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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2h

Gaza ceasefire talks live: Trump may travel to Middle East at the weekend as he hails progress of negotiations

US president says negotiators are ‘very close’ to what he called ‘potential peace in the Middle East’ As part of the Guardian’s Israel-Gaza: two years on series marking the second anniversary of the Hamas attack into Israel and the war in Gaza, the below has been published: The children’s names appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims. Continue reading...

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 16h

Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems.

Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago.

SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3h

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

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.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 8h

Dearest mother,
I take my phone in hand to dm u a few texts from the Portland front. The battle is lost. We have been forced to retreat by a giant frog, several furries, and a dance party. Please send TikToks to lift our spirits.
Your son
[Violin plays mournfully]

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2h

"Mother Jones has substantially more paid subscribers than Bari Weiss’ The Free Press, so perhaps someone should put us in charge of a TV network."

The latest from @monikab.bsky.social:

Nice little TV network you got there

How easily has Trump rolled corporate media? So much more easily than he probably expected.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 8h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
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National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 4h

i'm not sure how you can claim to cover things fairly and fully when you're using the bootleg name that is officially only a "secondary name" for the department

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 4h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 7h

🟢 On Hamas’s Future:
He dismissed Israeli claims that Hamas could be eradicated. “Hamas is no longer a small organization that any great or small state can remove from Palestine. Hamas is no longer [simply] an organization. Hamas is now hope. Hamas is an idea. So don’t be surprised that most Arab...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 7h

⚡️Mousa Abu Marzouk has spent decades building Hamas as a resistance and political movement. After being born a refugee in Rafah in 1951, he studied in the U.S., earning a Master’s in engineering at Colorado State and a PhD at Louisiana Tech in 1991 — the same year he became chairman of the Hamas...

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban.

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

Today at Law Dork:

Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

www.lawdork.com

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Tony Plunkett @tblankets.bsky.social · 1d

Please sell us the debt we promise to do the right thing [cancel it]

Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 1d

Now: Debt Collective Raises Hand to Purchase Chunk of Federal Government Student Debt Portfolio

The Debt Collective has purchased billions in household debt over the past decade

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, after a new POLITICO report that the Trump administration is “exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market,” the Debt Collective is announcing its willingness to purchase the entire portfolio for its true market value. The Debt Collective will then subsequently cancel the debt.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 23h

And you can select your favorite independent (Hive Mind Books, for eg) as your "store" and Bookshop kicks them a lil something.

bookriot.bsky.social @bookriot.bsky.social · 1d

Support independent bookstores and get free shipping by purchasing books through Bookshop.org during their "Anti-Prime Day" sale.

#booksky

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Bookshop.org Offers Free Shipping and 20% Off Banned Books for “Anti-Prime Day”

Support independent bookstores and get free shipping by purchasing books through Bookshop.org during their "Anti-Prime Day" sale.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4d

New poll of Jewish Americans:

• 61% say Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza.
• 39% say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

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Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds

Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 1d

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

She’s left us no choice. It’s time for Isaac Chotiner to interview Bari Weiss.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

The juxtaposition and absurdity of these arguments alongside an active years-long campaign to ban Black scholarship because it “belittles” conservatism, or makes white children feel bad, is half the point.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

wtf is wrong with these people

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying'

On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

LIVE NOW: Drop Site’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous is joined by Palestinian-American legal scholar Noura Erakat who briefed the UN Security Council yesterday, one of only two Palestinian women to have done so since Oct 7, 2023.

Live streaming now on X, YouTube, Substack, and Facebook.

Two years of genocide in Gaza

YouTube video by Drop Site News

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid

Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformed

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

For years, a tiny contingent of fringe therapists has been fighting to overturn laws banning conversion therapy.

Now, those therapists—and their powerful allies in the conservative Christian legal movement—are on the verge of success.

SCOTUS wades back into the war on trans kids—and considers greenlighting conversion therapy

The science is in: The anti-LGBTQ "treatments" are ineffective and dangerous.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to Unveil Farmer Aid as China Shuns U.S. Crops www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Trump to Unveil Farmer Aid as China Shuns U.S. Crops

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