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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 3h

Apparently Democracy Dies in the Darkness stuff from WaPo was all posturing.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 9h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 3h

Fairly certain we had a zil...

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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 3h

Lidingö bron

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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 4h

Funny. Was it really reliable?

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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 4h

Krasnoyarsk people in the 80s had a joke about "fridge Biryuza, with vertical takeoff and landing." These fridges were produced at a factory that also made rocket compressors, if I remember correctly.

WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 5h

In Novosibirsk, Russia, a fire broke out at the premises of ZAO "Zavod Pripoyev," a plant specializing in electronics and microchip production, repair and assembly of electrical devices, and work for the defense industry (soldering components for weapons, communications, and radio electronics).

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

The original version of the book said that Epstein was involved in introducing Melania to her beloved husband.

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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 5h

Fascists

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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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 11h

”A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030.”

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

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.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 10h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 6h

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Csilla Gal @cgal.bsky.social · 8h

Also, bsky.app/profile/nycs...

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10h

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 7h

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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 9h

"separating them by race"

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 22h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 15h

doomscroll break

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Göran Rosenberg @goranrosenberg.bsky.social · 16h

My book "Israel, a Personal History" is now out. Here a first review. "In a powerful account of his growing disenchantment with his parent’s conception of Israel as a utopia for Jews, Rosenberg presents Zionism as a flawed vision with a tragic aspect."
publicseminar.org/2025/10/a-lo...

A Lost Utopia - Public Seminar

Göran Rosenberg dismantles myths of Zionism and traces Israel’s history from utopian ideals to nationalist violence, writes Coleson Smith.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2d

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 1d

Narcissistic psycho.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Schiff: This is supposed to be an oversight hearing when dozens of prosecutors have been fired simply because they worked on cases investigating the former president.

Bondi: What about the fires in California? Are the riots in LA serious?

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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 1d

In this specific way, US just became like Sweden. I guess itakes sense since the new clueless head of ACIP is Swedish.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have created new obstacles for many people seeking Covid vaccines. But it has been particularly difficult to secure shots for children, including infants and toddlers, who are at higher risk of severe illness from Covid even if they are healthy.

Parents Struggle to Find Covid Vaccines for Their Children Amid Regulatory Confusion

Children under 12 need different versions of Covid vaccines, but many pharmacies and pediatricians’ offices aren’t stocking them.

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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 1d

It's quite ok if one doesn't breathe while eating it.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2d

Holy shit. As someone who teaches global public health & policy, I find this absolutely chilling. It’s *impossible* to teach this topic without discussing politics, conflicts, social determinants of health, power, equity, disparities, colonialism & neocolonialism….

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

"Along with the termination, Tulane altered the course’s syllabus, removing the article, a Harvard School of Public Health discussion about the resurgence of polio in Gaza."

My alma mater continues to embarrass. Public Health students learning public health?
oh no
lailluminator.com/2025/10/06/t...

Tulane changes syllabus, fires academic manager over Gaza article • Louisiana Illuminator

Some say that the incident is yet another glimpse of the tense climate experienced on local and national campuses by people who support Palestine.

lailluminator.com

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 1d

This guy is in charge of US health care.

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