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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

For every person hiding a gambling disorder, six people in their orbit are impacted financially.

“I got to where suicide sounded sane,” says one recovering gambler who spoke to Rolling Stone.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 20h

“I got to where suicide sounded sane.”

Americans gambled $150 billion through online sportsbooks last year.

Far too many lost nearly everything.

Story: bit.ly/4n9ld8h

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 2h

vampires

Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 2h

First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

www.latimes.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 8h

In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

www.monbiot.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13h

The 15 year old girl who was dragged from her car by ICE had recently had kidney surgery.

She was thrown to the ground despite screaming “I’m not resisting”

She had to return to the hospital.

These aggressive tactics will disable. They will kill.

They must be held accountable.

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Maryjka @maryjka.bsky.social · 6h

did it explode... again?

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 7h

Good morning New York, while you were sleeping this was our most read story. on.ft.com/3KP65iX

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Maryjka @maryjka.bsky.social · 6h

yuck!

Maryjka @maryjka.bsky.social · 6h

reszta w kolejce, ...?

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Gazeta Wyborcza @wyborcza.pl · 7h

Nicolas Sarkozy pierwszym przywódcą kraju UE, który pójdzie do więzienia #Wyborcza wyborcza.pl/7,75399,3232...

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Maryjka @maryjka.bsky.social · 6h

God forbid.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 7h

In France, right-wingers love to pose as defenders of free speech. Yet the takeover of media by a cast of billionaire pro-Trump tycoons means that just a handful of individuals have a veto over huge swaths of the press.

In France, Too, Billionaire Tycoons Are Silencing Their Critics

In France, right-wingers love to pose as defenders of free speech. Yet the takeover of media by a cast of billionaire pro-Trump tycoons means that just a handful of individuals have a veto over huge swaths of the press.

jacobin.com

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 6h

The West is going to suffer terrible consequences from Israel's genocide.

New column 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Be sure of this: many of the horrors the west allowed in Gaza will come closer to home | Owen Jones

History shows the crimes of empire were later mirrored on European soil. Dehumanisation and militarised terror both seem normalised now, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

www.theguardian.com

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Maryjka @maryjka.bsky.social · 21h

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-...

Trump Refuses To Let Go Of Macron During Aggressively Long Handshake At Egypt Summit

When the French president attempted to break away, Trump continued to hold firm.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 5d

My today's Substack:
Defeated by reality
Why did neoliberalism, in its domestic and international components, fail?
branko2f7.substack.com/p/defeated-b...