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Robert Reich
about 15 hours ago
What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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George Takei
about 14 hours ago
Would this have happened to a white resident? Asking for the First Nations.
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Tesla Takedown UK
about 17 hours ago
Germans don't like shoddy cars. "Tesla Model Y ranked last for reliability among nearly new cars in Germany's TĂV 2026 report. 17.3% of Model Ys failed serious safety inspections; common issues included brakes and suspension."
#TeslaTakedown
www.autoblog.com/news/tesla-m...
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Tesla Model Y Posts Worst Defect Rate of Any New Car in a Decade
Tesla Model Y reliability just hit rock bottom in Germanyâs TĂV Report 2026, with the worst defect rate in a decade. Hereâs why that matters to you.
https://www.autoblog.com/news/tesla-model-y-posts-worst-defect-rate-of-any-new-car-in-a-decade
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reposted by
Middle East Eye (Unofficial)
about 13 hours ago
UN says Israel's killing of two Palestinians in occupied West Bank looks like 'summary execution' -
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-says-israels-killing-two-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-looks-summary-execution
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UN says Israel's killing of two Palestinians in occupied West Bank looks like 'summary execution'
UN rights chief Volker Turk is calling for 'independent, prompt and effective investigations into the killings of Palestinians'
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-says-israels-killing-two-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-looks-summary-execution
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Mondoweiss
about 13 hours ago
Human rights organizations call the killing of two unarmed Palestinians in Jenin by Israeli soldiers an "extrajudicial execution."
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/outr...
#Palestine
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Outrage after footage of Israeli soldiers executing two Palestinians in Jenin goes viral
Human rights organizations call the killing of two unarmed Palestinians in Jenin by Israeli soldiers an âextrajudicial execution.â
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/outrage-after-footage-of-israeli-soldiers-executing-two-palestinians-in-jenin-goes-viral/
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Al Jazeera English
about 13 hours ago
Killing of two unarmed men highlights Israeli attitudes towards similar incidents, and lack of domestic attention.
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Jenin killings latest example of Israelâs âshoot to killâ policy
Killing of two unarmed men highlights Israeli attitudes towards similar incidents, and lack of domestic attention.
https://bit.ly/4inYaFQ
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Yeah. He was allegedly a killer for the CIA before getting asylum in US under Trump administration. No alarm bells there!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Dr Richard Denniss
1 day ago
Budgets are about priorities. The idea is to tax things you want less of & subsidise things you want more of In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO⊠As i said, budgets are about priorities
#climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251127-...
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If the Government's top priority is productivity, slashing the CSIRO budget does not make sense
Research and development is one of the major drivers of productivity and the CSIRO has a long track record of making productivity enhancing breakthroughs.
https://thepoint.com.au/news/251127-if-the-governments-top-priority-is-productivity-slashing-the-csiro-budget-does-not-make-sense
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reposted by
The Cathy Wilcox
1 day ago
Barnaby out. My @smh @theage cartoon.
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reposted by
Rex Patrick
1 day ago
The biggest threat to our national security is Defence Minister Richard Marles. Heâs happy to spend $368B on a highly risky all-eggs-in-one-basket
#AUKUS
submarine procurement while other programs for essential capabilities are cut, or never approved.
#auspol
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Tom Red
1 day ago
Six months. Tops.
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Maybe the USA should review the existence of CIA-backed hits squads??
add a skeleton here at some point
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Le Monde in English
1 day ago
Israeli Army is reviewing the filmed shootings of two Palestinians who had surrended
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Israeli Army is reviewing the filmed shootings of two Palestinians who had surrended
On Thursday, the Israeli army and police said that they were reviewing an incident in which two Palestinian men were shot and killed in the West Bank after surrendering to Israeli forces. Videos circulating in the news and on social media show the two men advancing with their hands raised before shots ring out.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/27/israeli-army-is-reviewing-the-filmed-shootings-of-two-palestinians-who-had-surrended_6747911_4.html
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Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem said they were executed "apparently while posing no threat to the forces".
