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Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza
FAO, UNICEF, WFP & WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire & unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger & malnutrition.
FAO, UNICEF, WFP & WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire & unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger & malnutrition.
August 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza
FAO, UNICEF, WFP & WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire & unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger & malnutrition.
FAO, UNICEF, WFP & WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire & unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger & malnutrition.
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BREAKING: A famine has officially been confirmed in Gaza City and the surrounding neighbourhoods
news.sky.com/story/gaza-l...
news.sky.com/story/gaza-l...
Gaza latest: Famine declared in Gaza City
A famine has officially been confirmed in Gaza City and the surrounding neighbourhoods by a UN-backed, globally recognised system for classifying food insecurity and malnutrition. Follow the latest be...
news.sky.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
BREAKING: A famine has officially been confirmed in Gaza City and the surrounding neighbourhoods
news.sky.com/story/gaza-l...
news.sky.com/story/gaza-l...
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I did my dissertation on the economics of famines. They're almost never caused by a lack of food, almost always because of a lack of access to food. Israel can end this famine at any time.
Famine confirmed in Gaza City for first time, UN-backed body says
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Famine confirmed in Gaza City for first time, UN-backed body says – Israel-Gaza war latest updates
‘Famine in Gaza is entirely man-made’, UN-backed food security body says
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I did my dissertation on the economics of famines. They're almost never caused by a lack of food, almost always because of a lack of access to food. Israel can end this famine at any time.
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Famine is confirmed by @theipcinfo.bsky.social in #Gaza City and the surrounding areas.
This is a man-made.
For almost 6 months the Israeli Authorities have critically restricted food and other essential goods.
Read report here: www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-webs...
#CeasefireNow
This is a man-made.
For almost 6 months the Israeli Authorities have critically restricted food and other essential goods.
Read report here: www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-webs...
#CeasefireNow
www.ipcinfo.org
August 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Famine is confirmed by @theipcinfo.bsky.social in #Gaza City and the surrounding areas.
This is a man-made.
For almost 6 months the Israeli Authorities have critically restricted food and other essential goods.
Read report here: www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-webs...
#CeasefireNow
This is a man-made.
For almost 6 months the Israeli Authorities have critically restricted food and other essential goods.
Read report here: www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-webs...
#CeasefireNow
defending the aggressed is getting conflated with the defending the regime by a lot of people in the comments - at the expense of the civilians who are being bombed in their homes and losing their loved ones. war is a thing caused by governments but it is civilians who pay the price for war.
In any conflict, we should oppose the aggressor and defend the aggressed, regardless of identity. I have only contempt for the Iranian regime, but Iran was attacked by Israel and the US without sufficient cause or legal justification. Israel and the US are the aggressors, Iran the aggressed.
June 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
defending the aggressed is getting conflated with the defending the regime by a lot of people in the comments - at the expense of the civilians who are being bombed in their homes and losing their loved ones. war is a thing caused by governments but it is civilians who pay the price for war.
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Senior officials tell the NYT that they do not know the whereabouts of Iran’s stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium.
JSOC trains extensively on the counterproliferation mission, but the idea that we’ve potentially got a loose nuke situation in the Middle East is fucking insane.
JSOC trains extensively on the counterproliferation mission, but the idea that we’ve potentially got a loose nuke situation in the Middle East is fucking insane.
June 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Senior officials tell the NYT that they do not know the whereabouts of Iran’s stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium.
JSOC trains extensively on the counterproliferation mission, but the idea that we’ve potentially got a loose nuke situation in the Middle East is fucking insane.
JSOC trains extensively on the counterproliferation mission, but the idea that we’ve potentially got a loose nuke situation in the Middle East is fucking insane.
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Go home America, you're drunk.
June 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Go home America, you're drunk.
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Caine: "In a matter of weeks this went from strategic planning to operational execution." So, they want people to know the timeline.
June 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Caine: "In a matter of weeks this went from strategic planning to operational execution." So, they want people to know the timeline.
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is anyone reasonably prominent talking about the fact that the Israeli attack on Iran was entirely because they were finally losing support from Western leaders for their genocide?
June 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
is anyone reasonably prominent talking about the fact that the Israeli attack on Iran was entirely because they were finally losing support from Western leaders for their genocide?
commentators: "this is not about regime change"
trump: "we know where the ayatollah is we just haven't killed him yet"
commentators: "no i swear the US isn't trying to change the regime in iran!"
trump: "we know where the ayatollah is we just haven't killed him yet"
commentators: "no i swear the US isn't trying to change the regime in iran!"
June 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
commentators: "this is not about regime change"
trump: "we know where the ayatollah is we just haven't killed him yet"
commentators: "no i swear the US isn't trying to change the regime in iran!"
trump: "we know where the ayatollah is we just haven't killed him yet"
commentators: "no i swear the US isn't trying to change the regime in iran!"
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hearing netanyahu — a war criminal bombing nearby countries in violation of international law, presiding over an apartheid system, and overseeing a genocide in gaza — call iran the “world’s most dangerous regime” is going to make my head explode
June 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
hearing netanyahu — a war criminal bombing nearby countries in violation of international law, presiding over an apartheid system, and overseeing a genocide in gaza — call iran the “world’s most dangerous regime” is going to make my head explode
i've been talking to friends for days about point 9 specifically. this is presenting moving the US as a war footing to hide the domestic power he is going to seize and freedoms which will be removed.
9. Will he try to seize more emergency powers, per Kagan's piece in the Atlantic today (and my own piece on personalist dictatorship at home and abroad)?
