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Jason "Red5" Lyall
about 18 hours ago
New paper finds "After the first year of war...82% of each square kilometer of the Gaza Strip had been damaged at least once and that 67.9% of its built-up area has been destroyed." "Our results show that more than 3/4s of Gazaās economy has been destroyed since the start of the conflict"
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The destruction of Gaza: Satellite measurements of the economic cost of war
Abstract. We map and estimate the economic impact of the IsraelāHamas war on the Gaza Strip that began after the 2023 October 7 attacks by Palestinian mili
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/5/pgag124/8691349?searchresult=1
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Katie Martin
1 day ago
Donald Trumpās Board of Peace fund is empty -
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Donald Trumpās Board of Peace fund is empty
Despite $17bn in pledges, organisation is stuck in limbo with no money flowing to projects in Gaza
https://www.ft.com/content/5ba3bd2c-0e0e-4306-84be-99d6d89b0d49?shareType=nongift
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Mark Nance
1 day ago
Psst. Proportional representation in multi-member districts is the only real answer to the ills of gerrymandering. Pass it on.
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utopia deferred
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your local dsa chapter is probably running at capacity given the rate of growth in the last 2 years and is in dire need of more people who are willing to plan social events and coordinate issues like child care (which makes broader participation possible). do something.
act.dsausa.org/s/4536.Xd0xHm
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Stuart Hall
1 day ago
This is an article about the hollowing out of government. Particularly government institutional knowledge and expertise, most of which has been contracted out to the corporate sector. It mostly uses the British government as its example, but .../2
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-empty-ar...
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The Empty Architect
Rebuilding state capacity is not just about saving money or improving efficiency. It is about reclaiming our collective sovereignty.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-empty-architect/
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Alasdair Mackenzie
1 day ago
Reform are planning ICE-style ethnic cleansing, with no other precedent AFAIK in a peacetime democracy, tearing apart our country & probably causing mass civil unrest. Youād think our national broadcaster might give us a bit more analysis than just ā2 fascists have pinsized disagreementā, but
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Yusuf in clash with Jenrick over Reform's deportation policy
Reform's home affairs chief has publicly disagreed with its Treasury spokesman over what party policy is.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx211m18gy7o
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Dr. Dominic RoyƩ
2 days ago
Extreme heat is no longer just a matter of comfort. It is a public health issue, a matter of social equity, and one of climate justice. And pregnant women are on the front line.
#heat
#publichealth
#climatechange
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Climate change-related heat increases the risk of premature birth in 13 countries ā new study
Our study looked at 36.6 million summer births.
https://theconversation.com/climate-change-related-heat-increases-the-risk-of-premature-birth-in-13-countries-new-study-283641
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SIPRI.bsky.social
2 days ago
'The number of military personnel engaged in peacekeeping operations around the world fell to the lowest in at least a quarter century in 2025'āSIPRI's new peacekeeping data covered in this
@defensenews.bsky.social
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Peacekeeping troop numbers fall to lowest in at least 25 years, SIPRI says
The U.S. took āsignificant actionā in 2025 to withdraw from, defund or challenge various UN bodies, think tank analysts wrote in the report.
https://www.defensenews.com/global/2026/05/24/peacekeeping-troop-numbers-fall-to-lowest-in-at-least-25-years-sipri-says/
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Katie Martin
2 days ago
"Brace yourselves,ā said Kenyan opposition politician Fred Matiangāi. āThe worst is about to come.ā
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Alexandra Urisman Otto
3 days ago
āA new study finds old-growth forests in Sweden store far more carbon than the industrial tree plantations that are rapidly replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference. Protecting undisturbed areas could do more to mitigate climate change than previously thought.ā
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Max Kennerly
3 days ago
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
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Truthdig
4 days ago
Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone ā with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.
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Cuba Announces That Its Fuel Reserves Have Been Depleted - Truthdig
The situation created by the U.S. blockade has been classified by the United Nations as a āhumanitarian crisisā that affects the most vulnerable groups the hardest.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/cuba-announces-that-its-fuel-reserves-have-been-depleted/
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Toddler had a gastro thing, I (8 months pregnant) now have the gastro thing, and wow getting kicked by the baby when you're already nauseous is rapidly ascending my list of Least Favourite Health Experiences
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Nina Lakhani
5 days ago
Britain has created a new breed of political prisoners through the systematic incarceration of people acting to prevent climate breakdown and the annihilation of Gaza, new research has found.
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...
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New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise
More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may/23/anti-protest-sentences-rise-england-wales-political-prisoners?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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WhiteRoseAFA
5 days ago
So they'll have to wait in their home country for years, losing their job and will likely be unable to afford to keep a residence here. It seems designed to effectively end immigration to the US.
