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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14h

“‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat *** Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.”

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Lone Bacterium 🌻 @lonebacterium.bsky.social · 1d

Does it count as a cover if it's a folk song, or is it a rendition? Regardless:

youtu.be/PyUI2HO24MI?...

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Lone Bacterium 🌻 @lonebacterium.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't know until recently that this is a cover song

youtu.be/VV1XWJN3nJo?...

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Lone Bacterium 🌻 @lonebacterium.bsky.social · 1d

Dunno about favourite, but I don't think anyone has posted this banger yet - Les Claypool's Duo de Twang covering the Bee Gees's Stayin' Alive
youtu.be/axu_Yek9n4I?...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 7d

The destruction of Gaza. Genocide.

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Tim Mak @timkmak.bsky.social · 5d

To read about Ukrainian anarchists who joined the army – people who once rejected all forms of hierarchy, yet chose to fight not for the state, but for freedom, for their loved ones, and for those whose homes were destroyed – click the link!

The Anarchists (yes, anarchists) in Ukraine’s military

Even Ukrainian anarchists felt compelled to join the army to fight against Russia, despite opposing the concept of the state. One of them, Faust, joined to fight for the freedom of his loved ones.

www.counteroffensive.news

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Russ Frankenstein (no relation) @russ41.bsky.social · 9d

Time for a thread of all the things that Stephen Miller and his band of morons are doing to make enemies of state/local authorities.

Let's start things off with some spice for the CPD.

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 9d

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 5d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Lone Bacterium 🌻 @lonebacterium.bsky.social · 8d

"None of the tickets given to minister vehicles were going less than 11 kilometres over the limit" This is in line with the Toronto Star report that said that one has to exceed the speed limit by at least 11 km/hr to get fined. www.thestar.com/news/gta/wha...

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 8d

the folks who are making a big deal about banning speed cameras sure have been caught by speed cameras a lot

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca

Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

globalnews.ca

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 8d

This was published the day after the Heaton Park terrorist attack. I find its grim combination of antisemitism, conspiracy fictions and agrarian populism deeply worrying, as this is how it all kicked off a century ago. 🧵
farmsnotfactories.org/articles/zio...

Zionist Money Rules • Farms Not Factories

The purpose of our newsletter is to give you important information that is censored in the mainstream media. “The way... Read More

farmsnotfactories.org

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halyapuff.bsky.social @halyapuff.bsky.social · 9d

Doctor first abducted from occupied Donbas in 2015 sentenced to 15 years ‘for spying for Ukraine’
khpg.org/en/1608815156
#Serhiy_Petryk

Doctor first abducted from occupied Donbas in 2015 sentenced to 15 years ‘for spying for Ukraine’

Serhiy Petryk spoiled the propaganda video which is one of the reasons for these travesties, by saying he was innocent and a Ukrainian citizen, and doing so in Ukrainian

khpg.org

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 10d

⚡️Explosions rock western Ukrainian cities as Russia launches large-scale drone attack.

Russia launched a wave of drone attacks on Ukrainian cities, including Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk, overnight on Oct. 5.

The Air Force has warned of Russian drones approaching various regions of Ukraine.

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Lone Bacterium 🌻 @lonebacterium.bsky.social · 10d

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Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election | Czech Republic | The Guardian share.google/69D2t3sMp3z4...

Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election

With Babiš’s victory the Czech Republic looks set to join Hungary and Slovakia in refusing support for Ukraine

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11d

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.

There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."

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Lone Bacterium 🌻 @lonebacterium.bsky.social · 10d

"According to a source with direct knowledge of the ticketing process, the threshold for a ticket from a Toronto speed camera is never less than 11 km/h over the posted limit."

Unofficial TorontoStar (All News) @torontostar-rss.bsky.social · 10d

What’s the threshold for a ticket from a Toronto speed camera? Here’s what the Star has found

For the first time, the Star can report the threshold for a ticket when driving over the posted speed limit — at least in Toronto and other large municipalities nearby.

www.thestar.com

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Salome @salome-gongadze.bsky.social · 11d

"I was offered a plea deal – an admission of guilt in exchange for a lighter sentence – but I refused. To reconcile with injustice is to be buried alive."
The U.S.'s institutions pale in comparison to the bravery of Georgia's beleaguered opposition.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

From my prison cell in Georgia, I implore Europe not to abandon us to Russia | Mzia Amaglobeli

My fellow journalists are putting their lives in danger every day, but we refuse to surrender to a regime that threatens Europe’s own security, says imprisoned Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli

www.theguardian.com

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Elektra @elektrac.bsky.social · 11d

This is the analysis I’ve been waiting to read. I couldn’t agree more that we have to find the moral courage to rise to this difficult moment- a moment that demands a particular character, clarity, and bravery.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 12d

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.

www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12d

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Unofficial TorontoStar (All News) @torontostar-rss.bsky.social · 12d

Toronto hospital housing model ‘a gift’ to residents as ER visits reduced by half

TORONTO - Every time Jason Miles walked out of prison, he would be bigger, stronger and meaner.

www.thestar.com

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ACLU @aclu.org · 12d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Lone Bacterium 🌻 @lonebacterium.bsky.social · 12d

"Part of my “Sites of Truth, Sites of Conscience” report was to make it easier for Canadians to educate themselves...I actually reproduced the document and the image of the cemetery, of kids being buried...How can you dispute that there are burials on these sites when we have photographs of them?"

Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 12d

"That’s the difficulty, and the reason why there’s no justice or accountability in this country, because we’re having to go to the perpetrator to provide proper reparations."

Canada Hasn’t Done Anything about Unmarked Graves Report, Interlocutor Says thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Canada Hasn’t Done Anything about Unmarked Graves Report, Interlocutor Says | The Tyee

Families need support to bring the remains of loved ones home, according to Kimberly Murray. A Tyee Q&A.

thetyee.ca

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 12d

I feel like we've gotten numb to these threats but it really is something to stack them all next to each other www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

Ingersoll’s calls for violence are in line with the official Republican position. John Gillette, a Republican state representative for Arizona, called for Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) to be hanged on his X account. Two Kansas Republicans alluded to — “joked” — about shooting a former Democratic colleague on the floor of the Kansas House. Louisiana Republican Clay Higgins threatened to jail the mayor of Denver, while Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna threatened to refer him for criminal charges. Arizona Republican Paul Gosar shared an anime video depicting him killing Ocasio-Cortez and attacking then-President Joe Biden.

Denaturalization is another favorite Republican threat. Republican Andy Ogles of Tennessee said that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani should be stripped of his citizenship and deported; Ogles later demanded the same for Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois. Texas Republican Brandon Gill, Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, and South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace have called for Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized US citizen, to be deported.

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Friends and Families for Safe Streets @ffsafestreets.bsky.social · 15d

📢DIRECT ACTION ALERT! SHARE WIDELY!
Join us to "circle the strollers" around the speed camera at Bloor and Dundas to protest our Premier's reckless attack on road safety. Tens of thousands of kids will be defenseless against speeding drivers in school zones!!
More info: www.ffsafestreets.ca/events

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 12d

This is nothing but a gesture, considering every POW returns mutilated and every liberated settlement is filled with improvised torture chambers.

Still, it’s something every russia appeasement adept should see when they close their eyes

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