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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 8h

A federal judge has extended a consent decree (the Castañon Nava consent decree) that limits ICE’s ability to arrest people without warrants or probable cause.

The decree remains in force until February 2, 2026.👇

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2h

The mass firings at the CDC tonight drive home the fact that no one is coming to save us

But we can save each other

Wear a mask. Ideally a respirator like an N95

Even if you’re vaccinated. Even if you’re “not worried”

It protects you but it also protects everyone else

Bonus? Less colds & flus!

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 12h

I’m not sure who this comedian is but man he’s so great!! Sometimes comedy has a special way of getting a message across! He ponders on the question “Is America Great Yet?”

You’ve got to take a minute and watch this! ⬇️⬇️

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 11h

Zohran Mamdani didn’t hold back. His speech today on Letitia James’s indictment was 🔥 calling it exactly what it is: a political hit job meant to punish those who hold Trump accountable. “If justice can be weaponized against the just, then no one is safe.”

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2h

It would be helpful to have 6+ people willing to share a shockingly egregious example of having a report rejected.

It would also be helpful to hear from MPs & other public voices willing to add their voices to calls on Ofcom (new powers Nov) and EHRC (new chair Dec) to act
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

If I had 6-12 people who had reported something unlawful & obviously indefensible, get the report rejected, and be willing to speak/advocate about it, that would be a good basis for asking a wider group of people - eg MPs - to support the call for an intervention & investigation of legal duties

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2h

This is like disbanding your military during World War Two.

The Trump regime is firing many of the 2,540 employee of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) during the ongoing government shutdown. Why? CISA dismissed Trump’s allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Cybersecurity agency that clashed with Trump one of the first hit with federal firings due to government shutdown

CISA plans to keep just 889 employees on duty during a shutdown while furloughing 65% of its workforce.

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12 Spoons 🇺🇦 @johnfw.bsky.social · 1h

Has she children?...something about the sins of the parent falling on the children

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 2h

Just a reminder. And I don't care who is on the files. Release them. The survivors need closure.

Release the Epstein files.

#USDemocracy

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2h

If you’re wondering how far right Reform are; it’s all in a name.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2h

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Ronil Patel @randomronil.bsky.social · 2h

Disrupting traffic, that's 5 years in prison like theJust Stop Oil protestors right?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3h

Utterly disgusting, but another sign of the continuing emboldening of hate groups.

Labour should be as quick to act against groups like this, who are actually causing harm and breaking the law, as they declare themselves to be against those opposing genocide.

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Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 2h

"The Conservative Party which has been the dominant thread in British politics for nearly two hundred years is no more. This week the One Nation caucus was dissolved."

Read this and other wry political observations in this week’s Pecksniff’s Diary.

@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

Pecksniff: Badenoch brazens out the Tories’ 14 years of failure

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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12 Spoons 🇺🇦 @johnfw.bsky.social · 2h

Somebody who thinks an ai summary is the same as reading a document would go to a restaurant and eat the menu

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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12 Spoons 🇺🇦 @johnfw.bsky.social · 3h

To find stupid he should look in the mirror...why is Grandpa Rock, an over 50 man who never went to college, was born a child of privilege since his dad owned a car dealership in the white suburbs of Detroit stalking girls on campuses

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3h

Seems @Nigel_Farage is trying damage limitation on the Reform Russian Bribes scandal.

He’s known Nathan Gill for 20 years, and claims he knew nothing.

No one believes you, Nigel.

Keep the story moving. Questions must be answered.

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12 Spoons 🇺🇦 @johnfw.bsky.social · 3h

RT... Howard Hughes of the 21st century...

Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 5h

Peter Thiel illustrates how most Silicon Valley tech billionaires inevitably become delusional, power mad menaces. They may think they have big ideas, but all they have is a lot of money and access to power. They need to be regulated and kept in check. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 3h

"In addition to rank-and-file scientists and staffers, institutional leaders were affected this time around, leaving it unclear just how the agency’s major centers and divisions might continue to function."

by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.

The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3h

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

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12 Spoons 🇺🇦 @johnfw.bsky.social · 3h

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John Pring, DNS @johnpring.bsky.social · 3h

The Access to Work scheme is failing disabled people, and its “decline” in the last two years has caused them “real harm”, with some support packages cut by 80 per cent, according to a detailed dossier of evidence prepared by a user-led organisation.
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Access to Work dossier of evidence shows ‘real harm’ and job losses caused by DWP cuts and failings

The Access to Work scheme is failing Deaf and disabled people, and its “decline” in the last two years has caused them “real harm”, with some support packages cut by 80 per cent, according to a det…

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3h

Morning.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 11h

Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

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