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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 4h

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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rosebongiovanni.bsky.social @rosebongiovanni.bsky.social · 4h

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Earlier, people who tried to go to their homes in the east of Gaza City and in southern Khan Younis were shot and killed by Israeli troops. At least nine Palestinians were killed despite the ceasefire.
#gaza
#GazaCity
#KhanYounis
#ceasefire

‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3h

The very purpose of these phased deals is to allow for Israel to maintain veto points over key elements of what would be considered the march to peace. It was bad when the previous administration embraced the phases approach and even worse now.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3h

Sums it all up

Martin Konený
@MartinKonecny
X.com
EU Commission press briefing
yesterday:
Journalist: You've said that Russia should repay for reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe Israel should repay for reconstruction of Gaza?
EU chief spox: It's an interesting question, on which I have no

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 4h

As I have long said, the “free and open debate” folks were given extraordinary latitude to define the terms of what “academic freedom” meant and the continual presumption of good faith long after all evidence said the opposite.

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Hell-issa Johnson, PhD 🎃 @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 23h

Even more crazy when you look at the OP's feed and learn they added this to their prompts because they asked the LLM how to get better results and this is what it said

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22h

Even more annoying is that the original poster is using the LLM to “wade through a mountain of papers for a systemic review”. Which means feeding a lot of academic material into the plagiarism machine that always lies, without the consent of the authors.

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Alan Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 17h

Grandad was a central PA fascist, after the Navy, at Reed, Dad married a post-Quaker gal with +/- socialist parents... never looked back.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18h

canadian media would never have this courage

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 18h

Whenever I see a progressive credit Trump w ending (or perhaps, pausing) Israel’s genocide in Gaza I can’t help but think, more than anything, we fetishize our own weakness and betray a libidinal desire to imagine powerful, right-wing white men as the primary movers of history.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 18h

People organizing in #Chicago to protect children from violent ICE attacks.

"Armed with whistles and know-your-rights pamphlets, community volunteers call themselves “guardian angels.” Together, they secure...elementary, middle and high schools across the city." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

‘Angels’ step in after federal agents use tear gas near Chicago school

Mayor Brandon Johnson said the incident in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood sent students scrambling.

www.yahoo.com

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Alan Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 1d

Carlo Fuckin' Tresca - jacobin.com/2022/10/carl...

Carlo Tresca Was an Italian Radical Who Fought Fascism in the United States

In the early twentieth century, Carlo Tresca was one of the most important immigrant labor organizers in the United States. When fascism triumphed in his homeland in 1922, he took up the struggle agai...

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Alan Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, it was so transparently disrespectful in my last set - so so little effort to disguise/rework it from the free ChatGPT. I wanna be sympathetic to kids taking 5-6 courses and working 20+ hours a week, with shit prep, and yet...

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Alan Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 1d

True, at the same time, Progressive, science-based policy has been legislated and administered in clearly undemocratic ways that reasonably alienate many small producers and "intersectional" movements. Policy that shuts out the people can be clear and still kinda suck.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

It's interesting in itself that the public's default reaction to whatever the government is doing seems to be "stop doing that, try the opposite". It suggests something quite profound is going wrong.

Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 2d

Thermostatic public opinion, reacting against the governing regime, like old faithful.
globalaffairs.org/research/pub...

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 1d

This guy gives the game away with the misogyny but man—this attitude (if you have a lot of followers you should just let people be assholes to you) drives me nuts.

You walk into my dojo looking for a fight you’re gonna get it lol

@[email protected] on Mastodon @electricheadpt2.cryptoanarchy.network · 2d

This guy rocks (derogatory). You’re apparently a “thirst trap white woman” and were just all simps for thinking he’s a dumbass.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.... • 18m
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As much disdain as I have for Large Accounts that do a bunch of venting on main like they're smol beans, I have a ton more for the army of followers who swarm people like "they're a human being, don't police their expression of emotions!" This is the same as simping for favor from the rich.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.... • 14m
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Crushed (Piano)
Just because you're simping for a leftist conventionally attractive thirst trap white woman doesn't make you any different from the people who spend all day doing the same on X for Elon Musk.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d

12/ The US dollar is having its worst year in decades, over political worries over US
FT: www.ft.com/content/ac9e...
Polycrisis: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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