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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 7h

Indianapolis residents SHUT DOWN proposed $1 billion Google Data Center that would have used 1 million gallons of water PER DAY.

Google was set to build 500 acre site, but citizens organized and stopped it.

People power works.

@MorePerfectUS with the story.

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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 7h

Al-Araby TV, citing well-informed sources, reports that Israel will begin evacuating the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt starting this evening.

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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 8h

The movement calls on mediators and the US to condemn the attack and act immediately to stop Israel’s assaults on civilians.
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING | Hamas says the Israeli airstrike on the Ghaboun family home in western Gaza, which killed and wounded over 70 civilians, is a new massacre aimed at derailing mediation efforts and obstructing the ceasefire agreement.
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 8h

Egyptian and Qatari officials had previously pushed hard for his release, seeing him as central to any long-term political outcome.
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 8h

Meanwhile, Barghouti’s wife remains in Cairo lobbying mediators to ensure his inclusion, while Hamas and other Palestinian factions continue consultations to unify their stance on Israel’s response to the prisoner list.
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 8h

His name is considered a political red line for Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, whose opposition could threaten Netanyahu’s governing coalition.
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 8h

According to sources close to Barghouti and the negotiations, his removal, alongside other prominent prisoners such as Ahmad Saadat, Hassan Salameh, and Abdullah Barghouti, has thrown the deal into uncertainty.
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 8h

Barghouti, a senior Fatah leader, widely considered the most popular Palestinian political figure, was one of the most high-profile detainees expected to be traded for 48 Israeli captives under the first phase of the ceasefire deal.
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 8h

Israel’s prime minister’s office unilaterally removed Marwan Barghouti’s name from the prisoner exchange list at the last minute, despite it having already been approved by mediators, including US envoy Steve Witkoff, sources told Middle East Eye (MEE).
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 8h

Israel secretly removes Marwan Barghouti from prisoner list, jeopardizing ceasefire deal: MEE
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 9h

them.

- Peace be upon Gaza, peace be upon the men of Gaza, peace be upon the women of Gaza, peace be upon the children of Gaza, peace be upon the elders of Gaza, upon the martyrs of Gaza, upon the wounded of Gaza, upon the prisoners of Gaza, peace be upon the great martyr leaders.
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 9h

- Two years and Gaza is performing miracles alone and healing wounds, two years and Gaza defends Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa and fights this enemy with unmatched bravery and courage, affirming that Gaza is forbidden to its enemies, and its men do not break nor are harmed by those who have abandoned
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 9h

We also specifically salute those supporting us in convoys of aid and freedom by land and sea, and everyone who contributed a word of truth against the tyrannical and oppressive injustice on this land.
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 9h

battle with us from our nation in Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

- We salute all who have stood in solidarity with us across the globe from the free people of the world who took to the streets in hundreds of thousands, even millions, in squares proclaiming the truth.
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 9h

We salute our people wherever they are, in the West Bank, the 1948 territories, and the diaspora with great appreciation, and we extend deep appreciation to the brothers mediators in the Arab Republic of Egypt, the State of Qatar, and the Republic of Turkey, and to those who shared blood and
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 9h

We will continue working with the national and Islamic forces to complete the remaining steps and work to achieve the interests of our Palestinian people, determine their own destiny, and accomplish their rights until the establishment of their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 9h

We have received guarantees from the brotherly mediators and the American administration, all confirming that the war has completely ended.
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 9h

Head of Hamas movement, Khalil al-Hayya:

The agreement includes the entry of aid, the opening of the Rafah crossing, and the exchange of prisoners

250 life-sentence prisoners and 1700 Gaza detainees arrested after October 7 will be released, and all children and women will be freed
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 9h

authorization.

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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 9h

Petro condemned the bombings as a grave violation of international law, and endorsed the position of US Senator Adam Schiff, who has questioned the legality of US President Donald Trump’s actions in ordering attacks on alleged drug-smuggling boats in international waters without congressional
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 9h

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday announced the latest in a series of military strikes targeting "drug trafficking vessels" off the coast of Venezuela and boasted murdering 4 persons on board.
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 9h

Gustavo Petro: US Navy murdered Colombians

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday said the latest vessel in the Caribbean bombed by the United States may have been Colombian with Colombian citizens aboard, which the White House called a "baseless" statement.
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 9h

A top official within Hamas told AFP that Israel would release nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, including 250 of life life sentences and and 1,700 others detained since the start of the war, in exchange for around 20 living captives as part of the deal.
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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 9h

He said the party "cannot support the deal or join in the short-sighted celebrations."
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