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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 7h

Drone footage over frontline Pokrovsk City in Donetsk Oblast shows what's left after Russian daily shelling: not much.

Russians continue to raze to the ground all frontline cities they can reach with artillery.
🎥 Libkos

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 20h

👀 These are the negotiators? Jared used to spend summers at Netanyahu house as a kid and when N came to the US reverse has happened (plus donations etc).

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Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social · 23h

Trump=death. This regime is despicable.
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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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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 23h

Meanwhile pardoned Nikola Trevor Milton has become CEO of SyberJet, that he acquired via his (check notes) private investment company - yes he raised money from people after he got out [MT LC]. 950K to the right people get you a long way. www.morningstar.com/news/marketw...

Trevor Milton proves there's life after a Trump pardon - he's now CEO of a private-jet maker

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 1d

2/2 railways with a massive 7% GDP. Coal miners and iron manufacturers, aka the suppliers, invested heavily on railways companies. Issue was that investment generated just 1/4 of expected revenue. It required more than 10 years for that infrastructure to be used profitably.

Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 1d

1/2 We saw this happening in the past in every bubble. Two most significant to consider as similar were the Japan 1980 cross investment, that created a domino effect during the crash. To me though the most similar is the railway British bubble 1840 -1850. Massive infrastructure quadrupled the ➡️

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 1d

The hope?

Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 1d

Does the news reflect what we die from?

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News.

In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 1d

Spiro is 3K per hour I hear...+19 lawyers and paralegals lol ...and they are not done yet...

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 2d

We are at the pre-stage of "who? never met him"

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d

Magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes Papua New Guinea just now.

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Russia appears to be accelerating the informational and psychological condition-setting phase — “Phase 0” — of its campaign to prepare for a possible NATO-Russia war in the future.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 6, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar100625

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d

CONGRESS WILL CONTINUE TO GET PAID DESPITE THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 2d

Friend of mine visiting from Italy; he is in the high-end wine biz. He said that he knows of European wineries selling to Russia still. They invoice to a French company and delivery goes via Lithuania - Latvia. So upsetting.

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 2d

I keep repeating that they need to do TEU article 7 on Hungary. Ran by Orban is an adversarial asset. What they do instead? They unfroze 545M. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

EU to release €545 million for Hungary sparking worry among MEPs

The European Commission said Hungary can only access the funds if Budapest guarantees academic freedom, but some MEPs fear Prime Minister Viktor Orbán can easily access the money. #EuropeNews

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The Economist @economist.com · 2d

The escalating grey-zone conflict between the West and Russia is being contested on the sea as well as in the air. A rise in worrying maritime incidents is forcing NATO to step up econ.st/3ILHiM8

Photo: Reuters

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 2d

Probably the worse was the UK rail bubble though infrastructure wise - to which I wonder about that UTF right offering

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 2d

History is full of situations like this. We saw this happening 25 years ago www.jstor.org/stable/10.57...

4 THE DOT-COM BUBBLE from Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet on JSTOR

THE DOT-COM BUBBLE, Profit over Privacy, pp. 75-92

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 2d

Don't be so factual based.... +26.62% today based on this

a man wearing a denim jacket and a shirt that says ' den ' on it

ALT: a man wearing a denim jacket and a shirt that says ' den ' on it

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 4d

Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️

Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians?

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 4d

Ukraine’s intelligence says China shared satellite data with Russia for missile strikes on Ukraine, including hits on foreign-owned sites.

Chine has been Russia's ally despite claiming neutrality in the Russo-Ukrainian war.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/05/c...

China provided satellite data used in Russian missile attacks, Ukraine’s intelligence says

Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service officer said the cooperation allowed Russian forces to refine targeting for recent missile assaults inside Ukraine.

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 4d

a painting of a man reading a book in a dark room

ALT: a painting of a man reading a book in a dark room

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5d

Breaking on MSNBC:

An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey.

This news was first reported by Reuters.

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Paolo Bernardi @paolobernardi.bsky.social · 6d

Virtual hug to you bro’

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