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This is how western banks and insurers finance Israel’s war in Gaza Israeli government bonds are proving vital for the country’s financing of its war in Gaza. Germany’s Allianz and major European banks such as Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas are investing in or backing ...

Who is financing Israel’s war in Gaza? Allianz, via its US arm PIMCO, has bought nearly $1 billion in Israeli ‘war bonds’. Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas and Barclays have underwritten almost $5 billion. Experts call it a “flagrant violation of human rights responsibilities.”

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i support her right to be strange and off-putting bc i remember the radio station holding a countdown to her 18th birthday

i feel like im going crazy bc housing prices are crushing me and every day i wake up and see the political convo being "is cantaloupe is woke?" "did TGIF change its logo?" "are we renaming new mexico to new america?"

District judge throws out prosecution against protester in DC with prejudice, slams US attorney for a pattern of abuse

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Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

The bees have discovered Brutalism

EU has the power to fight foreign meddling – but isn’t using it, democracy expert says Foreign actors are intensfying their efforts to influence Europe’s democracies, and the EU is scrambling to respond. Its lawmakers are set to vote this week on creating national transparency registers...

The EU is “uniquely vulnerable” to foreign interference, warns democracy researcher Luise Quaritsch. From fake news sites to secret lobbying, foreign actors are working to erode trust in Europe’s democracies.

Full interview available via our website and app.

Podcast | European companies are plundering Senegal’s seas In Senegal, fishing is the backbone of the economy. But local fishermen’s nets are coming back empty. Journalists Hans Wetzels and Remy Käller discovered how European fishing companies are plundering ...

In Senegal, fishing is the backbone of the economy. But local fishermen’s nets are coming back empty. The culprit? European fishing companies are plundering Senegal’s seas. With livelihoods disappearing, many young West-Africans see no other option but to migrate to Europe in search of a future.

wow, difficult decision! do the right thing and cement your legacy as a hero in history books. or make a lot of money!

tough!!

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Extraordinarily corrupt. I watched FCC chair Brendan Carr's full interview on Hannity. Carr basically said straight out that coverage of Trump he deems overly hostile can be decreed contrary to the "public interest," and thus grounds for yanking licenses:

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Naked authoritarian fascism. Love and support to the entire team at @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social, who *will* come out the other side of this horrendous abuse of power. Disgusted to see ABC caving to this glaringly illegal and unconstitutional threat from Brendan Carr.

If Jimmy Kimmel had made comments about killing homeless people via involuntary lethal injection.

He’d still have a job.

Big Manky American Christian Fascists

New podcast: how the American Christian Right has invoked morality to drive neoliberal policies that built today’s unequal and unstable society—and how they continue to do this with the culture wars open.spotify.com/episode/2ApA...

“leftists have an infighting problem” buddy you should see what they’re doin to each other on the far right

writing crime haikus to my crime partner which i decorate with a crime drawing for his birthday card

AI will drive mass unemployment and inequality

And this is another useful reflection on which protests are publicized internationally.

"By far the biggest expense when making games is salaries."

Whose salaries?

i need politicians to be as mad at housing prices as they are about cracker barrel's new logo

Podcast | The corporate campaign to weaken Europe’s fight against forever chemicals It’s in our food, wine and water: Rising levels of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) – a type of “forever chemical” linked to serious health problems – are causing alarm in Europe. Yet when Brussels revised ...

It’s in our food, wine & water – but few in the EU talk about it. Rising levels of TFA, a “forever chemical” tied to serious health risks, are alarming scientists. In our latest podcast, we uncover how industry lobbying helped weaken Brussels’ response.

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone

Here we go...

'Rachel Reeves needs to put up taxes to cover £40bn deficit... a rise of 5p in the pound on basic and higher rate of income tax would fill the budget gap'

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Pfizer text messages lost right after access request, New York Times reports In a potentially explosive development, the European Commission has admitted it did not retain text messages after a journalist requested access to it.

🔊 EU Commission admits it lost Pfizergate texts after (!) access request

A doc that the Commission released to the NYT finally provides clarity on what happened áfter @alexfanta.bsky.social filed his request to access the texts between Ursula von der Leyen and Pfizer 👇

www.ftm.eu/articles/pfi...

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.

How did 3M’s “forever chemicals” end up in all of us? Sharon Lerner reports the inside story of the corporate scientists who discovered—then helped to conceal—the dangers of its chemicals.

Why billionaires are funding the far right