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gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 8h

Ghouls like Trump and Miller don’t care if you use facts and logic against them. What they care about is being laughed at. What they really can’t stand is being mocked.

Why is this Fox News host speculating about AOC’s sex life? | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is this Fox News host speculating about AOC’s sex life? | Arwa Mahdawi

Even his colleague has dubbed Jesse Watters’s claim about Ocasio-Cortez and Stephen Miller ‘creepy’

www.theguardian.com

gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 8h

Trump’s Abuses of Power Show We Didn’t Learn Much From the Nixon Era www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-nixo...

Trump’s Abuses of Power Show We Didn’t Learn Much From the Nixon Era

That failure is implicit in nearly every frame of a new documentary about Katharine Graham.

www.thebulwark.com

gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/maine-a...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n...

www.independent.co.uk

gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 10h

TrumpRx Is a Narcissistic, AI-Generated Nightmare gizmodo.com/trumprx-is-a...

TrumpRx Is a Narcissistic, AI-Generated Nightmare

AI art really has become the aesthetic of grifters and fascists.

gizmodo.com

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 11h

VIDEO: Israel raids Al Jazeera West Bank offices - again - despite 'ceasefire'

The supposed 'ceasefire' in Gaza sees an even further intensification of Israel's oppression of occupied Palestinians and the media - specifically Al Jazeera
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

VIDEO: Israel raids Al Jazeera West Bank offices - again - despite 'ceasefire'

'Ceasefire' in Gaza sees even further intensification of oppression of occupied Palestinians and media - specifically Al Jazeera

www.thecanary.co

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gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 1d

Meet the Socialist Hoping to Lead Britain’s Biggest Trade Union | Novara Media novaramedia.com/2025/09/22/m...

Meet the Socialist Hoping to Lead Britain’s Biggest Trade Union | Novara Media

Andrea Egan wants to turn the 1.3 million-member Unison from a creaking bureaucracy to a vehicle for worker power. Polly Smythe meets her.

novaramedia.com

gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 1d

Google researchers say Oracle EBR hackers have hit dozens of organizations | TechRadar www.techradar.com/pro/security...

Google researchers say Oracle EBR hackers have hit dozens of organizations

Attacks possibly started a lot earlier than previously thought

www.techradar.com

gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 1d

Here is an analysis of what reallly went down on October 7 that western MSM will never expose you to - did you know it all started with a breakout from a concentration camp? And that Israel probably killed the majority of the people who died that day?
Read and share

youtu.be/5NiJqduiBvA

John Mearsheimer: Hamas Did NOT Kill 1200 Civilians on Oct. 7th

YouTube video by Katie Halper

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gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sound analysis that comes to the same conclusion as I do

Beware Netanyahu: he is a master of self-interest – and that’s why he signed the Hamas ceasefire deal | Ben Reiff | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Beware Netanyahu: he is a master of self-interest – and that’s why he signed the Hamas ceasefire deal | Ben Reiff

The Israeli PM wants to bolster his position and ward off global pariah status. But he has shifted gears before and may do so again, says Israeli journalist Ben Reiff

www.theguardian.com

gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 1d

With so many unelected graduates of the Tony Blair Institute shaping policy we can hardly expect any socialist policies

Starmer accused of pushing out some of last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up | Keir Starmer | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer accused of pushing out some of last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up

Exclusive: PM reorganising key parts of government to give chief secretary Darren Jones more Whitehall control

www.theguardian.com

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gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 1d

Socialism in action

England’s First Council Tenants’ Cooperative tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/coun...

England’s First Council Tenants’ Cooperative

A new book tells the story of a 1970s experiment in England that granted tenants control of council housing, transferring power from a distant state to a grassroots cooperative. Could this successful ...

tribunemag.co.uk

gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 1d

László Krasznahorkai's English-language reputation has been built through the work of his key translators, George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet and John Batki.

So let's praise them too!

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 2d

Krasznahorkai’s first publication in German translation, in a print run of 1,000 copies, in 1988 (= a story collection not yet in English, “Relations of Grace”) - I’ve always liked the author pic!

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gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent series - not your standard police procedural but a genuine drama - season 3 is so gripping - edge of your seat stuff

Blue Lights (TV Series 2023– ) - IMDb www.imdb.com/title/tt1446...

Blue Lights (TV Series 2023– ) ⭐ 8.2 | Crime, Drama, Thriller

| TV-MA

www.imdb.com

gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 2d

Map of Gaza shows how Israeli forces will withdraw under ceasefire deal | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Map of Gaza shows how Israeli forces will withdraw under ceasefire deal

In the first phase of the ceasefire plan, Israel will remain in control of nearly 60 percent of the Gaza Strip.

www.aljazeera.com

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gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 2d

The neurons that let us see what isn’t there - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/science/2025...

The neurons that let us see what isn’t there

A standard optical illusion triggers specific neurons in the visual system of mice.

arstechnica.com

gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 2d

Scientists Just Solved One of the Most Enduring Mysteries of the Easter Island Statues gizmodo.com/scientists-j...

Scientists Just Solved One of the Most Enduring Mysteries of the Easter Island Statues

The

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gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 2d

Poor sod cannot even flee the country to keep his family safe from real fascists and their influence in the US

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport | US news | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 2d

I Swear review – biopic of pioneering Tourette syndrome activist is funny, fierce and full of heart | Film | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

I Swear review – biopic of pioneering Tourette syndrome activist is funny, fierce and full of heart

Kirk Jones’s moving film about of John Davidson, the man who taught Britain about Tourette, offers compassion and catharsis

www.theguardian.com

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 2d

Labour back in court over over selling F-35 parts to Israel as Al-Haq appeal heard

Al-Haq is appealing the High Court's dismissal of its case over the UK government continuing to sell F-35 parts to Israel
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Labour back in court over over selling F-35 parts to Israel as Al-Haq appeal heard

Al-Haq is appealing the High Court's dismissal of its case over the UK government continuing to sell F-35 parts to Israel

www.thecanary.co

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gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 2d

Tories block two Byline Times journalists from conference www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Tories join Labour in banning journalists from conference - this time, Byline Times

Three times the charm - as the Tories, Labour, and Reform all ban journalists from their conferences - with Byline Times bearing the brunt

www.thecanary.co

gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 2d

So pleased that they have finally recognised his genius. He has been one of my favourites for near 2 decades now.

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize for Literature www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize for Literature

He was recognised “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.

www.bbc.com

gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 2d

The real danger of this moment is that if Europe does not act now, it will never act again.

The EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it | Johnny Ryan | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it | Johnny Ryan

The anti-coercion instrument, or ‘trade bazooka’, is designed to shield against foreign pressure, says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan

www.theguardian.com

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 3d

It's out at the Dispatch:

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 3d

A decolonised alternative to Trump’s Gaza peace plan | Donald Trump | Al Jazeera www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

A decolonised alternative to Trump’s Gaza peace plan

Only a decolonised plan centred on Palestinian sovereignty can bring lasting peace to Gaza.

www.aljazeera.com