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💀 spooky scary socialist 🎃 @thechakrakhan.bsky.social · 2h

Take it from a journalist who has won TWO defamation cases - fighting back is not a lost cause. This is Texas, after all.

Resistance in all forms ✊🏽

steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 2h

It is my impression that many trial court judges are ill equipped to handle anti-SLAPP cases

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 6h

🔴Pro-Trump Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Cash In on Gaza’s ‘Peace’ Deal

The same digital technologies that helped the Israeli military target Gazans are now being embedded in its peacetime infrastructure, with Trump-supporting billionaires poised to benefit, reports @nafeez.bsky.social

Pro-Trump Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Cash In on Gaza's 'Peace' Deal

Documents show Tony Blair’s Ellison-funded institute designed Gaza’s recovery plan on data-driven lines echoing Oracle-Palantir war systems.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 2h

🕊️🇺🇦 Zelensky expects a real ceasefire, because he considers the current Russian offensive in the East the last ground operation in the war, - Politico

Ukraine will have to survive another harsh winter, but Zelensky said that he expects a real possibility of ceasefire, although it will not be easy.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

Ricardo Fosado, a Latino Dodgers fan and war veteran, is America. But bigoted entitled asshole Shannon Kobylarczyk is America, too, and we‘re in this fix in part because we like to pretend she’s not.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 2h

Why do cycling bridges matter?

Cycling bridges create safe, direct routes for people on bikes, especially across busy roads, railways, or waterways. They remove conflict points with motor traffic, reducing the risk of collisions and making cycling more enjoyable for everyone.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

There is no shortage of brilliant lawyers in the US, of all political perspectives. So why does Trump surround himself with grifters and losers with a law degree and a gross disrespect for professional rules of ethics?

The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

Welcome to the Rocket Docket, Lindsey Halligan!

www.publicnotice.co

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 12h

16 October 1934 | French Jewish girl Catherine Levi was born in Chartres.

In September 1942 she was deported from Pithiviers to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

Black and white photograph of a girl seated outdoors, wearing a patterned outfit.

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 13h

i see mike king and "i am hope" is in the news again recently. just resharing this amazing piece @jessmcallen.bsky.social wrote for webworm last year: www.webworm.co/rockstar/

The Making of a Mental Health Rockstar

Does Mike King’s popularity come with a big dose of impunity?

www.webworm.co

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 12h

Today from The Detail: Our workforce has had enough and will down tools on October 23 for a "mega strike", involving more than 100,000 workers.

Protest and pressure as strikes sweep the country

newsroom.co.nz

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Emyriad @emyriad.bsky.social · 13h

These are up all over my city tonight <3

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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 12h

Palestinians are still being murdered by the Israeli government who are also preventing aid trucks getting through to those that need it.

Netanyahu’s idea of a ceasefire and keeping to his word are clearly very different to most people’s.

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🎃 Lichcraft 🎃 @onwinedarkseas.blacksky.app · 12h

I don't wanna see nobody putting any shit on the feeds about former ICE agents who took up painting wholesome portraits of the kids they helped ziptie like that's some kind of substitute for restitution. I'll start shooting!!!

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 14h

Promise me that yall aren't going to platform the eventual "repentent ICE agent" stories that will come out...

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 18h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 23h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h

Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot

The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 12h

In another step towards fully transforming into MAGA state media, NBC News has officially terminated all of their teams that were specifically dedicated on covering issues that involve LGBTQ+, Black, Latino and Asian Americans.

This isn’t journalism, it’s fascism dipped in hate.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many super-rich men trying so hard to blatantly buy a mayoral election in a city before.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13h

We’ve heard a lot of colossally stupid things from the Trump regime lately, but this is among the stupidest things I’ve heard from anyone, anywhere, ever.

Post quoting RFK Jr saying “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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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 14h

Trump announced today, seemingly at random, that he is cancelling fed funding for Gateway Tunnel, a tunnel for intercity & commuter trains under the Hudson River.

The motivation for the cancellation—which is likely to be contested—appears to be purely the president’s hatred of Sen Schumer.

Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 15h

"If this system of transportation collapses, the Northeastern economy and the economy of the country collapses." The most important economic development project in the entire nation threatened with cancellation: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...

Trump Says $16 Billion Hudson River Tunnel Project Is ‘Terminated’

www.nytimes.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

Shit's getting bad, man. Real bad.

Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups

The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.

www.wsj.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15h

162 replies so far to this one, plus 82 quote posts, once again showing the remarkable engagement going on here in the really big Bluesky urbanism community. Very intriguing patterns to the replies. Check them out and add your own.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

Finish this sentence: “The biggest obstacle to actually turning MY city into a better city for people is __________________________.”

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 16h

There arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward one final, annihilating moment of shame as the hammer pulls back.

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 17h

Someone asked what happened to the casual Nazi at the end of WWII. The people who supported the Party

The answer? Suicides and murders. If they weren’t beaten to death or shot in the streets, they killed themselves

There’s a book called Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself by Florian Huber about it.

The mass suicides by ordinary citizens in the last days of Nazi Germany
Historian Florian Huber's book examines how civilians took their own lives in greater numbers than military and government officials as the Third Reich collapsed
Soviet Army officers observe the bodies of women who committed
suicide in a Vienna park at the end of World War II.
CORDON PRESS / YEVGENY KHALDEINULL

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14h

"The near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens combined with the lack of an available legal workforce, results in significant disruptions to production costs and threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S consumers," according to a Department of Labor report.

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 14h

Anyone vote for this? Anyone? A nation underfed is making America great again?

The U.S. Labor Department is warning of a potential food crisis linked to the Trump administration’s immigration raids due to a resulting worker shortage.

abcnews.go.com/US/family-fa...

Family farm in Idaho faces worker shortage as Trump administration immigration raids escalate

The U.S. Labor Department is warning of a potential food crisis linked to the Trump administration’s immigration raids due to a resulting worker shortage.

abcnews.go.com

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kiwisockpuppet.bsky.social @kiwisockpuppet.bsky.social · 18h

“The room erupted in laughter when he said he had been advised by Health NZ that the average salary for a senior doctor was $325,000”

Is it even possible for them to make the country hate their guts more #nzpol

1News NZ (Unofficial) @1newsnz.nzcow.com · 18h

📢 There were audible cries of disbelief when he said the action — while their legal right — had "crossed an ethical line".

Simeon Brown accuses doctors of crossing 'ethical line' amid strike action

www.1news.co.nz

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