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Jonathan @curecanti.bsky.social · 22m

Die zwei Körper des Königs.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Ron Chusid @rchusid.bsky.social · 19h

Study finds no correlation between Covid vaccines in the first trimester and birth defects. This is consistent with other studies showing that the Covid vaccine is safe and effective for pregnant women.
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First-Trimester mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination and Risk of Major Congenital Anomalies

This cohort study examines the association between first-trimester exposure to messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines and the risk of major congenital malformations among infants in France.

jamanetwork.com

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Jonathan @curecanti.bsky.social · 1h

Ceasefire looks a lot like not-actually-a-ceasefire.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4h

BREAKING: The bodies of 29 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks have been brought to Gaza's hospitals over the past 24 hours, reports the health ministry.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0

Jonathan @curecanti.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, no. I can no longer teach my most popular and expensive class, Information 101.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 17h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Ingo Stützle @istuetzle.bsky.social · 8h

rackets

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 8h

FT Investigation: The heart of Trump’s wealth is a rapidly growing cryptocurrency empire, which has already reaped more than $1bn in pre-tax profits, in part thanks to a crypto boom fuelled by the US administration’s own industry-friendly policies on.ft.com/47bCXtE

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Ingo Stützle @istuetzle.bsky.social · 1d

What could possibly go wrong?

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Aug 1

In a two week period:

Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste.

Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.

Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah

A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in fa...

www.wkms.org

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21h

This is quickly morphing from a conspiracy theory into... obviously what's happening.

He keeps referencing seeing "videos" of things that don't exist, and the most plausible explanation is that they're sitting Grandpa down at night and Ludovicoing him AI videos of Antifa burning cities down.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21h

You have to wonder if White House staffers are simply showing him AI videos at this point and he thinks it's reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump: "The people of Chicago are walking around with MAGA hats. You have women, beautiful Black women, walking around with MAGA hats. 'Please let the president in and we don't care how he does it ... bring in the Marines.'"

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 1d

LIVE: Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli soldiers kill at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis

‘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.

www.aljazeera.com

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 23h

Unlike Venezuela, which has been treated as a rogue state by multiple US administrations, Colombia has been the US’s closest ally in Latin America in terms of security and counternarcotics for decades. This is a big deal. It gives countries little incentive to partner with the US.

At least one US military strike on alleged drug trafficking boat in Caribbean targeted Colombians | CNN Politics

At least one US military strike in the Caribbean over the last two months targeted Colombian nationals on a boat that had left from Colombia, according to two people briefed by the Pentagon about the ...

www.cnn.com

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 23h

Good job, Nobel prize committee. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

One problem with FIFA being utterly corrupt is that instead of taking this bullshit seriously and moving the World Cup as they should, they’re massaging Trump’s ego and bestowing him with gifts.

The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 1d

President Trump said that he could “take away” the 2026 World Cup games scheduled in the Boston area if he feels there are “unsafe conditions.” trib.al/SA9rK0a

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 2d

Already today, Israel has:

-Conducted a drone strike on Khan Younis in Gaza

-Shot & wounded two others near Khan Younis

-Killed 5 Palestinians in Gaza City

-Fired on & wounded a several others near Jabalia

All in violation of the “ceasefire.”

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 5d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

extramural nonprofessional political speech. no freedom.

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Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 2d

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2d

All of the Israelis held by Hamas are called “hostages,” including the IDF soliders.

All the Palestinians released, though, are “prisoners,” including the many victims of Israel’s widespread arbitrary detention - meaning they are legally innocent, detained without charge or conviction.

Disgusting.

CBC headline reads: All living Israeli hostages freed, nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners released

Trump in Egypt for world leaders' meeting following an address to Israel's parliament

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4d

Multi billionaire conducts months of historical and theological research into the Antichrist. Discovers, shockingly, that one thing the Antichrist would definitely do is tax billionaires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, Al and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: "It's become quite difficult to hide one's money."

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Jonathan @curecanti.bsky.social · 3d

Heidegger was a Nazi.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 4d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Jonathan @curecanti.bsky.social · 3d

For the umpteenth time and forever, fuck ICE.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

Jonathan @curecanti.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe it’s Zoom audio compression, but Vance sounds like an asshole voice-to-text software.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Jonathan @curecanti.bsky.social · 4d

In general, though, I think it’s hard for a metal guitarist to transform into, say, Andrew York, after a lifetime of sweep picking. Acoustic (classical) techniques are so different.

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