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(he/him) 🇺🇦 Retired Bridge Burner
#SupportWomensSports
#SmashThePatriarchy
#AmericaFirst
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
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Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/politics/argentina-bailout-investors.html?smid=bs-share
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Christopher Webb
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Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
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The Times & Sunday Times
9 days ago
The Duke of Sussex’s conservation charity has been removed from its role managing protected parks in Chad after the government accused it of arrogance, serious financial misconduct and failing to protect wildlife
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Chad cuts ties with Prince Harry’s ‘disrespectful’ charity
Ministers accuse African Parks of financial irregularity in a rare public rebuke
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-family/article/prince-harry-charity-chad-african-parks-n33zw7ngk?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1759862510-1
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Texas Observer
9 days ago
“It’s like seeing the eye of Sauron hanging over your city.”
#ICYMI
: A massive surveillance tower looming over Juárez is just part of a AI-powered network that extends far beyond the Texas-Mexico border.
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Just Beyond the Texas Border, Chihuahua Is Launching a Burgeoning State Surveillance System
The 20-story Torre Centinela looming over Juárez is part of a much larger AI-powered network that won’t stop at the U.S.-Mexico divide.
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-chihuahua-border-ai-surveillance-centinela/
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PBS News
9 days ago
Numbers alone cannot capture the toll the Israel-Hamas war has taken on the Gaza Strip. But they can help us understand how thoroughly the conflict has upended the lives of 2.1 million Palestinians living in the territory.
https://to.pbs.org/4mZNrlP
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How 2 years of war have devastated Palestinian lives in Gaza
Numbers alone cannot capture the toll the Israel-Hamas war has taken on the Gaza Strip.
https://to.pbs.org/4mZNrlP
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The Times & Sunday Times
9 days ago
What began as research for a play turned into the identification of the instrument Albert Einstein played while developing his theory of relativity
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Einstein’s violin and the scholar who made it his obsession
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/history/article/einsteins-violin-and-the-scholar-who-made-it-his-obsession-lq7qbqtxc?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1759858792
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The New Republic
10 days ago
“We’re going to look at maybe reaching out to Cook County State’s Attorney for subpoenas, “ said the Broadview Police Chief, “It’s actually a violation of law. It would be classified under disorderly conduct, filing a false official report.”
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ICE’s Growing Feud With Chicago Police Now Includes Fake 911 Calls
Surprise, surprise: Federal immigration agents aren’t keeping the community safer.
https://trib.al/EiWTFZx
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Rachel Maddow
10 days ago
"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..."
apnews.com/article/chic...
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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-immigration-federal-arrests-helicopter-trump-ice-8dbf688f78f3b6d1b8fdb989557b28c4
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Mark Hamill
10 days ago
Same.
#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files
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The Economist
10 days ago
Not long after a raid on South Shore in Chicago, the Department of Homeland Security published a video of young Hispanic men being led away in cuffs. The Hollywood-style visuals seem to have been part of the goal
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What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism
The worst excesses seem designed to produce content
https://econ.st/3IRg1rB
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NBC News
10 days ago
GretaThunberg and other activists from an international flotilla arrived in Greece after Israel said it deported activists who attempted to deliver aid to Gaza.
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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
10 days ago
A
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photojournalist was hit with pepper balls and threatened with a Taser while covering an ICE protest in Broadview, Illinois, on Sept. 26.
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Photojournalist shot with pepper balls, threatened at Illinois ICE protest
An unidentified photojournalist with the Chicago Sun-Times was struck in the legs with pepper balls after being threatened earlier by …
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/photojournalist-shot-with-pepper-balls-threatened-at-illinois-ice-protest/
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Daily Maverick
10 days ago
Oct 6 (Reuters) - Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg arrived in Greece to a cheering pro-Palestinian crowd on Monday after she and hundreds of other activists captured by Israel on the high seas were deported following an attempt to bring aid to Gaza.
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Thunberg greeted by cheering crowd in Athens after Israel expels flotilla activists
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-10-06-thunberg-greeted-by-cheering-crowd-in-athens-after-israel-expels-flotilla-activists/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1759777312
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The Washington Post
10 days ago
Paramount Skydance has bought right-leaning journalist Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and named her to CBS News’s top editorial job. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Paramount is said to pay about $150 million in cash and stock.
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Bari Weiss named editor in chief of CBS News
The founder of the Free Press, a website critical of mainstream media, takes a new position in which she will report directly to Paramount CEO David Ellison.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/06/bari-weiss-cbs-paramount/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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PBS News
10 days ago
Rodrick Johnson, a U.S. citizen who was briefly detained, said agents broke through his door and placed him in zip ties. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer,” the 67-year-old told the Chicago Sun-Times. “They never brought one.”
https://to.pbs.org/4pWhXzN
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Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
https://to.pbs.org/4pWhXzN
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Nieman Lab
10 days ago
Today, MSNBC (newly independent from NBC News) and CBS News (now led by Bari Weiss) shared their new journalistic principles. A close reading shows some striking differences.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/msnb...
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Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different
CBS: "America," "American," "all of the tools of the digital era," and speed. MSNBC: Press freedom, the First Amendment, and ethics.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/msnbc-and-bari-weisss-cbs-news-both-just-laid-out-their-journalistic-principles-and-theyre-fascinatingly-different/
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www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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Actors hate Tilly Norwood – but they are their own worst enemies | Catherine Shoard
The backlash against the AI actor has been fierce but with the rise of cosmetic surgery and navel-gazing releases, Hollywood needs to take a long, hard look at itself
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/02/actors-hate-tilly-norwood-but-they-are-their-own-worst-enemies?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oct/02/critique-pure-stupidity-understanding-donald-trump-2?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Anonymous
16 days ago
Congratulations Moldova for being based and kicking out the Russian menace! Your victory is a global victory against fascism and the forces of regression. 🇲🇩 🇲🇩 🇲🇩 🇲🇩🇲🇩 🇲🇩
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Trump’s vision for childhood vaccines could hurt working moms the most
19thnews.org/2025/09/chil...
