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After two years of Gaza genocide, the West's moral pretence is shattered

Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 16h

The relentless cruelty, opportunistic greedy criminality & cynicism of the imperial guzzlers, their satraps & pawns are thoroughly exposed. Their Hobbesian colonial, white supremacist "international order" is debased & obscene. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/afte... #GazaGenocide #Palestine #Israel

Israel's slaughter of Palestinians has forced the world to confront bitter truths about the designs of empire

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Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 23h

'Blair should be on trial at the Hague, not running #Gaza.'
Take careful note, @albomp.bsky.social , when you lie down with dogs ...

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10... #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy #auspol #GazaGenocide #imperialism #Palestine

Time for a 'just peace' for all peoples in Palestine

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong took a long time just to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. And their belated declaration of Palestinian statehood is an empty gesture when w...

johnmenadue.com

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Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 1d

34 times a felon #Trumpolini calls for crooked, genocidal #Netolini to be pardoned for corruption charges. They should be sharing a cell at the Hague. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w... #USFascism #IsraelFascism #GazaGenocide

Trump Calls for Israel’s President to Pardon Netanyahu. Could it Happen?

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All living Israeli captives and hundreds of Palestinians released; Trump addresses Knesset

Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 1d

Despite the 'ceasefire', fascist #Israel continues its fiendish bone harvest. Israel is addicted to murder and land theft. www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-... #IsraelFascism #GazaGenocide

Drop Site Daily: October 13, 2025

VIDEO: Hundreds of Palestinian Captives Released in Khan Younis From Israeli Detention

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Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 1d

Around 2,000 prisoners of #Israel released, yet how many more remain incarcerated in its dungeons? Fascist Israeli troops fire tear gas & rubber bullets, warning against celebrations. www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinia... #IsraelFascism #GazaGenocide

“My message to the people of Gaza: Do not lose hope, do not despair,” a freed Palestinian prisoner said.

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

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Owen R. Broadhurst ☭ 🏳‍🌈 🔻⛤ (he/him/his) @obroadhurst.bsky.social · 1d

This number very likely is a gross underestimate of how many Palestinian children the Zionist entity has slain

And this number still is staggering

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

gaza.forensic-architecture.org

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d

'The Cartography of Genocide platform documents in unprecedented detail the extent and character of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip since October 2023.'

gaza.forensic-architecture.org/database

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d

'A police spokesperson told the ABC the AFP had called upon its newly established National Security Investigations (NSI) team in Victoria to investigate whether the comments "breach legislation".'

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

AFP probes Lidia Thorpe's 'burn down Parliament House' remark

The Australian Federal Police has issued a rare statement confirming it is investigating whether independent senator Lidia Thorpe broke any laws by saying she was prepared to "burn down Parliament Hou...

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Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to their greedy, exploitative colonisation of this beautiful planet, humans are ruining it for themselves and the species on which they depend faster than they think. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan... #TippingPoint #Environment

First climate tipping point reached after coral reef diebacks, scientists warn

A group of international scientists warned that several of Earth’s systems are rapidly approaching dangerous thresholds as temperatures rise.

www.independent.co.uk

Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 2d

The murderous spite of the Occupier IDF after the ceasefire was announced, torching food and essential structures. www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-idf... #IsraelFascism #Israel #GazaGenocide

Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement

Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.”

The Gaza effect: how a global pro-Palestine protest movement met repression and resistance

Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 2d

Lord Starver & #Trumpolini lead the white supremacist West in suppressing free speech and persecuting protest against fascist #Israel. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... #USFascism #IsraelFascism #UKFascism #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy

Across the west, solidarity marches are testing governments’ tolerance for dissent. From arrests to bans, free-speech boundaries are shifting

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’

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Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 2d

Boycott of fascist, criminal #Israel is now mainstream across the world.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... #BDS #StopIsrael #IsraelFascism

After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics

Thousands of Palestinians Return to Gaza City to Find a Wasteland of Rubble

Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 3d

Israel has bombed #Gaza City into a 'wasteland of rubble'. Collective punishment is a war crime & fascist #Israel must be brought to justice. www.dropsitenews.com/p/displaced-... #IsraelFascism #StopIsrael #Palestine

“There’s nothing left for them to destroy.”

Inside Albanese’s FOI reforms: ‘He hates transparency’

Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 3d

With a preponderantly supine rightwing media, FOI is even more important to help protect Australian democracy. So why does @albomp.bsky.social hate it so much? www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/10... #auspol

Labor’s reforms to freedom of information laws are opposed by every public submission made to the Senate, with the government’s record on secrecy worse than Scott Morrison’s.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 3d

Dossier on Ignoble Machado, just another Zionist agent for US imperialism, the antithesis of 'peace' www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac... #USFascism

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams

As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

www.commondreams.org

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Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 4d

A closer look at Jared Kushner, part of the Trumpolini mob scavengers who profit from war. fair.org/home/jared-k... #GazaGenocide #USFascism

Jared Kushner ‘Out of the Spotlight’—But Not Out of Mideast Politics, or Out of the Money

There are so many conflicts of interest around Jared Kushner that it's hard to avoid covering them--yet journalists do so remarkably well.

fair.org

Palestinian civil society reacts to the Trump-Netanyahu genocidal plan

Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 4d

Palestinian civil society insists on full Palestinian rights & calls for escalating #BDS pressure to end all state, corporate and institutional complicity with #Israel’s regime. www.bdsmovement.net/news/palesti... #Palestine

Nothing less than freedom, justice and self-determination!

www.bdsmovement.net

PM criticises Pocock’s ban from parliamentary sports club but dismisses concerns about betting lobby

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Bob Elliston @brunybob.bsky.social · 4d

Anthony Albanese says Senator Pocock should not be kicked from Parliament’s sports club, but the PM says his concerns over lobbying are “absurd”

OBVIOUSLY @AlboMP HAS LOST HIS MORAL COMPASS and HE NEEDS DAVID @davidpocock.bsky.social TO HELP HIM FIND IT AGAIN

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

Australia has been no honest broker in the affairs of the Palestinian people

Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 4d

'Who needs hasbara when you have Albanese?' www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/10/a... #GazaGenocide #auspol #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy #Israel #Palestine

Consternation over how Trump's 'deal' has been struck seems only to have permeated circles of Palestinian people and their allies who actually care about the meaning of equal rights for all.

www.crikey.com.au

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Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 5d

#Israel is a monstrous, child-murdering criminal. A 'new UN study found that more than 54,600 children under five in #Gaza may be acutely malnourished, with more than 12,800 severely affected.' www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-... #StopIsrael

Gaza ceasefire inches closer; Senate fails to stop Trump’s strikes on alleged drug boats

Drop Site Daily: October 9, 2025

Trump’s Plan to Deprive Palestinians Any Say in Their Future

Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 5d

The #Trumpolini mob's payoff from the Unstable Slavers' neocolonization of #Gaza - graft for Musk, Blair and Trump family members. theintercept.com/2025/10/08/t... #GazaGenocide #IsraelFascism #USFascism

This is not the time for supporters of Palestinian self-determination to be quiet. It’s the moment for us to demand more.

theintercept.com

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Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 5d

Unstable Slavers' AI monopoly means death to the wilderness #environment & rewards for exploitative mining companies. theintercept.com/2025/10/08/t... #USFascism

Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies

Trump’s approval of the 211-mile Ambler Road Project through Gates of the Arctic National Park hinges on winning an “AI arms race.”

theintercept.com