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Christine Teunissen @christinepvdd.bsky.social · 3w ago

Twee miljoen Palestijnen worden opgesloten op een steeds kleiner stuk Gaza. Ze kunnen geen kant meer op, terwijl Israël hun land inneemt en een muur in Gaza bouwt. Een volgende stap in de verschrikkelijke genocide. Kabinet-Jetten, hoeveel Rode Lijnen nog? Kom nu in actie! Kamervragen 👇

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 3w ago

West Bank: Israel-Backed Settler Violence Drives Displacement Record Year for Settler Attacks on Palestinians | Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/news/2026/08...

West Bank: Israel-Backed Settler Violence Drives Displacement

Attacks by settlers in the occupied West Bank are increasingly driving the forced displacement of Palestinian communities, with dozens at risk of erasure.

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De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl · 3w ago

In Oost-Barta’a op de Westelijke Jordaanoever sloopt Israël flatgebouwen en waterreservoirs van Palestijnen. Boeren kunnen niet meer op hun land, bouwprojecten liggen stil. De bezetting wordt almaar agressiever. www.groene.nl/artikel/geva...

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 3w ago

What else can you call it?

NRC @nrc.nl · 3w ago

Extreemrechtse Israëlische minister Ben-Gvir wil dat elke dag ’30 tot 40′ Gazanen worden gedood, ‘ze zijn het leven niet waard’

De extreemrechtse Israëlische minister van Nationale Veiligheid Itamar Ben-Gvir wil dat er elke dag dertig tot veertig Palestijnen in Gaza worden gedood door de Israëlische…

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Laurens Dassen @laurensdassen.voltnederland.org · 4w ago

600 dagen opgesloten. Dat is geen goed beleid. Dat is onmenselijk. CDA, D66 waar is jullie menselijkheid?!

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4w ago

Pls watch, if you haven’t yet Follow China’s Money. A New Global Order Is Taking Shape. youtu.be/Rk--1aErR8s

Follow China’s Money. A New Global Order Is Taking Shape.

YouTube video by Onest.

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Bart Meerdink @bartmeerdink.bsky.social · 4w ago

Israel is the model for total moral bankruptcy. And what makes things worse is the indifference of most of the establishment in Western countries. In politics and media. Meaning they have been corrupted by Israel's relentless lobby over the years. Out with them and out with Israels enablers.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w ago

Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 4w ago

ZEIT has collected all the info from the attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport and it was as dangerous and deliberate as we feared: (Translation in alt. Full article: www.zeit.de/politik/deut...)

The videos show the Antonov cargo aircraft parked at the airport. And they appear to show that, as early as Tuesday evening at around 7.30 pm, an object flew directly towards this aircraft. It eventually struck one of the wings. The wings are particularly vulnerable parts of the aircraft because they usually contain fuel tanks. Anyone wishing to cause an aircraft to explode would detonate a bomb there. However, that is not what happened in Leipzig. The footage suggests that the object bounced off the wing and fell to the ground. Marks on one of the Antonov’s wings confirm this presumed sequence of events. It is as yet unclear why the explosive device did not detonate.

It is now clearer exactly how the drone approached the aeroplane: not cautiously, but with the obvious intention of damaging it.
It is also clearer what purpose it served. Until now, one of the hypotheses under investigation was that it might simply have been intended as a kind of warning. Armed, yes, but not intended to actually explode. This hypothesis can now hardly be sustained. Leipzig Airport narrowly escaped a devastating attack.

Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · last mo.

So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...

Our last, best chance to cool the Earth

We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...

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Paul te Stroete @paultestroete.bsky.social · last mo.

Trump vertrouwt op onderbuik en stort wereld in chaos, schrijven journalisten in verbijsterend boek over hem www.volkskrant.nl/boeken/trump...

Trump vertrouwt op onderbuik en stort wereld in chaos, schrijven journalisten in verbijsterend boek over hem

Het ongelooflijk goed gedocumenteerde ‘Regime Change – Het tweede presidentschap van Donald Trump van binnenuit’ is een verbluffend staaltje politieke verslaggeving. Journalisten Maggie Haberman en Jo...

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Roos Vonk @roosvonk.bsky.social · last mo.

De gedachte dat we leven in een democratisch land met gelijke rechten voor iedereen, moeten we zo onderhand misschien eens loslaten.

RTL Nieuws@rtl.nl · last mo.

Kentekens afgeplakt: geen boete voor boeren die snelweg blokkeerden

The Guardian @theguardian.com · last mo.

