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Mike Benson
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Retired rancher, psychologist, happy to be living in Catalonia and making pipes.
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jlynn @jlynn1108.bsky.social · 28d
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How the “Grim Reaper effect” stops our government from saving lives
When curing disease is bad for the federal budget.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 6h
The Lever’s first book is now atop the charts - a big win for independent reader-supported media, especially considering we published this book in-house without the support of a giant publisher and a huge PR machine.
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Mike Benson @mbensonster.bsky.social · 6h
IDF finally admits it bombed its own hostages to death. And of course they did.
www.thenorthstar.com/p/idf-finall...
IDF finally admits it bombed its own hostages to death. And of course they did.
Tamir Nimrodi - whose remains were returned - was bombed to death by Israel - as were all of the hostages that were killed in captivity. Israel always knew their bombs would kill them.
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CTXT @ctxt.es · 7h
Italia despierta: dos huelgas generales, puertos bloqueados y universidades ocupadas frenan el plan de guerra de Meloni y la UE. La alianza de trabajadores y estudiantes, al grito de “blocchiamo tutto”, pone a Palestina en el centro y abre otro camino
Palestina despierta la lucha obrera en Italia
Si el Gobierno de Meloni pretende arrastrar al país al genocidio, la guerra y las catástrofes, la clase trabajadora y el movimiento estudiantil están mostrando otro camino alternativo
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h
I put way too much stuff into this post, but look, when do I have a chance to drop a @patrickwyman.bsky.social reference? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...
It also just feels like late-stage-empire stuff. A huge headache for leaders historically has been ensuring that troops get paid, to ensure they don’t things like sack your cities. (See Patrick Wyman’s excellent The Verge, for examples). Stable and rich democracies solve this problem by making such payments routine and predictable, and in doing so reduce the risk of anti-democratic military actions. The fact that the White House is coming up with an inventive and possibly illegal way to pay the military feels like the sort of anecdote some future historian will use to illustrate how the wheels were coming off the American empire.
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Periodista Andrés Figueroa Cornejo @periodistafigueroa.bsky.social · 7h
Chile. Otra estafa de Enel. ¿Cuántas empresas harán lo mismo?
¿Y cuándo en vez de cobrarle a los consumidores dos veces el IPC, les cobrarán dos veces menos?
¿Y si nacionalizan la energía eléctrica con participación activa y supervisión de los consumidores?
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Periodista Andrés Figueroa Cornejo @periodistafigueroa.bsky.social · 7h
No hay paz posible bajo la luz de un genocidio rebelion.org/no-hay-paz-p...
No hay paz posible bajo la luz de un genocidio – Rebelion
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 7h
The site of a former Ford factory in Brazil is now home to BYD. It will make 150,000 electric cars annually to start with and expand to 300,000 in years to come. www.scmp.com/news/china/a...
BYD opens massive Brazil plant, its biggest investment outside Asia
Built on a former Ford site, BYD’s Bahia plant is expected to create 20,000 jobs and cement its 74 per cent share of Brazil’s EV market.
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VilaWeb @vilaweb.cat · 7h
🗣️ “No són benvinguts”

🔶 La presència d’equips israelians encén les protestes a Manresa i València ⬇️
“No són benvinguts”: la presència d’equips israelians encén les protestes a Manresa i València
El València Basket – Hapoel Tel-Aviv i el Baxi Manresa – Hapoel Jerusalem, declarats d’alt risc, es jugaran a porta tancada
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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 7h
Nice write up on the new IUCN Guidelines for Rewilding by Rewilding Europe... rewildingeurope.com/news/new-iuc...
New IUCN rewilding guidelines: a blueprint for global nature recovery | Rewilding Europe
Marking a major milestone for the global rewilding movement, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has released a comprehensive set of rewilding guidelines.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 7h
Platner has a huge lack of name recognition, but still has a higher net-favorable (+12) than Janet Mills (+4) among those who have an opinion of each

Read it here: usapolling.substack.com/p/a-governor...
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Mike Benson @mbensonster.bsky.social · 6h
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/10/15/5...
5 Takeaways From the Ceasefire. - JVP
The hero’s welcome Trump received in Israel drives home the complexity of this moment.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 6h
We have a chancellor who is both ignorant and stupid