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Video appears to show Israeli soldiers 'executing' two Palestinians in West Bank
Video has emerged appearing to show two Palestinians being 'executed' by Israeli forces in the West Bank, with the Israeli military saying it has launched an investigation into the incident.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-28/video-israeli-soldiers-executing-two-palestinians-in-west-bank/106076150?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
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Senator David Shoebridge
2 days ago
The NACC AGAIN apologises to Parliament for incorrect information provided about the actions of Commissioner Major General Brereton. For the NACC to have any chance of doing its job properly he has to go.
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reposted by
Greg Jericho
2 days ago
Isn't it great that because our gas market is open to the world, our electricity prices have gone up because Russia invaded Ukraine and sent gas prices soaring??
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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Mother Jones
2 days ago
RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he's part of an administration embracing it.
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RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he's part of an administration embracing it.
Plastic is everywhereâincluding in us.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2025/09/rfk-jr-promised-to-take-on-plastic-now-hes-part-of-an-administration-embracing-it/
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Adani has agreed to end its marathon legal pursuit of environmental activist Ben Pennings. The case began in 2020. Adani made an unsuccessful application to conduct an unannounced search of Penningsâs family home.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Environmental activist Ben Pennings declares âmassive victoryâ after Adani drops its years-long legal pursuit
Queensland supreme court orders Pennings, a campaigner against the Carmichael coalmine, not to seek to acquire Adaniâs confidential information
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/27/adani-drops-legal-pursuit-environmental-activist-ben-pennings?utm_term=6927a2a0db16554fc0d400a08bf698d3&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayAUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTAU_email
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reposted by
Pearls and Irritations
3 days ago
Albanese condemned the 1975 Dismissal as a partisan ambush â yet he refuses to pursue the reforms needed to prevent another vice-regal intervention. Australia remains exposed.
#AusPol
#AustralianRepublic
#Constitution
#1975Dismissal
#PublicPolicy
#Democracy
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The Dismissal at 50: Albanese condemns the past but avoids real reform
Anthony Albanese condemned the 1975 Dismissal as a partisan ambush. Yet he refuses to pursue the constitutional reforms needed to prevent another vice-regal intervention. Australia remains exposed, and neither government nor public sentiment seems ready for the changes required.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/avoiding-a-repeat-of-11-november-1975-or-anything-like-it/
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reposted by
Pearls and Irritations
3 days ago
Gaza is facing one of the worst economic collapses ever documented â 90 per cent displaced, 70 years of development wiped out, and famine conditions spreading.
#Gaza
#Palestine
#HumanRights
#MiddleEast
#UNCTAD
#InternationalLaw
#GazaEconomy
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Gazaâs economy has collapsed beyond recognition
Gazaâs economy, society and basic infrastructure have been almost entirely wiped out. With 90 per cent of people displaced, food systems destroyed and schools and hospitals in ruins, reconstruction is becoming harder by the day.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/gaza-two-years-of-genocide-erasing-seven-decades-of-development/
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stranger
3 days ago
BREAKING: Pauline Hanson is in hot water after itâs revealed she charged taxpayers thousands$ for flights, priv cars & hotels to attend her private court matter where it was found she Racially discriminated Mehreen Faruqi. She classifies it as work. Should pay it back & Resign.
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Robert Reich
3 days ago
Remember: The recipe for economic growth isnât tax cuts for the rich. Itâs investment in our people â in health care, infrastructure and education â to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.
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Pearls and Irritations
3 days ago
Talk of âpeaceâ masks a widening war. As Sudan suffers and USâIsrael rhetoric shifts toward Iran, Australia risks being dragged into another conflict.
#MiddleEast
#Iran
#Gaza
#Sudan
#AusPol
#USForeignPolicy
#Geopolitics
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After Gaza, the next target is Iran
USâIsrael manoeuvring over Gaza is already widening the conflict. As Sudan burns and propaganda intensifies, Iran may be the next target â with Australia again at risk of being drawn in.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/iran-will-be-next/
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The Australia Institute
3 days ago
Australian scientists have improved our lives & increased national productivity. So why is the CSIRO being forced to shed staff again?
