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bleakmidwinter.bsky.social @bleakmidwinter.bsky.social · 15h

Very poignant to see in the BBC article the photo of the 22 year old US corporal who died in England in WW2 fighting fascism. He is one of many very young Americans who died fighting fascism. It’s painful to see the resurgence of what so many Americans and Europeans gave their lives to defeat

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"In England, all key indicators increased this week indicating a low but increasing risk of Covid. Test positivity rates are continue to remain highest in London, the West Mids, and Yorkshire & Humberside. Whilst Flu activity is low it is rising earlier than previous years." 1/2

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Biden administration strove to isolate the brutal military junta in Myanmar after the 2021 coup. Trump is now talking to them. They have vast rare earth minerals deposits. (Reuters)

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Julián Curo-Churata, dead in a Trump concentration camp. ICE cited “convictions for driving with expired vehicle registration” and an unspecified judgment against him in favor of the Maryland comptroller (taxes). He "had volunteered to leave the country on his own, but a judge denied the request."

thebanner.com

Laurel father and husband died in ICE custody in Louisiana

Julián Curo-Churata lived in Laurel for about 17 years before he was detained in June by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. He died in the agency’s custody on Sept. 29.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Iranian lawyer Bahareh Aghaei, who is being held in Qarchak prison in Varamin, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

A dark-haired woman. Headline: Iranian lawyer sentenced to 20 years over support for protesters

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Two top Trump advisers James Blair and Chris LaCivita travelled to Bosnia’s Republika Srpska to provide election advice to its Putin-friendly government, the NYT reports. They were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Huge crowd to see James Talarico in deep-red Lubbock, Texas. This county hasn’t voted for a Democrat in 50 years.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ezra Klein: “What is, to you, the ‘rage economy’?” James Talarico: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks. They have created for-profit platforms that divide us on an hourly basis — by party, by race, by gender, by religion. They elevate the most extreme voices."

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

gadgetreview.com

Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Justice Department (DOJ) filed a law suit against the state of Maryland over its new law barring federal law enforcement officers including, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), from wearing masks and requiring them to identify themsel... TAT: [Suppressing dissent | Undermining democracy]

thehill.com

Justice Department sues Maryland over federal agent mask ban

The Justice Department sued Maryland on Thursday over a new law barring federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks and requiring them to identify themselves while working in the Old Line S…

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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have no words🤬🤬 This is what russia is doing to Kyiv. The moment of a direct strike on the Northern Bridge. Cars were driving across it at the exact moment of impact. There may be casualties. This is a bridge full of civilians.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Iran has hit another vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. That’s the ninth in five days, the highest rate in the entire war.

UKMTO has received a report of an incident within the Strait of Hormuz.
The Master of a tanker has reported being struck by unknown projectile, causing damage to the engine room.
The crew have been reported as safe and there is no environmental impact reported at this time. Authorities are investigating.
Vessels are advised to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity to UKMTO.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What UK fash really looks like.

Restore MP Rupert Lowe and a pack of pink and white generally older supporters holding signs

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Russia’s 2027 budget: military costs expected to spiral, at least by 40%. Unsustainable, of course, that’s why they’re proposing a 10% cut in real terms for development, infrastructure and healthcare and a 5% cut in education.

mailchi.mp

Russia plans record military spending

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With the rise of the Far Right, we’re in a situation where every election could potentially be the last one. No excuse not to vote with rigour.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Brief bullshit 🧵: Trump: “Europe wants to copy us. Everybody wants to copy us.”

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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 22/08/2026

This is outrageous. A free press cannot function under constant threats and retaliation from the government. Reporters must be free to hold those in power accountable — without fear of retribution. The assault on the free press must end!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

wired.com

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The endless grift continues. The Trump administration has been talking to Russia about a multibillion-dollar deal for Lukoil’s international assets, NYT reports.

