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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 7m

Of course Peter Mandelson introduced Epstein to Blair ... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein in No 10 on advice of Peter Mandelson, documents reveal

National Archives papers show how then MP pushed for 2002 meeting between PM and ‘young and vibrant’ financier

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 3m

But today's trip was mostly about Bangkok's history as a port destination for Chinese migrants

Started at a migrant museum, walked the Chao Phraya to a wat built in the shape of a migrant ship, then to a mall where the migrants' labor has been packaged for consumption by their affluent descendants

A panorama of Yaowarat road at the Wat Traimit Chinese migrant museum

Nick Brumfield standing in front of a boat plying a muddy brown Chao Phraya River

Wat Yannawa, with part of the temple constructed as a stylized replica of a Chinese junk

A statue of a Chinese laborerer pulling a stone

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 10m

Everyone Opposed to Me is the Antichrist

- by The Antichrist.

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 37m

All tech-products are now designed according to anti-human principles

Brent A. Sudeck @brentsudeck.com · 1h

It’s like the developers of Windows 11 got together with the iOS developers and decided that everyone wants to click more to do the exact same things they did in the previous version.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 8h

Not an answer to your original question. But I KNOW that the somewhat friendlier environment for black intelligentsia in that town has been written about in an academic context. On Al Gore's internet 15 years ago I could have found some via google in a heartbeat. No longer. Off to bed. Sigh

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 8h

It aint that. Montclair always had a large black working class for a fancy town with train access to NYC. And close to The Oranges which were friendly to black professionals. And, for whatever reason, started attracting the theater/advertising/media rich back to the early 60s. Will think more.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 9h

Holy crap

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 15h

But you shouldn't be too surprised when they say stuff like this:

"You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today."

I don’t want to take any guidance at all from the secular society around us. And the reason I don’t is they killed 60 million babies. I don’t want to hear any more lectures from these people about slavery. You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 9h

Every generation gets their warmed over know-nothing/klan/birch society puke. Apparently, this is ours.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

“For more than three hours, correctional officers can be seen walking past his cell while he lay on the floor in obvious distress.

The jail nurse was not called until a female guard noted he was foaming at the mouth and having seizure-like activity.”

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 9h

Jeebus, my hometown. (Montclair is one of them fancy NYC suburbs that are noticeably less racist than most of their economic peers.) bsky.app/profile/volt...

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 10h

I dunno, I don't think this middle-aged dude whose main after school activity was watching the grooms exercise daddy's horses at the mansion and now cosplays as Richard Petty is on the up-and-up about young women and fashion.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 10h

I fixed it.

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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 15h

Walked three miles with a 55lb pack this morning and followed that up with several hours of splitting, hauling and stacking white oak rounds from a tree that got blown down last weekend.

Helluva day.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 13h

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.

In Minnesota, 118 students are also under quarantine in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

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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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 13h

In a different political environment the decreases in violent crime would be being celebrated as the biggest public policy success in a generation or more.

Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 13h

San Francisco had the fewest murders in a year since before 1960 last year and murder is down 20% this year. It's almost impressive how divorced from reality these deployment suggestions are. YTD change in SF crime as of Oct 5:

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 12h

I know nothing about this except they both look so miserable in that photograph.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

gonna keep reposting this until i don't have to

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 14h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 14h

I'm sparking debate with my claim that Stephen Miller is the result of cross-breeding a stick figure and a bedbug, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15h

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sparking debate with claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

Here’s what the science actually says:

RFK Jr. linked circumcision and Tylenol to autism. Here’s what scientists say.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparks debate with claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

Chekhov's Reassignments

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Breaking news: Nearly a quarter of FBI agents across the country are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement.

The large number of reassignments reflect a vast reshaping of the agency and could put other priorities at risk.

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 22h

Benny Johnson? This Benny Johnson? bsky.app/profile/reic...

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

This made me laugh so hard. Second screenshot is of the video posted by Benny Johnson of the event.

Benny Johnson « @bennyjohnson
X.com
BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stares down army of Antifa and a guy in a chicken suit from the rooftop of the ICE facility here in Portland.
Noem says:
"Hey; Guy in the chicken suit. You can do better.
Too bad they are uneducated and ill-informed."
Noem isn't chicken: [chicken emoji]

A view from the roof of the building. There are about 15-20 people visible in total, several of whom appear to be reporters. Most are holding signs. They aren’t even taking up the whole sidewalk. One guy is wearing a chicken suit.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 22h

José Andrés was right there.

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 1d

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 22h

You see, the cost of compliance with rules exposing their efforts to rip off customers is much higher than being allowed to rip of their customers. So everybody wins.

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