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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 23m

Bodies have been collected and identified before burial, and the list of named victims is recognised as authoritative by the international community, the UN and Israel’s military, who are aware they are killing large numbers of children

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 23m

18,457 deaths is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day over almost two years.

In reality siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters can arrive at hospital in groups, doctors say.

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 23m

More than 973 babies under a year old have been killed. 1,007 5-year-olds have been killed and 934 10-year-olds.

Of the 60,199 Palestinian deaths as a direct result of Israeli aggression, 31% were children. More than 40,000 children have been injured in the war.

Of the 60,199 deaths recorded by July 2025, 18,457 or 31% were children

Deaths as a direct result of Israeli aggression, as of 30 July 2025

More than 973 infants under a year old have been killed
1,255 16-year-olds

Each circle represents five children

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 23m

Read their names. These are the 18,457* children who had been killed as of the end of July, victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/...

*The list doesn't even include the thousands still buried under rubble, as well as deaths from starvation and lack of basic drugs for medical care

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 21h

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes let us not judge her based on the words that come out of her own mouth but rather whether or not she created shareholder value

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

Trump wants to deploy troops in Oregon, but he keeps getting stopped by judges he appointed.

Also, he wants to put his face on a coin for the 250th anniversary of the United States.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

It appears to me from the outside that the manual review process (which the Australian government has said it wants for the under 16s ban) led to ID docs being kept longer than needed.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach

Video game chat platform tells users that driver’s licences and passports were among the forms of data accessed via a third-party customer service provider Video game chat platform Discord has suffered a data breach, informing users that their personal information – including identity documents of those required to prove their age – were compromised. The company stated last week that an unauthorised party had compromised one of Discord’s third-party customer service providers, leading to the access of “a limited number of users” who had been in contact with the customer service or trust and safety teams. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 20h

The NYC Bar Association is accusing the President of the United States of the murder of at least 20 civilians by ordering US military strikes against private vessels in international waters. "They were illegal summary executions – murders."

Unlawful Attacks on Venezuelan Vessels | New York City Bar Association

Congress must act promptly, as pending legislation proposes, to make clear to the President and the nation that the President’s threat of similar attacks on Venezuelan vessels (and on Venezuela itself) are unlawful and must not be repeated.

www.nycbar.org

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 20h

When a Guardian reporter pointed out on social media that the image was not a genuine photograph of the generally small and tame protests outside the ICE field office in Portland, the Oregon Republican Party’s X account replied: “We’re not reporters, just bad memers”

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 1d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 21h

"Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, b----,” before pulling over and shooting the woman five times, the woman’s attorney said in federal court"

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 5d

Stephen Miller told police they are now “unleashed.”

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2d

Deplorable. Once upon a time, if a president had use a speech to a military academy for partisan purposes, it would be considered a disgrace by both parties.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

Paramount buys ‘anti-woke commentary’ website the Free Press for a reported $150m and names its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News

Bari Weiss named editor-in-chief of CBS News as Paramount buys Free Press startup

Commentator to lead storied US news network, five years after acrimonious exit from New York Times

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re worried people don’t care and aren’t watching, they are.

Our YouTube audience is primarily young men. Don’t let the fascism get to you, that’s the point.

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Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 29

Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R

Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3d

Someone earlier today said the only reason a guy like this Sephiroth posts is because he knows the house of cards is coming apart and I didn't pay it too much mind but now it's really looking like the case.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3d

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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