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Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
December 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
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We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad.
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad.
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
Stop streaming ICE recruitment ads NOW!
The Trump administration has funneled billions of dollars into these dystopian ICE recruitment ads. Meanwhile, cities are being terrorized by ICE agents who are running rampant with abuses of power, s...
sign.moveon.org
November 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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"ICE has also purchased spyware in recent weeks that enables it to remotely hack into smartphones and extract data, even if the phones are locked or communication is over encrypted apps."
ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa
Iris scanners, facial recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"ICE has also purchased spyware in recent weeks that enables it to remotely hack into smartphones and extract data, even if the phones are locked or communication is over encrypted apps."
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SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees
Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.
www.aip.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
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I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
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Holy shit, the city of Atlanta government *can* still do yhings that actually help people
The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today.
The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert.
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert.
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
City of Atlanta opening grocery store to clear up downtown food desert
The Azalea Fresh Market opens on Friday.
www.wsbtv.com
August 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Holy shit, the city of Atlanta government *can* still do yhings that actually help people
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Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”
Cities:
Cities:
August 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”
Cities:
Cities:
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New: Flock, the ALPR company in thousands of U.S. communities and which ICE taps into, wants to partner with a firm that sells dashcams to ordinary drivers. Nexar gets "trillions" of images a month from the dashcams. Could turn cars into roaming surveillance devices www.404media.co/flock-wants-...
Flock Wants to Partner With Consumer Dashcam Company That Takes ‘Trillions of Images’ a Month
That dashcam in your car could soon integrate with Flock, the surveillance company providing license plate data to DHS and local police.
www.404media.co
August 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
New: Flock, the ALPR company in thousands of U.S. communities and which ICE taps into, wants to partner with a firm that sells dashcams to ordinary drivers. Nexar gets "trillions" of images a month from the dashcams. Could turn cars into roaming surveillance devices www.404media.co/flock-wants-...
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Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes
theonion.com/study-9...
theonion.com/study-9...
July 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes
theonion.com/study-9...
theonion.com/study-9...
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If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
June 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
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"America is not made, but is in the making. Mere passive citizenship is not enough. Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from those who are aggressive for what is wrong."
Robert M. La Follette, The Perils of Passive Citizenship speech, Washington, DC, August 11, 1924
Robert M. La Follette, The Perils of Passive Citizenship speech, Washington, DC, August 11, 1924
June 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"America is not made, but is in the making. Mere passive citizenship is not enough. Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from those who are aggressive for what is wrong."
Robert M. La Follette, The Perils of Passive Citizenship speech, Washington, DC, August 11, 1924
Robert M. La Follette, The Perils of Passive Citizenship speech, Washington, DC, August 11, 1924
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more seriously there's too much breathless reporting on the Vatican, which treats it like American politics
it isn't. it's more like Italian politics, which are infinitely more chaotic and weird
it isn't. it's more like Italian politics, which are infinitely more chaotic and weird
May 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
more seriously there's too much breathless reporting on the Vatican, which treats it like American politics
it isn't. it's more like Italian politics, which are infinitely more chaotic and weird
it isn't. it's more like Italian politics, which are infinitely more chaotic and weird
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ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!
May 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!
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MURDERED IN 🇷🇺 PRISON!!!
Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian reporter.
No One Knows How or Why!
Her former colleague, Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Journalist & Chatham House Academy Associate.
2/5🧵
kyivindependent.com/roshchyna-bo...
Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian reporter.
No One Knows How or Why!
Her former colleague, Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Journalist & Chatham House Academy Associate.
2/5🧵
kyivindependent.com/roshchyna-bo...
Journalist Roshchyna's body missing organs after Russian captivity, investigation says
During the examination in Ukraine, it turned out that journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna's brain, eyes, and part of the trachea had been removed, the investigation said.
kyivindependent.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
MURDERED IN 🇷🇺 PRISON!!!
Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian reporter.
No One Knows How or Why!
Her former colleague, Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Journalist & Chatham House Academy Associate.
2/5🧵
kyivindependent.com/roshchyna-bo...
Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian reporter.
No One Knows How or Why!
Her former colleague, Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Journalist & Chatham House Academy Associate.
2/5🧵
kyivindependent.com/roshchyna-bo...
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So first of all, they are so angry lol they are so pissed off about this they are losing their shit
White House says Amazon's decision to desplay tariff-based price increases on products is a "a hostile and political act by Amazon," who they accuse of working with "a Chinese propaganda arm."
April 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
So first of all, they are so angry lol they are so pissed off about this they are losing their shit