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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 2h

The Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan is the kind of organization that *should* receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Absolutely fantastic work that should be a model for civil society and humanitarian work everywhere.

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 5h

we were wrong about the Nobel peace prize but here’s some more about the emergency response rooms anyway news.un.org/en/story/202...

Youth-led ‘emergency rooms’ shine rays of hope in war-torn Sudan

With the war in Sudan triggering widespread violence and instability, youth-driven emergency response rooms (ERRs) are among a growing number of community-led initiatives reaching vulnerable civilians...

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1h

in fact it is more exciting

Is being a Guardian reporter as exciting as the movies make out?

Keira Knightley cuts a more glamorous figure than most Guardian staff in her new film The Woman in Cabin 10, while Tennant is a dead ringer for star reporter Nick Davies. But how convincing are they?

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1h

trying to imagine an Obama appointee saying that an Arab nation was setting up a military facility on our soil and picturing the size of the boat Hegseth could buy solely from Fox News appearances attacking it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 2h

Never a good idea to remind customers that you actually still own the thing they thought they bought.

Ryan McManus @ryantomorrow.bsky.social · 3h

Tesla pulls an Apple U2. electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...

Tesla pushes Tron: Ares ad inside its cars, upsetting owners

Tesla has partnered with its recent foe, Disney, to promote its latest movie, Tron: Ares, with an in-car update that...

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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 3h

A Community Burdened by Chemical Waste Is Demanding Cancer Data. Texas Health Officials Won’t Give It to Them. Public Health Watch publichealthwatch.org/2025/10/09/t...

A Community Burdened by Chemical Waste Is Demanding Cancer Data. Texas Health Officials Won’t Give It to Them. - Public Health Watch

Last year, state epidemiologists studied an industrialized region east of Houston. They reported finding high rates of cancer, but refused to release key geographic details — a decision some experts s...

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Philip Ardagh @philipardagh.bsky.social · 4h

AI DEEPFAKE OF ME SPEWING RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA.
This is very disturbing because, with the exception of the moving image of me at the beginning of my segment, the words and images are not mine. My voice is AI generated and - I assume - sounds very like me. (I can't hear the join) Disgraceful.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Also featured in the latest batch of Russian disinformation videos are comedian @geoffnorcott.bsky.social and children's author @philipardagh.bsky.social, again with their voices being deepfaked to attack Armenia.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

For God’s Sake, Democrats: Don’t Cave!

They’re widely, and rightly, perceived as weak. The shutdown fight is their chance to shock us for a change.

For God’s Sake, Democrats: Don’t Cave

They’re widely, and rightly, perceived as weak. The shutdown fight is their chance to shock us for a change.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 3h

There was never going to be a moment when everyone—everyone in government, everyone in media, everyone in the population—was roused to action at the same time. We're turning a battleship. And Pritzker understands that.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

They’re really in a full press moment with this nonsense.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

And yes, they're trying to intimidate us but Pritzker's right -- everyone needs to be out in numbers at these events.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

The House Majority Whip is also insisting that a peaceful "No Kings" demonstration is in fact a "hate America rally" held for the "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Really feels like they're trying to manifest a violent reaction to it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 4h

MIT rejects this compact ... meanwhile Brown ... "seeks community input" so says President Paxson ...

www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

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siobhan @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 3h

note that this happened after immense pressure from students and workers at MIT, including a press conference planned for later today

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MIT CAMPUS ORGS DEMAND:
NO TRUMP
COMPACT FOR MIT!
Trump's proposed academic compact fundamentally violates core principles of higher education and academic freedom.
This is a critical moment for all higher education institutions to defend basic civil rights and free speech.
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list of collaborators on previous post including BGSA, TransMIT, MIT AAI, MITLCC, MITGAASA, and MIT GSU

EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE
TELL THE MIT CORPORATION:
NO TRUMP COMPACT
FOR MITI
In an unprecedented move, the government called on MIT and 8 other universities to exchange our civil liberties, academic freedom, and campus culture for federal favor and preferential funding. Come show MIT we won't stand for this!
WHERE: STEPS OF LOBBY 7
WHEN: FRIDAY 1-2 PM
WHO: ALL MIT COMMUNITY
+ PRESS
AND FIND US IN LOBBY lO FROM 10-4 THURS AND 10-12:30 FRI
TO SIGN ON TO THE PETITION!

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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 4h

MIT rejects federal compact:

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

MIT Rejects Proposed Federal Compact

MIT is the first institution to reject a proposal by the Trump administration that would trade preferential treatment on federal funding in exchange for far-reaching changes.

www.insidehighered.com

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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 5h

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 5h

MIT’s reply to Trumps shocking attack on education is a master class in deft rhetorical communication and positioning. It refutes without ceding ground. It negates without naming the charge. It accuses and rejects while sounding compliant. What a breath of fresh air after endless disappointments

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 5h

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4h

Honestly it was like

This just in: The prize went to a democracy activist, not the guy murdering random people in the Caribbean Sea

[Touches earpiece]

The democracy activist says they're glad the guy murdered random people in the Caribbean Sea. Now they're dedicating the prize to the murder guy.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4h

damn did I wake up and get milkshake ducked by the Nobel Prize Committee

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4h

I had incredibly low expectations for our broken brunchlord press when kakistocratic authoritarianism came knocking, but every single day they demonstrate I still somehow over-estimated them

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 5h

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face:

Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown

Marc Rowan

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4h

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When Klein scolds that "we have to live here with each other" he is making a statement about who it is he is getting ready to live with and who he is getting ready to live without, and most gallingly he is ignoring the fact that when it comes to supremacists all of us have been living with them already all along. Nobody is suggesting mass deportation of white supremacists, or the dissolution of straight marriages, or stripping away health care for conservatives. The troops and the cops weren't ever sent down primarily white streets, masked kidnappers aren't terrorizing white churches or corporate courtrooms. These supremacist hatemongers are being criticized, yes, and opposed, yes, and yes the culture of violence they have created sometimes ricochets back on them, but we are living in the country they demanded on having. We are all now experiencing the Republican proposition for humanity. Many of us are demanding they stop pursuing this proposition, and Republicans and other supremacist hatemongers insist this demand represents violence against them. Klein, by drawing the lines where he draws them, is agreeing with Republicans about this.

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 20h

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