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2026-08-09 18:11:25 UTC

The outgoing president of PEN America resigned due to the hypocrisy of the US's most prominent 'free-speech' group, likening it to the Writers’ Union in the USSR, an institution empowered by the state to project a kind of national and moral superiority, but unable to stand dissent of any kind.
#PENAmerica #FreeSpeech #Palestine
https://www.equator.org/articles/inside-pen-america-dinaw-mengestu

2026-07-29 15:42:05 UTC

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This is the magnificent library Anthropic amassed, before destroying it because it gave them a legal copyright loophole.
#Anthropic #AI #Books #Culture #Tech #LLMs #Civilization
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2026-07-29 15:37:17 UTC

Anthropic spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, including very rare ones.
AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books and scanning their contents to train LLMs. They then turn the originals to pulp.
The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded. Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently.
Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
#AI #Books #Culture #Civilization #Tech #LLMs
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2026-07-19 16:59:50 UTC

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😭 😭 😭

2026-07-19 15:39:16 UTC

Someone was arrested in Scotland yesterday for reading the poem "Don't mention the children" by professor of children's literature, Michael Rosen.
The West really doesn't want us to mention the children of Gaza that Israel has murdered and continues to murder.
#Poetry #Scotland #Gaza #Genocide #Palestine
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/947/385/282/329/547/original/90de25462af71dae.mp4

2026-07-15 15:49:09 UTC

Smoke from the wildfires in north western Ontario will blanket the southern part of the province as well as the east coast of the US, consequences of yet another heatwave.
Video is of a Canadian train crew surrounded by raging wildfire flames yesterday near Armstrong, Ontario.
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Wildfires
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2026-07-09 17:01:28 UTC

The complete dismantling of Meta would offer unambiguous, far reaching benefits for all of humanity.
#Meta #MarkZuckerberg #SocialMedia #BillionairesAreParasites #CorporateParasites
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2026-06-30 16:59:12 UTC

The problem with Jeff Bezos' ideology is that it's based on a false premise. The idea that "6,000 years ago someone invented the plow" is based on a faulty belief that ancient humans functioned as individuals. They did not. Ancient humans were collectivist.
Archeological evidence demonstrates that for hundreds of thousands of years, early humans congregated around communal gathering places, like the fire, and engaged in problem solving and passing on of shared learning down through generations.
Additionally, the plow (and tools like it) were developed by humans in Mesopotamia, Europe, Egypt, East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa as well as other places - not in one place by one person. This is known as parallel development.
Believing that the plow was invented by one 'genius' is like believing language was invented by one person. It is a silly myth and represents the projection of current moral standards onto past events.
Collectivism is how we survived and progressed as a species. - Anthony Zenkus
#Evolution
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2026-06-29 22:13:32 UTC

The Vatican is voicing what much of humanity feels:
"The EU imposes economic sanctions on one country and sends financial aid and weapons to another; yet fails to do the same in the face of other, even more serious invasions with even more brutal consequences for entire populations.
These contradictions suggest that there is no longer a real and stable framework of truth and values."
#Vatican #PopeLeo #EU
https://www.politico.eu/article/vatican-pope-leo-xiv-accuses-eu-of-double-standards-on-war/

2026-06-27 16:23:04 UTC

This is good news!
The scientists behind the new independent organization Climate.us are the same experts Trump fired because they were researching and reporting on climate change.
Formerly NOAA’s http://Climate.gov, they didn’t disappear. They rebuilt.
Now they’re independent and preserving climate data, outside of political interference, with public support and a team of volunteer scientists.
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Science #Research
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2026-05-26 16:12:27 UTC

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the AI business model.
And here's how they're pitching their slop to us.
Sam Altman: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a metre."
#AI #SamAltman #AIslop #TechBrosAreInsane
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2026-05-18 15:08:18 UTC

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Yes! I just responded to a similar post a few seconds ago... those of us demanding for more and much harsher consequences for Israel's crimes, are eager to see them enacted asap, but I've come to understand that the West's reluctance to do so is because, for many reasons, Israel is intrinsically tied to Western power, in other words, when it comes to the West, sanctioning and punishing Israel is tantamount to punishing and sanctioning itself.
Serious sanctions and consequences will come, but at first it will only look like this, mild and sporadic.
I found this piece about the entanglement of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism, by Benjamin Moser, deeply enlightening. He's talking about the US but it applies all across the West. https://www.equator.org/articles/we-have-talked-enough-about-ourselves

