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Daniel Weissmann @danweiss.bsky.social · 23h

A German court denying a genocide survivor due process because his lawyer couldn't produce his signature due to being trapped in Gaza is very on brand for Germany.

Story from @hahauenstein.bsky.social

michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 23h

Welcome to Germany

theintercept.com/2025/10/22/g...

Court Rejects Journalist’s Case Because He Couldn’t Submit an Original Signature From Gaza

A German court rejected Gaza journalist Anas Fteiha’s case against media giant Axel Springer for smearing him as a Hamas propagandist.

theintercept.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun?

Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 14h

I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime.

While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-...

VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester

“Your name was brought up.”

www.kenklippenstein.com

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 15h

while greg bovino and his battalion of idiots were abducting and attacking residents in little village, ice and border patrol were all over chicagoland.

feds were also seen at/kidnapped people from pilsen, mckinley park, and back of the yards and in suburban shaumberg, elgin, and bensenville.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 16h

border patrol have returned to terrorize chicago's little village neighborhood again this morning.

from a video posted to facebook about 10 minutes ago near 26th and pulaski. at one point, the person recording says, "he's got his fucking rifle out!"

two border patrol agents wearing green uniforms stand on either side of a person wearing sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers. the agents are each holding one of the person's arms and walking toward a white suv that's parked on 26th street

the caption reads "little village 26 street"

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 18h

The whataboutism on Gaza really rankles, especially for those of us who have spent our careers reporting on the crises Israel's defenders cynically invoke as so much worse than Gaza. I wrote about how it actually compares, and what the true toll may be. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

Opinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think

www.nytimes.com

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Joel Reinstein @joelreinstein.bsky.social · 12h

"If de Waal is anywhere close to right, this conflict will have killed 7.5 percent of the prewar population of Gaza in just two years. It already is, in proportional terms, deadlier than the wars in Yemen, Syria, Sudan and Ukraine."

Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 18h

The whataboutism on Gaza really rankles, especially for those of us who have spent our careers reporting on the crises Israel's defenders cynically invoke as so much worse than Gaza. I wrote about how it actually compares, and what the true toll may be. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

Opinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think

www.nytimes.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11h

IMPACT of photojournalism and local reporting. @chicago.suntimes.com Anthony Vazquez [left] and @ashleerezin.bsky.social's [right] photos of Bovino from by @apnews.com 12:53pm (EDT). ~3 hours later, Judge Ellis expands Bovino's deposition.

Major error by Bovino because he can't deny knowledge.

Bovino in full camouflage holding with an assault rifle. the other agents are wearing gaiters, sunglasses and gas masks.

caption:
U.S. Border Patrol Commander-At-Large Gregory Bovino stands with federal immigration enforcement agents during a
skirmish with protesters in Little Village neighborhood, Chicago Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (Anthony Vazquez/Chicago
Sun-Times via AP)

Updated Oct 23, 2025 12:53 p.m.

Greg Bovino, the chief patrol agent for the U.S. Border Patrol El Centro sector, asks a pedestrian their birth country as
the pedestrian films federal agents detaining a man who took off running away from them as they were walking on
North Clark Street near West Superior Street in the River North neighborhood, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025, in Chicago.
(Ashlee Rezin /Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 11h

a video of the young man's arrest shows him backing up, following commands, while having a weapon drawn on him. He's then surrounded, thrown to the ground, jumped on, and detained. shared with permission.

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Joel Reinstein @joelreinstein.bsky.social · May 5

This by @tayari.bsky.social is my favorite essay and it's never far from my heart

time.com/5434381/taya...

Screenshot of an article reads 'On the drive home, I cried all the way. My zoo clothes were ruined, and I was pretty sure that my little friend would never invite me out again. To soothe me, my father took me out for an ice cream cone, but I couldn’t bear to eat it. As it melted in sticky rivulets, my father simply said, “I’m proud of you, Tayari.”'

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 14h

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

www.bbc.co.uk

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 15h

odonates, mosquitoes, craneflies, and selected turtles have entered the chat

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15h

"Hold onto your butts, because one day you might be breathing through them." www.404media.co/breathing-th...

Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial

The first application of enteral ventilation—aka breathing through the bum—to humans proved the technique is safe.

www.404media.co

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 15h

Atmospheric CO2 levels are the highest they've been in 10 million years and the residents of Flint, MI, are still boiling their tap water. Anyway here's what the EPA is up to

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

EPA Commissioner Lee Zeldin announces his agency is launching a major investigation into the right-wing conspiracies about chemtrails and weather manipulation to get to the bottom of it.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 15h

“90% of the civilians killed in the last eight decades of this so-called conflict were on the Palestinian side, and not the Israeli side. And who killed them? The Israelis. And they’re never called terrorists.”

— Arab Barghouti, son of Marwan Barghouti

Linda Mamoun
@mamoun_linda
PBS asks Arab Barghouti, son of imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, why his father is referred to as the Palestinian Nelson Mandela.

“I think this is very interesting because Nelson Mandela was called a terrorist, and my father as well. And if you go back to any struggle — in Algeria, in Ireland, in South Africa, in all the countries that were colonized and occupied you will find that their resistance, and their defending themselves against the occupier, is always called terrorism.”

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tedr5292.bsky.social @tedr5292.bsky.social · 15h

The time of “let me see your papers” is here.

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 15h

🚨USPS mail carrier terrorized by ICE. A federal worker carrying mail over his shoulder suspected of being an “illegal immigrant? The worst of the worst?” No. He was existing while black. 1/2

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Iwasid @iwasid.bsky.social · 14h

"I indeed love 'only ' my friends and the only kind of love I know of and believe in is the love of persons. Secondly, this 'love of the Jews' would appear to me, since I am myself Jewish, as something rather suspect. I cannot love myself ..." Hannah Arendt

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

Judith Butler · ‘I merely belong to them’: Hannah Arendt

www.lrb.co.uk

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Dr. Ruth is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 15h

Crap. F'ed up w the link. Here's the right one:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

Judith Butler · ‘I merely belong to them’: Hannah Arendt

www.lrb.co.uk

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 15h

Those Tory MPs are such brave souls to give unattributed quotes like this. Great to see them stepping up and doing their bit to stop the party sliding into fascism and racism.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h

Conservatives complain to whips about fellow MP’s comments on legally settled people

Exclusive: Criticism of Katie Lam comes amid widespread confusion in the party over its policy on indefinite leave to remain Conservative MPs have complained to party whips after Katie Lam said many legally settled people should be deported to make the UK “culturally coherent”, the Guardian has learned. Lam, seen as a rising Tory star, said last weekend she believed “a large number of people” living legally in the UK should have their right to stay revoked and “go home”. “What that will leave is a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people,” she told the Sunday Times. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Ruth is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 15h

You're in good company with your ethics and politics. Here's Hannah responding to Scholem's claim about her 'not loving the Jews'.

go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...

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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 15h

PODCAST: Reckoning or reverting? Israeli society after the ceasefire

Dahlia Scheindlin explores the lessons Israelis are drawing from two years of war, and explains why international pressure is the only path to a political settlement.

Listen now 🎙️

www.972mag.com/podcast-reck...

Reckoning or reverting? Israeli society after the ceasefire

Dahlia Scheindlin explores the lessons Israelis are drawing from two years of war and why international pressure is the only path to a political settlement.

www.972mag.com

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15h

This is the inevitable reality of Labour's one in one out policy. It further undermines already massively weakened modern slavery protections, puts people at more risk of trafficking, risks lives and denies people the chance to build a life with their families 1/

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

Asylum seekers removed to France include potential victims of modern slavery, says report

Humans for Rights Network also says some returned under ‘one in, one out’ scheme had family in the UK

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 15h

New from star grad student @m-meyer.bsky.social we wanted to study why delusions (and other beliefs) are so fixed. We turned to a generalization paradigm and the peak shift effect. Martin finds people with delusions over generalize causal relationships during learning: osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 15h

It seems that the United States of America was, indeed, for sale.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 16h

President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the crypto exchange Binance, according to people familiar with the matter, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company.

www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Exclusive | Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder

The pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost Trump crypto company

www.wsj.com

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