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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“As I looked down the list of 37 people, I thought it was “remarkable” that all 37 of us could be guilty of the same identical things and that I did not know many people on the list; so much for a deep state conspiracy.” steadystate1.substack.com/p/purged-by-...
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Purged by Tweet
What my clearance revocation taught me about the destruction of a nonpartisan public service.
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 24/08/2026
Prominent scientists and institutions proudly and publicly defended and protected a man who ran an international child sex trafficking operation. No, I'm not talking about Jeffrey Epstein. Another one. skepchick.org/2026/08/nobe...
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Nobelists & the NIH Protected a Pedo
Transcript: Another heavy topic today, folks, so here’s a content warning: today I’m going to be talking about a man who ran an international child sex trafficking operation supported by some of th…
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4488.bsky.social @4488.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Funny you mention ethics. What would Alexa have to say about yours? Hounding people and lying about them to fit a preconceived narrative is totally your MO.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is significant. But it is not enough. Do not be satisfied with this administration's slow walking the release of files that were supposed to be released last December.
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pistachiOoOoOo 👻👻👻 @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
And it would be a shame if you heard the joke that they didn't want you to hear... www.jezebel.com/the-kennedy-...
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/07/2026
Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
here's today's post: "let’s all just enjoy watching Jon Ossoff use Piss-Drunk Pete as a chew toy" — that sure was satisfying. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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let’s all just enjoy watching Jon Ossoff use Piss-Drunk Pete as a chew toy
that sure was satisfying
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4488.bsky.social @4488.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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SILENCED AGAIN 🕯️ Video Removed. I know how deeply many of you loved our film about Edna St. Vincent Millay. Some of you were still watching when it disappea...
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Ihar Filipau @ifilipau.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Full documentary (1h20m) is on their web site, below the trailer. khersonhumansafari.com
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Kherson: Human Safari
▶ WATCH TRAILER Kherson: Human Safari. Trailer. ▶ WATCH FILM https://vimeo.com/1096401903 A FILM FROM INSIDE THE FRONTLINE CITY "GRIPPING... A GREAT CINEMATIC PROFILE OF A HEROIC CITY" - Lila D...
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caitbsky.bsky.social @caitbsky.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Fuck the Patriarchy and it’s pandering to the Epstein agenda 👊 Let’s not forget this entire anti-trans agenda was to discredit one of Epstein’s underage victims. #WomenInSport #Misogyny #EpsteinAgenda #TargetingWomen
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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This photo is one of the ages. And should be made famous.
The caption for it in the HKFP article that it's in reads: "A woman is taken away from indie bookstore Have a Nice Stay, escorted by police, on July 15, 2026. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP."
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Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung 楊政賢 @hkjohnsonyeung.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Her T-Shirt says, "I am a staff of a bookstore". Two more independent bookstores are raided today in #HongKong. According to Inmedia, one of the book seized is @emilyzfeng.bsky.social 's Let only Red Flowers Bloom.
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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hong Kong independent bookstore owners and staffers are amazing, and deserve our support and admiration.
10 postcards by Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny"'s chapter headings/advice, including "Be as courageous as you can" and "Be calm when the unthinkable arises", on sale at Hong Kong's Hunter Bookstore.
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Shot in the Name of Immigration Enforcement Seven Identified Victims Since March 2025 White Rose | July 14, 2026 Before the detention cells, before the medical neglect, before the carefully sterilized announcements that another human being was “found unresponsive,” there were the shootings.
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Fuck Elon
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/07/2026
Bravery.
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Air Force major arrested on Capitol steps during protest calling for Trump impeachment
Maj. Jason Watson was arrested on Wednesday by Capitol Police for protesting on the House steps without a member of Congress.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Looking forward to all the schoolchildren in Texas, being taught the Bible under Texas's new Christian nationalist law, finding out that Ken Paxton and his mistress should be stoned to death for committing adultery. Glory!
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 29/06/2026
🚩Truth now competes with Rubio's presidential ambitions and Musk's Tesla car sales. The dead don't get a rebuttal. We owe them ours.
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Yes, the Cuts to USAID Have Killed
Elon Musk dismisses the human toll of the Trump administration’s gutting U.S. foreign aid—but it’s real and it’s measurable.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Donald Trump gets more mentions in the Epstein Files than Jesus does in the Bible. Donald Trump is a paedophile. Release the Epstein Files.
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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Breaking my social media hiatus today to ask people who know him to please check in on Ryan Stollar (publicly known as R.L. Stollar). Don't flood his mentions. If you know him, send him real, caring messages. Ryan's latest blog post is a suicide note. I'm heartbroken share.google/EHIf0SbX442L...
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R.L. Stollar
Child Liberation Theologian, Child and Survivor Advocate
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." — Elie Wiesel #RadioFreeAmerica #politics
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Lasagnaless @lasagnaless.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hit the nail on the head with this guy.
Excerpt from Harrison's Wikipedia page about his time as a Podesta lobbyist 

