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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 4h

“Machado defines herself as “a liberal” (which means, in contemporary Latin America, a supporter of open markets and a critic of leftist economic policy) and has a history of relationships with a range of right wing leaders across the world.”

www.caracaschronicles.com/2025/03/16/t...

The Making of María Corina Machado | Caracas Chronicles

She moderated her tone in the lead-up to July 28, but Machado is now engaging with the MAGA camp. How did she get here after 25 years?

www.caracaschronicles.com

Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 4h

“Washington’s unswerving support for Machado may be related to her extreme version of neoliberalism, which includes the privatization of the oil industry, and to her hard line on the Chavistas.”

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 15h

Emile Claus
Sunset over Waterloo Bridge

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 15h

‘Is it enough to radically affect the Israeli defence sector & bring it to its knees? We can live in hope, but I remain sceptical. The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, and the hopeful end to the war, will only encourage Israel to push for more weapons deals...,’ writes Antony Loewenstein

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Gaza genocide: Could this be the downfall of Israel's arms industry? - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-genocide-could-be-downfall-israels-arms-industry

Gaza genocide: Could this be the downfall of Israel's arms industry?

There are still many brutal regimes willing to buy its weapons and tech, but the global attitude is shifting dramatically

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Eileen K @eileenk.bsky.social · 1d

No #NobelPeace prize re Israel Gaza until time has shown if it has worked or not

I remember Anwar Sadat and his peace deal which led to his assassination

#GivePeaceAChance but give it time

a waving flag with the words freedom for palestine on it

ALT: a waving flag with the words freedom for palestine on it

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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 1d

While Dear Leader is crowing about the purported peace deal in Gaza, this morning Netanyahu is launching more attacks in the hopes of killing some more children before the deal is finalized.

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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 1d

An AP photographer covering the event zoomed in on the handwriting on White House stationery that read, “You need to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first.”

AP photos show Rubio's urgent note to Trump before announcement of Mideast peace deal

Secretary of State Marco Rubio passed President Donald Trump a note during a White House event, hinting that a Mideast peace deal was close.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

@yarahawari.bsky.social : "Israel is notorious for breaking ceasefire deals.. Netanyahu says one thing to an international audience & something else to a domestic audience.. Israel is not a good faith actor.."

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

This new book by @cartoonkate.bsky.social is a breath-takingly beautiful thing: I'd go so far as to say a work of genius.

It's my privilege to be interviewing her about it at the East Gate Bookshop, Totnes on 23rd October. Please join us if you can:
www.totnespulse.co.uk/product/tick...

Ticket: Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen

Kate Evans is a writer, cartoonist, illustrator and studied English literature at the University of Sussex in Brighton. From 1995 to 1998 Evans dedicated herself to environmental activism, providing c...

www.totnespulse.co.uk

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 1d

Carrawburgh Mithraeum, Hadrian’s Wall; the shyest member of the contu-baaa-nium
#RomanFortThursday

A sheep pokes its head out around a Roman altar in the ruins of a Roman temple.

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alice says Palestinians in Gaza aren’t scammers! @bluwhalien.bsky.social · 1d

I want to add that if you see Palestinians celebrating at the end of the genocide online, please don’t argue and say things like “do you trust Israel?” They’re actually the ones living through this. We’re guests in their fight for liberation. Let them have a slither of hope, even if uncertain.

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[G.R.K.]©️😷👽🏴🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Ⓐ💣🌏🌀 Your Daily Fix of Subversion @gorekhaa.bsky.social · 1d

Spain To Submit ICC Complaint Against Israel Over Attack On Flotilla
https://popularresistance.org/spain-to-submit-icc-complaint-against-israel-over-attack-on-global-sumud-flotilla/ [1/3]

Spain To Submit ICC Complaint Against Israel Over Attack On Flotilla - PopularResistance.Org

Spain’s Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska announced on 7 October that Madrid will submit a formal complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Israel’s kidnapping of hundreds of activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters. Grande-Marlaska said any assault on civilians in international waters constitutes an act of unlawful detention under both Spanish and international law. On Sunday, 29 Spanish activists who were part of the flotilla landed in Madrid after being detained by Israeli forces in international waters. Many of the activists were subjected to “physical and psychological ill-treatment” while in detention.

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Photography and Art Gallery @u42.co · 3d

Love how folks in these 1000 year plus old villages (pre Roman) just put a table in the road to sit and eat at lunchtime. This is a road #Tourbes

#France 2025 #©SteveC #noAI #Photography using Vintage Lenses to embrace #Wabi-sabi, for real beauty is always "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete"

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Niels de Winter @nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 3d

Such a sad story, but good that it can be told in full in museums now.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Fate of the last female great auk is finally solved

DNA and historical sleuthing have traced the extinct bird’s remains to a museum in Ohio

doi.org

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 3d

If we honor human life, we honor human life.

If human beings are truly holy, truly created in the divine image, then genocide in revenge for slaughter is the opposite of justice.

It's the most extreme misunderstanding of the significance of what was taken. To say the least.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3d

Can you imagine if Russia attacked and seized a UK vessel in international waters & kidnapped the people on board, including UK citizens, and the only response from the UK govt was to say that's "a matter for the Russian govt".

No, me neither.

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 3d

‘These outsourcing & technological exports raise significant questions about sovereignty, accountability, human rights & the reshaping of global migration governance. This strategy is de facto shifting responsibility away from the EU into 3rd countries to avoid legal, political & moral obligations.’

Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · 3d

Last week at @periodismomigra.bsky.social we had a great conversation w @gonzalofanjul.bsky.social @josebautista.bsky.social about development agencies and EU funds in externalization policies.

I wrote about the surveillance component of this EU approach to cooperation
gr.boell.org/en/2025/09/3...

Outsourcing surveillance: The technological side of border externalisation | Heinrich Böll Stiftung - Thessaloniki Office

One of the latest iterations of the border externalisation strategy includes the export of surveillance technologies and border control infrastructure. These tools – ranging from biometric databases a...

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 3d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

jane goodall releasing a video of her listing the people she dislikes and ending with a vague message of hope is so iconic. truly someone i aspire to model myself after

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d

The phrase “I only believe what I see” isn’t true either. Most people believe what they want. No matter what they see.

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 3d

from the article: ‘One of the problems with Curtis you eventually discover is that he’s high on his own supply.’ 😅

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 3d

‘The political news these days seems quite scary, and the worst is likely yet to come. On the bright side, one of the main architects of neo-fascism believes the project is doomed, and he is plotting his exit.’

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 4d

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's neo-fascist guru—plans to Flee USA.

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

www.thenerdreich.com

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Antymon (SB) @antymon.bsky.social · 9d

Warsaw, Poland #photography #streetphotography #ricohgr #grsnaps #photographersofbluesky #streetphoto #streetpic #art #warsaw #warszawa #poland #urban #architecture #BlueSkyArtShow #Urbanphotography
#photographersunited #train #window #artistsofbluesky #landscape
@bskyphotos.bsky.social

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Nita Noor @nitanoorad.bsky.social · 3d

‘Human beings have always lived w/ a psychological structural stupidity, a kind of symbolic impoverishment contained within our intelligent capacities, a tendency to mythologise events, distort memory n behave as if ½ aware of our own misperceptions. We idealise leaders, invent grandiose theories’

Human stupidity is nothing new in politics | Letters

Letters: Gregorio Kohon looks at why we accept superficial slogans, pseudoscientific claims and comforting myths from our leaders, and Vaughan Dean writes about ‘Trumpery’

www.theguardian.com