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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 14h

They had names, they smiled and extend their arms and tiny hands towards the world. They were just kids. Is there anyhing more cruel than harming defenseless creatures??

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

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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 14h

This is what happens when billionaires decide where our energy and resources go. Totally undemocratic, opaque. Who gave them the right??

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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 17h

You cant have such people in these systems. It just doesnt work. They have to have some respect of the system. Sje is just trolling the hearing.

A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 1d

Too far left??? My god US has completely lost all sense of direction.

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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 1d

I love you Wikipedia. You are just about the last good thing about the internet.

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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 1d

Watch JO laying out there what is really going on here while we watch a genocide unfolding.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 9d

This week’s main story is about Benjamin Netanyahu, his time in and out of power in Israel, the extreme voices he’s allied with in his country, and one nifty trick to get John Oliver to do whatever you say. You have to watch the show to find out what it is, but yes, of course it involves horses.

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 1d

Very important findings.

These results show that no one escapes #PFAS contamination & that a comprehensive ban is long overdue.

It's time to stand up to the #ForeverChemicals industry lobby.
Read more here: corporateeurope.org/en/chemical-...

Take action today: action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-01...

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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 2d

All these horny teenagers who couldnt get laid in highschool now are showing us how to have sex. We are fucked. No puns intended.

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 2d

The #foreverlobbyingproject was nominated for the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize of the European Parliament!

🥂 It was an honour to be a part of this project, congrats to @stephanehorel.bsky.social and everyone involved.

WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 2d

We're honoured the Forever Lobbying Project that Watershed was part of, led by @stephanehorel.bsky.social + in association with @corporateeurope.org has been nominated for the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize of the European Parliament.

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The Forever Pollution Project, The Forever Lobbying Project exposes the real cost of PFAS Pollution on the environment, science and politics

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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, obviously nothing continues forever but it will end in blood and disaster. Like you put it. In my mind it equates not ending....

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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 2d

It does not end, the Guardian. When it starts, it just doesn't end.

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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 2d

They laid there, silent, witnesses to the unbound cruelty of man. An olive tree takes about 40 years to mature. It can leave up to 2000 years. Only evil can do this. Unspeakable evil.

Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 2d

When you realize how long it takes for a single tree to become fully mature and how many trees it takes to be productive... This is just one more method of *generational* violence.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Hundreds of olive trees were seen uprooted by Israeli forces in the villages of al-Mughayyir and abu Falah near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

More than 800,000 Uber and Lyft drivers in California will be able to unionize under a bill that has now been signed into law.

The law also requires the corporate giants to bargain with these workers in good faith.

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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 4d

Nothing says I am a selfish asshole with a micropenis like one of these huge cars

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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 4d

Notice how they all are using Trumpisms now. The level of public speech has gone incredibly down. Honestly I dont see how it will recover.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5d

The top 1% in the US have now a record $52 trillion in wealth.

The bottom 50% have about $4 trillion.

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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 5d

That's literally gibberish.

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•Anti-capitalist meme pebbler• @seizethememez.bsky.social · 6d

Crazy that Obama, Hillary, the NYT, Darren Aronofsky, Time magazine all puffed up Greta Thunberg when they thought she'd settle into a life of Aspen institute panels and Pepsi-style gen z NGO activism but she instead went beastmode on Gaza and now they act like she never existed

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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 5d

Yes it is. The naval ships left them when things became serious. They will never really stand up to Israel.

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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 6d

Sevilla con el pueblo de Palestina. #freepalestine

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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 6d

Class issues drive and override environmental issues.

Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 7d

California is supposed to be an environmental leader, but new research shows that the state allows pregnant Latina women and their unborn children to be disproportionately exposed to brain-harming pesticides called organophosphates.

California Sanctions Stark Disparities in Pesticide Exposure During Pregnancy - Inside Climate News

If you’re young, pregnant and Latina, chances are you live near agricultural fields sprayed with higher levels of brain-damaging organophosphate pesticides.

insideclimatenews.org

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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 7d

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photo of jane goodall holding a baby chimp in a forest

quote text says: what you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make, jane goodall

photo by apic/getty images

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A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 7d

As we succumb to cruelty and a world of men without empathy, passing of JG felt particularly sad. One by one, the lights are going out. Will we be able to replace them?

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 7d

Women who lift each other up, and the world 💔.

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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 7d

The Tetris Effect shows how repetition shapes thoughts, dreams, and mental imagery. Brain scans link it to visual processing and memory. Even people with amnesia dreamed of falling blocks after playing, despite not recalling the game. Fit the pieces together ➡️ w.wiki/PEv

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