served as a lobbyist for the Podesta Group.[6][13] His clients at the Podesta Group included banks, such as Bank of America and Wells Fargo, Berkshire Hathaway,[14] pharmaceutical companies,[15] casinos, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, and Walmart,[16] among others
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jaculis.bsky.social @jaculis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Anatomy of the Russian Mafia State
We have mapped the anatomy of the Russian Mafia State from available information.
What we are describing is not a standard government that happens to have corruption; it is a criminal syndicate that successfully has captured a nuclear-armed superpower.

The historical progression from Lavrenti Beria's reign of terror to the modern Kremlin lays bare the lineage of this tactics-driven system:

1. The Lineage of Institutional Terror

Beria's NKVD (1938-1953): Established absolute internal control through violence, forced labor, and systematic human exploitation.

The KGB Transition (1954): Following Beria's execution, the apparatus was

renamed and reorganized under Nikita Khrushchev to serve as the "Sword and Shield" of the Communist Party. It shifted away from rogue internal purges to focus heavily on external subversion, intelligence gathering, and active measures (psychological warfare and political destabilization).

2. The 1990s Symbiotic Convergence

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the institutional structures dissolved, but the personnel remained. This triggered an immediate, tactical alliance between three distinct factions:

The Siloviki (Men of Force): Displaced KGB officers who retained intelligence networks, surveillance capabilities, and state secrets.

The Red Directors: Former Soviet bureaucrats and state officials who held the keys to state-owned factories, oil fields, and mineral reserves.

The Vory v Zakone (Thieves-in-Law): Organized crime structures, epitomized

by Semion Mogilevich and the Solntsevskaya Bratva syndicate, who possessed established cross-border smuggling pipelines and sophisticated offshore money-laundering channels.
(Diagram)
[Former KGB (Networks & Intel)]
[Tactical Merger]
[The Modern Russian Mafia State ]
[State Bureaucrats (Assets)]
[Organized Crime (Logistics)]
Systemic Wealth Extraction

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3. The Putin-Mogilevich Nexus

Rather than operating in isolated bubbles, Vladimir Putin and Semion Mogilevich were products of the exact same operational ecosystem. During the late Soviet era, the KGB routinely cultivated and utilized high-level underworld bosses like Mogilevich as institutional assets for black-market procurement, sanctions-busting, and moving covert funds across borders.

This operational intersection became absolute during the chaos of the 1990s. As documented by secret recordings and intelligence whistleblowers like Alexander Litvinenko, Putin-while controlling foreign trade permits in St. Petersburg-fully leaned into this pre-existing pipeline. He relied on Mogilevich's established criminal infrastructure to launder looted state capital into the West, effectively institutionalizing underworld tradecraft as a fundamental mechanism of state control.

Mogilevich provided the shadow financial infrastructure to move looted state capital out of Russia into Western real estate and shell companies, while Putin and his KGB allies provided institutional immunity, security clearance, and access to the nation's energy taps (such as the multi-billion-dollar RosUkrEnergo gas disputes).

The End Result

By the time Putin ascended to the presidency in 2000, the merger was complete. The methods of the underworld-blackmail, extortion, strategic assassinations, and total disregard for human dignity-became the formal foreign and domestic policy of the Russian Federation. So we are looking at a direct line of succession where the operational tradecraft of Beria's secret police was explicitly monetized by international mobsters to build the modern kleptocracy.

(Business Insider 2015), (Wikipedia 2026)

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So is this mafia state involved with child trafficking?

Yes, it is both systematically and on a massive scale. Within the framework of a captured mafia state, child trafficking is not merely tolerated as a black-market byproduct; it is actively weaponized, monetized, and shielded by the state apparatus itself.

