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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/05/2026
“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Department official. “It keeps me up at night.” Revisit this story from our series “The End of Aid,” a 2026 Pulitzer finalist.
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Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations
Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Alex Crawford: "This isn't Gaza, this is Lebanon, and just some of the dozens of villages in the south that have been virtually wiped out by Israel in a matter of weeks"
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 14/03/2026
Is not tomorrow, boy, the ides of March?
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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The distribution of profits worsens existing inequalities: 50% of US profit claims are held by the top 1% of wealth owners, and 84% by the top 10%. The bottom half (66 million households) get 1% of the profits. The top 0.1%—a mere 131 thousand households—get 25x more than half of all Americans. 8/
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Mass displacement reported in south Lebanon after Israeli attacks - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Mass displacement reported in south Lebanon after Israeli attacks
<article data-history-node-id="434534" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/mass-displacement-reported-south-lebanon-after-israeli-attacks" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/mass-displacement-reported-south-lebanon-after-israeli-attacks" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Mass displacement reported in south Lebanon after Israeli attacks</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Widespread displacement is ongoing in south Lebanon, following exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah, with residents leaving the Tyre area for Beirut and northern regions, the state news agency reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>Civil defence teams were deployed to manage traffic along evacuation routes, the report said.&nbsp;</p> <p>The Israeli military has ordered residents of dozens of villages and towns in southern Lebanon to evacuate their homes as cross-border fighting intensified.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Jordan Leick @beacon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
ICE is responsible for the *only* shooting and homicide in Minneapolis so far in 2026.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Historically, we've focused a lot on the brutal actions of authoritarian regimes, and today is no different.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21/11/2025
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.
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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. 

