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Oxford college referred to charity regulator over £1m investment in Israeli settlements - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/oxford-college-referred-charity-regulator-over-ps1m-investment-israeli-settlements
Oxford college referred to charity regulator over £1m investment in Israeli settlements
Oxford's All Souls College maintains investments in four companies listed by the UN as being involved in Israeli settlements
www.middleeasteye.net
November 26, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Oxford college referred to charity regulator over £1m investment in Israeli settlements - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/oxford-college-referred-charity-regulator-over-ps1m-investment-israeli-settlements
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Activists slam Biden for pardoning turkeys, not those on federal death row
Activists slam Biden for pardoning turkeys, not those on federal death row
Advocates against death penalty note president has spared no one from death row but it’s not too late to ‘cement legacy’
Advocates against the death penalty took aim with blistering irony at Joe Biden for pardoning two more Thanksgiving turkeys on Monday…
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Activists slam Biden for pardoning turkeys, not those on federal death row
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Another day another 11 murders by Israel's army in N. Gaza - while heavy rainfall and rising tides add to the plight of war-displaced people sheltering in makeshift tents.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Israel kills 11 in Gaza, 2 in Syria as hopes grow of a truce with Hezbollah
White House says talks are under way to see if a Lebanon ceasefire deal could lead to an end to Israel’s war on Gaza.
www.aljazeera.com
November 26, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Another day another 11 murders by Israel's army in N. Gaza - while heavy rainfall and rising tides add to the plight of war-displaced people sheltering in makeshift tents.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Hong Kong’s top court ruled on Tuesday to uphold inheritance and public housing benefits for same-sex married couples, a decision that supporters hailed as an important step toward expanding gay rights in the territory.
Hong Kong’s Top Court Upholds Rights of Same-Sex Married Couples
Long-running legal battles culminated in a ruling that preserves public housing benefits and inheritance rights in the territory.
nyti.ms
November 26, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Hong Kong’s top court ruled on Tuesday to uphold inheritance and public housing benefits for same-sex married couples, a decision that supporters hailed as an important step toward expanding gay rights in the territory.
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This is a key constituent of fascism & the very essence of ‘Muskism’: promoting bullshit, silencing truth-tellers & calling the whole grift ‘free speech’. Twitter as a rehearsal for the USA.
Trump has vowed to crack down on universities involved in misinformation research, or what he dubs the "censorship cartel" - e.g. by curbing funds to those that have "flagged content for removal”, or legal threats
“I'm pretty fucking scared," one professor tells me.
www.ft.com/content/bfb4...
“I'm pretty fucking scared," one professor tells me.
www.ft.com/content/bfb4...
Donald Trump’s return sends shivers through the anti-misinformation world
Vow to crack down on the ‘censorship cartel’ has researchers worried — and Big Tech is on notice
www.ft.com
November 26, 2024 at 8:29 AM
This is a key constituent of fascism & the very essence of ‘Muskism’: promoting bullshit, silencing truth-tellers & calling the whole grift ‘free speech’. Twitter as a rehearsal for the USA.
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Nature is our life support system. Perhaps we can remember & recognise this by switching off the horrid machine that is Black Friday.
This article by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is still brilliant & so relevant.
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This article by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is still brilliant & so relevant.
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Too right it's Black Friday: our relentless consumption is trashing the planet | Black Friday | The Guardian
Growth must go on – and it’s destroying the Earth. But there’s no way of greening it. So we need a new system, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
amp.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Nature is our life support system. Perhaps we can remember & recognise this by switching off the horrid machine that is Black Friday.
This article by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is still brilliant & so relevant.
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This article by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is still brilliant & so relevant.
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This post from the PM is problematic for a number of reasons.
A thread…🧵
A thread…🧵
November 21, 2024 at 10:15 PM
This post from the PM is problematic for a number of reasons.
A thread…🧵
A thread…🧵
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Anyone who thinks our benefit system is too generous, has clearly had their common sense surgically extracted by the Daily Mail.
Losing your job is financially catastrophic (esp for mortgage payers, who drop to just 12% of an average wage overnight). And our sickness benefits bill is similarly mean.
Losing your job is financially catastrophic (esp for mortgage payers, who drop to just 12% of an average wage overnight). And our sickness benefits bill is similarly mean.
November 24, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Anyone who thinks our benefit system is too generous, has clearly had their common sense surgically extracted by the Daily Mail.
Losing your job is financially catastrophic (esp for mortgage payers, who drop to just 12% of an average wage overnight). And our sickness benefits bill is similarly mean.
Losing your job is financially catastrophic (esp for mortgage payers, who drop to just 12% of an average wage overnight). And our sickness benefits bill is similarly mean.
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Just incredibly bleak that when a Labour government is finally in power, disabled people still have to wake up to front pages calling them a blight on society.
November 24, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Just incredibly bleak that when a Labour government is finally in power, disabled people still have to wake up to front pages calling them a blight on society.
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Every truly meaningful act of integrity involves some sort of sacrifice.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Every truly meaningful act of integrity involves some sort of sacrifice.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, Madeleine Riffaud joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train. She died on Nov. 6 at her home in Paris. She was 100.
Madeleine Riffaud, ‘the Girl Who Saved Paris,’ Dies at 100
Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, she joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, Madeleine Riffaud joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train. She died on Nov. 6 at her home in Paris. She was 100.
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All I want for Christmas is for Twitter to keep bleeding away millions of users every day to Bluesky until Twitter is nothing more than a bigger, emptier, Truth Social shithole.
