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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3h

Remember when Biden bungled a comment and it sounded like he called all MAGA garbage, quickly corrected and it was still a 3 day news story?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 13h

I asked ChatGPT to write a brief history of Winston Churchill in the style of Boris Johnson and I think it's fair to say this sort of op-ed is easy to mimic...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

As @lutzfernandez.bsky.social writes here, the MAGA obsession with the Epstein files was never about justice for his victims, it was only about their revenge fantasies about liberal elites, and now that's been laid bare:

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 11h

In my latest piece for The Unpopulist, I wrote about the convolutions of the Epstein story and how the throughline is MAGA using children to achieve their political ends.

For MAGA, what's supposed to be about the children is never about the children.

MAGA’s Epstein Fixation Isn’t About Justice, It’s About Revenge

House Republicans care less about delivering justice to this sexual predator's underage victims and more about punishing their political enemies

www.theunpopulist.net

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 12h

Surveillance capitalism is posing mammoth national security risks, you should not be able to simply buy huge troves of another countries' private data - to control whether directly or indirectly.

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 12h

"The deal’s potential to expand and strengthen Saudi foreign influence in the United States is compounded by the national security risks raised by the Saudi government’s access to and unchecked influence over the sensitive personal information collected from EA’s millions of users.." 1/2

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 12h

This is concerning www.404media.co/senators-war...

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 13h

He says, with the authority but not the credentials of an expert.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 23h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 17h

Pentagon reporters could be seen leaving the sprawling U.S. military headquarters with boxes after at least 30 news organizations declined to sign a new Pentagon access policy for journalists, warning of the potential for less coverage of the world's most powerful military.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 12h

When I was a kid I hated Nazis. (Still do)

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 15h

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’

Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

www.theguardian.com

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Cuneiform @8uruha.bsky.social · 12h

Bravo for having the foresight to put down a marker 👏🏼

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 22h

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

I've read similar testimonies from other kidnapped victims, including the Polish ones.

If this is how the "Most Moral Army" treats Westerners, politicians, activists, celebrities, imagine what they do to Palestinians whom they hold in illegal detention for years.

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 23h

"Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son says, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

www.theguardian.com

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Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 1d

What on earth could a far-right extremist state hell-bent on the destruction of a whole race of people through genocide possibly have in common with...oh, I see.

The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 1d

The verdict of the trial has been delayed because of the trip

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Extraordinary press release/letter from Robert Maxwell in 1988... which has somehow found its way into a box of old papers in my house.

I've put text in Alt

There has been an unprecedented campaign of vilification of me over the past
few weeks, based on two hostile and disreputable "biographies". When I sought
to prevent the distribution of these lies, it only led to more abuse. Today's
total withdrawal by the authors and publishers of one of these books and the
apologies by Blackwells, Hatchards and Waterstones, who had accused me of
trying to prevent freedom of expression, vindicate my stand. Recycling old
and false stories about me has become a profitable industry for the
unscrupulous. But, after today, those who want to pursue that course will
know that they may find themselves contributing generously to the Great Ormond
Street Hospital for Sick Children and other similar causes
more
worthy than
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thenselves.

I am sorry that Messrs Thompson and Delano, two former senior employees of
Mirror Group Newspapers, failed to carry out their elementary duties as
journalists to check their facts before rushing into print and that a major
European publisher such as Bertelsman of Germany should not have safeguard
procedures to prevent Bantam Press, its British subsidiary, from recklessly
publishing such an obviously libellous book

BOWER:

Maxwell the Outsider

Since the Bower book contains some identical or similar libels as those
contained in the book to be withdrawn and pulped, Blackwells, Pentos and its
Dillons chain, Waterstones and others who continue to stock and sell the Bower
book will, regrettably, have to be sued again unless they cease selling it.
Mr Bower and those acting for him have put intolerable pressure on Blackwells
and other booksellers not to apologise for the Thompson and Delano book and
threatened them if they do, the Bower publisher, Aurum Press, owned by Andrew
Lloyd Webber, will withdraw its legal indemnity from them. The media suffers from the desire to attack people of
standing on the principle that they all have feet of clay. Occasionally, it
is good for them to receive a kick up the backside …

