Matthew Leake
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I really wish ministers showed the same sense of urgency to prevent a genocide (they did the opposite) as they're now doing to allow some racist football hooligans in to the country
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Dr. Thrasher wants you to pre-order The Overseer Class
3 months ago
Say his name: Yahya Barzaq, one of the 275+ journalists killed in Gaza. He was known as one of the most prominent photojournalists still alive in Gaza. Prior to the genocide, he was known for gently photographing newborn babies.
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Resist šš
3 months ago
Gaza, The Old City - Before and After
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POLITICO Europe
3 months ago
The UK is due to press ahead Sunday with recognition of a Palestinian state before making a formal declaration at the United Nations on Monday, according to three people briefed on the plans.
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Starmer prepares to recognize Palestinian state before UN summit
The British prime minister is walking a diplomatic tightrope ā at home and abroad.
https://www.politico.eu/article/keir-starmer-palestinian-statehood-un-general-assembly/
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Brendan Nyhan
4 months ago
The president is intentionally killing non-combatants who pose no direct threat in violation of domestic, international and military law and his VP and chief policy adviser are promising an authoritarian crackdown on his political opponents. Just today. Democracy and the rule of law are on the line
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If Keir Starmer wasn't PM, he'd have been on stage with Yaxley-Lennon in London yesterday. His beliefs about immigration are broadly similar.
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Dril Eulenspiegel
4 months ago
The groypers' hate of Charlie Kirk is so well known there are like 4 paragraphs about it (under the cringiest fucking headline possible, "Groyper Wars") on Wikipedia. This guy hated Charlie Kirk cause he wasn't racist and homophobic enough. There is zero doubt of this in my mind.
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Chris Hayes
4 months ago
It really is so striking how much The Discourse operates untethered fromā¦what we actually know. The killer is still at large! We have no idea who did it! Seems pretty important to get that sorted.
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A rogue state
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
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Maps: Israel has attacked six countries in the past 72 hours
In just three days, Israel has carried out strikes in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Qatar and Yemen.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/10/maps-israel-has-attacked-six-countries-in-the-past-72-hours
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David Wearing
4 months ago
A brief š§µon the UK's cynical and conveniently shifting position on this.
news.sky.com/story/israel...
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Israel not committing genocide in Gaza, but casualties and destruction are 'utterly appalling', says UK government
Israel has strongly denied that its actions in Gaza amount to genocide, but is being challenged on the issue in a case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
https://news.sky.com/story/israel-not-committing-genocide-in-gaza-but-casualties-and-destruction-are-utterly-appalling-says-uk-government-13427380
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Prospect Magazine
4 months ago
Thereās no point in telling Israel it is trashing its good name. No one in Netanyahuās government cares, writes
@arusbridger.bsky.social.
Itās time for sanctionsāeven moderates are calling for them.
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Itās time to start treating Israel like apartheid-era South Africa
Its government has shown that international condemnation of the horrors in Gaza carries no weight. It is time for action.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel/71003/its-time-to-start-treating-israel-like-apartheid-era-south-africa
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Yair Wallach
4 months ago
Israel's treatment of Palestinian prisoners since 7 Oct is comparable to the worst dictatorships on earth. - the number keeps growing, and is now around 11k - close to 90% are held without trial - starvation as policy - rampant torture - dozens died in prison, no accountability
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4 months ago
ā.. what's about to happen in Gaza City is indefensibleā¦ā OscarĀ® worthy Gaza šµšø solidarity from Hugh Bonneville
@hughbon.bsky.social
on the Downton Abbey red carpet. Cue, mild panic
@itvnews.bsky.social
āOf course, it's not about the politics, itās all about the filmā¦ā š§ļø
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šļøRelease the 4,500 Palestinian hostages and the 50 Israeli hostages
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4 months ago
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The Guardian
4 months ago
Israeli military database indicates only a quarter of Gaza detainees are fighters
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Israeli military database indicates only a quarter of Gaza detainees are fighters
Elderly woman with Alzheimerās, medical workers and children among 6,000 Palestinians held Only one in four detainees from Gaza are identified as fighters by Israelās military intelligence, classified data indicates, with civilians making up the vast majority of Palestinians held without charge or trial in abusive prisons. Those jailed for long periods without charge or trial include medical workers, teachers, civil servants, media workers, writers, sick and disabled people and children. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/04/israeli-military-database-indicates-only-a-quarter-of-gaza-detainees-are-fighters?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Jonn Elledge
4 months ago
The government's "take the fight to Farage but never in any way criticising any of his stances" thing is going swimmingly, I see.
