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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

⚡️Drop Site Daily | October 7, 2025

At least 92 Palestinians killed every day in Gaza for 2 straight years; U.S. opens the door for war with Venezuela

www.dropsitenews.com/p/two-years-...

At least 92 Palestinians killed every day in Gaza for 2 straight years; U.S. opens the door for war with Venezuela

Drop Site Daily: October 7, 2025

www.dropsitenews.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

⚠️ In the last two years, the United States has supplied $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel.

$21.7 BILLION.

responsiblestatecraft.org/us-aid-israe...

$21.7 billion in US military aid has fueled Israel's war on Gaza

A new report shows how American support has been essential to what many experts are now calling a genocide

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 2d

Two years of genocide; >70 years of brutal occupation and apartheid. Viva viva Palestina, siempre 🇵🇸🇵🇸

Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 4d

Solidarity with Greta Thunberg and everyone on the sumud flotilla detained by the criminal genocidal Israeli regime - we are eternally grateful for trying to break the illegal blockade and doing what our governments are too weak and morally corrupt to do #Gaza

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 6d

Silence is complicity

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 7d

Israeli criminal forces are attacking the humanitarian flotilla as it tries to stop the famine in Gaza. Stop Israel!This is what I want our tax funded militaries to commit to

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 8d

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’…

…but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵
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www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION

As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

www.thenerve.news

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 8d

The Gaza flotilla should be under protection by every country that is opposed to genocide

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 8d

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 9d

Genocide denialism among much of the western media and political elites is rampant

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Katie Surma @katiesurma.bsky.social · 9d

Efraín Fueres, an Indigenous land defender, was shot and killed in Ecuador on Sunday while marching in protest of high living costs and government crackdowns on Indigenous and environmental activists. 🧵

insideclimatenews.org/news/2909202...

Indigenous Land Defender Killed in Ecuador as Government Cracks Down on Environmental and Human Rights Activists - Inside Climate News

Efraín Fueres was gunned down Sunday while marching in protest against high costs of living and government crackdowns that include freezing the bank accounts of activists and suspending a media organi...

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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 9d

"For the Indian gov, the focus on coal = another example of west’s hypocrisy [...] But the development justification fails to take into account devastating #health toll associated with every stage of fossil fuel cycle."
www.theguardian.com/environment/... by @ninalakhani.bsky.social

‘Huge energy challenges’: how can India make the leap to become a green, clean country?

As deadly heatwaves become more frequent, demand for life-saving cooling is further straining India’s generation capacity

www.theguardian.com

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 11d

By me: ‘Huge energy challenges’: how can India make the leap to become a green, clean country?
As deadly heatwaves become more frequent, demand for life-saving cooling is further straining India’s generation capacity

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Huge energy challenges’: how can India make the leap to become a green, clean country?

As deadly heatwaves become more frequent, demand for life-saving cooling is further straining India’s generation capacity

www.theguardian.com

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 11d

By me: ‘Huge energy challenges’: how can India make the leap to become a green, clean country?
As deadly heatwaves become more frequent, demand for life-saving cooling is further straining India’s generation capacity

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Huge energy challenges’: how can India make the leap to become a green, clean country?

As deadly heatwaves become more frequent, demand for life-saving cooling is further straining India’s generation capacity

www.theguardian.com

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 11d

NEW: Six people detained in California’s newest + largest ICE facility speak out, saying they are confined in filthy cells, struggling to access basic medications, going hungry due to insufficient food, drinking dirty water, and faced with “military-like” staff.

“This place is built to break us”

‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help

Six people at a remote Ice facility in California City describe medical problems and filthy conditions, which operator CoreCivic denies

www.theguardian.com

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 11d

Trump’s attack on George Soros is the next step in the autocrat’s handbook
@kennethroth.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump’s attack on George Soros is the next step in the autocrat’s handbook | Kenneth Roth

Having already attacked judges, lawyers, media companies and universities, the president has set his sights on civilians

www.theguardian.com

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 12d

Ice detains superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district - we are living in a lawless state

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

Ice detains superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district

Fellow educators express shock at detention of ‘beacon of light’ Ian Roberts as DHS claims he had ‘no work authorization’

www.theguardian.com

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 12d

US marketing companies are helping rebrand the genocide in Gaza
Via Arwa Mahdawi

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

US marketing companies are helping to rebrand the genocide in Gaza | Arwa Mahdawi

Reports say PR teams are busy rewriting history in real time – not that the American media needs the help

www.theguardian.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12d

Trump Administration and Hegseth honoring the MASSACRE of 300 Sioux Indians.

apnews.com/article/woun...

Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards.

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 13d

Grim grim grim

Drug traffickers in Argentina live-streamed themselves torturing and killing three young women

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Drug traffickers livestream Argentinian women’s torture and killing

Brenda del Castillo, Morena Verdi and Lara Gutiérrez were lured with a promise of a $300 payment for a ‘sex party’

www.theguardian.com

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 13d

Exclusive: Microsoft ends Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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Jérôme OLLIER @jeromeollier.bsky.social · 14d

Vanuatu working toward UN vote aimed at fighting fossil-fuel industry influence - @ninalakhani.bsky.social @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Vanuatu working toward UN vote aimed at fighting fossil-fuel industry influence

Ralph Regenvanu, minister of climate change for the Pacific island nation, says step taken on ‘behalf of everybody’

www.theguardian.com

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