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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 16h

Nobel committee: "we live in a world where democracy is in retreat...rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule".

Trump supporters: UGH fine, we'll just make our own.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · 16h

For over a decade, we @citizenlab.ca have documented extensive abuse of NSO Group's spyware, including being used to target political opposition, journalists, activists, human rights defenders and US govt officials.

*This sale should not be permitted*

techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/s...

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 18h

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"So she walked off the job, pretending she was being silenced. Then she used that notoriety to found the Free Press, which became a success because it’s been backed by the dollars of a billionaire class that is still livid that five years ago, for three months, America said 'Black lives matter'."

Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 20h

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

She has bigger problems than Tylenol. Her baby is in her placenta!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d

Call me old school, but I don't think a person illegally blowing up boats and unleashing masked goons on his citizens would be a serious candidate for a peace prize.

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

US anti-fascism expert, @mark-bray.bsky.social, tries to fly to Spain to keep his family safe after receiving death threats, and has his flight mysteriously cancelled. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 2d

"In their minds these guys are all starring in an early 90s Steven Seagal movie but in reality they’re just starring in a 2020 Steven Seagal movie" 😂

Trae Crowder @thetraecrowder.bsky.social · 3d

On Trump Deploying Troops to More Cities to Protect ICE from Antifa (Or Whatever)

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Elizabeth Pearson @lizzypearson.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow 9 October @vox-pol.bsky.social launches this excellent new report by @antoniavaughan.bsky.social Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia.

I'm chairing, @audreygagnon.bsky.social is discussing. Do come along!

Sign up below. Webinar - 9 October - 6pm BST 🕸️

voxpol.eu/events/new-v...

New VOX-Pol Report Online Launch - VOX - Pol

09/10/2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - VOX-Pol is publishing a new report titled Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia: Current Practices and Constraints by Dr Antonia Vaughan on Thursday 9 October 2...

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 3d

The NY Times continues to be the biggest sucker in the world for bad faith bullshit, just so the publisher can claim they're not too liberal and to pretend they'll somehow convince MAGA they're being fair to them.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3d

Despite appearances, this is not a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social joke, it's an actual @nytimes.com column by some Claremont hack who praises Hegseth for his "nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society."

Opinion
Guest Essay

That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
Oct. 7, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 4d

It is a dumb question. The answer is yes

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

CNN: Is it the case that you are profiling brown people?

STEPHEN MILLER: What a dumb question

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6d

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7d

Chris Rufo's disastrous takeover of New College in Florida shows what universities would become if they sign the Trump regime's extortionary "compact."

New College was supposed to model the anti-woke conservative higher-ed Americans crave. Instead, it showed the opposite, and serves as a warning.

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 7d

More @katmabu.bsky.social energy in the halls of power, fuckin please.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 7d

Clear desire to use the US military against Americans for authoritarian theater.

“82nd is like our top tier [quick reaction force] for abroad. So it will cause a lot of headlines,” he added. ‘Probably why he wants potus to tell him to do it.’”

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 7d

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show

A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 7d

I have talked to CBS staffers who are worried about what will happen when they have a major story

Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 7d

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.independent.co.uk

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Global News @globalnews.ca · 7d

Judge Arun Subramanian said “a history of good works can’t wash away the record in this case."

globalnews.ca/news/1146141...

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 50 months in prison on prostitution charges - National | Globalnews.ca

Sean Combs has been behind bars since his September 2024 arrest, and the sentencing marks the conclusion of the disgraced hip-hop mogul’s New York trial.

globalnews.ca

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · 8d

A youth bulge, economic failures, corruption and the perversion of democratic processes are shared causes behind the protest movements that have toppled governments in Southasia, write Anupam Debashis Roy and Rishija Singh

The overlapping factors behind Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka’s uprisings

ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO, three Southasian nations underwent political transitions. In 2008, Nepal became a federal republic, ending 250 years of monarchy. Bangladesh

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 8d

It's like the Stanford Prison experiment is going on again, except it's the whole country.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 8d

“It looks like hell,” Jones said. “ICE really just a gang.”

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @lahoare.bsky.social · 8d

A car ramming and stabbing attack outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester on the morning of Yom Kippur has left four people injured. The suspect was shot by Greater Manchester Police; their current status is unknown.

Manchester synagogue attack latest: suspect shot after four people injured in vehicle and stabbing attack at synagogue, police say

Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester, tells people to avoid the area after a ‘serious incident’ in Crumpsall

www.theguardian.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 9d

What a weak, sad, broken, little man.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 9d

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9d

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.

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Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca · 9d

Last week, Trump declared “Antifa” a domestic terrorist organization.

This is why the far-right in the US & Canada see it as an obstacle that has to be cleared in order to carry out their smash-and-grab of the political establishment. 👇

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www.antihate.ca/trump_lying_...

Trump is Lying About Antifascism

As an antifascist organization ourselves, we can help explain antifascism and why the far-right in the United States and Canada see us as an obstacle that has to be cleared in order to carry out their...

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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 9d

From the Insight Monitor archives, here's a look at how states employ criminals for targeted killings and transnational repression:

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State Secrets: Hiring Criminals for Targeted Killings (and more)

The intersection of state and criminal threats

newsletter.insightthreatintel.com

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