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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 9h

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7h

Sources say the 28-year-old was killed by members of Israel-linked 'militia' fighting Hamas in the Sabra neighbourhood.

Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi shot dead in Gaza City clashes

Sources say the 28-year-old was killed by members of Israel-linked 'militia' fighting Hamas in the Sabra neighbourhood.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6h

The new government, led by Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, must present a 2026 draft budget on Monday.

France’s Macron unveils new government ahead of budget deadline

The new government, led by Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, must present a 2026 draft budget on Monday.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4h

Families in Palestine and Israel await the return of their loved ones as the Israeli-Hamas truce continues to hold.

Israel, Hamas set to free captives, prisoners; Trump says Gaza war is over

Families in Palestine and Israel await the return of their loved ones as the Israeli-Hamas truce continues to hold.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

Brisbane is of course nearing completion of Cross-River Rail (QG ~$10 billion, with nary a cent of federal infrastructure support). But there isn't much to it: a replacement for the poorly aligned Merivale Bridge crossing, some new CBD stations, a bit of century-overdue Beenleigh line upgrading.

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Politozi-Global @politozi.bsky.social · 18h

🇮🇱 #BOYCOTTIsrael

🇵🇸 #StateOfPalestine
🇵🇸 #FreePalestine
🇵🇸 #SavePalestine

#IsraeliWarCrimes
#BenjaminNetanyahu #Netanyahu #Genocide #IsraeliGenocide #IDF #USpol #UKpol #AUSpol #CDNpoli #ICC #UN #EU #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 19h

This is how the Al-Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City now looks like after the withdrawal of Israeli troops.

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 7h

Well there”s an achievement to be ashamed of
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Platypus vanish from river where Charles Darwin pondered evolution

Almost 190 years on, in the place where Charles Darwin first spotted a platypus, the egg-laying mammal seems to have disappeared.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 6h

(No it doesn't generate, but it might as well be a generating unit, when you're compiling the instantaneous stack of units needed to meet peak demand. They're all needed, and all do the same thing.)

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 9h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 11h

updates for kipnuk

several houses are gone and more continue to float away from the village

hope help arrives soon

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Tech News via AI @ai-tech-news.bsky.social · Aug 6

👋 Wyoming AI Facility Will Consume More Power Than All the State’s Homes Combined

AI data centers are straining US power and water systems, driving up utility demand and costs nationwide.
#Amazon #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters #Microsoft #News

Wyoming AI Facility Will Consume More Power Than All the State's Homes Combined

AI data centers are driving a 50% surge in US electricity demand, straining power grids, raising utility bills, and worsening water and emissions risks.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 6h

this is a nice rendering by @nickevershed.bsky.social but, er, it definitely shows coal power output remaining persistently high even as renewable energy grows, which feels like a problem

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

a hand-drawn chart showing renewable energy griwing but coal output remaining stagnat for the past three entire years because demand itself has been growing oddly fast

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mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · Apr 22

Destroyed were bulldozers and vehicles used to lift rubble to recover injured bodies. The vehicles included 9 from Egypt. The IDF said they hit 40 "engineering vehicles" used for "terrorist actions", including on Oct 7"

Hamas used 1 bulldozer 18 months ago
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Israeli strikes kill 17 in Gaza and destroy heavy equipment needed to clear rubble

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 17 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and other heavy equipment that had been suppl…

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1d

Thousands Of Israelis Rain Down Scorn On Trump Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff

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Thousands Of Israelis Rain Down Scorn On Trump Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff

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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 3d

Trump makes peace in the Middle East, and war at home…

My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Trump, the Self-Styled “President of PEACE” Abroad, Makes War at Home

The President’s martial rhetoric against fellow-Americans is a striking contrast with his push for an end to hostilities in Gaza.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

Trump Brokers Peace in the Middle East & Declares War Against Antifa in Portland?

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Trump Brokers Peace in the Middle East & Declares War Against Antifa in Portland? | The Daily Show

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

If you want to understand why the ICE facility in Portland is such a hotbed of protest, this story is all the context you need...

Sean Woods @seanwoods.bsky.social · 2d

"They disappeared her." This story from @timdickinson.bsky.social is so upsetting. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 2d

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

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johnnyfreeusa @johnnyfreeusa.bsky.social · 2d

It's Opus Dei, The Heritage Foundation, The Federalist Society, Peter Thiel the man who handpicked and groomed Vance, Elon Musk and the oligarchs, it's Leonard Leo, it's the Military Industrial Complex, it's the 6 handpicked conservative Catholic Justices on the bench at SCOTUS. Its Citizens United.

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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 1d

Omar Yaghi: Refugee from Gaza wins 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Omar Yaghi: Refugee from Gaza wins 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Born in a one-room home on the outskirts of Amman, the son of illiterate Palestinian refugees from Gaza, Professor Omar Yaghi has risen from the hardships of displacement to the highest pinnacle of sc...

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Suchita V Smith @suchitavsmith.bsky.social · 5d

Donut economics by Kate Raworth is the best model so far to map out the whole system changes needed to live on a healthy planet for the long term. Individual issues eg climate change can silo our attention when we need to change the whole system
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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 1d

Queensland LNP to keep "ageing coal clunkers" online for decades, signals effective stop to new wind and solar reneweconomy.com.au/queensland-l...

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 1d

When Watt cites “Safeguard Mechanism as an effective way of controlling emissions”, you should know SM only applies to direct (scope 1) GHG emissions of 🇦🇺's largest emitters

SM doesn't cover emissions produced from 🇦🇺’s Coal+Gas exports that make up ~80% of 🇦🇺’s contribution to global emissions 1/

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 22h

The Sunday Shot - October 12 - Ronni Salt, Greg Jericho, Joel Jenkins, Dave Milner
A wide ranging discussion themed around corruption and impunity for Western politicians, war criminals, weapons companies, media, and civic institutions like the NACC and the NPC.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcYU...

The Sunday Shot - October 12 - Ronni Salt, Greg Jericho, Joel Jenkins, Dave Milner

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot

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