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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺

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Photojournalist, biker, reader, writer: street photography, heritage, rights and struggle for them. Food&wine and their history. Italy, Mediterranean, Europe. 🧿 https://linktr.ee/PieroCastellano

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · Nov 18

Wow, good morning skywalkers! Thanks and welcome to everyone, this is the number of people who followed me on X when I left...
I hope I won't disappoint you, I will follow up later with a proper and updated introduction.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Someday this could be you or someone you love

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Just rounding people up. A US citizen who says he had his birth certificate with him (!) was still thrown in the back of a truck and detained.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Dave Shackson @djshackson.bsky.social · 21h

Yes, political violence against an elected representative is unacceptable but Nigel Farage accusing others of dangerous political rhetoric is like Pol Pot accusing someone of unacceptable levels of mass murder.

Farage criticises ‘disgraceful’ rhetoric after alleged attack on Reform council leader

George Finch, 19, says he was called a ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ during incident in Warwickshire on Friday

www.theguardian.com

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 21h

Imagine if the Nazis had nuclear weapons, a trillion-dollar annual military budget, artificial intelligence, and social media.

Is there any scarier thought than that?

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 22h

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to have two years' of work out, in a pair of papers led by @gradientrider.bsky.social and @maxecharles.bsky.social.

We've built a data-driven calibration of the James Webb Interferometer to near its fundamental limits for high-res imaging - explainer at @aunz.theconversation.com!

How we sharpened the James Webb telescope’s vision from a million kilometres away

The only Australian hardware on board the legendary telescope is starting to fulfil its duties.

theconversation.com

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 21h

Russia’s National Automobile Union is pushing the federal govt to impose price caps on gasoline, days after Putin waived a ceiling on subsidies to wholesalers. Lots of market manipulations afoot as Russia twists and bends amid an ongoing fuel shortage.

Внести заправку: в России предложили установить потолок цен на АЗС

Для чего это понадобилось и как хотят рассчитывать допустимый максимум стоимости топлива

iz.ru

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21h

Reporters must promise not to publish unauthorised material to obtain press credentials.

US news outlets say they will not agree to Pentagon reporting restrictions

Reporters must promise not to publish unauthorised material to obtain press credentials.

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Joel @joelivoryjohnson.com · 1d

Link, for those interested.

youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 1d

“The Netherlands shows vigilance and prevents Russian ships from sabotaging undersea infrastructure,” a Ministry of Defense spokesperson said.

nltimes.nl/2025/10/11/d...

The Russian submarine, the Novorossiysk, submarine, suffering from a fuel leak, was forced to remain on the surface.

The vessel had been operating in the Mediterranean and was heading to a Northern or Baltic Sea port for repairs, as Russia cannot access ports in the Black Sea or Syria.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

Pretty much

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

more of this. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 1d

There is dystopian, there is Kafkaesque, and then there is Trumpian.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 2d

Black women make up 12% of the federal workforce. The largest representation of their labor.

And Trump is firing, firing, firing.

Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 2d

Trump claimed that immigrants were “taking Black jobs,” but even after he deported 350,000 immigrants this year, 300,000 Black women lost their jobs. Black unemployment, overall, has soared to 7.5% under Trump, while white unemployment has dropped to 3.7%.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 3d

"We just found out through social media that my aunt — who sells tamales every morning to support her family — was taken by ICE. We never got a call. We had to learn about it from strangers online."

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 3d

This is a GoFundMe supporting the tamale lady taken by ICE on 21st Place and Damen in Pilsen yesterday.

“Now she’s being forced to start over in Mexico with nothing — no home, no job, and no access to the medical care she desperately needs.”

Donate to Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE, organized by marilyn perez

We just found out through social media that my aunt — who sells t… marilyn perez needs your support for Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE

www.gofundme.com

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 3d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 3d

1) In a press conference yesterday, Trump justified calling troops into Chicago by saying, "Do you know they had over 4000 people killed in Chicago... they had 4000 people murdered over a very short period of time."

www.reddit.com/r/illinois/c...

Where did he get that number? Funny answer...

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 3d

‘Let me finish my thought!’ Trump’s envoy shouted down by Israelis after hailing Netanyahu

Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, was shouted down in Israel Saturday after hailing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as being instrumental in the Gaza peace plan that was agreed to, in part, by both Israel and Hamas.“This moment was made through the t...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina.

Too bad it only benefits one American: a billionaire hedge fund manager, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy.

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire

A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

www.motherjones.com

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 3d

Trump is an absolute hero in Israel RN, being viewed (probably correctly so) as forcing Bibi's hand to end the war.

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War Noir @warnoir.bsky.social · 22d

#Sudan 🇸🇩: "Rapid Support Forces" ( #RSF ) carried out series of Drone attacks against "Sudanese Army" ( #SAF ) positions on Al-Fashir Axis.

RSF seemingly used several FPV Kamikaze Drones armed with PG-7V(M) Anti-Tank RPG warheads during the attacks.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

At least 12 killed in Sudan's Al-Fashir after drone strike reut.rs/4pZXYjz

At least 12 killed in Sudan's Al-Fashir after drone strike

Drone strikes by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on a displacement shelter on Friday night and Saturday morning killed at least 12 people, according to a local journalist, and potentially dozens more, according to local activists.

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 3d

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Darren Olivier @darren.africandefence.net · 3d

I think more is being made of this than is warranted.
The part, the SF-20/B from Lightware, is a commercial LIDAR sensor. The laser in it is a ~900nm, ~1.8mW device, putting it very far below the Wassenaar dual-use limits requiring export controls & NCACC approval.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

South Africa Investigates How It Made a Part for Russian Drones

The manufacturer says it’s unclear how Russia obtained the equipment because it isn’t supposed to be sold for military use.