Ümit Kıvanç
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16 Tons • A movie about conscience & free market •
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16 Tons (2021)
A movie about conscience and free market. (2021-version) Created & edited by Ümit Kıvanç. English translation by Nazım Dikbaş & Richard Hamer…
https://vimeo.com/541557740
about 1 year ago
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Mother Jones
about 5 hours ago
Federal agents’ use of chemical weapons has hurt children at immigration raids, while walking down their block, and in their schools.
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Yaşlanmak yasak - Deniz İpek
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Yaşlanmak yasak - Deniz İpek - Evrensel
“Sabah saatlerinde metroda yaşlıların ne işi var diye isyan eden birkaç kişinin görüntüsü sosyal medyada dolaşıma girdi. Tepkiler gecikmedi; kimi bunu...
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸
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My family and I are from Gaza. The war destroyed our home and our source of income. We are relying on community support to start again. Donations or shares are deeply appreciated. Link in here
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The Guardian
about 7 hours ago
The week around the world in 20 pictures
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The week around the world in 20 pictures
The brutal crackdown in Iran, ICE in Minneapolis, Russian aistrikes in Kyiv and heavy rain in Gaza – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/jan/16/the-week-around-the-world-in-20-pictures?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1768591767
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The Tennessee Holler
2 days ago
“3 flash bangs at my car. ICE knew we were trying to leave. My 6 month old can’t breathe.” Trump’s goons terrorize a Black family in Minneapolis, to the point where EMT’s have to come help his child get away from the gas and chaotic dangerous scene (H/T
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Joyce Karam
about 7 hours ago
NEWS:
#Syria’s
Sharaa declares Kurdish a national language, recognizes Nowruz
www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
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Syria’s Sharaa declares Kurdish a national language, recognizes Nowruz
Syria's interim president surprised the country's Kurdish citizens with a decree enshrining their culture and language as an "inseparable component of Syria’s unified and diverse national identity."
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/01/syrias-sharaa-declares-kurdish-national-language-recognizes-nowruz
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
about 10 hours ago
Israeli soldiers in Israeli-occupied Syria stole over 250 goats from a Syrian farmstead and took them to multiple illegal settlements in the Israeli occupied West Bank
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Israeli troops smuggled herd of 250 goats from Syria to West Bank farms — report
IDF tells Israeli TV network that team commander was dismissed from service over incident and company commander reprimanded, while squad itself was suspended for significant period
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-troops-smuggled-herd-of-250-goats-from-syria-to-west-bank-farms-report/
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Diken Gazetesi
about 6 hours ago
Kürtçe Suriye'de ulusal dil kabul edildi
www.diken.com.tr/kurtce-suriy...
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Kürtçe Suriye'de ulusal dil kabul edildi - Diken
16.01.2026 - Suriye'de Cumhurbaşkanı Ahmed Şara imzalı kararnameyle Kürtçe ulusal dil kabul edildi, Nevruz, resmi tatil ilan edildi.
https://www.diken.com.tr/kurtce-suriyede-ulusal-dil-kabul-edildi/
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ProPublica
1 day ago
Read our original 2023 investigation here:
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They Held Down a Black Teen Who Had Tried to Shoplift. He Died From Asphyxia. Why Was No One Ever Charged?
Customers at a Wisconsin corner store subdued 16-year-old Corey Stingley, who died after allegedly being placed in a chokehold. A decade later, the youth’s father still fights for justice and awaits t...
https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-corey-stingley-death-chokehold-shoplift-charges
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Rima I Anabtawi
about 24 hours ago
#IceOffIndianLand
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Eliot Higgins
1 day ago
Live image of her credibility:
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Amnesty Deutschland
1 day ago
💥💥💥 Eine längst überfällige Entscheidung: Seán Binder wurde von allen Anklagepunkten freigesprochen! Dieses Urteil stellt unmissverständlich klar:
#Solidarität
und humanitäres Engagement sind niemals Verbrechen.
#HumanityMustWin
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Sarah Kendzior
1 day ago
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Mr. International
2 days ago
"No! I'm building a ballroom!"
