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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 10h

I would read the hell out of a deeply reported piece on how the media/political elite addiction to Twitter is shaping their views, which in turn shape the views of millions of people. It's a total reality-warper.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10h

i’m increasingly convinced that many people in d.c. are just suffering from x dot com brain rot

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

When I explain that boycotting an election over an issue has never once forced a politician to embrace that issue, I'm not "scolding people to vote." I'm explaining reality.

Feel free to sit on your ass! Just don't pretend that your lazy apathy is somehow going to advance your agenda.

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Julia G @julialynne.bsky.social · 10h

This is really important. The ECHR is an important body that the UK helped create after the horrors of WW2.

We have no written constitution that helps protect everyone. And even in countries with a constitution people are open to abuse.

We should never leave.

Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 13h

Friendly reminder: these are the rights we all have under the ECHR.

They're not just for a privileged few

They're for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US

1. respect human rights
2. right to life
3. prohibition of torture
4. prohibition of slavery
5. right to liberty and security
6. right to a fair trial
7. no punishment without law
8. right to respect privacy and family life
9. freedom of thought, conscience and religion
10. freedom of expression
11. freedom of assembly and association
12. right to marry
13. right to an effective remedy (if your rights are violated)
14. prohibition of discrimination
15. derogation in time of emergency
16. restriction on political activity of non-nationals
17. prohibition of abuse of rights
18. limitation on use of restriction of rights

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9h

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 9h

Geert Wilders @geertwilderspvv
We hebben een serieus probleem

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Donna of Queens @thedonster.bsky.social · 14h

Exactly. London women are covering up in burquas in exactly the same way Portland is in flames and the NYC subway is too dangerous for trad bros.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 16h

"For reasons that have nothing to do with informing, educating and entertaining, but are likely instead about some team’s target stats, the BBC decided to actively tell millions of people they should be frightened by asylum seekers. Brilliant work."

Newsletter's out.

Clickbait Will Kill Us All

This week: a brief rant about news values; some stuff that probably shouldn’t be taught in schools; and a journey planner for your trip to early modern Europe.

jonn.substack.com

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elizabeth is spooky @thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 1d

I really hope they win this, slapps are one of the ways by which the rich get away with whatever they like

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

We're trying to make legal history: we are asking the High Court to find for the first time ever that a defamation claim brought against @danneidle.bsky.social is a SLAPP under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023. goodlaw.social/raiz

We’re helping Dan Neidle face down a seven-figure SLAPP | Good Law Project

A barrister who was flogging tax avoidance schemes is now suing Dan Neidle for a defamation payout of over £8m. But we’re not backing down.

goodlaw.social

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likajam.bsky.social @likajam.bsky.social · 17h

An ecologist and a student minutes after leaving prison

They will spend an year in prison if they are arrested during protests again

Everyone usually goes back to the protest the same evenings

We are much crazier than russians think😁

#ProtestsinGeorgia

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 1d

Protesters swarmed an ICE facility in Durango, CO demanding two children detained with their father be released to their mother. Durango Police say they also offered to help reunite the kids with their mother. They were unsuccessful.

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Villanelle’s Pink Dress 💛🧡❤️🍁🎃👻 @tasslefizney1.bsky.social · 1d

This is how it’s done & thank you to Heretic Coffee for leading the way 🩷

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Heretic Coffee is a volunteer-run, nonprofit coffee shop that trains people to become baristas and coffee roasters.

The coffee shop has been soliciting donations for less than a week to pay for breakfast for people losing SNAP benefits from the federal government

www.oregonlive.com/food/2025/10...

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 2d

This was “…part of the ‘Make DC Safe Again’ initiative…”

Not kidding. Actual quotation from this article.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop

Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11d

Today’s No Kings protest could be the largest single-day protest in U.S. history.

People have power.

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Martha @marthalondon.bsky.social · 2d

that's the freezing point

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2d

October 27, 2025

There is a lot going on tonight, but the world is going to have to turn without me: it’s been a long run without a break and I need to sleep.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4d

Digging up more pictures of the WH garden (East Wing) that has been now completely destroyed

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Susan M. Furey, Ed.D. @sfurey.bsky.social · 4d

#greedkills

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Bishop Whitewind @bishopwhitewind.bsky.social · 4d

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US

Taki Allen, 16, said he was eating a bag of Doritos after football practice before being handcuffed by police.

www.bbc.com

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 4d

Wonderfully pedantic letter in today’s @financialtimes.com

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Mako @mako69.bsky.social · 4d

Full repudiation of collaborationist legacy media is the only way forward from here. Whatever is rebuilt from the ashes of this dark time must not include the cowards and fascists like the NYT or WP, full stop.

AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 4d

Can't believe this is real

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@David @david5300.bsky.social · 4d

🚨BREAKING: the anonymous source of the $130M donation to Pentagon to pay troops is allegedly Timothy Mellon, the guy who wrote an book in 2015 with a chapter titled “Slavery Redux,” where he compared Black people on social safety net programs to slavery.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

Two big opposing rallies in Hungary today.

Orban’s pro-Russia one got fewer than 30k.

His rival Peter Magyar got more than 200K.

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 4d

FACT~ Chromosomes do not create any inherent danger or risk to safety, & they don't define the sex, strength, speed or endurance levels of individuals.

Some boys are born XX & some girls are XY (not even trans) & some have one & some 3 chromosomes.

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Kirsti Miller on X: "We let 230lb women play RUGBY against 100lb women--a difference of 130lbs. But Terfs are worried about a trans woman who might be 10lbs heavier on average than the AVERAGE for cis women? See, you're worried about something that is a full order of magnitude smaller. https://t.co/CihDngkgoY" / X

We let 230lb women play RUGBY against 100lb women--a difference of 130lbs. But Terfs are worried about a trans woman who might be 10lbs heavier on average than the AVERAGE for cis women? See, you're worried about something that is a full order of magnitude smaller. https://t.co/CihDngkgoY

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Martha @marthalondon.bsky.social · 4d

*mystified*

Martha @marthalondon.bsky.social · 4d

CAPTAIN OBVIOUS HERE. I WOULD JUST LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT .. oh OK they already did.