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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 45m

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 49m

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 19m

The photos / videos coming out of the US are the kind of thing that would have triggered the US into invading other countries to bring 'peace, order and democracy'.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 9h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

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Job Polak @jobpolak.bsky.social · 8h

“Hier is iets wat je leven echt enorm veel fijner maakt, en je krijgt het voor twee weken per jaar. Drie als je heel zielig doet.”

a cartoon of a skeletor with the words laughs in evil below him

ALT: a cartoon of a skeletor with the words laughs in evil below him

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Job Polak @jobpolak.bsky.social · 8h

Als de medische wetenschap nou eens iets zou uitvinden wat mijn chronische pijn en stress zo magisch zou laten verdwijnen als benzo’s maar dan totaal niet verslavend zou ik persoonlijk de Nobel prijs naar ze toe wandelen vanuit Stockholm.

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Guus Valk @guusvalk.bsky.social · 8h

Een avondje binnenlands ANP-nieuws

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 9h

Peter Giunta, former head of the NY Young Republicans and current Chief of Staff to NY State Assemblyman Mike Reilly, has deleted his FB, IG, LinkedIn, and set his X acct to private. He made the gas chamber joke, then final solutioned his social media.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 9h

#OtD 14 Oct 1859 anarchist François Claudius Koenigstein, aka Ravachol, perhaps the most famous practitioner of "propaganda by deed" (armed attacks on state officials and capitalists), was born in St-Chamond, France. Learn more in this excellent book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 9h

Why would fascist youth feel attracted to the GOP.... asked no one with a brain.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Gabriel Geiger @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social · 11h

On a Saturday night I stumbled across something on the internet that made me feel like ****** my pants. A giant dataset of real surveillance operations targeting 1000s of people across nearly every country. Unraveling it and the mysterious company behind it has consumed 1.5 years of my life

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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 12h

Dutch defence chief says: in the event of war with Russia, Rotterdam will be defended at all costs but protecting Amsterdam “is not important to me” 😳

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Peter Berger @peter-berger.bsky.social · 12h

We just released a BIG undercover investigation…and it’s all on tape.

In collaboration with @lighthousereports.com, @papertrailmedia.de, and other media partners around the world, I made this video for @motherjones.com & @revealnews.org

Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy...

This Secret Tech Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You

YouTube video by Mother Jones

www.youtube.com

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Job Polak @jobpolak.bsky.social · 12h

To be fair, offering Trump a, even if its strictly ceremonial, monarchy of the USA would probably be the quickest way to make him resign the presidency.

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 13h

why didn’t they call it the No Kings Unless It’s One of Those Monarchies With More Limits on Executive Power Protest

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 14h

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

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Job Polak @jobpolak.bsky.social · 12h

Alle morele overweging nog buiten beschouwing gelaten maar dat je ook naar de huidige peilingen kijkt en denk “de VVD, daar moet ik op dit moment echt mijn eigen paard mee opspannen”

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De Correspondent @decorrespondent.nl · 21h

Fascisme krijgt ruimte door een hardnekkige misvatting: dat jij het niet kunt stoppen. Dat klopt niet. Gezamenlijk kunnen we ons weren tegen de woede en het wantrouwen die onze democratie overspoelen, schrijft @rosansmits.bsky.social.

Dat komt neer op een simpele keuze – die keuze is aan jou.

Tien manieren om je te verzetten tegen fascisme

Fascisme krijgt ruimte door een hardnekkige misvatting: dat jij het niet kunt stoppen. Dat klopt niet. Gezamenlijk kunnen we ons weren tegen de woede en het wantrouwen die onze democratie overspoelen....

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Job Polak @jobpolak.bsky.social · 15h

Scrolling on my smoll phone i assumed this was a picture of one of those inflatable costumes twerking at ICE.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 15h

“They assumed that no one was ever going to check and scan all these satellites and see what was out there. That was their method of security…They just really didn't think anyone would look up.”

paywall free: archive.ph/2025.10.14-1...

