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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 3h

#PalestineMatters ➡️ #Gaza

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 3h

"The people in Gaza, including me, lost everything."

As Israel and Hamas exchange captives amid a U.S.-backed ceasefire, writer Ahmed Abu Artema slams Western double standards that privilege Israeli lives over those of Palestinians.

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 3h

@josiah.writes.news

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 3h

We don't see any reason why landlords and lawyers shouldn't pay the same tax rate as their tenants and clients.

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 3h

The #Kushner family. #OnlyInTrump'sAmerica

👀 Charles Kushner is an American real-estate developer, diplomat, and ⚡️disbarred attorney⚡️- illegal campaign contributions/tax evasion/witness tampering - who since 2025 has been the #US ambassador to #France and #Monaco 👀

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Charles Kushner - Wikipedia

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 1d

Yes.

“Everyday we wake up
and collectively make
a world together; but
which one of us, left to
our own devices, would
ever decide they wanted
to make a world like this
one?”

— David Graeber, “Bullshit Jobs: A Theory”

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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Gershon Baskin גרשון בסקין غرشون بسكين @gershonbaskin.bsky.social · 12h

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The Blogs: Gaza: The Urgent and Necessary

From the blog of Gershon Baskin at The Times of Israel

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 3h

#ProtestMatters

Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 3h

This brave Jewish mother was among 488 people arrested in London on October 4th for holding cardboard signs at a Lift The Ban peaceful vigil.

“This is not terrorism, how dare my government say otherwise!?”

The ban on Palestine Action must be immediately lifted.
wedonotcomply.org

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 5h

This is rather remarkable.

pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 11h

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 5h

#ElectitonMatters #Portugal

Great news!

Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 5h

Good news

Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections

Party hoped to take 30 municipalities but secured three after share of vote halved from parliamentary elections

www.theguardian.com

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 6h

🚨 #Food4Thought

Time to talk about a bi-national #SingleState solution to the perennial 🇵🇸 #Palestine #Israel question, and end the now-performative political mantra of #TwoStates. FYI also 👇 #ALandForAll k-larevue.com/en/land-for-...

@channel4news.bsky.social @krishgm.bsky.social

A conversation with Meron Rapoport from “A Land for All”

Israeli journalist and former reporter for Yediot Aharonot and Haaretz, Meron Rapoport co-founded the initiative A Land for All with Palestinian Honi Al-Mashni, which proposes a unique solution to the...

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 6h

🚨 #Food4Thought

Time to talk about a bi-national #SingleState solution to the perennial 🇵🇸 #Palestine #Israel question, and end the now-performative political mantra of #TwoStates. FYI also 👇 #ALandForAll k-larevue.com/en/land-for-...

@channel4news.bsky.social @krishgm.bsky.social

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 6h

#NepoBaby #JaredKushner

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Jared Kushner - Wikipedia

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 6h

#Photography

Pleased that pioneering photographer Edith Tudor-Hart mentioned, not only for her own work but because she was step-mother to pioneering GP Julian Tudor-Hart - Guardian obit: www.theguardian.com/society/2018...; wiki entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_...

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 6h

Pleased that pioneering photographer Edith Tudor-Hart mentioned, not only for her own work but because she was step-mother to pioneering GP Julian Tudor-Hart - Guardian obit: www.theguardian.com/society/2018...; wiki entry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_...

@andydavies4.bsky.social #ICYMI

Julian Tudor Hart obituary

Doctor who set up a research practice in a Welsh mining community and pioneered routine preventive health care

www.theguardian.com

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 17h

#WildlifePhotography

Glorious #MrFox 💚

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 1d

Took hundreds of pictures this summer on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada), but only now had time to go through them. This molting Arctic fox giving a cute nose-lick while staring at me in the tundra is one of my favorites. 🌿🦊

Molting Arctic fox in the tundra, giving a cute nose-lick. Photo: Dominique Berteaux."

Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 18h

🚨 #Energy ⬇️ #PowerOutages⬇️ #FakeNews 🚨

NPR @npr.org · 18h

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 20h

🚨 #PublicHealth
⬇️
💉 #VaccinationMatters💉

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 20h

#PublicHealth #CDC

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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 1d

Trump govt did not reverse these firings out of goodness or self-owning a "mistake." They would have been happy to get away with it. This reversal is the result of strong opposition. We undercut our own power when we give them the credit. Resistance matters. And remaining cuts are still devastating.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

TRUMP CDC REVERSAL: Trump administration racing to reverse some CDC layoffs. Disease detectives, measles responders, MMWR staff RIF’s are revoked. DC office still shuttered. w/ @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1d

Worth noting that Labour deputy leadership candidate Bridget Phillipson has been handed £60,000 by the Israel lobby, and that pro-Israel former hedge fund manager Stuart Roden has donated £80,000 supporting the office costs of Phillipson and Lisa Nandy? #bbclaurak

Israel lobby funded half of Keir Starmer’s cabinet

Exclusive: Labour’s top team has accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds from pro-Israel funders.

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 23h

#ChinaSpyTrial

Well -said. Also insulting to the electorate.

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 23h

Assuming No 10/ Powell/ FO action intentionally or unintentionally scuppered the China spy trial, they might be better off just owning it and defending their reasoning rather than tying themselves in knots pretending otherwise and leaving hostages to fortune in their evasive answers

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

Lower bills.

Fund our NHS.

Not their culture war nonsense.

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Zack Polanski HUMILIATES Piers Morgan LIVE On Air!

YouTube video by Antony Jones

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

👀 they are really struggling with that $50,000 question.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 1d

#FreeDrHussamAbiSafiya who refused to leave his immobile patients in Al-Shifa hospital. One of 10,000 hostages held in Israeli prisons including over 450 children. Where is the international outcry? Why are the humanitarian voices in Israel so few?

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