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Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 1h

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

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Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Varun 🍉🍁 @horribleaccount.bsky.social · 3h

Hi Zack, can you read this if possible? We published an article about your leadership victory. bsky.app/profile/horr...

Varun 🍉🍁 @horribleaccount.bsky.social · 1d

My article about @zackpolanski.bsky.social's recent victory as Green Party Leader.

www.socialistparty.ie/2025/10/brit...

Britain: New Green Party leader Zack Polanski energises party with left shift

By Varun The Green Party of England and Wales has been energised by a new leader, Zack Polanski. Polanski secured 85% of the vote in the leadership election, with 20,411 compared to his rival Adrian R...

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Varun 🍉🍁 @horribleaccount.bsky.social · 16h

Fascism 101

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING

The US State Department has revoked the visas of citizens from Argentina, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, and Paraguay for comments they made in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

- An Argentine national who said Charlie "devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric" and deserves to burn in hell.
- A South African national who mocked those grieving Charlie saying "they're hurt that the racist rally ended in attempted martyrdom"
-A Mexican national who said Charlie "died being a racist, he died being a misogynist" and stated that "there are people who deserve to die."
- A Brazilian national who said "Charlie Kirk was the reason for a Nazi rally where they marched in homage to him" and that he "DIED TOO LATE."
- A German national who celebrated Charlie's death + wrote
"when fascists die, democrats don't complain."
- A Paraguayan national who said "Charlie Kirk was a son of a b**** and he died by his own rules."

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 17h

Oh this bubble about burst BAD bad

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 19h

Samuel Please

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 18h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Varun 🍉🍁 @horribleaccount.bsky.social · 16h

When you have nothing but hate to sell this is what happens. But this is a north Indian phenomenon though, doesn't exist in the south (mostly).

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Varun 🍉🍁 @horribleaccount.bsky.social · 16h

Anybody who thinks this "ceasefire" is going to last is ignorant

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 17h

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “There will be Jewish settlement in Gaza, because without settlement, there is no security.”

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 18h

Remember when Alex Pareene predicted this after Charlottesville in 2017 www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

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Suella De-Vil First Female Britain First MP (maybe) -parody @suellade.bsky.social · 1d

Is “hospitality” a synonym for “bribery”?

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

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Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister's wife – HOPE not hate

IN BREACH OF PARLIAMENTARY RULES: REFORM UK’S RICHARD TICE Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register lavish hospitality...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

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Varun 🍉🍁 @horribleaccount.bsky.social · 1d

Labour could have taken a stand like the centrist Irish govt (bare minimum) but they couldn't even do that.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

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Varun 🍉🍁 @horribleaccount.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

The United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross are calling for all crossings into Gaza to be opened to allow desperately needed aid into the war-torn Palestinian territory

Calls for opening of all Gaza crossings to allow in aid

The United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross are calling for all crossings into Gaza to be opened to allow desperately needed aid into the war-torn Palestinian territory.

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 1d

The EU wasn't a bystander. It was an active perpetrator by virtue of its members supplyimg Israel with arms to commit genocide.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

Perception of EU as bystander in Gaza war has badly damaged its reputation

Internal divisions stopped EU from putting any real pressure on Israel

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Varun 🍉🍁 @horribleaccount.bsky.social · 1d

Good, we don't want raging misogynists in the Left

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

Brian Leddin: Why I resigned from the Green Party over its decision to back Catherine Connolly

Party’s decision to support Connolly’s presidential campaign only deepened my concerns about its current direction

www.irishtimes.com

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Varun 🍉🍁 @horribleaccount.bsky.social · 1d

Yet the geniuses in Reform and Tories are denying climate change and pushing for more fracking 🤦🏽‍♂️

Varun 🍉🍁 @horribleaccount.bsky.social · 1d

Ireland already has a broken prison system which largely imprisons people on non-violent offences. What we require is a conversation to end mass incarceration. 1 in 1,000 people in Ireland are now in prisons and that's more than Qatar and Turkmenistan!

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Varun 🍉🍁 @horribleaccount.bsky.social · 1d

My article about @zackpolanski.bsky.social's recent victory as Green Party Leader.

www.socialistparty.ie/2025/10/brit...

Britain: New Green Party leader Zack Polanski energises party with left shift

By Varun The Green Party of England and Wales has been energised by a new leader, Zack Polanski. Polanski secured 85% of the vote in the leadership election, with 20,411 compared to his rival Adrian R...

www.socialistparty.ie

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Varun 🍉🍁 @horribleaccount.bsky.social · 1d

They already called Neo-Nazis terrorizing refugees outside hotels as "local protestors"

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian did a profile of Linehan last month in which they described a 57 year old man’s years-long obsession with harassing trans people as “gender activism”

What’s next? Is Tommy Robinson a race activist?

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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Varun 🍉🍁 @horribleaccount.bsky.social · 1d

She voted to ban Palestine Action btw

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, "Gaza which was once a thriving city is now a flattened hellscape"

"Aid has to get in immediately. Medication has to get in. People need to see a future which comes with a Palestinian state"

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Varun 🍉🍁 @horribleaccount.bsky.social · 1d

I am sure the far-right will hold protests against this scourge tearing apart our societies?

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Michael Bono @mbonotheyounger.bsky.social · 1d

Fascists love Generative AI because they hate having to treat other people like people. The rest of us don't need to partake of their various theft machines.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.