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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 32m

185 mph winds now hitting Jamaica.

Hurricane Melissa Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
1000 AM EDT Tue Oct 28 2025
AL132025
...CATASTROPHIC WINDS MOVING ONSHORE SOUTHERN JAMAICA...
...LAST CHANCE TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE...
•..1000 AM EDT POSITION UPDATE...
THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION! TAKE COVER NOW! Failure to adequately shelter may result in serious injury, and loss of life. Residents in Jamaica that experience the eye should not leave their shelter as winds will rapidly increase within the backside of the eyewall of Melissa.
To protect yourself from wind, the best thing you can do is put as many walls as possible between you and the outside. An interior room without windows, ideally one where you can also avoid falling trees, is the safest place you can be in a building. You can cover yourself with a mattress and wear a helmet for added protection.
NOAA Hurricane Hunter Aircraft find that Melissa continues to strengthen with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph (295 km/h). The minimum central pressure has fallen to 892 mb (26.34 inches) based on NOAA and Hurricane Hunter Air Force Reserve aircraft data.
The next update will be provided with the full advisory package at
1100 AM EDT (1500 UTC).
SUMMARY OF 1000 AM EDT...1400 UTC...INFORMATION
LocatIon...17.7N 78.1W
ABOUT 45 MI...70 KM SSE OF NEGRIL JAMAICA ABOUT 255 MI...410 KM SW OF GUANTANAMO CUBA MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...185 МРН...295 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNE OR 20 DEGREES AT 7 МРH...11 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...892 MB...26.34 INCHES

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Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 4h

Peaks of the Dolomites shrouded in clouds.

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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 4h

Big gulps.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h

Hurricane Melissa was on track to make a direct hit on Jamaica on Tuesday. The Category 5 storm — the strongest in the Atlantic Ocean this year — is threatening catastrophic damage with 175 mph winds and enough moisture to drop nearly three feet of rain. Follow live.

Hurricane Melissa Live Updates: Storm Churns Toward Jamaica With 175 M.P.H. Winds

The Category 5 storm is the most powerful in the Atlantic Ocean this year. The authorities in Jamaica and Cuba have issued evacuation orders for tens of thousands of people.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide.

Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...

Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer.

A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.

newrepublic.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Trump being guided through a room by the Japanese PM

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16h

Japanese sushi legend Jiro Ono won three Michelin stars for more than a decade, the world’s oldest head chef to do so. He has served the world’s dignitaries and his art of sushi was featured in an award-winning film. https://to.pbs.org/4hs2qDU

Japan's sushi legend Jiro Ono turns 100 and is not ready for retirement

Japanese sushi legend Jiro Ono won three Michelin stars for more than a decade, the world’s oldest head chef to do so. He has served the world’s dignitaries and his art of sushi was featured in an awa...

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Wm Reddy @wmreddy.bsky.social · 18h

Chemistry...

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 19h

Ostentiferous [os-ten-TIF-er-us]
(adj.)
- That which brings omens, monsters, or strange manifestations.

Used in a sentence:
“The book’s ostentiferous properties had rendered it too perilous for scholarship and too sacred for destruction.”

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 1d

Farage: epic grifter

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Wm Reddy @wmreddy.bsky.social · 21h

So...what's next?

Wm Reddy @wmreddy.bsky.social · 1d

No longer the land of the free and the home of the brave, these traitors are all monsters and one day will be held accountable to the people for their roles in this fascist coup…

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 1d

Silencing dissent is now second nature to this administration. We have fully abandoned the premise of allowing public argument and debate and are instead entrenched in rote fascism. The thought police are entirely empowered, and they treat us no longer as citizens of a republic,
but as sheep.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

U.S. immigration authorities detained British commentator Sami Hamdi, revoked his visa and said he would be deported rather than allowed to complete his speaking tour in the United States, a Homeland Security official said. https://cnn.it/3J1riWw

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 1d

Ukrainian troops captured a Russian soldier from the tiny Ket nation, one of Russia’s smallest indigenous peoples.

🧵 1/6 ⬇️

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Wm Reddy @wmreddy.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for reminding us, and giving us hope and courage for the future…

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Wm Reddy @wmreddy.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely take the time to read this. We Americans all feel these things deep within, and we need to hold fast to these values, our shared American values…

Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 1d

An absolutely beautiful and inspiring article by an old friend. Do yourself a favor and read it, gou won’t regret the time spent.
www.greatpower.us/p/the-sacred...

The sacred American spaces desecrated by the American president

The American faithful must find their voice if the divine American idea is to survive

www.greatpower.us

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

“Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.”

By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

www.propublica.org

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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 1d

Can't wait to see how Hegseth spins this.

Mike @forbesmm.bsky.social · 1d

TWO separate crashes of aircraft off the NIMITZ within a period of 30 minutes. Woof.

Tweet from U.S. Pacific Fleet

South China Sea - On October 26, 2025 at approximately 2:45 p.m. local time, a U.S. Navy MH-6OR Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to the "Battle Cats" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM)
73 went down in the waters of the South China Sea while conducting routine operations

from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Search and rescue assets assigned to Carrier Strike Group 11 safely recovered all three crew members.
Following the incident, separately, at 3:15 p.m., an F/ A-18F Super Hornet fighter assigned to the "Fighting Redcocks"

of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 22 also went down in the waters of the South China Sea while conducting routine operations from Nimitz. Both crew members successfully ejected and were also safely recovered by search and rescue assets assigned to Carrier Strike Group 11.

All personnel involved are safe and in stable condition.
The cause of both incidents is currently under investigation.

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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 1d

You lost two airframes in 30 minutes??

Super Hornet, Helicopter Assigned to USS Nimitz Crash in South China Sea in Separate Incidents, Crew Safe - USNI News

An F/A-18F Super Hornet and an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) crashed in the South China Sea on Sunday in two separate incidents in the Pacific, USNI News ...

news.usni.org

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Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · 1d

2008 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor Superman Movie Car at No Reserve

No Reserve: 2008 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor Superman Movie Car

Bid for the chance to own a No Reserve: 2008 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor Superman Movie Car at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #217,403.

bringatrailer.com

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Wm Reddy @wmreddy.bsky.social · 1d

Yah, but they just don't give a fuck about the lies, just like the orange felon, the whole regime is a house of cards built on lies, payola, vanity, narcissism and violent actions against lawful protest...

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Wm Reddy @wmreddy.bsky.social · 1d

No, through eugenics they grow them that way…

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Wm Reddy @wmreddy.bsky.social · 1d

So many of us are hoping, waiting for that moment when the machines pull that planned monstrosity down and nature is once again given a chance to thrive there…

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1d

Anonymous has hacked all Kremlin servers.

Anonymous is applying its own digital sanctions on Russia. We demand they surrender and fully leave all Ukrainian territory. #OpRussia

Anonymous. @YourAno... • Oct25 g...
Kremlin's servers are under our hands.
#OpRussia

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Here's a stunning vegetarian dish: Onions stuffed with saffron-tinged basmati rice infused with fragrant spices. nyti.ms/4qlfw9Y

An oval platter of onions stuffed with saffron-tinged basmati rice

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Wm Reddy @wmreddy.bsky.social · 2d

General Strike… who?

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