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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11m

Drone footage reveals Gaza City’s devastation, as the UN estimates 83% of buildings have been damaged or destroyed. This damage was done almost entire by 2000 lbs bombs supplied by the United States. But few Americans over the age of 30 appear to be aware of this fact.

Drone footage shows the extent of destruction in Gaza City after Israel-Hamas cease-fire

The UN Estimates That 83 Percent of All Structures in Gaza City Were Damaged or Destroyed, Along With Most of Its Crops and Vegetation

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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastword.msnbc.com · 16m

TONIGHT: @maddow.msnbc.com joins @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

Promotional graphic for MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell featuring Rachel Maddow

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

In LA, DC, and elsewhere, DHS officers are reportedly pulling over work vans without warning and detaining everyone inside.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 46m

Andry Rajoelina confirmed his departure on Monday, following reports he had been evacuated by a French aircraft.

President of Madagascar flees to ‘safe location’ amid deadly protests

Andry Rajoelina confirmed his departure on Monday, following reports he had been evacuated by a French aircraft.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 30m

📣 NEW: This morning I wrote about 9 states taking action to mitigate the impact of the expiring federal #ACA tax credits.

Just hours later I learned that it's actually 10 states; #MASSACHUSETTS is extending their expanded ConnectorCare program by another year!

acasignups.net/25/10/13/mas...

Massachusetts: Good news: 500% ConnectorCare Pilot extended another year!

Two years ago the Massachusetts Health Connector sent out the following memo: Pilot expansion of ConnectorCare reshapes affordability and plan options through the Health Connector This historic expans...

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12d

"They will experience the consequences of this, but we have to be the consequence." is @democrats.org message, they just don't know it yet.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 39m

gene kelly is antifa

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11h

NO KINGS, y'all! October 18! Find a rally near you and GO!

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 1h

This.

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 2h

When a bad man does a good thing, he does not cease to be a bad man. This is a complicated moment in the Middle East. Each of us must work to make sense of it. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Joy. Sorrow. Fury. Disgust. And Hope. All at Once.

Reacting to this disorienting, misrepresented, misperceived moment in the Middle East.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 3d

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 3d

I don't want to lambast a guy for the crimes of his son, but how many times do we have to hear about another church pedophile.

It's not porn's fault you're a sexual abuser. Maybe if people spent time dealing with actual ISSUES rather than blaming everything on a imaginary demon...

Screen shot of Ron DeHaas essay (The Perfect Sin) recovered from the Covenant Eyes website:

As my personal burden for the issue of internet pornography has grown, I have seen in the testimonials of our members how pornography has broken relationships.
It breaks down relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, on the job, even lost jobs, relationship to church family, relationship to the "inner man," and a person's relationship to God.
Related: The Effects of Porn on Wives and Marriages
When there is a secret life going on, that secret life affects every one of those relationships. A secret life pervades every aspect of life, and diminishes effectiveness in all areas of life-home, job, church, everything. For those who are active in a church of any faith, a secret life destroys ministry, and the cumulative effect of millions of secret lives is an ineffective church. Basically, Internet pornography has been perhaps the greatest push toward an era of ineffective ministry.
Related: Porn-A Gateway Drug
All the more for the pastor, minister, or counselor whose job and ministry are tied together. The damage that Internet pornography has done is truly immeasurable.
So, from Satan's perspective, internet pornography is the perfect sin. It breaks families and jobs and communities, it tears down a person's relationship to God, it diminishes the work of ministry, and it is devastating in every way. And it is freely available to everyone of all ages, it is only two clicks (maybe one if it's bookmarked) away from you reading this, it is addictive, and (without a monitoring program) it is totally secret. I firmly believe that internet pornography is the sin of this decade. What more could
Satan ask for?

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 2d

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 23h

Given what we're watching in Portland...

Here's information on attacking dictator-types with humor and mockery.

It's been branded "laughtivism."

And the Portland frog is showing how it works.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elql...

Pushback Politics Part 2: The Power of Humor

YouTube video by National Council for History Education

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 1h

Boring headline but great interview.

"Her new doc Andrew Young: The Dirty Work examines the life of now 93-year-old Andrew Jackson Young Jr." An important resister!

Free link: archive.ph/J30CM

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 3h

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 4h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1h

It's incredible, they could both be standalone album covers. Lose Your Illusion I and Lose Your Illusion II

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 11h

A lot of Republicans down the Jersey Shore turned out to be great friends of the whales when there was a chance that some offshore wind farms might get built. Looking forward to hearing about how they react to this news...

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 1d

I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t understand these people who apparently want us to live miserable lives on a barren, dead, ugly earth (until we die of preventable diseases, natural disasters, or starvation)

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 1d

I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 3d

But RFK Jr.’s real logical leap is collapsing these into one neat story: some circumcised boys get Tylenol for pain, and some are later diagnosed with autism—therefore, Tylenol causes autism. That’s like saying umbrellas cause car accidents because both are more common on rainy days.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Finally realized what the freakout over Mamdani becoming mayor reminded me of, and it's the freakout over the first black mayors in southern cities.

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:

"Too Young to Die"

As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder. They've really convinced themselves that the elect...

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 12h

Many of us in Maine are disgusted, especially with reports that Chuck Schumer pushed Mills. Graham Platner is the real deal. I shot this scene that one of his early meet and greets. youtube.com/shorts/FqpdN...

A Boy Asks Graham Platner, Vying for Susan Collins' Maine Senate Seat, a Key Question

YouTube video by Andrew Revkin

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 23h

Next time they make up some thing about offshore wind and whales, ask about this.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 1d

I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 1h

He spoke for 25 minutes, almost all on healthcare. I have most of the stump speech taped and can post it.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17h

The Dem establishment is going to back Mills over the absolute phenom outsider Platner in Maine, which tells you everything you need to know about how well they understand the current moment & how prepared they are to meet it.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2d

The place where the first report of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in a cohort of gay men revealed the disease that came to be called AIDS

Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 2d

They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.

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