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Kevin Donoghue @donoghuek.bsky.social · 11h

Are builders incorporating priest holes in American houses yet?

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 11h

I'm sure the Supremes won't have any problem with this. It's what the founders certainly intended. Trump will be irreparably harmed if he can't ruthlessly punish his political opponents and any innocent collateral damage.

Just don't try to forgive student loans. That's where they draw the line.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
This is great news. We've hired the classicist Spencer Klavan to teach at New College of Florida. Goodbye gender studies; hello, Greek literature.
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Truly excited to be teaching an online survey course in Greek literature this fall semester @NewCollegeofFL. Even more excited that it's open to the public. Please join in here! We'll be reading Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and lots more.

https://ncf.edu/youngheretics/
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 23h

EU Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi faces allegations of involvement in espionage by Hungary against the European Union.

ALBERTO ALEMANNO (@alemanno.bsky.social) explains why the Várhelyi Affair is a test of institutional self-defence – and how the EU can respond.

verfassungsblog.de/varhelyi-com...

Quote: “The Várhelyi affair poses a question the Union has never had to answer so starkly: What happens when a member state treats the institutions it helped create not as a common project, but as hostile territory to be infiltrated and undermined?”

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1d

⚡️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.

kyivindependent.com

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Kevin Donoghue @donoghuek.bsky.social · 2d

It's a mistake to think there's some legislative or constitutional measure which will restrain fascists. Whenever they gain power they brush such restraints aside. You need a democracy healthy enough to keep them out of office, out of the police, out of the army.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3d

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

open.substack.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The legendary actor best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and Book Club, has died

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin Donoghue @donoghuek.bsky.social · 3d

Dartmoor and Barlinnie also worthy of mention.

Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 3d

One area where you absolutely gotta hand it to the Brits is in naming prisons.

Strangeways
Wormwood Scrubs
Wakefield
Thorn Cross

Proper hard names. Irish prisons sound like bottled water brands.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 3d

Former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in HMP Wakefield in Britain.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 3d

Trump is scared of arithmetic, but the rest of us aren't. China is winning his trade war, bigly cepr.net/publications...

In Trump’s Competition with China, China is Winning

China’s economy is growing over five times faster than the US, undercutting Trump’s Cold War rhetoric with hard numbers.

cepr.net

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Spocko @spocko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war.
-Nora Reed

#portland #frogs #antifa #antifascistfrog #frogbrigade

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Kevin Donoghue @donoghuek.bsky.social · 3d

Suppose it says: "Learn to cook. The way to a woman's heart is through her stomach!"

I'm of the view this is the best advice one can give a young man. But I'd love to hear better suggestions.

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Kevin Donoghue @donoghuek.bsky.social · 3d

Well we do have a silent person on the ballot paper this time.

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Kevin Donoghue @donoghuek.bsky.social · 3d

I feel the word "overall" is doing so much work here it should be getting danger money.

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 4d

Not placing too much reliance on a single report, but it seems likely that #Russia's vast stockpile of tanks, fighting vehicles and artillery has mostly been exhausted. Navy and air force also depleted, and pre-war army mostly wiped out. 1/2

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From 7,342 to 32—Satellite Analysis Shows Russia’s Depot Armor Is Nearly Spent

An analysis of Russia's military reserves shows a critical shortage of functioning tanks, hindering the Kremlin's ability to sustain its forces on the ground.

united24media.com

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Kevin Donoghue @donoghuek.bsky.social · 4d

Seriously? George III had his faults but he wasn't anything like as despotic as Trump.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 4d

🚨🚨Good news: The European Union has signaled it will not give in to pressure from Washington to tear up its #green rules in order to firm up a deal on #tariffs, @ec.europa.eu trade chief @sabineweyand.bsky.social has said to EU Member States. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

EU refuses to bow to Trump demands to tear up business rules

Brussels has signaled it won’t yield to U.S. pressure to ignite a bonfire of green regulations as part of their trade deal, a top official tells diplomats.

www.politico.eu

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

“I’m trying to put this delicately,” Perry said. “There has been evidence submitted that the very presence of federal agents, that the way they’re interacting with the populace, is itself the cause of violence.”

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Judge blocks Trump from deploying troops in Illinois for now

Officials in Oregon and Illinois had challenged the Trump administration’s push to dispatch the National Guard in both states.

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Kevin Donoghue @donoghuek.bsky.social · 4d

Never got the recognition I deserved for the title role in Waiting For Godot.

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 4d

Nobel Prize: “When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise+resist.” 1/

Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela+for her struggle to achieve a just+peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
#NobelPrize

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Kevin Donoghue @donoghuek.bsky.social · 4d

Not bad, but to really rile the MAGA they should have gone for Greta Thunberg.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 4d

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy

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Kevin Donoghue @donoghuek.bsky.social · 5d

Are you sure the Supreme Court won't say sure you can, why not?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5d

Motion to refer to RFK as Rumpledforeskin from this point forward.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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