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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 6h

I love @londoncentric.media because it’s proper old-school shoe leather journalism.

David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 9h

Reading @londoncentric.media and reflecting on how everything wrong with Britain can be seen through Deliveroo:
- much of the economy is fraudulent
- people don’t go outside
- workers are underpaid and insecure
- the immigration system is broken
- society is being eroded by Big Tech

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 7h

Unsolicited Dick pic

Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 7h

Get well soon Peter!

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 11h

Israel continues to commit crimes on the West Bank on a daily basis.

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 11h

Good. He deserves to win, and I hope the damages are substantial.

Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Der palästinensische Journalist Anas Fteiha geht gegen Axel Springer vor – BILD soll ihn als Hamas-Propagandist diffamiert haben. Der Fall wirft Fragen auf: über Verantwortung deutscher Medien mit Blick auf das Überleben von Journalist:innen in Gaza. Mein Prozessbericht:

www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...

Vor Frankfurter Landgericht: Journalist aus Gaza geht gegen Axel Springer vor

Anas Fteiha wehrt sich vor dem Landgericht Frankfurt gegen die Darstellung als Hamas-Propagandist durch die Bild-Zeitung.

www.fr.de

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23h

This is still a genocide, it still has to be stopped

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 23h

Hudu Abu Naja, 12- before and after starvation. Like thousands of children in Gaza, she suffered from severe malnutrition. In the last two months, organizations and doctors tried to evacuate her without success. This morning, Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra reported she has died reports
@nirhasson.bsky.social

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 1d

A nice woman behind the till at Robert Dyas on St. Martin’s Lane gave me 2 (two) pieces of Chocolate Orange just now, so however well your day is going, mine is going better.

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 1d

Dirac structured his thesis using a ToC. Amazing.

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Politico @politico.com · 2d

Pope Leo XIV says he will "stand with" Catholic leaders in protecting immigrants facing mass deportations in the U.S., according to advocates who recently met with the Pope.

Pope Leo will ‘stand with’ Catholic leaders in protecting immigrants’ rights, advocates say

The comments from the pope mark the most recent push from the Vatican against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

www.politico.com

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t really know what this game involves but I’m imagining a quest for the last blight-free potato in Ireland.

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 2d

Mit brennender Sorge.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 2d

“Pope Leo XIV’s eyes grew misty Wednesday as an El Paso delegation led by Bishop Mark Seitz presented him letters and a video that captured the fears and anxieties of people facing mass deportation in the United States …”

The church “cannot be silent,” Pope Leo said.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 2d

oof

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 3d

I hope and believe that most of my fellow Jews will join me in saying that it is sickening that anyone should justify this outpouring of execrable racist bile by claiming that it's for our sake.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 3d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d

Disinformation, now in 3D.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 3d

In 2007, an employee of Iraqi Kurdistan’s ruling Barzani family wrote to a U.S. lawyer with a problem.

Two Barzani brothers had bought properties in the U.S. — but they were concerned that this information was public.

So the lawyer looked to the Pirates of the Caribbean.

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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 3d

Lawyers for Iraqi Kurdistan’s PM Masrour Barzani rejected any wrongdoing and said he had a “fervent commitment” to anti-corruption, and that it was reasonable for him to protect his privacy. They didn’t reply to questions about potential conflicts of interest.

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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 3d

NEW: Four brothers from Iraqi Kurdistan’s ruling Barzani family bought over $100 million in U.S. properties, leaked documents show.

At least some of the money came from major Kurdish companies two of the brothers secretly controlled, leaked records suggest.

www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S.

The five sons of Iraqi Kurdistan’s founding president acquired real estate across the United States and went on luxury shopping sprees. At least some of the money came from major Kurdish…

www.occrp.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 7d

Extremely disappointed to discover that the Marc Bloch Chair at the University of Strasbourg is alas not called the Chaise Longue Durée.

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 3d

Serialist, minimalist, neo-romanticist.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure it’s fair for that article to adopt “in another blow form beleaguered ONS” since in this case it’s HMRC that cocked up. I mean, you hope that ONS at the time said “that figure looks low, are you sure” but even so it wasn’t their mistake.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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