And already hugely impoverished UK nature will suffer as a consequence

Despicable

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nature groups rebuke Reeves for ‘cynical’ 11th-hour planning bill changes
Chancellor accused of removing environmental protections to win short-term growth and save her budget
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 6h
19 New GOP House Seats: Supreme Court Case Could Gut Voting Rights Act, Cement One-Party Control — Black Voters Matter blackvotersmatterfund.org/19-new-gop-h...
19 New GOP House Seats: Supreme Court Case Could Gut Voting Rights Act, Cement One-Party Control — Black Voters Matter
Atlanta — Fair Fight Action and Black Voters Matter Fund today released a new report detailing the stakes of Louisiana v. Callais, a case the U.S. Supreme Court will rehear on October 15 that centers ...
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Fonsi Loaiza @fonsiloaizap.bsky.social · 6h
Violencia policial hoy contra los manifestantes en solidaridad con Palestina en las inmediaciones del Roig Arena en Valencia en el boicot al partido contra el Hapoel Tel Aviv.
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 6h
Right, that's Stormont sorted 😄
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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 1d
My Mom came home yesterday for Hospice comfort care. She’s on oral morphine every hour.

I’m am scared & furious because I am almost out of morphine & her Doc & nurses are busy looking for more. Not one pharmacy in my town has any right now & they don’t know when they will be getting more in.
The DEA’s 2025 quotas for opioids will leave seriously ill patients in pain
Palliative care physician Rebecca Rodin writes that DEA opioid medication production limits — which are set to be even lower in 2025 — don’t address the opioid crisis. They just leave her patients in ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h
Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.

The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.

The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.

Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
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🏴𝐉𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐛Ⓐ 𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐧Ⓐ🏴 @casvifactory.bsky.social · 6h
𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐃𝐄 𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐀

Ikasle Abertzaleak (IA) organización estudiantil del Movimiento Socialista, hoy, 15 de octubre, se movilizan con el objetivo de apoyar a la resistencia palestina y por la disolución del Estado de Israel
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International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · 7d
Suriname steps up and wants to protect 90% of its #forests reports the @rainforetrust.bsky.social 🌍

#30x30 #Rewilding #HalfEarth #TropicalForests

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Suriname pledges to permanently protect 90% of its forests, far exceeding the 30x30 global goal for climate and biodiversity protection – Rainforest Trust
Suriname pledges to permanently protect 90% of its forests, a significant commitment for global climate action and biodiversity.
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ie-nb.bsky.social @ie-nb.bsky.social · 2d
Beavers, pigs and ponies to rewild 600-acre site in landmark scheme

https://www.newsbeep.com/ie/78137/

A pioneering rewilding initiative in Lincolnshire is poised to transform more than 600 hectares of former agricultural land,…
Beavers, pigs and ponies to rewild 600-acre site in landmark scheme - Ireland News Beep
A pioneering rewilding initiative in Lincolnshire is poised to transform more than 600 hectares of former agricultural land, utilising beavers, pigs, cattle,
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 6h
The government says it is “driving forward private finance efforts for Gaza's reconstruction.”

As if enabling a genocide wasn't enough. Now, they are allowing private companies to make some money out of it as well.

Have they no shame?

www.middleeasteye.net/news/british...
'No shame': UK invites private firms to compete for Gaza reconstruction contracts
As Britain positions itself as key player in the rebuilding of territory devastated by Israel's genocide, MPs point to its role in its destruction
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 6h
"Developers of Rosebank oil field said nearly 250 million tonnes of [CO2] would be released from using oil products from the field"

"developer said emissions were "not significant" considering the UK's international climate commitments"

Bollox

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Controversial UK oil field reveals climate impact if approved
The impact from the Rosebank oil field is estimated at nearly 250 million tonnes of planet warming CO2.
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 6h
NSPM-7 watch: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said yesterday that Charlie Kirk's death was a "domestic 9/11" and that he's undertaking a commensurate response at home. Treasury is "compiling lists" and looking at funding streams, he said.

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Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in...
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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 6h
@thegodpodcast.com

Have you smited the MAGAts?
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 8h
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
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