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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 9h
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... A good analysis of the persistent problem of far left entryism who will destroy the idea of a viable and radical Green ecological party in the UK.
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Zack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael Behr
A toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'Wearing hi-vis jackets and, in some cases, stab-proof vests and carrying handcuffs, these groups of men aim to be a visible presence conducting patrols through their towns and cities. Some have used their patrols to target men of colour'.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'At least 14 street patrol groups have been set up in towns and cities across the UK, receiving tens of thousands of pounds in public donations, as well as political support. The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, has previously called for more patrols to take place.'
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'seven women...have told the Guardian they are survivors of domestic abuse carried out by key figures in the anti-immigration street patrol movement. All have chosen to come forward to make the public aware of the patterns of violence behind this new form of activism.'
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 10h
Russian hostile activity costs UK up to £2.5bn a year, report warns ft.trib.al/QU5CTWk
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Russian hostile activity costs UK up to £2.5bn a year, report warns
Labour MP Graeme Downie’s research highlights lack of consistent framework for measuring economic impact of Moscow-backed hybrid warfare
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 10h
"Polanski's authority is solar-powered, activated only when the light of an enthusiastic crowd shines directly on him." 👏🏻
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 10h
Column on Greens, anti-Zionism and why the people who pathologically hate something are not the most reliable people to define it accurately www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Zack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael Behr
A toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 9h
Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, centre, in Manchester, January 1913.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 9h
Teenage life, Lancashire, 1957, photo by Bert Hardy.
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Asriel @awildeasriel.bsky.social · 10h
Not only that, if our chances were slim at the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, they’re non existent now. We’ve thrown a huge amount away just to virtue signal
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Asriel @awildeasriel.bsky.social · 10h
Feeling quite disheartened by the Zionism is racism motion at the Green Party conference. We’ve ostracised ourselves from the Jewish community (incl. ppl who abhor the genocide), large parts of the public, other parties and international Green parties, and for what?
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Hammarstrand ن 🇸🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @hammarstrand.bsky.social · 10h
#Baptism #Church #JesusFreak #Catholicism
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Brazilian Nuns & Priest Dance on Catholic TV
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 12h
✝️ A surprising trend in #France: baptisms among teenagers and young adults have skyrocketed. ⛪ How can this renewed interest in the Catholic faith be explained? Florence Gaillard reports for #FranceInFocus 🔗 go.france24.com/Wboh
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 06/10/2026
'Gen Z has risen up': Tens of thousands demand better education in France
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'Gen Z has risen up': Tens of thousands demand better education in France
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across France on Tuesday, as unions and teachers joined high school students who for days have been demanding better learning conditions in protests punctuated by violent confrontations.
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Josh Bornstein @joshbornstein.bsky.social · 17h
My column for The Canberra Times : why Australians are right to distrust AI and how the federal government needs to muscle up by introducing a duty of care so that people, businesses, organisations & governments harmed by AI can recover compensation.
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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 23h
Russia carried out an act of war against Bulgaria, sinking one ship and setting another on fire. NATO countries are currently exerting a maximum effort to do precisely nothing.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, Hanania features here. Because of course he does.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, there has been a stark drop in approvals (a significant portion due to the now-blocked-in-court 39-country pause on immigration benefits which lasted for months). FY 2025 Q4 approvals: 211,592 FY 2026 Q1 approvals: 143,564 FY 2026 Q2 approvals: 81,147 FY 2026 Q3 approvals: 54,974
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The largest three increases in the USCIS net backlogs are: - Work permits (All Others): net increase 591,900 applications - Work permits (Adjustment of Status): net increase 502,000 applications - Naturalization: net increase 398,100 applications
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A few weeks ago, US Citizenship and Immigration Services released quarterly data on the legal immigration system through June. The data presents a stark picture of an agency going through a period of total dysfunction. As of June, net application backlogs have risen by 80% since Trump took office.
Chart showing total net USCIS immigration application backlog, from Q4 Fiscal Year 2023 through Q3 Fiscal Year 2026. The data shows backlogs were slowly dropping from net 4.3 million applications in Q4 FY 2023 to 3.8 million in Q3 FY 2024, after which applications began to rise again, increasingly every single month until Q3 FY 2026, where they stand at 7.7 million.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think it’s important to explore these comments and the political dimensions of male supremacy because the GOP is clearly becoming *more* hospitable to these views as it becomes more authoritarian. There is a generation of young men coming up in this. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
You might ask why it's worth dredging up all these bilious comments. But these are coming from major media figures on the American right. Moreover, Hanania has, as I noted in a recent column, ingratiated himself with mainstream media outlets and even writes regularly at the Boston Globe. As fraternity members at one of America's major elite universities, the young men in question are well-positioned to become leaders in their chosen fields and even elected officials. The networked effects of both Ivy degrees and fraternity membership can be considerable.
