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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group.

NSO's spokesperson said the group "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

techcrunch.com

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 12h

“The world keeps turning obliviously, and we continue to be robbed of many familiar faces, trusted eyes, and voices of Palestine.”

@hudafakhreddine.bsky.social writes a powerful essay about the Palestinian storytellers Israel systematically targets and kills.

🔗: zeteo.com/p/israel-kil...

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manonanai5.bsky.social @manonanai5.bsky.social · 43m

Peters currently being called out on @aljazeera.com by Tom McRae for upcycling IDF propaganda, dislike for the UN and losing ground in the Asia-Pacific - has a few wee tantrums. Gross, but great push back from McRae.

manonanai5.bsky.social @manonanai5.bsky.social · 54m

Will 🙌🏽

Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 14h

manonanai5.bsky.social @manonanai5.bsky.social · 6h

Bullshittery 101

manonanai5.bsky.social @manonanai5.bsky.social · 1d

The mainstream Western media are so culpable. Flicking matches into the trash globally.

manonanai5.bsky.social @manonanai5.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly, label a genocide a war and this is the result. Sickening spin in a sea of human rights abuses.

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manonanai5.bsky.social @manonanai5.bsky.social · 2d

Finally a way to explain school shootings

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

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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manonanai5.bsky.social @manonanai5.bsky.social · 2d

Doesn’t fit the convenient narrative that #warcriminalnetanyahu sprayed

Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

The western media always refers to “the hostages” as those held by Hamas.

Apparently they are too lazy to access the readily available evidence,
or so imbued with an attitude of dehumanising and ignoring Palestinians (aka racism),
that they rarely mention the hundreds of hostages held by Israel.

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

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

manonanai5.bsky.social @manonanai5.bsky.social · 2d

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Witkoff and Kushner were conveniently at the negotiating table and today (surprise!) are discussing the ‘Gaza rebuild’ with ‼️ spoiler alert ‼️ the Israeli government

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manonanai5.bsky.social @manonanai5.bsky.social · 2d

Must read.

Zeteo @zeteo.com · 2d

We Are Elated by the Gaza Ceasefire News. Now, the World Must Hold Israel to Account for 2 Years of Genocide

Former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the ceasefire announcement.

Read:
zeteo.com/p/gaza-cease...

We Are Elated by the Gaza Ceasefire News. Now, the World Must Hold Israel to Account for 2 Years of Genocide

In an emotional essay, former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the ceasefire announcement, what it means for Palestinians, and what still worries her.

zeteo.com

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 2d

We Are Elated by the Gaza Ceasefire News. Now, the World Must Hold Israel to Account for 2 Years of Genocide

Former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the ceasefire announcement.

Read:
zeteo.com/p/gaza-cease...

We Are Elated by the Gaza Ceasefire News. Now, the World Must Hold Israel to Account for 2 Years of Genocide

In an emotional essay, former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the ceasefire announcement, what it means for Palestinians, and what still worries her.

zeteo.com

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2d

New:
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...

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spincast-ag300.bsky.social @spincast-ag300.bsky.social · 2d

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manonanai5.bsky.social @manonanai5.bsky.social · 2d

Shout out to the brilliant @zeteo.com for these hauntingly powerful and telling graphics (these are just two of ten)

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 3d

Two years on, these horrific numbers show the scale of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The figures speak for themselves: zeteo.com/p/these-horr...

Subscribe to Zeteo to support unfiltered journalism.

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manonanai5.bsky.social @manonanai5.bsky.social · 3d

Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.

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manonanai5.bsky.social @manonanai5.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing to see here. NPC missed the internet keeps receipts memo.

manonanai5.bsky.social @manonanai5.bsky.social · 3d

Hollow is absolutely the word.

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 3d

Some frank words about the hollow rhetoric that now stands as Labor’s climate policy, and how its PR-first strategy has been rewarded by the media. Thanks to 7am

How Albanese killed the climate wars

Podcast Episode · 7am · 08/10/2025 · 15m

podcasts.apple.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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manonanai5.bsky.social @manonanai5.bsky.social · 5d

This! 🙌🏽👏🏽

𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 5d

I think more people should study digital-age media manipulation and information warfare tactics and apply them to their acts of resistance instead of relying on stale, sometimes centuries old, ideas of what protest and resistance should look like.

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Julianne Schultz @juliannes.bsky.social · 7d

A terrific conversation. Well worth readinc.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation

From superintelligent AI to the climate and democracy, three leading thinkers discuss how to navigate the future

www.theguardian.com

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 6d

The hate crime charge against Alexa Wilkinson for photographing vandalism of the New York Times building is a dangerous precedent, no matter what you think of Wilkinson.

Journalist or not, photography isn’t a hate crime

Gatekeeping over hate crime charges misses the forest for the trees

freedom.press

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manonanai5.bsky.social @manonanai5.bsky.social · 9d

Pathetic is the perfect word for the lack of empathy and action from the Australian Government throughout #gazagenocide

‘Deeply concerned’ is the Australian equivalent of ‘thoughts and prayers’

So ashamed of our nation.

Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 10d

Six Australians.

And all we have so far from the Australian govt is the same form of words they've used throughout the #GazaGenocide,
as a pathetic substitute for acting on their international legal obligations:

"deeply concerned". #auspol

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 10d

Who is on the #SumudFlotilla :
497 participants from 46 countries