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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15h

Pay strict attention to this when considering forthcoming US elections.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election?

Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official.

Be warned.

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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 13h

Lange lange her war ich oft im Pitztal, im Haus Andreas Hofer in Mandarfen, wo ich Schilaufen lernte as 12-18-Jahrige. War schoen. Kannte diese Schuetzervereine aber nicht.

tirol.orf.at/stories/3325...

Schützenstreit: Eskalation nach Ausschlüssen

Zwischen dem Bataillon Pitztal und der kleinen Arzler Kompanie Wald ist ein heftiger Streit entbrannt. Auslöser ist der Ausschluss dreier langjähriger Mitglieder aus der Walder Kompanie, nun droht der...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 19h

The government has executed more people in 2025 than any year in over a decade — and there are five more executions scheduled over the next week.

Just a handful of states are responsible for these executions, and they’re increasingly out of step with public opinion.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 13h

When are foreign journalists going to be able to enter Gaza?

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 15h

"UNRWA is waiting for green light to bring in supplies. our teams in Gaza are ready to receive and distribute them. They include good, medicines and hygiene kits" our Juliette Touma tells @nytimes.com

Aid Groups Prepare to Provide Quick Relief to Gaza Under Cease-Fire

The new Israel-Hamas deal contains provisions to increase aid to Gaza, and for the reopening of a border crossing from Egypt.

www.nytimes.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 14h

The best reporting on the obscenity of the Bush/Yoo torture policy, which I am proposing as the originating moment for the current administration, is by David Cole in the New York Review of Books.

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No Accountability for Torture | David Cole

Sometimes I think being American means never having to say you’re sorry. On Wednesday, May 2, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, a federal appeals court in San Francisco, unanimously dismi...

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 14h

US lawyer John Yoo wrote a series of memos for the Bush administration in order to create a legal cover for torture.

He suffered no negative consequences. He later was made Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 16h

“UNRWA is the largest humanitarian organisation in Gaza. It would be very difficult to implement the large-scale distribution of aid that is needed without UNRWA,” our Juliette Touma told @theipaper.com.

#ceasefire

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Fabrice Riceputi @campvolant.bsky.social · 1d

Alors qu'est panthéonisé Robert Badinter qui fit abolir la peine de mort en France, l'historien Alain Ruscio rappelle que la guillotine fut surabondamment utilisée par la France dans tout son empire pour y maintenir l'ordre colonial.
blogs.mediapart.fr/histoire-col...

La guillotine, arme de terreur coloniale

Alors qu'est panthéonisé Robert Badinter qui fit abolir la peine de mort en France, l'historien Alain Ruscio rappelle que la guillotine fut surabondamment utilisée par la France dans tout son empire …

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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 22h

This obscene! And a threat to democracy and European integration and sovereignty.

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Norbert Maria Schüssler @nmschuessler.bsky.social · 1d

Die reichsten 3600 Bürger der EU besitzen soviel Vermögen wie die restlichen 181.000.000 Menschen
orf.at/stories/3407...

Oxfam: Milliardäre in EU werden immer reicher

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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 23h

well said, @craigmurrayorg.bsky.social ! “It is a maxim in Scots law that the law cannot be absurd. To claim that Palestine Action is a terrorist organisation is plainly absurd.”

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Former British diplomat challenges Palestine Action ban in Scotland

Craig Murray argues proscription order contravenes rights to freedom of speech under European convention of human rights

www.theguardian.com

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cm 🇨🇦 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 1d

One of the cool things about Cirque Du Soleil is at the end of the show when everyone is coming out and doing bows, all of the stagehands and camera ppl come out too. It's great to see behind the scenes people being acknowledged. Doesn't happen very often in most scenarios.

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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 23h

“It is not beyond the realms of possibly that our coverage was actually sabotaged (it’s not like cops and the state don’t disrupt the internet at protests and public gatherings, after all).”

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 23h

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana's first live event together was sabotaged - but by whom...?

If you think it's tinfoil hat territory that someone sabotaged the live event in Liverpool, we have a book for you to read...

www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana's first live event together was sabotaged - but by whom...?

If you think it's tinfoil hat territory that someone sabotaged Corbyn and Sultana's live event in Liverpool, we have a book for you to read...

www.thecanary.co

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 23h

The famine in #Gaza can be reversed.

UNRWA has enough food for the entire population for three months, waiting outside Gaza, and a system in place to distribute aid safely and at scale.

Let us do our work.

#ceasefire

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

And each and every single one more deserving of the prize.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251010-ten-contenders-for-the-nobel-peace-prize-who-are-not-donald-trump

Ten contenders for the Nobel Peace Prize who are not Donald Trump

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded Friday in Oslo, Norway, to one of 338 candidates, among them 244 individuals and 94 organisations. US President Donald Trump has been hinting that he deserve...

www.france24.com

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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 1d

This bodes badly for what happens after the initial ceasefire and prisoner and hostage releases: “Trump may not [read: will not] remain invested in this crisis for long once he has taken his victory lap.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on Trump and the ceasefire deal: hope at last, but the real work is just beginning | Editorial

Editorial: This is the best prospect of ending Israel’s war in Gaza since it began. But a long-term solution remains distant

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1d

The rules apply to any non-EU citizens not covered by free movement law, not just British citizens. All these possible penalties for overstay already exist.

Brexity folks are allowed to worship British border controls; but the EU is not supposed to enforce theirs against Brits.

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 3d

People breaking immigration law can be deported. EVEN IF THEY'RE BRITISH.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1d

These aren't "new" checks. Just the old checks, but (supposedly) done more efficiently.

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 3d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters @privacymatters.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm. India has essentially built a surveillance system. No thank you

Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer yesterday met the co-founder of Indian tech group Infosys - who set up India’s controversial ID system - to try and learn lessons for the UK version

www.ft.com/content/ce22...

India’s digital ID a ‘massive success’, says Keir Starmer

British prime minister shrugs off criticism of controversial database as he prepares plans for UK scheme

www.ft.com

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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 1d

I just checked back to the original texts of Schrems II. In the English version the Court consistently uses "essential equivalence" (and never "substantial"). In the French version, it uses "essentiellement équivalent" in para. 104, but "substantiellement équivalente" elsewhere. A non-issue?

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