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Status Coup News
8 days ago
🚨"F*ck you! Evil! Where's the f*cking humanity? Why don't you back the f*ck up off our people? Stop f*cking killing us! You guys are evil mother f*ckers! You should be marching with us!" -Minneapolis ICE protester screams at ICE agents as they point guns at her. Via our Jon Farina ⬇️
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10 -12 Ocak 2026 Günlük İnsan Hakları Raporu - TİHV - Türkiye İnsan Hakları Vakfı
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10 -12 Ocak 2026 Günlük İnsan Hakları Raporu - TİHV - Türkiye İnsan Hakları Vakfı
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13 - 14 Ocak 2026 Günlük İnsan Hakları Raporu - TİHV - Türkiye İnsan Hakları Vakfı
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13 - 14 Ocak 2026 Günlük İnsan Hakları Raporu - TİHV - Türkiye İnsan Hakları Vakfı
https://tihv.org.tr/gunluk-ih-raporlari/13-14-ocak-2026-gunluk-insan-haklari-raporu/
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Yair Wallach
2 days ago
Tonight Maccabi Tel Aviv Ultras viciously attacked a Palestinian owned car washing business in Tel Aviv, shouting "death to the Arabs" as the police looked by
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abdullah naci
2 days ago
doğu perinçek ulusalcılığı ile cübbeli ahmet hocanın din anlayışını iyice karıştırın. ümit özdağ türkçülüğü ile marine edin. üzerine sos olarak biraz süleyman demirel pragmatizmi ekleyin. iki gün kısık ateşte necip fazıl şiirleri içinde bekletin. alın size türkiye islamcılığı.
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abdullah naci
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bir sanatçı, "masum çocukların öldürüldüğü bir dünya istemiyoruz" deyip bir liste yayınlamış, listede "rojava" da geçtiği için iki gündür linç ediliyor. paylaşımını kaldırdığı halde saldırılardan kurtulamıyor. kürt sorunu nedir sorusuna cevap için tek başına bu bile yeter yani.
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Robert Reich
2 days ago
U.S. billionaires got an astounding $1.5 TRILLION richer in the first year of Trump's second term. Remember — this is happening as they get even more tax cuts in exchange for the social safety net being cut for everyone else. "New Golden Age" for who?
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Rima I Anabtawi
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“The destruction of Gaza’s health infrastructure, combined with restrictions on food and medical supplies including baby formula, has created an environment in which the fundamental biological processes of reproduction and survival have been systematically destroyed…”
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Rima I Anabtawi
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A large Cameroonian population, as well. This is one of my old stomping grounds, Lewiston. ⚠️ICE/CBP en route to Maine, per legit sources.⚠️ Resources: Maine 🧊 hotline: 207-544-9989
@maineimmigrants.bsky.social
maineimmigrantrights.org
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Al Jazeera English
2 days ago
Three Palestine Action activists end UK hunger strike
https://aje.news/pwpm4z
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial)
2 days ago
Palestine Action-linked prisoners end hunger strike -
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-action-linked-prisoners-end-hunger-strike
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Palestine Action-linked prisoners end hunger strike
They chose not to continue their hunger strike after the government refused to give a £2bn contract to Israeli arms company Elbit Systems
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-action-linked-prisoners-end-hunger-strike
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Bu ülkelere bir göz gezdirin. Epey büyük bir olay bu.
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Rima I Anabtawi
3 days ago
The Trump Junta invaded Minneapolis and is holding the city under siege:
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The Voice of One!
3 days ago
News Update 📰 "Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on a bus, has died" Credit:
@phillewis.bsky.social
www.whatimreading.net/p/claudette-...
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Keşke herkes okusa, paylaşsa > Demokrasi bir “ara rejim” miydi? İnsanoğlu fabrika ayarlarına mı dönüyor? / Cengiz Turhan •
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Demokrasi bir “ara rejim” miydi? İnsanoğlu fabrika ayarlarına mı dönüyor?
Yeni nesil “ara rejim” lafını belki hiç duymamış olabilir. Yaşları 45-50 olanlar dahi sonradan duydular, okudular, belki merak edip biraz derinine indiler… Benim babam üç “ara rejim” yaşamıştı; ben ik...
https://10haber.net/yazarlar/cengiz-turhan/demokrasi-bir-ara-rejim-miydi-insanoglu-fabrika-ayarlarina-mi-donuyor-669617/
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Rima I Anabtawi
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B’Tselem warns that organized, state-backed settler militias are driving Palestinians from their land with violent attacks across the West Bank. By Yair Dvir, B’Tselem spokesperson
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Al Jazeera English
5 days ago
A displaced Palestinian girl was filmed gathering bread from the ground in a Gaza displacement camp after Israeli forces bombed the tents.
