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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity is the only way

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 16h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 15h

You can find @joho.bsky.social YouTube channel (which Vinay Prasad complained about) here: www.youtube.com/@wewantthemi...

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 15h

Interesting development on this story. Dr Jonathan Howard's YouTube channel, which was taken down following a complaint by FDA official Vinay Prasad, is back up again. Howard's channel is dedicated to exposing medical misinformation spread during COVID and beyond www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Top FDA official demands removal of YouTube videos in which he criticized Covid vaccines

Channel was an attempt to ‘preserve’ what officials in current Trump administration said during the pandemic

www.theguardian.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. A tool now at ICE’s disposal

Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 2d

🇮🇹 Enel CEO and Generali board member Flavio Cattaneo was also targeted with Paragon’s #spyware, according to @fattoquotidiano.bsky.social.

www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/a...

Paragon, spiato anche Cattaneo: “Virus nel telefono” - Il Fatto Quotidiano

Leggi su Il Fatto Quotidiano l'articolo in edicola "Paragon, spiato anche Cattaneo: “Virus nel telefono”" pubblicato il 12 Ottobre 2025 a firma di Carlo Di Foggia e Valeria Pacelli

www.ilfattoquotidiano.it

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 3d

It's just not part of the program.

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 3d

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Login • Instagram

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 3d

When I saw Patti Smith wishing Johnny a happy bday and had to stop following

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 4d

in fact it is more exciting

Is being a Guardian reporter as exciting as the movies make out?

Keira Knightley cuts a more glamorous figure than most Guardian staff in her new film The Woman in Cabin 10, while Tennant is a dead ringer for star reporter Nick Davies. But how convincing are they?

www.theguardian.com

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 4d

Cuts a more glamorous figure? Unattributed I see

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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 5d

💡It’s not the first time Simonds has flirted with acquiring NSO.

In 2023, media reported that Simonds & William “Beau” Wrigley, heir to his family’s chewing-gum fortune, considered acquiring assets of the US blacklisted Israeli company.

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

Hollywood producer and chewing gum heir explore takeover of notorious spyware firm assets

Robert Simonds and William ‘Beau’ Wrigley consider acquiring assets of NSO, blacklisted Israeli company behind Pegasus spyware

www.theguardian.com

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 7d

On @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, I talk to my cohost, @adriandaub.bsky.social, about the cultural and legal changes that created “fetal personhood,” and allowed the fetus to emerge as both an ideal of citizenship and a kind of mass imaginary friend. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Episode 99 -- Fetal Personhood

Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 10/07/2025 · 1h 16m

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 7d

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

CBS News staffers react to Bari Weiss being named editor-in-chief: ‘It’s utterly depressing’

Six network employees expressed a mix of emotions over the appointment in conversations with the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 11d

Shouting it from the rooftop: Apple is among the companies that has protected civil society around the world from spyware used by authoritarian and some democratic governments. What happens when it's the US government who has access to spyware that can be used on journalists, political rivals, etc

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12d

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 11d

lol

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 11d

Our latest in our Ice Air investigation is by @oliverlaughland.bsky.social, which tells the story of one family's deportation, including two US citizen children www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

‘They never told me where I was going’: a family falls into Louisiana’s ‘black hole’ of deportation

Exclusive: A mother and her two US citizen children – including one with stage 4 cancer – disappeared and were deported to Honduras

www.theguardian.com

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 11d

This from June was a much, much better conversation/interview of Ta-Nehisi Coates, exploring the same themes he was raising with Klein, but with a host who was listening podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Natural Human Reaction

Podcast Episode · The Bulwark Podcast · 06/09/2025 · 1h 20m

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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 12d

The latest in the @us.theguardian.com investigations team work on deportations: family separation

@maanvisingh.bsky.social reveals how the admin is coercing families into giving up, by forcing them to give up their kids if they want to fight their deportations

Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’

Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure

www.theguardian.com

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 12d

In the first Trump administration, systematic separation of immigrant families was shut down due to public pressure. Now the practice has returned. Here is our latest in the Ice Air series, a heartbreaking look at family separation 2.0 by @maanvisingh.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’

Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure

www.theguardian.com

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 13d

Pope: You're not pro-life is you mistreat immigrants www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Pope Leo criticizes Trump’s hardline immigration policies: ‘I don’t know if that’s pro-life’

Pope questions what it means to be ‘pro-life’ amid the ‘inhuman treatment of immigrants’ in the US

www.theguardian.com

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 14d

Hegseth to Geneva Conventions: drop dead

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 14d

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 14d

or sexual assault or sexual harassment

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