Ava Rebecca
@avalanched.bsky.social
writer, filmmaker and occasional academic
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60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity.
Top 10% earn more than the other 90%.
They control govts, means of production; inflict civil strife, deaths; thwart possibilities of democracy.
Tax the rich.
Top 10% earn more than the other 90%.
They control govts, means of production; inflict civil strife, deaths; thwart possibilities of democracy.
Tax the rich.
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity.
Top 10% earn more than the other 90%.
They control govts, means of production; inflict civil strife, deaths; thwart possibilities of democracy.
Tax the rich.
Top 10% earn more than the other 90%.
They control govts, means of production; inflict civil strife, deaths; thwart possibilities of democracy.
Tax the rich.
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While UKIP leader Nigel Farage has conceded that the UK should “help Christians who are fleeing Syria to escape death and torture by allowing some to come to the UK,” he insists that Muslims seek refuge elsewhere.
As I wrote in @haaretzcom.bsky.social ten years ago:
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2015...
As I wrote in @haaretzcom.bsky.social ten years ago:
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2015...
December 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
While UKIP leader Nigel Farage has conceded that the UK should “help Christians who are fleeing Syria to escape death and torture by allowing some to come to the UK,” he insists that Muslims seek refuge elsewhere.
As I wrote in @haaretzcom.bsky.social ten years ago:
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2015...
As I wrote in @haaretzcom.bsky.social ten years ago:
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2015...
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For more than three years of gruelling negotiations, Precious Matsoso steered the group that drafted the first global pandemic treaty
She is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025
go.nature.com/3YmrUK9
She is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025
go.nature.com/3YmrUK9
The first global pandemic treaty — and the woman who made it happen
Nature - Precious Matsoso is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.
go.nature.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
For more than three years of gruelling negotiations, Precious Matsoso steered the group that drafted the first global pandemic treaty
She is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025
go.nature.com/3YmrUK9
She is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025
go.nature.com/3YmrUK9
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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
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Eurovision used to be a campy joy – but it has become a cynical way to whitewash war | Arwa Mahdawi
Eurovision used to be a campy joy – but it has become a cynical way to whitewash war | Arwa Mahdawi
The song contest continues with its mission of ‘unity and cultural exchange’ by rolling out the red carpet for Israel, even though at least four countries have pulled out in protest, writes Arwa Mahdawi
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Eurovision used to be a campy joy – but it has become a cynical way to whitewash war | Arwa Mahdawi
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Just three companies control 93 percent of the world's memory supply. Skyrocketing memory prices for us means record earnings for them. One is already shutting its consumer business entirely.
How RAM is ruining everything, by @emroth08.bsky.social:
www.theverge.com/report/83950...
How RAM is ruining everything, by @emroth08.bsky.social:
www.theverge.com/report/83950...
RAM is ruining everything
RAM-related price hikes are about to hit a bunch more devices.
www.theverge.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Just three companies control 93 percent of the world's memory supply. Skyrocketing memory prices for us means record earnings for them. One is already shutting its consumer business entirely.
How RAM is ruining everything, by @emroth08.bsky.social:
www.theverge.com/report/83950...
How RAM is ruining everything, by @emroth08.bsky.social:
www.theverge.com/report/83950...
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Imagine looking at record profits, record executive pay, and record inequality, and concluding: yup… the minimum wage is the problem.
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Imagine looking at record profits, record executive pay, and record inequality, and concluding: yup… the minimum wage is the problem.
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Workers are at the heart of the capitalist system. And that's why they are at the center of socialist politics.
Why the Working Class?
Workers are at the heart of the capitalist system. And that's why they are at the center of socialist politics.
jacobin.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Workers are at the heart of the capitalist system. And that's why they are at the center of socialist politics.
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Here's the transcript. When I say ‘we had a convicted reality star’, you can add ‘who now rules as the most openly corrupt president in American history’ in your head.
downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Here's the transcript. When I say ‘we had a convicted reality star’, you can add ‘who now rules as the most openly corrupt president in American history’ in your head.
downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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The Trump Administration seems to be handpicking deportees to test a new approach to mass deportation: sending people to nations where they had no ties, and to places that were not safe, and where they are subject to indefinite detention abroad. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YAjCKA
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The Trump Administration seems to be handpicking deportees to test a new approach to mass deportation: sending people to nations where they had no ties, and to places that were not safe, and where they are subject to indefinite detention abroad. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YAjCKA
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Mímir Kristjánsson mener Skatteetaten bør trappe opp kontrollvirksomheten av norske utflyttere.
– De aller færreste har flyttet virksomheten sin til Sveits, de har bare flyttet sin egen postadresse.
– De aller færreste har flyttet virksomheten sin til Sveits, de har bare flyttet sin egen postadresse.
- Har forsøkt å svindle Norge
Rødts Mimir Kristjansson mener Skatteetaten bør trappe opp kontrollvirksomheten av norske utflyttere.
borsen.dagbladet.no
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Mímir Kristjánsson mener Skatteetaten bør trappe opp kontrollvirksomheten av norske utflyttere.
– De aller færreste har flyttet virksomheten sin til Sveits, de har bare flyttet sin egen postadresse.