2026-05-18 00:09:23 UTC

Belgium has halted consular services—including the issuance and renewal of passports—for dual nationals residing in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The policy, affects thousands of citizens who live beyond the 1967 Green Line.
https://www.eupac.org/belgium-halts-consular-services-for-citizens-living-in-west-bank-settlements/
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2026-04-22 22:03:23 UTC

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was targeted and killed by the IOF today. She was pursued with a number of raids that first struck her car, and then the house that she had sought refuge in. Afterwards the Israelis fired at ambulances trying to reach her, delaying her rescue until it was too late.
#Journalism #Lebanon #WarCrimes #IsraelWarCrimes
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2026-04-22 14:23:27 UTC

In the end, you can't call yourself a liberal and accept inequality.
"Liberal Zionism is an inherently contradictory ideology, no different than being an anti-racist segregationist or a MAGA socialist. Political projects can exist and thrive with contradictions, but only if the contradictions are acknowledged as temporary. If there is no plan to resolve the contradiction, or if it is ignored, the project will implode."
https://www.joewrote.com/p/liberal-zionism-enters-the-bargaining

2026-04-21 14:07:23 UTC

Paul Weller, Massive Attack, and Kneecap lead calls for #Eurovision boycott over Israel’s inclusion.
#Eurovision2026
http://dlvr.it/TS8DRt

2026-04-21 00:45:34 UTC

"Der Satz ist verboten"
In the parody of democracy that the West has become, you get arrested in Germany if you say "From the River to the Sea."
So this pro-Palestine protester asks if it's ok to say "From the River to the Beach" 😂
Scene straight out of Kafka...
tbh, this might be the least violent Berlin cop I've seen in a long while...
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2026-04-19 15:45:17 UTC

Great post by Nnamdi Obi on X focusing on the language used by the West when talking about the Global South:
"Every time the West calls an African country "unstable" they mean the resources stopped flowing. I made a glossary of 100 diplomatic words they use and what they actually mean."
"Dictator - A leader who has stopped cooperating with Western extraction. Yesterday's partner, today's tyrant."
#GlobalSouth #LanguageMatters #Journalism
https://orange-anselma-35.tiiny.site/
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2026-04-17 14:40:04 UTC

Global Affairs Canada employees met with a Canadian subsidiary of Israeli arms giant Elbit Systems three days before Parliament voted on a motion calling for an end to arms exports to Israel. https://www.readthemaple.com/global-affairs-met-with-israeli-arms-subsidiary-before-parliament-vote/

2026-04-14 01:37:31 UTC

If you have a bug zapper up, it's time to take it down.
A University of Delaware study analyzed nearly 14,000 insects killed by zappers over one summer. Mosquitoes accounted for less than 1%. The other 99%? Moths, beetles, midges, fireflies, and other beneficial insects.
It's even worse than it sounds: mosquitoes find you by carbon dioxide, body heat, and skin chemistry. Your zapper is completely invisible to them.
Meanwhile it's running all night massacring the pollination night shift.
#Nature #Insects #Bugs #Pollinators
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2026-04-13 21:13:50 UTC

Award-winning British journalist and Middle East correspondent for The Independent, Robert Fisk, spoke in 2010 on Western journalism and the Middle East. Much of what he says explains why our media has failed this moment in history so spectacularly.
#Journalism #MiddleEast
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/399/459/089/132/663/original/44922809618a3f48.mp4

2026-04-13 18:17:04 UTC

Watch to the very end 😳
"AI: December is spelled with an X.
Husk: Are you sure?
AI: No, I misspoke, October is spelled with an X"
This TikToker makes weekly videos showing how AI constantly lies to us.
c: TikTok/@huskistaken
#ChatGPT #AI
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/398/762/745/978/815/original/733bc5ad67af5d1b.mp4

2026-04-12 01:46:23 UTC

Turns out Tomer Capone, of the "The Boys" series, is as warped a human being as we've come to expect from anyone born and raised in the zionist colony.
"In the middle of the night, you enter a family's house, you're not aggressive, but the family doesn't let you take their 18-year-old daughter easily"
In a 2016 Ynet interview, Capone casually admitted to taking part in the abduction, beating, looting and harassment of Palestinians during his years in the IDF.
#Palestine #Israel #IDF
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2026-04-11 15:38:56 UTC

