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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 1h

Mass shootings by year and country.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 14h

Chicago PD: arrest these motherfuckers threatening civilians. Put them in jail. Let the courts sort it out

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 3h

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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Honor Laois 🦘📎🍉 #auspol @honorlaoiss.bsky.social · 7h

theconversation.com/renewables-h...

Renewables have now passed coal globally – and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal

Even as clean energy progress slows in the US and EU, developing nations such as Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives are surging ahead.

theconversation.com

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jakey762.bsky.social @jakey762.bsky.social · 3h

They are afraid of her youth and activism combining.
Much like 60 years ago, Jane Fonda got the same level of vitriol, if not downright hate.
The young being engaged in activism scares the hell out of certain powers that be. They want them malleable, not resistive.
See: "manufacturing consent"

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gracepeace @gracepeace.bsky.social · 3h

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jasoncampbell617.bsky.social @jasoncampbell617.bsky.social · 4h

Is everyone seeing now how he's just a figurehead and it's those around him actually running things? He's no interest in running the country, never did. It was all about staying out of jail and making money. The Heritage Foundation and Co. ending democracy to empower corporate control of a nation.

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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 5h

The good news is that if he declares martial law we'll probably get an early heads-up because somebody will hand him a note saying "you're declaring martial law"

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Evette Dionne (Mostly on Threads) @freeblackgirl.bsky.social · 10h

I am Black American. My people were enslaved, segregated, and degraded for hundreds of years. There was a time when it was considered politically untenable to abolish slavery and legally dismantle Jim Crow. It got done. So, yes, a free Palestine is a political possibility. It is inevitable.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 15h

This is about far more than Trump potentially being incriminated as a paedophile.

It is about burying long-standing links between Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein, the Kremlin & Mossad.

Kompromat & blackmail was the Epstein business model, and it reaches deep into global politics.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 4h

Barbaric Israel
Destruction with impunity
#alanmoir on this genocidal hypocrisy

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 15d

At Hacked Off HQ we're eagerly awaiting the first episode of The Hack - showing on ITV tomorrow, 9pm.

Spoiler alert.... we also plan to make the most of the moment. 👀 #WatchThisSpace

www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/t...

Jacqui Hames - Hacked Off Trustee, and victim of phone hacking - infront of an ITV advert showing David Tennant and Robert Carlyle - actors - in the programme The Hack.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 4h

israelpalestinenews.org/us-has-given...

US has given $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel since 2023

A new study says the US has provided at least $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel since the Gaza war began, revealing the growing cost of US involvement.

israelpalestinenews.org

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 5h

This dude lives in isolation, reportedly has no cell phone, a 24/7 security detail and even had white-noise devices installed on his office windows to block laser based eavesdropping.

He's also the CEO of one of the most invasive surveillance companies in the US? Irony much?

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Jace @rapturedemon.bsky.social · 1d

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 1d

once again asking all surveys to include an "anything else you would like to tell us" at the end because I guarantee you I will have helpful* thoughts on your questionnaire design

*YMMV, but then again YMM be wrong, particularly if all your fave questions have "never heard of" but not "no opinion"

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 8h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 5h

Fascists and resisters from every epoch

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GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 6h

Again

This Labor government is moving to the right quicker than Mark Latham can lose his temper. (GF)

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 7h

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 "broken" and outdated environment laws.

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 "broken" and outdated environment laws.

www.abc.net.au

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

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🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 17h

Zach Bryan new song ‘Bad News’

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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 5h

Photo to go in the history books!!

(If they’re still allowed)
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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 15h

We at The Steady State have studied the indicators of authoritarianism for decades — usually dry words in intelligence reports. But sometimes, a single photograph says it all.

Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once. It creeps in under cover of “order,” cloaked in uniforms, justified by fear.

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 15h

We at The Steady State have studied the indicators of authoritarianism for decades — usually dry words in intelligence reports. But sometimes, a single photograph says it all.

Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once. It creeps in under cover of “order,” cloaked in uniforms, justified by fear.

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