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Phil Free

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“It was all a misunderstanding, & the BBC hijacked it & smeared Trump with vicious lies, as if he could have done anything different that day. What fools we all are!”

BBC under fire for offending leader of US MAGA regime
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BBC under fire for offending leader of US MAGA regime

Winston was taking part in a demonstration in one of the central London squares at the moment when it happened.

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November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

The Gerontocracy Is Dead
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The Gerontocracy Is Dead

Inside the gerontocracy's quiet war on yours truly

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November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

Civil society should be resisting Trump’s authoritarianism. It’s succumbing to it instead
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Civil society should be resisting Trump’s authoritarianism. It’s succumbing to it instead.

My American Public Health Association membership was revoked after over 20 years because I protested for Palestine. As authoritarian norms spread in government, they are metastasizing into civil socie...

mondoweiss.net

November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM

Phil Free

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Israel is trying to divide Gaza in half along the ‘Yellow Line.’ What is it, & is it here to stay?
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Israel is trying to divide Gaza in half along the ‘Yellow Line.’ What is it, and is it here to stay?

The “Yellow Line” splitting Gaza in two is meant to be temporary according to Trump’s “peace” plan. However, the fact that those terms were intentionally left vague suggests that the partition of Gaza...

mondoweiss.net

November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM

Phil Free

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‘We’re the Resistance’
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‘We’re the Resistance’ - The American Prospect

Rossana Pérez arrived in Los Angeles as a refugee more than 40 years ago. Now, the professor, writer, and activist reflects on how to cope with the terror and trauma of ICE raids in her city.

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November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

AI Is an Artificial Fix for American Education
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AI Is an Artificial Fix for American Education - The American Prospect

State education officials have long lagged behind tech developments, and now they’re playing catchup on establishing guidelines for AI use in K-12 classrooms. At the same time, polls find declining su...

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November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM

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David Ho

@davidho.bsky.social

I took an entire semester of physics in college called Electricity and Magnetism.

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Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."

November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

The Pirate Lord Donald Trump
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The Pirate Lord Donald Trump - The American Prospect

All evidence suggests the president is directing the military to assassinate random civilians off the coast of South America, and thereby violating norms and laws that stretch back to before the found...

prospect.org

November 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

Remedying the Workforce Housing Crisis
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Remedying the Workforce Housing Crisis - The American Prospect

Rising rents have been particularly pronounced in the workforce housing segment, squeezing tenants across the country. According to a new report, most regions nationwide experienced workforce housing ...

prospect.org

November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

For 50 years, Morocco Has Denied Western Sahara Freedom
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For 50 Years, Morocco Has Denied Western Sahara Freedom

Morocco has illegally occupied Western Sahara for half a century. From Henry Kissinger to Donald Trump, US government officials have worked tirelessly to help the Moroccan monarchy maintain its oppres...

jacobin.com

November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

A time of monsters
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A time of monsters

In an age of crisis, despair is the currency of the global far right. How, asks Bethany Rielly, can we turn this reactionary tide?

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November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

Pensioners for war
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Branko Milanović – Pensioners for war - Brave New Europe

The above 60 voters of Western societies are also massively voting for far-right political parties, overhwhelming the votes of the smaller group of 20 to 40 year olds that elect progressive parties Br...

braveneweurope.com

November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

Is Latin America, people’s movements are democracy’s last defence
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Is Latin America the region best resisting the far right?

Despite the region’s progressive values, authoritarianism remains a threat. And it’s people, not politicians, fighting it

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November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM

Phil Free

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From National Treasure to National Scandal
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From National Treasure to National Scandal

British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortni...

tribunemag.co.uk

November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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Al Jazeera English

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Palestinian woman Umm Zuhri Shweiki was forcibly expelled from her home in occupied East Jerusalem by Israeli forces, who seized and emptied her house before handing it to Israeli settlers.

November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

“The BBC is, in fact, culturally conservative on many issues—on economics, on the monarchy, on immigration, on poverty & benefits.”

Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social
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Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding

The resignation of Tim Davie as BBC Director-General is the next stage in the corporation's collapse into cowardice.

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November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

Chuck Schumer Doesn’t Know What Time It Is
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Chuck Schumer Doesn’t Know What Time It Is

After forty days.

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November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

“Capitalism is stupid, obtuse, parasitic, lazy for refusing to accept that human experience is so much more than to work for a wage to produce useless stuff & mountains of waste.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth

How much work is enough?
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What is work? How much work is enough? | DEGROWTHIFY #7

Hello fellow humans,

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November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

“That’s what capitalism is: a system of entrenched, institutionalised hierarchy, based on the unflinching obedience of each rung to those above. Workers obey bosses. Citizens obey governments. Debtors obey creditors..”

- @graceblakeley.substack.com
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Resistance Anywhere is Resistance Everywhere

Don't stop talking about capitalism.

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November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

“Almost none of the deeds were valid. The preservation programs, she said, were built on a lie.”

Washington Post’s investigation into “carbon cowboys” in the Brazilian Amazon focusses on Michael Greene’s REDD projects - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Washington Post’s investigation into “carbon cowboys” in the Brazilian Amazon focusses on Michael Greene’s REDD projects

The investigation found that more than half of all REDD projects in the Amazon overlapped with public land.

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November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

“The #Sudan Doctors Network is accusing Rapid Support Forces militants of burning bodies & digging mass graves to obfuscate the bloodbath that follows their seizure of the city of Al-Fasher last month.”

World roundup: November 8-9 2025
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World roundup: November 8-9 2025

Stories from Iran, China, Nigeria, and elsewhere

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November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

“We know we need an economy built around wellbeing & not on spectacle, & in particular, spectacle created by the wealthy to distract the rest of us from the fact that we’re losing out because they’re exploiting us.”

The crisis in the news
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The crisis in the news

The news is lying to you — and Britain is falling apart behind the scenes Every night, the lights are bright, the headlines loud — but the real news is missing. While the media fixates on Trump, Farag...

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November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM

Phil Free

@philfree.bsky.social

“Carbon credits & debt-for-nature swaps are as much vehicles for transnational private control & power over environmental governance as they are non-traditional financing ‘solutions’ to financing shortfalls.”

Offshoring the Planet
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