@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social
argues that cutting research jobs undermines the government's productivity drive.
#auspol
@ebonybennett.bsky.social
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The Australia Institute
3 days ago
Australia Institute research shows that Australia is currently expanding fossil fuels, with 94 new coal and gas projects in the pipeline. Read more:
australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-onl...
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reposted by
The Cathy Wilcox
4 days ago
Insult to injury. My @smh cartoon.
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Kate Marvel
4 days ago
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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Rex Patrick
4 days ago
Opulence for
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. Austerity for public services.
#auspol
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reposted by
Robert Reich
4 days ago
Over a quarter of Trump's proposed $1T military budget would go to just four companies who have spent $103B in taxpayer dollars on stock buybacks and dividends over the last decade. He wants to use your money to make the military-industrial complex even richer.
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The Cathy Wilcox
4 days ago
Exactly the same playbook as with the Voice. âConfusingââŠâdivisiveâ. Those fossil fuel lobbyists are working hard.
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reposted by
Pearls and Irritations
4 days ago
WA leaders keep calling their state the economic âpowerhouseâ â but ABS data tell a different story. A decade of weak growth, zero per-capita gains and a costly GST windfall that rewards under-performance.
#AusPol
#WApolitics
#GST
#Economy
#PublicPolicy
#StateFinance
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Western Australia is rich, but it's not the economic powerhouse it claims to be
Western Australian politicians claim the state is the âpowerhouseâ of the national economy and deserves an outsized share of GST revenue. The ABS State Accounts for 2024â25 tell a different story, revealing a decade of weak growth, falling per capita output and a system that rewards WA despite clear under-performance.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/western-australia-is-rich-but-its-not-the-economic-powerhouse-it-claims-to-be/
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The Australia Institute
4 days ago
âLike so many historical examples of self-preservation sold as a hypocritical message, the Albanese Government is promising to transition away from fossil fuels by expanding the production of fossil gas,â writes Ketan Joshi in The Point. Read Ketanâs full piece here:
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Pearls and Irritations
4 days ago
Climate change isnât a matter of opinion â itâs evidence. But conservative denial and short-term thinking are still blocking urgent action. If we keep ignoring the long term, our grandchildren will pay the price.
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateAction
#AusPol
#ClimateDenial
#Renewables
#ScienceMatters
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Conservatism, denial and the climate crisis: why short-term thinking is holding us back
Human societies are generally conservative, averse to substantial change â and they are getting in the way of the necessary intervention on climate change and emissions reduction.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/conservatives-and-conservatism-the-problems-of-addressing-climate-change/
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PĂĄdraic Fogarty
4 days ago
Strong new evidence from across Europe, from both rural and urban areas, for the recovery of large carnivores. "many respondents express no strong position, suggesting that large carnivores are less polarizing than often portrayed"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opp...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02914-1
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reposted by
Senator David Shoebridge
3 days ago
Sometimes you have to call these One Nation attacks on migrants out for what they are đ€ź
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The Australia Institute
3 days ago
Minister Murray Watt asks Australians to believe we can better protect nature by facilitating faster exploitation with less regulation and less scrutiny. Read Virginia Youngâs full op-ed on The Point:
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Jesspooka Kant đ
4 days ago
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds: âThese are Kentuckyâs first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.â
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
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The worst Federal ALP government ever - and the margin is increasing with every cack-handed decision.
www.afr.com/politics/fed...
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Public service hit with sweeping austerity cuts
Finance Minister Katy Gallagherâs office has ordered federal agencies to outline spending reductions worth 5 per cent of their annual budgets to rein in costs.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/public-service-hit-with-sweeping-austerity-cuts-20251118-p5ngfr?utm_source=afr-web&utm_medium=share_article&utm_campaign=politics&utm_term=product_feature
4 days ago
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Al Jazeera English
5 days ago
Pentagon suggests Mark Kelly, an ex-Navy captain, could be court-martialled for urging military to defy unlawful orders.
