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rossac.bsky.social @rossac.bsky.social · 4h

I wish I could hug you 🫂 sending you a hug through the ether.

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Ahmed Masoud @ahmedmasoud02.bsky.social · 1d

If you see a Palestinian today, give them a hug. You have no idea how the emotions inside us are tumbling around and around, heart feels like it's about to explode into a thousand pieces.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7h

is this what people on the right side of history say

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 6h

Ms. Rachel calls out Barack Obama's statement on Gaza, highlighting how referring to 'Israeli families' while calling Palestinians 'the people of Gaza' strips them of their humanity. 'Palestinians have families, too,' she wrote.

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 6h

Israeli settlers storm Khirbet Samra and attack Palestinians in the northern Jordan Valley, occupied West Bank.

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rossac.bsky.social @rossac.bsky.social · 5h

I love my visitors too. This one appears in the evening and danders about for a while.

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rossac.bsky.social @rossac.bsky.social · 5h

I love Pilsen, my sister lived there, a vibrant and beautiful Mexican community in Chicago. ICE just lifting people off the street.

Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 9h

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports.

Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase.

Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 17h

She asset-stripped an entire country and squandered the money to buy votes. Most of the problems with Britain today can be traced back to her disastrous social and economic experiment.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6h

Journalists among the dozens of Palestinians wounded amid escalation in Israeli violence during olive harvest season.

Attacks by Israeli army, illegal settlers injure 36 in occupied West Bank

Journalists among the dozens of Palestinians wounded amid escalation in Israeli violence during olive harvest season.

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rossac.bsky.social @rossac.bsky.social · 13h

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Bisan Owda "Do not stop until Palestine is free".

Bisan Owda on X: "Don’t stop until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea, until justice! https://t.co/XUJtu9ZR3I" / X

Don’t stop until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea, until justice! https://t.co/XUJtu9ZR3I

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rossac.bsky.social @rossac.bsky.social · 13h

Honestly, just want the ceasefire to be real so much that it's difficult to celebrate this breakthrough. Hoping and whatever the equivalent of praying is that this genocide will end.

#FreePalestine

Come to a gig in Belfast tomorrow night in aid of Palestine and toast the future 🇵🇸🍉

>>>>>

PERFORMERS PALESTINE

>>>>>

Musical Performances

DUKE SPECIAL W/ CHIR BAILEY

CIARAN LAVERY

LEO MIYAGEE

MALOJIAN

BFRANK (SUSIE OF SUSIE BLUE)

TICKETS £15

8PM

UNTIL MIDNIGHT

Readings and Poetry

SHIRLEY-ANNE MCMILLAN

JOE NAWAZ

STUART BAILIE

A FUNDRAISER FOR MEDICAL AID FOR PALESTINE

OH YEAH MUSIC CENTRE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 1d

Irving Penn (American, 1917–2009)
The Hand of Miles Davis, New York, 1986

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas includes halting military actions, an Israeli withdrawal, increased humanitarian aid, and a prisoner swap. But it doesn't guarantee an end to the war or that Israel won't resume the genocide later.

mondoweiss.net/2025/10/what...

#Palestine #Israel

What we know about the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire and what comes next

The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas includes halting military actions, an Israeli withdrawal, increased humanitarian aid, and a prisoner swap. But it doesn’t guarantee an end to the war or that...

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rossac.bsky.social @rossac.bsky.social · 1d

Fifty shades of grim.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

PM Netanyahu met with
Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, and the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Photo: GPO

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

“If you do not agree at this point, two years in, that the state that needs to be demilitarized–and deradicalized frankly–is the state that is committing genocide, then you’re part of the problem.”

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rossac.bsky.social @rossac.bsky.social · 2d

I've signed this petition to demand that Economy Minister Caoimhe Archibald comes clean on whether public money given to NI-based companies is aiding the genocide in Gaza - will you sign too? @actnowcampaigns.bsky.social my.actnowni.org/petitions/co...

Sign Now: Tell Caoimhe Archibald to come clean on NI-based companies providing components to Israel

I've signed this petition to demand that @caoimhearchibaldmla comes clean on whether public money given to NI-based companies is aiding the genocide in Gaza - will you sign too?

my.actnowni.org

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

James Elder from UNICEF is asked, what do children in Gaza need most & need now?

As well as talking about nutrition & healthcare, Elder points out that education in Gaza has been under attack & he asks, why has Israel been denying education as part of a humanitarian response?

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rossac.bsky.social @rossac.bsky.social · 2d

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

Further proof NI firm supplied fighter jet parts to Israel

A company in Northern Ireland supplied parts for F-35 fighter jets, despite assurances from economy ministers that Invest NI does not support projects that supply arms to Israel.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Just 14 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are partially functioning, WHO says, as Israel continues to bomb amid ceasefire talks.

‘Horrific trauma patients’: WHO details harrowing scenes from Gaza

Just 14 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are partially functioning, WHO says, as Israel continues to bomb amid ceasefire talks.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

Let's spell it out then. The motivation is
1/ empathy for our fellow human beings
2/ to raise the political cost of the British government's complicity to the point where London is forced to withdraw its support, thereby increasing the international pressure on Israel to cease its genocidal acts.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

James Cleverly: "I cannot understand the motivation for protests of this type so regularly"

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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 2d

Five Irish citizens have been detained by Israel on new Gaza-bound flotilla, including author Naoise Dolan and independent TD Barry Heneghan.
The others named by organisers as Fionn Macarthur, Veronica O’Keane, and Mutaz Jadaan.
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Five Irish citizens among those detained by Israel on Gaza-bound flotilla

Author Naoise Dolan and Independent TD Barry Heneghan among those on board boat captured in Mediterranean

www.irishtimes.com

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 2d

Footage from the Israeli Occupation Forces assault on #Conscience, shortly before dawn. In international waters, close to Palestinian territorial waters. Another act of state piracy by the rogue, lawless Israeli occupation.
www.youtube.com/live/PSQcbIw...

Live from Conscience Boat to Gaza, FFC & TMTG (Live 3)

YouTube video by Freedom Flotilla Coalition

www.youtube.com

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile in Italy, the riot police JOINED the protests against genocide. Unbelievable.

They’re holding their shields to their side as they put Palestinian humanity - and their own - before… following orders.

Urban street in Milan - a screenshot from a video. About twenty riot police carrying shields walk

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rossac.bsky.social @rossac.bsky.social · 3d

Robert Kendrick
Boils my piss
An out and out Nazi
Watch him

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 3d

This is the essay that won the Anne Brown prize. It's called Firle, it's by Tamara Fulcher and it's totally brilliant. www.wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/firle-b...

Wigtown Book Festival | Firle by Tamara Fulcher

Winner of the Anne Brown Essay Prize 2025

www.wigtownbookfestival.com

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