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Joe Cirincione
6 days ago
āAs in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military has established a no-go zone in southern Lebanon, forcing residents to flee. Satellite analysis by Le Monde reveals that 45% of urban areas there have been razed or damaged since March.ā
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Israel has damaged or destroyed 45% of towns in southern Lebanon
According to an exclusive analysis of radar satellite images conducted by Le Monde and Masae Analytics, nearly half of the urban centers in southern Lebanon have been affected or even destroyed since ...
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/visuel/2026/05/22/israel-has-damaged-or-destroyed-45-of-towns-in-southern-lebanon_6753711_4.html?lmd_medium=al
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Dave Jones
6 days ago
A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr aloneš§µ
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Alan Rew
7 days ago
Very good, detailed piece about how UK governments have failed to be honest with voters about the need for immigration. Text in ALT.
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If you know you know
7 days ago
This is what needs to start happening nation-wide in higher education.
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Tom Roberts
7 days ago
If you think someone is trans, you can ask, however be sure to ask in a say that wouldn't put them at a disadvantage or seem hostile or that is harassment. If they deny it, you can ask them to prove it, however there aren't any documents that would work to prove it. Hope this clarifies things.
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Michael Hobbes
8 days ago
One of the most psychotic legal proposals I've ever seen
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8 days ago
The person who originated this claim (Gregory Clark, 1986) walked it back when it was revealed that he came to this conclusion was because he was uncritically reading 13th century manorial records What those record actually reflected was labor *owed to the lord*, not the peasant's total labor
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Nick Turse
8 days ago
The U.S. Has Murdered More Than 190 Civilian in Boat Strikes. Weāre Tracking Them All. SOUTHCOM is now counting the survivor of the last strike, on May 8, as another death. We have the running tally of strikes and deaths on our tracker
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The U.S. Has Killed More Than 190 People in Boat Strikes. Weāre Tracking Them All.
The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/17/trump-boat-strikes-death-toll-caribbean-pacific/
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Brad Heath
8 days ago
Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.
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Doug Gordon
8 days ago
This is why the Democrats' current obsession with tax cuts is so dangerous. They're paving the way for more extreme proposals like ending progressive taxation altogether. Again, we don't need "Republican lite." We need a party that affirms that paying for the things government does is good.
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Paul F. Tompkins
8 days ago
Can anyone point to a moment in American history where āInstead of prosecuting these people who violated the law to serve their own political ends I think they should face no consequences so we can heal our divided nationā didnāt make things worse
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patrick mcneil (he/him)
9 days ago
BREAKING: The Senate confirmed Sheria Clarke to the District of South Carolina after she refused to say Biden won in 2020 and dodged questions about January 6. Durbin, Fetterman, Gallego, Hassan, Heinrich, Reed, Shaheen & Whitehouse voted to confirm her.
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Eight Democrats vote to confirm a lifetime judge who wouldnāt say Biden won in 2020
What are we doing here?
https://nominationnotes.substack.com/p/eight-democrats-vote-to-confirm-a
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Jay Willis
9 days ago
Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee says he won't stop Thursday's scheduled execution of Tony Carruthers, a severely mentally ill man who was forced to represent himself *at his own capital murder trial* because the judge simply got tired of dealing with him
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Tony Carruthers Was Forced to Represent Himself at Trial. Tennessee Is About to Execute Him
In the years since his 1996 conviction, the stateās case against Tony Carruthers has collapsed. But he still can't get a new trial.
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/tony-carruthers-tennessee-execution/
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Kyle Griffin
9 days ago
BREAKING: The Trump Justice Department has expanded the just-announced settlement of Trump's IRS lawsuit to include a pledge that the IRS will no longer pursue *any* claims it may have against Trump, his family members, and his companies over unpaid taxes.
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Bolts
9 days ago
In North Carolina, a board was set up to review the sentences of people who were convicted as minors and it provided a rare chance for them to talk about their childhood and what theyād accomplished in prison. The board has since disbanded.
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North Carolina Governor Denies Nearly All Juvenile Lifers Seeking Clemency - Bolts
After the stateās previous governor created a board to consider clemency for people sentenced to lengthy prison terms as minors, a new administration closes their pathway to freedom.
https://boltsmag.org/north-carolina-clemency-juvenile-sentences/
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Adam Gurri
10 days ago
Read
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#StupidSuez
10 days ago
If the warrants are approved, it will mark the first time ever that apartheid as a crime against humanity is charged against an individual at an international court, and will represent a significant step forward in the mainstreaming of the term's applicability to Israel's political and legal state.