– De aller færreste har flyttet virksomheten sin til Sveits, de har bare flyttet sin egen postadresse.
The framing pushed by much of the media lately (claiming that the tax "penalises" national ownership), shows how the absurdly wealthly have too much power in society at large. Their views should not bleed into mainstream narratives this much, and journalists are failing to present counterarguments.
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The framing pushed by much of the media lately (claiming that the tax "penalises" national ownership), shows how the absurdly wealthly have too much power in society at large. Their views should not bleed into mainstream narratives this much, and journalists are failing to present counterarguments.
The US sanitizing the swastika while the UK criminalizes the words "Palestine Action" (by severely misappropriating terrorism legislation) is a terrifying indicator of the road we're headed down.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
Instead, the military service will classify them as “potentially divisive” under its new guidelines, which take effect next month. https://wapo.st/4p2HnKY
Instead, the military service will classify them as “potentially divisive” under its new guidelines, which take effect next month. https://wapo.st/4p2HnKY
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The US sanitizing the swastika while the UK criminalizes the words "Palestine Action" (by severely misappropriating terrorism legislation) is a terrifying indicator of the road we're headed down.
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🚨 If the proposed ban on using certain terms to describe #PlantBased products goes through, it would change the landscape of plant-based labelling significantly... creating confusion and damaging the needed shift to more #sustainable food systems.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🚨 If the proposed ban on using certain terms to describe #PlantBased products goes through, it would change the landscape of plant-based labelling significantly... creating confusion and damaging the needed shift to more #sustainable food systems.
Help us stop this! Sign here 👉 bit.ly/4nQA3Rg
Help us stop this! Sign here 👉 bit.ly/4nQA3Rg
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World's richest nations are pulling back from global development efforts, study shows reut.rs/4oRbpl6
World's richest nations are pulling back from global development efforts, study shows
Two dozen of the world's richest nations, including the United States and Japan, are pulling back from their global development push, a study published on Thursday shows, with many slashing aid budgets and cash funnelled through multilateral lenders.
reut.rs
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
World's richest nations are pulling back from global development efforts, study shows reut.rs/4oRbpl6
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Moving tribute to Jamal Khashoggi, hired by @karenattiah.bsky.social to write for the Washington Post opinions section. She writes of warnings by Khashoggi about the Saudification of the US. The Washington Post is an example, extinguishing its global opinions section & Jamal Khashoggi Fellowship.
November 19, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Moving tribute to Jamal Khashoggi, hired by @karenattiah.bsky.social to write for the Washington Post opinions section. She writes of warnings by Khashoggi about the Saudification of the US. The Washington Post is an example, extinguishing its global opinions section & Jamal Khashoggi Fellowship.
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Half a century has passed since Franco's dictatorship ended with his death, but some in Spain still valorise his rule.
Amnesia, nostalgia, healing: Spain grapples with Franco legacy 50 years on
Half a century has passed since Franco's dictatorship ended with his death, but some in Spain still valorise his rule.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Half a century has passed since Franco's dictatorship ended with his death, but some in Spain still valorise his rule.
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Fucking finally
Perhaps the rest of the EU will also consider doing something about the company literally weaponizing Nazism-as-a-service against European democracy
Perhaps the rest of the EU will also consider doing something about the company literally weaponizing Nazism-as-a-service against European democracy
French authorities charges X over Holocaust-denial comments by AI chatbot Grok
On Monday, Elon Musk's social media AI chatbot posted in French that the gas chambers in Nazi death camps were designed for 'disinfection' against typhus, rather than for mass executions.
www.lemonde.fr
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Fucking finally
Perhaps the rest of the EU will also consider doing something about the company literally weaponizing Nazism-as-a-service against European democracy
Perhaps the rest of the EU will also consider doing something about the company literally weaponizing Nazism-as-a-service against European democracy
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Why the military’s impact on climate change can no longer be ignored www.tni.org/en/publicati...
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Why the military’s impact on climate change can no longer be ignored www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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With the rate of the genocide in Gaza slightly reduced, Germany announces it feels able to start restocking Israel with the weapons it will need when it returns to committing genocide with full force.
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
With the rate of the genocide in Gaza slightly reduced, Germany announces it feels able to start restocking Israel with the weapons it will need when it returns to committing genocide with full force.
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More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists took part in Cop30, investigation finds
More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists took part in Cop30, investigation finds
Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit
More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found.
The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides is up 14% on last year’s summit in Baku – and larger than the delegation of the world’s 10th largest economy, Canada, which brought 220 delegates to Cop30 in Belém, according to the joint investigation by DeSmog and the Guardian. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists took part in Cop30, investigation finds
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The fighting in Ukraine no longer resembles the trench warfare of World War I — instead, drones have erased the solid front line by creating a killing zone.
Ukraine’s kill zone: How drones ended trench warfare
Abandon ideas of World War I — drones have turned the front lines into a different kind of hellscape.
www.politico.eu
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The fighting in Ukraine no longer resembles the trench warfare of World War I — instead, drones have erased the solid front line by creating a killing zone.
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White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia