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In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape.

“In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian”

According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile sexual assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape, writes Minnah Arshad for Zeteo:

04.11.2025 03:35 — 👍 1165    🔁 408    💬 32    📌 11
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03.11.2025 21:44 — 👍 17925    🔁 7127    💬 940    📌 400

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

03.11.2025 15:36 — 👍 40987    🔁 11501    💬 1329    📌 694
New York Post headline:

Nearly a million New
Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor
- possibly igniting largest exododus in history: poll

New York Post headline: Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor - possibly igniting largest exododus in history: poll

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

03.11.2025 15:36 — 👍 11756    🔁 1552    💬 509    📌 740

Incredibly, people still take this bloke seriously when he tells them he'll be terraforming Mars by easter. He's an inveterate liar, a child.

03.11.2025 08:29 — 👍 894    🔁 181    💬 90    📌 13
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US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.

🚨🚨Things are just getting worse. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

03.11.2025 12:07 — 👍 538    🔁 356    💬 40    📌 90

I hope the BBC will challenge Nigel Farage today over the economic damage caused by the Brexit he championed.

He needs to be held to account for the damage he's done instead of always being given an easy ride.

03.11.2025 09:30 — 👍 1493    🔁 399    💬 138    📌 30
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Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

02.11.2025 18:53 — 👍 1638    🔁 442    💬 22    📌 13

Canada says “elbows up.” I say for America, “cameras out.” Film every last one of these brutal criminals. We will need the evidence for their trials.

01.11.2025 06:35 — 👍 16608    🔁 4366    💬 297    📌 131
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Reform Is Losing Councillors Elected In May At An 'Unusual' Rate Reform UK has lost more than 5 per cent of the councillors it had elected six months ago, an analysis by PoliticsHome has found.

One in twenty Reform councillors elected in May 2025 has left by the Autumn
- half expelled/suspended
- a quarter resigned from council
- some defected

An "unusual rate" of attrition in 6 months, says Tony Travers

www.politicshome.com/news/article...

01.11.2025 10:58 — 👍 556    🔁 281    💬 33    📌 25
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

29.10.2025 12:01 — 👍 2644    🔁 1199    💬 44    📌 75
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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

28.10.2025 01:00 — 👍 2062    🔁 903    💬 43    📌 69

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

27.10.2025 21:08 — 👍 35979    🔁 13711    💬 1041    📌 629
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Hey guys! You know I'm not convinced that Nigel Farage is an entirely unbiased commentator on this.

27.10.2025 17:34 — 👍 865    🔁 143    💬 60    📌 6

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP.

And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

28.10.2025 07:45 — 👍 3675    🔁 1182    💬 166    📌 45
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That's what parliamentary expenses are for. Would you rather a beanbag?

27.10.2025 11:18 — 👍 89    🔁 8    💬 8    📌 0
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Back in the 1960s, the Smothers Brothers made fun of President Lyndon Johnson and his policies many times on their popular television show. The president wrote them a letter in response.

26.10.2025 13:55 — 👍 4814    🔁 1444    💬 177    📌 74
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Why Is Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ Focused on Deradicalizing Palestinians, Not Israelis? Israel violated the ceasefire, while Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian woman and US journalist, and Israeli rioters shut down a soccer match.

"Why Is Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ Focused on Deradicalizing Palestinians, Not Israelis?"

Israel violated the ceasefire, while Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian woman and US journalist, and Israeli rioters shut down a soccer match, writes Zeteo's @premthakker.bsky.social.

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25.10.2025 20:37 — 👍 1667    🔁 421    💬 67    📌 12
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The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

22.10.2025 16:05 — 👍 877    🔁 319    💬 26    📌 15

Via Press Gazette: "The Daily Star’s livestream of the Liz Truss lettuce has been acquired by the British Film Institute’s National Archive for a collection of significant pieces of online video. The BFI’s curator said it was “a seminal moment in British political history”"

21.10.2025 19:13 — 👍 1118    🔁 282    💬 11    📌 27

Air traffic controllers at foodbanks,government workers remain unpaid . Kristi Noem spends 172 million on private jets. The Whitehouse being demolished. Fascism ? Your soaking in it.

21.10.2025 13:54 — 👍 808    🔁 231    💬 19    📌 9
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Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

21.10.2025 18:34 — 👍 1402    🔁 755    💬 697    📌 1304
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🐢 Teenage Mutant Nazi Turtles Peter Rothpletz on the GOP's latest racist group chat scandal, Trump demolishing the White House, Fox comparing Portland to Gaza, and the latest in Sudan.

"Young 'conservatives' have no conception of conservatism outside of the MAGA movement... They are utterly untethered to reasonable discourse...in a perpetual, hateful adolescence."

- Peter Rothpletz, with his first 'First Draft' newsletter for Zeteo:

21.10.2025 16:29 — 👍 1542    🔁 341    💬 52    📌 9
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Suggest you jump in on this poll.

—> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...?

And share…

21.10.2025 07:34 — 👍 986    🔁 836    💬 332    📌 88

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

20.10.2025 12:08 — 👍 29475    🔁 7334    💬 1035    📌 364
FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

20.10.2025 06:43 — 👍 10701    🔁 2802    💬 613    📌 266

All week the pro-Israel and pro-Trump supporters screamed at us, in unison: why aren’t you celebrating the ceasefire??

Because we knew it wouldn’t last. But even I didn’t think it’d be over in less than a week. What a complete & utter humiliation for Trump, thanks to Netanyahu.

19.10.2025 17:09 — 👍 5244    🔁 1307    💬 235    📌 41

When Israel bombs Gaza after pledging itself to a ceasefire, we apparently need to say this is a “Test of ceasefire” to avoid saying what is blatantly obvious, that this is a violation of the ceasefire

Again, I’ll keep on repeating this: Israel does not do ceasefires unless forced to.

19.10.2025 15:09 — 👍 329    🔁 164    💬 3    📌 3

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