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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING

Three B-52 bombers took off from Barksdale AFB in Louisiana on Wednesday and flew for hours near the coast of Venezuela, according to flight tracking data, in what appears to be a major show of force by President Donald Trump.

Full Story: bit.ly/47disgn

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 1h

Inside Bari Weiss’s First 10 Days as the Controversial Head of CBS News

After a softball Netanyahu interview, newsroom sources say the start of Weiss's tenure at CBS has been chaotic and has underscored her own pro-Israel biases, writes @premthakker.bsky.social:

zeteo.com/p/inside-bar...

Inside Bari Weiss’s First 10 Days as the Controversial Head of CBS News

After a softball Netanyahu interview, newsroom sources tell Zeteo the start of Weiss's tenure at CBS has been chaotic and has underscored her own pro-Israel biases.

zeteo.com

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 1h

I follow lauren for the food posting

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 1h

let's see if people actually care about it. I'm thinking, no.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 1h

Resigning from the National Science Board was a difficult but necessary decision for me.

I spoke at the #STATsummit about this crisis of scientific integrity, the Trump administration's hyper-regulation of AI (yes, you read that right), an ELSI for AI and my Steph Curry theory of tech innovation.

STAT @statnews.com · 2h

Alondra Nelson Former Director White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, talked about how her military family and background always instilled the duty to serve — no matter the political party. Then she explained why she ultimately ended up having to leave.
#STATSummit

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 1h

Trump has Bombers doing fly overs. All this on a whim, with the flimsiest of pretenses.

Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 1h

Trump authorises CIA in Venezuela as airstrikes on boats continue
www.channel4.com/news/trump-a...

Trump authorises CIA in Venezuela as airstrikes on boats continue

Normally the activities of the CIA are kept firmly under wraps.

www.channel4.com

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 1h

Three men won special elections this year for a seat in the U.S. House. All three took the oath the next day. Adelita Grijalva won her race on Sept. 23 - and she's still waiting. Why that's bad for the Congress in my column for the @ajc www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Opinion: House speaker is delaying democracy by skirting Grijalva's swearing-in

Usually, newly elected lawmakers go from their special election to the House floor without issue, yet it's been three weeks since Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva won.

www.ajc.com

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 1h

Good; but mark how he hedges it upon support for this current government. Does that mean Seth will find a place in his heart for AIPAC money, post Bibi? Bibi is Israel, and Israel is Bibi. Israel is a genocidal ethno-state from top to bottom, that needs international intervention to deradicalize it.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1h

NEW: Seth Moulton becomes the first candidate in a Democratic primary for Senate to officially announce that he will return and henceforth reject donations from AIPAC

Seth for
Massachusetts
I am returning AIPAC donations and refusing to accept any donations or support from them. The FEC filing I made yesterday reflects that we are returning donations. Below is my statement explaining why:
I'm cautiously optimistic that the recent breakthrough in Gaza will move us closer to ending the horrific violence in the region. A political resolution that allows Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side in peace is exactly the kind of framework I've been calling for from the beginning.
I support Israel's right to exist, but l've also never been afraid to disagree openly with AIPAC when I believe they're wrong.
In recent years, AIPAC has aligned itself too closely with Prime Minister Netanyahu's government. I'm a friend of Israel, but not of its current government, and AlPAC's mission today is to back that government. I don't support that direction. That's why l've decided to return the donations I've received and will not be accepting their support.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1h

Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors: Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza

Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors

Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2h

4. On post-war governance

The U.S. is seeking Palestinians to staff a transitional technocratic government to administer post-war Gaza, one senior adviser told reporters.

