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Sander Turnhout🔻🍉🌳🌱🍄🦟🐈‍⬛🍓🔥 @sanderturnhout.bsky.social · Jul 19

The #nobelpeaceprize should go to #albanese

Flip Switch 🍉🟥 @flipswitch.bsky.social · Jul 18

"The level of sadism unleashed against Palestinians is truly unfathomable. It is redefining what genocide looks like, and yet, no one reacts.” — Francesca Albanese

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Manon Uphoff @manonuphoff.bsky.social · Jul 19

Erg hè, #femicide. Het woord dan natuurlijk, en of je het wel mag gebruiken. Niet het verschijnsel/fenomeen op zich.

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Sarah Bracke @antigonesdream.bsky.social · Jul 14

Andrea Gibson's love letter from the afterlife... ❤️

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Jul 14

Baruch Dayan HaEmet.

May their memory be a blessing for love.

A revolution for presence.

An insurrection for compassion, for caring, for showing up.

My love, I was so wrong. Dying is the opposite of leaving. When I left my body, I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before. I am more with you than I ever could have imagined. So close you look past me when wondering where I am. It’s Ok. I know that to be human is to be farsighted. But feel me now, walking the chambers of your heart, pressing my palms to the soft walls of your living. Why did no one tell us that to die is to be reincarnated in those we love while they are still alive? Ask me the altitude of heaven, and I will answer, “How tall are you?” In my back pocket is a love note with every word you wish you’d said. At night I sit ecstatic at the loom weaving forgiveness into our worldly regrets. All day I listen to the radio of your memories. Yes, I know every secret you thought too dark to tell me, and love you more for everything you feared might make me love you less. When you cry I guide your tears toward the garden of kisses I once planted on your cheek, so you know they are all perennials. Forgive me, for not being able to weep with you. One day you will understand. One day you will know why I read the poetry of your grief to those waiting to be born, and they are all the more excited. There is nothing I want for now that we are so close I open the curtain of your eyelids with my own smile every morning. I wish you could see the beauty your spirit is right now making of your pain, your deep seated fears playing musical chairs, laughing about how real they are not. My love, I want to sing it through the rafters of your bones, Dying is the opposite of leaving. I want to echo it through the corridor of your temples, I am more with you than I ever was before. Do you understand? It was me who beckoned the stranger who caught you in her arms when you forgot not to order for two at the coffee shop. It was me who was up all night gathering sunflowers into your chest the last…

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Jul 11

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Jan Overwijk @jloverwijk.bsky.social · Jul 9

Ik ben misschien een oude millennial maar in mijn tijd was 'eigen volk eerst' nog gewoon een nazi-slogan.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 9

After an AI was trained to be anti-woke and within hours it became MechaHitler.

A popular meme format shows two astronauts in space, looking at Earth. One astronaut, looking at the planet, says, "Wait, anti-wokeness is just nazism?" The second astronaut, pointing a gun at the first, responds, "Always has been."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 6

Think Gestapo
Think people disappearing because they didn’t salute the leader
Think it can happen here because

It is happening here
And it *is* going to be on a scale across populations that the US has never seen before

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 2

Laura Loomer is advocating in very direct terms for genocide.

El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · Jul 2

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

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Sarah Bracke @antigonesdream.bsky.social · Jul 3

Anti-immigration politics are not only racist, they also make societies (food security... & other social reproductive labour) & labour markets collapse. In this complex global world, migration is part of surviving and thriving. Any political programme that can not acknowledge this is doomed to fail.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Jul 3

I had to read this twice to believe it...Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage
www.reuters.com/world/italy-...

Italy to issue half million non-EU work visas over next three years

The move is part of a strategy to expand legal immigration channels in response to labor shortages.

www.reuters.com

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · Jul 2

'Economy of Genocide': UN Expert Accuses Major Corporations of Profiting Off of Israel's Assault on Gaza

Diana Buttu writes on the UN report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank.

Read: zeteo.com/p/economy-of...

'Economy of Genocide': UN Expert Accuses Major Corporations of Profiting Off of Israel's Assault on Gaza

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank.

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Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvdsande.bsky.social · Jul 2

Douwe Bob maakte een juiste keuze en verdient alle steun. Maar misschien dat we nu wel een béétje uit het oog beginnen te raken dat er naast die ene witte popster ook een hele bevolkingsgroep in NL is die al járen voor 'antisemitisch' of 'jodenhaters' wordt versleten - met bedreigingen tot gevolg.

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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · Jul 1

This is encouraging: Spain and Brazil showing the way to make taxation (more) progressive again, by arguing for the introduction of a new tax on the very richest.

There are loads of problems in the world that could be addressed with the excess financial resources that the 1% does not need.

