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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 15d

Headlines these days combine the jaded ennui of the predictable with the existential horror of the inevitable.
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Deaths Rose in Emergency Rooms After Hospitals Were Acquired by Private Equity Firms

Staffing, salary cuts offer likely explanation for increase compared to non-private-equity hospitals

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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 9h

Was that was an unannounced part of the settlement with Murdoch?

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PortfolioCarmel @portfoliocarmel.bsky.social · 13h

Carole Cadwalladr‘s 10-ep special series; pod a densely-woven tapestry of multiple filaments, expertly elucidated. As fellow camp hampster, you‘ll want to hear; current locale adds dimension. Re-listened yest; riveting elements in all. Of interest to students as well, non-fiction storytelling skills

Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring

Politics Podcast · Series · Journalists Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes – with the help of Conservative party whistleblower Sergei Cristo – expose an alleged secret spy ring operating at the very he...

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d

Only generally aware of Nigel Farage, it’s been shocking to me in the week I’ve been reading UK papers daily how *precisely* Tory & Reform rhetoric echo Trumpism, particularly the full conquest of GOP by MAGA circa 2017-18. Reminder yet again that this fascism is global.

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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 9h

NPR host sounds like an idiot, news at eleven.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

That got dark quickly.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Frederick Clarkson @fredclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

You may not hear much about it -- but the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is staging a four day event on the national Mall in Washington, DC. I wrote a bit about it today in the context of wider NAR mobilizations in Brazil. @religiondispatches.org 🧵

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 17h

NOBEL PEACE PRICE COMMITTEE: WE GIVE THIS AWARD, FOR PEACE

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17h

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
8:34 AM • 10/10/25 • 30K Views

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Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social · 11d

Supreme Court Justice John Roberts Is Named In The Epstein Files, He Has A Fetish For Little Boys
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Shoq @shoq.bsky.social · 9h

If the tech industry keeps pushing AI and their unhinged arrogance of wealth with this cavalier aggressiveness, soon the billionaires are going to need more than bunkers to keep them safe. They’re going to need armies.

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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 10h

Greenpeace used to be geniuses at this.

Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 10h

How Plastic Goods Took Over the World, Creating a Throwaway Culture

Author Saabira Chaudhuri writes about brands’ drive for disposability in her new book, Consumed.
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Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social · 10h

Mark Zuckerberg and the end of pinning liberal hope on monopolies.

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Girl Whatever

More on neoliberalism's ashes.

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Shoq @shoq.bsky.social · 10h

You know the interest in #October18 its pretty high when the Speaker of the House is this panicked about it . Kudos to @indivisibleteam for being the only ones doing jack shit about any of this rolling coup of incompetent facists in a clown car.

I hope you all plan to show up for a change. Stop …

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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 10h

Throwing objects or just shade?

Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 10h

I don't care about the doomsday clock. I want to know how many minutes to midnight we are on the Toy Story 3 fucked up near death experience clock.

a hand is reaching out towards another hand in a pile of leaves with the name tanner on the bottom

ALT: a hand is reaching out towards another hand in a pile of leaves with the name tanner on the bottom

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h

AKA youtu.be/WboggjN_G-4?...

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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 10h

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 11h

In Trump’s 1st term (incl. BLM protests) a disorganized & disoriented opposition sometimes played right into fascist hands, missing that far right agitators were regularly causing their peaceful protests to escalate & get or at least appear violent.

Opposition is smarter now. Please read:

Deborah @idajo.bsky.social · 13h

Free to download: www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/how...

How Agent Provocateurs Harm Our Movements | ICNC

This volume explores the danger of agent provocateurs to movements, and offers ideas for how activists can inoculate their movements.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 10h

THE USE OF AGENT
PROVOCATEURS TO REPRESS
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS WAS
"PRETTY ROUTINE"
THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
Chomsky concluded his answer to Steele by saying, "But that's so routine there's not even any point giving examples" (quoted in Steele 2012). As a long-time activist, I think Chomsky is only half right here. Routine, yes; but the problem of agent provocateurs is still not very well-known by many activists and organizers. Given that this lack of awareness increases a movement's vulnerability to
agent provocateurs, I want to share some historical examples of agent provocateur activity around the world, including an in-depth case study from the Black Liberation Movement in the United States.
My hope is that this examination will encourage civil resistance organizers to think more deeply about what can be done to minimize the negative impact of agent provocateurs and agent provoca-teur-like behavior on movements for peace, justice, human rights, and sustainability. I then close the essay by sharing some useful first steps toward achieving this goal.

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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 10h

I ask, "if you [reporter/editor/publisher] won't call a dictator a dictator, why did you go into journalism in the first place?"

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10h

Re-upping this piece I wrote a month ago, which becomes ever more relevant as Trump's tyranny worsens, as masked thugs keep terrorizing immigrants, and as the "Justice" Department keeps inventing charges against political opponents.
I ask: WHY WON'T THE MEDIA SAY TRUMP IS BECOMING A DICTATOR?

Why won’t the media say Trump is becoming a dictator?

Journalism is the wrong profession for people who won’t face the facts

www.stopthepresses.news

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Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 10h

But it will obsequiously compliment us as it does so, so at least there's that.

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Leslie 🦋🇺🇸🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇴🏳️‍🌈🫘 @mudlady64.bsky.social · 16h

Emmer: Rape of young girls is a “non-issue”.

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 16h

Peaceful protest is a Constitutionally protected civil right (and duty). This criminal regime is violating our laws, using our money, to use against US. No Justice.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 11h

The Trump cult is pulling out all the stops to depict the No Kings protests as a terrorist rally. This is really despicable. Why do they hate Americans who exercise the First Amendment freedoms?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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