60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity. Top 10% earn more than the other 90%. They control govts, means of production; inflict civil strife, deaths; thwart possibilities of democracy. Tax the rich.

While UKIP leader Nigel Farage has conceded that the UK should “help Christians who are fleeing Syria to escape death and torture by allowing some to come to the UK,” he insists that Muslims seek refuge elsewhere. As I wrote in @haaretzcom.bsky.social ten years ago: www.haaretz.com/opinion/2015...

For more than three years of gruelling negotiations, Precious Matsoso steered the group that drafted the first global pandemic treaty She is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025 go.nature.com/3YmrUK9

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered? GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now THOMPSON: What does that mean?

Eurovision used to be a campy joy – but it has become a cynical way to whitewash war | Arwa Mahdawi

Just three companies control 93 percent of the world's memory supply. Skyrocketing memory prices for us means record earnings for them. One is already shutting its consumer business entirely. How RAM is ruining everything, by @emroth08.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/83950...

Imagine looking at record profits, record executive pay, and record inequality, and concluding: yup… the minimum wage is the problem.

Workers are at the heart of the capitalist system. And that's why they are at the center of socialist politics.

Here's the transcript. When I say ‘we had a convicted reality star’, you can add ‘who now rules as the most openly corrupt president in American history’ in your head. downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

The Trump Administration seems to be handpicking deportees to test a new approach to mass deportation: sending people to nations where they had no ties, and to places that were not safe, and where they are subject to indefinite detention abroad. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YAjCKA

Mímir Kristjánsson mener Skatteetaten bør trappe opp kontrollvirksomheten av norske utflyttere. – De aller færreste har flyttet virksomheten sin til Sveits, de har bare flyttet sin egen postadresse.

The framing pushed by much of the media lately (claiming that the tax "penalises" national ownership), shows how the absurdly wealthly have too much power in society at large. Their views should not bleed into mainstream narratives this much, and journalists are failing to present counterarguments.

The US sanitizing the swastika while the UK criminalizes the words "Palestine Action" (by severely misappropriating terrorism legislation) is a terrifying indicator of the road we're headed down.

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World's richest nations are pulling back from global development efforts, study shows reut.rs/4oRbpl6

Moving tribute to Jamal Khashoggi, hired by @karenattiah.bsky.social to write for the Washington Post opinions section. She writes of warnings by Khashoggi about the Saudification of the US. The Washington Post is an example, extinguishing its global opinions section & Jamal Khashoggi Fellowship.

Half a century has passed since Franco's dictatorship ended with his death, but some in Spain still valorise his rule.

Fucking finally Perhaps the rest of the EU will also consider doing something about the company literally weaponizing Nazism-as-a-service against European democracy

Why the military’s impact on climate change can no longer be ignored www.tni.org/en/publicati...

With the rate of the genocide in Gaza slightly reduced, Germany announces it feels able to start restocking Israel with the weapons it will need when it returns to committing genocide with full force.

More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists took part in Cop30, investigation finds

The fighting in Ukraine no longer resembles the trench warfare of World War I — instead, drones have erased the solid front line by creating a killing zone.

White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

Former prime minister sentenced to death by special tribunal for her role in bloody 2024 crackdown on protesters.

Cop30: calls for new urgency to talks as studies show global warming may reach 2.5C – latest updates

🎓 One in seven of the world’s students had their education disrupted by climate disasters last year. One in six children live in a conflict zone. On #RethinkingHumanitarianism, Faiza Hassan, director of @inee.org says aid should not be seen as charity, but as climate justice.

Protest comes as Brazil's leader Lula says COP30 participants should be 'inspired' by Indigenous peoples.

Francesca Albanese: Why I'm accusing 63 nations of complicity in the Gaza genocide - https://www.middleeasteye.net/video/francesca-albanese-why-63-nations-complicit-gaza-genocide

Global fossil co₂ emissions are projected to rise 1.1% in 2025, and are now 10% higher than in 2015, ten years since the Paris Agreement was adopted.

Iran's dual reality: As veil restrictions ease, political crackdown deepens reut.rs/49OaSLN

If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?

BBC blir utsatt for en høyrevridd kampanje, og NRK dilter etter. Do not comply in advance.

‘An indictment of the trade union movement’: Why no one is organising seasonal workers

Although freelance work is a term used widely in the sector and in government debates, it is not recognised in policy terms which, according to Dr Heidi Ashton from the University of Warwick, has important ramifications for workers on the frontline.

The new film featuring firsthand testimonies of Israeli soldiers in Gaza reveals patterns of systematic abuse.

Ukraine facing widespread power cuts after generating capacity reduced to ‘zero’ by Russian attacks

I have an alt account with ~200 Ukrainian mutuals so I asked how they're staying warm. Some have central heat via gas boiler but the ones that don't are using sweaters and blankets, hot water bottles wrapped in towels. One answered that they use gas stoves (😬). Temps in the 40s lately (3-9 C).

Last Tuesday, as the strongest Atlantic storm in 90 years slammed the western coast of Jamaica with 185-mph winds, Bill Gates was downplaying climate change.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of death in Darfur. “These are people being shot in the back and shot while they’re trying to escape. It’s as bad as it could possibly get,” a former Africa analyst for the C.I.A. said. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/g4dHaA

Using never-before-seen videos, rare testimonies and leaked military files, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes abuses and battlefield weaknesses in the civil war raging across Myanmar. Watch: aje.io/junta #MyanmarExposed

Anthony Barnett: “The Sixties were a catastrophic failure” The writer and campaigner on nationalism, the rise of the new right and how a fractured left can organise in response By Jason Cowley

After the genocide / the genocide. Three by Fady Joudah: arablit.org/2025/11/05/t...

"The situation poses an acute risk of further suffering and mortality among the remaining animals."

UN calls for all Gaza crossings to be opened to allow unimpeded deliveries of food and other humanitarian aid.

‘A meeting of voices’: flotillas head into Belém ahead of Cop30 climate summit

The law only protects power & property, not the planet, not the environment, and certainly not the people. People losing the right to contextualise their actions is just the next step on the long ladder of powerful institutions wanting to deny inconvenient truths to protect their own worldview.

Mamdani gets next week’s New Yorker cover: