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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 13h

Miriam Margolyes is just a warrior woman. That's the post.

She said it all.

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John Kerry apologises for Israel 'apartheid' remarks

US secretary of state sparked outcry when he said country risked becoming an 'apartheid' state without a peace deal

www.theguardian.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

The fossil fuel industry is raiding the infrastructure of the US government.

Are we allowed to be opposed to fossil fuels yet, or is that not enough of a Pragmatic Realist Climate Reset Agenda

www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...

Trump Admin Has Hired 100+ ‘Fossil Fuel Insiders’ to Fill Top Energy, Environmental Agency Roles
One of them described her job as offering “concierge, white-glove service” to oil, gas, and coal companies seeking permits from regulators.
Stephen Prager
Oct 08, 2025

A top energy adviser to President Donald Trump admitted in an August interview that the administration is offering “concierge, white-glove service” to fossil fuel companies while blocking and defunding clean energy projects.

The comments, reported Tuesday by the Washington Post, came from Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council (NEDC), which was established within the Department of the Interior in February.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's secret police. With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started. Mother Jones takes a look at ICE's skyrocketing expansion, the agency's failing standards, and where Trump is planning to build his new concentration camps. bit.ly/4nIoFrB

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

REMINDER: The Trump regime aren't just fascists, they are PETROfascists. #ClimateSky 🔌💡

New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Administration Hires - Inside Climate News

Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 43 former fossil fuel industry employees among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.

insideclimatenews.org

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump’s National Guard move in Chicago — calling it unconstitutional and political retribution.

She says she’s “found no credible evidence that there is a danger of rebellion in Illinois.”

Translation: The threat was made up. shorturl.at/rmS8n #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky

Judge temporarily blocks National Guard deployment in Chicago, saying it violates Constitution

A federal judge granted a request to temporarily block a National Guard deployment in Chicago, saying the move violates the U.S. Constitution.

shorturl.at

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Raj Thamotheram @rajtham.bsky.social · 1d

Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) was sent to Sri Lanka in July 1987 as a neutral force between the Sri Lankan government & the LTTE ("Tigers"). By October, about 3 months later, open clashes began over disarmament & territorial control, escalating into full-scale conflict that lasted until 1990.

Raj Thamotheram @rajtham.bsky.social · 2d

This is very unfair. At least a can of soup has some purpose in life.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 3d

Researchers have pinpointed a biological cause of Long COVID brain fog using advanced PET brain imaging. The findings confirm brain fog as a measurable, biological condition and reveal new targeted for treatment.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Scientists finally reveal what’s behind long COVID’s mysterious brain fog

Researchers in Japan have pinpointed a biological cause of Long COVID brain fog using advanced PET brain imaging. They discovered widespread increases in AMPA receptor density linked to cognitive impa...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 3d

"Every time a wealth tax is mentioned, one of the arguments against it seems to be that the rich people will leave. Actually the factual evidence points to the contrary."

Our member Guillaume Rambourg speaks to TRT World about France's proposed wealth tax.

#ZucmanTax

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Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 3d

Decades ago, a man named Ivy Lee jump-started the foreign lobbying industry, whitewashing the Nazis, Soviets, and Mussolini.

Nearly a century later, the industry is unlike anything we've ever seen—all of it thanks to the White House.

My latest at @thenation.com:

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Trump Opens the White House Doors to Foreign Regimes and Their Dirty Money

Lobbyists for foreign countries have long helped other governments influence US policy, but nothing compares to the brazen corruption of the second administration of Trump.

www.thenation.com

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 3d

Very normal conception of journalism from a person who has never been a reporter but now is in charge of one of the largest media outlets in the most powerful country on the planet.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 3d

We really need to be thinking abt the current regime through the lens of the Second Klan, which helped to nationalize systems of Jim Crow state & vigilante violence & exploitation while creating an explicitly white nationalist immigration system. They even paraded down Pennsylvania Ave.

A 1926 klan parade marching down Pennsylvania Ave. The front of the column holds banners that read Connecticut & Rhode Island. Original available via the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001706338/

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 4d

Never thought this would be happening in America!

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 4d

This is a long, thoughtful, and brilliant post about how to understand political campaigning & strategy from one of the progressive left's most brilliant thinkers and practitioners @anatosaurus.bsky.social. Read it and listen to her: Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight

“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

open.substack.com

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.bsky.social · 5d

russian-linked vessels are continuing to leak oil off Europe’s shores — despite Western sanctions — underscoring the continent’s inability to rein in moscow’s so-called shadow fleet.

www.politico.eu/article/russ...

Russia’s blacklisted tankers keep dumping oil in Europe’s seas

Shadow fleet vessels sailed unimpeded in EU waters after leaving slicks near the continent.

www.politico.eu

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 4d

"Along with the termination, Tulane altered the course’s syllabus, removing the article, a Harvard School of Public Health discussion about the resurgence of polio in Gaza."

My alma mater continues to embarrass. Public Health students learning public health?
oh no
lailluminator.com/2025/10/06/t...

Tulane changes syllabus, fires academic manager over Gaza article • Louisiana Illuminator

Some say that the incident is yet another glimpse of the tense climate experienced on local and national campuses by people who support Palestine.

lailluminator.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 5d

Another 500 people were arrested for supporting Palestine Action this weekend, and now the police are being handed even greater powers.

We are witnessing a dangerous shift to the right.
https://goodlaw.social/k42p

Martha Spurrier: Proscribing Palestine Action is a dangerous shift in the law

More than 20 years ago, ministers promised they wouldn’t use the Terrorism Act to target direct action. But if the powers to suppress dissent are there, it’s only a matter of time before the state use...

goodlaw.social

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

Larry Ellison:
—Second‑richest man on Earth
—Gave $16.6 million to Friends of the IDF
—Hosted Netanyahu on his private island
—Trump plan makes him co-own TikTok
—Son, David, just spent $150 million to buy The Free Press & make Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS
—Wants Warner Bros (CNN, HBO)

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.

Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

www.theguardian.com

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 4d

“Even today, when the planet is dark, there still is hope. Don’t lose hope. If you lose hope, you become apathetic and do nothing” Don't lose hope. Also, send Musk and Trump into space on a one-way ticket. 😍

Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space

Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship

www.theguardian.com

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Raj Thamotheram @rajtham.bsky.social · 4d

During a White House meeting on August 18, 2025, Trump suggested that if the U.S. were at war in 2028, elections might be canceled. This was in response to Zelenskyy's statement that elections cannot be held during wartime.

May be he doesn't want to chance the 2026 elections?

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