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Forbes @forbes.com · 16h

The 900 companies on this year's list of the top global employers offer employees generous benefits, career growth opportunities and a healthy work-life balance.

Meet The World’s Best Employers 2025

The 900 companies on this year's list of the top global employers offer employees generous benefits, career growth opportunities and a healthy work-life balance.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 5h

📌I am not a religious man, but I stand with this man, and against the most grotesque man on earth, and the broken, immoral people who worship him.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 8h

When Labor and Liberals sit down to settle environment laws, there is an invisible but powerful presence in the room with them: the fossil fuel lobby.

Exhibit Z on how the 'two-party system' is so toxic for the national interest. #ClimateCrisis #auspol

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 9h

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 13h

Amazing to see solar generate a record 39% of California’s electricity from January through July. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Solar is crushing gas power in California this year

The state’s combination of solar and battery plants has pushed clean generation of electricity to new heights, offering a welcome reprieve from high gas…

www.canarymedia.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14h

there is a government shutdown with no end in sight and it’s not even really the lead story rn because the president can’t stop invading American cities for no reason other than spite

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 6h

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson this week signed an executive order banning ICE agents from using city-owned property, such as parking lots, as staging grounds for the agency’s raids.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 12h

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Indigenous nations plan a tariff-free trade corridor across the US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

www.motherjones.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h

NEW: Comey is going to file selective and vindictive prosecution motion to dismiss AND he will challenge the legality of Halligan’s appointment! There’s more, too… so glad @annabower.bsky.social is there to bring us the whole story! Thread below with details:

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h

The judge also set an initial schedule for pre-trial motions.

The first set is expected by Oct. 12. Per Comey’s defense counsel, that batch will include motions to dismiss for selective and vindictive prosecution, as well as a motion challenging the legality of Halligan’s appointment as US attorney

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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 2h

The battery storage market is hot, dominating the CIS tenders and a record number of off-take agreements signed with power hungry consumers.

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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 2h

A lack of trust and complexity is making the idea of VPPs a very hard sell to the growing number of battery households, with only a tiny minority signing up.

reneweconomy.com.au

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 20h

Asking Home Affairs about staffing for the Special Envoys - the Antisemitism envoy has 5 FTE positions (6 staff) and the Islamophobia envoy is still recruiting 👀

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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 5h

I think it's fake.

THE FAMOUS PHOTO OF BIGFOOT WITH THE WORDS:
A RARE SIGHTING OF ANTIFA IN THE
WILDS OF WAR RAVAGED PORTLAND.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 13h

The documentary "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink," about how Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is gobbling up newspapers across America and gutting them, is available to watch on PBS.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 4h

Google blocked STI awareness ads as ‘adult content’, health estimates hears

Google blocked ads for a commonwealth funded STI awareness campaign, lessening its reach and raising costs, Larissa Waters has told health estimates.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 4h

Sad to see our governments trashing the joint!

John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 5h

Queensland government urged to take stronger action on conservation as number of threatened species rises www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Queensland government called out for 'not taking environment seriously'

The Queensland Conservation Council (QCC) has called out the LNP government for "not taking the environment seriously" with the number of flora and fauna species under threat on the rise.

www.abc.net.au

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 9h

This EPBC Act 2.0 vibe check fills me with deep dread.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 9h

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... "The government was unlikely to side with the Greens to see the laws passed...Coalition wants to ensure the final say on projects rests with the minister, not the EPA...Senator Watt said it was "unlikely" the government would include a (climate) trigger in the law..."

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 17h

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 5h

"Chicago isn't licking boots!

No hate no fear. Immigrants are welcome here. All power to the people.

No human is illegal.
No raids. No deportation. Down with the occupation!"

#HandsOffChicago #AbolishICE

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7h

This is truly horrifying.

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…with Antifa."

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 8h

I’m lucky that, in my family, though we’ve had disputes in the past, we now find ourselves inches apart, rather than chasms.

But I grieve deeply friendships lost. And a whole world lost. And the countless lives lost to a political ideology that claimed the mantle of religion and social identity.

Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 8h

Oh Sarah 😢

What a beautiful encapsulation of so much I feel.

“The danger was never difference; the danger was the oppression that demanded silence, that forbade questions, until even love could no longer be spoken.”

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

www.theguardian.com

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