Consider the Young Republicans group chat messages that leaked last year, featuring dehumanizing jokes about rape and homosexuality. In those messages, exposed by Politico, they glorified mass rape as a tool of conquest:
"The Spanish came to America and had sex with every single woman."
"Sex is gay"
"Sex? It was rape."
"Epic"This was a chat for Young Republicans, the future of their party. And it reflects dynamics we see across American society, and especially online and on the right, of young men being drawn to a culture of male supremacy and rape enthusiasm. As I wrote then, "In the context of sex, [male supremacy] comes down to a wholesale rejection of sex as a consensual act for the enjoyment of both parties."

As I noted here at Liberal Currents last year, rape is integral to authoritarian politics. Mussolini was a rapist. Francisco Franco imposed a hardline Catholic dictatorship in Spain in which women were expected to serve the nation by serving their husbands. Lavrentiy Beria, head of the Soviet NKVD during World War Two, leveraged his position to engage in serial rape on a prolific scale. As Ruth Ben-Ghiat observed in her book, Strongmen, "The strongman would be nothing without bodies to control." And authoritarianism offers up these bodies to its most dedicated foot soldiers, a point on which Beria serves as a good reminder.Yes, in this case, we are talking about the control of women's bodies. But that doesn't mean the male form doesn't enter into it. In fact, it's the male body that retains its specialness. This fixation moves, sometimes rapidly, from obsession to revulsion. We see that in the language of incels like Nick Fuentes, who has proclaimed that
"dating women is gay, having sex with women is gay. And having sex with men is gay." And we see that preoccupation in Walsh as well. When one commenter asked if the Cornell fraternity brothers should be considered "whores," Walsh replied, "Yes, and gay. But they aren't rapists. That's the point here."
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One of the most heinous examples is Matt Walsh suggesting that, actually, Jane Doe raped the frat boys because they were also under the influence. I thought it bore a certain resemblance to some of Andrew Johnson’s comments on slavery. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
But Walsh isn't satisfied with victim blaming. He goes so far as to assert that, given the consumption of drugs and alcohol, the fraternity boys couldn't possibly be held responsible themselves:

I'm not kidding when I say that the Cornell frat guys should file a counter suit accusing the woman of raping them. According to her own testimony, some of the men were drunker than she was. By her logic, and the logic of her supporters, they were even less capable of consent. She was the rapist in that case. There's no way out of our current madness except by holding feminists to their own standards.When I read Walsh's comments I see a level of male supremacism that leaves my jaw on the floor. It also reminds me of a quote from President Andrew Johnson delivered to Frederick Douglass when pressed about protecting freed slaves:

If I know myself, and the feelings of my own heart, they have been for the colored man. I have owned slaves and bought slaves, but / never sold one. I might say, however, that practically, so far as my connection with slaves has gone, I have been their slave instead of their being mine.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wrote about the Cornell rape case, specifically about how MAGA responses to it highlight the male supremacism on the American right. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
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The Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA Right
For the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 06/10/2026
Relatedly, I suspect his comments won't go down well with the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, who left port in San Diego in late September, are currently on route to support the war in the Middle East, and are likely to spend 7+ months away from home. news.usni.org/2026/09/28/u...
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USS Theodore Roosevelt Deploys From San Diego, USS Abraham Lincoln Near Hawaii - USNI News
Carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) quietly departed Sunday from San Diego to sail across the Pacific for what is expected to be an extended Middle East deployment, USNI News has learned. The carr...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 06/10/2026
Setting aside the callous cruelty of this assertion--it's pretty telling that our so-called Commander-in-Chief doesn't know that active-duty military, veterans, and their families make up almost a quarter of the population of San Diego.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
3 things can be true at once: 1) He didn't mean to say he *wanted* Iran to nuke San Diego or LA 2) He's so morally lazy he was willing to leave that vile impression 3) He actually wouldn't care if those cities were nuked
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What a sad state of affairs when a president can joke about letting Iran “take out” Los Angeles or San Diego and it barely makes news. Can you imagine the outrage if any other president said that? America – we can do better than this.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Deeply funny to read this one day after Trump literally said that everyone at the NYT should be arrested.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The same guy who tore up the JCPOA, the same guy (along with his entire party) who claims that we had to go to war with Iran in order to prevent them from acquiring nuclear weapons – is now inviting that same country to annihilate our cities. Treasonous beyond measure.