Manifest THAT. 🙏🎁
Manifest THAT. 🙏🎁
November 25, 2024 at 5:07 AM
All I want for Christmas is for Twitter to keep bleeding away millions of users every day to Bluesky until Twitter is nothing more than a bigger, emptier, Truth Social shithole.
Manifest THAT. 🙏🎁
Manifest THAT. 🙏🎁
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Hunger is a violation of basic human rights – we should be outraged by UK's food bank crisis.
Work doesn't pay. 38% of universal credit claimants are at work.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Must redistribute income/wealth. Tax the rich.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/food...
Work doesn't pay. 38% of universal credit claimants are at work.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Must redistribute income/wealth. Tax the rich.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/food...
UK's food bank crisis is violating our basic human rights
Food banks are a violation of our human right to food on an unprecedented scale. Hunger should spark outrage, writes Just Fair’s Alex Firth.
www.bigissue.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:38 AM
Hunger is a violation of basic human rights – we should be outraged by UK's food bank crisis.
Work doesn't pay. 38% of universal credit claimants are at work.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Must redistribute income/wealth. Tax the rich.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/food...
Work doesn't pay. 38% of universal credit claimants are at work.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Must redistribute income/wealth. Tax the rich.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/food...
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One of the things I still don’t understand is how these tech bros can be pro-technology and anti science.
November 25, 2024 at 1:21 PM
One of the things I still don’t understand is how these tech bros can be pro-technology and anti science.
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Breaking News: Donald Trump’s legal team found evidence that a top adviser asked for fees to promote potential appointees for administration jobs.
Top Trump Aide Accused of Asking for Money to ‘Promote’ Potential Appointees
President-elect Donald J. Trump ordered the investigation by his legal team into Boris Epshteyn, a powerful figure in the transition. Mr. Epshteyn denies the allegations.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:43 AM
Breaking News: Donald Trump’s legal team found evidence that a top adviser asked for fees to promote potential appointees for administration jobs.
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Earth parts ways with its temporary ‘second moon’
www.independent.co.uk/space/earth-...
www.independent.co.uk/space/earth-...
Earth parts ways with its temporary ‘second moon’
This may not be the last time we encounter this space rock
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2024 at 5:29 AM
Earth parts ways with its temporary ‘second moon’
www.independent.co.uk/space/earth-...
www.independent.co.uk/space/earth-...
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Congolese-American sociologist Pierre van den Berghe has explained how Israel (copying Apartheid South Africa) introduced “herrenvolk democracy”: democracy for the master race but tyranny for subordinate groups. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UN has failed us on Gaza. We need to decolonize and radically reform it | Omar Barghouti
By decolonizing, I mean a transformative process that embeds the views of marginalized and most affected communities
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Congolese-American sociologist Pierre van den Berghe has explained how Israel (copying Apartheid South Africa) introduced “herrenvolk democracy”: democracy for the master race but tyranny for subordinate groups. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Israel: Palestinian prisoners suffer from scabies outbreak amid dire conditions - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestinian-prisoners-suffer-scabies-outbreak-amid-dire-conditions
Israel: Palestinian prisoners suffer from scabies outbreak amid dire conditions
An investigation by Haaretz found that a quarter of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody had the infectious skin disease
www.middleeasteye.net
November 25, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Israel: Palestinian prisoners suffer from scabies outbreak amid dire conditions - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestinian-prisoners-suffer-scabies-outbreak-amid-dire-conditions
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93% of Observer and @theguardian.com journalists are taking a stand against a takeover attempt. They have my earnest support.
I show this support on Bluesky by:
1. reposting info like this
2. in my profile description
3. and in my profile background masthead image
What more can I do to assist?
I show this support on Bluesky by:
1. reposting info like this
2. in my profile description
3. and in my profile background masthead image
What more can I do to assist?
700+ journalists at Britain’s only liberal newspaper(s) believe that something has gone so profoundly wrong in their own organisation that 93% of them have voted to go on strike
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Guardian strike: Staff agree 48-hour walkout over Observer sale to Tortoise
Guardian strike vote: Staff agree 48-hour walkout in protest at proposed sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media
pressgazette.co.uk
November 21, 2024 at 9:36 PM
93% of Observer and @theguardian.com journalists are taking a stand against a takeover attempt. They have my earnest support.
I show this support on Bluesky by:
1. reposting info like this
2. in my profile description
3. and in my profile background masthead image
What more can I do to assist?
I show this support on Bluesky by:
1. reposting info like this
2. in my profile description
3. and in my profile background masthead image
What more can I do to assist?
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Why are Guardian and Observer journalists going on strike for four days in December over the deal to offload the Observer onto a failing digital startup? Five reasons here. Please repost 🙏
November 22, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Why are Guardian and Observer journalists going on strike for four days in December over the deal to offload the Observer onto a failing digital startup? Five reasons here. Please repost 🙏
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Why have the Guardian & Observer's journalists voted overwhelming to go on strike? I've attempted to summarise our concerns, the reports so far & why a Scott Trust board meeting tomorrow is a pivotal moment for press freedom & the future of journalism.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
How to Speak Truth to Power
...when that power is your own news organisation? I don't know. And I wish it was a question I didn't have to ask.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Why have the Guardian & Observer's journalists voted overwhelming to go on strike? I've attempted to summarise our concerns, the reports so far & why a Scott Trust board meeting tomorrow is a pivotal moment for press freedom & the future of journalism.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...