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Mike Benson
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Retired rancher, psychologist, happy to be living in Catalonia and making pipes.
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Today I stood with peace activists outside Westminster Magistrates Court, in solidarity with those who have been arrested for protesting against genocide.

The proscription of Palestine Action is truly shameful. We must defend the right to demonstrate!
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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What are we even talking about here... Or should I say, NOT talking about! This is not America. I don't want to work hard only thave my tax dollars supporting this regime's cruelty like Nazi Germany ☹️😠😣😤
malena.bsky.social Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 1d
Not many people are talking about the children being harmed by #ICELawlessness but it's important to talk about.

What's happening to these kids is being paid for by our tax dollars.

We're paying for the torture of children.

I know this is beyond grim, but we must let people know about this!
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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luiscarrillo66.bsky.social
Pueblo venezolano felicita a #Angola por el 50º aniversario de su independencia www.vtv.gob.ve?p=1185091
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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🚜 Electrification will change the farm. Swappable batteries, bidirectional charging and on-site solar charging
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Wafaa Hamad survived an Israeli airstrike that killed her entire family in Gaza last year. She lost her leg and slipped into a coma. After a year of suffering without treatment, because Israel blocks almost all medical evacuations and keeps the Rafah crossing sealed, she has died.

The World...
Wafaa Hamad survived an Israeli airstrike that killed her entire family in Gaza last year. She lost her leg and slipped into a coma. After a year of suffering without treatment, because Israel blocks almost all medical evacuations and keeps the Rafah crossing sealed, she has died. The World Health Organization says over 16,000 Palestinians urgently need evacuation for lifesaving care. Yet Washington has joined the blockade. After far-right activist Laura Loomer recently posted videos of wounded children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. and called their medical visas a “national security threat,” the State Department suspended all visitor visas from Gaza, including medical-humanitarian cases. Children like Wafaa are suffering excruciating pain for extended lengths of time and dying as a result of deliberate U.S. and Israeli policy. TRT World @trtworld Wafaa Hamad, a Palestinian girl who lost her entire family in an Israeli air strike on their home in western Gaza on September 3, 2024, has died after a year of suffering due to the lack of medicine and care under Israel’s blockade. She lost her right leg and suffered severe injuries and internal damage that led to a coma
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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ninaturner.bsky.social
The majority of Democratic voters support Medicare for All.

If your federal elected official doesn’t support Medicare for All, boycott donations to them.

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November 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i feel like we need to pause and reflect on this insane collection of words
Before the US military began blowing up boats in September, countering illicit drug trafficking was handled by law enforcement and the US Coast Guard, Cartel members and drug smugglers were treated as criminals with due process rights — something the UK was happy to help with, the sources said.
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari of Arizona’s 3rd District describes the “horrific conditions” she witnessed inside the Eloy ICE Detention Center near Phoenix — including a leukemia patient “vomiting blood,” detained in February and forced to wait eight months before finally seeing an oncologist...
Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari of Arizona’s 3rd District describes the “horrific conditions” she witnessed inside the Eloy ICE Detention Center near Phoenix — including a leukemia patient “vomiting blood,” detained in February and forced to wait eight months before finally seeing an oncologist. Ansari details how private prison giants CoreCivic and The GEO Group are “making billions” as detainees are denied water, medical care, and dignity. “What happens inside these for-profit prisons is how the world sees us now,” she warns — so “authoritarian regimes can point to America and say democracy is a façade.” Via @CrookedMedia (Crooked Con November 6-7, 2025) @yassaminansari | @TVietor08 | @brhodes
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Incidents of water-related violence are surging globally...

“Ensuring access to safe, affordable water for all and safeguarding civilian water systems in accordance with international law are critical to preventing further expansion of violence.” Peter Gleick

