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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 4h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Lena Stolze from the film The White Rose (1982)

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The B-Movie Vault @thebmovievault.bsky.social · 6h

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 5h

The power of jazz compels you.

Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 2d

Photo: Richard Cahan evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/04/b...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

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Charles Mok @charlesmok.bsky.social · 10h

China Punishes ‘Excessively Pessimistic’ Social Media Users
As China struggles with economic discontent, internet censors are silencing those who voice doubts about work or marriage, or simply sigh too loudly online.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...

China Punishes ‘Excessively Pessimistic’ Social Media Users

www.nytimes.com

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 9h

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 9h

Remember the claim that we couldn't force a rush to renewables too soon, because it just wouldn't be fair to "developing nations" (i.e. the global majority world)? Welp, turns out they're willing and eager to get in on renewables, and are doing really, really well with them. So.

Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 10h

"However, Ember says the headlines mask a mixed global picture.

Developing countries, especially China, led the clean energy charge but richer nations including the US and EU relied more than before on planet-warming fossil fuels for electricity generation." 2/2
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Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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bmaz @bmaz.bsky.social · 9h

Is Trump going to have Americans extrajudicially executed in their homes?

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

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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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 17h

Fair call.

Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 19h

If you haven't been paying attention to the Palestine Action protest arrests in the UK, you may not realize how truly absurd things have become.

Here's a good example: You can be arrested for holding up a magazine because its cover shows the sign, "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."

Pro-Palestine protester arrested for holding up magazine at train station

A man has been arrested for holding up a magazine cover amid pro-Palestine protests in London.

www.thenational.scot

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

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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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 18h

It isn't just that you can't express verbal support for Palestine Action. You may also not even be free to simply question the government's decision to ban it. This is the most basic political expression — challenging how leaders govern. And yet.

Rick @rick-sco.bsky.social · 18h

Yeh, you can't even disagree with the action of declaring Palestine Action a terrorist group. Pretty sure they will just try to arrest anyone with the words Action & Palestine in what they deem to be the wrong order at this point. Some politicians are really in need of swift replacement.

Woman 'arrested' over 'I oppose proscription of Palestine Action' sign

A PROTESTER has claimed she was arrested for holding a sign saying “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”.

www.thenational.scot

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 18h

In Trump's America, you're an order of magnitude more likely to get attacked on the street by ICE and the National Guard than by any foreign gang member.

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Jeppe Mulich @jmulich.bsky.social · 17h

"Myanmar, where the UN estimates 40% of the population needs humanitarian assistance and which once counted the US as its largest humanitarian donor. Now ... it has become the epicenter of the suffering unleashed upon the world’s most vulnerable by President Trump’s dismantling of USAID."

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 19h

Kim Deal singing "AH-LA-LA-LA! AH-LA-LA-LA! AH-LA-LA-LA! AH-LA-LA-LA!" during the chorus of this song is truly one of the greatest moments in rock'n'roll history.

Hello from the Lantau sticks. This is dEFROG-FM. Let's ride the tiger.

Pixies - River Euphrates (single version)

YouTube video by Sorbet Poire

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 21h

Framed - One Frame Challenge #310
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Oh, that. I've seen it, but it's been awhile and I don't remember that scene specifically.

Framed - One Frame Challenge

Guess the movie from a single frame. Every guess reveals more of the frame. Come back each day to see if you can guess the movie!

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 21h

Framed #1307
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Educated guess. Never seen it.

Framed - The daily movie guessing game

Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed!

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 21h

While the censorship part is of course not good, what's more interesting to me is that OFNAA refuses to say which films they banned, and what scenes needed to be cut/altered from the ones they eventually approved. Don't want ppl figuring out ways to sneak around the invisible red lines, I guess? 🤷

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 1d

A total of 50 films have been required to be edited, and 13 titles have not been approved for screening on national security grounds since HK amended the Film Censorship Ordinance in 2021, according to authorities. In full: buff.ly/roPWvdO

HK bars 13 films from screening on nat. sec grounds since 2021 censorship law

A total of 50 films have been required to be edited, and 13 titles have not been approved for screening on national security grounds since HK amended the Film Censorship Ordinance in 2021, according to...

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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 23h

There's a ton of obstacles to pulling this off, but I don't see any good coming from any version of this.

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: As Linda McMahon guts the Dept. of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how future kids will learn -- seeking to dismantle the public school system in favor of private and Christian schools or homeschooling.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 1d

With the Hong Kong Observatory registering a temperature of 33.1°C today, 2025 marks the first time in Hong Kong’s recorded history there were at least 4 “very hot days” in the month of October which the mercury rose above 33°C

(Chart by @kjoules.org) Hong Kong, Very Hot Days in October (in which the temperature exceeded 33C), 1884-present

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 23h

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.”

@theguardian.com

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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John Carpenter's dEFR🎃G @defrog.bsky.social · 1d

One additional takeaway from this is that it's still technically possible to stage a protest in Hong Kong – provided (1) it's a small group and (2) you're criticising the policy of a completely different country that China isn't a solid ally with.

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 1d

A group of Hong Kong activists marched in Tsim Sha Tsui on Tuesday to condemn Israel’s war on Gaza and to call for a ceasefire, marking two years since the latest conflict in the Palestinian territory began.

In full: buff.ly/9AMvHLf

Photos: James Lee/HKFP.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New from 404 Media: police used a nationwide network of Flock cameras to search for a woman who self-administered an abortion, said it was for her 'safety'. But new docs show they considered charging her with a crime as part of a 'death investigation' into the fetus
www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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