Danielle Binks
@daniellebinks.bsky.social
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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
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Author • Agent • Creative-Writing Teacher • https://linktr.ee/DanielleBinks
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isibb.bsky.social
Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss
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‘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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davemilbo.bsky.social
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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‘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
www.theguardian.com
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amunicipalfox.bsky.social
This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM
Person in a frog costume faces down ICE agents
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sababausa.bsky.social
The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…
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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...
www.history.com
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.
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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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rachelwithers.bsky.social
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?
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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
www.theguardian.com
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