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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 5d

👁️ Have a great week
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LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 5d

William Powell for The Kennel Murder Case (1933)

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 2h

Does he know her name?

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 4h

MAGA and its agenda are *wildly* unpopular, and media are hugely out of touch for not saying so. Politicians who tap into this reality will thrive, and media outlets that reflect this truth will earn enormous audiences.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 16h

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 15h

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 3h

I was born and raised in CAs Central Valley and I'm voting #YesOnProp50. Farm workers and people of color are suffering under this administration's racial profiling. Prop 50 gives us the opportunity to fight back on the power grab that TX Republicans and Trump are attempting.

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 2h

👁️ Superman.

AND with COVID booster.

🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 5h

From Dec 2024...

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 6h

Don’t worry your heads ladies, the menfolk are handling pharmaceutical pricing

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 5h

Any questions about that medical check?

🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 5h

Me. Me. Me.

No congratulations to the one who got it. 👁️

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows. The Dezers made billions on Trump-branded condos. Now they're cleaning up with no-bid contracts to fly prisoners to foreign concentration camps.

This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison

Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 6h

That right hand...👁️

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 6h

huh. he's covering up that right hand and seems really low energy

did we get a report on his second yearly physical today?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 9h

So they are adding new wrinkles to the #KavanaughStops

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 7h

Seen in NYC, No Kings 10/18 protest ads

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Grist @grist.org · 11h

As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy.

Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports.

grist.org/internationa...

#Renewables #Energy #Climate #Solar #Wind #Batteries

As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy

Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two reports published this week.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 7h

Imagine growing up in a world where you can’t be sure what’s real anymore. That’s the reality today’s children will inherit. It's going to be exhausting. techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/i...

Instagram head Adam Mosseri pushes back on MrBeast’s AI fears but admits society will have to adjust | TechCrunch

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri says AI will empower new creators while forcing society to rethink what’s real online as synthetic content grows.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 7h

“This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison”

This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison

Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.

zeteo.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10h

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 7h

😳 Some irony here. How Bondi follows a male script that protects Epstein...who had girls/women following his own scripts. 👁️

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 8h

Sigourney Weaver says she had a meeting with Disney about reprising her role as Ripley.

“[‘Alien’ producer] Walter Hill is a very good friend of mine and he wrote 50 pages of where Ripley would be now and they are quite extraordinary”

(Source: ew.com/sigourney-we...)

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🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social · 8h

👁️ Didn't he have another medical checkup today?

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 10h

Ladies and gentlemen, the “Golden Age.”

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h

Pay strict attention to this when considering forthcoming US elections.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election?

Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official.

Be warned.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h

Trump threatens China with tariffs. Stock market falls. Buy low. Sell high when we get the TACO klaxon.

The US is just one big roulette wheel right now.

Stock Market Today: Trump Threatens Higher China Tariffs; Nasdaq Falls More Than 2% — The Wall Street Journal

Tech stocks tumble as trade tensions rise

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 10h

Roughly half of U.S. states are effectively in a Recession and ‘hanging on by their fingertips,’ Moody’s chief Economist says. fortune.com/2025/10/09/a...

Roughly half of U.S. states are effectively in a recession and ‘hanging on by their fingertips,’ Moody’s chief economist says | Fortune

Moody’s chief economist, Mark Zandi, tells Fortune parts of America are already in recession, with 22 state economies contracting despite strong national GDP growth.

fortune.com

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