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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7h

The amount of times that I have had to repeat, over and over and over to people, that en masse expulsion of Palestinians did not begin in May 1948 but in fact in the fall of 1947, more than half a year prior to what's known as the "first Arab-Israeli war", is frankly astonishing.

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Shahnameh blacksmith @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social · 7h

I think many people are unaware of this.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 10h

Lots of people who didn't google before posting look stupid now...and you deserve it

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 11h

We're grateful for what Trump is doing for peace, Nobel winner Machado tells BBC

María Corina Machado tells Trump of her appreciation for "what he's doing... around the world for peace".

www.bbc.com

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 19h

i want a "resistance ranking" for dems that grades them on how seriously they're taking this

something like support for:

1. prosecuting gop criminality
2. court reform
3. procedural agressiveness
4. end ICE
5. trans rights
6. calling this fascism

+ points for having taken personal risks

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Shahnameh blacksmith @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social · 1d

Younger folks especially may not remember that NYT was a big part of the original "echo chamber" that Bush used to generate support for invading Iraq.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Yes, because NYT is a fascist institution

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

2025 is full of moments like this - learning about some awesomely good and important thing the government did that this evil administration is killing

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

Blessed Guillaume of Toulouse prays with beatific expression on his face while being beaten and tormented by 3 monstrous demons. Demons labelled ICE, Gaza, and Corruption, and Blessed Guillaume labelled: Me thinking about Portland Frog

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 2d

It wouldn’t be hard to rebuild the walkway to connect Ogilvie with the green line Clinton stop
RETVRN

Passengers walk between the Ogilvie platform and the Cta Clinton green line station in a protected tunnel with red carpeting and fluorescent lights, windows overlook the Metra tracks in the background

Sketch of the “northwest passage” connection between the Cta Clinton station and the Chicago and northwestern station (today Ogilvie) showing a covered walkway above the street level at Lake wrap around to the platform level on the east side of Clinton

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

There were lots of things the Biden White House did that were extremely good but they didn’t get credit for because of (to varying degrees) ideology, propagandization, mendaciousness, and abject stupidity.

Nothing involving the Middle East is on that list.

Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 2d

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

Has anyone ever asked this man to explain what the is wrong with being Palestinian? Seems like a simple follow up question. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2d

"Pope Leo made an urgent plea for the world to help immigrants in his first major document, which was released on Thursday and invoked one of the late Pope Francis' strongest criticisms of U.S. President Donald Trump's anti-immigration policies."

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

www.reuters.com

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Amano Jack @amano-jack.bsky.social · 4d

Just in case someone missed this detail:
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck

Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs

A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 4d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 4d

I know everyone is all mad at Bluesky right now (for good reason) but I don't know if anyone has ever done content moderation at scale without "AI" assistance. Considering all content on Bluesky is open-by-design, everything you post here is instantly scraped by whoever making all this rather moot.

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Shahnameh blacksmith @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social · 5d

I was glad to see a lot of multifamily housing construction in the past 5+ years around a lot of the BNSF stops.

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 9d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 7d

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists."

The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 22d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 22d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Pavithra Suryanarayan @pavisuri.bsky.social · 7d

in Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder & bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo,[..] & the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy & peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock- Weiss’ 1st editorial pep talk

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 8d

Now that Bari Weiss has ascended to a powerful position at an influential network with a PR machine, I am seeing outlets that cover media like Puck and Mediaite present her as a "centrist" who might even challenge Trump.

That is such a deep and willful misreading of her oeuvre.

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