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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 4h

But did we ever expect anything less from FIFA ⚽️? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

A World Cup preying on Fomo: Fifa’s 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape

NFTs, dynamic pricing and double resale fees have turned the 2026 World Cup into a fintech carnival where fandom meets late-capitalist absurdity

www.theguardian.com

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 15h

Big ups to Gmail for constantly changing the search sort to "most relevant" which has literally never shown me what I'm looking for. I really, really hate every computer

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 10h

The Mariners are headed to their first ALCS since 2001 ‼️

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Marsha Loftis @msloftis.bsky.social · 23h

Finished!!! Star Trek Solar Sail quilt. This has not been washed yet. I will take more pictures later.,#StarTrek #quilt

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14h

“I want us to retvrn to a time when people who looked like me could do whatever they wanted in the name of god, and I don’t understand why so many of you are against that”

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Ruben Garcia @gorubenruben.bsky.social · 4h

Oralè Resisters
Portland
Feather beast invasion

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12h

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

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:

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

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:

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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crystalsw @crystalsw.bsky.social · 6h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/a...

In the Wake of the Edmund Fitzgerald

www.nytimes.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study The number of wild bee species in Europe at risk of extinction has more than doubled over the past decade, while the number of endangered butterfly species has almost doubled. The jeopardy facing crucial pollinators was revealed by scientific studies for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list of threatened species, which found that at least 172 bee species out of 1,928 were at risk of extinction in Europe. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 11h

Beware of AI videos like the one below.

And, AI sucks for many reasons, but among the worst is that it destabilizes our shared reality.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5h

Hackers leak Qantas data containing 5 million customer records after ransom deadline passes

Hacker collective Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters demanded payment in return for preventing the stolen data of nearly 40 companies from being shared * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Hackers say they have leaked the personal records of 5 million Qantas customers on the dark web, after a ransom deadline set by the cybercriminals passed. The airline is one of more than 40 firms globally caught up in the hack, reported to contain up to 1 billion customer records. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 5h

🆕️ Some 32,000 people could lose access to care if all of the Cass Review reccomendations are implemented a new investigation shows

Majority of adults waiting for Trans+ healthcare are under 25

Two-thirds of Trans+ people would lose care if all Cass Review recommendations implemented

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 17h

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
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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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 18h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 15h

As a straight young white man who covers Christian nationalism, I would perhaps have asked Doug Wilson some follow ups on this if it were running it in the NYT as part of his 10K-word defense of Christian nationalism.

For example:

“That really happen?”
“You sure about that??”
“But did it tho?????”

Wilson: No, I grant the point in principle. I don't believe that classical liberalism gets everything wrong. I really don't believe that.
And I enjoyed very much the country I grew up in, and I received many benefits from that era. So that point's granted.

But on the dank right, I believe that the liberal treatment of young white males has been one of the causes for this recoil and eruption. What you had was a toxic combination of a bad economy of young men being told repeatedly that they are the cancer of the planet, that their masculinity is toxic, that their skin is the blight of the world, and their heterosexuality is a hate crime.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 15h

If our TV networks had not been captured by the right wing, some very easy journalism would be to play this clip besides a very not on fire Portland and then tell viewers that the President of the United States is living in an alternate reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈 @cybrarerin.bsky.social · 17h

Season 2 of Invasion, Aneesha’s kids are still dumb.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 20h

Idaho being colonized by Qatar was not on my prediction list for 2025 tbh

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Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 19h

So, on the same day that Hegseth announces a Qatari Airbase

A US military explosives manufacturer blows up & 19 people die

abcnews.go.com/US/tennessee...

Multiple people dead, 19 unaccounted for in 'devastating blast' at explosives manufacturer in Tennessee: Sheriff

Accurate Energetic Systems manufactures explosives and energetic devices for aerospace, defense, demolition and mining industries, according to its website.

abcnews.go.com

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Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈 @cybrarerin.bsky.social · 22h

Racism gonna racist, I guess.

Turning Point USA, the organization founded by Charlie Kirk, is throwing its own Super Bowl halftime show

Turning Point USA is hosting its own Super Bowl halftime show.

www.yahoo.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

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