The pro-Israel lobby has swayed US presidents since Truman. It must end with Trump | Ian Lustick and Eli Clifton

Our new book tracks the growth over nearly eight decades, of the most powerful foreign policy lobby in US history

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner

Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis

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Bart Meerdink @bartmeerdink.bsky.social · 2mo ago

👍NRC benoemt expliciet Israels moordpartijen op burgers als oorlogsmisdaden, leugens als leugens, en we zijn zo gewend aan koppen over Palestijnse gezinnen die vermoord worden dat gewoon "Gezin" ons er op wijst dat zij mensen zijn net als wij. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/... (gift link)

Gezin gedood bij luchtaanval op Gaza, waar watertekorten de gezondheidscrisis steeds verder verergeren

Bij een Israëlische luchtaanval op Gaza-Stad is dinsdag een gezin van zes gedood. Het gaat om een vader, moeder en hun vier kinderen. Hun woning werd geraakt en vloog in brand. Het Israëlische leger I...

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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gaza is inmiddels voor 65% door Israël bezet. Bezetting op bezetting, boven op etnische zuivering en genocide. Met de politieke en diplomatieke rugdekking van onze regering en een groot deel v/d internationale gemeenschap. Palestijnen worden steeds verder uitgeknepen, totdat er niemand meer over is.

Israël kondigt plannen aan voor drie nederzettingen in Gazastrook

De Israëlische minister van Defensie heeft plannen aangekondigd voor drie nederzettingen in Gaza. Deze zouden moeten worden gebouwd in het deel dat Israël nu als ‘bufferzone’ aanhoudt – een gebied dat...

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Nature @nature.com · 2mo ago

Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact go.nature.com/4wLiPda

‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized

Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact.

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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 2mo ago

In Eindhoven is het gelukt: woningen bouwen die ook in de zomerhitte lekker koel blijven

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2mo ago

My nine-year-old son Mohammad, killed by Israeli soldiers, is not just another number | Alia Abdel Majid Al-Hallaq

Mohammad was shot after going to play football – and we joined the 54 families in the occupied West Bank whose children were killed by Israel in 2025 alone, says Palestinian mother Aliyah Abdel Majid al-Halaq

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2mo ago

The immorality of world leaders is contagious. Thank heavens for the pope | Simon Tisdall

In a political wasteland dominated by billionaires, war criminals and mega-corporations, the head of the Catholic church is a rare figure of moral leadership, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Got a quick minute? Let's talk about the raid on the Ohio Organizing Collaborative. Oh, you haven't heard of it? That's the problem. The Trump Admin isn't just going after the high-profile names. It's widening its target.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot

The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Precision fermentation could radically transform our food system — without radically transforming what foods we eat. That's why we're teaming up with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social to make a short film about it, and we need your help to make it happen. ⬇️🐄❌ www.gofundme.com/f/no-cows-ne...

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3mo ago

Not yet worried about tyranny in Britain? This is why you should be | Owen Jones

Chilling comments by Reform figures can’t be dismissed when you consider the overwhelming power of the UK’s centralised state, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you want there be to rules in government beyond Trump’s whimsy, now is a good time to say something. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...

This new OMB Rule Is Bigger Than Science. Much Bigger.

This image was generated by Google AI (Gemini)

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Bart Meerdink @bartmeerdink.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Israel is a terrorist nation, but has been allowed to build an extensive network of supporters in most Western countries in influential positions, including politics and media. That's why it holds a chokehold over US, UK, Germany, France, Netherlands etc and continues to escape accountability.

frontlinebackroom.bsky.social@frontlinesbackrooms.substack.com · 3mo ago

20 EU sanctions packages on Russia. 0 on Israel. This week’s Monday Brief compares Ukraine, Gaza, and Lebanon through cold statistics. Sometimes numbers are more dangerous than opinions. open.substack.com/pub/frontlin...

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣 Just out: our new study on the 'cold blob' in the Northern Atlantic. Is that due to ocean currents bringing less heat there, or due to more heat being lost through the sea surface? Our data analysis strongly suggests it's due to #AMOC slowing. 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Bart Meerdink @bartmeerdink.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Israel is an abomination, this is further proof. Everyone who still supports Israel is exposed as evil. The 1947 UN Resolution might have been the basis for legitimate Arab and Jewish states. It was swept aside. From the very start, Israel was based on ethnic cleansing and land theft, not UN 181 II.

Zeteo@zeteo.com · 3mo ago

I Was Detained by Israel: Here’s What Ben-Gvir Didn’t Want You to See Zeteo contributor Alex Colston who was released from Israeli detention a week ago, breaks down the torture and other abuse Israel inflicted on Global Sumud Flotilla activists beyond the camera’s view. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/israel-flo...

Arvindjadwa @arvindjadwa.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nearly 2 billion people live in the red area. It is becoming completely uninhabitable. What do the climate deniers, who also hate immigration, think is going to happen?