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🏝️ isleño. canary islander. international affairs. commons. post/de/anti-colonial. anti-racism. 🗣️ views are strictly mine. ✍️ Español / English / Français / Português

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 2d

🇺🇳 The Gaza Strip, as of 9 October 2025. www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 48m

You'd better do it.

Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social · 49m

Trump says troops will be paid next week. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Says He Will Pay Troops Despite Government Shutdown

www.nytimes.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 54m

Three Qatari diplomats killed in car crash in Egypt's Sharm El Sheikh, two security sources say reut.rs/4n4ksgG

Three Qatari diplomats killed in car crash in Egypt's Sharm El Sheikh, two security sources say

Three Qatari diplomats were killed in a car crash in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, two security sources told Reuters on Sunday.

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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 1h

Meet the “yellow line.” Mark my word, this won’t be some kind of temporary thing that will soon be irrelevant when Israel withdraws further. I suspect we’ll be continuing to refer to it for many years. (I hope I’m wrong).

Image of map of Gaza with yellow line showing Israeli withdrawal plans in first
Stage of ceasefire.

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 8h

This is what is left of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1h

An entire people suffer from the symptoms of post-traumatic stress, forced to coexist in a still besieged space, struggling to continue their lives in a situation that is anything but normal.
This is Gaza

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 1h

Diane Keaton in Reds (1981).

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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 2h

Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning star of "Annie Hall," the "Godfather" films and "The First Wives Club," among many others, has died. Watch her light up the screen in a few of her most iconic performances. Read more about her life and legacy: bit.ly/471G72Z

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 1h

Diane Keaton in Love and Death (1975).

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😢 Rest in peace, Diane.

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 4h

Diane Keaton has passed away at the age of 79.

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 5h

“Even as key Arab states condemned the war in the Gaza Strip, they quietly expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military, leaked U.S. documents reveal.”

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Arab states expanded cooperation with Israeli military during Gaza war, files show

Documents from U.S. Central Command show a series of meetings over the past three years between Israeli and Arab military officials to coordinate on regional threats.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 6h

The IDF is genuinely addicted to bombing, airstrikes, and destruction. This is from earlier today.

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 11h

This from Alaa Abd el-Fattah : “there is a deadlock of imagination in the global north, and a deadlock in the possibility of action in the global south.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘I deserve to heal’: freed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah on his prison ordeal and next steps

The campaigner, who spent more than a decade in an Egyptian ‘vortex of incarceration’, wants to join his son in the UK while he reflects on the fight for freedom

www.theguardian.com

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 13h

If reports are to be believed, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is to remain in Israeli prison (without charges or trial) even after the exchange of hostages.

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Dec 29

Dr Husam Abu Safya, head of Kamal Adwan hospital, surrendering himself to a Israeli tank, December 2024

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 8h

This is what is left of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 8h

🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Hamas's disarmament as part of US President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza is "out of the question", a Hamas official has told AFP
➡️ u.afp.com/SmbR

People walk past destroyed buildings in the centre of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 10, 2025

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 8h

¿Te han hackeado el blog? ¿Cómo es eso? Yo no veo nada raro en el sitio web, aparecen tus artículos.

samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 9h

It is essential to understand this. The identification mentioned below is a myth that has permeated the left.

David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 1d

One of the biggest Thatcherite myths is that Capitalism and a society with markets are the same thing.

David Graeber pointed out this is not historically true.

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 9h

💥 Viktor Orbán faces a possible ousting in April 2026 — and whether he manages to cling to power or not, his regime and its global allure as a model for autocrats worldwide are crumbling. Read the sharpest analysis available.

The Era of Orbánism as an Exportable Model May Be Ending - VSquare.org

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s once-admired “illiberal model” is faltering — plagued by economic crisis, voter frustration, and collapsing governance. With the 2026 election looming, his future — and the global appeal of his system — is at stake as his government faces its biggest political test.

vsquare.org

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 9h

Poland.

Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 9h

The largest party holding an anti-immigration rally, the second-largest party flooding social media with the argument that they’re basically right but you should vote for us anyway, and self-declared liberals telling me no Muslims ever integrate. And I’m not even in the UK.

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Erkhyan Rafosa @erkhyan.bsky.social · 10h

See, one thing that gets lost in all this kerfuffle is that the jacarandas are just starting to bloom.

That’s something Antananarivo sometimes uses to attract a few extra tourists.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 10h

🇲🇬 A Madagascar army contingent near the capital has called on soldiers and security units to "join forces" and "refuse orders to shoot" at protesters, while several thousand marched in the capital.
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Members of a Madagascar army contingent stand in a road near their camp near Antananarivo, on October 11, 2025

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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 10h

PSA: being on welfare in Germany is absolutely awful as it is. You're under an insane amount of bureaucratic surveillance, the money you get is barely enough to survive on. A socialist dreamland it is not!

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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 10h

It's really tiring to see the "debate" around welfare in Germany at the moment, which is just a gross recycling of the racist "welfare queen" hysteria of the 1980s and 1990s in the US
www.deutschlandfunk.de/merz-bis-fru...

Bürgergeld-Reform - Merz: "Bis Frühjahr 2026 in Kraft"

Bundeskanzler Merz geht davon aus, dass die im Koalitionsausschuss beschlossene Reform des Bürgergeldes rasch umgesetzt wird. Er rechne mit Beratungen im Bundestag noch in diesem Jahr und einem Beschl...

www.deutschlandfunk.de

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 11h

Al-Jalaa Street in Gaza after the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces.

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 11h

This from Alaa Abd el-Fattah : “there is a deadlock of imagination in the global north, and a deadlock in the possibility of action in the global south.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘I deserve to heal’: freed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah on his prison ordeal and next steps

The campaigner, who spent more than a decade in an Egyptian ‘vortex of incarceration’, wants to join his son in the UK while he reflects on the fight for freedom

www.theguardian.com

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