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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 19m

If they get away with doing this to George Retes, then they can do it to anybody, including you and me.

DHS and ICE have an ongoing propaganda campaign that claims they are detaining the “worst of the worst.”

It’s a lie. It’s all based on lies.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

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Jenn-O'Lantern Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 19m

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 4h

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...

A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

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Jenn-O'Lantern Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 30m

Read Carole

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 4h

Crisp sunny mornings and crunchy golden leaves are here, so we’re celebrating with this wonderfully seasonal woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige.

🍁 Maple Trees at Mama, Tekona Shrine, and Linked Bridge, 1857, by Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797–1858). EAX.4362

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Jenn-O'Lantern Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 43m

Crazy as a bedbug

Futurism @futurism.com · 6h

"It's someone like Greta or Eliezer."

Audio of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Seminar Just Leaked

Billionaire Peter Thiel gave a four-part series of rambling seminars about the antichrist. According to leaked audio, they were weird.

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Jenn-O'Lantern Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 1h

Sarah Jeong nails it

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 19h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.com · 6h

A Ukrainian initiative that encourages enemy combatants to surrender said it had data on more than 1,000 Cubans recruited by Russia since 2023.

Cuba Denies Participating in Ukraine War - The Moscow Times

Cuba on Saturday denied U.S. assertions that it is involved in the military conflict in Ukraine or had sent soldiers there.

www.themoscowtimes.com

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Jenn-O'Lantern Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 1h

Lovely graphic of Marianne

French Aid to Ukraine 🇫🇷 🤜🤛 🇺🇦 @aidefranceukr.bsky.social · 5h

🚨 According to a source familiar with the matter, France would like to do more to protect Ukrainian skies.

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Jenn-O'Lantern Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 1h

Gogo: "Cheap provocation. "Green men" mushroom picking a few meters from the Estonian border force its closure. Russia plays with words and images to remind us of what it is capable of."

Paul Gogo @paugog.bsky.social · 4h

Provocation à pas cher. Des « hommes verts » en cueillette de champignons à quelques mètres de la frontière estonienne entraînent sa fermeture. La Russie joue avec les mots et les images pour nous rappeler de quoi elle est capable.

auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 13h

Sources: news.err.ee/1609827133/p...
news.postimees.ee/8340918/russ...
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Mn...

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Mark Galeotti @markgaleotti.bsky.social · 4h

In Moscow's Shadows 220: Power Politics in the FSB and a new 'Most Dangerous Man in Russia'?

Has the FSB's Military CI Department a new head? What does this mean for the FSB's internal politics - is 'crown prince' Korolev finally going to take over?

www.buzzsprout.com/1026985/epis...

In Moscow's Shadows 220: Power Politics in the FSB and a new 'Most Dangerous Man in Russia'? - In Moscow's Shadows

Time to look at the spooks again. It seems that the FSB's Military Counterintelligence Department (in other words, the anti-coup squad) may be getting a new head. What does this mean for the internal ...

www.buzzsprout.com

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Jenn-O'Lantern Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 2h

Tusk: "After Kaczyński's anti-immigration march, it's time for more PiS protests: for example, against high prices, against corruption, and in defense of the Constitution and women's rights. Let's have a laugh together."

Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 2h

Po antymigracyjnym marszu Kaczyńskiego czas na kolejne pisowskie protesty: na przykład przeciw drożyźnie, przeciw korupcji, w obronie Konstytucji i praw kobiet. Pośmiejemy się razem.

Jenn-O'Lantern Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you, UK

Militarnyi @militarnyi.com · 2h

Hundreds of Martlet missiles for Ukraine were delivered several months ahead of schedule

militarnyi.com/en/news/uk-d...

UK Delivers Hundreds of Martlet Surface-to-Air Missiles to Ukraine - Militarnyi

Hundreds of Martlet missiles for Ukraine were delivered several months ahead of schedule

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Jenn-O'Lantern Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 2h

"Frogtifa" 😁😂🙌🏼

Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 7h

Dear Portland: your friends across the world are with you. Write up of “frogtifa” resistance in the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, today. Stay strong, fuck ICE - and solidarity.

www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

Amphibious assault: Progressive Portland’s protesting frogs take air out of Trump’s arguments

The citizens of a progressive northwestern US city have found a creative, humorous way to undercut Donald Trump’s assertions of lawlessness.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4h

Nothing is determined. There is room to push back.

But let’s not pretend this isn’t exactly what it looks like: The regime is declaring all forms of dissent illegitimate and is preparing a massive crackdown on all forms of political and societal opposition.

They want to escalate. This is it.

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Jenn-O'Lantern Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 2h

You want to fix that headline to "confidence" not "conference"

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Philippe Prudent @phprudent.bsky.social · 3h

Le château de Blois by night (ici, le magnifique escalier de l'aile Gaston d'Orléans). #patrimoine

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Jenn-O'Lantern Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 3h

Fancy!

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 12h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Jenn-O'Lantern Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 11h

"Left over"

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 13h

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops trib.al/G0HMywT

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops

Left over R&D funds will be used to pay military members on Oct. 15, the Department of Defense said, following orders from President Trump.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/AoXcgAq

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Jenn-O'Lantern Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 14h

Chinese food and enough Aleve to knock out a walrus, for a start. Then munching dark chocolate covered almonds while watching "Astrid" on PBS.
I live a *very* exciting life🤭

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Wendy Siegelman @wendysiegelman.bsky.social · 16h

On Friday jurors handed up an award of $52 million against former Trump associate Felix Sater, who was found liable of laundering tens of millions of dollars allegedly stollen from the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan and BTA Bank

www.law.com/2025/10/10/e...

Ex-Trump Business Associate Found Liable for Money Laundering in Retrial | Law.com

Jurors handed up an award of $52 million against Felix Sater. That award is without interest factored in—a potentially significant addition since the acts took place more than a decade ago. The case w...

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 15h

I can't attend the #NoKings do on Oct 18 bc I'll be travelling, but can I recommend that friends take American flags to celebrate and defend our republican traditions, and not allow GOP bastards to cast this as an "anti-American event".

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Jenn-O'Lantern Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 23h

Thiel visited Milei in Argentina 3 times in 2024. From Thiel's @wikipedia.org page:

Sources:
www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

www.nodal.am/2025/08/arge...

"He visited president of Argentina and fellow libertarian Javier Milei three times in 2024. The Noticias de América Latina y el Caribe (NODAL) remarks that the cooperation between Thiel and Milei marks the political alignment between Argentina and Washington and Silicon Valley, also through organizations like Endeavor. According to NODAL, the introduction of Argentina into Thiel's network is erasing traditional politics while promoting a tech-based order which increases efficiency but also puts sovereignty at stake."

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