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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 1d

Bro

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Heidi B @hoogle.bsky.social · 10h

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 3d

I feel a strange feeling as if hope itself has shattered, and my heart has splintered into a million fragments.

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petra @kutheks.bsky.social · 11h

De BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) wil bidden op straat en „religieuze afsluitingen” op de openbare weg in Nederland verbieden, „behalve bij uitzonderlijke hoogtijdagen”

hoogtijdagen = 'wakes' bij abortusklinieken

Nadim Mansour @nadimmansour.bsky.social · 11h

Net teruggefloten door de Raad van State vanwege een discriminerend wetsvoorstel. Nu de godsdienstvrijheid van moslims willen inperken. En dan nog het gore lef hebben om te praten over “vrijheid” en “gelijkheid”. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

BBB wil vrijheid moslims inperken, pleit voor verbod bidden op straat

De BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) wil bidden op straat en „religieuze afsluitingen” op de openbare weg in Nederland verbieden, „behalve bij uitzonderlijke hoogtijdagen”. Dat schrijft de partij woensdag in e...

www.nrc.nl

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Olive 🍉 @limbischessystem.bsky.social · 11h

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„Ayla wants to live
in peace and safety like the rest
of the children in the world...help her

My campaign hasn't received enough attention despite my tireless efforts
to make my family's voice heard
Donations are arriving very slowly
Pls be a source of light for my family“

✅ gofund.me/7b427f42

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk is doing Enron the right way.

by Ezra Klein

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

electrek.co

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Family Rahaf @rahaf77.bsky.social · 17h

@leaflet.pub Please help me and support me through the link so that I can buy a tent to live in. 😭💔🙏🏻https://gofund.me/b4a2f453f

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Family Rahaf @rahaf77.bsky.social · 17h

Please share and support the link. gofund.me/b4a2f453f

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Family Rahaf @rahaf77.bsky.social · 17h

I am a Palestinian girl from Gaza, 20 years old. I graduated from high school with a GPA of 96.7 and registered at university, but I was unable to complete my studies because my university was destroyed. I have 8 sisters and we live in a small tent on one of the streets

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Adlz 🇵🇸 @adlz.bsky.social · 11h

steunactie.nl/fundraiser/w...

Please donate.

We are desperate for water and food, my husband is not with us anymore | Steunactie.nl

Her husband is a martyr and now her three children are with no source of help whatsoever

steunactie.nl

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 13h

1/6 🧵I grew up in rural America...the kind of place where the morning smell of diesel and soil told you exactly what kind of day it was going to be.
Half the kids in my class had dirt under their nails before breakfast.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 13h

6/6 And more men and women realizing...too late...that the people they trusted sold them a brand...not a future.

Because when you betray the backbone of a nation...it’s not just crops that die.

It’s hope.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 13h

5/6 It broke families.
It broke towns.

And it carved something into me that’s never left: when leaders trade loyalty for leverage, it’s always the working man who pays the price.

This time… I fear it’ll be worse.

More debt. More pressure. More betrayal wrapped in patriotism.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 13h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15h

Hello everyone today we are getting some basic menstruation education! No, actually, MOST mammals do NOT menstruate! With maybe one or two exceptions, only primates shed their uterine lining in a regular cycle.

Other mammals have something called estrus.

Cu'Anam 🎬💻🎮📚 @darqvirtue.bsky.social · 16h

All mammals menstruate. So why would ours make another mammal think something is wrong?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

We’re kicking the politics of the past aside and scoring a new generation of leadership — and we want you on our team.

Join us for The Cost of Living Classic, a free citywide soccer tournament in Coney Island this Sunday, co-hosted by NYC Footy.

Details + register at zohranfornyc.com/colclassic ⚽

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 14h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 16h

Robert Noot, 29, was first attracted to Kelsey Dacey, 26, due to her artistic vibe, her emotional intensity and her insistence that the TV volume always be on an even number, unless the number is a multiple of five.

Man upset to discover manic pixie dream girl just regular autistic woman

A man who thought his quirky girlfriend would magically fix all his debilitating personal issues has been left “hurt and disappointed” after she transpired to be an ordinary autistic woman, it has…

thedailytism.com

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Esther @thelifeofesther.bsky.social · 15h

Ik pre-orderde een half jaar geleden deze Palestijnse sneakers.
Resolute is opgericht door Bazel Adra, de Oscar-winnaar met No Other Land.

resolutergl.com/cdn/shop/vid...

Als je voor 25 oktober bestelt, worden ze in november geleverd.

resolutergl.com

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 1d

South African president says ICJ case against Israel is ongoing - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/south-african-president-says-icj-case-against-israel-ongoing

South African president says ICJ case against Israel is ongoing

<article data-history-node-id="430202" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/south-african-president-says-icj-case-against-israel-ongoing" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/south-african-president-says-icj-case-against-israel-ongoing" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">South African president says ICJ case against Israel is ongoing</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa told parliament that the peace plan to end Israel's war on Gaza will have no bearing on the country’s genocide charges against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).</p> <p>"The case is proceeding and it now has to go to the stage where Israel must respond  to our pleadings filed in court" he said, saying the deadline to do so is January. </p> </div> </div> </article>

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Olive 🍉 @limbischessystem.bsky.social · 12h

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„Harder than war
It is the feeling of helplessness
in front of my family's pain
How can I cover all their needs?
Only with your help can we
overcome the difficulties.“

_ Imad, father

chuffed.org/project/1367...

Please share - and give if you can

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 12h

The actor Daniel Radcliffe has reportedly had the ever-living shite scared out of him by a mysterious woman in black who turned out to be an autistic goth minding her own business.

The Woman in Black? Autistic goth unwittingly scares bejeezus out of Daniel Radcliffe

The actor Daniel Radcliffe has reportedly had the ever-living shite scared out of him by a mysterious woman in black who turned out to be an autistic goth minding her own business. Paige Thomas, 28,…

thedailytism.com

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 21h

Honestly, the entire fossil-fuel economy is a Ponzi scheme that steals the future from our children and calls it "growth."

This current iteration of the scheme is just too on the nose.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 4d

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 1d

As a gym girlie… 😬😬😬

Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social · 1d

Consumer Reports finds that some protein shakes and powders contain extremely high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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