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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h
From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can’t stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.
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How a defunct white supremacist state became a cult favorite on the right
From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can’t stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 6h
Democrats dominated debate stages this week, the map keeps expanding into deep red territory, and election forecasters now predict Democrats winning 52 Senate seats on November 3. All while Trump’s approval hit a new low. With two weeks until Election Day, the momentum could not be clearer.
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Our Wins Of The Week
This week we saw many top tier candidates take to the debate stage, and it did not go well for Republicans.
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"On the first day of the war in Iran, missiles killed 120 children. In a recent investigation into the attack, Bloomberg News reported that an AI-linked system was used to target the school. In this case, the system is called Maven, and it is made by Palantir." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Sam Altman says AI will make ‘bad things’ happen. Exhibit A: needless death | Moustafa Bayoumi
AI is already implicated in violent deaths and nearly started world war three. Those bad things? They only happen to other people
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public health www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing
Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public health
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In the summer of 2023, Claire read I Shall Not Hate by Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Palestinian physician... “For me, there wasn’t a delay between ‘Israel has a right to defend itself’ and then lies,” she told Al Jazeera. “I was determined not to ignore [Palestine]” www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...?
aljazeera.com
How genocide in Gaza pulled Britons into the Palestine movement
Britons are risking freedom and reputations to stand with Palestinians and challenge government policy.
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The hour-long film, ‘Night Flower: Inside AIPAC’s Fight for Influence,’ features interviews with former AIPAC officials and insiders, politicians, and activists as it examines America’s most influential pro-Israel lobbying group. zeteo.com/p/inside-aip...
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Inside AIPAC: Watch the Trailer For Zeteo’s New Documentary on the Pro-Israel Lobby
Watch a preview of ‘Night Flower,’ the new investigative film from Zeteo examining AIPAC’s role and influence in U.S. politics - and also get your tickets to the Oct. 20 premiere screening in Chicago!
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Final week of the campaign has been epic! Thank you to everyone from the young people I met training, from the women at the community centre,cafes, barbers, high street shops. Voting is tomorrow 7am-10pm in Holborn & St Pancras. Remember photo ID! youtu.be/t0zhIoY379Y?...
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Campaigning With Zack Polanski In Holborn & St Pancras - Episode 3
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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WE ARE BEING LIED TO: Richard Sanders EXPOSES Green Party Zionism is Racism Smears
YouTube video by Double Down News
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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Words matter. So does truth, justice and accountability. End the apartheid. Stop funding Israeli terrorism.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 06/10/2026
Nearly 38 percent of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem now study the Israeli curriculum, while the rest of the students' textbooks are being censored line by line, stripping mention of Jerusalem, prisoners, the Nakba, and freedom fighters. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/isra...
mondoweiss.net
Israel is rewriting the Palestinian curriculum in East Jerusalem to erase Palestinian identity
Nearly 38 percent of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem now study the Israeli curriculum, while the rest of the students’ textbooks are being censored line by line, stripping mention of…
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The Greens have formally adopted a policy which equates Zionism with racism... members voted to back a motion which calls for Zionism, the movement for a Jewish state, to be “treated as any other form of racism”. It passed by 1,022 votes to 813." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Green party votes to adopt policy that equates Zionism with racism
Motion calling for single Palestinian state, which is opposed by most Green MPs, passes by 1,022 votes to 813 at party’s conference
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"More than 2.1 million displaced people are living in tents and temporary shelters in Gaza, where about 82% of structures – roughly 200,000 buildings – have been damaged, with about two-thirds of those destroyed, according to the UN" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
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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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Every 100,000 immigrants lost to the UK costs the treasury £7bn, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility. That calculation was made in 2024 – but... Nobody ever says, “The chancellor’s going to be in trouble because of all those lost immigrants” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Cutting immigration to the UK means billions less for the Treasury. Can the country really afford that? | Zoe Williams
‘Taking back control’ turns out to be staggeringly expensive. That’s something to mull over as budget day approaches, writes Zoe Williams
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We follow five ordinary people – a 12-year-old boy, a professor, a pregnant woman, a skateboarder and a grandmother – through their days, with all of the difficulty and joy that they encounter. This is what a week in the life of Gaza looks like. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
theguardian.com
Gaza: a week in the life of five ordinary Palestinians
As the war pushes deep into its third year, what does daily life look like for people living there and how has the conflict changed it?