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israelis attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, data reveals
Armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack people and infrastructure at key sites
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November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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demetrioymedio.bsky.social
www.diariolonuestro.com.ar/single-post/... #milei #javier #javiermilei #argentina #bitcoin #mileitraidoralapatria #mileifascista #fascismo #argentinas #pluie #lluvias #chuva #liberales #rain #fascistas #desastre #merde #mierda #help #boludo #agua #fachos #terror #gore #goals #ultraderecha #maga #tt
Por la irresponsabilidad del gobierno de Milei se agravaron las inundaciones en la provincia
Dejó de financiar las obras en la cuenca del río SaladoLa información cruda, concreta, es que el gobierno nacional, que tiene como mascarón de proa a Javier Milei, frenó las obras en la cuenca del río...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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📹 VÍDEO | Baldoví, a Mazón: “Per què no declares al jutjat de Catarroja?
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Baldoví acusa Mazón de mentir i el desafia a declarar davant la jutgessa
VÍDEO | Baldoví, a Mazón: “Per què no declares al jutjat de Catarroja?
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November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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L’Ajuntament de València li paga el lloguer de la Fira a la marató de Roig
Per @JoanCanela
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Per què València paga 50.000 € per la fira Expodeporte? Revelacions i dades clau
L’Ajuntament de València li paga el lloguer de la Fira a la marató de Roig
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November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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matildehuerta.bsky.social
Es que te quedas sin calificativos ya.
Lo de las derechas extremas de pepox es una mezcla letal de misoginia, avaricia, perversidad, incompetencia, prepotencia, irresponsabilidad, ignorancia…
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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matildehuerta.bsky.social
Esta gente nos arruina y nos mata por su negacionismo para enriquecerse.
elpais.com EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 10h
Una de las condiciones de Vox para apoyar al PP de Feijóo es la renuncia al pacto verde. Ayer, en el Parlamento Europeo, los populares españoles votaron junto a la extrema derecha negacionista climática y se desmarcaron de sus socios europeos social.elpais.com/u06lq4
El PP español vota junto la ultraderecha en la Eurocámara contra el objetivo de emisiones de 2040
La renuncia al pacto verde es una de las condiciones que ha puesto Abascal para negociar la investidura del nuevo presidente valenciano
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November 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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esqueer.net
We fucking told you so.
Alt text: Screenshot of a social media post on X (formerly Twitter). At the top is a tweet by a verified account named “Richard Hanania,” saying: “It’s become clear that an obsession with trans stuff, while looking somewhat reasonable at the time, was a red flag for having real psychological issues.” Below it is an embedded tweet from another verified account, “Matt Walsh,” dated Nov 10, stating: “This is correct. Everything that’s happened over the past two months has signaled to the left that assassinations work. Take out one of our leaders and we’ll start eating each other. That’s the message we’ve conveyed, loud and clear. And it puts us in serious …” The bottom of the screenshot shows the timestamp, date, and view count.
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Chile. La Constitución de 1925 fue impuesta por el ejército (X) kaosenlared.net/chile-la-con...
Chile. La Constitución de 1925 fue impuesta por el ejército (X)
Como vimos, el ejército chileno se constituyó en la virtual “facción armada” de la clase media y por varias razones nacionales e internacionales adquirió gran importancia en la vida nacional. Además, ...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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tigotanguanche.bsky.social
ESPAÑA no tiene SOLUCIÓN

GENOCIDIO PALESTINA

Siempre participa DIRECTAMENTE o
INDIRECTAMENTE
en todos los GENOCIDIOS desde el año
1492

Airbus y Blanch Internacional enviaron material a la empresa israelí en pleno conflicto

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November 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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periodistafigueroa.bsky.social
La Hasbará: Israel invierte millones para influir en EE.UU., apuntando a evangelistas y al ChatGPT rebelion.org/la-hasbara-i...
La Hasbará: Israel invierte millones para influir en EE.UU., apuntando a evangelistas y al ChatGPT – Rebelion
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November 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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«¡Nuestros territorios no están en venta!»: nace la coalición global Pueblos Contra el Extractivismo rebelion.org/nuestros-ter...
«¡Nuestros territorios no están en venta!»: nace la coalición global Pueblos Contra el Extractivismo – Rebelion
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November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The critical role of #Scholars is to #Teach, #Research, & discuss important issues, but what do we do when academic freedom is threatened? Watch panelists from ISA & @aaup.org as they examine the global threats to #AcademicFreedom & how #Faculty have fought to preserve it: youtu.be/Vms4bHf__fU
Responding to Threats to Academic Freedom Around the World
he series is co-hosted by the ISA’s Academic Freedom Committee and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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scenes from a victory lap

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"The Trump White House, for it's part, is cackling—sometimes literally—about the turn of events. Two White House officials, and two other Trump advisers, could barely contain their giddiness when asked by Zeteo about the latest instance of the Democratic elite capitulating to Trump. Multiple Trump aides and allies kept gratuitously using terms such as "losers" and "pussies" as they revelled in the relief from a shutdown that even President Trump acknowledged was getting Republicans "killed" politically.
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Nevermind the administration disappearing people off the streets or murdering Caribbean fishermen or shutting down agencies illegally or declaring war on trans people or openly accepting bribes, Dems picked a fight on health care and couldn't even find the spine for that," the NOAA employee said
😳
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
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November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Plantation forestry is an ecocidal abomination across the entire planet, not just Ireland.
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‘Green desert’: the farmers winning a battle with Brazil’s wood-pulp giant
Eucalyptus production is dominated by large multinationals that convert farmland and forest into monoculture plantations
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November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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⭐️Action needed: please read this thread &write to the TAMU Regents to oppose censorship of courses that teach about race or gender or depart from the course description.This would put curricular decisions in the hands of admins, not faculty. It would drastically affect teaching & learning conditions
texasaaup.bsky.social Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 2d
🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM