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מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 1h

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | The Gaza ceasefire is cracking. Hamas is to blame.

Terrorist brutality risks igniting a Palestinian civil war.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Man In Paint @maninpaint.bsky.social · 21h

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מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 1d

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Karoline Leavitt says ‘Your mom’ when asked who picked Hungary for Putin-Trump talks

Trump said he will meet with the Kremlin leader in Budapest to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine

www.the-independent.com

מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 2d

www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC Gaza documentary a 'serious' breach of rules, Ofcom says

The regulator says the documentary, broadcast earlier this year, was "materially misleading".

www.bbc.com

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מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 2d

www.timesofisrael.com/nyc-gop-mayo...

NYC GOP mayoral hopeful said Orthodox Jews trying to ‘take over your community’

2018 video surfaces of Curtis Sliwa describing the Orthodox as a burden on US tax system: 'All they do is make babies like there’s no tomorrow and who’s subsidizing that? We are'

www.timesofisrael.com

מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 4d

www.thefp.com/p/how-reddit...

How Reddit Built the World’s First ‘Digital Ghetto’

‘Zionazi’ and ‘Kill Jews’ have flourished in the site’s online comments, and Jewish moderators say their concerns were brushed aside.

www.thefp.com

מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 4d

come on, dude, no!! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Newsom vetoes California bill banning cookware with Pfas, ‘forever chemicals’

Governor says bill would cause sudden product shift, sparking debate among chefs, lawmakers and environmentalists

www.theguardian.com

מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 5d

www.jpost.com/middle-east/...

Hamas not yet disarmed, kills Gazan rivals | The Jerusalem Post

Hamas has killed at least 32 people since the beginning of the ceasefire.

www.jpost.com

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מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 5d

www.jns.org/cnn-anchor-s...

CNN anchor sorry for saying hostages treated better than Gazans

“They've told me their stories of barely being able to breathe in the tunnels,” Christiane Amanpour said in her apology.

www.jns.org

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מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 5d

fortune.com/2025/10/14/s...

Global markets tumble as Beijing imposes new ban on U.S. shipping. Bessent vows China ‘will be hurt the most’ if it doesn’t surrender | Fortune

China showed no signs of backing down from President Trump’s trade war.

fortune.com

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Peter Corkeron @petercorkeron.bsky.social · 6d

New piece on the ongoing attempts by Republicans in the US Congress to destroy the US Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Per the new bill "the act has “unduly and unnecessarily constrained government, tribes and the regulated community”"
In @apnews.com by Patrick Whittle
🐳🌍🦑

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n...

apnews.com

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מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 6d

www.timesofisrael.com/israel-accus...

Israel receives 4 hostages’ bodies from Red Cross; demands Hamas hand over the other 24

Hamas silent on fate of 24 other slain hostages; Katz: Any deliberate violation of deal to be 'met accordingly'; IDF spokesperson says efforts underway to secure more bodies

www.timesofisrael.com

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 7d

...The problem is that it doesn't fit the actual *legal* definition of genocide as it has existed from the 1945 tribunals through the codification of the Rome Statute.

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מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 7d

grist.org/oceans/coral...

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’

A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. It's not too late to save what remains.

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מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 7d

washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/10/c...

WTF Is Chuck Schumer Doing? (Psst. It Looks Like Winning.)

Chuck Schumer's awkward attempts at humor shouldn’t obscure how well he has navigated the government shutdown.

washingtonmonthly.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 7d

Thankfully, some of yesterday's CDC firings have been rescinded.

But this should be a major scandal, not business as usual in this shitshow of an administration. It's either spectacular incompetence or an effort to make even politically untouchable positions feel precarious to those in them.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 8d

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

www.statnews.com

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מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 8d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 8d

Bad enough that it happened to begin with. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Breaking News: RIFs in reverse. Some CDC workers have been brought back, in latest whiplash.

This is breaking news.

insidemedicine.substack.com

מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 8d

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paternal SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm small noncoding RNAs and increases anxiety in offspring in a sex-dependent manner - Nature Communications

Whether paternal pre-conceptual SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm RNA content, or effects offspring phenotypes, has not been previously investigated. Here authors report changes in sperm noncoding RNAs in SARS-CoV-2 infected sires and increased anxiety-like behaviors in offspring.

www.nature.com

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 8d

Trump et al want the fight. They are unprepared for the improv. Portland FTW.

Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 9d

It’s the Portland way.

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 8d

Good. gothamist.com/news/lawmake...

Lawmakers push for gifted programs to be more widespread in NYC schools

The move to expand the program comes as mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani calls to eliminate the offering for kindergartners.

gothamist.com

מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 10d

But it's not a distortion, it's semantics. Modern Zionism is what people generally refer to by Zionism. But there's also Proto-Zionism and Ancient Zionism.

מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 10d

But surely as you are well-educated and informed you are aware that antisemites are trying to claim that Jews might really just be all European or Khazars etc. The claim that nationalism is purely a 19th century phenomenon is part of that. It's a common claim regardless. But also weaponized

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Strong Jersey איתן @eitang.bsky.social · 10d

Once again, antisemitism is pretty much ALWAYS lurking just underneath the skin of pretty much every fascist movement (on top of all the other "ism"s that are already causing so much suffering)

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL @bidenstanaccount.bsky.social · 10d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History... also

History of the Jews and Judaism in the Land of Israel - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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