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Ablokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · 6h

RFK's war on science in action. This, & the rest of the MAHA agenda, will kill millions. The US will plunge down the league table of life expectancies & drag down the world average. #Science

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Ablokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · 6h

The Nobel Peace Prize has been a *disgrace*, not merely a joke, since they gave one to Henry Kissinger. In the unlikely event that I was awarded one, I would refuse until the day they revoke his.

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 8d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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Ablokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · 14h

Emmanuel Macron has a new show to try out for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Re-appointing Lecornu is definitely a joke, but I'm not sure how many people will find it funny.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Macron reappoints Sébastien Lecornu as French prime minister

Lecornu, who resigned as PM on Monday, is tasked with urgently delivering a budget to parliament

www.theguardian.com

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Ablokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · 15h

The Venezuelan opposition represents the old landed aristocracy pushed aside by the Bolivarian revolution & its Boli-bourgeoisie. It currently suits them to masquerade as democrats, but they are even worse opponents of democracy than Maduro is.

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Ablokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · 15h

Exactly what I have been saying for years.

•Anti-capitalist meme pebbler• @seizethememez.bsky.social · 1d

The image is a two-panel meme featuring two characters from a TV show. In the top panel, a character wearing a white T-shirt is speaking, with the text: "IF TRUMP WINS IT, THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WILL BECOME A JOKE." In the bottom panel, another character in a plaid shirt responds with: "NEWSFLASH, ASSHOLE - IT'S BEEN A JOKE SINCE KISSINGER”

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 10 Oct 1971 the men of Bravo Company, 1/12, 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army declared a private unofficial ceasefire with the North Vietnamese. It followed a mutiny shortly before. Authorities instead shipped them out to safety. Learn more: workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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Ablokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · 22h

The Liberal Party needs to be wiped off the face of the Earth.

Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

Lol lmao

Herald Sun
Steve Price
Abbott return is what Libs need

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Ablokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · 22h

This is what working from home has accomplished. #climatechange

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

look at what covid lockdowns did to Australia's transport emissions

australia's transport emissions rising consistently until 2020

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway

We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

theconversation.com

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Ablokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · 22h

Repression of the radical Left in the US would, in itself, achieve very little for Trump. The radical Left is too small.

This is why Trump will move on to arrest large sections of the Democratic Party, if not the entire organisation. #Antifa is the thin end of the wedge.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

Ablokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · 22h

If Israel controls who can enter & leave #Gaza, it's still an open air prison.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

When are foreign journalists going to be able to enter Gaza?

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d

🤔

www.redblacknotes.com/2025/10/10/d...

Neo-Nazis cling to a dying Australia

The Nazis might find confidence in their isolated fight clubs and men’s retreats, but we can find our confidence in the multicultural working class that actually makes this country run.

www.redblacknotes.com

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d

cheet0 gotta enimies list huh

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/senator-wa...

Senator Warns of Trump's Secret Watchlist for Americans

NSPM-7 finally gets Congressional attention

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Cupid's Molotov @cupidsmolotov.bsky.social · 1d

The libs celebrating in the replies have literally no idea.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

María Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key figure in unifying Venezuela's political opposition.

bit.ly

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Ⓐnarky Rules 🏴 @anarkyrules.bsky.social · 1d

All presidents are bastards.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 1d

So what excuse does Israel now have for not letting foreign journalists into Gaza?

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 1d

That's antifascism: seeing the fascist threat and actually combating it. That's what Trump is trying to paint as terrorism.

Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 1d

Some folks can't see the fascism, and so they have false optimism that causes them not to act against it.

Other folks see the fascism, and they feel so hopeless that they don't act against it.

What we need is a combination of the ability to see things honestly as well as to be empowered.

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Ablokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · 1d

NSW cops significantly overestimated incidence of #Antisemitism.

The reporter treats this as accidental. I think it unlikely. The problem, though real, is overstated. Worse, the source is misrepresented.

Let's look & see if Victoria Police have done the same.
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Revealed: NSW Police ‘significantly’ overstated antisemitic attacks

An internal review of Operation Shelter found a “significant number” of cases had been mischaracterised as motivated by anti-Jewish sentiment.

www.smh.com.au

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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · 3d

Over 70 people came out for the first of two events in Oakland to see Black anarchist and former Black Panther Lorenzo kom’boa Ervin speak!

You still have a chance to catch the second event on Thursday. Details in quoted post.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 3d

You can lock up as many people as you want for chanting or protesting against genocide.

You will never scrub away the truth about that genocide - or your own complicity in it.

You are just ensuring that you will be damned all the more for what you have done.

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says

The government needs to

www.bbc.co.uk

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 3d

If you care about public health, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about medical research, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about climate change, labor conditions, the well-being of children in war zones—you have to become a revolutionary.

crimethinc.com/becomeananar...

There is no more middle ground.

If you care about public health, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about medical research, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about climate change, labor conditions, the well-being of children in warzones, there is nothing else for it—you have to become a revolutionary.

There is no going back to the way things were, to the future that we once anticipated. The old world is in flames around us.

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Ablokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · 3d

Climate denialists would us believe that firebugs didn't exist until a few years ago.

Ablokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · 3d

Formerly extremely rare, this is becoming common. Grand juries are now refusing to indict when prosecutors bring charges vs people arrested at anti-ICE demos.

This is a sign that many more charges can be fought & won when they go to trial. It's a roadblock on the way to Fascism in the US. #Antifa

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 3d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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