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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 1h

“We write, we scream, we plead; but it seems our words fall into a void. There are no aid planes, no humanitarian airlifts, no real international movement and no ground efforts to break the siege."

War crimes alert as food runs out in el-Fasher, Darfur: www.bbc.com/news/article... #KeepEyesonSudan

Sudan siege: War crimes alert as el-Fasher runs out of food

Evidence of the intentional targeting of civilians in el-Fasher amounts to war crimes, researchers say.

www.bbc.com

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 2h

Hey look russians are parading war crimes again and posting FPV footage of their attack on humanitarian convoys

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Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 4h

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

tinyurl.se/crR

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 16d

⚡️Sandu’s pro-European party takes majority in Moldovan parliamentary elections.

With 99.91% of ballots counted, Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) secured 50.16% of the vote, giving it a clear lead and reaffirming public support for Sandu’s push toward European integration.

Sandu’s pro-European party takes majority in Moldovan parliamentary elections

The EU has warned that Moldova is enduring "an unprecedented campaign of disinformation" from Russia ahead of the election.

kyivindependent.com

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 18d

Oh good at least it is (probably & relatively) silly, useless, expensive, petty, and harmful rather than large scale catastrophic like calling them in for a reichswehr oath to Trump.

And presumably further alienates military from Regime.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18d

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a short speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos.”

New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals for what is expected to be a short lecture on the “warrior ethos.” But top brass is bracing for possible firings or demotions.

www.washingtonpost.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19d

ABC News says James Comey has been indicted in a transparently political case, shortly after other prosecutors who couldn’t justify a charge against him were fired by President Trump. abcnews.go.com/US/former-fb...

Former FBI Director James Comey indicted days after Trump demanded his DOJ move 'now' to prosecute enemies

Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted just days after President Trump issued a public demand for the DOJ to act "now" to prosecute him, sources say.

abcnews.go.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19d

As per usual: no mention of political violence against Democrats. The armed man near Kavanaugh’s house who turned himself in becomes an “assassination attempt” while the actual assassination of Melissa Hortman not mentioned. Attacks on ICE facilities are political violence but not attacks on CDC.

The WHITE HOUSE
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Countering
Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
Presidential Memoranda
September 25, 2025

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The WHITE HOUSE
Section 1. Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence. Heinous assassinations and other acts of political violence in the United States have dramatically increased in recent years. Even in the aftermath of the horrifying assassination of Charlie Kirk, some individuals who adhered to the alleged shooter's ideology embraced and cheered this evil murder while actively encouraging more political violence. This was preceded by the 2024 assassination of a senior healthcare executive and the 2022 assassination attempt against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Two separate assassination attempts against my own life in less than 3 months took place during the 2024 Presidential election cycle. Riots in Los Angeles and Portland reflect a more than 1,000 percent increase in attacks on U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers since January 21, 2025, compared to the same period last year. Just yesterday, a shooting targeting an ICE facility in Dallas resulted in multiple casualties.
Separate anti-police and "criminal justice" riots have left many people dead and injured and inflicted over $2 billion in property damage nationwide.

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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.bsky.social · 21d

Meanwhile in Sweden this was perfectly normal behaviour. Was a bit of a culture shock moving there for school and in one of my first seminars both the professor and another of the PhD students were casually taking snus.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 22d

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 21d

The designation of ANTIFA as a terrorist organization focuses on financing: there's a broad array of civil society organizations that could be targeted because of their anti-fascist work. This includes both donors and funders for various groups.

www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

Trump has designated 'antifa' a terrorist group. Here are the questions that raises

Current law provides for the designation of some groups as "foreign terrorist organizations," but no similar process exists for domestic groups.

www.npr.org

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 21d

"In March, the authorities in Haiti hired foreign military contractors to operate armed drones to target gangs that terrorize the capital, Port-au-Prince. The contractors work for a company owned by Erik Prince, a prominent supporter of President Trump."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

Drone Strike in Haiti Kills 8 Children at a Birthday Party

www.nytimes.com

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 22d

Moldovan special services and police have detained 74 individuals suspected of preparing riots and attempting to destabilize the country. politia.md/ro/politia-a...

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 21d

Trump and RFK Jr.’s nonsense about Tylenol and autism isn’t just about spreading misinformation: it is about dismantling the decades of work that it took to reorient society from fearing autism to focusing on making the world more welcoming to #ActuallyAutistic people.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Trump’s reckless announcement linking Tylenol and autism is already doing major damage

Touting a possible cure with little evidence only gives loved ones of autistic people false hope.

www.msnbc.com

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 21d

Every autistic person that I’ve ever met has been immeasurably better than any of these chucklefucks.

Autistic (& ND) folk are valid as fuck and not a scourge or crisis to be prevented.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 21d

Trump and RFK Jr.’s nonsense about Tylenol and autism isn’t just about spreading misinformation: it is about dismantling the decades of work that it took to reorient society from fearing autism to focusing on making the world more welcoming to #ActuallyAutistic people.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Trump’s reckless announcement linking Tylenol and autism is already doing major damage

Touting a possible cure with little evidence only gives loved ones of autistic people false hope.

www.msnbc.com

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22d

One of the most common use cases of generative AI is to create pornographic images of imaginary people and unwilling real people, and in both instances that includes children.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 22d

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material.

www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

Behind Grok's 'sexy' settings, workers review explicit and disturbing content

Workers say they've faced sexually explicit content while xAI has marketed Grok to be deliberately provocative. Experts say the company should be cautious.

www.businessinsider.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22d

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 22d

Every time Russia gets desperate, articles like this magically appear.

They offer no new information or insight, just a recycled attempt to convince you that fear is your default setting.

And no, despite being a war analyst, the author doesn’t actually know where his finger is

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bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 22d

these fuckers are using kids as hostages to get parents to comply. awful stuff www.nbcboston.com/news/local/i...

ICE agents held 5-year-old girl outside Leominster home to get father to surrender, family says

Video appears to show federal immigration agents trying to coax the man out of his Massachusetts home while asking, "Is that your daughter?"

www.nbcboston.com

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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.bsky.social · 22d

Sounds just like UK and Ireland, felt like the lanes were a few centimeters wider than the car with a stone fence just off either side of the road and 80 to 100 km/h speed limit.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22d

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

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Tapani Hopkins @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social · 22d

Reasonable advice from an expert on how useful an example that shooting down of a Russian jet by Turkey is.

I guess it's worth mentioning if someone panickily believes *any* downing of a Russian jet leads to WW3, otherwise not so relevant.

Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 22d

We are likely headed to a situation where shooting down Russian incursions will become necessary, but it’s a different situation in the Baltic Sea region than in Turkish airspace. So if we want to discuss this, it should be done according to the correct parameters.

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 22d

Even if the bill doesn’t move further — and even though it totally wouldn’t pass 1A muster — I think it’s still notable as a disturbing sign of where some Republican heads are at right now

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22d

Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons:

-Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular
-Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact
-Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22d

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 23d

Mariupol, mass graves, everything east of the pond is new

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