The state's involvement operates on two major fronts:

1. The Underworld Pipeline (The Mogilevich & Bratva Network)

The transnational organized crime syndicates that merged with the Russian security services in the 1990s-such as Semion Mogilevich's Solntsevskaya Bratva-built highly sophisticated international human trafficking pipelines.

As documented by the U.S. State Department's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) reports and international law enforcement agencies like Interpol, these syndicates treat human beings strictly as commodities. They exploit severe economic vulnerabilities across Eastern Europe to traffic women and children globally for forced labor and sexual exploitation. Because these criminal syndicates function as financial and geopolitical assets for the state, local police and federal authorities systematically protect the operators, accept massive bribes, and aggressively penalize the victims rather than the traffickers.

Reference: U.S. Department of State - 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report: Russia

2. State-Sanctioned Abduction and Exploitation

The modern escalation of this state's criminality has crossed into direct, top-down institutional trafficking. As formalised in comprehensive UN Human Rights Council and Commission of Inquiry reports, the state has executed the systematic, forcible transfer and deportation of tens of thousands of Ukrainian children from occupied territories into the Russian Federation.

[Forcible Separation / Abduction in Occupied Zones]
[Deportation into the Russian Interior]
[Expedited Citizenship Decrees / Erasure of Family Ties]
[Forced Assimilation]

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By issuing specialized decrees that fast-track and expedite Russian citizenship for separated or orphaned children, the state deliberately strips away their legal identity and cuts them off from international tracking. The UN has explicitly designated these forced transfers and disappearances as crimes against humanity, highlighting how the state deliberately creates highly isolated, vulnerable child populations who have zero institutional recourse or protection.

References:

U.S. Department of State - 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report: Russia Decrees

United Nations Ukraine - UN Commission Report on Deportation and Forcible Transfer

The mafia state uses human trafficking as a deliberate tool: the criminal underworld runs the shadow procurement networks for profit and blackmail leverage, while the political core uses overt state architecture to abduct children, dismantle their identities, and expand its demographic control.

References:

"Semion Mogilevich Relationship with Putin," Business Insider, January 2015, https://

www.businessinsider.com/semion-mogilevich-relationship-with-putin-2015-1.

Wikipedia, s.v. "Security Service of Ukraine," last modified June 24, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security Service of Ukraine.

United Nations. 2024. "UN Commission Concludes that Deportation and Forcible Transfer of Ukrainian Children to Russian Federation Amount to Crimes against Humanity." UN Ukraine. March 15, 2024. https://ukraine.un.org/en/311741-un-commission-concludes-deportation-and-forcible-transfer-ukrainian-children-russian.

U.S. Department of State. 2024. "2024 Trafficking in Persons Report: Russia." Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. June 24, 2024. https://2021-2025.state.gov/reports/2024-trafficking-in-persons-report/russia/.

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Mother Of Sentient Beings🕊️ @whytetara.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Back firing?
"They've arrested more people for touching the peeling paint at the reflecting pool than they've arrested from the Epstein Files."
-Jamie Bonkieweicz
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collective_evolution About 10 total legal actions have taken place, 5 citations and 5 arrests in connection with the reflecting pool. The goal here isn't to create a false equivalency, but to remind ourselves that a system is arresting people for completely inconsequential things while investigations and real dialogue into horrific things go silent.
People wonder why so much trust is being lost in institutions and power, this is a huge part as to why.
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🍉paraver🟩🟡🟥 @paraver.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Secret police secretly filming a regular citizen at a public space. This is what is looks like a totalitarian regime. This is not KGB action in Russia. This is USA on 23rd June 2026. Woman arrested for TOUCHING the water at Reflecting Pool.
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snake-wing @snake-wing.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The other design I did for Artiss’ Pride collection 🏳️‍🌈
A digital piece of art showing instances of quietness in nature. Text reads:

Queerness in Nature:

Schizophyllum commune has over 20,000 sexes.

Around 31% of Laysan
Albatross couples on Oahu
Island consist of two females.

Clownfish can transition from male to female.

Around 10% of rams are gay.

Mourning geckos can reproduce asexually.