10. Will anyone remember that Gazans are starving?
11. What are Xi and Putin thinking right now, in between guffaws?
10. Will anyone remember that Gazans are starving?
11. What are Xi and Putin thinking right now, in between guffaws?
June 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
i've been talking to friends for days about point 9 specifically. this is presenting moving the US as a war footing to hide the domestic power he is going to seize and freedoms which will be removed.
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"thank you for your attention to this matter" as you are quite plausibly starting World War III has to be the stupidest shit I've ever read
June 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
"thank you for your attention to this matter" as you are quite plausibly starting World War III has to be the stupidest shit I've ever read
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aside from being very dangerous, this is very clearly a breach of the UN Charter; it sounds like aggressive war. there’s a tendency to think violations don’t matter bc international law is hard to enforce but this is a cardinal principle of international cooperation *& it matters to other countries*
June 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
aside from being very dangerous, this is very clearly a breach of the UN Charter; it sounds like aggressive war. there’s a tendency to think violations don’t matter bc international law is hard to enforce but this is a cardinal principle of international cooperation *& it matters to other countries*
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Don’t think I’ve ever muttered the words “fuck me sideways” quite so much reading a story as this one.
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Don’t think I’ve ever muttered the words “fuck me sideways” quite so much reading a story as this one.
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I used to think a history degree was basically pointless. A kind of Oxford gatepass. But since user-generated online content became a thing, have realised that three years' training in assuming biases and checking sources is unbelievably useful.
And rare.
And rare.
June 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I used to think a history degree was basically pointless. A kind of Oxford gatepass. But since user-generated online content became a thing, have realised that three years' training in assuming biases and checking sources is unbelievably useful.
And rare.
And rare.
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Big Ange strikes again 🇦🇺🇦🇺
May 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Big Ange strikes again 🇦🇺🇦🇺
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“At the European humanitarian forum in Brussels today, I said that the world is again failing its commitment of “never again” with the people of #Gaza.
“Never Again” cannot and must not be selectively applied.
It has to remain our commitment to humanity."
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqWu...
“Never Again” cannot and must not be selectively applied.
It has to remain our commitment to humanity."
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqWu...
May 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“At the European humanitarian forum in Brussels today, I said that the world is again failing its commitment of “never again” with the people of #Gaza.
“Never Again” cannot and must not be selectively applied.
It has to remain our commitment to humanity."
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqWu...
“Never Again” cannot and must not be selectively applied.
It has to remain our commitment to humanity."
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqWu...
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The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
www.nytimes.com
May 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
the document very clearly says "The United States and United Kingdom are immediately beginning negotiations of the EPD to
develop and formalize the proposals made in this document." which was also communicated in the press conference y'day
develop and formalize the proposals made in this document." which was also communicated in the press conference y'day
So after all that, Trump's "full and comprehensive" UK-US trade deal amounts to four and a bit sides of A4 which "Both the United States and the United Kingdom recognize... does not constitute a legally binding agreement."
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May 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
the document very clearly says "The United States and United Kingdom are immediately beginning negotiations of the EPD to
develop and formalize the proposals made in this document." which was also communicated in the press conference y'day
develop and formalize the proposals made in this document." which was also communicated in the press conference y'day
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The deal apparently includes 13,000 tonnes in tariff free beef access to the US for UK farmers, and 13,000 tonnes in tariff free beef access to the UK for US farmers.
No one's standards change.
By way of context the tariff free quota Australian beef gets into the US is 448,214 tonnes per annum.
No one's standards change.
By way of context the tariff free quota Australian beef gets into the US is 448,214 tonnes per annum.
May 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The deal apparently includes 13,000 tonnes in tariff free beef access to the US for UK farmers, and 13,000 tonnes in tariff free beef access to the UK for US farmers.
No one's standards change.
By way of context the tariff free quota Australian beef gets into the US is 448,214 tonnes per annum.
No one's standards change.
By way of context the tariff free quota Australian beef gets into the US is 448,214 tonnes per annum.
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You know why European countries are so quiet about the El Salvador situation? Because they started the normalisation of extraterritorial detention of migrants and asylum seekers, often without any due process. The UK’s Rwanda plan. Italy’s attempted plan with Albania. And some still want to do it.
April 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
You know why European countries are so quiet about the El Salvador situation? Because they started the normalisation of extraterritorial detention of migrants and asylum seekers, often without any due process. The UK’s Rwanda plan. Italy’s attempted plan with Albania. And some still want to do it.
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🚨🚨 In another unfathomable and disgusting betrayal of #Ukraine, #US blocks joint G7 statement denouncing the horrible Russian Sumy strike. /1 kyivindependent.com/us-blocks-g7...
US blocking G7 statement denouncing Russia's Sumy strike, Bloomberg reports
The U.S. has told the other G7 members it would not support a joint statement condemning Russia's deadly attack on Sumy last week so as not to disrupt peace efforts, Bloomberg reported on April 15, ci...
kyivindependent.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🚨🚨 In another unfathomable and disgusting betrayal of #Ukraine, #US blocks joint G7 statement denouncing the horrible Russian Sumy strike. /1 kyivindependent.com/us-blocks-g7...
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(📣) PROOF UNLOCKED: The first massive report in the three-report PROOF series on The Trump-El Salvador Scandal is now free to the public.
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BREAKING NEWS: America Is Back in the International Slave Trade
A Trump administration filing in federal court in Maryland may be the most shocking confession any presidential administration has made in generations—as it signals a reinstitution of the slave trade.
sethabramson.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
(📣) PROOF UNLOCKED: The first massive report in the three-report PROOF series on The Trump-El Salvador Scandal is now free to the public.
I hope you will share it widely, and consider subscribing if you find the content useful.
I hope you will share it widely, and consider subscribing if you find the content useful.