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Muslims make up 45% of hate crime victims in England and Wales

Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · 2d

Muslims make up 45% of hate crime victims in England and Wales www.newarab.com/news/muslims...

Home Office data shows anti-Muslim hate crimes in England and Wales surged 20% last year, making Muslims the target in nearly half of religion-based offences.

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Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · 2d

"Chega cited France and other European Union countries' rationales for banning face coverings commonly worn by Muslim women. The far-right Portuguese party received support from center-right parties." | Portuguese parliament approves bill banning face coverings www.newarab.com/news/portugu...

Portuguese parliament approves bill banning face coverings

Portugal’s parliament has approved a bill banning face veils worn for “gender or religious” reasons in public — a move widely seen as targeting Muslim women.

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Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · 2d

"The partnership marks yet another step in Ring’s renewed embrace of law enforcement, a sharp turn from its brief attempt to distance itself in recent years." | Amazon’s Ring is expanding police access to doorbell footage mashable.com/article/amaz...

Amazon’s Ring is expanding police access to doorbell footage

Notorious hacker group doxxes ICE and FBI officials in leak

Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · 3d

"The hackers have already shared multiple spreadsheets full of private data purportedly belonging to 680 DHS officials, 170 FBI agents, and 190 DOJ officials." | Notorious hacker group doxxes ICE and FBI officials in new leak, report says
mashable.com/article/hack...

A hacking collective called Com alleges it has doxxed hundreds of ICE and FBI officials. The group also has ties to Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters.

New California law will change how browsers handle tracking - 9to5Mac

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Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · 11d

"The law signed this Wednesday expands on the CCPA, adding a new section to the Civil Code that requires browsers to provide a clear, one-click mechanism for Californians to opt out of data sharing across websites." 9to5mac.com/2025/10/09/c...

The new law will require web browsers to include an easy, universal way for users to opt out of data collection and sales.

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Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · 11d

"Popular right-wing YouTubers and their high-dollar accounts have also played a key role in recent political swings and the radicalization of young male viewers, analysts have found." | YouTube's rightward shift? Site launches program for reinstating banned creators mashable.com/article/yout...

YouTube's 'second chance': Controversial banned creators have new path to return

YouTube outlines steps for previously banned creators to return to the platform.

Grindr bans 'no zionists' in bios, but still allows racist and fatphobic language

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · Aug 10

Assassination of the entire Al Jazeera crew in Gaza City, including its correspondents and cameramen:
**Correspondent:** Anas Al-Sharif
**Correspondent:** Mohammed Qareqea
**Cameraman:** Ibrahim Zaher
**Cameraman:** Moamen Aliwa
**Crew Driver:** Mohammed Nofal

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Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · Jul 28

Grindr bans 'no zionists' in bios, but still allows racist and fatphobic language mashable.com/article/grin...

The app's inconsistent moderation highlights ongoing issues with how dating platforms handle racism, bias, and identity-based exclusions.

The End of Work as We Know It

Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · Jul 27

"The warning signs are everywhere: companies building systems not to empower workers but to erase them, workers internalizing the message that their skills, their labor and even their humanity are replaceable..." |
The End of Work as We Know It gizmodo.com/the-end-of-w...

CEOs call it a revolution in efficiency. The workers powering it call it a "new era in forced labor." I spoke to the people on the front lines of the AI takeover.

The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE

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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · Jul 20

What does Israel’s existence mean? Perpetual genocide, apartheid and domination of occupied Palestinians. Israel is structured as an ethno-religious supremacist state — take away those structures and it ceases to exist as is built. That’s not destruction, it’s liberation.

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Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · Jul 18

"The administration is collapsing the guard rails between agencies that help protect American's privacy." | The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE gizmodo.com/the-irs-is-b...

The administration is collapsing the guard rails between agencies that help protect American's privacy.

Google's Sergey Brin Calls U.N. Report on Big Tech's Relationship With Israel 'Antisemitic'

Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · Jul 9

"Last month, the United Nations released a report alleging that many major global corporations, including several Big Tech companies, have profited off of Israel’s ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza because of their insistence on continuing to do business with the Israeli government and military. "

Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · Jul 9

Google’s Sergey Brin Calls U.N. Report on Big Tech’s Relationship With Israel ‘Antisemitic’ gizmodo.com/googles-serg...

You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

US military says 200 Marines being sent to support ICE in Florida

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Reuters @reuters.com · Jul 3

US military says 200 Marines being sent to support ICE in Florida reut.rs/44eLpIw

The U.S. military said on Thursday it will send 200 Marines to Florida to provide administrative and logistical support to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · Jul 3

Video of US contractors cheering after firing at Gaza civilians ignites fury online - https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/fury-online-ap-reveals-us-contractors-fired-gaza-civilians-aid-sites

Video of US contractors cheering after firing at Gaza civilians ignites fury online

Clip published in AP report saying American contractors guarding aid sites fired live ammunition at Palestinians seeking food

www.middleeasteye.net

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Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · Jul 3

UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they?
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...

Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · Jul 3

"For many worried about the future of work in the age of artificial intelligence, the message is chilling: performance and profitability are no longer protections against the axe." | Microsoft Just Fired About 9,000 People While Making Billions gizmodo.com/microsoft-ju...

Microsoft Just Fired About 9,000 People While Making Billions

The tech giant is posting staggering profits and leading the AI revolution.

Elon Says He's Launching 'the America Party' to Compete With Democrats and Republicans If Budget Bill Passes

Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · Jul 1

Elon Says He’s Launching ‘the America Party’ to Compete With Democrats and Republicans If Budget Bill Passes gizmodo.com/elon-says-he...

"Our country needs an alternative to the Democrat-Republican uniparty," Musk tweeted.

Trump Admin Is Building a Searchable Database to Track Citizens

Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · Jun 30

"According to a report from NPR, the Trump administration is in the process of building a searchable national citizenship data system, the first of its kind in the country, with few guardrails in place for how it is used." gizmodo.com/trump-admin-...

Just normal government stuff.

Biologists Uncover Previously Unknown Structure Hiding Inside Human Cells

Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · Jun 30

Scientists had not previously identified the structure because it only appears when needed. But thanks to cryo-electron tomography—an imaging technique that flash-freezes cells and captures them in 3D and in near-atomic resolution—researchers were able to observe it. gizmodo.com/biologists-u...

The never-before-seen organelle serves as a recycling center for cellular cargo, evidence suggests.

Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · Jun 29

"...If you want to understand what’s next for the American workforce, don’t listen to the marketing. Read the footnotes in the CEO’s blog. Because they’re already telling you the truth."

CEOs Are Quietly Telling Us the Truth: AI Is Replacing You

Ḥummuṣsexual 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @hummussexual.bsky.social · Jun 29

"AI is already here, and your company is likely building a roadmap to automate you out of your role. One internal pilot project at a time. One chatbot at a time. One hiring freeze at a time..."
gizmodo.com/ceos-are-qui...

They say AI is just a tool to help workers. But read between the lines, and the message is clear: your job is already on the line.