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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 4h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · Dec 1

Farm with solar energy
Agrivoltaics increased grape yield up to 60%

2 vineyards of French biz Sun’Agri increased grape yields by 20-60% in 2024, vs areas with no solar
PV modules helped moderate temperature extremes, reducing summer heat and winter cold
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/29/a...

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3h

California Governor Gavin Newsom "vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have provided more transparency around the water usage of data centers, which regularly require millions of gallons of fresh water to cool their computers."

Gavin Newsom blocks effort to make CA data centers disclose water use. Why?

Data-center water usage can vary from 110 million gallons to 1.8 billion gallons per year.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 1d

"Israel expects us to feel grateful for obtaining our basic rights to life and liberty — as if they were favors, not ordinary human rights."

I Have Hope for This Ceasefire, But It Can’t Undo Two Years of Genocide

U.S. President Donald Trump said the ceasefire deal marked “a wonderful day for everybody.” Why did it take two years to arrive?

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

Rep. Jim Himes on Trump blowing up boats in the Caribbean: "The White House has not shared what they believe their legal justification is. They did put out a memo. I will tell you based on what I know now and the reading of that memo, these are illegal killings."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 5h

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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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 7h

Encouraging.

But all is not lost. The cement is still wet, and even as it hardens we can find hope in the common sense of the global public. In a survey by Focaldata, of 36,000 people in 34 countries we find a clear majority are more resistant to an exclusionary nationalism and more willing to embrace international cooperation than many of the leaders who rule over them.

Across the world there is, perhaps surprisingly, only a small group of hardened anti-internationalists representing 16.5% of the global population (even if 25% in today’s US) who either feel coexistence between ethnic and religious groups is impossible or have a zero-sum mindset that if they or their country do well, it has to be at the expense of others doing badly.

But there are another 21% at the opposite extreme, whom we might call committed internationalists, who either still see cooperation across borders through open trade as a positive sum win-win, or are what the US philosopher and writer Kwame Anthony Appiah calls “rooted cosmopolitans”.

From Gordon Brown at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/11/reform-nigel-farage-hard-right-politics-gordon-brown-labour

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 7h

So much talk of economics and far right radicalisation but my increasingly view is we are all - myself included - underestimating the impact of both internet culture and (more importantly) the economics of the internet/social media on politics and radicalisation

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 9h

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

The federal food program helping more than 1 in 4 young children access fresh produce, milk, and formula will run out of funding next week.

Over 5 million children could lose food assistance — all thanks to the Trump-Republican shutdown.

The cruelty is endless.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 8h

In #Odesa, the choir and audience continued the performance in the shelter of the Philharmonic Theater despite a Russian attack.

📹: y.krasinskyi

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 6h

Literal anti-trans campaigner now heading up the UK’s equalities and human rights watchdog. www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-criti...

Gender critical Mary-Ann Stephenson named as new EHRC chair as Government overrules MPs

Despite two different parliamentary committees expressing opposition to her appointment

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 6h

I do wonder about the effect on rank and file local police forces when top federal officials say on TV their entire force is incompetent and dishonest, a bunch of left-wing America haters, and even assert that patrol cops were in the street chanting "Kill ICE!"

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 6h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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Stockholm Center for Freedom @stockholmcf.bsky.social · 5h

At least 1,566 workers in Turkey died in occupational accidents in first 3 quarters: report

At least 1,566 workers in Turkey died in occupational accidents in first 3 quarters: report - Stockholm Center for Freedom

Turkey recorded at least 1,566 deaths in work-related accidents in the first three quarters of the year, the Health and Safety Labor Watch (İSİG) reported. According to İSİG 206 people died in…

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 6h

i mean, the administration needs to deport him somewhere where journalists won't go and where he will die as quickly as possible

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 6h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 13h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 7h

As we get more reports of ICE thugs detaining Americans, it should be noted that Timothy Snyder made it crystal clear from the onset of ICE raids that NO ONE would be safe.

People tell ICE: "I'm an American." They illegally detain us anyway.

Bc WE already let them erode due process for immigrants.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 8h

"Without access to Tartus, Russian vessels and submarines must now rely on distant ports in the Baltic or the Arctic for maintenance and supplies." united24media.com/latest-news/...

Russia Retreats From Mediterranean, Refocuses Naval Power on NATO’s Northern Flank

Russia's naval presence in the Mediterranean has notably decreased, attributed to operational challenges and a strategic pivot towards the Baltic and Arctic regions.

united24media.com

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 8h

This fits in perfectly with the first post in today's thread.

After 6 months of deadlock on a part of the frontline in Zaporizhzhia, the Ukraine flag was planted back in the village of Mali Shcherbaky.

The settlement is under Ukraine control said Oleksandr Kovalenko, Cmdr 24th "Aydar" battalion.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 10h

1/2 Concerning. Your paper made me think of how this dehumanization also appears in projects like artificial wombs or robotic babysitters — attempts to mechanize creation and care, downplaying the importance of the bonding needed to form a human being and properly wire its brain.

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 9h

Reminder of what Salvini was doing 11 years ago: visiting Crimea to support Russian annexation of the region and encourage Italian businesses to invest there.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 11h

"Pope Leo XIV encouraged international news agencies on Thursday to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation, as he strongly backed a free, independent and objective press." apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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