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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 4h

Donald Trump has enjoyed a stark reversal in his finances since last year, amassing vast new wealth, especially due to a rapidly growing cryptocurrency empire that has generated over $1bn in profits, thanks to a crypto boom fuelled by his own administrations' policies. Unstable & corrupt.

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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 4h

This is a classic example of how bullying, legitimised by a fascistic authoritarian state, spills over into other forms of abuse, particularly sexual abuse since the heightened sense of entitlement that their positions as agents of state violence has obvious links to misogyny, homophobia, etc.

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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 4h

Dr Abu Safiya has become a heroic symbol of Palestinian sumud, suffering prolonged abuse by his Zionist captors simply for being a doctor, for committing the crime of trying to heal the injuries caused by outrageous Zionist violence.

Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 5h

Imperialist state violence, whether delivering slavery, economic dependency, land theft, settler-colonialism, apartheid, or genocide, is what engenders racism as a rationalisation to morally sooth domestic populations & colonists, making the abuse & theft seem part of the natural order.

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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 5h

Israel has been the flagship US/UK imperialist project since its inception, other colonies gradually being lost over the ensuing decades. The violence it uses is exemplary in terms of maintaining domination over subordinated populations not just in west Asia but across the planet.

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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 5h

#gaza #palestine #ceasefire #israel

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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 5h

These are 'crackpots' who think they have credibility because they have the support, transnationally, of a majority of the big-asset owning class; and they're in step with the 500 year history of white supremacist imperialism.

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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 22h

The deal was always a scam.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 23h

As world leaders celebrate the release of Israeli captives, over 9,000 Palestinian prisoners still face torture, hunger, and isolation behind bars. Half of them are held by Israel without charge or trial.

mondoweiss.net/2025/10/the-...

#Palestine #Israel

The 9,100 Palestinians left behind in Israeli prisons after the ‘peace’ deal

As world leaders celebrate the release of Israeli captives, over 9,000 Palestinian prisoners still face torture, hunger, and isolation behind bars. Half of them are held by Israel without charge or trial.

mondoweiss.net

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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 5h

Israel Threatens to Resume the Genocide : total domination by the US/Zionist colonial entity is not a deal that has anything to do with peace. It is just an incomplete slowing down of the pace of extirmination & displacement.

consortiumnews.com/2025/10/14/g...

Israel Threatens to Resume the Genocide

UPDATE: Israel is leaning towards resuming violence as Hamas says it can't locate or extract all of the hostages' dead bodies, writes Joe Lauria. Update: Israel is contemplating restarting the ki...

consortiumnews.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Dre Sakon de l'Ours 🏳️‍⚧️ @foursaig.bsky.social · 1d

Et nous devrions croire en ses promesses ?

l'Humanité @humanite.fr · 1d

Sébastien Lecornu : "Pas une arme française n'est allée à la destination de Tsahal"

Depuis octobre 2023, Israël a multiplié les violations du droit international et pourtant la France continuait de lui livrer des armes.

Notre enquête : https://l.humanite.fr/KtJ

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Mr Peter Lyall @missedmycue.bsky.social · 10h

After the Farage Riots it was very obvious that
The Reform Party are the party of and for criminals.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1d

"Another Reform MP has been accused of being in breach of Parliamentary rules, after its deputy leader Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality he received from Lubov Chernukhin – wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister"
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...

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

'Tice and Oakeshott stayed at the Chernukhins’ “turreted villa” with “a stunning view of the Mediterranean” and had supper with them at a Michelin-starred restaurant'

leftfootforward.org

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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 9h

L’État français est toujours engagé dans l’impérialisme, tout comme il l’était en 1961 : d’où son soutien à l’apartheid et au génocide en Palestine.

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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 9h

Le PS evidement ne sont pas encore socialistes.

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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 9h

Pourquoi voter pour le Parti socialiste alors qu'ils ont permis à Macron et Lecornu de poursuivre leurs attaques contre les classes défavorisées? Ils déshonorent le mot « socialiste » tout comme les nazis, ce qui n'est peut-être pas surprenant lorsqu'ils soutiennent également l'apartheid.

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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 10h

The Onus Is On Israel And Its Allies To End The Genocide, Not Their Victims -It has never been legitimate to intentionally deprive civilians of humanitarian aid that they need to survive.

It has never been legitimate to shoot noncombatants at all.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-onus-i...

The Onus Is On Israel And Its Allies To End The Genocide, Not Their Victims

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

www.caitlinjohnst.one

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 10h

Unrwa says Israeli authorities continue to prevent aid delivery to Gaza

www.middleeasteye.net

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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 10h

Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-tor...

Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

www.caitlinjohnst.one

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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 23h

A Nazi holocaust survivor's comments on the Gaza holocaust:
metro.co.uk/2025/10/14/i...

'I survived the Holocaust and I fear children in Gaza will be scarred forever'

'I don't see any end for the Palestinian children'

metro.co.uk

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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 1d

New Report Details Western Repression of Anti-Genocide Dissent consortiumnews.com/2025/10/14/n...

New Report Details Western Repression of Anti-Genocide Dissent

The Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights documents the crackdown on the Palestinian solidarity movement in France, Germany, the U.K. and U.S. since Oct. 7, 2023. By Jessica Corbett...

consortiumnews.com

Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 1d

Jonathan Cook: Freedoms We Took for Granted in Britain consortiumnews.com/2025/10/15/j...

Jonathan Cook: Freedoms We Took for Granted in Britain

Now that we have proved to be too defiant and rebellious, Keir Starmer’s government is ripping up the rulebook on protest in order to protect Israel. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net In interview...

consortiumnews.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Labour is telling you VERY LOUDLY who to vote for if you value human rights. And it's definitely NOT LABOUR.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 1d

Why bother to set up whatever Your Party becomes, when you can vote for Green candidates? It's between tending to limit struggle to parliament/local councils, or trying to win those whilst also encouraging wider struggles against social injustices & lifestyles of resistance to domination.

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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, Jeremy Bowen is misleading the public about Gaza. He refuses to recognise 'the elephant in the room' - that the responsibility for violent resistance to bullying domination rests with the bullying dominator - with imperialism. Resistance is a duty. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Once again, Jeremy Bowen is misleading the British public about Gaza

The BBC international editor is required to report what Hamas actually thinks. Otherwise he is not a journalist, he's just another western propagandist

open.substack.com

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Dave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 1d

The rancid core of the clique running the Labour Party & the country is laid bare in Paul Holden’s book "The Fraud", published this week.

It spotlights the deceit, disloyalty, duplicity and dirty tactics which brought Starmer to the leadership of the party & then Number 10 Downing Street.

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