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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 2d

The dead children of #Gaza - it's really important that @theguardian.com published this. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

Israel intercepts another Gaza aid flotilla amid criticism over treatment of activists

digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 3d

#FreedomFlotilla This is actually piracy: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israeli foreign ministry confirms interception and says those on board will be deported

Congo to permanently ban cobalt exporters that breach quotas, says President Tshisekedi

digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 3d

#Israel Gaza has cost the US $21 billion in military aid to Israel since the start of the war in Gaza on October 7, 2023

Table 1. U.S. Spending on Post-10/7 Wars, Oct. 2023 - Sept. 2025

U.S. Military Aid to Israel: $21.7 Billion

U.S. Military Operations in Yemen, Iran, & the Wider Middle East Region: $9.65 - $12.07 Billion

Total: $31.35 - $33.77 Billion

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 6d

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 5d

#DRCongo A report about Cobalt (in the west) that can't stop itself from talking about the 'war torn east'. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

The Democratic Republic of Congo will permanently ban cobalt exporters that violate its new quota system, President Felix Tshisekedi has warned, as the world's top producer tightens controls to curb fraud and stabilize prices.

www.reuters.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 7d

#DigitalID www.opendemocracy.net/en/digital-i...

Digital ID will put UK on a dangerous path – just ask India

I spent years reporting on digital IDs like the Brit Card. This is what I found

www.opendemocracy.net

digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 8d

#Gaza Karim's diary of the past month: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

My life in Gaza: ‘We burned our copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four to bake bread. What would Orwell think of us now?’

From fleeing Gaza City to a birthday in the family – Karim recounts a month in the territory

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 8d

#UKEnergy I have to agree with @dalevince.com on this... Greg Jackson has been banging this drum relentlessly...

Dale: Sometimes I genuinely wonder if Greg Jackson and Octopus have crossed over to the anti - Net Zero camp. Or is this just sour grapes over his failed bid to bring in zonal pricing? Either way, his latest rant about wind power "waste" is a gift-wrapped talking point for the Tories and Reform - who are all too happy to attack renewables at every opportunity.
Let's be clear: this "curtailment" stuff isn't new, it's years old and that £1 billion headline figure represents less than 1% of our national energy bill - and, interestingly, it's also the amount by which Octopus fell short of meeting Ofgem's new financial resilience test. In that case, according to Jackson, £billion was a trivial sum..fancy that.. ®
The problem is infrastructure. The lack of pylons between Scotland and England - a hardware problem, not a renewable energy one and not one you can solve with Jackson's software. And it's being sorted.
But here's the danger: the more Greg trashes wind power, the more likely we are to end up with Reform UK writing our energy policy. Imagine that.
Honestly... with friends like Jackson, who needs enemies........

photo of Daily Express article headlined:
Ed Miliband blasted as Brits spend £1bn to turn off wind farms this year
Brits have shelled out the eye-watering sum to switch off wind turbines to avoid overloading the network

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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 9d

#GlobalSumudFlotilla The flotilla is 70 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza but now surrounded by 20 vessels. Here's the livestream: www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 10d

What is the chart source please?

digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 10d

#UK Seriously dumb communications strategy to chuck @owenjones.bsky.social out of the Labour Conference. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My conference pass was revoked for asking difficult questions: this is Keir Starmer’s Labour | Owen Jones

I was told it was a ‘safeguarding’ issue. This speaks to a party that has not only lost its soul, but is scared of the truth, writes Guardian columnist Owen Jones

FactCheck: value of UK arms imported by Israel ‘reached record high in June’

digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 10d

#España This is how you do it Mr Starmer...

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 11d

🇪🇸 Spain has extended its ban on U.S. weapons shipments to Israel, blocking planes and ships from using the Rota naval base in Cádiz and the Morón air base in Seville, El País reports. Madrid reinforced its arms embargo with a royal decree prohibiting the transit of military goods to Israel, citing…

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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 10d

I hate the snakes we call politicians: www.channel4.com/news/factche...

Our exclusive analysis looks at 8 million rows of data from the Israel Tax Authority

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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 11d

#Palestine It's a total stitch up that leaves Israel fully in control. Hebrew media show Netanyahu bragging about it and declaring there will be no Palestinian state.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 11d

The former UK prime minister has welcomed Donald Trump’s 'bold and intelligent' peace plan, but there was disbelief among some members of Blair’s Labour party on.ft.com/3WgLMgE

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Oxfam EU @oxfameu.bsky.social · 12d

Update: Oxfam has received further info that Tasneem's child, Baqi, was killed on 20th, in the Israeli airstrike which killed her, the couple's other two children & unborn child.

Tasneem's husband, critically injured in the attack, underwent major surgery but succumbed to his injuries.

Oxfam EU @oxfameu.bsky.social · 16d

Israeli attacks kill Oxfam partner colleague, destroy clinics in Gaza.

Israel’s destruction of 3 Oxfam partner premises this week underscores the threat to Gaza’s humanitarian workers and facilities, including services to protect pregnant women.

🔗 www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 12d

Oh my, that's a real 🤦🏻‍♀️

Larry Ellison once predicted 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid constant recording. Now his company will pay a key role in social media | Fortune

digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 12d

#DigitalID This is who has been funding the Tony Blair Institute which has been pushing digital ID #BritCard fortune.com/2025/09/28/l...

"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said last year.

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The parliamentary elections in Moldova on September 28: between "déjà vu," "now or never," and "more of the same"... - PLATZFORMA

digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 13d

#Moldova If you really want to get past the nonsense reporting (I'm looking at you @theguardian.com ) about today's elections this is a very good if somewhat depressing article: platzforma.md/arhive/395266

[Versiunea în limba română] An intro about “saving the country” again One of the witticisms circulating in Moldova before every election is the plea to “save the country once again,” which sometimes ...

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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 13d

I know. And in this city he'd done horrific things because it was a Republican stronghold that held out for 9 months during the Civil War...

digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 13d

Down in the south, what we referred to as the ’Franco Flats’ were beautifully built, spacious social housing around inner gardens that have become very coveted now.