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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h

Chelyabinsk, the seventh largest city in Russia, just got its first ever air raid alert for Ukrainian drones. It’s 1800km from the border.

#explodey

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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 18h

Goldman Sachs predicts that American consumers will absorb 55% of tariffs, American companies 22%, foreign exporters 18% by lowering prices on goods, and 5% evaded.

However, there is NO evidence that foreign importers are lowering the price of goods

Americans are absorbing the entire cost

Goldman Sees US Consumers Paying More Than Half of Trump Tariffs

US consumers will likely shoulder 55% of tariff costs by the end of the year, with American companies taking on 22%, the Goldman analysts wrote in an Oct. 12 research note to clients. Foreign exporte...

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CNBC @cnbc.com · 3h

Auto industry raises the alarm as China tightens export rules for rare earths

Automotive industry groups have sounded the alarm over China’s latest move to impose restrictions on the export of rare earths.

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 1h

Shoutout to @alcrego.bsky.social and the CM crew for some great tracks (to follow).

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CEMENTO MUSGO | Semente

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Jim Barrineau @jwb12.bsky.social · 2h

Xi is absolutely right. There will be a humiliating climbdown by Trump, it is just a question of when and what form it will take. One country has a strategy, one country changes policy impulsively via social media. Guess who wins.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...

China, Betting It Can Win a Trade War, Is Playing Hardball With Trump

Chinese leader Xi Jinping thinks the president will fold before launching new tariffs that would roil markets.

www.wsj.com

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 1h

No. I 🤔 getting booed so fiercely every time it's sung you have to turn down the volume on your crowd is something the WWE needs to get hit with everywhere it goes.

👋 From Western Australia where snowflake fake melts

Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 2h

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3h

JFC, centrists ushering in the fascist. As ever.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h

More in Common Westminster poll.

RFM: 30% (-3)
LAB: 22% (+2)
CON: 20% (+1)
LDM: 15% (+1)
GRN: 9% (+1)
SNP: 3% (=)

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 2h

@cathywilcox.bsky.social isn’t wrong. We need to #cleanuppolitics

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2h

In 2021 Afghan women started an online campaign to protest the Taliban's female dress code by posting photos of what traditional Afghan clothes look like #AfghanWomen
#WomensArt

Photo of a small standing girl facing forwardsl in a purple dress with colourful embroidered details and an embroidered cap

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Jim Barrineau @jwb12.bsky.social · 2h

We all know Trump is destroying science, education, energy production deemed "green" and hurtling the US backwards--and here are some sobering charts to prove it from Paul Krugman.

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

China Has Overtaken America

And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 2h

Always remember

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Netanyahu gave Hamas $35 million a month for several years

YouTube video by Miller Center

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Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 3h

Today is #InternationalDayOfRuralWomen. As @presidenthalonen.fi & Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim noted in 2023, ensuring women farmers can own or inherit the land they work boosts restoration, resilience, food production & equity.
bit.ly/4mVpYSR

Winning the Fight for Women’s Land Rights

Tarja Halonen & Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim call attention to a widespread problem that threatens food production and the health of the planet.

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ChinaObservers @chinaobservers.eu · 1d

🤰Why are flights from Georgia to China full of crying babies? Our analyst @emma-belmonte.bsky.social wrote a very interesting investigative piece on the phenomenon of the "Surrogacy Silk Road" for @chinafile.bsky.social, read it here 👇 www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...

A Surrogacy Silk Road: Chinese Parents Head West for Babies

Georgia has become an increasingly popular destination for Chinese visitors. The number of visits nearly tripled between 2023 and 2024, with more than 88,500 visits last year. Yet leisure tourism does...

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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 3h

State capture is costly reneweconomy.com.au/renewable-de...

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 3h

GameStopanomics

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 4h

Background track for today

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CEMENTO MUSGO | Algo Ex Machina

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Nancy Cato @nancycato.bsky.social · 13h

Wrote a piece for dear friend David @tvtonight on my memories of the old Channel O Studios in the 60s that are about to be demolished. Here's the link: tvtonight.com.au/2025/10/fare...

Farewell to Nunawading: "We’d go to the canteen with Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe & Kylie Minogue!" | TV Tonight

A galaxy of stars remember their Nunawading days on Young Talent Time, Prisoner, Eyewitness News, Perfect Match, Rove Live, Neighbours and more.

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 12h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 6h

He too shall pass Michelle.

(Soonish is the guess of pallative care doctors and nurses.)

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

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 8h

I guess it wouldn't "bother him much" given what he's doing in his own backyard.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16h

Tuesday's strike is the fifth known US attack on a vessel off the Venezuelan coast, bringing the total death toll to 27.

Trump administration carries out lethal strike in Caribbean, killing six

Tuesday's strike is the fifth known US attack on a vessel off the Venezuelan coast, bringing the total death toll to 27.

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 8h

Very cool for 🧪