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Christopher Wright @chriswrightau.bsky.social · 1h

Charlie Kirk: The Manufactured “Boy Wonder” of the Right: brentmolnar.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

🧴🐍 Charlie Kirk: The Manufactured “Boy Wonder” of the Right

The myth goes something like this.

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Christopher Wright @chriswrightau.bsky.social · 1h

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children in Gaza killed by Israel: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 9h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5h

ICE shot a clergy member in the head in broad daylight.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) @accr.bsky.social · 5h

Prof Christian Downie points to the Business Council of Australia and News Corp newspapers as examples of deliberate obstruction. A playbook honed over decades around the world by fossil fuel interests. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Media and political attacks on Australia’s emissions targets ‘straight out of the climate obstruction playbook’, expert says

Prof Christian Downie points to the Business Council of Australia and News Corp newspapers as examples of deliberate obstruction

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 5h

" #India plans to increase its coal power capacity by 46% from 210 GW currently to 307 GW by 2035"

##ClimateEmergency

Indian states sign more coal power deals to meet rising demand

Indian states are signing new long-term deals for coal power. This is to meet rising evening electricity demand. This comes as clean energy capacity grows. States like Uttar Pradesh and Assam are seek...

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 4h

"Without aggressive and concrete efforts to curb carbon dioxide pollution, most of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh will by the end of the century experience temperature levels well beyond those considered safe for humans"

#ClimateEmergency

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

On rare occasion there’s an accurate headline about rapid climate warming
and it’s always jarring as hell
and a reminder how much we’re being lied to on a daily basis.

Headline reading “Atlantic current at risk of collapse - plunging U.K. into never ending winter”

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 2d

All the journalists who rushed to lionize Kirk and decry political violence are gonna get right on this, right?

Right?

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”

Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

this feels like forty years ago but it was 2023

www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Stephen Miller—both Trump Administration capo and de facto head of DHS, ICE, and DOJ, has just declared that peaceful protesters are "street terrorists." Under an executive order signed by Trump just days ago, that means he is saying that all protesters in America can be arrested on sight.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d

This is what you do when you're losing.

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2d

Netanyahu: "We have to fight back. How do we fight back? Our influencers."

"[I]nfluencers are likely being paid around $7,000 per post on social media such as Tik Tok and Instagram on behalf of Israel."
#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #USA #Genocide

Influencers Are Being Paid $7K Per Post to Boost Pro-Israel Social Media Content

“We have to fight back. How do we fight back? Our influencers," said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Christopher Wright @chriswrightau.bsky.social · 3d

When you can’t tell the so-called “liberals” from the fascists…

Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 3d

Van Jones repeats “dead Gaza baby” as a punch line. New York Times columnistThomas Friedman laughs along.

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Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 3d

Van Jones repeats “dead Gaza baby” as a punch line. New York Times columnistThomas Friedman laughs along.

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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 3d

Van Jones sucks so bad, this time floating this risible conspiracy theory that the endless images of dead Palestinian children are a TikTok psyop by Iran and Qatar to brainwash American youth. Just complete fucking gibberish. Embarrassing and desperate.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

As Israel continues the genocidal onslaught, Van Jones just blamed Iran/Qatar “disinformation” for why the world has turned on Israel — and ignores Bibi’s recent admission they plan to take over and weaponize TikTok themselves.

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 3d

Yet another reminder that the fight for #climate action is also the fight against fascism and genocide.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 3d

"No doubt, the corporate sponsors and wealthy donors of the press club are pleased. No doubt, the club is able to slither away from its journalistic integrity.

"But please, have the decency to remove the word press from your club."
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Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists

The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 4d

#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #america #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #capitalismkills #killCapitalism #capitalism #abolishcapitalism #fuckcapitalism #SocialJustice #ethics #ClassConsciousness #WokeAF #FalseConsciousness

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 4d

Hmm. With solar energy, the big explosions take place 93 million miles away

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d

A fireball lit up the sky across the Los Angeles area on Thursday night after an explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, alarming nearby residents who said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the explosion was not clear. No injuries were reported. nyti.ms/42pPCaW

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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 4d

#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #america #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #capitalismkills #killCapitalism #capitalism #abolishcapitalism #fuckcapitalism #SocialJustice #ethics #ClassConsciousness #WokeAF #FalseConsciousness

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 4d

The only violence in Portland is being committed by ICE, almost all of it unprovoked as they try to create the violence they claim exists in that peaceful city 🤬🤬🤬

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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 4d

There may be some progress in using SAFs, but this story is more about admitting defeat than moving forward.

‘This is real progress’: airlines on sustainable aviation fuels and the chances of net zero flying

The EU and UK have imposed mandates, and investors see its value – but the industry has mixed views

www.theguardian.com

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 4d

Aside from all the other obvious points it strikes me as particularly cringeworthy to feel you need to put your own face on BOTH sides of the coin

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4d

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

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