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Dr.fedaa nadi @drfeda.bsky.social · 5h

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Finally i will sleep without any fear about my kids Finally I will take off my white medical coat and rest for a long time I would like to extend my sincerest thanks and gratitude to all of you for what you have done for me and my family I will remain grateful to you for as long as I live

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NPR @npr.org · 5h

A new poll shows trust in federal health policies is plummeting, and what -- or who -- people believe increasingly depends on their politics. n.pr/3KF1CiO

59% of Americans disapprove of RFK Jr.'s moves as health secretary, a new poll says

A new poll shows trust in federal health policies is plummeting, and what -- or who -- people believe increasingly depends on their politics.

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𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚙𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚎✩ @allmylovesteph.bsky.social · 9h

X is a propaganda machine.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 13h

Today, a question came up with a group of organizers I’m working with, some of whom are also lawyers, and it’s a serious inquiry:

Is anyone undertaking an effort to collect evidence that could eventually be used in a Nuremberg-style set of trials, or for a truth and reconciliation commission?

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 5h

🇺🇸 US President Donald Trump has called for the Democratic governor of Illinois and mayor of Chicago to be jailed for resisting his mass deportation campaign, a day after armed troops from Texas arrived in the state.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (left) and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

this is not good at all.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 15h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 14h

Retired professor VK Tripathi leaves his home in India’s New Delhi every day to hand out flyers about Israel's genocide in Gaza. Despite criticism and confrontations, he says he won’t stop speaking out against injustice.

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Sander ☕ @sander001.bsky.social · 1d

Kamala could have easily won if she listened to voters instead of billionaires.

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Corporate Donors Guided Kamala Harris to Defeat

Rich donors like Mark Cuban boasted about their success in shaping Kamala Harris’s campaign and inducing her to ditch progressive economic policies. We shouldn’t let them shrug off responsibility for ...

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CNN @cnn.com · 15h

TV host and painter Bob Ross has 30 original paintings going up for auction. All profits will go to US public TV and radio stations.

This comes after Congress cut funding in support of public broadcasting.

Read more: https://cnn.it/4q2EfzS

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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 16h

Comey’s Two Legal Challenges to His Indictment, Explained

A lawyer for the former F.B.I. director said he would accuse the Justice Department of malicious and selective prosecution and contend that a U.S. attorney was illegally appointed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Comey’s Two Legal Challenges to His Indictment, Explained

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 15h

Van Jones a few days ago said the reason people are pro-palestine is because of a paid propaganda campaign. Today, it was revealed he is mentoring young voices in pro-Israeli propaganda

www.dropsitenews.com/p/karsh-fell...

Breaking: CNN’s Van Jones is among 16 mainstream journalists—including two New York Times reporters—serving as mentors in a new journalism fellowship explicitly created to help Israel win its “information war.”

Drop Site’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports that Jacki Karsh, who launched the fellowship after October 7, said it was her way to “shift the narrative” in Israel’s favor, citing a call to fight “on the battlegrounds of academia, law, business, media” as inspiration. Karsh has praised the IDF as “the most moral army in the world” and dismissed Gaza’s casualty figures. NYT mentors include former Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren and Sharon Otterman, who covers campus protests.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 15h

It wasn't the genocide that freed the hostages.

It was a ceasefire deal.

Because the genocide was never about the hostages, no matter how much Netanyahu and his band of fucking fascists claim victory.

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Oftentimes Jack 🎃 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 10d

Ahmed reached out to me on whatsapp, they have nothing after their house was destroyed and they're in desperate need of $450. There are updates on his chuffed, you can imagine how panicked he is right now so please share and donate if you can.

chuffed.org/project/1426...

Help Ahmed and His Family Survive and Rebuild Their Lives

Hello everyone,

chuffed.org

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17h

We truly love to see this from superstar Lewis Hamilton.

Lewis Hamilton shares Greta Thunberg video in Insta story

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 17h

A federal judge in Chicago has found that ICE conducted numerous illegal warrantless arrests in Illinois and nearby states in defiance of a 2022 consent decree. It also prepared post hoc arrest rationales after the fact based on details agents "did not know at the time they made the arrests". /1

ICE Violated Consent Decree With Warrantless Arrests, Federal Judge In Chicago Says

Attorneys argued that the recent arrest of an Albany Park family at Millennium Park violated a consent decree that limits the conditions under which federal agents can make warrantless arrests.

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A S @leftlackpatience.bsky.social · 17h

What happened?!?!
No explanation.

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Plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking

Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment

www.independent.co.uk

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Politico @politico.com · 18h

Pope Leo XIV says he will "stand with" Catholic leaders in protecting immigrants facing mass deportations in the U.S., according to advocates who recently met with the Pope.

Pope Leo will ‘stand with’ Catholic leaders in protecting immigrants’ rights, advocates say

The comments from the pope mark the most recent push from the Vatican against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18h

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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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21h

Scientists have used low-error genome-sequencing methods in normal tissues from large cohorts of individuals to scan for mutations that set the stage for cancer

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Ultra-sensitive DNA sequencing maps mutations that precede cancer

Scientists have used low-error genome-sequencing methods in normal tissues from large cohorts of individuals to scan for mutations that set the stage for cancer.

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A S @leftlackpatience.bsky.social · 20h

How come the escalators are still running?

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 21h

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Oftentimes Jack 🎃 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 10d

Ahmed reached out to me on whatsapp, they have nothing after their house was destroyed and they're in desperate need of $450. There are updates on his chuffed, you can imagine how panicked he is right now so please share and donate if you can.

chuffed.org/project/1426...

Help Ahmed and His Family Survive and Rebuild Their Lives

Hello everyone,

chuffed.org

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A S @leftlackpatience.bsky.social · 20h

“Karsh has never publicly expressed any concern or sympathy for the tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, including over 20,000 children, the displacement of 95% of the population, the widening famine, the destruction of civilian infrastructure, homes…”

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21h

Full story:

www.dropsitenews.com/p/karsh-fell...

Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War”

Hardline Israel advocate Jacki Karsh says she founded the new journalism fellowship to help “shift some of the narrative” in Israel’s favor.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21h

Van Jones, two NYT journalists and Michael Powell (of The Atlantic, formerly NYT) are among 16 "scholars and journalists" serving as mentors for a journalism fellowship with the mission to "support a secure State of Israel,” and which the founder says exists to win an "information war."

Other fellowship mentors include CNN’s Van Jones, who recently issued an apology after drawing intense criticism for comments he made on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday making light of images of dead Palestinian children and saying they were part of an Iran and Qatar disinformation campaign; and Michael Powell, a staff writer at the Atlantic and a former national reporter at The New York Times, whose recent articles include “The Double Standard in the Human-Rights World,” that criticizes groups like Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders for becoming “stridently critical of Israel.”

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21h

Full story:

www.dropsitenews.com/p/karsh-fell...

Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War”

Hardline Israel advocate Jacki Karsh says she founded the new journalism fellowship to help “shift some of the narrative” in Israel’s favor.

www.dropsitenews.com

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A S @leftlackpatience.bsky.social · 1d

That was absolutely pathetic. Did KH apologize for that in her book tour?

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