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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 2h

Anyone who still believes Israel has ever operated in anything resembling good faith would be thoroughly cured of that delusion if they read about Marwan Barghouti. In a world with any justice, he would be president of Palestine.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2h

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

www.theguardian.com

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 6h

Another good way to think of this moment is that the American secret police are increasingly comfortable black bagging American citizens on camera and in broad daylight with no basis of detention. The mere act of criticism, no matter how petty and silly, is its own justification for brutality.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 7h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 7h

For no reason at all I’m thinking of an AI bro on here who sneered at Timnit Gebru, saying her only claim to fame was being fired, all because Dr Gebru pointed to the deep roots of eugenics in tech, and the problematic ways Blueskys own engineers talked about eugenics in relation to AI.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 8h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6h

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion

After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

goodlawproject.org

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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pope john calvin klein @yrorp.bsky.social · 10h

this is just so deeply racist it’s mindblowing

Ms Mahmood said it was "unacceptable" for migrants to come to the UK "without learning our language", claiming they were
"unable to contribute to our national life".

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 16h

Labour is telling you VERY LOUDLY who to vote for if you value human rights. And it's definitely NOT LABOUR.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 22h

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 23h

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 1d

No one knows how many people ICE has kidnapped, how many have been shipped overseas or how many are still detained. Many have no contact with family or any lawyers, and no one who knows them knows where they are. Many are being held indefinitely in facilities that refuse oversight

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

People on Twitter and in Hebrew media alike both were surprised by this but people who actually pay attention to US foreign policy debate would know Trump has been fantasizing about adding Iran to the Abraham Accords since 2022, and he in fact ran in 2024 on this.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

“I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They beat us while we were naked day and night.

Until our last day, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

We couldn’t even sleep. They told me they killed my children.”

- released Palestinian prisoner

Palestinian prisoner Shadi Abu Seed has given a harrowing account of life inside an Israeli prison after his release as part of the ceasefire deal.

“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked day and night. We were tortured,” Abu Seed said.

“Until our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

“We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”

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pope john calvin klein @yrorp.bsky.social · 1d

awake at what cost

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Israeli settlers continue to wage war on Palestinians in the West Bank and elsewhere. They are breaking into people's homes, stealing their stuff, trashing their homes and sometimes kidnapping and killing people. This is happening NOW. People should know this.

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🇵🇸 Tarek Moughari from Gaza🍉 @tareqmoughari.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you so much to my friend Briana for helping us reach more people. Every time you mention us in your discourses, we get a lot of help. You're saving our lives. We are still trying to close the shelter for winter; to donate link in bio🍉. interact if you. Thank you. #flotilla
#followme #help #uk

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 2d

A Palestinian couple reunites after 24 long years. Omar Bsais was just released in the West Bank as part of the prisoner exchange.

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.bsky.social · 3d

one thing i will never forget and forever be sickened by was that the leader of the SNP's, the First Minister's, in-laws were literally being bombed in an active genocide and the press and most of the political establishment just didn't care

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3d

Husam Zomlot thanked the people of Scotland in a rousing speech to SNP conference

🗣️ 'The Palestinian people will never forget the support of the people of Scotland when we needed it most'

Husam Zomlot thanks people of Scotland in rousing speech to SNP conference

www.thenational.scot

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 2d

caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/13/i...

Israeli Officials Are Openly Saying They Plan To Resume Attacks On Gaza

Israel’s top officials are openly declaring that they intend to terminate the Gaza ceasefire after they get their hostages back.

caitlinjohnstone.com.au

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 4d

"2 million people returned to the streets on October 3" in solidarity with Gaza.

"[F]irst time that all the leftist labor unions in [Italy] decided to go on strike together."

"This is the Italy we love, standing against the racism of Meloni and Salvini."
#Italy #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

Italy’s Second General Strike for Gaza Brought 2M Workers Into the Streets

The next day, one million people joined a demonstration in Rome, which highlighted Italy’s complicity in the genocide.

truthout.org

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 3d

The beloved Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been murdered. We are absolutely devastated. For 2 years he reported on the genocide of his people, just for him to be murdered during the ‘ceasefire’

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Laur-eeeeee😱 (spooky scream) @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 3d

video of people being snatched by ICE at a laundromat shows an intersection between housing and immigration enforcement. if your unit and building don't have (working, available) laundry, that's one more errand where you have to spend significant time in potentially vulnerable public space

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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 3d

In memory of:

Alaa Saadi Al-Abdel Jamal / علاء سعدي العبد الجمل
Age: 28

We will not forget you.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3d

The aid trucks Israel wasn't blocking

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 3d

Hundreds of aid trucks carrying food, medicine, and fuel await entry into Gaza at the Rafah crossing with Egypt under the ceasefire.

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Todd (they/them) #AbolishThePolice @toddbohannon.bsky.social · 5d

“In 2 Years of #GazaGenocide , Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest” #MediaBias
inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest

In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

inthesetimes.com

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