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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5h

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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omerbartov.bsky.social @omerbartov.bsky.social · 1d

Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation
By Omer Bartov
October 8, 2025
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

A state of denial

Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 12h

"you now have an entire generation...that has been politicized, if not actually radicalized, by Gaza. They cannot unsee the things that they have seen over the last two years."

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 1d

A different future here is not only possible, it’s crucial — our lives depend on it. And we won’t stop fighting until we achieve it.

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 1d

‪"If we can find out how not to get depressed, it's an extraordinary time because it means that we have been preparing all our lives for this moment." — Holly Near 🎶

Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 4d

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At 1:23:33 into the concert, Holly talks about her song "No More Genocide in My Name" that she wrote during the Vietnam War, in the early 1970s, over 50 years ago. She has updated it to the current moment.

Sun 10/5 Holly Near

YouTube video by The Freight

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

ברוך הטוב והמטיב

May this truly be beginning of a real ceasefire, and the beginning of permanent peace and *true justice* for everyone in the land.

May the memories of all those annihilated in the genocide, all those slaughtered, be for a revolution.

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 1d

jweekly.com/2025/10/06/t...

“But who do we become when we harden our hearts?”

“There is nothing more destructive of religion than hypocrisy and for us to defend what is happening on the West Bank & in Gaza religiously is simply hypocritical, &...will be a burden for the future history of Judaism.”

Two years in, some ask if the war in Gaza is changing Judaism

Rabbis and pundits are warning that the war is shaking the beliefs and practices of engaged Jews.

jweekly.com

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Flotilla Activist David Adler LIVE Hours After Being Released From Israeli Prison

Adler is a Jewish American. "The activists, including Greta Thunberg and David Adler were severely mistreated..."

Q&A by Prem Thakker, Oct. 7, on Zeteo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW13...

EXCLUSIVE: Flotilla Activist David Adler LIVE Hours After Being Released From Israeli Prison

YouTube video by Zeteo

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Flotilla Activist David Adler LIVE Hours After Being Released From Israeli Prison

Adler is a Jewish American. "The activists, including Greta Thunberg and David Adler were severely mistreated..."

Q&A by Prem Thakker, Oct. 7, on Zeteo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW13...

EXCLUSIVE: Flotilla Activist David Adler LIVE Hours After Being Released From Israeli Prison

YouTube video by Zeteo

www.youtube.com

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Peter Beinart @peterbeinart.bsky.social · 4d

Good for Van Jones for apologizing. Most public figures who dehumanize Palestinians never do. I hope he'll also rethink his claim that it's antisemitic to protest Israel if you don’t spend equal time on Sudan. Morally, it's entirely appropriate to give more attention to a genocide we arm and fund.

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate Heather Cox Richardson's ability to sort out the craziness that's been happening in the U.S. For example, she says Vought is a Christian Nationalist who wants to bring the US back to the early 20th c, while Stephen Miller is a white nationalist.

Still listening. (42 minutes long) ⏬

Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 2d

Politics Chat, October 7, 2025

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

www.youtube.com

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 2d

Or maybe she said Miller is a white *supremacist.* Richardson is a historian.

Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate Heather Cox Richardson's ability to sort out the craziness that's been happening in the U.S. For example, she says Vought is a Christian Nationalist who wants to bring the US back to the early 20th c, while Stephen Miller is a white nationalist.

Still listening. (42 minutes long) ⏬

Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 2d

Politics Chat, October 7, 2025

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

www.youtube.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2d

Trump’s nominee to be the Army’s lawyer is confused about the First Amendment.

Independent journalists must be free to report the facts without fear of retaliation.

If we're sending troops to war under false pretenses, Americans have a right to know.

Graphic with Senator Warren asking: Is it consistent with the First Amendment for DOD to revoke a reporter’s press credentials for publishing a story that’s critical of President Trump?

DoD official responds: Yes... If the basis was that the person published information that was not otherwise approved for release by the Department.

Senator Warren Responds: Whoa.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2d

@joyannreid.bsky.social spills tea and has words for Van Jones, Bari Weiss, Megyn Kelly, and JD Vance.

She says we're witnessing the Israelization of the United States

Ooooh, this one was 🔥

thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-israel...

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 2d

Gift link: wapo.st/3VTALll 🎁 🔗

"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. 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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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.bsky.social · 3d

Under the Canopy of a Shaken World.
This Sukkot, the world feels fragile. Hope feels harder to hold. But Sukkot has always been a festival of fragility. We sit in open huts, under a sky we cannot control, to remember: our security has never come from walls, but from one another.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 3d

“When you look at the sky in Gaza, you can't differentiate. Is this a cloud or is this smoke? The whole time you're listening to the sounds of drones, quadcopters, airstrikes and bombs,” says award-winning journalist Plestia Alaqad.

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James @ashevillepictures.bsky.social · 3d

The Harvest moon shining through some clouds this morning

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 3d

Today is Tues, Oct 7

Two years ago today, my people were massacred. Two years ago today, Israel launched a genocide. I'm not sure I know how to be hopeful or helpful today.

The only liberation is a shared liberation. May we have courage enough to build it. May all their memories be a revolution.

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Susan MacDonald 🇨🇦 @drsusan.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning!

Female downy Woodpecker on a seed cylinder

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 3d

How to lie with pictures ⏬

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

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Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
Elias/AP)

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