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Pentagon says it is investigating US senator over âillegal ordersâ video
Pentagon suggests Mark Kelly, an ex-Navy captain, could be court-martialled for urging military to defy unlawful orders.
https://bit.ly/4ipsArA
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Dr Richard Denniss
5 days ago
Peter Costello is to blame for our health crisis. He promised the states his GST was a growth tax that would provide sustainable funding for states but its failing But we donât have to increase the GST its time to tax gas and give the $s to the states
thepoint.com.au/opinions/202...
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Australiaâs health system is in intensive care, and the GST flatline is to blame
The point.com.au
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/20251124-australias-health-system-is-in-intensive-care-and-the-gst-flatline-is-to-blame
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Robert Reich
5 days ago
Since 2000, political donations from the richest 100 Americans have increased nearly 140x. They collectively spent over $1B in 2024, amounting to 1 in every 13 dollars spent during the election. Is it any wonder why so many regular people feel like they no longer have a voice?
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stranger
5 days ago
If Pauline Hanson wasnât racist and was genuinely concerned about the dangers of people covering their faces then why doesnât she ever speak up about these scumbags?
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Robert Reich
5 days ago
The vicious cycle of monopolization: 1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market. 2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers. 3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations. 4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement. 5) Repeat.
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Senator David Shoebridge
5 days ago
Last night
@davidpocock.bsky.social
and I read onto the Hansard an interview by the President of Nauru that the Albanese Government has been desperately trying to keep secret. It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
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Rod Moffatt
5 days ago
As Murray Wattâs home state of QLD wakes from vicious storms that wrought significant damage, heâs working with
@albomp.bsky.social
to ram through business-friendly faux environmental reforms. Several decades ago CSIRO (which Labor is gutting) predicted these effects of climate change. SHAME
#auspol
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A ban on gambling advertising would pass parliament with a conscience vote, according to a Labor MP in favour of tackling the issue. The assessment by Macarthur MP Mike Freelander has been echoed by Liberal Simon Kennedy and independent Kate Chaney.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Gambling ad ban would pass parliament with conscience vote, Labor MP says
Macarthur MP Mike Freelander believes the multi-partisan support for restricting gambling advertising means the reforms will "get there" eventually.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-25/gambling-advertising-ban-push-multi-partisan-support/106047600?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
5 days ago
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US mining giant Alcoa will withdraw part of its plans to expand its mining operations in the world's only jarrah forests, following community concerns around water security and environmental impacts. Good!!!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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'Significant win' for community as Alcoa withdraws Perth Hills plans
US mining giant Alcoa will withdraw part of its plans to expand its mining operations in the world's only jarrah forests, following community concerns around water security and environmental impacts.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-24/alcoa-shelves-plans-to-explore-perth-hills-for-bauxite-mining/106044264?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
5 days ago
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Given that even the slightest contact usually has a soccer player writhing on the ground in agony, I'm surprised that Keane wasn't hospitalised. đ€Ł
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Everton player sent off for slapping teammate during Premier League match
Idrissa Gueye is involved in a heated moment with Michael Keane during Everton's Premier League match against Manchester United.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-25/idrissa-gueye-michael-keane-everton-slap-red-card-premier-league/106048932?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
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Mondoweiss
6 days ago
Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germanyâs hierarchy of âvaluableâ life, Palestinians are valued less than animals.
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/germ...
#Palestine
#Israel
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Germany is offering asylum to donkeys from Gaza. Gazaâs children? Not allowed.
Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germanyâs hierarchy of âvaluableâ life, Palestinians are valued less than...
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/germany-is-offering-asylum-to-donkeys-from-gaza-gazas-children-not-allowed/
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Mark Hamill
6 days ago
Are those "MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS" in the room with you right now, Piggy?
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