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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

Cartoon by John Deering.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 9h

Nigel Farage says something needs to be done about about Second Homes to stop them from destroying tourist villages.

It's another lie, because Farage has a Second, Third and even Fourth Home.

And he will never tax himself.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 17h

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 7h

This is on every MEP who voted to strengthen Fortress Europe.

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

61 bodies of migrants recovered in west of Libya's Tripoli, medics center says reut.rs/42AeyMW

61 bodies of migrants recovered in west of Libya's Tripoli, medics center says

At least 61 bodies of migrants have been recovered over the past two weeks on the coast west of the Libyan capital Tripoli, a medical center said in a statement on Saturday.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 7h

Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is one of the key American architects of Trump’s post-Gaza policy. In Aug. 2025, he briefed Trump on the plan he had been working on for several months w/ Tony Blair & Steve Witkoff to shape what the Trump team calls its “day-after” blueprint for Gaza...

Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is one of the key American architects of Trump’s post-Gaza policy. In August 2025, he briefed Trump on the plan he had been working on for several months with Tony Blair and Steve Witkoff to shape what the Trump team calls its “day-after” blueprint for Gaza. It’s worth revisiting how Kushner himself has spoken about the Strip.

At a Harvard Kennedy School event in early 2024, Kushner argued that Israel should “move the people out [of Rafah] and then clean it up,” describing Gaza as “not really a historical precedent” but the product of past wars whose borders could naturally change again. When told that Arab leaders feared Israel would never allow displaced Gazans to return, he replied, “Maybe, but I’m not sure there’s much left of Gaza at this point,” before describing the enclave as “waterfront property” which would be “very valuable.”

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 10h

2. Ahmad Sa’adat

Born February 23, 1953, in Al-Bireh near occupied Jerusalem, Ahmad Sa’adat comes from a Palestinian family displaced from Deir Tarif in the Ramla district during the 1948 Nakba.

Sa’adat joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1969, the Marxist-....

While imprisoned, Sa’adat has remained an active political figure. In 2013, the PFLP’s Seventh Congress unanimously re-elected him as Secretary-General. At his trial, Sa’adat refused to recognize the court’s legitimacy, declaring:

“I do not stand to defend myself before your court because I do not recognize its legitimacy… It is an extension of the illegal occupation and one of its tools to crush our people’s resistance.”

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 10h

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Israel’s Prison Service has begun transferring Palestinian security prisoners from five facilities to special release sites ahead of the first phase of the exchange deal, according to Ynet. Those bound for Gaza or abroad were moved to Ketsiot Prison in the Negev, while others headed to...

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Raymond Deane @raymo27.bsky.social · 6h

Blatant antisemitism!🤪

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 7h

And so is Nigel Farage.

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Raymond Deane @raymo27.bsky.social · 6h

Italy’s Second General Strike for Gaza Brought 2M Workers Into the Streets truthout.org/articles/ita...

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.

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Raymond Deane @raymo27.bsky.social · 10h

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2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado “Opposite of Peace”: Greg Grandin

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqua...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 11h

⚡️ WATCH: Returning Home to a War Zone

In southern Lebanon, daily drone patrols hover above villages, launching strikes with no warning.

Video report by @jeremyloffredo.bsky.social for Drop Site News

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WATCH: Returning Home to a War Zone

In southern Lebanon, daily drone patrols hover above villages, launching strikes with no warning.

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Raymond Deane @raymo27.bsky.social · 11h

Clowns, one and all, but sinister clowns. forward.com/fast-forward...

Nadler accuses RFK Jr of antisemitism over claim that ‘early’ circumcisions lead to autism

The claim has no basis in science, according to the consensus of the medical establishment.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

And they wonder why people call them Nazis.

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Raymond Deane @raymo27.bsky.social · 15h

The Israeli media is reporting on a ‘secret clause’ in the Gaza ceasefire deal that no one is talking about mondoweiss.net/2025/10/the-...

The Israeli media is reporting on a ‘secret clause’ in the Gaza ceasefire deal that no one is talking about

Hebrew-language Israeli media reports say there is a “secret clause” buried in the Gaza ceasefire agreement that would allow Israel to resume the war. Palestinians worry this is the pretext Netanyahu ...

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Raymond Deane @raymo27.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe the 21st century's ideas - let's put some forward.

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Alice K @coalisdead.bsky.social · 4d

American's met by the consul general at the Jordan border were told:

"We are not your babysitters. You will have no food, no water, no phones, no planes, no visa. We will be taking you to the airport then you're on your own. We are not your babysitters"

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Israel 'beat, tied up and tortured' Gaza flotilla activists in prison

David Adler, a Jewish American detained by Israel, tells MEE about brutal treatment at Ashdod and in Ketziot Prison

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4d

Israel is demolishing Palestine while families still live in the buildings. 200,000 razed to the ground by weapons of war - and thousands of families erased from existence by a massive, genocidal government intent on wiping out an entire people

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Gaza i ruiner

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 4d

“History didn’t start on October 7. It’s been two years of the genocide, but it’s been 77 years, if not more, of the ongoing Nakba that started in 1948."

“Eyes of Gaza”: Palestinian Journalist Plestia Alaqad Chronicles Life Under Israeli Bombs

We speak with Plestia Alaqad, an award-winning Palestinian journalist whose on-the-ground reporting from Gaza captured global attention during the early days of Israel’s military assault two years ago...

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 4d

This is right but I think people also miss how linked anti-woke and hardcore Zionist politics are.

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Raymond Deane @raymo27.bsky.social · 4d

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Raymond Deane @raymo27.bsky.social · 4d

The UK’s recognition of the State of Palestine is meaningless without the proper recognition of international law on the aid flotillas criticallegalthinking.com/2025/10/07/t...

The UK’s recognition of the State of Palestine is meaningless without the proper recognition of international law on the aid flotillas

Israel has boarded the Global Sumud flotilla, representing a further escalation of their response to flotillas seeking to deliver aid to Gaza. The

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 5d

Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.

Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

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Raymond Deane @raymo27.bsky.social · 4d

A short history of the UN’s complicity in Israel’s mass rape propaganda since October 7 mondoweiss.net/2025/10/a-sh...

A short history of the UN’s complicity in Israel’s mass rape propaganda since October 7

Why the UN Secretary-General’s recent decision to blacklist Hamas, and not Israel, as perpetrators of sexual violence flies in the face of the UN’s own evidence.

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Raymond Deane @raymo27.bsky.social · 5d

Not a word of an exaggeration.

PauletteP @pouletp.bsky.social · 13d