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Greg Sargent
13 days ago
Raskin says the fund is unconstitutional. Congress didn't structure it. 14th Amendment prohibits obligations in service of insurrection. Raskin says Dem House will shut it down and compel transparency on payments. He's calling on Rs to legislate against it now. 4/
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Andy Craig
10 days ago
Democrats should be saying anybody who takes this stolen money will see the government coming after them to claw it back.
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Kevin Elliott
10 days ago
JFC There could never be an easier case for impeaching a president. The fact that impeachment & removal is universally acknowledged among the political class to be impossible is the clearest possible sign that the constitutional order has collapsed into some form of dictatorship.
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Micah
11 days ago
the thing about Trumpās corruption is that it is so staggering itās basically impossible to comprehend itās like asking your brain to visualize stellar distances, you canāt do it with a mind built to look at an elephant and go āwow thatās bigā thereās greased palm corruption and then thereās⦠this
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Rima I Anabtawi
11 days ago
With all MRI machines in Gaza "destroyed or rendered useless by Israelās siege, doctors in the Strip cannot diagnose their patients" and are "forced instead to practice a desperate form of triage."
www.972mag.com/doctors-blin...
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'As doctors, we are effectively blinded': inside Gaza's MRI crisis
With all machines destroyed or rendered useless by Israel's siege, we cannot diagnose our patients, forced instead to practice a desperate form of triage.
https://www.972mag.com/doctors-blinded-gaza-mri-crisis/
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Tony Yates
11 days ago
Not denying the scope for reform but 1) itās essential, just and inevitable that some are going to get back far more than they contribute 2) the welfare system *is* sustainable already and itās a libertarian trope that it is not. [Deleted and reposted due to confusing typo].
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jamelle
12 days ago
āthis Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for theā¦purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callaisā¦they function to limit black political power.ā
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
12 days ago
This is true and it underlies much of the climate debate over whether we should have āhopeā or whether we should get āangry.ā Often people who think innovation is most important want us to feel optimism, and those who want to change how power is distributed want us to embrace moral outrage. YMMV
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
12 days ago
this is absolutely worth remembering: when the abolitionists began the struggle against the slave power, the slave power looked unbeatable. they fought anyways--a long, difficult, often thankless struggle. they fought anyways.
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Third trimester is so weird. Yesterday I chased the toddler, did yoga, went to the office, worked a full day, and went out for (non-alcoholic) drinks. Today I sat on an uncomfortable chair at lunch and had so much discomfort that I had to lie down for the rest of the afternoon. Sigh.
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Richard Waite
12 days ago
Also FYI, the majority of Colorado River water used for āfarmsā in the below graphic is actually for cattle feed (alfalfa and hay). The minority of the agricultural water use is for food people eat directly, like wheat.
science.nasa.gov/missions/lan...
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Brent Toderian
14 days ago
Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And thatās just the climate emissions. Doesnāt include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etcā¦Via
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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles ā even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
https://theconversation.com/cycling-is-ten-times-more-important-than-electric-cars-for-reaching-net-zero-cities-157163
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Lee Crawfurd
12 days ago
Now out in Environmental Pollution!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Truthout
14 days ago
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administrationās sanctions on Francesca Albanese, a UN expert on the occupied Palestinian territories, concluding that the sanctions violated her right to free speech after she called for Israeli officials to be charged with war crimes.
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Judge Blocks US Sanctions Against UN Palestine Expert Francesca Albanese
Francesca Albanese āhas done nothing more than speak!ā the judge wrote in his ruling.
https://truthout.org/articles/judge-blocks-us-sanctions-against-un-palestine-expert-francesca-albanese/
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maura quint
16 days ago
I really canāt state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicansā end goal. Do not help them!!!
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot
14 days ago
Cuba has run out of diesel and oil, energy minister says
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Cuba has run out of diesel and oil, energy minister says
The minister says the situation in Cuba is "extremely tense", as a US-led blockade of oil to the country causes widespread power cuts.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7pyrj0vx7o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
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Yair Wallach
14 days ago
"Tens of thousands of families have no papers, no childhood photos, no identity papers, no homes, they have nothing" boasted Abraham Zarbib, who led efforts to flatten entire cities in the Gaza Strip. Complete erasure was the goal. That's why saving UNRWA's archives was so important.
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L.A. TACO
15 days ago
Hobbies and aspirations are put on hold as families reconfigure their lives to avoid deportation and familial separation, deeply aware of how ICE targets working class immigrants. The full story:
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