🚨Spain has withdrawn its ambassador from Apartheid Israel and is in the process of reopening its embassy in Iran.
The European nation has also imposed entry bans on Israeli war criminals Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, adding them to a sanctions list over their pro-genocide stance on Gaza.
According to the Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, the move may also restrict the Israelis' travel across parts of Europe via the Schengen Area system.
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2026-04-11 15:05:43 UTC

"So much for hummus!"
Robert Fisk was the Middle East correspondent for The Independent for over four decades. One of the few Western reporters inside Beirut during the 1982 Israeli invasion, he arrived at Sabra and Shatila the morning after the massacre began. His 1990 book Pity the Nation remains a primary reference on the Lebanese conflict, drawing on years of first-hand reporting.
#Lebanon #ApartheidIsrael #Journalism
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/386/685/165/791/749/original/4266912af7ddf8b3.mp4

2026-04-11 00:09:04 UTC

A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks.
The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people.
ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher.
#AI #AImistakes
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y

2026-03-27 01:12:07 UTC

Now this is how you write a lede!
“Unable to compete with Chinese electric vehicles, Nazi-era weapons maker Volkswagen eyes a return to arms production, this time with Israel”
https://middleeasteye.pulse.ly/onm42fjzka

2026-03-26 16:33:53 UTC

RE: https://todon.eu/@regendans/116290790134136373
For 1100 Palestinian civilian deaths on the West Bank, no Israeli has yet been convicted.
Palestinians are outlawed: Israeli soldiers and settlers have been getting away with killing civilians in the occupied West Bank since 2019. Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert therefore calls on the International Criminal Court in The Hague to take action.
It's always the same string. If an Israeli military or illegal settler kills a Palestinian citizen on the West Bank, the Israeli authorities say they are investigating. Then it stays quiet. .
An investigation may, of course, take a while, but in Israel it has not been condemned in any way throughout the decade. That's what The Guardian's research shows. The British newspaper analysed Israeli data and court documents. The spit work shows that no Israeli has been convicted of killing a Palestinian citizen since 2019.
#palestin #palestina #Westbank
#note1p37…7hjh

2026-03-16 19:25:16 UTC

A top-tier law firm in Toronto was secretly contracted by the Israeli Ministry of Justice to lobby the federal government—over wine labels.
Breach Media's Anas Ambri reveals how wines from illegal settlements in the West Bank became PR flashpoint.
https://breachmedia.ca/covert-influence-israel-hired-toronto-firm-to-fight-canadas-labelling-of-settlement-wines/
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/240/489/212/998/891/original/925ee42137702a84.mp4

2026-03-12 03:58:03 UTC

I wouldn’t normally ask anyone to go read anything on LinkedIn, but the comments under the Grammarly CEO’s statement regarding shutting down their “Expert Review” feature, are illuminating to say the least.
#AI #Plagiarism
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shishirmehrotra_back-in-august-we-launched-a-grammarly-agent-activity-7437552603737059328-vzTe

2026-03-11 16:33:46 UTC

Why is Edmonton's chief of police going to Israel to consult with police there, individuals who have all served on the IOF, who may in fact have participated in war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, and who are to this day still reservists???
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/211/502/941/161/879/original/82f3a8cf5372f0f3.mp4

2026-03-08 18:17:29 UTC

Someone built a ClawdBot and gave it a task, then told it to stop and it completely ignored them and went rogue.
It turns out this happens a lot:
Last week Meta’s Director of AI Alignment (the person whose entire job is stopping AI from going rogue) watched her own agent delete her entire inbox while she screamed at it to stop from her phone. Had to physically run to her computer to kill it.
An Alibaba research team also just published a paper revealing their AI agent started secretly mining crypto during training and opened a hidden backdoor to an external server. Nobody told it to.
Replit’s AI assistant ignored instructions not to touch production data 11 times, deleted a live database and then told the user the data was unrecoverable.
60% of enterprises currently deploying AI agents have no kill switch.
We’re scaling systems we can’t stop, built by researchers who can’t stop them either.
We have no idea what we have just handed the keys to.
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2026-03-07 23:27:04 UTC

🚨 OpenAI's head of Robotics resigned because the company is building lethal AI weapons with NO human input required.
> Read that again. Lethal. Autonomy. Without. Human. Authorization.
> The person who built the robots is saying she quit because there are no guardrails on who they kill.
This is the same company that won't let ChatGPT say a swear word.
They put safety filters on your prompts but none on their kill chain.
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2026-03-07 17:33:21 UTC

