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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 1h

FLOTILLA INTERCEPTIONS CONTINUE: Israel succeeds in ensuring more children can die faster:

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the flotilla’s efforts “another futile attempt to breach the naval blockade” illegally intercepted in international waters.

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Gaza ceasefire talks intensify as key Trump advisers join negotiations | CNN

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to land in Egypt today.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19h

Our democracy has hundreds and hundreds of statutes designed to protect children, indeed specifically to protect children from adults who would abuse them from either inside their family or outside of it. The idea that government should *not* protect kids against abuse is wholly novel and dangerous.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19h

The reason this therapy is used on kids is because it's often abusive, coercive, manipulative and dangerous—no kid would choose it if they had adult faculties, making Justices' claims that the therapy is "voluntary" profoundly misleading. And the idea that therapy has no medical component is insane.

Supreme Court’s conservative majority prepared to rule against conversion therapy ban | CNN Politics

A majority of the Supreme Court signaled Tuesday it is prepared to rule against Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” for minors, with several justices indicating they sympathize with a licensed coun...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18h

This photo of red troops from Texas invading Illinois over a fake emergency is raising some significant questions for those who watched the televised address Pete Kegstand gave to hundreds of generals, admirals and commanders recently, a speech that already lives in infamy as the "No Fatties Speech"

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 17h

So when exactly is this event appertaining???
Asking for a friend...

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration plans to mint a $1 coin featuring Trump’s image, yet another illegal move. This violates the 1866 law, which states that only deceased individuals may appear on U.S. currency.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19h

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 21h

U.N. refugee commission head suggests that U.S. deportation practices violate international law.

"national sovereignty and the right to seek asylum "are not incompatible. They are complementary."

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U.N. refugee commission head suggests that U.S. deportation practices violate international law

Filippo Grandi, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, also criticized a wider "backlash" in some countries against migrants and refugees.

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 22h

Some say that when a person dies, "only love will remain".

I guess only love will remain.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

No indication yet from major media that the FBI has any interest whatsoever in investigating this apparent attempted assassination of a well-known judge openly targeted on social media by the far-right activist—Harmeet Dhillon—currently calling herself Assistant Attorney General of the United States

Beachfront home of South Carolina judge, ex-senator burned to ground, injuring 3

Ex-senator Arnold Goodstein, along with two additional people, were rescued by several neighbors and paramedics from a marshy, remote area behind the home after jumping from the fist floor.

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 22h

"We were shocked by the level of humiliation & gratuitous cruelty."

“People coming from countries that are not allied (with Israel) were harmed physically,” Example, a Turkish citizen's (another activist) "arm was broken & he was left without painkillers for two days.”

www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/m...

Returning Gaza flotilla activists claim mistreatment in Israeli detention, fear for remaining prisoners | CNN

An Italian activist who was part of the Gaza aid flotilla and subsequently detained by Israel has described allegations of being mistreated and humiliated while in Israeli custody, with little access ...

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 22h

ICE

Déjà vu

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 23h

NETANYAHU HAS DESTROYED BOTH GAZA & ISRAEL

Global outrage after 2yrs of annhiliation in Gaza.

Jewish Activists (KUDOS) want intl community to sanction & isolate Israel “stop the genocide, end decades-long Zionist apartheid regime"

"The govt isnt going to stop; we call on the world to boycott us”

Global outrage has grown after two years of bombardment in Gaza. In Israel, it is a different story | CNN

On a hot Friday morning in September, dozens of Israelis turned up at Gaza’s border fence – not as soldiers, but as dissenters. Their demand: an end to the siege they say is being carried out in their...

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 1d

Beyond the Nobel Prizes Is a World of Scientific Awards:

Nobels are awarded in only three scientific categories, but other awards honor researchers across different fields. A trove of prestigious awards has emerged to honor work in other fields.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/s...

Beyond the Nobel Prizes Is a World of Scientific Awards

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 1d

5 Nobel-worthy scientific advances that haven’t (yet!) won the prize...

www.cnn.com/2025/10/04/s...

5 Nobel-worthy scientific advances that haven’t won the prize | CNN

Innovative obesity drugs. Quantum computing bits. A cystic fibrosis treatment. The scientists behind these discoveries could be among the 2025 Nobel Prize winners.

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 1d

Also on PD:

An industrial chemical may be linked to a higher risk of Parkinson's.

Trichloroethylene (TCE) is used in metal degreasing & dry cleaning. Even tho it has been banned for some uses, its still used as an industrial solvent & lingers in air, soil & water across the US.

The invisible chemical in the air that could be raising Parkinson’s risk

A massive nationwide study has linked long-term exposure to the industrial chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) with a higher risk of Parkinson’s disease in older adults. Researchers examined over 1.1 mil...

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 1d

Ingenious new approach to perhaps preventing Parkinson's / halting early disease

Scientists Halt Toxic Brain Protein: by making it stay in its healthy state (using anti-clumping mechanism).

I adore research that stops with the accrual of add-on trivia down estd lines that have yielded nothing.

Scientists Halt Toxic Brain Protein Behind Parkinson’s in Landmark Study

Researchers have designed a peptide that stabilizes a key brain protein linked to Parkinson’s. Scientists from the University of Bath, working with colleagues at the Universities of Oxford and Bristol...

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 1d

NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE: scientists who discovered Regulatory T Cells

Critically impt work - IMHO not yet leveraged 'properly' in most immunological disease states due to focusing on JUST the T.Regs & NOT T.Regs within an entire SYSTEM & dynamic system at that...

Gratz

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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to trio of scientists for discovering how the immune system is kept in check | CNN

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our bodie...

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, exactly. Long-term strategizing, immense investment, & when that doesn't cut it, there's alwaays Israeli Intelligence to leverage. That & weaponizing anti-Semitism - thereby controlling police enforcements globally... while using anti-Semitism as a weapon is itself as anti-Semitic as it gets.

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 1d

To get the Skydance merger deal, CBS agreed to hire a new ombudsman of "correct" content: a former Trump official.

CBS News now has an Editor-In-Chief, Bari Weiss hired to make “news reflect reality”.

The new monolith now seeks to acquire Warner Bros/Discovery/CNN/HBO.

From tinyurl.com/rspb67um

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

She had no less than seven holes in her body from the shooting.

Martinez is a US citizen.

ICE agents shot a US citizen on US soil at least seven times. Her car was riddled with bullets.

I'm glad she's been released pending trial, but surely the agent who shot her should face charges?

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 1d

Fellow flotilla activists are alleging Greta Thunberg was horrifically mistreated in Israeli detention.

If this is how Israel treats a high-profile detainee like Greta Thunberg, I want you to consider how they treat Palestinian detainees.

You don’t have to imagine it. It’s been widely documented:

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thurnberg:
The whole world knows that these Israeli war crimes did not start on Oct 7, 2023. Depriving Palestinians of their basic rights as people, their ability to survive, rights of children...

And they have been able to act with impunity, help & "legitmization" by our governments...

Michael de Jong @sprakeloos.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg after being released #FreedomFlotilla

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 1d

It's not my prediction....

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 1d

Just so we don't start smoothing over what this adult woman did to make all this possible - along with the participation.

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