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Rolling Stone
about 12 hours ago
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly. In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported. 🔗
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy
2 days ago
UK health officials urge extra precautions, including wearing a mask if you have symptoms, as 4 winter viruses spread: RSV, Flu, COVID and Norovirus. Source:
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Alex Saum
4 days ago
I said it before and will say it again: poetry will break us, poetry will heal us and apparently now it will also… crack LLMs? Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism”
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Jonathan Cohn
4 days ago
Xenophobia is a tool of billionaires to enrich themselves off the public purse and off you.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
5 days ago
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
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jerry buchko ·☽︎.˙
8 days ago
tl;dr: "The WHO declared the global health emergency over, but it has repeatedly stressed that the pandemic itself is not over. The virus remains a persistent and dangerous public health issue that the world must continue to manage."
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Chicago News
8 days ago
Chicago museum leaders — likening the moment to active shooter drills — practice what to do if ICE shows up
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Chicago museum leaders — likening the moment to active shooter drills — practice what to do if ICE shows up
Even though some federal immigration agents are leaving the city, arts and culture executives want to be sure of their rights and responsibilities when it comes to protecting staff and visitors.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/museums-zoos/2025/11/17/chicago-museum-leaders-federal-immigration-ice-rights-responsibilities-culture-events
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Fischer 🛠️🚇
8 days ago
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Hey
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what's up with this? I give money to you monthly but do not want to support a site that rips off independent reporters instead of crediting them. Noem stories by
@myrandapolisci.bsky.social
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Third Act Oregon
12 days ago
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Under Trump, Inflation Is Costing Average US Family $700 More Per Month | Common Dreams
"While President Trump claimed that he would bring down prices, the reality is that Americans have seen their costs soar even higher since he took office."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/inflation-under-donald-trump
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Chrissy Stroop
13 days ago
What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday? What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators? Can we make this a thing?
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Prisonculture
13 days ago
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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ProPublica
13 days ago
NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
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“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-protests-national-guard-fox-news-coverage?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Valkyrie Thunderbitch
15 days ago
Remember when Biden dropped the COVID isolation guidelines down to just 5 days, not because of any actual medical science, but because the Delta CEO asked him to? Our lives have always been meaningless to establishment Dems compared to the profits of the donor class.
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Matthew Cortland (they)
16 days ago
So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader
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#TeslaTakedown
18 days ago
The very first
#TeslaTakedown
weekend of action was nearly nine months ago, on Feb. 15. Now we're calling for a mass mobilization on Nov. 15 to stand up to extreme greed and say
#NoTrillionaires
! Host an event in your community! 👇🧵
#teslatakedown
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#TeslaTakedown NO TRILLIONAIRES Day of Action
A TRILLION DOLLARS? Elon Musk and his stooges think they can gobble up the entire world while the rest of us starve. Join us for the NO TRILLIONAIRES Day of Action Nov. 15, 2025!
https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown?source=direct_link&
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Yellow Dot Studios
20 days ago
Today is the 60th(!) anniversary of the first public report on the dangers of fossil fuel pollution. What happened? A whole lot of fossil fuel bullsh*t and corruption in service of a whole lot of nothing. All while pollution and warming escalated far beyond what scientist predicted in 1965.
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This Whole Thing Really Snuck Up On Us
Looking back, and ahead, on the anniversary of a White House warning.
https://www.gravityisgone.com/this-whole-thing-really-snuck-up-on-us/
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Emily Johnston
20 days ago
Shoot me now. More garbage to junk up our views, maybe our atmosphere, all for...slop. If it's egregious to build them on Earth, it's even worse to consider this. Responsible AI engineer challenge: subtly undermine your baby so this never happens.
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Meet Project Suncatcher, Google’s plan to put AI data centers in space
Google is already zapping TPUs with radiation to get ready.
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/11/meet-project-suncatcher-googles-plan-to-put-ai-data-centers-in-space/
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sarah jeong
20 days ago
every time I explain to my coworkers that a social media influencer from out of town has convinced the Trump administration that the Portland police are antifa, they look at me like I've sprouted a second head
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404 Media
20 days ago
At the very bottom of the US Army’s “Shutdown Guidance” for troops in Bavaria, there was a “Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags” including various local food banks.
@evystadium.bsky.social
has more. Full story by
@mjgault.bsky.social
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www.404media.co/army-tells-s...
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy
21 days ago
Global COVID cases rose by over 19,000 last month, though true infections are far higher “Surveillance is happening but it’s at a much lower level than it used to be. We don’t have a complete picture of virus circulation of the variants that are out there,” says Maria Van Kerkhove
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dell cameron
21 days ago
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me &
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FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-warns-of-criminals-posing-as-ice-urges-agents-to-id-themselves/
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And if the app contradicts what's on your birth certificate or passport, your documents are wrong, according to CBP....