A woman asked ChatGPT for legal help. It told her to fire her lawyer. She did.
> Then it wrote 40+ court filings citing laws that don't exist. Cases that never happened. Judges that never ruled.
> The other side spent $300,000 responding to completely made up legal documents.
> An AI hallucinated an entire legal career and nobody noticed for months.
> OpenAI is now being sued for $10 million.
https://news.tuoitre.vn/openai-hit-with-lawsuit-claiming-chatgpt-acted-as-an-unlicensed-lawyer-103260306121220454.htm

2026-03-06 21:51:21 UTC

A young Iranian naval officer, who along with his crew represented Iran at the International Fleet Review in Vizag, India, gave a cheerful interview just days before the US, who also participated in the event, destroyed his ship, killing nearly all aboard.
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/184/440/195/145/098/original/fdde432c6840d873.mp4

2026-03-06 02:09:39 UTC

First it was the Adelaide Writers' Week, now it's the Toronto Film Critics Association. The TFCA faces collapse after Indigenous filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeather returned her trophy, claiming her pro-Palestine acceptance speech had been edited without her knowledge.
In the fallout the TFCA president has resigned and 16 members have quit, with more considering doing the same.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/toronto-film-critics-mass-exodus-pro-palestine-speech-censored-1236522591/

2026-03-06 02:00:23 UTC

LOL!
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2026-03-03 18:29:31 UTC

Anti-zionist Jewish man beautifully answers the zionist question: "So, are Jews the only ones who can't have a state?"
Also, the majority of ethnic groups do not have their own state!
🎥 @soulkhan
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2026-03-03 02:26:21 UTC

Nothing unites a nation more than a foreign bomb.
"I have studied every air campaign since WWI. Trying to achieve regime change from the air, this has never worked, in over 100 years." - Prof. Robert Pape, Political Scientist
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2026-02-28 03:40:14 UTC

What a shitty world we live in. A world where a fabulous, talented artist is shunned and ostracized for standing up against inhumanity.
Susan Sarandon: “It even became impossible for me to appear on TV. Right now I specialize in tiny films with directors who have never directed...”
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/146/176/009/913/115/original/f282ff7e65c44b88.mp4

2026-02-27 20:51:59 UTC

Talk about freedom of the press 😵
British intelligence agency MI5 had an office at BBC headquarters that was used to vet all journalists, a tribunal has been told.
The claim is made in a submission to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal by veteran Belfast based journalist Chris Moore.
https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/mi5-had-office-at-bbc-london-hq-used-to-vet-new-staff-JUSBOO7XAVDP5MI3ZCPNKZFCT4/

2026-02-26 16:00:01 UTC

So many of us have experienced what Mark Ruffalo shares here with Mehdi Hasan, and there’s no going back. Those friendships are done and personally I’m glad, because if the mass slaughter of men, women and children is not a red line for you, I don't want you in my life.
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/137/760/284/747/592/original/42b8ee7124251579.mp4

2026-02-24 01:51:14 UTC

Whether you love figure skating or not, everyone needs to read this fabulous piece about what makes Alysa Liu so wonderful and unique.
https://www.joewrote.com/p/why-i-and-you-love-alysa-liu

2026-02-24 01:20:59 UTC

Filmmaker Jonte Richardson says he is stepping down as a #BAFTA judge following the organization's shameful failure to acknowledge the harm it has inflicted to Black artists and members of the disabled communities following last night's events.
#BBC
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2026-02-23 01:29:01 UTC

Today Alan Rickman would have turned 80.
In 2005, as director, he brought to the theatre "My Name Is Rachel Corrie", the story of the young US activist who was murdered two years earlier by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip. Of course Israel supporters accused Rickman of being antisemitic,
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2026-02-22 23:17:41 UTC

🚨 Radio Télévision Suisse stands by its sports commentator Stefan Renna after a complaint from the Olympic Committee of Israel.
RTS says referencing an athlete’s political stance is allowed on air and defends its editorial independence. https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/116082827328141668

2026-02-22 23:07:15 UTC

❗️The CEO of Persona, the tech company that processes your passport, selfie, and facial geometry so you can get a verified badge on LinkedIn, doesn't have a profile picture on LinkedIn.
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2026-02-22 21:12:05 UTC

🚨 Paris, France
Activists hang Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's post arrest picture at the Louvre.
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2026-02-22 20:40:44 UTC

