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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

"The Day I Knew Israel’s ‘Aggression’ Had Turned Into a Full-Blown Genocide"

Via Zeteo, read an excerpt from Gaza journalist Plestia Alaqad’s powerful new memoir, ‘The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience.’

The Day I Knew Israel’s ‘Aggression’ Had Turned Into a Full-Blown Genocide

Read an excerpt from Gaza journalist Plestia Alaqad’s powerful new memoir, ‘The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience.’

zeteo.com

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 1d

War torn Portland.
I am

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23h

Gaza:

170,000 people need long term rehabilitation
38 hospitals destroyed or forced to close
1 in 4 children suffer from acute malnutrition
96% of households without enough water to meet basic needs
300,000 housing units reduced to rubble
835 schools/colleges have been destroyed

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 21h

Yesterday, many Palestinians (some children under the age of 18) who had been held without charge & denied their basic rights by the Israeli government were finally released

But thousands more remain in arbitrary detention under appalling conditions and must not be forgotten

Screenshot of an article about the treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israel, with the full article linked in subsequent post

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Sam P-F @smhwpf.bsky.social · 20h

Utter bollocks. Biden repeatedly allowed Netanyahu to sabotage peace deals, and refused to use US leverage over 🇮🇱 to force them to agree - all while blaming Hamas for the failures. Ex Biden State officials have confirmed this. Stop trying to rewrite history and whitewash Bidens support for genocide

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 21h

Yet another wake up call about the scale & cost of #climate risk. That’s why we urgently need a National Climate Resilience Plan with emphasis on local funding, nature based solutions & community resilience - pls sign & share petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds

Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says International Federation for Human Rights

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds

Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says FIDH

www.theguardian.com

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Historic scenes outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, as 1700+ captives return home after the resistance secured their freedom from Israeli prison and torture camps.

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War on Want @waronwant.bsky.social · 1d

More than 45 charities, campaigners and trade unions have signed our open letter urging UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Miliband to back an ambitious outcome on just transition at the UN Climate Summit #COP30.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 2d

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 1d

Dr. Husam Abu Safiya, renowned pediatrician snatched from Kamal Adwan Hospital, added to detainee exchange list

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s disrupt the global chain of complicity that enables Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.

The BDS movement is calling on you to join the Week of Action against F-35s from 13-18 October.

Send an email to your elected officials now ➡️ loom.ly/qypYlvM

#DisruptComplicity

Join the Week of Action Against F-35 fighter jets

F-35 jets enable Israel to murder Palestinian women, men and children on a daily basis

loom.ly

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

This is unbelievably dangerous - @fairfightaction.bsky.social and @blackvotersmatterfund.org estimate that as many as 30% of the Congressional Black Caucus and 11% of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus could lose their seats if the Roberts court strikes down these provisions

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

A new week - and a new huge milestone!

@greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!!

We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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caatuk.bsky.social @caatuk.bsky.social · 1d

Two in three government department non-executive directors have corporate backgrounds, including from companies like BAE Systems, BP, Barclays and more.

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 1d

The 1st installment of the Canary's exclusive serialisation of Paul Holden's book The Fraud looks at the rise of Labour Together, & we reveal that what the group publicly said about its creation wasn't strictly true.

You can read our serialisation every day at 9am.
www.thecanary.co/the-fraud/20...

The Fraud serialisation, part one: the rise of Labour Together

The first installment of the Canary's exclusive serialisation of Paul Holden's book The Fraud looks at the rise of Labour Together

www.thecanary.co

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 1d

This is the man the BBC elevated & is refusing to investigate despite @carolecadwalla.bsky.social l & @bylinetimes.bsky.social
having done all the work for them .
Do we have a precedent for a this ? A national broadcaster ignoring possible treason , isn’t that in itself sort of treasonous 🥴 ?

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4d

Seems @Nigel_Farage is trying damage limitation on the Reform Russian Bribes scandal.

He’s known Nathan Gill for 20 years, and claims he knew nothing.

No one believes you, Nigel.

Keep the story moving. Questions must be answered.

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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 1d

We've reached a climate tipping point that threatens lives and futures around the world. The greed of the fossil fuel industry and the super-rich who run it is insatiable.

We cannot accept placing profit over life itself as normal - we must #MakeThemPay

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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