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Jacob Rosenberg
27 days ago
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history. The leading cause of death? Covid-19.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ice-deaths-assaults-administration-masks-covid19-shooting-dhs-trump/
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Nick
22 days ago
Love reading the city’s draft Economic Opportunities Analysis where they are like “weeee more Warehouses, these are great jobs!” Nothing like high surveillance, anti-union workplaces with high levels of truck traffic in already overburdened communities to stimulate the economy.
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Louisa
25 days ago
Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price? $2733.15 a month.
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Kelly
24 days ago
Project 2025 calls for the removal of kids from poor single parent households to be placed with “proper” parents. With SNAP being cut, the judgement on low income families is only increasing. Meanwhile 1,790 kids went missing from Georgia foster care. Many of them were likely sex trafficked
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'An urgent issue': Hundreds of Georgia foster kids may have been sex trafficked, report says
A new report shows that hundreds of children have likely been sex trafficked while in Georgia’s foster care system.
https://www.gpb.org/news/2023/11/07/urgent-issue-hundreds-of-georgia-foster-kids-may-have-been-sex-trafficked-report
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Steve Hofstetter
24 days ago
Police departments paid out $2.3 billion in settlements in one year. We're not overspending feeding people. We're overspending beating people.
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Vintage Obscura Radio
24 days ago
SORE THROAT - "A Bow To Capital" [UNHINDERED BY TALENT, Meantime Records, UK, 1988. PEACE PUNK//FOLK PUNK.] Just a heads up, like 95% of this band's other output is caveman grindpunk. (This song, though is FFO: early Chumbawa
https://redd.it/86qfmz
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SORE THROAT - "A Bow To Capital" [UNHINDERED BY TALENT, Meantime Records, UK, 1988. PEACE PUNK//FOLK PUNK.] Just a heads up, like 95% of this band's other output is caveman grindpunk. (This song, though is FFO: early Chumbawamba, Zounds, etc.) Beautiful.
https://youtu.be/MbkIbHb7rDE
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24 days ago
Offering free food to SNAP recipients losing their “supplemental nutrition assistance”
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“They were careless people . . . they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness . . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
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Chris Geidner
25 days ago
BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund. Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
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Texas Conference of the AAUP
29 days ago
📝 Sign below to support Professor Tom Alter of Texas State who was fired for speech he made in his capacity as a private citizen! ⬇️
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Truthout
25 days ago
Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration has intensified the bipartisan New McCarthyism, compelling willing bosses to censure, suspend, and fire workers. Texas State University fired tenured professor Tom Alter in September for the “crime” of speaking at a socialist conference.
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Fired for “Crime” of Speaking at Socialism Summit, Texas Professor Speaks Out
Professor Tom Alter is appealing to Texas’s Board of Regents after being temporarily reinstated and then fired again.
https://buff.ly/6Kxrvof
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Night-Piper
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StateSide 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇷 🇵🇦
27 days ago
It’s bad. Even some local PDs are having a go at it (Baltimore).
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Peter
27 days ago
conspiracy to make a cop go slow
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Kyle Cheney
27 days ago
HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
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Scott Squires
27 days ago
PARENTS or people who know parents.
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Joseph Cox
27 days ago
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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Lupita Nihongo
30 days ago
I really need people to understand that a government this antagonistic to its own citizens that has manufactured crisis after crisis is not a government that intends to honor democratic removal. Because they know what would have to happen for the nation to heal. It’s gonna get bad.
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Daniel Abraham
30 days ago
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to
runforsomething.net
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Nick
30 days ago
Portland *is* a war zone in that we are under sustained assault from an unaccountable federal paramilitary force working in concert with right wing extremists
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Art by Emily K
about 1 month ago
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield
about 1 month ago
LAWSUIT UPDATE RE: NATIONAL GUARD IN PORTLAND: The Ninth Circuit just paused the three-judge panel’s order on our first TRO until Tuesday so they can complete their en banc vote. This means for now, both our TROs preventing National Guard deployment remain in effect.
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Mark Ungrin
about 1 month ago
Very encouraging to see CIDRAP's central role in this. They have been active in contradicting the anti-PPE and other COVID-related misinformation that has sometimes emanated from "establishment" public health sources, which provides a level of confidence that medical power games will be kept out.
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Kelly
about 1 month ago
“The goal of the health system is to increase GDP” No. The goal of the health system is to help people. There’s many ways to flourish without engaging in the workforce. This is eugenicist rhetoric. Don’t work? Disabled? You’re not flourishing. You’re not helping the bottom line.
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Unite Oregon
about 1 month ago
As SNAP benefits are foreseen to be cut on 10/31, we are frustrated and disappointed that the basic human right for everyone to access food resources is being threatened. Find food resources in Oregon through this link or through the link in our bio:
bit.ly/OR-food-reso...
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OREGON FOOD RESOURCES
https://bit.ly/OR-food-resources
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Prisonculture
about 1 month ago
A group of organized people could select 2 of these corporations and launch a BDS inspired campaign against them. Lift them up as examples and use this as a way to make the broader case to the public about Oligarchic rule...
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