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silverranger.bsky.social @silverranger.bsky.social · 1h

It’s like a genocidal victory lap.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2h

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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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1h

“So what do you feel you can offer to the Nobel peace prize if your application is successful?”

Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 1h

Trump has said quite a bit about the name change from the Department of Defense to the Department of War. He says America will no longer fight wars in a "politically correct" way, and that the US will win wars like never before ! etc etc

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Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 1h

Why is genocide in quotes?

Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 1h

"For us the fire has not ceased. It is, in fact, starting to glow."

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha tells @krishgm.bsky.social the ceasefire allows Gazans to find the loved ones and homes they've lost and reflect on two years of "genocide".

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www.channel4.com/news/no-guar...

‘No guarantee this genocide will stop’ – Palestinian poet on Gaza ceasefire

Now the poet Mosab Abu Toha was forced to leave his home in northern Gaza with his family, after the war began.

www.channel4.com

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 1h

How to #StopFundingHate:

1️⃣ Scroll on X and screenshot ads *OR* See who’s advertising on X via SFH’s social media posts.
2️⃣ Contact / tag the brand with a polite message and screenshot, urging them to pull their ads from X.
3️⃣ Keep us all updated!

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 1h

As the spread of hate, misinformation, conspiracy theories and climate denial escalates on X, it's time for Stop Funding Hate and @stopfundingheat.bsky.social to step up.

Together - and one brand at a time - we will make hate and misinformation unprofitable in print and digital media.

Let's go ❤️‍🔥💪

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 1h

GB News has lost over £100 million thanks in part to SFH supporters – now, let’s do the same with X.

How to #StopFundingHate:
1️⃣ See who’s advertising on X via SFH’s social media.
2️⃣ Contact the brand with a polite message and screenshot, urging them to pull their ads from X.
3️⃣ Keep us all updated!

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out it was a middle aged white man. Awks.

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 1h

"It was hard seeing the videos of our colleagues returning to their homes, finding them literally in rubble."

Gazan aid worker Mai Elawawda tells @krishgm.bsky.social she knows "many people whose bodies were still under the rubble".

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www.channel4.com/news/ceasefi...

‘Ceasefire doesn’t end Gaza’s manmade catastrophe’ – Aid worker

We spoke to Mai Elawawda, a Gazan who works for Medical Aid for Palestinians in Gaza, and began by asking her how she feels now people are moving back towards northern Gaza.

www.channel4.com

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1h

Lou Reed, New York, April 1968, by Billy Name.

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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 1h

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

31-year-old David Noutch, white British has been charged with racially aggravated assault, threatening with a bladed article in a public place and assault by beating.

It was a White man attacking Non-White people.

Where is the apology from this hateful racist?

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 1h

Nothing says we aren’t a colonial project like “We are here to stay.”

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1h

Yair Lapid in the Knesset as President Trump looks on:

“We are not going anywhere, the Middle East is our home. We are here to stay, our story did not end in the Bible, it began there.”

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1h

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1h

My favourite factoid is that there are more professional-standard theatres belonging to private day schools in London than there are in the whole of the West End.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 2h

It's as if The Times only discussed motoring from the POV of Bentley drivers. Private schools are essentially an irrelevance but it dominates their coverage of education.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 2h

Private school can feel like the only option when the state system isn’t meeting your child’s needs, but the financial burden goes far beyond school fees ⬇️

School fees were a shock, then came VAT, uniforms, trips …

www.thetimes.com

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Mike Scott @mickpuck.bsky.social · 2h

Lou's masterclass on how to do a press conference, 1974 youtube.com/watch?v=2Urh...

Lou Reed '74 Australia Funniest Press Conference EVER & Wild side + Rock 'n Roll LIVE HD

YouTube video by James DeWeaver - Official

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 6h

Dominic Waghorn reports that Israel refuses to release Marwan Barghouti, "who is arguably the Nelson Mandela of Palestinians".

The release of Mandela heralded the end of apartheid South Africa. Its not hard to see why the Israeli apartheid regime wants to keep him locked up.

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Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 2h

Palestinians are prisoner's, Israelis are hostages.
I think it's important to ooint out that many of these palestinans if not all of them have never been charged and probably committed no crimes.
Just grabbed by the israelis and imprisoned
These hostages then used as a bargaining chip by Israel.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2h

Climate investment is growth opportunity of 21st century, says economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction Investment in climate action is the economic growth story of the 21st century, the economist Nicholas Stern has said. Growth fuelled by fossil fuels is futile, he said, as the damage it causes ends in self-destruction. The plummeting costs of clean technologies, from renewable energy to electric cars, plus the healthier and more productive societies they enable, mean investments can simultaneously tackle the climate crisis and faltering economic growth, and bring millions of people out of poverty. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Gill @drmatthewgill.bsky.social · 2h

Important new research from UCL (@chrischirp.bsky.social @martinmckee.bsky.social). It explores both how greater politicisation of scientific agencies might come about and why it matters. Comparative international research forcefully illustrates the stakes involved. This is well worth your time.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3h

If you missed the news last night, the Greens (in England & Wales) now have 100,000 members for the first time. At this rate - around 15,000 new members a week - they’ll very soon overtake the Conservatives.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder does that mean Zack will be on the BBC as often as Badenoch?

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3h

If you missed the news last night, the Greens (in England & Wales) now have 100,000 members for the first time. At this rate - around 15,000 new members a week - they’ll very soon overtake the Conservatives.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 2h

That sound is the sound of our GBeebies-watching neighbours having turned it off and gone on holiday to Cyprus, where presumably they have found the Daily Mail Arms to sit in, eating cooked breakfasts all day and carry on watching it in the sunshine.
Don't hurry back on our account, please.

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🎃nisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 3h

"The idea that world events and life-or-death political decisions should turn on what one elderly US citizen sees on a television set sounds like it should be the premise for a dystopian satire written in the 1970s..."

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Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

zeteo.com

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