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please download the No Thanks or Boycatt apps to your phone to boycott companies complicit in Israeli genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
UN adds 61 firms to settlements blacklist over alleged human rights violations against Palestinians
Israel ‘categorically rejects’ publication and says businesses on database have committed no wrongdoing
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza was a testing ground for the use of AI in warfare and the results were deeply disturbing. Israel’s military used AI to identify people to kill, with 12,000 targets generated and bombed in the first month alone." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
It’s not hypothetical: the dangers of AI are already here | Granate Kim and Mohamed Hussein
Israel and the US have used AI to kill in Gaza and Iran, while law enforcement uses it in surveillance and arrests. The future is here
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I’m an anti-Zionist, which I know is difficult for people in this room to hear…” “If you’re defining Zionism as the displacement and genocide of the Palestinians, which is how in practice Zionism has become in truth, then that is racist,” www.middleeasteye.net/news/green-p...
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Green Party leader Zack Polanski: 'I'm an anti-Zionist'
'We cannot hold Jewish people responsible for what happens in Israel,' Polanski tells a hustings for Holborn and St Pancras by-election
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Rajab is a leader of the Gaza skate club, a group that has spent the past decade teaching girls and boys to skate. But Israel’s siege of Gaza blocks a vast array of ordinary household goods from entering the territory. One of the banned items is a skateboard." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘We skate on the rooftops of damaged buildings’: a day in the life of a skateboarder in Gaza
Rajab al-Reefi teaches children to skate to ‘bring some joy’, but finding boards and safe spaces is a daily challenge
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Netanyahu’s myriad crimes are a matter of well-documented public record. And while his physical presence in the US is enough to trigger US jurisdiction, a number of the crimes for which Netanyahu bears responsibility have also been committed against US citizens," www.thenation.com/article/worl...
thenation.com
How to Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu
Make no mistake: The United States can seize Netanyahu for crimes under US law and prosecute him in US courts when he is in New York City this week.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/09/2026
Israel’s ambassador to the US says son injured in West Bank car-ramming aje.news/kphm8u
Israel’s ambassador to the US says son injured in West Bank car-ramming
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The most affected countries in the next six months are the tropical nations of Nigeria, Indonesia, Sudan, India and Brazil. The US is in the top 20 most affected nations... More broadly, the Sahel region in Africa and south-east Asia are heavily affected." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"British banks and financial institutions are receiving written warnings from MPs that they should not invest in Israel’s E1 settlement project even though new UK laws banning trade with illegal settlements are unlikely to be in place for months." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
British banks told not to invest in planned Israeli settlement before UK trade ban begins
MPs send out letter as Israeli government seeks bids for construction of large E1 settlement in West Bank
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Seniors for Climate @seniorsforclimate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@katharinehayhoe.com reminds us that one of the biggest false assumptions in climate action is believing that only the people talking about climate care about it. 🌎 #Seniorsforclimate #LaterIsTooLate
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/09/2026
I’m realizing some replying to this aren’t familiar with my work on climate communication ☺️ Welcome! Here’s a good place to start:
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The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it
How do you talk to someone who doesn't believe in climate change? Not by rehashing the same data and facts we've been discussing for years, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. In this inspiring, ...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/09/2026
When we stop talking about climate change like it’s a political issue and start talking about it as a shared challenge that we all need to work together to solve, that’s when we’ll finally be able to start talking about saving ourselves. That is our conclusion here!
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Honored to share the 2026 #IETI Green Development and Sustainability Award with Rob Jackson of Stanford: www.ieti.net/news/detail....