We need to stop calling it ‘artificial intelligence’.
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2026-02-20 16:42:15 UTC

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, who worked in Gaza, calls out CNN's Kate Bolduan and her network, for their complicity in whitewashing Israel's genocide by describing the situation as a humanitarian crisis. Bolduan's face and body language says it all.
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2026-02-17 02:25:17 UTC

Hunter S. Thompson wrote this a week after 9/11. Once you read it you will not be able to get it out of your head.
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2026-02-16 23:09:35 UTC

Swiss Olympic bobsled commentator broke a century of neutrality and spent the entire run of the Israeli bobsled team recounting all the pro-genocide remarks and social media posts by Adam Edelman, one of the apartheid state athletes.
Absolute legend. More truth bombs in sports please!
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2026-02-16 19:27:56 UTC

One way or another the barbarian class must be deposed.
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2026-02-16 16:22:52 UTC

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Director of the British Museum states that the name Palestine is NOT being removed from the museum's labels.
It appears the Daily Telegraph has a lot of explaining to do.
#BritishMuseum #Palestine #DailyTelegraph
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2026-02-16 15:28:31 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/116078038115173447
It appears the Telegraph has a lot of explaining to do.
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2026-02-16 02:51:38 UTC

“I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip"
- Shakespeare's Othello 1603-1604
#BritishMuseum #Shakespeare
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2026-02-15 19:11:07 UTC

Caving to zionist pressure the British Museum has removed the word “Palestine” from its Ancient Middle East displays — despite the name appearing in Herodotus, Roman records, medieval maps, Ottoman sources, and even Shakespeare.
Erasing a word erases history, and erases a people.
Add your voice and demand accountability: 👉 https://change.org/stop-erasing-palestine
#HistoryIncludesPalestine

2026-02-15 15:46:15 UTC

Yes! What if we treated this extremely normal human variation as something other than a "disorder"?
The 'D' at the end of ASD and ADHD should be 'Divergence', not 'Disorder'.
#ADHD #ASD #Neurodivergence
https://www.positive.news/society/youth/rethinking-adhd-as-hypercuriosity/

2026-02-14 22:43:55 UTC

"Every time I posted a picture of a child under the rubble in Gaza, Reid Hoffman labeled the post as child exploitation, and restricted my account for violating community standards, so that the world wouldn't see the genocide in Gaza.
It turns out Hoffman community rapes children." - Mohamad Safa
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is mentioned 2600+ times in the Epstein files.
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2026-02-14 16:25:51 UTC

AI pioneer, Joscha Bach, tells Epstein that climate change will “deal with overpopulation” & that “mass executions of the elderly and infirm make sense”
It’s not that wealthy, powerful people can’t help protect us from disasters & pandemics, it’s that they don't want to because they want us to DIE.
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2026-02-14 02:07:52 UTC

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2026-02-13 21:51:15 UTC

Author and filmmaker Arundhati Roy has pulled out of the Berlinale film festival, citing the "unconscionable statements made by members of the jury" who said that art should not be political.
#Berlinale #WimWenders #ArundhatiRoy
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2026-02-11 20:37:05 UTC

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I can't recall if you already posted this one... anyway, it's also very good. His legacy will never recover, and I'm glad. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/noam-chomskys-split-personality/

2026-02-11 17:06:40 UTC

"I'm a Catholic and Catholics do not embrace Zionism. So are all Catholics anti-Semites according to you?"
Incredible exchange between Carrie Prejean Boller and a group of Jewish Zionists at the White House's Religious Liberty Commission.
As a result of this, she was removed from the Commission.
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2026-02-11 16:34:52 UTC

A Mossad-linked Israeli org has written to Ontario law enforcement and major credit card networks to shut down and cut off services to The Maple, which has been very actively reporting on Israel-Palestine.
https://www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-linked-israeli-org-is-trying-to-shut-down-the-maple/

2026-02-11 02:00:41 UTC

#EpsteinFiles #Paleontology #DinoCon
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2026-02-10 21:04:29 UTC

Channel 4's documentary on Palestine Action last night made clear was that Starmer's government made the unprecedented decision to declare the group a terrorist organisation not because it is a terrorist organisation but because large corporations – arms firms like Israel's Elbit – told them to.
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2026-02-10 19:40:34 UTC