➤ Palestinians, including many from the diaspora, he said, have approached U.S. officials expressing interest, saying Hamas...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2h

Greenblatt with kinder words for Republicans who are affiliated with actual Hitler Youth than what he says about Zohran Mamdani

What was reported in @politico is offensive and very concerning. But I'm also glad that many leaders, including @EliseStefanik and @ReMikeLawler, spoke out strongly and swiftly against these hateful statements. This is what leadership looks like - and is how decency and morality can be modeled. politico.com/news/2025/10/1...
Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.
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Great. I love Hitler
Also ... we are officially under consideration for a Trump endorsement.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 2h

ICYMI I wrote about this tariff revenue WIC issue. The "paying the troops" thing was breaking as I was finalizing my piece and I'll cover next week. It likely will revise the conclusion of this piece.

www.crisesnotes.com/what-the-hel...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 18h

"Jewish Americans told us —by a margin of nearly 3 to 1— that Trump manipulates antisemitism dishonestly, using it as an excuse to pause or cut university funding. Only about one-fourth of all Jews nationwide believe the president “truly cares about protecting Jewish students on college campuses.”"

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 18h

Commentary: A wide majority of Jewish Americans say President Trump is exploiting antisemitism in disingenuous fashion — that it’s a thinly veiled disguise to justify his assault on higher education, as revealed by a national survey.

Professors: Most Jewish Americans believe Donald Trump is exploiting antisemitism to assault universities

A wide majority of Jewish Americans say Trump is exploiting antisemitism in disingenuous fashion, as revealed by a national survey.

www.chicagotribune.com

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 5h

Thinking a great deal about John Brown lately, and the raid on Harper's Ferry, on this day: October 16th, 1859. He must have known what was to come; and that work is not yet done. His body may be mouldr'n in the grave, but his soul goes marching on!

John Brown's Body

YouTube video by Paul Robeson - Topic

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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 5h

good opportunity for other local billionaires to stand up and show that it’s not all billionaires

ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social · 1d

Mr. Benioff: Military troops and armed federal agents don’t make our communities safer. Advocating to bring the National Guard to San Francisco is dangerous, and instills fear in people as they go about their daily lives.

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 23h

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

www.theguardian.com

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 5h

John Dolan aka Gary Brecher the War Nerd has a great book coming out, a collection of his articles on the Civil War which repeatedly returns to this very issue. We did not hang enough of those damned rebels.

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 5h

People have some absurd assumptions about Plato, which are mostly assumptions about, or taken from, certain people (assholes) who've talked about Plato throughout the centuries who didn't understand or care to understand anything Plato said or wrote about. Usually the stuffy armchair variety.

Edward P. Butler, PhD @epbutler.bsky.social · 1d

"Was Plato really hostile to poets? Or did he, rather, insist on the crucial importance of poetry to almost every subject he placed before us?" www.bostonreview.net/articles/pla...

Plato and the Poets - Boston Review

The centuries-old debate should be settled: an intellectual world bereft of poetry is a damaged one.

www.bostonreview.net

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6h

it's going to be a 20+ year orgy of dysfunction and financial fraud painfully illustrating why functioning regulators are important

completely avoidable, but we all have to suffer in perpetuity because eggheads like Andreessen got mad because a female antitrust reformer briefly ran the FTC

Printing Money: Paxos Mints, Then Burns $300 Trillion in PayPal Stablecoins - Decrypt

A fat-finger mistake, or a hack? Crypto traders are confounded after $300 trillion worth of PayPal's PYUSD was minted and then burned.

decrypt.co

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 5h

Axios, a conservative rag with an imbedded IDF correspondent, who is in the shitter with democratic party voters--not popular--wants to neg for this fucking Ogre.

Axios @axios.com · 9h

SCOOP: Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are maneuvering to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary, threatening to tear the party apart in the biggest battleground state in the nation.

Scoop: Dems plot Fetterman ouster

www.axios.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

Look at the author and the date

FOREIGNERS
Kill the Messenger
Why Palestine radio and TV studios are fair targets in the
Palestine/Israeli war.
BY ANNE APPLEBAUM
JAN 21, 2002 • 1:49 PM

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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 6h

his soul goes marching on

svl @droseph.bsky.social · 6h

haha!

WIRED @wired.com · 6h

Then there's Russ Taylor. "It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement."

(Editor's note: Taylor was plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack. He was later pardoned by Trump.)
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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 6h

These are amazing. Read the next one.

WIRED @wired.com · 6h

"I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle," says Roger Davis, a Cybertruck owner.

Davis also uses the Grok feature in the car: "Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist."

www.wired.com/story/owning...