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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 1h

We got leaked audio from Peter Thiel’s off the record antichrist lectures: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h

ICE racially profiles an elderly man and takes him into custody. They realize their mistake and release him. They also intimidate witnesses. This incident occurred in Long Beach, California.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 16h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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The 51st @51st.news · 19h

Feeling overwhelmed recently? Action is the best antidote.

How to get involved locally this week: Watch a film about gentrification in D.C., attend an open mic (but make it historic) at @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social, and find lots of opportunities to organize with @freedcproject.bsky.social.

Your weekly roundup of ways to get involved in D.C.

Plus, another visit to Capitol Hill.

51st.news

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Alan Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 1d

Generals...

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Alan Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently, this is what a lot of the Northern Civil War generates hoped during the first 2-3 years of the killing. "Let's fight to a standstill and then go back to how things were..." In both cases, mindfuckingboggling

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Alan Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, nothing has a record of failure greater than the long history of increasing police training in the US. It's the institutional culture, fiscal rewards, low standards of entry, and politics of over-policing, militarism, and being assigned to discipline non-criminal activity.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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Alan Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 1d

I was shocked when MI only added it two years after we moved to East Lansing... effin blinkered football culture. Fascinating that Pac10 schools added it so early. Feels like it makes more sense in the ACC.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

stellar investigation by 972Mag on IDF's manufactured videos that are reproduced uncritically in media. Truly a propaganda war."These videos are produced in-house by a small animation cell in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, working mainly in After Effects + Blender"
www.972mag.com/israeli-army...

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Alan Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 1d

Bye bye, Yankees...

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, yes it is.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Is Israel breaking the law by stopping the Gaza-bound flotilla?

According to a UN legal framework, a nation's territory does not extend beyond 19km from its shores but enforcing international maritime law is a challenge across the globe.

www.abc.net.au

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The Justice Department had 36 attorneys assigned full-time to investigate corrupt politicians when Trump took office in January.

Today it has two.

See how this works?

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2d

1. On Monday, Trump delivered a $70 million windfall to his billionaire buddy, John Paulson.

Paulson hosted the biggest fundraiser of Trump's 2024 campaign, raising over $50 million.

This week, Trump returned the favor.

Follow along for details.

Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire

On April 6, 2024, a procession of Range Rovers, Aston Martins, and Bentleys rolled up to the Palm Beach mansion of billionaire John Paulson. The occasion was a glitzy fundraiser for Donald Trump’s…

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Alan Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 1d

My grandfather, one of the first 250 members, is 100% rolling over in his grave... the essence of cooperatives is that owner-workers come first. This misleadership group sucks eggs.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

REI easily top of the list of companies most likely to do a land acknowledgement before layoffs

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...

REI Co-Op’s Boston location is set to close next year - The Boston Globe

REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.

www.bostonglobe.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Santa Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · 1d

It used to be against the law for the American government to make propaganda and display it to Americans. That law changed during the Obama era. And that's why Radio Liberty and all that were finally allowed to be aired in the US.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 2d

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Santa Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · 1d

If its something that The Gang from Its Always Sunny would do, you should not do it.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Prof Lou Moore @profloumoore.bsky.social · 1d

Would have been my favorite game

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Alan Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 1d

Was there college women's soccer at DIII and DI much before the 80s? My high school in NJ had boys from the early 50s on but no girls until the mid-80s... which is, I think, about when Swarthmore added it. I think MSU is the oldest men's team in the present B10, with PSU and IU similar?

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Alan Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 1d

I put my prompt into the free ChatGPT and the main points buckets were exactly what 2/3 of the essays focused on... It's not just awful, folks are awful at using it.

Alan Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 1d

What kills me about this shit is that it's not trans people/hills... Jeff, et al., apply this logic to every prog/left stance - one at a time - completely missing that standing for them all - all the time - is really popular.

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Alan Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 1d

Am I right that the situation is more that baseball, first, then basketball and football established professional success - especially after WWII - in ways futbol did not? When I started in '73 it seemed to be a sport of Irish, Italian, and German enclaves often absent from burbs/rurality.

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