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 20/09/2026
Elite athletes, musicians, actors & more often use cultural importance as an excuse for why they're exempt from cutting their emissions. In this new analysis led by @manuelsuter.bsky.social, we argue the opposite: visibility and influence should raise the bar, not lower it! Read more:
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The climate responsibility of cultural influencers - npj Climate Action
In socially influential fields such as elite sport, music, and film, cultural relevance is often invoked as a special moral status that exempts them from genuine emissions reduction. We argue that vis...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21/09/2026
As Israel's financial strangulation of the Palestinian economy enters its third year, Palestinians are turning to each other — forgiving debts worth millions of shekels in a viral solidarity campaign that began with a schoolteacher's bounced check. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/pale...
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Palestinians are responding to Israel’s stranglehold on the West Bank economy by forgiving each other’s debts en masse
As Israel’s financial strangulation of the Palestinian economy enters its third year, Palestinians are turning to each other — forgiving debts worth millions of shekels in a viral solidarity campaign…
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Get a copy here ↓
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The Fall of the West
Almost everywhere we turn these days, there’s talk of a West in decline. Our jobs, our values, our past are all under attack, in the face of which we have become immersed in self-loathing, gone weak a...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is the biggest lie you've been told. Want the truth? Order my new book The Fall of the West: How They Really Lost It. Link below!
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Exclusive: Six British charities appear to funnel donations to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank www.declassifieduk.org/the-uk-chari...?
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The UK charities sending nearly £2 million to illegal settlements
Exclusive: Six British charities appear to funnel donations to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"From Iraq to Iran, the Israel lobby has, for decades, pushed America towards wars in the Middle East. But with Trump’s wildly unpopular Iran war, the unshakeable power of the Israel lobby is finally being called into question." mondoweiss.net/2026/09/isra...
mondoweiss.net
Israel’s grip on American politics is finally being questioned
From Iraq to Iran, the Israel lobby has, for decades, pushed America towards wars in the Middle East. But with Trump’s wildly unpopular Iran war, the unshakeable power of the Israel lobby is finally b...
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"If passed, the motion would equate Zionism – the movement for a Jewish state – with racism, would call for a single Palestinian state, and would risk members who supported Zionism being disciplined for racism." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Greens urge Zack Polanski to take stance on proposed policy declaring ‘Zionism is racism’
The Green leader has not spoken publicly about the motion, which is likely to be debated at the party’s conference in October
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Fact-finding mission says military strikes on school and sports facility in ⁠February constitute war ⁠crimes www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds
Fact-finding mission says military strikes on school in Minab and sports facility in ⁠February constitute war ⁠crimes
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Respect. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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Macklemore pledges his $1m Ed Sheeran tour salary to Palestine
Ed Sheeran and Robert Kraft will also reportedly donate $2m each after Kraft was challenged by the rapper, who was dismissed from the tour after speaking in support of Palestine
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A building housing about 100 displaced Palestinian families has collapsed in Gaza City, killing at least 20 people, as rescuers search the rubble for dozens of people believed to be trapped, including children. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
At least 20 killed after Israeli-hit building in Gaza City collapses
Rescue workers say search for dozens of people hampered by lack of heavy machinery
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15/09/2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney is seeking a 'unique alliance' with Europe as transatlantic relations sour aje.news/v24vnf
Prime Minister Mark Carney is seeking a 'unique alliance' with Europe as transatlantic relations sour
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Israel’s culture minister is seeking to revoke the citizenship of filmmakers behind the Gaza documentary “NAZA,” calling its Venice prize a “betrayal of the state.” The film features testimony from Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers about the IDF's actions in Gaza. Read more: mrf.lu/23Vnm
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Israeli Culture Minister Vows to Revoke Citizenship of 'NAZA' Directors After Venice Win
Miki Zohar, Israel's minister of culture, vows to revoke the citizenship of the directors of "Naza" after the documentary's win at Venice.