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Lisa Stampnitzky @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · Jul 2

This is a concentration camp. When the next big hurricane hits it will become a death trap. If the BBB bill passes the House, it will provide funding for Trump to exponentially ramp up state capacity to expand a system of camps just like this. I’m terrified for my country.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · Jul 2

I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:

The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp

The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.

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Bas Kromhout @baskromhout.bsky.social · Jul 2

Apekool, dit.

Als een artiest niet wil optreden, raakt dat de vrijheid van niemand.

Als een artiest doodsbedreigingen ontvangt en het land moet ontvluchten, dan bedreigt DAT de vrijheid van ons allemaal.

Maarten Hopman @maartenhopman.bsky.social · Jul 2

O God, 7 minuten.

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Esther Ouwehand @estherouwehand.bsky.social · Jul 2

Duidelijk. Yesilgöz blijft Douwe Bob beschuldigen van Jodenhaat en gooit hem wéér voor de bus

Alleen maar om ‘aan de bal te blijven’ in campagne. Ongekend gevaarlijk dieptepunt, zelfs voor VVD

Maar we laten ons niet afleiden vd feiten: haar kabinet is medeplichtig aan genocide

Dilan Yesilgöz - Zegerius on X: "Wat afgelopen weekend gebeurde raakte mij. Soms reageer ik ongepolijst en scherp, maar ik leg graag uit waarom dit zo belangrijk is. Er staat nogal wat op het spel. Dit raakt de vrijheid van ons allemaal. https://t.co/GnNREIOrj3" / X

Wat afgelopen weekend gebeurde raakte mij. Soms reageer ik ongepolijst en scherp, maar ik leg graag uit waarom dit zo belangrijk is. Er staat nogal wat op het spel. Dit raakt de vrijheid van ons allemaal. https://t.co/GnNREIOrj3

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Omnicrisis @sybren.bsky.social · Jul 1

Ik ben oprecht zo opgelucht dat er (tóch) journalisten zijn die dit niet zomaar loslaten. Want het is wat, een politica (en een partijleider en een voormalig minister van justitie) die zo gemakkelijk liegt en zo gretig mensen van antisemitisme en 'Jodenhaat' beticht.

nos.nl/artikel/2573...

Yesilgöz zegt geen sorry tegen Douwe Bob voor Jodenhaat-tweet

"Als je zegt het zionisme af te wijzen, dan zeg je tegen die mensen daar: ik wijs jouw identiteit af", aldus de VVD-leider.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Jul 1

In the course of the discussion, Trump has threatened to criminal charge and incarcerate eight prominent political leaders he considers to be opponents

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 1

Trump threatens to arrest Mamdani and then adds, "a lot of people are saying he's here illegally"

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Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvdsande.bsky.social · Jul 1

We live in an age of spectacular fascism. Not only do they build concentration camps, but they are actually showing off with them. The camp embodies a political paradigm in which law is unapologetically instrumentalized for political purposes - thus conveying that in this new order, might is right.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Jul 1

Alligator Alcatraz from within

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Sarah Bracke @antigonesdream.bsky.social · Jul 1

Yes! Finally. This is the way to go - halt AI crawlers.

Let's have much more of these. With the options that, if AI companies want to extract content, they have to reference the author(s) of the content and pay, or also just a simple "no" option - no extraction of this content, full stop.

Cloudflare @cloudflare.social · Jul 1

It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content. blog.cloudflare.com/content-inde...

Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!

It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.

blog.cloudflare.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jul 1

Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.

Jason Delgado (Florida Capitol reporter for Spectrum News 13) on X: "Quick look at what inside a detainment tent looks like here at Alligator Alcatraz." What is shown in the picture is a long tent structure, about 50 feet wide. There is a corridor running down the middle. On each side are three rows of bunk beds. The bunk beds are sectioned off into cells which are constructed out of chain link fence, with chain link on the ceiling as well, making each cell a literal cage. It looks to me like each cell contains 9 bunk beds, so has capacity for 18 people each.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Jul 1

Nativism is incompatible with liberal democracy. Ultimately, it will always lead to an authoritarian regime in which both majority rule and minority rights are secondary to cultural purity.

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Casper Albers 🟥 @casperalbers.nl · Jul 1

Deze zin vat de kern van onze kritiek op de publieke uitingen van de NWO-baas extreem goed samen. www.folia.nl/nl/opinie/16...

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Sarah Bracke @antigonesdream.bsky.social · Jul 1

Armed militias.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · Jun 30

I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jul 1

How does anyone justify this? Seriously, how?

74 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces strike a cafe and fire on people seeking food

Witnesses and medics in Gaza say an Israeli airstrike on a seaside cafe has killed at least 30 people in Gaza City.

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