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Trump’s vision for childhood vaccines could hurt working moms the most
“Intentionally or not, Trump is adding weight to this burden that women are already carrying as family health managers."
https://19thnews.org/2025/09/childhood-vaccine-schedule-trump-working-moms/?&utm_campaign=19th-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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ProPublica
17 days ago
The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.
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The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1759201207&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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WIRED
17 days ago
An app used to dox Charlie Kirk critics doxes its own users instead, a ransomware gang steals data on 8,000 preschoolers, and Microsoft blocks Israel’s military from using its cloud for surveillance, in this week’s security news roundup.
@evystadium.bsky.social
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ProPublica
17 days ago
The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate. It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. (Published May with
@tennesseelookout.com
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This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.
The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...
https://www.propublica.org/article/flex-loans-tennessee-advance-financial?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1759188604&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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ProPublica
18 days ago
Sen. Warnock called Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program “the real waste, fraud, and abuse.” “This report shows that Pathways is incredibly effective at barring working people from health coverage and making corporate consultants richer.”
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Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirement-gao-report?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1759100412&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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war ravaged PDX this morning.
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NPR
19 days ago
Agents said the kneeling was an act of deescalation. The Bureau investigated them at the time and found no causes for discipline. The FBI Agents Association decries the lack of due process.
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FBI agents fired, including some shown kneeling during 2020 protests
Agents said the kneeling was an act of deescalation. The Bureau investigated them at the time and found no causes for discipline. The FBI Agents Association decries the lack of due process.
https://n.pr/46X9ZyF
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Mother Jones
20 days ago
The DOJ's "demand for voters’ personal information, including driver’s license numbers and Social Security numbers, is unprecedented and unlawful, and we will vigorously fight the federal government’s overreach in court."
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/justice-department-trump-voting-rights-act-supreme-court-redistricting-gerrymandering/
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The Guardian
19 days ago
‘Find it in your heart to seek the truth’: Epstein survivor pushes for lawmakers to release files
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‘Find it in your heart to seek the truth’: Epstein survivor pushes for lawmakers to release files
Jess Michaels says authorities are ‘completely ignoring’ hers and dozens of other victims’ statements about Epstein’s trafficking
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/27/jeffrey-epstein-survivor?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1758999444
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The Kyiv Independent
21 days ago
⚡️ EU reportedly considers move to bypass Hungary's veto on Russia sanctions. The commission reportedly proposes shifting from unanimity to a qualified majority when renewing sanctions packages.
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EU reportedly considers move to bypass Hungary's veto on Russia sanctions
The commission reportedly proposes shifting from unanimity to a qualified majority when renewing sanctions packages.
https://kyivindependent.com/eu-reportedly-considers-limiting-hungarys-veto-on-russia-sanctions/
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Paulley Ticks
21 days ago
Fixed it.
#DonaldTrump
#EpsteinFiles
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woah...Pete Davidson really needs to take better care of himself.
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"...look it says ANTI-ICE right there..."
#ICE
#Dallas
#Trump
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@Peg33
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Jess Piper
about 1 month ago
I have spoken directly to teachers from Missouri and Iowa who have been placed on administrative leave for not mourning the death of CK “correctly.”
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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫
about 1 month ago
#Pinks
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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻
about 1 month ago
#HispanicHeritageMonth
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#ONEV1
#Pinks
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#Voices4Victory
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Old White Nepo Hat
about 1 month ago
The Right is going increasingly masks-off and it's going to get uglier yet.
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The Economist
about 1 month ago
Don’t panic about the global fertility crash. A world with fewer people would not be all bad
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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦
about 1 month ago
🚨Keep fighting for our communities! 👏🏻This is the ONLY way and it is white responsibility. I own it. Join me in supporting our neighbors. ✊🏼
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Rachel Maddow
about 1 month ago
"The group brings together hundreds of grandparents nationwide who lived through diseases such as polio, tuberculosis and measles — illnesses once thought eliminated in the United States..."
www.kgw.com/article/news...
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Grandparents for Vaccines launches to share stories of life before immunizations
New volunteer group aims to educate parents about vaccine importance by sharing personal experiences with preventable diseases.
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/grandparents-for-vaccines-stories-life-before-immunizations/283-27bf3ad5-ca2f-4df8-afb6-255d25e62931
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The Onion
about 1 month ago
Rudy Giuliani Awarded Presidential Medal Of Incest
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Rudy Giuliani Awarded Presidential Medal Of Incest
WASHINGTON—Lauded as a generational advocate for sexual contact between relatives, former New York City mayor and man who married his cousin Rudy Giuliani was awarded the Presidential Medal of Incest ...
https://theonion.com/rudy-giuliani-awarded-presidential-medal-of-incest/
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Governor JB Pritzker
about 1 month ago
Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
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booed at US Open.
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The Guardian
about 1 month ago
Leaders gather for ‘Coalition of the Willing’ talks on Ukraine security guarantees – Europe live
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Leaders gather for ‘Coalition of the Willing’ talks on Ukraine security guarantees – Europe live
Emmanuel Macron says Europe ready to provide such guarantees at meeting in Paris today Nato’s secretary general Mark Rutte is speaking at the IISS Prague Defence Summit now. He says he wants to talk about the need to increase European military capabilities to keep the continent safe. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/sep/04/ukraine-russia-security-guarantees-coalition-of-the-willing-paris-europe-live-news-updates?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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