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The Economist @economist.com · 4h

Critics of China’s plans to build a giant new embassy in London warn that it would pose a serious security risk. Yet the security services believe that those risks are manageable

Has Britain gone soft on China?

A spying fiasco and a new London embassy feed accusations that Sir Keir is a Red softy

econ.st

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 7h

No notes

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 3h

Books are good. Computers are bad.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 18h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 4h

He's cracked, he simply can't be stopped

Tonight's super late night cooking: creole-seasoned fish pan-fried in miso garlic butter, served with cous cous & dressed with lemon, dill, and furikake

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 4h

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

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ScruffyR @scruffyr.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, take the cholesterol clogged whale off his cholesterol meds. Consider it Making America Normal Again.

RFK Jr. adviser warns Trump 'likely shortening his lifespan' with medical treatment

www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...

RFK Jr. adviser warns Trump 'likely shortening his lifespan' with medical treatment

A top aide to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared a theory about what he thinks is causing President Donald Trump's alleged "dementia" and swollen cankles — and how his cu...

www.rawstory.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 7h

The thing about the Nazi chat is these people turned the country upside down and got a lot of people fired to be able to say those things in comfort.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4h

Holy shit, and also, great blessings upon the family of the human recipient mentioned in the article for allowing their loved one with no remaining brain activity to be a test candidate to determine if their body would reject a treated kidney.

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 20h

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 4h

Sucks, but it isn't going to happen. I missed the last one too.

This may be all that's left for me as an individual: knowyourmeme.com/photos/22217...

Thank you for the good thoughts though. 🙏

Postal Dude Arrested for Training Dog to Throw Bricks

See more 'Postal' images on Know Your Meme!

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 4h

Oh yeah, been sick ~10 days or more too. Maybe my constitution is now too weak to absorb actual news. Hope I don't STB tonight.

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 4h

I was offline for ~12-14 hours today.

Got on here & almost immediately added 2 more people when I already follow too many. That was the first tell.

The second: I read my feed for about 5 minutes & went "Man, shit is bad, & why am I up at 1 a.m. anyway?"

Good night. I need some fucking sleep.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15h

Republicans' embrace of Hitler raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's willingness to combat antisemitism.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

COLLINS: The Dept of Energy just canceled $1b for a hydrogen hub that covers Montana. Is that taking away good-paying jobs?

SHEEHY: Of course it is. We want govt to be open

C: But the Energy Secretary says he would've pulled that funding even if govt was open

S: ... Well, that's unfortunate

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah he was trying to make a "yall ugly" joke but oops did the classic the enemy is simultaneously too strong and too weak fascism thing

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 6h

I honestly think Johnson was trying to make a joke here, but he's too stupid to realize that the joke reveals that all the claims of threats and violence are bullshit.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 14h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 7h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Tim Walz: "Here's what I'd challenge Trump to do: find three soybean farmers who will stand with you and say that's okay. Just three. I challenge you to do that because you're not gonna find them."

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 7h

Old enough to remember when scenes like this would have been unthinkable in America. (It was 9 months ago)

PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 7h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 7h

If you leave one magazine job and go write a book, apparently for a major publisher, and you deliver your manuscript and take another magazine job less than a year later, when did the exile part happen, exactly?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 8h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Why would the cartels want to stop ICE and CBP activities that have been diverting resources away from drug interdiction?

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 10h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 5h

You know the Bill Murray definition from Stripes of who "Americans" are, right?

IDK, maybe this just makes the guy a poser.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6h

Feds have got until midnight tonight to take down the fence in front of the Broadview ICE facility, per a recent ruling from district judge LaShonda Hunt.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 7h

Not sure what’s up but this flatbed with what appears like more fence materials has pulled up outside Broadview.

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