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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 7h

Why are we regressing?

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 8h

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 7h

We’re making progress on intranasal delivery of our low cost recombinant protein Covid vaccine, in collaboration with @tulanemedicine.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social

www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

Frontiers | Heterologous prime-pull mucosal vaccination with an adjuvanted RBD vaccine elicits robust IgA production and protects against SARS-CoV-2

Despite the efficacy of approved severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines in preventing severe disease and death, breakthrough i...

www.frontiersin.org

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 7h

Tomorrow will bring obscene displays of Trump self congratulation propaganda via corrupted mass media, so take care, avoid or be prepared for the mental assault, its great there’s a pause & exchange of hostages but Palestinian death & suffering continues in Gaza & the conveniently ignored West Bank

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 12h

The airstrikes may have stopped, but the real war in Gaza has just begun, a silent war of grief and shattered hearts.
Every night without those we lost, Gaza turns into one endless house of mourning.

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Glen Le Lievre @lelievre.bsky.social · 18h

The high ground

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OSINTRadar @osintr.bsky.social · 23h

#BREAKING

🇪🇪🇷🇺Tensions are escalating even further on the Estonia–Russia border.

🔹️The so-called “little green men” have already appeared — they are clearly not border guards, have no identifiable markings or insignia, and most importantly, they are armed.

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Andy @vicozandy.bsky.social · 9h

Wow. The cost of chaos caused by incompetence and corruption. So easy to wreck, so hard to build.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 9h

The recent trajectory, in broad strokes:

- Regime starts militarizing the conflict in early summer
- Regime declares all liberal/leftwing political activity as domestic terrorist or terrorism-adjacent in presidential memo
- Regime ramps up the propaganda against “the Left” across all channels

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 10h

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d

'There are more than 11,000 Palestinians in Israeli detention, according to data provided by the Israel Prison Service, 87 per cent of whom have never been charged or convicted.'

Sounds legit.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Israel publishes names of 250 Palestinian prisoners to be freed

Israel's Ministry of Justice provides the names of prisoners it will release in exchange for Israeli hostages, but Hamas says no agreement has been reached.

www.abc.net.au

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 22h

The Govt has spent $600K on lawyers to keep early warnings signals of further Snowy 2.0 cost blowouts from the public. With the matter now in the Full Federal Court, the price of this secrecy to the taxpayer will likely avalanche to >$1M 🤦‍♂️. #FOI #auspol

Snowy 2.0 legal cost avalanche - more public money spent hushing more public information - Michael West

The Government confessed to the Senate it spent $600K on lawyers to stop Snowy 2.0 cost and schedule blowouts from being made public.

michaelwest.com.au

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10h

Welp now they’re reversing some of the layoffs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Joey Markovitch @joeymarkovich.bsky.social · 10h

The zionist war criminal mass murderer Netanyahu has not finished yet. There is no way he is giving up Gaza and WestBank. The so called "Plan" is only a mechanism to entrench Israel bit by bloody bit. Death by a thousand cuts stuff. The protests and resistance needs to continue. Fuck Israel.

David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 14h

Massive crowd in Melbourne/Naarm today (in case you thought this movement was going to be placated with more colonisation). Until the occupation ends. Until Western war criminals and their enablers face justice. Until Palestine is free.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

#History #antifa #resistance #archives
1934: Oswald Mosley organised a British Union of Fascists (BUF) rally in Birmingham’s Bingley Hall that was attended by 10,000 people.
Daily Mail printed an article titled “Hurrah for the Blackshirts”
britishonlinearchives.com/posts/catego...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 10h

ANYWAY

this drops tomorrow & i look fwd to it muchly.

(like the donald, the clinton knows words; he has the best words).

www.mup.com.au/books/turbul...

