential issue for Ireland in the Capitalocene. @irishrainforest.bsky.social
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Coillte manages approx. 7% of Ireland's land area, about 1,100,000 acres, supposedly for the benefit of the nation (you and me). But in reality it's nothing but a racket.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 18/08/2026
#OtD 18 Aug 1823 the Demerara rebellion (in modern-day Guyana) saw over 10,000 enslaved African people in the British colony go from plantation to plantation stealing weapons, locking up their enslavers and putting them in stocks. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8956...
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