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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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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 9h

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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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1h

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 59m

⚡️Military aid to Ukraine declines sharply in recent months, report says.

Military aid to Ukraine has fallen dramatically in recent months, a report by the Kiel Institute published on Oct. 14 has found.

Military aid to Ukraine declines sharply in recent months, report says

In July and August, total military aid to Ukraine fell 43% lower than the amount received in the first half of the year, a report by the Kiel Institute finds.

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 2h

So many similarities to GOP candidate Nixon dispatching Kissinger to sabotage LBJ's Vietnam talks, initiating a horrendous Cambodian bombing campaign after winning the 1968 election - only to sign essentially the same deal in 1973 that LBJ had put together 5 years earlier.
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icookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 9h

Yup! People are out of their mind if they believe Trump didn’t tell Netanyahu to reject Biden’s efforts negotiating the release of the hostages. 😒 Here is Bibi denying it’s what he and Trump talked about before he met with Biden. www.axios.com/2024/08/15/t...

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Aello @genie4ss.bsky.social · 8h

I wonder what RFK Jr is blaming for girls' autism diagnoses, given they don't get circumcised.

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EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 8h

Yes his goal is to destroy Obama legacy bc of what Obama said I. April
2011 at WH correspondents dinner

Abima @abimababy.bsky.social · 8h

He really wants the Nobel peace prize only because Obama got it. It's even funnier because Obama said he doesn't understand why he got it. 😂

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Christine Loriol @christineloriol.bsky.social · 8h

Letztes Jahr offenbar heftige Grippewelle in 🇫🇷, und auch hier nimmt die Impfbereitschaft ab.

#vaccination #France

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Christine Loriol @christineloriol.bsky.social · 8h

#Impfkampagne in Frankreich, beginnt morgen - Grippe und Covid. Grippeimpfung ist sogar gratis. Covid Booster hat für uns Ausländerinnen jeweils 10.60€ gekostet. Es hat zb in Nizza ein Impfzentrum, wo man ohne Termin hin kann. Schon fast unglaublich… 1/2

www.nicematin.com/sante/la-cam...

La campagne contre la Covid et la grippe démarre ce mardi 14 octobre, un centre de vaccination sans rendez-vous ouvert à Nice

À partir de ce mardi 14 octobre, 19 millions de Français pourront se faire vacciner gratuitement contre la grippe et le Covid-19. À Nice, le centre Hancy proposera la vaccination, sans rendez-vous dès...

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Christine Loriol @christineloriol.bsky.social · 9h

Obama schiesst nie in den grössten Wirbel hinein. In USA ist noch nicht mal Abend. Er ist kein Breakingnewsstatementlieferant.

Christine Loriol @christineloriol.bsky.social · 9h

Schreibt mal jemand noch darüber? Dass alle noch lebenden Geiseln Männer sind und was das bedeutet?

2strong2silence.bsky.social @2strong2silence.bsky.social · 10h

The hostages that all survived and were released were men. Let that sink in. Hamas are rapists and murderers. If you’re defending that shit get help.

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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 12h

Someone left a rack full of inflatable costumes near the ICE building in Portland.

I love this town.

This is a wonderful thread that explains how & why Portland is Like This.
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A clothing rack on a sidewalk, full of colorful inflatable costumes, with a sign that says free.

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Crystal Voted 4 Harris @crystal4mvpharris.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, because I am Black in America. FOH

NO KINGS IN AMERICA… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 1d

Well, did you?! 👇

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Christine Loriol @christineloriol.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you for writing this. You were the first one I saw (besides a friend of mine who asked the question on Instagram). It's beyond imagination. 💔

May their souls have found peace and their memory be a blessing.

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Christine Loriol @christineloriol.bsky.social · 9h

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Christine Loriol @christineloriol.bsky.social · 9h

well, a semi reflection was not enough. Try again. Reflect better.

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 10h

This is some of the most fucked up shit in the history of fucked up shit!!

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 16h

So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 17h

This seems like confirmation

Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place.

“We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.”

Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 14h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Christine Loriol @christineloriol.bsky.social · 11h

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 11h

So Basically Trump did the same thing Reagan did back in 1980:

THEE Acting Lore @portgreen.bsky.social · 16h

This shit is so fucking repetitive. Same shit in the 90s, “oh let’s just wait for the next administration” I fucking hate this shit. They put people’s lives at risk because of their small dick energy. Disgusting.

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 11h

So Basically Trump did the same thing Reagan did back in 1980:

THEE Acting Lore @portgreen.bsky.social · 16h

This shit is so fucking repetitive. Same shit in the 90s, “oh let’s just wait for the next administration” I fucking hate this shit. They put people’s lives at risk because of their small dick energy. Disgusting.

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Speis_👀 @speisoo.bsky.social · 11h

Tech ist komplett irre.

Also komplett irre

Fortune @fortune.com · 11h

Sam Altman reportedly wants 250 gigawatts of new electricity to run gigantic new data centers by 2033.

Emerald AI’s CEO Varun Sivaram’s objective is to solve the problem of those rare high-demand moments the grid can’t handle. trib.al/lKvPPke

Companies like OpenAI are sucking up power at a historic rate. One startup thinks it has found a way to take pressure off the grid | Fortune

Emerald AI, which launched in July, is trying to solve the problem of powering the data centers that all AI companies need.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor."

"This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."

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Martin Kleiner 🧻 @kleinergag.bsky.social · 12h

Das ist in vielerlei Hinsicht keine Job-, sondern eine Traueranzeige.

Linkedin: „AI Filmmaker (100% Remote( gesucht. 100 Personen haben auf ‚Bewerben' geklickt."

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