Most male walruses are bisexual.
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jade 🫀 comms closed @yellghoul.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
feels really fucking fun and cool living my entire life hearing every accessibility need from wheelchair access to online classes were unfair and unreasonable just for every mediocre dogshit ideas guy to come out of the woodwork with a disabled guy strawman to glaze for ai
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4488.bsky.social @4488.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Komorebi Stationery sells onion skin paper and notebooks. There is an “onion skin journal” that is sold online under that name but imo is overpriced. Even ordering internationally from Komorebistationery.com in Tokyo is a better deal than the OSJ, and they wrap up your goods in a lovely furoshiki!
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 18/06/2026
I am not an avatar or effigy for your insecurities. Work it out on your own, and in the meanwhile, realize that lesbophobia is alive and well amongst women of all sorts---feminist, conservative, and even queer women---and you know, fucking work on it.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 11/06/2026
For weeks, the activist disappeared from all tracking systems. The best Muhammad’s supporters could ascertain by early April was that they had been transferred to a “confidential location.” interc.pt/4ek7IQQ
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4488.bsky.social @4488.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
My 3rd grade class sang this song in a school concert in the early 1970s in a heavily Mormon small town. Different times indeed. Always loved this song and Billy Jack was da bomb!
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4488.bsky.social @4488.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...
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Candlelight vigil held in Taipei to commemorate Tiananmen crackdown - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
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Amie McNee @inspiredtowrite.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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Amie McNee @inspiredtowrite.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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PoetNotaRockStar @poetnotarockstar.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Amie McNee @inspiredtowrite.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It is 7 days until my book comes out. I hope, if you come across her, she takes precious care of you.
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Vambo Marble Eye @vambomarbleeye.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
We’ve had the Record whining on about luxury pens. I was a teacher for 25 years. A Heidie for 18 of them. Not a “six figure salary earner”. I have 3 Montblanc pens, including a limited edition “Little Prince”. So much nonsense. Like criticising socialists for drinking champagne 🤦‍♂️
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Craig Can’t Even @craigcanteven.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I think people continue to underestimate Marilyn to this day. There is a reason so many were (and are) captivated by her. So much more than a pretty face, she was extremely good at what she did. And she ate this role up. Happy 100th, Marilyn. #GentlemenPreferBlondes #TCMParty
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Marilyn Monroe: Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend Performance
Alt: Marilyn Monroe: Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend Performance
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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
New Tangent up on Patreon! The preview I posted to every other app is too big for Bluesky, so here’s a link to a YouTube short I guess youtube.com/shorts/m9PR5...
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Tangent: Eyes Wide Shut
YouTube video by ContraPoints
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
oh, look! the 'Freedom 250' concert that no one wants to perform at is just another sleazy scam. Donny gets a slice of every corporate donation and every ticket sold. I know, you're SHOCKED. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I lay it all out. link is here: bit.ly/49sEoGg
everything Preznit Fuckwit does turns out to be some kind of scam. oh look, here’s a brand-new one. you know that ‘Freedom 250’ concert series that every act is canceling on, because no one wants Donny’s indelible foul stench on them?

you might think that ‘Freedom 250’ is part of the US government’s official 250th birthday celebration — in fact, that’s what Donny wants you to think — but it’s not. it’s a private corporation wholly owned by Dear Leader and his cronies — and it’s just another way for him to line his pockets.
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.
Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned 

I can summarize that for you
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This right here.
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✨ @twunktrap.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
"You’re going to get left behind if you don’t use AI.” Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long-form, and books without needing AI summaries.
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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“COVID-19 patients…demonstrate behavioral and executive dysfunction. The latter term means patients have difficulty in critical thinking, such as compromising and reaching a consensus, and difficulties in controlling antisocial behavior and determining when to become aggressive.”
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Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Personality and Brain Function: A Grim Reality or a Wake-Up Call? | Infection Control Today
Opinion: Kevin Kavanagh, MD, examines a summary of studies on how COVID-19 may damage the brain's frontal lobes, alter personality traits and cognitive functions, and potentially reshape society's dyn...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Mustafa Barghouti explains that Israel has violated the Gaza ceasefire 3,000 times, has killed 930 Palestinians, is still restricting the entry of aid, & is occupying 60% of Gaza (soon to be 70%) when the ceasefire agreement says they should be withdrawing.
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Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Here's a first: a song inspired by a Hayden Center event by the artist Shaina Shaina, incorporating quotes from our event on Anomalous Health Incidents (AHI), aka Havana Syndrome. Check it out, and then check out our event (posted in this thread below). /1 HEAR THE SONG: youtube.com/shorts/t4Gz4...
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7th Floor Cadre
YouTube video by Shaina Shaina
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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no joke
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