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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1h

Please watch this coverage, today's livestream will not cover Tel Aviv - Egypt as I covered this in seprate videos and articles. See you at around 7pm ET for today's national and global news.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1h

Straight forward #ActualNews in 8 min.

youtu.be/H1J0mscLPQU

Trump in Egypt: Power Plays, Praise, and a “3,000 Year” Peace Deal Claim

YouTube video by ONEST

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twist @pvdork.bsky.social · 1h

Heck yes to both of you. 💪🏼✊🏼

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Eleven Films @elevenfilms.com · 1d

Happy 50th birthday to this beautiful woman! I’ve known you since the 3rd grade and you have been a fighter for the people since we were kids! 🔥

I am truly the luckiest man in America!🇺🇸

Happy Birthday, Tiffany Drastic 💙
Follow: @pdxeleven.bsky.social

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1h

I AM LITERALLY WALKING TO THE BAR, Mariners.

Sheesh.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

Anyone saying they’re not racially profiling is unserious

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Indiana Independent @westskywitch.bsky.social · 1h

I remember the days when wearing a mask during a pandemic was considered tyranny, but this somehow isn't.
www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Coronavirus: Why are Americans so angry about masks?

How face coverings meant to curb virus spread became grounds for political battle.

www.bbc.com

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 2h

Trump, Nigel Farage, Russia (since 2017)

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 2h

2017: The great British Brexit robbery:
How our democracy was hijacked (US too) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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David270NZ @david270nz.bsky.social · 2h

www.thenerve.news/p/reform-uk-...

The contact of Reform UK’s Russian puppet Nathan Gill is linked to efforts to destabilise the US and Ukraine. Why, even now, is no one asking questions?

Gill, former leader in Wales of Nigel Farage's party, admits taking bribes to help Putin. And his Russian connection - the Ukrainian politician Oleh Voloshyn - in turn has links to a key figure wante...

www.thenerve.news

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2h

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1h

I find this very touching…& also worrying. Historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social has been an absolutely essential guide to this era. And if he thinks I’m right then we’re in more trouble than we realise

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2h

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1h

***
T.'s PHILANTHROPY FRIDAYS
OCTOBER 2025
PRELIMINARY FINAL UPDATE
***

Still confirming 2 data points before notifying matchers, to make sure I've counted everyone once and only once

*But,* assuming the current data is right, we'll end up with 69 donors for $5,600.18 👀

Final final details soon

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 5h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h

Cornelis Pieter Hoekstra was born in Groningen, The Netherlands, and moved with his family to the US in 1965. He is one of the leaders of the GOP in Michigan. And he has no proof that he was ever naturalized as a US citizen. bsky.app/profile/empt...

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

I know I tell this story all the time, BUT

Pete Hoekstra, Trump's current ambassador to Canada (& to Netherlands in Trump 1) told me when he was first being considered that he had no proof of naturalization. (He came to US when he was 12.)

He had been HPSCI chair for years before that. [corrected]

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1h

Well, NOW he has it, or State has flagged it. In 2017 or 2018, when he was running around yelling "papers please," he had none.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

Hope the kid makes a full and fast recovery!! Thank you!

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Revanche @revanche.bsky.social · 1d

Whew thanks for the reminder! Sick kid yesterday derailed me

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2h

if you know a single soul in…

• the Kansas City metro area
• the St. Louis metro area
• the Indianapolis metro area
• the Nashville metro area

@ekkoastral.bsky.social is playing a few impromptu shows on our way back to DC

tomorrow thru friday

our last shows of the year!!!!

linktr.ee/ekkoastral

ekko astral on stage lookin epic photo credit alec pugliese

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twist @pvdork.bsky.social · 1h

Dog on left besties w this dog, a 200+# mastiff, and a couple of big(ger) dogs. No worries bc she thinks she’s a lion. ❤️

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 6d

“[M]ilitary lawyers & legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army & Navy's top judge advocates…sets an alarming precedent for a crucial job in the military, all as…Trump has mused about using the military in unorthodox & potentially illegal ways.” 2/25/25…1/

'People Are Very Scared': Trump Administration Purge of JAG Officers Raises Legal, Ethical Fears

Military lawyers and legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army and Navy's top judge advocates general politicizes and sets an alarming precedent for a crucial...

www.military.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

This was a big honking red flag when it happened. But it also wasn't a terribly surprising move after the Senate confirmed a guy who defended war criminals to be Secretary of Defense.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 6d

“[M]ilitary lawyers & legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army & Navy's top judge advocates…sets an alarming precedent for a crucial job in the military, all as…Trump has mused about using the military in unorthodox & potentially illegal ways.” 2/25/25…1/

'People Are Very Scared': Trump Administration Purge of JAG Officers Raises Legal, Ethical Fears

Military lawyers and legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army and Navy's top judge advocates general politicizes and sets an alarming precedent for a crucial...

www.military.com

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 3h

At Photographer’s Gallery in London? I went yesterday and that’s what prompted the post. Spent 2 1/2 hrs and I still need more time so I’m going back. It’s remarkable.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think I know of an artist—painter, writer, photographer—whose work I believe as constitutionally independent of “should”—its embrace or defiance—as the Soviet/Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 3h

“Easy, and his friends exist to testify about a volatile time in Black, and therefore American, history," Mosley states in this installment's author note.

The full story: lataco.com/walter-mosle...

By Mike Sonksen

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h

WAR-TORN PORTLAND

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