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘‘We heard the sound of gunfire,’’ Wathfa abu Mashi, Shalouf’s mother-in-law, said. “My daughter asked me, ‘Where is Iman?’ I told her she was in her tent. She went to check on her and found her covered in blood after she was hit by a bullet.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Pregnant woman among more than 10 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
Woman’s family says she died of injuries after being shot in the head while sitting inside a tent near Khan Younis
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"940,000 people were killed by direct post-9/11 violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan between 2001-2023. An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million." costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human
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Human
Costs of War research examines the human toll of U.S. military operations and spending, for U.S. service members, veterans, military contractors, and allies; and for civilians killed and displaced.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"How 9/11 Changed the World" Writer and novelist Fatima Bhutto pens a powerful and provocative essay for Zeteo on the two seismic ways the September 11, 2001, attacks changed life across the globe.
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How 9/11 Changed the World
Writer and novelist Fatima Bhutto pens a powerful and provocative essay for Zeteo on the two seismic ways the September 11, 2001, attacks changed life across the globe.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/09/2026
Concerns over AI's dangers grow as US legislators introduce bills to ensure human oversight and prevent rogue systems.
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US legislators push AI safety laws amid human extinction warnings
Concerns over AI's dangers grow as US legislators introduce bills to ensure human oversight and prevent rogue systems.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/09/2026
Canada’s buy-local movement remains strong, but new tariffs could test how much more shoppers are willing to pay.
aljazeera.com
How Canadians are bracing for the impact of Trump's trade war
Canada's buy-local movement remains strong, but new tariffs could test how much more shoppers are willing to pay.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This week brought another blow to the Trump administration's mail-in voting scheme, a dubious promise of $5,000 to every adult citizen, and a final Supreme Court rebuke of Missouri Republicans' redrawn maps. Quite a whirlwind ahead of what is sure to be an explosive November. Catch up here.
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Trump's mail-in ballot scheme blocked. Trump bribes Republican voters. Supreme Court rejects Missouri maps.
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Consider what we didn’t do... The trillions of dollars spent on a forever war: what could that have been spent on? Climate change, universal healthcare, public education. There’s a real opportunity cost to how we chose to spend our time and resources.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
Mistakes, mistrust and misdirection: 25 years after 9/11, its dark legacy continues to unfold
The world’s most powerful country responded to the worst terrorist attack in its history by inflicting terror of its own – around the world, and at home
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Zack Polanski has said a vote for him in the upcoming Holborn and St Pancras byelection is a vote against the government’s reported plans to greenlight a North Sea gasfield." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
People ‘incensed’ by North Sea plans can vote Green in byelection, says Zack Polanski
Party leader, who will contest Starmer’s former seat of Holborn and St Pancras, says gas drilling has come up on doorstep
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Trump’s latest pledge is as fantastical and mendacious as many of Trump’s previous promises of free cash: $2,000 checks from supposed tariff revenue, $5,000 checks from all that money we never saved from DOGE, etc. " www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Your deadbeat president is never giving you $5,000
But the pledge reveals an increasingly frantic midterms strategy.
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"The film’s title comes from an Israeli military acronym used euphemistically to refer to civilians expected to be killed in a military attack. Produced by the Guardian, it features extensive testimony from Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers involved" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Secret systems used by Israel in mass killings of Gaza civilians revealed in new film
Testimony from Israeli military insiders involved in surveillance and remote killings features in documentary produced by the Guardian
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Sanctions [are being imposed] against Jewish terrorists, and not against the state of Israel. There is no basis to the [Israeli] government’s response that the decision to impose sanctions against Jewish terrorists is an expression of antisemitism.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘It’s a good start’: prominent Israelis welcome UK sanctions on illegal settlements
Ed Miliband’s intervention was ‘inevitable’ after Israeli government and security failures, say former ministers and diplomats
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zeeshanhasan.bsky.social @zeeshanhasan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Great news. No country should maintain diplomatic relations with genocidal apartheid states like Israel. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Israel to close British consulate in Jerusalem after sanctions announced
Several MPs also banned from Israel after UK steps up condemnation of settlements and announces sweeping sanctions
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