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The Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social · Sep 5

Cancer deaths from environmental devastation and the decimation of healthcare will likely continue long after bombs are dropped in Gaza, writes Joshua Frank, citing our research. tomdispatch.com/gazas-loomin...

Gaza’s Looming Cancer Epidemic

A week after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, a large explosion incinerated a parking lot near the busy Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, killing more than 470 people. It was a horrifying,

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Truthout @truthout.org · 8d

A U.S. official says the Biden administration buried his finding that the IDF intentionally shot a journalist, alleging the State Department downplayed it to avoid angering Israel.

Biden Admin Discarded Internal Finding That Israel Killed Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Purpose

The State Department seemingly contradicted the findings to appease the Israeli government, he said.

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Joshua Frank @joshuafrank.bsky.social · Sep 30

Not a word in this entire piece about the Michigan maniac's love for Trump and Charlie Kirk (he shared posts of the latter), or the fact that Kirk's alleged murderer was raised in a Mormon home. Some facts (spurious or not) that would be very inconvenient for MAGA. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Michigan Church Attacker Is Said to Have Held a Grudge Against Mormons

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bkeithb @bkeithb.bsky.social · Sep 27

@joshuafrank.bsky.social via @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social

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Voices from the Labor Movement: Los Angeles, 2025

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · Sep 18

The regime is now directly stepping in to influence the media. Companies see what’s happening and they’re paying to play. The classic fascist arrangement — an alliance between corporate and government power to kill democracy and attack the left — is in full swing.

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Full Blown Fascism

Media muzzling, antifa terror designation, kidnapping neighbors. We must fight back.

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Joshua Frank @joshuafrank.bsky.social · Sep 11

"If we are going to be truthful in this moment, the hate that Charles Kirk put out came back on him."

The Killing of Charles James Kirk: Violent Speech Leads to Violence

There are so many words and cliches condemning the killing of Charles James Kirk, and none of the refrains are unique. "We need to dial back our discourse", "we need to be tolerant of different opinio...

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Nathaniel St. Clair @natstclair.bsky.social · Sep 5

Cancer, One More Weapon in Israel’s Genocide Arsenal

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Cancer, One More Weapon in Israel's Genocide Arsenal

A week after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, a large explosion incinerated a parking lot near the busy Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, killing more than 470 people. It was a horrifying, chao...

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · Sep 4

Gaza's Looming Cancer Epidemic: The Many Ways Bombs Can Kill
by @joshuafrank.bsky.social

Gaza’s Looming Cancer Epidemic

A week after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, a large explosion incinerated a parking lot near the busy Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, killing more than 470 people. It was a horrifying,

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Sep 3

Israel Kills 113 More Palestinians in Gaza, Including 33 People Seeking Aid

Officials in Gaza say Israel has killed 113 Palestinians over the past day, including 33 people seeking aid. Al Jazeera reports an Israeli drone strike killed several children who were in line for water in al-Mawasi, which had been designated to be a “s...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 30

Not just an attack on “experts” or science. It’s an attack on facts, knowledge, education or anything that could support someone questioning their iron rule. The bedrock of totalitarian, authoritarian regimes and dictatorships. That’s what RFK Jr is calling for. Only the dictator knows “the truth.”

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Aug 29

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Joshua Frank @joshuafrank.bsky.social · Aug 28

The chaos at the CDC is a culmination of anti-science, authoritarian hackery - everything braindead MAGA voted for. With public health guardrails now almost destroyed, the next pandemic that strikes may well catapult us into a Mad Max dystopian future. As if this one wasn't dystopian enough.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · Aug 27

Airdrops of aid in Gaza fall on desperate, hungry civilians and crush them to death. The air drops are not a solution to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. They are a publicity stunt so that Western governments can avoid holding Israel accountable for the blockade.

Palestinian boy killed in Gaza aid drop as starvation toll rises to 217

Falling aid pallet crushes 15-year-old Muhannad Zakaria Eid, as more Palestinians, including children, starve to death.

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pandallin.bsky.social @pandallin.bsky.social · Aug 24

“Every time you ask Al to write a paper, remix a photo, or curate your dream playlist, something else is happening behind the screen.”

Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · Aug 24

“Elon Musk's xAl is constructing one of the world's largest Al supercenters in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. This mirrors a long history of environmental racism where polluting industries and hazardous developments are placed in communities with the least
political and financial power.” 🧵

Screenshot of title/subtitle of GirlsUnited/Essence article. Copy: “Poisoned For Progress: How Al Is Quietly Draining Black Communities” | “As Al demands skyrocket, so does water and energy use. In Black neighborhoods, the environmental cost is real-and rooted in a legacy of systemic neglect.”. Photo: Construction vehicles stand on the building site of a future chip factory

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · Aug 8

What is the Cancer-Industrial Complex?

