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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17h

Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...

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Kentucky State player released on bond from ICE custody

Kentucky State University women's basketball center Aminata Seck was released on bond Wednesday after spending two months in ICE custody.

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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 08/10/2026

A Russian glide bomb killed dozens of Ukrainians at a bus stop Kramatorsk on Thursday, in one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in recent months. Two buses were hit by the bomb during rush hour, killing at least 30 people and injuring 18, according to Ukraine’s state emergency service.

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Russian bomb attack kills dozens at Ukraine bus stop

At least 30 die after aerial strike hits two passenger buses in frontline city of Kramatorsk

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

completely apoplectic at dan ryan's craven bid to make taxpayers pony up for a massive settlement after he intentionally destroyed evidence

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Ross McPhee 🌍🗿 @arestlessnative.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have to admit I am curious how these two pieces of shit sleep at night. I guess getting rich from opaque funding must pay well, but at what cost to the human psyche 🤔 bsky.app/profile/post...

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

she just kept adding ingredients 😭

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Read this great new reporting from @chloehadj.bsky.social on Hassan Diab, the Syrian boy whose viral interview on Russian state TV in 2018 was secretly filmed under duress at a Syrian military facility, as my visual investigation revealed at the time robert-mackey-1.ghost.io/russian-tv-i...

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Russian TV Interview With Syrian Boy Was Secretly Conducted at Army Facility

A Russian war correspondent lied to conceal the fact that he interviewed a Syrian boy about a suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town at a government army facility frequented by Russian militar...

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the tankies participated in this child abuse, using the forced testimony of an adolescent chemical weapons victim not only as exculpatory evidence for the Assad regime but as implicating humanitarians in a vast conspiracy to stage "false flags." observer.co.uk/news/interna...

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At 11 he was forced to lie about Assad’s chlorine attack....

After a video showed Hassan Diab in the aftermath of a chemical attack on Douma, Syria and Russia pushed him to call it a fiction. Eight years later, he and his family finally feel safe enough to spea...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8

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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t

New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 05/10/2026

Shellenberger is seemingly preparing to smear a bunch of people attending a conference on disinformation this week. Ten bucks says he’s gonna claim the researchers there are cEnSoRiNg yOu!!!1 In reality they’re presenting their ideas. Talking. Debating. You know, using their speech rights.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"the pending deal represents a striking intermingling of personal business ties with geopolitics, even for an administration that has regularly dismissed concerns about potential conflicts of interest" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Western tankies continue to be more authoritarian than their counterparts living under the dictatorships they idolize

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Feel like I need someone to talk to about that deadliest catch show, I think that was the worst thing Ive ever seen

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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Russia has bombed a school basically every single day this week, so for those people who say "if this was happening in Ukraine, it would be on the front pages every day", how many times have you seen that on the front page of even one of your national newspapers this week? Zero.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anti trans hatred is the same as any other anti-gay, religious, or racial hatred we have ever known. This includes the efforts to dress it up, hide it, and make it about protecting women or children. That's exactly what bigots did to Black and gay people.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Get this guy a cigarette and a martini, he's had a day

My Chihuahua lying back on the bed with his eyes closed

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Breaking my "don't antagonize the cartels" rule a bit here

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

gotta get the remaining basil in the fridge into something like this before it goes off.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"both stores had 'locally inspired' menus, including salty milk tea, and the bazaar store has “Xinjiang elements” including ethnic musical instruments" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Starbucks opens first cafés in China’s troubled Xinjiang

US coffee giant enters region where Beijing is accused of widespread abuses

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

here's the latest news from the trial of Roberto Zorzi, one of the cohort of Ordine Nuovo recruits during the 70s in the Verona scene that spawned Ludwig. He's charged with carrying out the Piazza della Loggia massacre. www.quibrescia.it/strage-di-pi...

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Strage di piazza Loggia, nuove testimonianze al processo Zorzi - QuiBrescia

In aula l'ex agente della Squadra politica Ernesto Finicello e i fondatori di Ananda Marga Italia. Focus sull'appartamento di via Aleardi e dubbi sull'alibi di Marco Toffaloni.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this book is now available online. expensive, but u can order it from ur library or buy the more affordable ebook. I contributed the chapter on the "Ludwig" nazi serial killer cult. it's an honor, and doubly special for me, as this research began w/ a hobby podcast. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

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The Routledge Handbook of Italian Fascism and Neofascism

This important new reference work reassesses Fascism in the Italian context and its postwar manifestations by analysing its influence across three historical phases, analysing the tensions shaping bot...

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Looks like Russia's trying to go Grozny. If the US and allies don't send Kiev more air defense, this is just going to get worse through winter. They're already starving out Oleshky.

