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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social · 2h

"My estimate was, at the time of the trial, it was going to be many millions of dollars. I understand that we may or may not have a costs hearing to go through. I know our external costs at this point are now more than $2.5 million" $5m defending the indefensible
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

ABC spent more than $2.5m defending legal action from Antoinette Lattouf

A Federal Court judge found the ABC breached the Fair Work Act when it removed the journalist and broadcaster from the air during a five-day radio presenting contract.

www.abc.net.au

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 9h

The Atlantic is edited by a former Israeli prison camp guard and has a senior columnist/contributor who is accused of writing secret speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN.

The state of the elite US media when it comes to Palestine.
zeteo.com/subscribe

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20h

According to hacked emails obtained by @dropsitenews.com, 'journalist' Douglas Murray was allegedly writing secret draft speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN while also pretending to be an independent 'journalist'.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20h

According to hacked emails obtained by @dropsitenews.com, 'journalist' Douglas Murray was allegedly writing secret draft speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN while also pretending to be an independent 'journalist'.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13h

At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 13h

So much of political discourse now, across the West, boils down to "Be realistic, our policies have to have SOME evil in them!"

And if you say "No they don't", you're a dangerous extremist.

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Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social · 17h

Or maybe scrapping REF as a thinly disguised performance management tool?

Chris Parr @chrisjparr.bsky.social · 1d

Risk-averse universities “hindering REF performance” by ignoring non-traditional research.

Institutions should “pull their socks up”, @nataliejessic10.bsky.social tells the 2025 Hidden REF Festival (@hiddenref.bsky.social).

Free to read: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Risk-averse universities ‘hindering own REF performance’ - Research Professional News

Hidden REF Festival: Institutions urged to “pull their socks up” and submit more non-traditional outputs

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social · 17h

Always use @brave browser for video, blocks Google crappy intrusive ads

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Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social · 17h

Heading down the Great Ocean Road to Marengo Friday - 3 metre surf & fisherman's blues
youtu.be/zuceIiM6vzk?...

Fisherman's Blues (2006 Remaster)

YouTube video by The Waterboys - Topic

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Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social · 18h

Avoiding the Crossrail cockup by running a limited service, then cranking up to full service in February. Doesn't really affect me as I will still tram into the CBD
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Victorians to get free weekend public transport over summer

Fares waived for weekend trams, trains and buses for two months after years of Metro Tunnel-related disruptions

www.theguardian.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 20h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 22h

Here’s video of the incident

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 18h

The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk on.ft.com/46EWow2 | opinion

The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk

The esteemed club risks becoming a bystander as reason and rationality come under attack

on.ft.com

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 18h

We are in late-stage authoritarian media takeover.

Fox and CNN are owned/controlled by rightwing billionaires.
Twitter and Truth Social
WSJ and WaPo
CBS and ABC
Newsweek, Sinclair, now Tegna; TikTok getting close.

We are far along in the Putin-mold media takeover plan.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 18h

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly.

It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.

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Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social · 20h

Does the Senate have any sense of propriety to defend its members?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump posts that Sen. Blumenthal “should be allowed to speak no longer”

Sanctimonious Richard “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, perhaps the biggest “joke” in the United States Senate, is at it again! “Dick” lied until the midpoint of his political career, convincing everyone, in particular the Fake News Media, that he was a great “War Hero” who lived on the precipice of death in the jungles of Vietnam. He would talk about his life in the military in almost every speech, in particular the death defying dangers he faced in his many years “fight for freedom” while in Vietnam. He stated that “the battles were violent and long, but there was no going back” - And then it happened, Blumenthal was found out to be a FRAUD. The soldiers in his so-called “platoon” came forward and said that they had no idea who this guy was. He was revealed, broke down and admitted, tears flowing from his eyes, that he LIED, a Whopper, one that lasted 20 year. This guy shouldn’t even be in the U.S. Senate. It should be investigated, and Justice should be sought. Right now there is a Congressman sitting in prison for lying about his past during a campaign. Well, those lies were nothing compared to those of Richard “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, perhaps the greatest phony in the history of the United States Senate. He should be allowed to speak no longer!

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 5d

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!

COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.

Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.

How did that happen?🧵

sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done!

The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?

sciencebasedmedicine.org

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Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social · 1d

He truly is turning into the living embodiment of Sir Les Paterson, but this time as tragedy

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 1d

Looking forward to giving the keynote at this very cool conference in New York City next month along with so many other comrades-in-luddism — New Luddism: Technology and Resistance in the Modern Workplace

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d

The death of journalists in Gaza constitutes the worst crime against journalism in living memory, yet the NPC has never asked a speaker to address it.
Now they’ve cancelled the person who proposed speaking about it.

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