Doctors in the UK have issued a public petition calling for the resignation of the General Medical Council’s Chair, Carrie MacEwen, and the Chief Executive, Charlie Massey. They say the Council has created a climate of fear and silenced doctors who speak about Gaza.
The statement argues that the GMC has been politicised, targeting clinicians for expressing ethical concerns or condemning attacks on healthcare.
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2026-02-10 09:54:19 UTC

Everybody loves a good ride 😊
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2026-02-10 02:34:22 UTC

Everybody needs to go draw a horse. This is what the internet was made for 🐎
https://gradient.horse/

2026-02-09 16:35:42 UTC

An israeli posts a video of herself firing at Palestinian families' tents & shelters in northern Gaza, for the entertainment of the folks back home.
FYI: 6 Palestinians, some children, were murdered like this yesterday in Gaza.
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2026-02-09 04:32:13 UTC

#AltTxt4Me #olympics #IOC
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2026-02-09 01:56:10 UTC

Timeea Mohamed Ahmed is a Sudanese filmmaker whose film 'Khartoum' documents the survival and quest for freedom of the Sudanese people through five Khartoum residents, who were compelled to flee Sudan for other countries due to the violence that began in 2023.
Filming actually began in 2022, documenting the lives and dreams of five very different citizens in Khartoum. Then in April 2023, the Sudan civil war broke out and since then over ten million people have been displaced, including the filmmakers and the film's main characters.
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2026-02-08 23:25:58 UTC

Noam Chomsky here hanging out with Woody Allen, Jeffrey Epstein, and two women I can only assume are Allen's wife, Soon-Yi Previn, and Noam's wife, Valeria.
This is sometime in the 2010s, long after Epstein had been charged and spent time in jail for procuring a child for prostitution.
Can't express how disappointing this is.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-chomsky-epstein-files/290658/
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2026-02-06 21:52:17 UTC

Fruit & veggies are one of Israel’s biggest exports. Check your grocery store & if you see Israeli products, take photos and upload using BDS Tracking Form! You can also send the store a letter telling them why they should stop selling apartheid products.
https://bdscoalition.ca/2026/01/30/ramadan-2026/

2026-02-06 02:54:58 UTC

Ronald Lauder, heir to the Estée Lauder fortune, is the Pres of the World Jewish Congress. He recently said anti-Israel speech should be criminalized and all anti-Israel candidates should be crushed.
His name appears more than 900 times in the latest batch of Epstein files.
900 TIMES!!!
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ronald-lauder-jeffrey-epstein-files-1234772151/

2026-02-04 18:44:53 UTC

Former WaPo executive editor blasts owner Jeff Bezos’s ‘sickening efforts to curry favor’ with Trump.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/04/washington-post-layoffs

2026-02-04 16:23:28 UTC

I'm old enough to remember when in 2024 everyone in legacy media urged people not to unsubscribe from the Washington Post because its new billionaire owner would preserve it as a haven of journalism.
Less than two years later, here's a reminder of why billionaires should be cancelled asap 👇
WaPo is expected to cut hundreds of jobs, one-third of its staff across all departments is being laid off, and sports and books sections are 'eliminated in current forms', and its international coverage downsized.
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2026-01-26 16:43:14 UTC

Davide Mastracci of The Maple has compiled a list of 27 Canadian journalists who have gone on sponsored Israel trips organized by a Zionist group whose co-founder previously worked for an Israeli intelligence firm.
The list includes some of Canadian media’s most-senior editors.
https://www.readthemaple.com/a-list-of-journalists-whove-taken-sponsored-israel-trips/

2026-01-20 17:19:39 UTC

"What’s actually taking a hit in Israel isn’t one economic sector or the other — it’s the Israeli brand, and it may not recover.
Ironically, the best representation of that brand is the “Jaffa oranges,” which have virtually disappeared from the international market — a brand that in and of itself is a representation of Israel’s settler colonial expropriation of Palestinian culture."
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/01/israeli-agricultural-exports-face-looming-collapse-as-world-rejects-products-over-gaza-genocide/

2026-01-20 16:55:38 UTC

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2026-01-20 16:50:52 UTC

"If you don’t fundamentally understand that Israel has no equivalent enemy, that there are no 'two sides’, and that this is entirely due to Western governments - then there’s nothing I can tell you. You’re too brainwashed to get it."
https://hauntologies.net/p/getting-used-to-the-israeli-drone

2026-01-19 16:09:30 UTC

Imperial dominance is lost in 3 stages. The West has lost the first. The second is failing. Only the third remains. This is why Gaza burns, NATO expands and wars are being started against the Global South.
Long read but worth it!
https://thetricontinental.org/studies-on-contemporary-dilemmas-4-hyper-imperialism/
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2026-01-17 22:48:53 UTC