The analogy made by many people in the media between my actions against
Thompson & Delano and Bower and the Government 's action against Spycatcher is
a false one. Mrs Thatcher 's Government for good reasons acted against Peter
Wright 's Spycatcher, not because it was concerned about the truth or otherwise
of these allegations, but because it was rightly determined to maintain the
confidentiality obligation of its secret agents. I have acted against these
two purported biographies because they tell lies and are full of libels.
Today's admission in open court fully justifies my resorting to law.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 1d

This book finally got published today - free for download here cssn.org/news-researc...

A monumental effort documenting climate obstruction across sectors, countries & governance levels, by 110 @cssn.org scholars

I was chuffed to contribute to one of the chapters (thread)

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 1d

Thank god CDC is well manned. This exactly their mission...oh wait...fired..everybody...eee..well good luck, US (and then us because the trouble of viruses is they don't honor borders)

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

New York health officials have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus which causes high fever, joint pain and fatigue.

It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)

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Vzvzvz! @vzvzvz.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

The sound of "kiss" in Finnish!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared in court to testify in his corruption trial, days after US President Trump called for him to be pardoned. Protesters outside the court demanded the trial continue as a test of Israel’s democracy. Netanyahu denies all charges.

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Victor Pressfeldt @vpressfeldt.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg vittnar om tortyr och UD-personal som har riskerat liv och hälsa på svenska fångar. SvD väljer att toppa med uppgiften att Greta Thunberg under tortyren fått studielån. Det är så exceptionellt sanslöst. Ett hån mot all journalistisk rim och reson.

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1d

How Paul “hateful likes” Marshall built his “influence network”.

In-depth article reveals how the GB news owner has expanded his right-wing media empire with a view to propagandizing his vision for the future of Britain (but slightly lost me when it described Jordan Peterson as an ”intellectual”).

Paul Marshall, the man who owns the right

The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s mo...

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 1d

Jesse Watters misrepresented something Joy Behar said then went on a crazed rant where he blamed the collective 'left' for the murder of Charlie Kirk along with a shooting at an ICE facility and the attempts on Trump's life. Watters is part of the problem.

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 1d

NEWS! We need our guns to defend ourselves against a tyrannical government, insists gun owner who clearly hasn't looked at the news lately newsthump.com/2025/10/15/w...

We need our guns to defend ourselves against a tyrannical government, insists gun owner who clearly hasn’t looked at the news lately

In a stirring post to his “Liberty Forever” Facebook page, lifelong gun-owner Chuck “Liberty Lightfoot” Williams declared that he keeps his AR-15, bolt-action rifle, and assorted pistols not for hu…

newsthump.com

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Cuneiform @8uruha.bsky.social · 1d

Just don’t believe your own faculties and trust the dross that discredited and objectively untrustworthy people and channels tell you!

What’s so fucking difficult in digesting that message?

Only enemies would seek that intransigent avenue.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 2d

BOTD Hannah Arendt!!
Too relevant today - see @samantharhill.bsky.social w/ @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social re her bio:
Focus of an excellent Margarethe von Trotta film, w/Barbara Sukowa
More:
@fredmkaplan.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/m...
Rosenbaum: jonathanrosenbaum.net/2025/04/in-d...

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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 1d

The Social Design Agency (SDA) is the Kremlin's new social engineering contractor, replacing Prigozhin's IRA. SDA is deeply tied to the Presidential Administration and runs ops like "Doppelganger" news counterfeiting. By @shekhovtsov.substack.com
shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/the-kremli...

The Kremlin’s New Contractors

Inside Russia’s Market for Political Warfare

shekhovtsov.substack.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

“Make Brexit work” by raising taxes to stem the ongoing losses.
Slavish devotion to failed ideology has a very high price.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

"There is no doubt that the impact of Brexit has been severe and long-lasting", Rachel Reeves tells Sky News, as she suggests that taxes will now have to go up as a result to "make sure the numbers add up".

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