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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 10h

Mainstream coverage of the Israel-Hamas captives exchange exposes western media's enduring pro-Israel bias, as Israelis are humanised while Palestinians are erased from view

Hostages, captives, prisoners: Western media still privileges Israeli over Palestinian lives

Mainstream coverage of the Israel-Hamas captives exchange exposes western media's enduring pro-Israel bias, as Israelis are humanised while Palestinians are erased from view

www.middleeasteye.net

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 10h

The front page of Time looks like someone’s painted a face of Donald Trump on a scrotum.

Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose it could be possible to distinguish someone "doing journalism" from someone who is "a journalist". personally, I think he's neither.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is giving a thank you sign .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is giving a thank you sign .

media.tenor.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Claims he's just a regular journalist doing his journalising on behalf of the silent millions... checks out for me..

Tommy Robinson
stopped at border driving
Bentley with thousands in
cash'
Far-Right activist insulted police
officers after being arrested for
refusing to give them pin to his
phone, court hears

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 1d

He's not a journalist. He's not even Tommy Robinson.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 2d

One of the few lines of defence we have against phoneys like Vance and Trump - and in the UK against Farage and his ilk - are journalists who hold them to account. Sadly, here we have too many Laura Kuenssbergs and too few Victoria Derbyshires www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

J.D. Vance Tried to Evade Journalists' Questions. It Did Not Go Well

Vice President J.D. Vance tried to dodge questions about Border Czar Tom Homan's alleged accepting of a bribe and whether J.B. Pritzker is a criminal.

www.rollingstone.com

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 2d

Almost a decade ago, president of China Xi Jinping told the World Economic Forum in Davos: “Pursuing protectionism is like locking oneself in a dark room. Wind and rain may be kept outside, but so is light and air”
Still true. White House bullies take note
www.theguardian.com/business/201...

Xi Jinping signals China will champion free trade if Trump builds barriers

Chinese president defends globalisation at WEF in Davos, saying there will be no winners in a trade war

www.theguardian.com

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 4d

Zack Polanski schooling a right-wing BBCQT panel was a brilliant lesson in how to beat propaganda

The BBC arranged an all-right-wing panel to challenge Green leader Zack Polanski on Question Time last night.

But he schooled them all.
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Zack Polanski schooling a right-wing BBCQT panel was a brilliant lesson in how to beat propaganda

The BBC arranged an all-right-wing panel to challenge Green leader Zack Polanski on Question Time last night. But he schooled them all.

www.thecanary.co

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 4d

I'm glad Trump bombed out of the Nobel Peace Prize, but it seems the winner is no angel...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac...

'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

Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 4d

* politician, not MP

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 5d

Lets make different political choices says Zack Polanski.

Like taxing billionaires instead of blaming poor people.

#bbcqt

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 5d

Deafening applause as Zack Polanski tells Zia Yusuf that people's concern over immigration is because he spends all his time spreading misinformation and fear.

#bbcqt

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 5d

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 5d

Simple question: should an adjudged rapist and 34-times felon, a stranger to the law and breaker of his pledge to uphold the constitution, as suited to high office as Herod was to childcare, become a Nobel laureate?

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 5d

I did not make this up: Trump bragged that he should win the Nobel Peace Prize because he ended a war in "The Republic of Condo." I was not aware that this country existed, but to honor it I am posting this flag. #LongLiveCondo

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 5d

Got to be at least 18 months since I've watched #BBCQT and the presence of a Labour clone, a Tory clone, a Reform gobshite and a Tory journo does nothing to make me watch tonight. However, the participation of @zackpolanski.bsky.social, one of the few MPs who speak honestly, just might.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 6d

Those giving Lenny Henry a predictable pasting for his comments on £18tn of reparatory justice arising from the slave trade should really learn more about the background and context, and then try having an informed conversation. That way they'll look less dumb.
www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Lenny Henry calls for £18 trillion in reparations for slavery - Voice Online

Reparations for slavery take centre stage as Sir Lenny Henry calls on Britain to pay £18 trillion to Caribbean nations and Black Britons

www.voice-online.co.uk

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 8d

Reminder - carbon offsetting is a con. We have to BOTH stop burning fossil fuels and look after nature

#ClimateEmergency #NatureCrisis

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 6d

🚨New report: how the fossil fuel industry duped successive UK governments into pumping money into costly CCS schemes to ensure continued reliance on oil and gas.

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 6d

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

influencemap.org

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 6d

The reason the case accusing two Brits of spying for China was that legally China is not "a country which represents at the time of the offence, a threat to the national security of the UK"
It had nothing to do with political interference. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Spy case collapse blamed on UK government failure to label China a threat

Prosecutors say they were unable to obtain evidence from the government to meet the threshold for prosecution.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mark Blacklock @marxmedia.bsky.social · 8d

As it's #HarvestMoon...
Enjoy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Mt...

Neil Young - Harvest Moon [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by neilyoungchannel

www.youtube.com

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 11d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13d

If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT.

If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.

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