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Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement @scalingupnutrition.org · 6h

On #DayOfRuralWomen, we recognize empowering rural women is key to nutrition & resilient food systems. 🌱

Through:
📜 Equitable policies
💰 Fair wages
🌾 Access to resources
🚺Putting gender equality & nutrition at the center,

we can #PowerTheChange.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Just a few tickets left for this event in Brighton tonight.

BRIGHTHINK @brighthink.bsky.social · 13d

Don’t miss this behind-the-scenes look at how investigative journalism is fighting back against authoritarianism — one verified fact at a time.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/truth-in-a...

TRUTH IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD: Inside Bellingcat with Eliot Higgins

Join Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, as he discusses how digital investigators are exposing war crimes, corruption, and propaganda

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 2d

The war forecast
says no massive attack is expected tonight.

Ending the day with Ukrainian art.
🇺🇦 Oleksandr Murashko
The Girl with a Dog, 1903-1904

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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 4d

📻On this week’s show: @gregsargent.bsky.social on Stephen Miller’s plan to “sleepwalk” America into authoritarianism; @pemalevy.bsky.social on the highest court citing the "dual state;" & @jakelahut.writes.news on the rise of the Ellisons' tech-media dynasty. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

The conventions of political reporting today are not well equipped to handle this concerted use of pretexts for instrumental purposes and the bottomless bad faith they employ. Grasping the industrial-scale deception at the core of MAGA politics is essential. 6/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Marketplace @marketplace.org · 3d

The last time we checked in with Virginia’s Elden Street Tea Shop in July, owner Rachel Rozner was still trying to absorb tariff costs. Now, she‘s had to pass some of those costs off to her customers, but she’s holding on to one last hope: the Supreme Court decision.

Navigating tariffs feels like a "cat-and-mouse game" for this tea shop owner

Tariffs have raised the prices that tea shop owner Rachel Rozner pays. She’s now passing some of those costs on to customers.

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Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 4d

OK, Turkey experts, oil experts, historians, sleuths. I'm looking at a 1945 US intelligence document about a clandestine source in "Oil City." This source is being paid in Turkish lira. What do you think Oil City is and why?

I do not know the answer to this.

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 6d

Join us on October 15 when I spill my guts about my father (and others) for "Accessibility and Cold War Intelligence, 50 Years On," a talk at the International Spy Museum and online. Register FREE:
www.spymuseum.org/calendar/acc...

Accessibility and Cold War Intelligence, 50 Years On

Discover a new perspective on the Cold War as we mark National Disability Employment Awareness Month. David A. Taylor, author of Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II and other books, has ...

www.spymuseum.org

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 7d

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Lee Billings @leebillings.bsky.social · 8d

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: This year’s physics Nobel goes to 3 researchers who demonstrated quantum tunneling on a superconducting chip. By bringing this microscopic effect into the macroscale world, they laid important foundations for quantum computing.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...

This Year’s Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded to Three Scientists for Work in Quantum Mechanics

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre microscopic quantum effects can infiltrate our large-scale, everyday world

www.scientificamerican.com

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 7d

Miller et al “have not come close to manufacturing the level of fear or trauma out in the country that they’d hoped for…” - Greg Sargent

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7d

Pritzker/Newsom see it as a defining fact of the moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily and using it to subjugate Blue America like an enemy nation within. Other Dems should stop the Beltway-speak about Trump laying "traps" for them and engage.

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 7d

Voted!

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 21d

My episode of @99pi.org about the Memphis Pyramid is up for a Signal Award in the Arts + Culture category! This is an extremely cool honour.

It's also up for a People's Choice. Please vote here - it means a lot to our show to get this kind of support. Thanks!

vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU

I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.

vote.signalaward.com

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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 10d

Take at least ONE action to help defend books from censorship and speak up for those who make them available. Find resources/tools + actions you can take in just 5 mins: uniteagainstbookbans.org/let-freedom-read-day #BannedBooksWeek #UniteAgainstBookBans @la-cac.org @aaslala.bsky.social

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 9d

“If you are serious about American energy dominance you need to deploy, deploy, deploy,” said an energy expert @ Johns Hopkins University.
“It’s puzzling and very strange to say wind and solar has no role ... when these are often the quickest and cheapest sources”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world

As well as embracing ‘beautiful coal’, the president has set about obliterating clean energy projects

www.theguardian.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 9d

Once upon a time, if a president head lied this brazenly, it would be considered a disgrace by both political parties

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 9d

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Democrats’ defiance on shutdown shows a new, tougher approach to Trump

After eight months of getting battered by Republicans, the party has largely abandoned efforts at conciliation or outreach.

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 9d

“There is a growing understanding that you should never try to appease a bully.”

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 10d

“We’ve seen reprehensible behavior by DHS agents against journalists in all three of America’s largest cities. There’s no reason to think it will stop there, so it’s critical that we refuse to normalize this,” FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social told amNewYork.

ICE attack on reporters: Press freedom and civil liberties groups condemn assault of amNewYork journalist, and others | amNewYork

Press freedom and civil liberties organizations sharply condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday after journalists, including

www.amny.com

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 10d

What It Would Look Like to Pay W.N.B.A. Players Like Their Counterparts

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 10d

‘Positive Obsession’ a Fresh Look at Octavia E. Butler

Insightful review by @danaawilliams.bsky.social:
“Butler turned to science fiction as a salve, bc she believed it was the genre most capable of the radical rethinking necessary for humanity to survive.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b...

‘Positive Obsession’ Is a Fresh Look at Octavia E. Butler

www.nytimes.com

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Out of Context Podcast Quotes @podcastquotebot.bsky.social · 10d

"He sells vodka in a crystal skull." - CHRIS BERUBE, The Great American Pyramid, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #NationalVodkaDay #ChrisBerube

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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @ NYCC WB-19 @libcomix.bsky.social · 16d

Our young hero destined to defeat an evil lord embarks on a hilarious, action-packed journey filled with jokes, friendship, and villains having a mid-life crisis in Dragon Forged: Sword of the Champion by Eric Lide
#LibraryCardSignUpMonth #CreatorsGetCarded #LibComix

Eric Lide holding a South Brunswick Public Library Card with his book Dragon Forced sitting behind him.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · Nov 15

HI HELLO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.

A vintage black and white photo taken during an American Library Association World War One book drive. A librarian in an suit with an ankle-length skirt speaks into a megaphone while standing atop an immense stack of books.

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NPR @npr.org · 11d

The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.

Hundreds of celebrities relaunch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech

The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.

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