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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 6h

“O2: 40 victims
Vodaphone: 40
Orange: 45…..

And this is just the tip of a very big iceberg. This was a practice.

....and no-paper thought it was interesting.” #TheHack

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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 6h

Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War”
www.dropsitenews.com/p/karsh-fell...

Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War”

Hardline Israel advocate Jacki Karsh says she founded the new journalism fellowship to help “shift some of the narrative” in Israel’s favor.

www.dropsitenews.com

loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 6h

The Dahiya Doctrine:
"“We will apply disproportionate force… and cause great damage and destruction,” Eisenkot told the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. “From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, they are military bases. This is not a recommendation. This is a plan.”"

The Israeli Military Strategies the BBC Doesn’t Want You to Know About | Novara Media

The Dahiya doctrine and Hannibal directive are key to making sense of Israel's actions in Gaza over the past two years, and yet the BBC hasn't mentioned them once in its coverage since 7 October 2023....

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Oli Dugmore, "A word of warning to Keir Starmer and his Labour government"

"You can feed the bigoted dragon as much as your like, but you will never appease it and it will eat you in the end"

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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 15h

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador
www.dropsitenews.com/p/david-frum...

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Princess Pretty Girl @princessprettygirl.bsky.social · 1d

As a person who twice barely avoided getting kidnapped and sent to conversion therapy by my own family members it is very disheartening to hear that conversion therapy is still being discussed. Last i checked the only thing it converts is living kids to dead ones.

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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 18h

Exactly.

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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 18h

"Ever thought about building houses on the estates of the rich? Can't they live in smaller houses?" maybe, but they really CAN'T live in close proximity to the common people! (We'd stare at them, pointing and laughing.)

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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 18h

"statistics used for these comparisons omit many major forms of income. Capital gains, hidden returns, rents, and asset price growth ... are poorly captured (or not captured at all) in the... measures... Failing to include those sources... hides part, if not most, of the true story of inequality."

Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 20h

Right-wing politicians are claiming that inequality is falling in the UK based on a tiny change in one national statistic. This is not the case in reality. Inequality is rising. In this post, I explain why and what we can and should do about it.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

Inequality is not falling

The background The claim that inequality is falling is a claim that is often trotted out by right-wing commentators, backed by selective income statistics. It happened in a comment on this blog in t...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 19h

Good 🧵 👇

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20h

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 19h

#Climate breakdown already having a massive impact on crop yields

By 2050, the world is projected to need 50% more food, at a time yields of key crops could be down 30%

More than a halving of calories per head

Just think about that for a moment

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

One year’s worth of bread lost in UK to wrecked harvests since 2020, report finds

Worsening droughts and floods have destroyed wheat for 4bn loaves of bread and forced record levels of imports

www.theguardian.com

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 19h

Israeli forces arrest Palestinians in West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-palestinians-west-bank

Israeli forces arrest Palestinians in West Bank

<article data-history-node-id="429805" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-palestinians-west-bank" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-palestinians-west-bank" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces arrest Palestinians in West Bank</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="135" data-start="0">Israeli forces continued operations targeting Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, according to the Wafa news agency.</p> <p data-end="358" data-start="137">The agency reported that the military arrested four people in the town of Hizma, northeast of Jerusalem, after raiding and searching their home. A 19-year-old was detained at dawn in the village of at-Tahta, west of Ramallah.</p> <p data-end="516" data-start="360">In the Arroub refugee camp in the Hebron governorate, Israeli forces assaulted, detained and interrogated dozens of Palestinians during a raid, Wafa said.</p> <p data-end="672" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="518">A former prisoner was arrested in the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, while two brothers were detained in the city of Tulkarem, the agency added.</p> </div> </div> </article>

www.middleeasteye.net

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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 19h

"Workplace drinking", is that really a thing?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19h

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

www.theguardian.com

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 20h

This is so wrong. Ministers should protect the public interest, not a handful of creditors clinging on to their bad investments

@ofwat.bsky.social and the government must prioritise households and the environment, cut Thames Water's debt in half right now with Special Administration

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Netpol @netpol.org · 20h

Yesterday's narrative of 7 October as ‘another 9/11’ – "yet another day torn free from any history or context" with only two sides – seeks to demonise all Palestine solidarity as "pro-terrorist." It is critical to understanding Britain's current crackdown on protest rights netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...

Protesters against the banning of Palestine Action in Trafalgar Square, London, 4 October 2025.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 20h

This is an appalling indictment of UK society in the early 21st century

A paradise for the rich, but a hell-hole for those at the bottom, who are left to fend for themselves or die

Utterly disgusting

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

www.bbc.co.uk

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20h

“Why haven’t the protests against successive governments’ complicity in genocide stopped”, a mystery that is apparently beyond our finest political minds to fathom

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 20h

This is scary

We need manufacturing capacity so we can't be held to ransom says
@nickdearden.bsky.social
theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Start by reversing the sale of previously publicly owned Vaccine Manufacturing + Innovation Centre www.bmj.com/content/376/...

www.politico.eu/article/brit...

Britain prepares NHS drug spending hike to stave off Trump tariffs

Officials briefed the Trump administration on fresh proposals for pharma pricing earlier this week.

www.politico.eu

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20h

It would take the average UK earner 52 years’ worth of earnings to join the richest 10%.

Up from 38 years in 2006-08. Rich buy political influence.

Govts help the rich. Bottom 20% pay higher proportion of income in than the richest 20%.

Inequalities obstruct economic growth, fuel social unrest.

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 20h

Membership of @greenparty.org.uk has just passed 90,000. Can @zackpolanski.bsky.social and team organise that into action? novaramedia.com/2025/10/07/z...

Zack Polanski Must Now Transform His Fans Into Activists | Novara Media

The telegenic eco-socialist has triggered an explosion of interest in the Green party, and a parallel growth in membership. Now he needs to translate enthusiasm into activity, writes Adam Ramsay.

novaramedia.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Disgusting plan to cut wages

If you are at DPD and not in a union, join one now

And fight this together

Otherwise they will continue to screw you individually

www.theguardian.com/business/202...