fallynleaf
@fallynleaf.bsky.social
fan of Moby Dick, pro wrestling, and language learning
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Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying www.france24.com/en/americas/... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying
Mark Zuckerberg and current and former Meta executives agreed on Thursday to settle a $8 billion shareholder lawsuit alleging the company’s directors failed to prevent billions of dollars in fines and...
www.france24.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol
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Despite threats, billionaires don't leave the largest population centers, because it's where there is the most money to be had from the collective value generated by human beings, and despite what they insist, they don't generate wealth; they collect it.
“California is on a path to self-destruction,” wrote Bill Ackman, joining opposition to a tax proposal alongside Google’s cofounder and more.
Possible California Wealth Tax Causes Billionaire Freakout: Page, Thiel Threaten To Leave
“California is on a path to self-destruction,” wrote Bill Ackman, joining opposition to a tax proposal alongside Google’s cofounder and more.
www.forbes.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Despite threats, billionaires don't leave the largest population centers, because it's where there is the most money to be had from the collective value generated by human beings, and despite what they insist, they don't generate wealth; they collect it.
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A critical aspect of Israel’s siege on Gaza was to severely limit the flow of electricity. Israel’s ability to regulate electricity in Gaza has a long history that is tied to its colonial domination of Palestinian territory – as historian Zachary Cuyler details in this essay.
Power Struggles—Energy as a Weapon of War, Domination and Resistance in Palestine - MERIP
The role of the grid in Israel's colonial domination.
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December 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A critical aspect of Israel’s siege on Gaza was to severely limit the flow of electricity. Israel’s ability to regulate electricity in Gaza has a long history that is tied to its colonial domination of Palestinian territory – as historian Zachary Cuyler details in this essay.
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Israeli attacks on journalists’ families "have become a repeated & organized pattern." With 706 journalist relatives killed in Gaza since 7 Oct 2023, "the scale and consistency of the attacks indicate they are not the result of random wartime conditions." www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...
Israel systematically targets families of Palestinian journalists: Report
www.middleeasteye.net
December 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Israeli attacks on journalists’ families "have become a repeated & organized pattern." With 706 journalist relatives killed in Gaza since 7 Oct 2023, "the scale and consistency of the attacks indicate they are not the result of random wartime conditions." www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...
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this fellow has broken loose from somewhere; he’s talking about something and somebody we don’t know
December 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
this fellow has broken loose from somewhere; he’s talking about something and somebody we don’t know
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Sudan was the third Arab-majority country to sign the Abraham Accords. The 2021 coup halted normalization, but the process remains in development and part of "the wider web that connects authoritarian regimes across the region” as Bayan Abubakr explains in this essay.
The Abraham Accords and Sudan’s Global Counterrevolution
On October 23, 2020, Sudan became the third Arab-majority country to normalize relations with Israel under the Abraham Accords. The deal between Israel and the civilian-military Sudanese Transitional…
buff.ly
December 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Sudan was the third Arab-majority country to sign the Abraham Accords. The 2021 coup halted normalization, but the process remains in development and part of "the wider web that connects authoritarian regimes across the region” as Bayan Abubakr explains in this essay.
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December 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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READ: More than 10,000 bodies buried beneath the rubble in Gaza. Read what recovery looks like after 2 years of Israeli genocide. 👇
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/one-...
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/one-...
One excavator, 10,000 bodies, a sea of rubble: inside Gaza’s effort to retrieve and bury its dead
Under the relative calm of a ceasefire, Civil Defense crews in Gaza are undertaking the monumental feat of recovering thousands of bodies still trapped under the rubble.
mondoweiss.net
December 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
READ: More than 10,000 bodies buried beneath the rubble in Gaza. Read what recovery looks like after 2 years of Israeli genocide. 👇
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/one-...
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/one-...
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That time of year again!
December 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
That time of year again!
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A small but concrete task for today:
Sameer Project told us on 12/25 that it costs $38 for 1 blanket, which can help keep a family that is in their 3rd winter in genocide (😢) warm.
Can anyone join us today in donating the cost of one blanket to Sameer? Can you get 1 other person to join you?
Sameer Project told us on 12/25 that it costs $38 for 1 blanket, which can help keep a family that is in their 3rd winter in genocide (😢) warm.
Can anyone join us today in donating the cost of one blanket to Sameer? Can you get 1 other person to join you?
December 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
A small but concrete task for today:
Sameer Project told us on 12/25 that it costs $38 for 1 blanket, which can help keep a family that is in their 3rd winter in genocide (😢) warm.
Can anyone join us today in donating the cost of one blanket to Sameer? Can you get 1 other person to join you?
Sameer Project told us on 12/25 that it costs $38 for 1 blanket, which can help keep a family that is in their 3rd winter in genocide (😢) warm.
Can anyone join us today in donating the cost of one blanket to Sameer? Can you get 1 other person to join you?
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The U.S. appears ready to reassess its tactics in carrying out Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza. The news vindicates the strategy Palestinians have used during the ceasefire to avoid the surrender Israel has demanded in exchange for ending the genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...
Palestinian factions have come together to thwart Israeli plans in Gaza, for now
The U.S. appears ready to reassess its tactics in carrying out Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza. The news vindicates the strategy Palestinians have used during the ceasefire to avoid the surrender Israel…
mondoweiss.net
December 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The U.S. appears ready to reassess its tactics in carrying out Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza. The news vindicates the strategy Palestinians have used during the ceasefire to avoid the surrender Israel has demanded in exchange for ending the genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...