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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🚨 BREAKING NEWS🚨 Renee Good's family has filed two lawsuits. One lawsuit is against the ICE FUCK Jonathan Ross & the other against the Regime. youtu.be/gxtUyqAi0E4?...

youtu.be

BREAKING: Trump hit with the LAWSUITS he FEARED MOST

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Iranian regime has sentenced Ardabil; Sahar Mami-zadeh to 25 months in prison and 50 lashes for a social media post that “insulted the leadership”.

A young woman with brown hair and a blue shirt

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The dangers that lie hidden in Hegseth’s crazed speech.

chadbourn.substack.com

The War At Home

The Pentagon identifies a new enemy…in America

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sad he will not see his prophecy fulfilled

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To think there are still people out there talking about "targeted strikes" and "minimising civilian casualties". This is no different to what Russia has done in Eastern Ukraine.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The US has withdrawn from GRECO, the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption watchdog, which it has been a member of since 2000, ABC reports. Russia and Belarus are the only other countries to have left the group.

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MayhemMel! @melindameyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

www.samsung-news.com/articles/n98... Nobody's talking about this. 😡

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Putin continues to murder normal Ukrainian civilians in their beds, apartments, cars, streets, offices and workplaces every single day.

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Dr Ben King 🌍 @benking01.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh yes, and my first Covid infection led to blood clots in my leg, which dislodged, passed through my heart and could well have killed me as they lodged in my lungs. Is risking another #PulmonaryEmbolism an acceptable risk? I have been offered a free Flu vaccination; isn't Covid more dangerous?

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🇹🇯 Tajikistan’s access to water in health facilities has more than doubled in five years. Before an EU-funded project began in 2021, just 36% of the country’s 3,297 health facilities had basic water access, 12% had handwashing stations and only 1% met basic sanitation standards. 💧

unicef.org

Clean Water and Safe Care

How WASH Is Transforming Health Facilities in Tajikistan

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

nbcnews.com

America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.

Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.

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salbr29891.bsky.social @salbr29891.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/elec...

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New cartoon: The RNLI

Cartoon titled “The RNLI: Some of the people they help,” showing six scenarios involving people rescued by the RNLI. Including a man caught by the tide, a YouTuber swimming without preparation, a middle-lane driver, a neighbour with different political opinions, a superyacht owner who forgot to refuel, and people crossing the Channel in a small boat. The final caption reads, “All human beings – all deserve saving.”

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This year’s El Niño is on course to be the largest in at least *1,000* years. That’s going to drive excess heat into the atmosphere and combined with man-made heating will make 2027 the hottest year ever recorded. #climatecrisis

theguardian.com

‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak

‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The ultra-Far Right/neo-Nazis are joining forces in Europe, which should worry anyone with even a passing acquaintance with history. Germany’s AfD and Italy’s Future Nationale have announced a partnership. Everything old is new again.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

opb.org

Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🇺🇦💔 Kateryna Osadcha: People are dying from hunger and lack of medical care in Russian-occupied Oleshky. International media, please pay attention to Oleshky. Thousands of civilians are trapped under Russian occupation without enough food, medicine or safe evacuation.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Trump administration still hasn't publicly accepted responsibility.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There’s a lesson there: what happens when people have nothing to lose.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trump banning CNN from the White House has only served to get the channel to go for him full-on. A constant stream of lowest poll ratings ever, billions spent on the Iran War and more. Would have been nice if it happened before, but it’s a good result.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The site had operated as a school for nearly ten years, was on Google Maps, and had its own website. A UN report said the failures "went beyond negligence" and may constitute war crimes. The Pentagon investigation has been complete for months but hasn’t been released.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

* compressed timelines as the administration demanded 1,000+ strikes in 24 hours * over-reliance on Palantir's Maven AI system, which personnel wrongly expected to flag old data * and Hegseth's 90% cuts to civilian-harm-mitigation teams.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A Pentagon investigation found that the murder of 123 Iranian children at the school in Minab resulted from a cascade of failures, Bloomberg reports. * Outdated intelligence that still classified the school as an IRGC facility

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago.

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Pissed-Off Scientist @rockney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

VOTE !!!!!!!

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