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Not a single news outlet has reviewed its coverage of Jason Arday, for accuracy or proportionality. Zero attempt to conduct any inquiry into the media’s role in his death. Instead, the industry has moved into self-congratulatory mode. This isn’t just tone deaf, it betrays a systemic failure

Questioning power, debate, dissent and moral argument are among the best of the Hindu tradition. @ashoswai writes on why diaspora protests matter beyond crowd size, and why criticism of a government is not criticism of India. buff.ly/MQoM4N2

More deaths from #ClimateCrisis as Greenhouse Gas Emissions continue to increase. Time to stop approving all new fossil fuel projects. Scrap subsidies. Increase renewables @simonahac.bsky.social @allegraspender.bsky.social @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

One thing I'm sure you've noticed if you know Republican women is that almost without exception, they are extremely religious. I worked in Republican politics for 11 years and ran into fewer than 5 women out of hundreds that I knew who were non-religious. Many of the men were non-theists.

As long as they respect everyone else's right to vote...

Racism may prevent the opposition fr toppling Bibi. If so, Israel has gotten what it deserves. A total mess & possibly 4 more yrs of the Judeo fascist. BTW, Ben Gvir has crowned himself the next defense minister 🤮 2/2

The problem of the Israeli opposition is that it has to break one of the following promises or positions: 1. Not to rely on Arab parties 2. Not to serve under Netanyahu 3. Not to go to another election.

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bold words from imperialists whose sailors are jumping off aircraft carriers to avoid the indignity of serving on them

Watching politicians who rode the “tough on crime” magic carpet to power absolutely cringe at the thought of investigating the president & his cabinet is something else. I guess if the targets of the prosecutions aren’t poor & powerless, they’re just not interested.

We're seeing historically massive voter turnouts in Arab Israeli cities — Rahat: 72.2%, Tayibe: 62.7%, Shefa-Amr: 62.3%, Nazareth: 58.4%. A big result for Ra'am and the Joint List could inflict serious damage on Netanyahu's coalition, but also complicate the opposition bloc's govt formation.

So they're not even really a homeland for all Jews?

2026 on going Nakba: Hebron Municipality’s latest official survey records 780 evicted families — 4,969 people facing hardship. Among them: 312 people with chronic illnesses, 44 people with disabilities, 216 pregnant or breastfeeding women, 441 older adults, and 336 infants under two.

Yes well it does require things like “empathy” and possessing a basic understanding that all of our lives are interconnected

The "30%/one third" rule of thumb for housing has always been funny because it a) hasn't been based in any empirical research on affordability b) has been both used as an affordability metric **and a housing market pricing metric**. There's a very good history of this in a Canadian context.

When people experience nothing but personalist politics, their political imagination atrophies. Israelis vote for the party whose head they want as PM, and don't notice that they have no political apparatus to get things done. So they get despondent and turn inward, away from political engagement.

The 2021 Knesset - the first not to form a government headed by Netanyahu in more than a decade - was toppled because a single MK from Naftali Bennet's party defected to Likud. It's no exaggeration to say that this single, anti-democratic act may have cost thousands of Israeli and Palestinian lives.

This is *NUTS* bsky.app/profile/abig...

This is a good primer on Israel's political situation going into tomorrow's election. But I'd like to go deeper on something he only touches on, which is that part of the reason for Israel's electoral doldrums (and resulting geopolitical chaos) is its broken political system bsky.app/profile/avis...

Israeli forces have resumed bulldozing agricultural land in southern Syria as part of an expanding military fortification project near the occupied Golan Heights.

“The targets are innocent civilians whom no one would classify as combatants,” Netanyahu writes. “Having defined all of society as a field of combat, the terrorist demands that his activity, which would ordinarily be viewed as gangsterism, be treated with the respect given to legitimate warfare.”

"Zionist terrorism goes back much farther than Palestinian terrorism." Author Benjamin Moser tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social the story of Jacob Israël de Haan, a Jewish critic of Zionism assassinated outside a Jerusalem synagogue in 1924. Watch the full discussion: zeteo.com/p/zionists-a...

"In devising the “War on Terror” framework that the U.S. would go on to pursue, Netanyahu also provided himself a blueprint of terrorism he himself would later follow to a T."

We condemn the political threats made by Opposition Leader Jess Wilson on Sunday and reject her misleading connection between protest of Israel’s genocide and the horrific Bondi attack. Protesting a livestreamed genocide is not antisemitic. Our release: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/10/jewi...

Further addendum: @nilo.bsky.social who seems to know what he's talking about if you look at his profile, disagrees with my take and has outlined why the result may be down not to turnout but to right-wing swing voters who dislike Lula but distrust Bolsonaro more. bsky.app/profile/nilo...

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

"It will be the first time in Canada, and one of the first times anywhere in the world, that a national government faces a full evidentiary trial over the adequacy of its climate policies in a case brought by youth activists." #Canada #Climate #Courts #FossilFuels

Known nuclear armed players in the Middle East are: 1. Israel. At least 90 boosted single-stage nukes, possibly also some thermonuclear. 2. The USA. 100s of nukes, including new miniature 2-stage thermonuclear. 3. Pakistan. About 170 warheads, probably single-stage. MIRV-capable ballistic missiles.

I would honestly like to see a lot more of these stories shared publicly, and I’m ok with holding back my “no shit, you fucking idiot!” reflex response a little bit if it means more of these people changing their minds and changing their votes. I don’t have to be their friends!

Juxtastat 1149 4/5 🟥🟩🟩🟩🟩 juxtastat.org

Fingers crossed that all of Europe recognizes the corruption inherent in these right-wing strongman parties…