Great discussion with METASTASIS author @cannafis.bsky.social and @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social!

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The Cancer-Industrial Complex w/ Nafis Hasan

On this episode, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Nafis Hasan about his new book, Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · Jul 31

This is my friend.

His name is Christian Smalls.

He founded the Amazon Labor union

Not as a professional activist, but as a worker who decided he’d had enough.

Recently, he was beaten and detained by the IDF

And no one in the MSM is talking about it.

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CounterPunch @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social · Jul 9

The Israeli genocide in Gaza has brought two chilling truths into our focus: first, Israel is deliberately and aggressively undermining the security and stability of the entire Middle East and, second, Israel is utterly incapable of surviving on its own.

Can Israel Survive without the West? The Answer Reveals Our Collective Power

The Israeli genocide in Gaza, along with the escalating regional wars it has ignited, has brought two chilling truths into our focus: first, Israel is deliberately and aggressively undermining the sec...

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Joshua Frank @joshuafrank.bsky.social · Jul 25

An extremely important essay by @wsolol.bsky.social on the NYT's favorite genocide denier. www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/25/b...

The New York Times' Bret Stephens, Genocide Denier

In a July 22 essay that is extraordinary even for someone as morally odious as he is, the New York Times columnist and Israeli propagandist Bret Stephens writes that Israel is not committing genocide ...

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Joshua Frank @joshuafrank.bsky.social · Jul 17

Jacobin, always uncritically keen on nuclear power while ignoring every externality but CO2 emissions.

Uranium mining on the Navajo Nation? Fine. Accidents? No prob. Links to proliferation? Yeah right. Nuke plants in war zones? Safe! Forever waste? We'll figure it out. jacobin.com/2025/07/hoch...

Atomic Abundance and Its Enemies

Wrangling over the construction of nuclear power in New York State has revealed the priorities of some of the state’s biggest environmental lobbies. For them, creating bureaucratic procedures they can...

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Nathaniel St. Clair @natstclair.bsky.social · Jul 11

Ann Coulter wants to kill Native Americans (so do some on the Left) by @joshuafrank.bsky.social

Ann Coulter Wants to Kill Native Americans (So Do Some on the Left)

The live music had come to an end, and my friend Janene Yazzie, an organizer with the NDN Collective, looked up from her phone in disgust, horrified by what she had just read. Someone wished her peop...

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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · Jul 8

I get this instinct but based on years of evidence it has just reinforced the idea that immigration is about public safety (a lie) rather than about labor and seeking refuge. Instead of arguing on their terms it's much more effective to do what Mamdani did when Trump threatened to denaturalize him..

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Jul 8

But not saying that allows the public to erroneously believe, as Trump claims, that ICE is going after immigrants in gangs, convicted of violent crimes, etc.

Moreover, "criminals deserve due process" is constitutionally correct but unlikely to change minds. "These people aren't criminals" might.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · Jul 8

repeating “ICE aren’t going after criminals like Trump said they would” is a fantastic triple threat of propaganda: it affirms arguments about immigrants as public safety or national security threats, shoring up arguments plenty of Dems parrot, even as it purports to defend some “good” immigrants

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · Jul 1

BREAKING NEWS: Senate Republicans voted to pass Trump’s budget bill.

This bill strips Americans of health care and food assistance, just to give the ultra-wealthy a huge tax handout.

This is a devastating blow for working people.

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · Jun 26

New research shows we're losing about a billion pickup trucks worth of water a year as glacier melt accelerates www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Western Canadian glaciers melting twice as fast as they did a decade ago, research shows | CBC News

Researchers say some glaciers in Western Canada and the United States lost 12 per cent of their mass from 2021 to 2024, doubling melt rates compared to the previous decade.

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · Jun 26

The targeting of immigrant communities has reached new levels of shamelessness, sparking confrontation against the state's militarized police forces.

We're selected books that provide histories of immigration enforcement and more - all 30% off.

ABOLISH ICE | Reading List

The targeting of immigrant communities has reached extraordinary new levels of shamelessness, drawing activists to the streets in protest and sparking fiery confrontations against the state's militari...

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Joshua Frank @joshuafrank.bsky.social · Jun 26

"NO SLEEP FOR ICE" - the campaign to keep the Gestapo thugs up at night. A video report.
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"No Sleep for ICE"

YouTube video by CounterPunch

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