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The new preface to this great and depressing scholarly book gets into the explosion of sports betting and “prediction markets” since 2012’s 1st edition, plus well-meaning games-for-change types trying to harness dark patterns for good. Everyone within 30 feet of gamedev should read it.
December 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The new preface to this great and depressing scholarly book gets into the explosion of sports betting and “prediction markets” since 2012’s 1st edition, plus well-meaning games-for-change types trying to harness dark patterns for good. Everyone within 30 feet of gamedev should read it.
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“When her family first arrived, few others were there. But once the IDF entered Khan Younis, the area filled with tents. The experience carried an echo of her family’s past. Her grandparents had fled [Israeli] militia attacks decades earlier.”
https://ow.ly/xs5J50XMzxa
https://ow.ly/xs5J50XMzxa
What is ‘home’ now? A woman’s two-year search for safety in the ruins of Gaza
Nour AbuShammala has returned to her partly destroyed apartment in Gaza City. This is her story of multiple displacements, injury and devastation over the last two years
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December 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“When her family first arrived, few others were there. But once the IDF entered Khan Younis, the area filled with tents. The experience carried an echo of her family’s past. Her grandparents had fled [Israeli] militia attacks decades earlier.”
https://ow.ly/xs5J50XMzxa
https://ow.ly/xs5J50XMzxa
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The symbolism here is way too on the nose. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Israeli police arrest Palestinian man dressed as Santa Claus at Christmas party
Officers closed Christmas event in Haifa, confiscating equipment and also arresting a DJ and a street vendor
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The symbolism here is way too on the nose. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Jenin refugee camp was completely emptied of its residents during Israel's ethnic cleansing operation earlier this year. These are photos of life in the camp before its most recent Nakba. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/in-p...
In photos: The ongoing Nakba of Jenin refugee camp
Jenin refugee camp was completely emptied of its residents during Israel’s ethnic cleansing operation earlier this year. These are photos of life in the camp before its most recent Nakba.
mondoweiss.net
December 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Jenin refugee camp was completely emptied of its residents during Israel's ethnic cleansing operation earlier this year. These are photos of life in the camp before its most recent Nakba. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/in-p...
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If the wind only held
December 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If the wind only held
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12:32 am on Christmas… trans rights
BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena.
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
New, at Law Dork:
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
New, at Law Dork:
Breaking: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
www.lawdork.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM
12:32 am on Christmas… trans rights
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Two stories side by side in WashPost
December 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Two stories side by side in WashPost
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The people of the world, especially those in the Global South, must move beyond symbolic support to take concrete actions, such as grassroots organizing, BDS, and South–South solidarity, to end Israel’s settler-colonial project.
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/yall...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/yall...
#Palestine #Israel
Yalla, Yalla, Abya Yala: The history and future of Latin America’s engagement on Palestine
The people of the world, especially those in the Global South, must move beyond symbolic support to take concrete actions, such as grassroots organizing, BDS, and South–South solidarity, to end Israel’s...
mondoweiss.net
December 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The people of the world, especially those in the Global South, must move beyond symbolic support to take concrete actions, such as grassroots organizing, BDS, and South–South solidarity, to end Israel’s settler-colonial project.
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/yall...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/yall...
#Palestine #Israel
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First Christmas in Gaza in two years: A story of hope and survival https://aje.io/2itg3n
December 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
First Christmas in Gaza in two years: A story of hope and survival https://aje.io/2itg3n
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On Wednesday the Sydney Morning Herald published an opinion piece by Cumberland City councillor Ahmed Ouf about Muslim-Jewish solidarity in the wake of Bondi.
The piece was quickly taken down.
We're publishing it here in full.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/ahmed-ouf-...
The piece was quickly taken down.
We're publishing it here in full.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/ahmed-ouf-...
Ahmed Ouf: I went to Bondi and hugged people who'd never spoken to a Muslim before
Read Cumberland councillor's deleted opinion piece for the Sydney Morning Herald
www.deepcutnews.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
On Wednesday the Sydney Morning Herald published an opinion piece by Cumberland City councillor Ahmed Ouf about Muslim-Jewish solidarity in the wake of Bondi.
The piece was quickly taken down.
We're publishing it here in full.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/ahmed-ouf-...
The piece was quickly taken down.
We're publishing it here in full.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/ahmed-ouf-...
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Wishing every JP artist a very "join bsky so I can see your art again"
potential EME alert 🚨- apparently the Japanese are signing up to bluesky in droves. If you check the newskies feed 99% of posts are now Japanese
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December 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Wishing every JP artist a very "join bsky so I can see your art again"
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Palestinian Christians in Gaza are celebrating another year of surviving genocide, while Palestinians in the birthplace of Jesus are under brutal Israeli military occupation. Israel has bombed, demolished, crushed and killed hundereds of thousands of Palestinians in the Holy Land.
December 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Palestinian Christians in Gaza are celebrating another year of surviving genocide, while Palestinians in the birthplace of Jesus are under brutal Israeli military occupation. Israel has bombed, demolished, crushed and killed hundereds of thousands of Palestinians in the Holy Land.