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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

We need something like a “Fascistpedia” to keep track of those who collaborated with the regime.

Later, they'll be scurrying to hide their cowardice and moral rot.

A permanent record will guarantee enduring shame.

Let’s give them their own museum.

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Christina @just-wandering.bsky.social · 1d

Snow-tipped pines and yellow aspen reflect in a calm mountain lake in the fall.

#landscapephotography #photography #leafpeeping #colorado #bearlake #rockymountainnationalpark #fallcolors

Snow-tipped pines with a swath of yellow aspen reflect in a still lake.

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 22h

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CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 1d

"Anyone who knows what she stands for knows there’s nothing remotely peaceful about her politics."

CODEPINK's Latin America campaigner Michelle Ellner explains the problem with this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Read her full article at buff.ly/rN8GzUt

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 1d

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A nice circumhorizontal arc (informally known as a fire rainbow, which is a misnomer) over West Virginia captured by Christa Harbig!

It is an optical phenomenon belonging to the family of ice halos, so it is neither fire nor a rainbow.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap21083...

🔭 🧪 #science

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$The image shows a circumhorizon arc (or circumhorizontal arc), an optical phenomenon resembling a fiery rainbow. It forms in a clear sky with cirrus clouds made of flat, hexagonal ice crystals aligned horizontally. These crystals refract sunlight, creating a colorful arc parallel to the horizon. Vibrant colors shine brightly against the blue sky, captured near North Fork Mountain, West Virginia.$

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 1d

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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 7d

Please save this, read it, feel it.

Shame on all those who do not see our children!!

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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 1d

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 1d

i am more of 3.am person. i usually wake up around 2.00-ish enjoying the stillness of the 'witching' hour. then around 3.00-ish i slowly start my day... 👌🏻

Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 1d

‘there’s nothing funny about rewarding someone whose politics have brought so much suffering. Anyone who knows what she stands for knows there’s nothing remotely peaceful about her politics,’ writes Michelle Elner...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac...

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 1d

“Machado defines herself as “a liberal” (which means, in contemporary Latin America, a supporter of open markets and a critic of leftist economic policy) and has a history of relationships with a range of right wing leaders across the world.”

www.caracaschronicles.com/2025/03/16/t...

The Making of María Corina Machado | Caracas Chronicles

She moderated her tone in the lead-up to July 28, but Machado is now engaging with the MAGA camp. How did she get here after 25 years?

www.caracaschronicles.com

Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 1d

“Washington’s unswerving support for Machado may be related to her extreme version of neoliberalism, which includes the privatization of the oil industry, and to her hard line on the Chavistas.”

nacla.org/venezuela-el...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 2d

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Sunset over Waterloo Bridge

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 2d

‘Is it enough to radically affect the Israeli defence sector & bring it to its knees? We can live in hope, but I remain sceptical. The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, and the hopeful end to the war, will only encourage Israel to push for more weapons deals...,’ writes Antony Loewenstein

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2d

Gaza genocide: Could this be the downfall of Israel's arms industry? - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-genocide-could-be-downfall-israels-arms-industry

Gaza genocide: Could this be the downfall of Israel's arms industry?

There are still many brutal regimes willing to buy its weapons and tech, but the global attitude is shifting dramatically

www.middleeasteye.net

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Eileen K @eileenk.bsky.social · 2d

No #NobelPeace prize re Israel Gaza until time has shown if it has worked or not

I remember Anwar Sadat and his peace deal which led to his assassination

#GivePeaceAChance but give it time

a waving flag with the words freedom for palestine on it

ALT: a waving flag with the words freedom for palestine on it

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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 2d

While Dear Leader is crowing about the purported peace deal in Gaza, this morning Netanyahu is launching more attacks in the hopes of killing some more children before the deal is finalized.

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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 2d

An AP photographer covering the event zoomed in on the handwriting on White House stationery that read, “You need to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first.”

AP photos show Rubio's urgent note to Trump before announcement of Mideast peace deal

Secretary of State Marco Rubio passed President Donald Trump a note during a White House event, hinting that a Mideast peace deal was close.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

@yarahawari.bsky.social : "Israel is notorious for breaking ceasefire deals.. Netanyahu says one thing to an international audience & something else to a domestic audience.. Israel is not a good faith actor.."

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

This new book by @cartoonkate.bsky.social is a breath-takingly beautiful thing: I'd go so far as to say a work of genius.

It's my privilege to be interviewing her about it at the East Gate Bookshop, Totnes on 23rd October. Please join us if you can:
www.totnespulse.co.uk/product/tick...

Ticket: Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen

Kate Evans is a writer, cartoonist, illustrator and studied English literature at the University of Sussex in Brighton. From 1995 to 1998 Evans dedicated herself to environmental activism, providing c...

www.totnespulse.co.uk

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 2d

Carrawburgh Mithraeum, Hadrian’s Wall; the shyest member of the contu-baaa-nium
#RomanFortThursday

A sheep pokes its head out around a Roman altar in the ruins of a Roman temple.

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alice says Palestinians in Gaza aren’t scammers! @bluwhalien.bsky.social · 3d

I want to add that if you see Palestinians celebrating at the end of the genocide online, please don’t argue and say things like “do you trust Israel?” They’re actually the ones living through this. We’re guests in their fight for liberation. Let them have a slither of hope, even if uncertain.

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Spain To Submit ICC Complaint Against Israel Over Attack On Flotilla
https://popularresistance.org/spain-to-submit-icc-complaint-against-israel-over-attack-on-global-sumud-flotilla/ [1/3]

Spain To Submit ICC Complaint Against Israel Over Attack On Flotilla - PopularResistance.Org

Spain’s Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska announced on 7 October that Madrid will submit a formal complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Israel’s kidnapping of hundreds of activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters. Grande-Marlaska said any assault on civilians in international waters constitutes an act of unlawful detention under both Spanish and international law. On Sunday, 29 Spanish activists who were part of the flotilla landed in Madrid after being detained by Israeli forces in international waters. Many of the activists were subjected to “physical and psychological ill-treatment” while in detention.

popularresistance.org

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Photography and Art Gallery @u42.co · 4d

Love how folks in these 1000 year plus old villages (pre Roman) just put a table in the road to sit and eat at lunchtime. This is a road #Tourbes

#France 2025 #©SteveC #noAI #Photography using Vintage Lenses to embrace #Wabi-sabi, for real beauty is always "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete"

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Niels de Winter @nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 4d

Such a sad story, but good that it can be told in full in museums now.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Fate of the last female great auk is finally solved

DNA and historical sleuthing have traced the extinct bird’s remains to a museum in Ohio

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 4d

If we honor human life, we honor human life.

If human beings are truly holy, truly created in the divine image, then genocide in revenge for slaughter is the opposite of justice.

It's the most extreme misunderstanding of the significance of what was taken. To say the least.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 4d

Can you imagine if Russia attacked and seized a UK vessel in international waters & kidnapped the people on board, including UK citizens, and the only response from the UK govt was to say that's "a matter for the Russian govt".

No, me neither.

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