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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 1d

At least one Palestinian was injured by Israeli army fire near Ofer Prison, west of Ramallah, this morning as Israeli soldiers opened fire on those waiting for the release of their loved ones scheduled for release under the ceasefire agreement.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20h

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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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20h

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 20h

❗️Freed Palestinian detainee Tareq Barghouti from Ramallah reunites with his family after 22 years in Israeli prisons, following his release under the exchange deal.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 15h

Thousands walked free, but over 9,000 Palestinians still rot behind bars. Israel released nearly 2,000 in a recent exchange deal, yet continues to torture the remaining detainees. It also holds the bodies of 726 Palestinians, including 67 children.

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Nearly 2,000 Palestinian Abductees Freed in Latest Exchange, Over 9000 Remain in Israeli Torture Camps - Quds News Network

Thousands walked free, but over 9,000 Palestinians still rot behind bars. Israel released nearly 2,000 in a recent exchange deal, yet continues to torture the remaining detainees. It also holds the bo...

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 11h

He's enjoying a legit accomplishment and can't help but confess to conspiring with a foreign government to affect a federal election

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "There was a reason we chose Egypt because you were very helpful. Everybody wanted to have this. You are a great leader. You have very little crime. I want to thank you. He's been my friend right from the beginning during the campaign against Crooked Hillary Clinton. Have you heard of her?"

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The Savage Siren @thesavagesiren.bsky.social · 12h

This man made it through the entire war and was murdered shortly after the ceasefire was announced. Tell me again how Palestine is free.
#freepalestine

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James Strider📎 @striderj.bsky.social · 12h

Heroes
#FreePalestine

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11h

Just rounding people up. A US citizen who says he had his birth certificate with him (!) was still thrown in the back of a truck and detained.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 10h

Yep. Gene was founding member of the Committee for the First Amendment, a group of Hollywood artists who formed in 1947 to oppose the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and defend free speech.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 13h

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11h

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 17h

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

Graphs showing coal production (left) and employment in coal (right) for the state of Wyoming from 1983 to 2020 from the linked website. Coal production was rapidly increasing until 2008 and has more or less steadily decreased since. Employment in coal likewise rapidly increased until 2009, was stable until 2012 and has rapidly decreased since.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

"The liberty and security of our fellow citizens is our great object, and not the prompt execution of the laws. Indecision, delay, blunders, nay villainous actions in the administration of government, are trifles compared to legalizing the full exertion of a tyrannical disposition."

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 17h

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11h

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.

...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h

"I refuse to accept a world where people are punished for seeking safety or silenced for speaking the truth. I refuse a system that values profit over people and power over love." - Natasha Cloud

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tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 17h

Awful crackdown becomes real as a lawful Chicago resident is fined for not carrying residency papers while ICE hauls off his companion. ACLU condemns the cruelty. Illinois lacks show me your papers law. Quota driven arrests stalk immigrant communities.

'Awful': Outrage as legal US resident fined for not having 'papers' proving residency

Two immigrants were sitting in Rogers Park, Chicago, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived and demanded their papers. What unfolded was detailed by the Chicago Tribune: Rueben Antonio Cruz, a 60-year-old legal U.S. resident, was ordered to stand up, shoved into an ICE vehicle, and ...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20h

ICE is thug trash.

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 23h

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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SiriusXM Progress @siriusxmprog.bsky.social · 17h

Indivisible's @ezralevin.bsky.social joined @deanobeidallah.bsky.social, reacting to Trump's targeting of peaceful protests of his administration's actions.

LISTEN: siriusxm.us/Dean

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musicmaker5.bsky.social @musicmaker5.bsky.social · 11h

Crying crocodile tears for the gun nuts who always accused the Democrats of coming for their guns.

Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

The news prompted gun rights activists to wonder if the Trump administration is preparing to stab them in the back. Suddenly, the administration that campaigned on absolute Second Amendment loyalty is asking for membership rosters.

READ: open.substack.com/pub/beinglib...