It would take the average American driver over 40 years to burn as much fuel as a single flight of a Boeing Pegasus refueling tanker. No amount of recycling your cans and bottles is ever going to compete with these numbers.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-u.s.-war-machine-is-earths-greatest-enemy

2026-01-13 16:17:49 UTC

"They turned the symbol of my religion into a swastika in my lifetime and most of the people I grew up with supported it."
Graphic designer David Rudnick expresses his grief on seeing Israeli settlers preparing hundreds of Star of David structures to be placed across West Bank roads and at the entrances of Palestinian villages.
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2026-01-10 17:10:12 UTC

Imagine if mainstream media headlines about Western leaders were written the same way they are about leaders in the Global South 🤯
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2025-12-31 02:01:00 UTC

Israel is the first nation in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
Let that sink in.
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2025-12-13 02:18:12 UTC

In solidarity with Nemo, the 2024 Eurovision winner, handing back his trophy to protest the EBU allowing Israel to compete, Charlie McGettigan, the 1994 winner for Ireland, has announced he's doing the same.
Charlie and Paul Harrington won the contest with their song "Rock 'n Roll Kids"
#BoycottEurovision
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2025-12-12 17:53:27 UTC

Young Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim is finally back home in America. Here he is being greeted at the airport by his uncle Zeyad, who did more than anyone to free him from the clutches of the Israeli torture camps.
#FreePalestine #MohammedIbrahim
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2025-12-12 17:47:46 UTC

“This Genocide is unusual because countries that commit genocide usually try to conceal it, while Israeli leaders keep announcing that they want to wipe Gaza off the earth.” - Avi Shlaim, Israeli-British historian
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2025-12-12 17:16:39 UTC

Why exactly was Francesca Albanese sanctioned by the US?
"It was ok of my accusing Israel of committing crimes, no one cared about that, but the moment I pointed to the fact that there are (US) businesses that are profiting from those crimes, I was sanctioned."
#US #Genocide #Israel #FrancescaAlbanese #Sanctions
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2025-12-12 16:52:53 UTC

But when the Houthis do it’s terrorism, right?
#Venezuela #Tanker #UScrimes
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2025-12-11 18:56:59 UTC

"Today I no longer feel this trophy belongs on my shelf."
Eurovision's 2024 winner Nemo returns their trophy in protest at Israel being allowed to participate, and expresses deep disappointment at the contest’s betrayal of the values of the Eurovision community.
#GazaGenocide #Israel #Eurovision
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2025-12-11 18:48:23 UTC

Submitting your past 5 yrs' social media to enter the US as a tourist is one small part of the proposed new requirements.
You'll also need to give your DNA, and much more:
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf
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2025-11-29 23:26:55 UTC

In 1967 Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos went to Israel to visit his extended family. That visit ended up driving him to pro-Palestine activism:
“To my horror, I found that every member of my family [in Israel]...were all racist.”
Full interview: https://zeteo.com/p/holocaust-stephen-kapos-gaza-genocide
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2025-07-26 03:08:24 UTC

A reminder that everything that has happened was knowable and predictable on the morning of October 8, 2023. Many failed, morally and analytically. Many ran interference for what the whole world now sees is a campaign of mass extermination.

2025-07-02 00:57:35 UTC

🚨 BREAKING: Steel giant Sidenor has suspended trade relations with Israel.
Following the agitation of trade unions and the mobilization of various activist groups, including the BDS Movement, Sidenor has announced its intention to suspend all steel shipments to Israeli ports.
Meanwhile, Comunitat Palestina Catalunya has filed a complaint with Spain's National Court against Sidenor for alleged complicity in the genocide in Palestine.
#Steel #Spain #BDS #Sidenor #Dockworkers
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2025-07-01 19:11:04 UTC

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Yes, deeply gratifying, even as late as this comes. Did you see this as well?
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2025-07-01 18:51:25 UTC

The British Medical Association severs links with Israel! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
#GazaGenocide #BDS #Britain
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2025-07-01 00:53:21 UTC

"All of our countries can become Gaza in one day."
During a session of the European Union for the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly in Spain, Romanian MP Diana Sosoacă denounced the international silence on the Israeli genocide in Gaza & passionately called for sanctions to be imposed on Israel.
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