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Sveriges riksdag @sverigesriksdag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Utskott har valt ordförande www.riksdagen.se/sv/aktuellt/...
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 30/09/2026
Learn more about the main issues we discovered with AI samples here:
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Can AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not Really
Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 30/09/2026
Can AI take a survey instead of humans? They can, but maybe they shouldn’t. As #AI advances, there is growing interest in using it in place of real respondents in public opinion surveys. We wanted to learn more, so we ran our own synthetic polling experiment.
Illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 02/10/2026
Pope Leo's comments on AI and human creativity come amid broader questions about AI-generated content. Our recent study found Americans often react differently when they learn AI was involved in creating something. #AIPerception #AI
Chart showing share of U.S. adults who say they would like something more or less based depending on if AI was used to create it.
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Hammarstrand ن 🇸🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @hammarstrand.wsocial.eu · 05/10/2026
#TheReligionBusiness 💸 TheReligionBusiness.com
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Check out The Religion Business!
A powerful docuseries exposing hidden abuse, fraud, and corruption in the nonprofit sector—where good intentions mask dark realities.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 03/10/2026
Evidence on taxing the rich from Scandinavian countries www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 05/10/2026
🏛️ Government information belongs to everyone. Government documents help us understand society, investigate the past, and participate in democracy. 📚 Democracy's Library brings government publications together so they're easier to discover. Start with the record. 👇 archive.org/details/demo... 🧵
Four "Tools You Can Use" Democracy's Library tiles in a 2x2 grid on cream graph paper with blue schematic line drawings. Top left, "Democracy's Library" above a blue folder reading "Government Information Freely Accessible For All." Top right, a screenshot of the Democracy's Library page with collection highlights. Bottom left, bold black text repeating that line. Bottom right, "Tell us why government information is important to you," with a multicolor line drawing of a columned building.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This individual does not work for Bellingcat, and have no prior knowledge of them or their activities, so we'd urge anyone who is contacted by them to ignore their requests, and let us know via contact@bellingcat.com
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bellingcat has become aware of an individual contacting people via Telegram and WhatsApp from a UK number, naming themselves "Antony Kevin", claiming to work for Bellingcat, and asking for assistance recruiting journalists and analysts working on Syria, in particular Damascus and Idlib.
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#Sauna #Bastu #Finland #Suomi
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NPR @npr.org · 05/10/2026
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells. n.pr/4rNyBD2
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Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.
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Rep. Salud Carbajal @carbajal.house.gov · 05/10/2026
Through November 2nd, there is a 30-day period for the public to formally object to this sale, and I encourage anyone who is passionate about this issue to speak up: eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...
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BLM National NEPA Register
The Bureau of Land Management National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Register allows you to review and comment on plans and project documents. Search by office, NEPA number, Project name, year, and project type.
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Rep. Salud Carbajal @carbajal.house.gov · 05/10/2026
This is another move to help Big Oil at our expense. I remain strongly opposed to these lease sales and will be working with local and state partners to push back.
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Rep. Salud Carbajal @carbajal.house.gov · 05/10/2026
Californians have been clear: no oil drilling on our public lands. Despite this, the Administration is moving forward with a December sale of approximately 35,000 acres of lands, including some in SLO County.
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NPR @npr.org · 05/10/2026
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich recounts his imprisonment on false espionage charges in Russia in his new memoir, This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian American Story. n.pr/3TDQuYm
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Evan Gershkovich never stopped being a journalist
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich recounts his imprisonment on false espionage charges in Russia in his new memoir, This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian American Story.
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Skye Perryman @skyeperryman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s October—let’s get registered, vote early, and track your ballot this fall at vote.org and vote411.org. If you have any issues casting your vote, call 1-866-OUR-VOTE for resources and support. Let’s get to work.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY (Monday, Oct. 5) is the deadline for registering to vote for the midterms in: AMERICAN SAMOA ARIZONA ARKANSAS FLORIDA GEORGIA INDIANA KENTUCKY LOUISIANA — in-person, mail (10/13 online) MISSISSIPPI MONTANA — mail (11/3 in-person) OHIO SOUTH CAROLINA — mail TENNESSEE TEXAS npr.org/vote
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How to register to vote and check your registration status
For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Early voting is already underway in some states. From now until Nov 3, I urge you all to... 1) Help get out the vote 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism We are the only ones who can end this nightmare.
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Sveriges riksdag @sverigesriksdag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Valberedningens förslag till ledamöter i utskott, EU-nämnd och andra organ. www.riksdagen.se/sv/aktuellt/...
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