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Quarks-o'-lantern 🎃 @quarks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

WWE's decision to transition to Rumble is not solely a shift in content distributor, it is an active decision to operate as a radicalization pathway. A thread.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I read this as "juice their beets," and was like, "well now, what's wrong with... wait, with what?"

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

he could've picked a photo that didn't say, "heh, yeah look at this dude clickin' his pen, gettin' shit done." he did not.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah, SR is the cursed aestheticization of LARPers

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the fungibility of Social Realist and Nazi propaganda had already given the lie to the formulation that SR represented a universally socialist form, but its usage vis-à-vis Putin's multipolarity is so on the nose it's almost too much.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The way socialist propaganda forms the rusty shell of what's basically messianic imperial nihilism is so rich, bc in a way, plus ça change...

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I also find that people in the West are generally unaware of just how harshly the CCP's official historiography judges Mao's policies

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🔪🎃The Kyler Feyville Horror 2: The Possession 👻 @kylerfey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ve reached the point in the Years of Lead Pod where @areidross.bsky.social covers the murder of writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, among the most fascinating figures of that period and one whom I’d argue comes very close to embodying in a single person most of the stressors that were…

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Death on the Idroscalo: The Murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Podcast Episode · Years of Lead Pod · April 20, 2023 · 1h 13m

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

sad to say it, but as a huge blazers fan, if it's between polishing up an awesome stadium and not closing schools, I can root for the blazers from afar. there's very little more important than education for kids, and it's bad to bend over backwards and sacrifice schools to meet an owner's demands.

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bradley @sharknado.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Portland Fire’s first round pick btw

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has received the two biggest donations in British political history just days after the Metropolitan Police expanded an investigation into the party’s finances." They're both from crypto bros. David Golumbia was right (RIP). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Reform UK receives two record £36mn donations

The combined £72mn gifts from crypto billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne are the largest donations in British political history

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was confused about why Reform has so deeply compromised themselves over a few grand when their higher ups are all posh boys, and my mom replied, "they like spending other people's money."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/09/2026

it comes off as Guys Building The Doom Machines standing around and going "the doom machines could quite likely kill us all, and we should coordinate on stopping them from killing us all, although I *personally* am going to keep focusing on becoming ultra-rich from building the Doom Machines"

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

All sides agree that this is a big win for Count Binface and democracy

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think there's gotta be a complicated middle where AI has some proportion of juice to bubble, but also the more ppl believe that it virtually defines rationality, the more they'll act out in a "but can AI do *this*" fashion, thus committing humanity to deeper, enweirdening irrationalism.

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Tired @tired-idealist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I've been living in Portland for seven years. And it's a fucking vibe. It really is. Let the haters, hate. People talk so much shit about Chicago too, and it has some of greatest people in the world. Fuck em.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

the next two months suck so much, it's just endless panic-induced fear mongering from the right matched by dems collapsing in on themselves for no reason other than dumbness giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Donald Trump’s approval rating falls to lowest yet in FT poll

Voters’ anxiety about economy saps popularity of US president and his Republican Party weeks before midterm elections

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

somehow just realized that reviewer 2 has been sideshow bob all along

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

ppl interested in AI might want to read James Boggs's *American Revolution*... written during the shift toward automation during the early-'60s, and remarkably prescient as to how the future would unfold. I don't agree w a lot of his constructions, but he had keen insight into labor economics.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

because this is all systemic. Cambridge has become a lightning rod for good reason. we're seeing a kind of exposure of widespread corruption in academia and political life, which is caused by and further causing the political polarization that has caused major social disintegration. /ends

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Astonishingly, this FT profile of Orr came out today. It was clearly written painstakingly over the course of months, at least. It shows Orr to have been a connecter for the transnational far right in the UK, as well as the perverse incentives that helped him. /3 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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James Orr and the gospel of the new British right

Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

personally, I think the channel 4 investigation was so damning that his departure from Reform is unnecessary. They ought to have been like Trump, and just own it. Orr and Farage are very close, Farage knew everything about the "rule bending," and appears as culpable as Orr. This is just for show. /2

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

ppl will throw Orr under the bus, but Cambridge happily took the donation from Thiel that surely didn't cement his dubious position there, and did nothing while he pushed race science on students. The Arday affair is part of this saga, too. /1 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Cambridge University probe into James Orr after Reform donations sting

James Orr stepped down from Reform UK after claims he arranged to have polling paid for by an overseas company

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

ah, sure... so I'd recommend Helen Cooper's _Shakespeare and the Medieval World_ or Marjorie Garber's _Shakespeare after All_ for more on how he challenged the Renaissance "unities" with themes that were paradoxically older and more advanced in their challenging of Great Men and sweeping narratives.

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