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 10h

These fn people… the world sees you even if you’re winning in this moment, the vast majority of us see you clearly and eventually we’ll probably end up using your own creations to undo you… that or in the case of Ellison senior death via geriatric Botox addiction

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Drop Site’s @ryangrim.bsky.social spoke to Al Jazeera's The Listening Post (@AJListeningPost, X) about how billionaire Larry Ellison (Oracle founder & a top donor to Israel’s military) is buying up US media outlets to reshape coverage of Gaza and shore up Israel’s collapsing image among Americans.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 18h

After Trump's tariff post, trillions vanished in hours. The S&P collapsed. Nasdaq crashed. Tech giants bled red. But a different kind of storm was already brewing — not on Wall Street, but deep inside the blockchain.

While everyone else was watching Trump’s post, someone was already cashing in.

Before that announcement even hit the airwaves, an anonymous crypto wallet suddenly transferred over $1 billion into stablecoins — digital dollars that hold value even when everything else collapses. Then, within seconds of Trump’s post, that same wallet started placing $100 million buy orders across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and multiple altcoins just as the market imploded.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 13h

The Zionist lawsuits against @marykostakidis.bsky.social John Keane & Nick Riemer are a massive test for free speech in Australia, and costly. We check the claims. Keane kicks off in the morning.
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/zionists-v-k...

Zionists v Keane, Riemer, Kostakidis. Australia's massive test cases for free speech - Michael West

Zionist lawsuits against Mary Kostakidis and Sydney Uni academics John Keane and Nick Riemer are a mighty test case for free speech in Australia

michaelwest.com.au

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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.bsky.social · 12h

Ukrainian mother sentenced to five years for helping her family survive and escape russian occupation

The unwarranted charges and sentence for supposed collaboration send a chilling message to all those Ukrainians waiting for liberation after long years of russia's russian occupation

Ukrainian mother sentenced to five years for helping her family survive and escape Russian occupation

The unwarranted charges and sentence for supposed collaboration send a chilling message to all those Ukrainians waiting for liberation after long years of Russian occupation

khpg.org

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Sam @desertthorne.bsky.social · 17h

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gregorypower.bsky.social @gregorypower.bsky.social · 16h

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GrampaBill56 🇺🇸 @grampabill56.bsky.social · 1d

Qatar is a close ally of China and the two have recently entered into what has been described as a "Golden Era" of strategic partnership. Putting Qatari military facilities inside the United States is akin to stationing Chinese troops.

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punchumgum @punchumgum.bsky.social · 16h

geez, I wonder who that could be....

punchumgum @punchumgum.bsky.social · 16h

Moh's surgery is when they're removing a skin cancer and they do it in nth degrees and the pathologist checks each 'slice' to see when they've got it all, instead of just removing a huge chunk from a patient and hoping for the best.

JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 21h

Hopefully former President Biden sticks around for a while, but I know MAGA will violently pursue anyone disrespecting him when he passes like they did with Charlie Kirk.

They wouldn't be hypocrites, right?

www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe...

Joe Biden undergoing radiation therapy as cancer care enters new phase

The radiation treatment is expected to span five weeks and marks a new point in the former president's care.

www.nbcnews.com

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punchumgum @punchumgum.bsky.social · 16h

omg that circus tent!

Cathey🎃🌎🗽☮️❤️‍🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 💙 💛 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 @cleverhandlebars.bsky.social · 20h

Trump’s ‘growing inability to form thoughts’ on full display during presser: journalist 🥴

www.rawstory.com/trump-267417...

Trump’s ‘growing inability to form thoughts’ on full display during presser: journalist

President Donald Trump proudly touted a new deal Friday his administration had reached with a British drugmaker to lower drug costs, and as high as “1,000%” in some cases, a claim that journalist Jaso...

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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 20h

An appeals court has rules that Taco can't invade sovereign states without the consent of the Governor.

Imagine that. Rule of law in October 2025.

www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcn...

Appeals court blocks Trump from deploying National Guard in Illinois

The court ruled that National Guard troops can remain federalized, but cannot be deployed in the state.

www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org

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punchumgum @punchumgum.bsky.social · 16h

The pre-schooler preferred Side 2.😊

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