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Lightacandle @lightacandle.bsky.social · 1h

“They make a desert and call it peace” #Gaza

I am reminded of these words when seeing photographs of the long, sad column of Gazans returning north to see what, if anything is left of their homes

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Turkish Minute @turkishminute.com · 3h

Int’l press groups urge full probe into killing of Turkish environmental journalist www.turkishminute.com/2025/10/15/i...

Int'l press groups urge full probe into killing of Turkish environmental journalist - Turkish Minute

International press organizations have joined local press groups in strongly condemning a fatal attack on journalist and environmental activist Hakan Tosun and urged Turkish authorities to conduct a thorough...

www.turkishminute.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

If you can’t attend a protest, there are many other ways to resist:

• Get connected to the resistance: fiftyfifty.one

• Get trained on noncooperation:
nokings.org/rise

• Get engaged in politics:
pol-rev.com

• Get started:
Choosedemocracy.us

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

What is happening in Chicago, and other cities across the U.S., is unimaginably horrific—it will forever be a stain on American history.

Do your part to fight back against this by attending a protest this Saturday.

We need to show America—and the rest of the world—that we are done with this shit.

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

Nokings.org

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Martin Rowson @martinrowson.bsky.social · 9h

Latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social toon, out in print very soon

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 6d

📰 What was thought to be a Palaeolithic oil lamp was likely in fact a 13,000-year-old paint pallet, and contains the oldest instance of blue pigment in Europe!

🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @smithsonianmag.bsky.social

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These Archaeologists Set Out in Search of Animal Fat. Instead, They Found the Oldest Blue Pigment Ever Discovered in Europe

Blue residue on a 13,000-year-old stone artifact, long believed to be an oil lamp, may paint a new picture of Paleolithic art and culture

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Lightacandle @lightacandle.bsky.social · 2d

Do hope this will at last be peace in the region & the time for a Palestinian State to happily exist alongside an Israeli one. There are two players who never wanted that & used each other to ensure it would never happen, Hamas & Netanyahu. Free the people of both & the chance of peace is there.

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 1d

A ceasefire in Gaza does not mean our work is over — we will continue to fight for a different future — for a real peace that guarantees freedom and safety for all.
(2/2)

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 1d

Two days ago, the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality painted over the faces we put up of Palestinian children killed in Gaza by the Israeli government.

So yesterday, we went back and put their faces up again.
(1/2)

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Lightacandle @lightacandle.bsky.social · 4d

Martin Rowson on the #GazaCeasefire coming into effect – Guardian cartoon: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

COLUMBUS DIDN'T DISCOVER ANYTHING 1,000'S OF NATIVE NATIONS WERE ALREADY HERE

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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 1d

Latest @theguardian.com cartoon

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 2d

It's like when Dr. Evil had the button that sent you into the fiery pit

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

MARCO RUBIO: This is probably one of the most important days for world peace in 50 years. That's not an exaggeration

TRUMP: Only 50?

RUBIO: Maybe 100

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Lightacandle @lightacandle.bsky.social · 1d

If you play the piano you can understand just what a musical genius he is. A couple of centuries ago and he would have been a famous composer. Play it back on .75 speed and you can hear the piano melody more. Beautiful to play. Piano Man music illustrates that too. Thank you for that!

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Lightacandle @lightacandle.bsky.social · 2d

Do hope this will at last be peace in the region & the time for a Palestinian State to happily exist alongside an Israeli one. There are two players who never wanted that & used each other to ensure it would never happen, Hamas & Netanyahu. Free the people of both & the chance of peace is there.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

The story behind the mural, which is actually quite lovely

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

One of the things I love about London is how inconquerable it is. There's just too much of it to ever believe you'll discover it all. I first stumbled on this mosaic a few months ago, about a minute's walk from the flat I've lived in for 8 years.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 2d

Palestinians and Jews across this land are taking a breath right now after a period of unimaginable suffering. Two years of bombing and intentional starvation. Two years of captivity and abandonment. Two years of infuriating political calculations at the expense of all of us. (1/6)

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Lightacandle @lightacandle.bsky.social · 3d

Yes - thought the same. A bad apple in a tub of equally bad apples.

Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 3d

Farage claims Nathan Gill was a "bad apple".

So you can visualise his relationship with other leading figures in Reform as something like this.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 4d

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

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Lightacandle @lightacandle.bsky.social · 3d

Good. Hopefully now the full truth will come out. Get rid of him and Hamas too (who he actively funded in order to wipe out any chance of future peace) and the people of the region just might be able to come together and live in peace within a two state solution. #GazaCeasefire #Peace

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu, but the Israelis gathered are constantly and consistently booing him

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Lightacandle @lightacandle.bsky.social · 5d

#GazaCeasefire

Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 6d

A different future here is not only possible, it’s crucial — our lives depend on it. And we won’t stop fighting until we achieve it.

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Kafkaesque @kafkaesque2024.bsky.social · 4d

Freddy Mercury's "Don't Stop Me Now" 🎶🎵 is a fun, boppy soundtrack to Portland's burning "Antifa war zone" of dancing frogs & furries:

"Tonight, I'm gonna have myself a real good time. I feel alive. And the world, I'll turn it inside out, yeah. I'm floatin' around in ecstasy." #FreedomFrogs #NoICE

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