#incompetence

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 15h

on November 4, another 7 antifascists - Johann, Paul, Henry, Tobias, Thomas, Melissa & Julian - from the #BudapestKomplex will be on “trial”. once again the state had constructed a "criminal organization" that does not exist.

#FreeAllAntifas

Rote Hilfe e.V. @rotehilfe.bsky.social · 21h

Ab 4.11. stehen in Dresden 7 Antifaschist*innen vor Gericht. 130 Prozesstage bis 2027 – konstruiert wird eine "kriminelle Vereinigung", aufgeladen mit Mordvorwürfen. Der Staat eskaliert die Repression. Unsere Solidarität gilt den Angeklagten. rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/na...

Nächste Runde der Rachejustiz: Budapest-Prozess gegen sieben Antifas ab 4. November

In wenigen Wochen startet der zweite Prozess vor einem deutschen Gericht im sogenannten Budapest-Komplex: Ab dem 4. November 2025 findet die Hauptverhandlung gegen sieben Antifaschist*innen vor dem Ob...

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 18h

Uni administrators and trustees: We need viewpoint diversity.

Professor, outside of class: Working class should organize to overthrow capitalism

Uni administrators and trustees: No, not THAT kind of viewpoint diversity

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Job Polak @jobpolak.bsky.social · 15h

Wederom, stel je voor dat de politie in de Schilderswijk brandende baricades, brandbommen en zwaar vuurwerk gegooid naar passanten gewoon maar een paar uur zou laten begaan.
Er was allang een spoeddebat geweest;

Bekladding tegen politie en lhbti'ers op Urk, burgemeester betreurt brandstichting en vuurwerk

Naast de ongeregeldheden met brandstichting en zwaar vuurwerk op Urk, zijn er ook twee leuzen geverfd die gericht zijn tegen de lhbti-gemeenschap en de politie. Nieuwsblad Het Urkerland heeft een foto...

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 21h

“Turek…has been investigated over an image that appeared to show him making a Nazi salute and also over allegations by his ex-girlfriend, who accused him of rape and abuse. Turek denied all the allegations, calling them “absurd.””

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 1d

Talks on forming a Czech government have been thrown into chaos after a front-runner to get the foreign minister job was engulfed in a scandal over social media comments.

Czech government talks stall over offensive remarks linked to likely next foreign minister

Former MEP’s party threatens to walk away from talks to form a new government.

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Job Polak @jobpolak.bsky.social · 17h

Nah, there is a specific line of (i think 1970’s) Mercedes sedans that all Moroccan cab drivers drive and you get in and you go, “how does a car this old have only 20k on the counter?” and then it turns out the counter already past all the 9’s and started over.

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Bo Salomons @bosalomons.bsky.social · 20h

Zondag mocht ik spreken bij de antifascistische demonstratie in Amsterdam. We stonden op tegen de extreemrechtse mars in de stad.

Op Doorbraak kan je een aantal van de toespraken lezen, waaronder de mijne hieronder:

Doorbraak.eu @doorbraak.eu · 1d

Angst is hun wapen, maar angst is ook hun enige wapen. Ze zijn ervan afhankelijk dat hun tegenstanders capituleren en niet terugvechten. Het was weinig in het nieuws, maar Elsfest heeft met meer dan 2 maanden volop mobiliseren in rechtse kringen niet meer dan 2.000 mensen op de been gekregen.

Bo Salomons bij Samen Tegen Fascisme-protest: “Waar is hun Rode Lijn? Waar zijn hun tweehonderdduizend?” | Doorbraak.eu

Gisteren hield de coalitie Samen Tegen Fascisme een energieke manifestatie met ruim vierhonderd anti-fascisten bij het Dokwerker-standbeeld op het Jonas Daniël Meijerplein in Amsterdam. Dat was een te...

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Job Polak @jobpolak.bsky.social · 17h

Also, overweeg eens to live your life op zo’n manier dat je je geen zorgen hoeft te maken dat je collega’s anoniem in de krant over je leeglopen…

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