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Nina Jankowicz
5 days ago
I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.
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Bruno J. Navarro
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A photographer who knew Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, tells PEOPLE Good once traveled with him to New York City to feed and photograph homeless people
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Renee Good, Woman Killed by ICE, Traveled to N.Y.C. to Feed, Photograph Homeless People: 'She Wanted to Know Their Stories' (Exclusive)
Renee Nicole Good, the woman who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, is remembered for taking a photography trip to New York City, where she gave out food to homeless people ...
https://people.com/renee-good-traveled-to-nyc-feed-photograph-homeless-people-11882431
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ProPublica
5 days ago
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved. By Brett Murphy and
@annamaria.bsky.social
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The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usaid-kenya-humanitarian-aid-starvation-families-children?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1768158022&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Nina Jankowicz
5 days ago
#ICEOutForGood
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Yair Wallach
5 days ago
Israel's designated ambassador to the UK, Tzahi Braverman, a long term Netanyahu confidant, is under police investigation and is forbidden from leaving Israel for the next month, and from contacting Netanyahu.
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦
6 days ago
Iran today 🇮🇷🔥
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Fréderike Geerdink
5 days ago
This is strange because I try to verify that, and HRANA said yesterday the death toll was 116.
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Day Fourteen of Protests: Ongoing Demonstrations, Internet Blackouts, and Drone Surveillance - Hrana
HRANA – Nationwide protests in Iran continued into their fourteenth day, Saturday, January 10, amid widespread internet shutdowns and severe communication disruptions, which have significantly limited...
https://www.en-hrana.org/day-fourteen-of-protests-ongoing-demonstrations-internet-blackouts-and-drone-surveillance/
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Al-Monitor
5 days ago
Deaths from Iran protests reach more than 500, rights group says
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Deaths from Iran protests reach more than 500, rights group says
By Parisa Hafezi, Rami Ayyub and Maayan LubellDUBAI/JERUSALEM, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Unrest in Iran has killed more than 500 people, a rights group said on Sunday, as Tehran threatened to target U.S.…
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/01/deaths-iran-protests-reach-more-500-rights-group-says
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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺
5 days ago
What's next? Bounties on protesters?
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The New York Times
5 days ago
Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist and chairman of Palantir, donated $3 million to a committee opposing an initiative in California that would impose a new tax on billionaires, according to a new disclosure.
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Thiel Gives $3 Million to Group Seeking to Block California Wealth Tax
More large donations from wealthy Silicon Valley figures are expected as they try to marshal opposition to a proposed ballot measure that would impose a new tax on billionaires.
https://nyti.ms/49efDhe
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Candice Bernd
6 days ago
About 30-40 folks in front of the J.J. Pickle Federal Building (which houses an ICE processing center) in Austin on a third night of protest in solidarity with Minneapolis and Portland. State troopers and APD have formed a police line in front of the building. 🧵
#ICEOutForGood
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Brad Lander
6 days ago
It’s a critical moment to make our voices heard loud & clear: No wars. No kings. No ICE. See you in the streets tomorrow:
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
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No Wars No Kings No Ice March and Rally · Indivisible Brooklyn
From Minneapolis to Caracas, Trump is killing people in order to entrench rule by bullies for the benefit of billionaires. Our leaders in Congress must do their duty to stop this regime’s criminal att...
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisiblenationbk/event/881463/?referring_vol=235812&share_context=dashboard-event-details&sharer_role=2
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Adam Schwarz
6 days ago
Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE: "No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested". "Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".
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Olga Nesterova
6 days ago
And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷
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mike taddow
6 months ago
dave matthews 🫡
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The Tennessee Holler
6 days ago
DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.” (H/T
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Mother Jones
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And you have the power not to give it to them.
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You have what Trump and Musk want
And you have the power not to give it to them.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-musk-oligarchy-attention-protest-mary-harris-jones-journalism/
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸
6 days ago
Dear sweet friends here I hope from everyone qoute our link today and talk about us ❤️🩹
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