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Danielle Binks

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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · Jan 23

Soooooo ... I've started a Substack (y'know, in case the social media oligarchs and fascists get so bad that I have to delete some places)

I'll be discussing Books/Publishing/Culture/Me.

Hey - it could be worse; I could be starting a podcast! 😅 substack.com/@daniellebinks

Danielle Binks | Substack

Author • Agent • Creative-Writing Teacher • https://linktr.ee/DanielleBinks

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 6h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 12h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10h

Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors https://theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439/

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 22h

Must read: an eyewitness account of the genocide in Gaza by Dr Ezzideen Shehab, an incredible young writer and GP.

Published by Readers & Writers Against the Genocide. Out Nov 10. Pre-order from indie bookstores now! All $ go to support Ezzideen. More deets:
linktr.ee/readerswritersagainstgenocide

Red book cover with photo of Ezideen Shehab.

DIARY OF A YOUNG DOCTOR
Notes from the genocide in Gaza

Ezideen Shehab

Pull quite:

‘I am no longer a doctor. I am a witness. To the slow murder of dignity.To a land where medicine is a cruel joke and survival is a sin.'

Pull quote:

‘How did we come to this?
How did we become a people the world no longer believes are fully human?
Is it because our blood is too cheap? Or is it because the world has learned to look, and then to look away? If so, then it is not we who have lost our humanity. It is you.’

From Diary of a Young Doctor by Ezzideen Shehab

'Written under siege and in the shadow of unrelenting violence, Dr Ezzideen Shehab's words carry both the clinical precision of a doctor and the searing intimacy of a witness.
These are writings of unbearable clarity, carved out of catastrophe, that will not allow the world to look away?’
Sara M Saleh

'What a privilege to read these words from a brave and compassionate witness to Israel's genocide in Gaza.
When language is often insufficient to describe the daily horrors, Dr Shehab conjures a world of grief, resistance and unimaginable resilience. Read this book.’
Antony Lowenstein

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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 21h

Conflating criticism of Israel with hatred of Jews ‘quite audacious’, lawyer for Sydney academics tells court

University of Sydney and two academics facing racial discrimination case after colleagues accuse them of racist hate speech #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Conflating criticism of Israel with hatred of Jews ‘quite audacious’, lawyer for Sydney academics tells court

University of Sydney and two academics facing racial discrimination case after colleagues accuse them of racist hate speech

www.theguardian.com

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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 21h

‘Diary of a Young Doctor: Notes from the Genocide in Gaza’ by Ezzideen Shehab

• Out 10 November 2025 • links for preorder ➡️ linktr.ee/readerswrite...

A powerful eyewitness account of the genocide in #Gaza by an extraordinary young writer and general physician. #FreePalestine

How did we come to this? How did we become a people the world no longer believes are fully human? Is it because our blood is too cheap? Or is it because the world has learned to look, and then to look away? If so, then it is not we who have lost our humanity. It is you.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

I just don't know how you see a story like this and think "yes, this is exactly the kind of technology I want in the classroom."

NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 1d

Two families are suing AI companies after they say chatbots contributed to their children's suicides.

‘He would be here if not for ChatGPT': Grieving parents sue AI companies

It has become a trusted companion for millions of teens. But it’s not a person. It’s an algorithm powered by artificial intelligence – one that’s trained to generate human-like responses. And some fea...

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

Now that Trump has helped release the Israeli hostages, he can release the Epstein Files!

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 2d

‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead

Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remains www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead

Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remains

www.theguardian.com

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 3d

Massive crowd in Melbourne/Naarm today (in case you thought this movement was going to be placated with more colonisation). Until the occupation ends. Until Western war criminals and their enablers face justice. Until Palestine is free.

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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 3d

‘The Gaza effect: how a global pro-Palestine protest movement met repression and resistance’

Support for the authoritarian Israeli regime leads to authoritarian action overseas, in countries where the people protested against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The Gaza effect: how a global pro-Palestine protest movement met repression and resistance

Across the west, solidarity marches are testing governments’ tolerance for dissent. From arrests to bans, free-speech boundaries are shifting

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 6d

This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM

Person in a frog costume faces down ICE agents

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 5d

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…

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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 4d

Alfred Nobel invented/patented dynamite. Whilst still very much alive, he read an accidental premature obituary of himself that described him as “merchant of death“ and it has long been assumed that he created the Peace Prize as a way to change his narrative.

www.history.com/articles/did...

Did a Premature Obituary Inspire the Nobel Prize? | HISTORY

Dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel never explained why he created the Nobel Prizes in his 1895 will, but he may have been...

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 4d

UNICEF recently estimated that, since the war began two years ago, on average 28 children a day have been killed in Gaza. That's the equivalent of a classroom of children a day killed.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Trump has strong-armed Netanyahu, who was planning a longer war

In the tragic arc of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Donald Trump may have closed the latest — and most violent — chapter.

www.abc.net.au

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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 4d

NSW police wrongly categorise ‘significant’ number of incidents as antisemitic

Anti-Palestinian graffiti and verbal abuse of pro-Palestine protestors incorrectly recorded as antisemitism in figures government cited to defend restrictions on protests #nswpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NSW police wrongly categorise ‘significant’ number of incidents as antisemitic

Anti-Palestinian graffiti and verbal abuse of pro-Palestine protestors incorrectly recorded as antisemitism in figures government cited to defend restrictions on protests

www.theguardian.com

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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 4d

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver #AusPol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 5d

Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?

Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 5d

Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 7d

Exclusive: Correspondence obtained by Lamestream show the National Press Club confirmed Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him because was “in favour” of Palestine.

www.lamestream.com.au/exclusive-na...

Exclusive: National Press Club cancelled Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for being “in favour” of Palestine

Correspondence obtained by Lamestream shows the NPC confirmed Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him due to "balance".

www.lamestream.com.au

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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 6d

“By installing Weiss, the richest people in the world have taken another step toward ushering in the toothless, acquiescent future of mainstream media they’ve always wanted.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan

When Weiss was named editor-in-chief, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its roots

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 6d

No War on Chicago
No War Anywhere

No War on Chicago; No War Anywhere!

“The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to ga...

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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 6d

Polls and politics point to a sea change in US views on Israel. Will it matter?

Fueled by dissent over the war in Gaza, the US public’s views are changing – and support for the Palestinians is rising

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Polls and politics point to a sea change in US views on Israel. Will it matter?

Fueled by dissent over the war in Gaza, the US public’s views are changing – and support for the Palestinians is rising