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Sky News finds no evidence any combatants were killed in double-tap strike on Nasser hospital that killed 22, inc. journalists and aid workers. But even if there was such evidence that would not justify such a heinous attack, just as Israeli hospitals are still off limits even if the IDF are there.
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Taking eye watering amounts of cash from the Israel lobby identifies you in popular culture as a soulless, unprincipled politician wildly out of step with your voters. AIPAC support is becoming a liability for Dem politicians.
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4 months ago
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Marina Purkiss
4 months ago
"The IDF never intentionally targets civilians" Like 5-year-old Hind Rajab who was shot at 100s of times Like the aid workers who were buries in mass graves. Like the babies left to rot in neonatal care. Like the first-responders who were double-tapped.
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Adam Bienkov
4 months ago
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
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Straight from The Onion
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Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital
A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-gaza-journalists-killed-5c33e999ee88effd89566a993b31d9cc?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-25-Breaking+News
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Saul Staniforth
4 months ago
Hani Mahmoud reports that people injured in Israeli bombardments are left to bleed to death because IDF drones target & kill anyone who tries to rescue them.
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mosababutoha
4 months ago
Yes, he wants to demolish Gaza City. Thatās the plan. Just like he did to Rafah, Beit Hanoun, Jabalia, and Beit Lahia and other towns in Khan Younis. The world is watching. The world is condemning. The world is sending more weapons.
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Arresting clergy who violate authoritarian laws is not a good look. Basic red lines for a liberal, democratic society are being crossed as a consequence of the UK's support for Israel's genocide in Gaza.
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4 months ago
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Israel's starvation policy in a nutshell.
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THE CITY
4 months ago
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
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Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorneyās office.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/winnie-greco-eric-adams-aide-attempted-cash-katie-honan-reporter/
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Insane when killing 100 people makes it the deadliest day in just one WEEK
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Prem Thakker ć
5 months ago
"Reject AIPAC" coalition says AIPAC is now "definitively" a pariah: āOne of smallest groups ever of freshman Dems on Israel trip āFoushee & Dexter, who AIPAC spent millions on, want to block arms to Israel; Foushee now rejects AIPAC āMajority Senate Dems oppose arms sales to Israel for first time
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I thought UK media was bad but German media is actively inciting the killing of journalists in Gaza... not sure where the ironies end. How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israelās murder of journalists in Gaza |
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How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israelās murder of journalists in Gaza | Hanno Hauenstein
In the run-up to this weekās deadly attacks, stories linking Palestinian reporters to Hamas gained currency, says Berlin-based journalist Hanno Hauenstein
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/13/german-media-outlets-israel-murder-journalists-gaza?CMP=share_btn_url
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5 months ago
Unreal. Awdah Hathaleen, who worked on the Oscar-winning film āNo Other Land,ā filmed himself being killed by Israeli settler Yinon Levi. Levi was freed from house arrest because the judge said there was no ācausal connectionā between him shooting & Awdahās death.
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5 months ago
Israel has killed 240+ journalists. People who'd cover a strike that killed their kids and go on to cover the next strike, in the pursuit of convincing the world to act, of the hope of tomorrow being different. How many more murders will it take for the mainstream media's cowardly fever to break?
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BREAKING: Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Anas Al-Sharif
Journalists in Gaza continue to be murdered in record numbers, while Western media outlets and reporters show little or no outrage.
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-israel-killed-al-jazeera
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Arthur Snell
5 months ago
It's much easier to do a genocide if nobody sees it happen
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Omar Baddar
5 months ago
Anas al-Sharif is the latest Palestinian journalist murdered by Israel in the largest massacre of journalists in history (read that again), for the crime of reporting Israelās genocide to the world. Iād say shame on western journalists who remain silent, but that ship has sailed a long time ago.
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5 months ago
The Daily Mail lead with a photo of triumphant Irish and Ghanaian heritage Lioness players + another anti-immigration story. What hypocritical graceless fuckwits.
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www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Charlotte Lydia Riley
5 months ago
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
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Not only is Lammy disgracefully denying there are journalists in Gaza. He's saying this to claim ignorance of the fact that gangs are operating with the tacit permission of the IDF to rob aid trucks. (While Gaza's security forces are cracking down on these criminal gangs.) This FT piece explains
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This 'open border' rhetoric and talking about immigration like it's a national emergency is little different from Trump. I wouldn't put it past Starmer to talk about immigrants leading to crime waves.
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about 1 year ago
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Can we call them "BS" instead? A thread could be "a bunch" "Just posted some BS" "Saw some random BS" "The prime minister posted a whole bunch of BS"
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about 1 year ago
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