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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 3h

According to the General Staff, Ukrainian assault units advanced up to 1.6 km in certain areas over the past day, clearing and securing 3.4 sq km of territory in Pokrovsk district, Donetsk region.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Chantal Bowman @chantalbb.bsky.social · 9h

"A plan that denies one side meaningful agency cannot yield legitimate peace."

Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 9h

The lack of any timeline for Palestinian self-determination in Mr Trump’s plan gives the lie to vainglorious references, in his Knesset speech, to the “historic dawn” of a “golden age” - says @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on peace in Gaza: the relief is real, but Trump’s promise of a ‘golden age’ rings hollow | Editorial

Editorial: Hostage and prisoner releases are bringing joy to families. But there is no guarantee that the ceasefire will end Palestinian suffering

www.theguardian.com

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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 9h

The lack of any timeline for Palestinian self-determination in Mr Trump’s plan gives the lie to vainglorious references, in his Knesset speech, to the “historic dawn” of a “golden age” - says @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on peace in Gaza: the relief is real, but Trump’s promise of a ‘golden age’ rings hollow | Editorial

Editorial: Hostage and prisoner releases are bringing joy to families. But there is no guarantee that the ceasefire will end Palestinian suffering

www.theguardian.com

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 9h

Absence of a plan for the people of Gaza is very worrying. So many - including thousands released from harsh prison conditions - returning to find their homes and neighbourhoods reduced to rubble. No-one yet offering any hope, and from what I hear Trump refusing to discuss.

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Chantal Bowman @chantalbb.bsky.social · 9h

What do these people want people in the office FOR? I know we'd know very quickly if someone WFH was not pulling their weight, so it's just presenteeism, or they have shares in the rail companies, or the commercial property companies? What?

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Dr. Canuck, MD @drcanuckmd.medsky.social · 10h

Report is that ICE agents threatened to arrest and shoot medics trying to help an injured protestor in Portland on October 5th.

This is Trumps America. Is this what you want?

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18h

I find this very touching…& also worrying. Historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social has been an absolutely essential guide to this era. And if he thinks I’m right then we’re in more trouble than we realise

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine making six figures to not do anything you were entrusted to do.

…getting paid to not work while thousands of civil servants around you were getting fired.

…betraying those who counted on you to represent them, all to appease a wannabe dictator.

The GOP Congress is a helluva thing.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 10h

AI will have all types of effects on skilled work, some bad some perhaps good, but everyone who cares about climate disruption needs to explicitly confront that ramping data centers *in the current economic model* (with the current people in charge) will only accelerate greenhouse gas emissions.

Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 23h

OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels.

New from me @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist

The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.

www.desmog.com

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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 12h

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h

Elon Musk (the X-owner and advocate of pre-emptive political violence) is funding the legal fees of his ally Tommy Robinson (the activist who last month platformed Musk's call for civil war in Britain)

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 4d

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

But we cant have healthcare. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "If we go to the south pole of the moon, we can set up a base. We want to put up fission power. We think we can have longterm stays on the south pole of the moon."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

Big roar for AG Letitia James at the ZOHRAN rally👇🏽

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 20h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 22h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14h

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11h

Abolish ICE.

Never vote for a Republican, ever.

Go to your local #NoKings rally on 10/18.

Support any groups in your area that are fighting for immigrant rights.

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 15h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11h

The AI bubble is socially, economically, and environmentally harmful, and the sooner it pops, the better. cepr.net/publications...

The AI Bubble and Counterfeit Money

The AI boom fuels inequality, inflation, pollution, and political capture. If it’s a bubble, the sooner it bursts, the better.

cepr.net

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 14h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 16h

It has been 20 DAYS since Adelita Grijalva overwhelmingly won Congressional District AZ CD7
Speaker Johnson ENOUGH
WE in Arizona are outraged that her District is not being represented
House Democrats send letter demanding she sworn in by Friday (source aolnews.com)

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