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 09/10/2025
Under the Trump administration, fashion is losing its playfulness and taking cues from authoritarian aesthetics and conservatism.
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How Trump-Era Politics Are Reshaping Fashion: From Barbiecore to Workwear
In this reported op-ed, writer Kelsey Stiegman connects the rise of MAGA politics to a darker fashion shift — where self-expression gives way to self-preservation.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2025
Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
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How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
"fearing or regulating it, or opposing technological progress, would hasten the coming of the Antichrist, Thiel said" what the fuck
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 22/09/2025
new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
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How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.
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Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The June 24 episode of Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet mentions historic protests against the Iraq War, which were largely coordinated online. 36M people protested in 3K protests worldwide from Jan 3 to Apr 12, 2003. But they didn't stop the war. 22 yrs later, it feels like people have no power.
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Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A country that fails to invest enough money in its children and leaves the poorest behind is not a success, nor one to be proud of. Keir Starmer, is this what you want your legacy to be? 2/3
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Team Musk: he personally champions the furthest right of the racist factions in British politics: who want to remove every minority + who advocate for racial abuse online + offline to let migrants + minorities know they are unwelcome, using X to do it,with the site defending the most extreme racism
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 17/09/2025
this is really good from @stephenkb.bsky.social. It's about leadership on the norms we've embraced: racism is unacceptable; the UK is a multicultural country and so much the richer for it. We need to live those values; leaders need to lead on them www.ft.com/content/fbbd...
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Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong
A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Reality has a liberal bias, it seems.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
🇩🇰🇺🇦🙏 Update: 2 humanitarian workers with the Danish Refugee Council were killed, and 8 wounded, in Russian Iskander-M missile strike on a demining team in Chernihiv region.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Sickening footage from Nuneaton tonight, where a Sky News interview with a local businessman was disrupted by racists hurling abuse. Another local said, "Warwickshire Council Council has gone to Reform... It's given certain people a licence to be aggressive and racist."
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Cooper in 2021: "If there arent the safe legal routes for family reunion we end up with more people being driven into the arms of criminal gangs" Cooper yesterday: "we are bringing forward new rules to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route"
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
OH LOOK. THE NEW CDC HEAD, JIM O'NEILL IS A LUNATIC. Why can't we have Ed O'Neill, the fine actor from Married With Children?
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"O'Neill, unlike Monarez has no training in medicine or infectious disease.
He is a former speechwriter for the health department during the Bush years who went on to work for the tech investor and conservative megadonor Peter Thiel.
During the COVID pandemic he voiced support for unproven treatments including ivermectin and hydroxy chloroquine."
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Anas al-Sharif was Gaza’s mockingbird. He lived a life of courage, truth and love for his family. Israel killed him. We must remember who he was, and why they wanted him silenced, writes @kshaheen.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...
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The Courage and Death of Anas al-Sharif
The Palestinian journalist’s life was devoted to truth and dignity, and his death lays bare Israel’s impunity in Gaza
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I know it’s considered rude to speak ill of the dead so in celebration of his life’s work, here’s a chart from Dr. James Dobson that helped generations of parents figure out the exact right number of times to hit their kids with a belt.
A chart from a Dobson book with a list of behaviors and punishments, with the highest point totals equaling either “I get one swat with belt” or “I get two swats with belt”.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
One of my favorite tariff charts Normally high prices are a sign of strong demand & induce manufacturing investment Tariffs instead give you higher prices & lower investment—the worst of both worlds—because they're a tax on capital goods & supply chains
a graph of Matt Klein's chart showing diffusion indices for input costs and capex, showing input costs rising and capex falling
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/08/2025
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
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AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
For the record, Israel killed three journalists, two cameramen and their driver tonight. They’ve already killed 300 other journalists. All Hamas leaders I suppose.
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
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Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/08/2025
 "There is no sane human being who can look at the situation and not see a pile of war crimes and evidence of genocide everywhere that they look at this point. Anyone who doesn’t recognize what’s happening in Gaza as war crimes and a genocide is not serious. They are propagandists and that is it."
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A doctor in Gaza describes the horror of starvation
"I remember the first time that I saw a little girl, she was eight months old, brought to me—she was sticks and bones and she was dead."
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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Federal agents use fake job offer, rental truck to trap day laborers in LA raid – a Penske rental truck became the centerpiece of a controversial Westlake Home Depot immigration sting that concealed immigration enforcement agents inside the vehicle. lapublicpress.org/2025/08/fede...
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Federal agents use fake job offer, rental truck to trap day laborers in LA raid
A Penske rental truck became the centerpiece of a controversial Westlake Home Depot immigration sting that concealed immigration enforcement agents inside the vehicle.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
THEY LITERALLY DID THE ONION HEADLINE
NYTimes headline reading "NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say"Onion headline: 'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens'
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Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Children are always the first to suffer in any war. We refuse to allow their suffering to become normalised.
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 28/07/2025
Our colleague and longtime +972 Magazine contributor Awdah Hathaleen was shot dead in a settler attack on his village, Umm al-Khair, in Masafer Yatta. Read Awdah's contributions to +972 Magazine through the link: www.972mag.com/writer/awdah...
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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I spent half a night in asylum seekers' accommodation talking to the people there. It was one of the worst places I've ever seen. Dehumanisation was clearly a feature, not a bug. Some of the stories I heard were horrendous. These are not, as certain people claim, holiday camps. They're jails.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
You can read my investigation into conditions in migrant hotels here www.opendemocracy.net/en/asylum-ho... Home Office recorded 1500 asylum hotel complaints in 2023 | openDemocracy
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Home Office recorded 1500 asylum hotel complaints in 2023
Asylum hotel providers receive billions in government contracts while residents report harassment and abuse
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I'd be inclined to tax them even more - UK gambling industry launches summer charm offensive to head off tax rise www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK gambling industry launches summer charm offensive to head off tax rise
Exclusive: Lobbyists meet with ministers, and host a darts night with Labour advisers and MPs’ staff
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"The Columbia University Board of Trustees’ concessions to the Trump administration are a disaster . . . . Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat." National AAUP Statement on Columbia www.aaup.org/news/columbi...
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Columbia University Settlement an Unprecedented Disaster
Never in the history of our nation has a university so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. All who care about higher education must stand up and fight back against this unprecedented continuin...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“This resolution is going to allow us to turn a page…..” In what book, Acting President Shipman? My suggestion to universities is that you select as your presidents and acting presidents, people who actually understand the meaning & significance of universities to democracies.
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SBS Australia (unofficial) @sbsaustralia.nzcow.com · 24/07/2025
📢 Tensions have escalated between the two neighbours, with each side accusing the other of firing the first shots in clashes along the eastern border.
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Thailand launches airstrikes against Cambodia after two civilians killed in border clashes
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betbjo.bsky.social @betbjo.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
As an immigrant I don't have the right to vote. If I could vote, I'd vote for whoever will beat reform. All of that aside it's about time
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Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Israel's siege is starving the people of Gaza. We have joined more than 100 aid and rights groups to demand action - before there is no one left to save. Read the full statement here: bit.ly/3GPCpAE
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/07/2025
35% of the value of the US stock market is the mag7, 19% of that is NVIDIA, and *42% OF NVIDIA'S REVENUE IS THE MAG7 BUYING GPUs*. Our god damn economy is supported by whether five companies buy more GPUs every quarter! This is insane! www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/But Ed, They Said Something About Points of Growth-

Silence!

Any of these companies talking about "growth from AI" or "the jobs that AI will replace" or "how AI has changed their organization" are hand-waving to avoid telling you how much money these services are actually making them. If they were making good money and experiencing real growth as a result of these services, they wouldn't shut the fuck up about it! They'd be in your ear and up your ass hooting about how much cash they were rolling in!

And they're not, because they aren't rolling in cash, and are in fact blowing nearly a hundred billion dollars each to build massive, power-hungry, costly data centers for no real reason.

Don’t watch the mouth — watch the hands. These companies are going to say they’re seeing growth from AI, but unless they actually show you the growth and enumerate it, they are hand-waving.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
JACKSONVILLE — TW ⚠️: Unarmed Black driver has his window smashed + face punched by a sheriff’s deputy after being pulled over for not having his headlights on… during the day. 🤔 Sheriff TK Waters says they’ve launched an “internal investigation”: www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/07/2025
How many times do we have to remind people: the chatbot *cannot* admit to *anything*. It *doesn't know*. When you ask it about itself, it generates its answer the same way it generates your request that it write an email. It takes what you tell it and responds in way to sound plausible.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 19/07/2025
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Aid clawback will hurt children for decades to come, advocate says
"Children most definitely are not this Administration’s priority," he says The rescissions package making its way to the House today spares children
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