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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 1h

Also would love to know if anyone else has heard about this or has a link to an article or TikTok or literally ANYTHING because I have felt like a crazy person ever since finding this out.

The deal was in the works since 2022. Israel didn’t own the land/sea at the time.

Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 1h

Absolute monsters. All of them.

Israel announced on Sunday that 12 licenses have been awarded to six companies, including British multinational oil and gas firm BP p/c and Italian energy giant Eni, to explore and discover additional offshore natural gas fields. Oct 29, 2023
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Amid ongoing war, BP and Eni among firms awarded gas exploration

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Rachel Walens @rwalens.bsky.social · 3h

LA County Library is partnering with the LA County Dept of Public Health to offer a FREE vaccine clinic for Flu and COVID shots, no insurance required. Friday October 24, 10 AM to 12 noon. Go here for details and to make an appointment:

lacountylibrary.libnet.info/event/14546049

Free Vaccine Clinic: Flu and COVID-19 for for All Ages

LA County Department of Public Health is partnering with LA County Library to provide FREE flu vaccinations and the 2025-26 COVID-19 vaccine for individuals 6+ month. Health insurance is not required,...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5h

Late last month, a local CBS reporter said a masked ICE agent fired a pepper ball at her car, causing her to vomit for hours. The reporter, Asal Rezaei, said there was no protest happening at the time. Police are now investigating.

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of ...

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2h

Immigrant advocates have been thrown to the ground, pepper-sprayed, and tailed in their cars by officers in an apparent attempt to intimidate them, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. One tells her: “It's never been this bad.”

‘It’s Never Been This Bad’

Immigrant advocates face escalating consequences and threats from the president.

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Jon Shaffer @jonshaffer.bsky.social · 15h

As a pallet cleanse (and antidote to nihilism?) here’s a piece on how doctors can learn/be trained to incorporate pro-democracy community organizing efforts into their work!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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KirstyWorldObs @kirstyworldobs.bsky.social · 16h

Snazzy. #photography #nature #insects #butterflies

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 15h

A great moment from Oliver:

“While I would love to keep splitting hairs on whether a country’s starving kids is better or worse if those kids are already sick, let’s just table that discussion for when I see you in hell.”

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h

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'Fat troops' fallout continues as some Texas Guardsmen sent home

The switch comes after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said he was tired of seeing “fat troops” who give the military “a bad look.”

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 15h

Yep. The Israelis refused to do the deal until The Felon was in office
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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 3d

Joe Biden and Netanyahu were offered same Gaza deal a year ago, says negotiator

But the Israelis had no intention of striking any agreement before a change of administration in Washington.

They wanted to give The Felon the credit.
www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

Joe Biden and Netanyahu were offered Gaza deal a year ago, says negotiator

Gershon Baskin says he got the plan on to the president’s desk but then learnt the Israelis were waiting for a change of administration in Washington

www.thetimes.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 19h

One in six infections are now resistant to antibiotics.

This presents a growing threat to public health.

1 in 6 infections now resistant to antibiotics

Resistance to commonly used drugs rose over 40 percent in five years, a WHO report found.

www.politico.eu

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

a foundational belief of the modern right is that there is no such thing as organic disagreement with their policies, it’s all directed from the top down

they just can’t conceive that ordinary people find them horrifying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Cookie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇹🇹 @cookierambles.bsky.social · 16h

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!
Protect your neighbors. Don't let them get kidnapped by colonizers.

Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 17h

Metaphor alert 🚨 apnews.com/video/replic...

Replica of Columbus’ Santa Maria sinks off Mexico coast

A replica of Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria sank off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, the company that owns the vessel said Friday.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16h

This is a powerful account from a PhD student whose fellowship was terminated by NIH because it was part of a "diversity" program without any other considerations or understanding of what the program or the students were actually doing.

undark.org/2025/10/09/o...

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NIH Student Grant Cancellation Will Weaken Scientific Innovation

The termination of federal F31 diversity fellowships puts many graduate students in a bind — and U.S. science at risk.

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MariposaRosa @mariposa17.bsky.social · 16h

Yes!

WE WILL WIN

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16h

The regime is nervous. They know No Kings protests are widely appealing, deeply American, and unignorably large.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

MariposaRosa @mariposa17.bsky.social · 16h

This is weakness on display

We are winning

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18h

The Treasury Secretary declares himself to be pro-monarchy, and promises to punish the entire country if the people exercise their First Amendment rights.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18h

The Treasury Secretary declares himself to be pro-monarchy, and promises to punish the entire country if the people exercise their First Amendment rights.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 17h

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap the @pemalevy.bsky.social interview is not to be missed. An eye-opening look at the Nazi-esque dual-state that SCOTUS is enabling

On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 3d

📻On this week’s show: @gregsargent.bsky.social on Stephen Miller’s plan to “sleepwalk” America into authoritarianism; @pemalevy.bsky.social on the highest court citing the "dual state;" & @jakelahut.writes.news on the rise of the Ellisons' tech-media dynasty. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

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MariposaRosa @mariposa17.bsky.social · 16h

What a fkg gutless wonder

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

When I say that the Atlantic is the official magazine of the donor class this is what I’m talking about.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17h

“I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They beat us while we were naked day and night.

Until our last day, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

We couldn’t even sleep. They told me they killed my children.”

- released Palestinian prisoner

Palestinian prisoner Shadi Abu Seed has given a harrowing account of life inside an Israeli prison after his release as part of the ceasefire deal.

“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked day and night. We were tortured,” Abu Seed said.

“Until our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

“We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16h

Extremely satisfying and fact-filled takedown.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1d

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 16h

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country at the direction of leaders in President Donald Trump's administration.
www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-plans-to...

ICE Plans to Boost Social Media Surveillance Using Contractors

ICE plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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