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Cailleach Burns

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 4h
NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.
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The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon
It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 4h
The latest inflation data is expected to show price increases are accelerating www.cnbc.com/2026/10/13/s...
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The latest inflation data is expected to show price increases are accelerating
Economists expect the consumer price index for September to rise 0.6% on the month and 3.6% year over year.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 2h
I wouldn't worry about it guys, its ok for AI companies to steal other peoples' work.
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Drew Starr @thedrewstarr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If you're not already following her, @sweetadelinevt.bsky.social is doing incredibly important work on the harassment of migrants in Massachusetts (sadly, she's been doing it for years)
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 2h
Never in recorded history have corporations made more than they do today.   Never in recorded history have workers taken home less of those profits than they do today.   That's Trump's economy in a nutshell. www.axios.com/2026/10/13/e...
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A golden age of corporate profits
The bonanza is bolstering the stock market, but it may also be playing a role in the sour mood of the electorate.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 10h
Jared Kushner “peace envoy” The dangerous @nytimes.com normalization of Jared Kushner continues. NYT editors insist on framing and using inaccurate & flattering terms for the President’s corrupt son-in-law. Kushner is known to be an anonymous source for NYT access journalists. 2nd graf,A1 1/2
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 19h
You absolutely need to watch this.
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Pink Floyd Hourly @pink-floyd.northsky.social · 12/10/2026
Down (Down, down, down, down) and out (Out, out, out, out) Us and Them - The Dark Side of the Moon
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
12 October 1940 | Dutch Jew, David Costima, was born in Amsterdam. In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork. He was murdered in a gas chamber with his elder brother Isaäc. --- The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
Photo of two boys. Elder is sitting and wearing a dark suit. His baby brother in white clothes is sitting in front of him.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Trump administration is greenlighting the destruction of endangered species’ habitats. Since this administration is willing to turn its back on its responsibilities, it’s up to state attorneys general to step up. www.cnn.com/2026/09/09/u...
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US states sue Trump administration for weakening endangered species protections | CNN
US states filed two lawsuits on Wednesday accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of illegally weakening the federal Endangered Species Act, a landmark law that has shielded the bald eagle an...
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BTW, the reason these guys get so offended when Trump etc is accurately called a racist/rapist/criminal is because they knew all of this and voted for him anyway. They know where the party they spent their lives defending is now and they’re afraid of how it reflects on them. That’s the whole thing.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Today is Indigenous Peoples Day. Please remove Columbus Day from your vocabulary.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A woman picketing against immigration raids in Los Angeles, CA, in 1937 www.reddit.com/r/Historical...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There’s a reason that campaign finance reform was one of the first reforms after Watergate.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
12 October 1892 | Edith Stein was born in Wrocław. She was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism & became a theologian & a Carmelite nun. She was murdered in #Auschwitz in August 1942. Stein was beatified in 1987 and canonized in October 1998.
Black and white portrait of Edith Stein seated with hands clasped, wearing a dark blouse and a wristwatch, looking directly at the camera.Black and white photo of Edith Stein wearing a traditional Carmelite religious habit, featuring a solemn facial expression.Text document about Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein). It details her life, from being a German Jew and doctor of philosophy to becoming a Carmelite nun. She worked on the works of St. John of the Cross and studied the situation of Jewish citizens in the Netherlands during World War II. Edith was eventually arrested and sent to Auschwitz, perishing there in 1942. Pope John Paul II beatified her in 1987 and canonized her in 1998. She became one of the six patron saints of Europe a year later.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Reminder that we had gotten rid of measles successfully—it was one of the great triumphs of modern life—and then the horrors of Trumplandia has brought it back.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
But the conversation I'd like to push is: Stop getting your news from social media. It's for discussing news, not gathering it. Go to the source!
news-for-38-year-olds.onrender.com
SOURCE! — Take Back Your Morning
No billionaire algorithm. Tip your reporter.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
11 October 1933 | A Polish Jewish girl, Berthe Zlotnik, was born in Będzin. She emigrated to France. In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy with her mother Sarah, her sisters Jeanine & Yvette and her brother Jacques. All were murdered in a gas chamber.
Vintage black and white photo of a family of five members, standing in a line, looking at the camera.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hinojosa is "showing voters that Republicans represent heedless, exploitative oligarchs. “It’s 99 percent of us against, like, 15 billionaire dudes and the weak leadership that allows them to get away with whatever they want." Sounds like a winning argument to me. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/o...
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Opinion | Republicans Are Worried About Gina Hinojosa. In Texas, I Saw Why. (Gift Article)
The Texas Democrat who says the culture wars are over.
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
When the Auschwitz Memorial has to fact check the new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia for being a nut.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
You have to go back to the loyalty oath cases of the Cold War period to see relatively analogous situations where the government was trying to silence academics with viewpoints that they didn’t like,” Emerson Sykes, an attorney with the ACLU, told me. “But even in those cases, we did not see the sort of brazen attempt to ban particular ideas or ideologies and scrub them from the public record or from public education.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like - we still have elections, but under conditions that are not equal and not fair.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I hate it when US officials refer to warfare, includng the deaths of thousands of noncombatants, as "kinetic engagement." Euphemism is the weapon of charlatans.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
10 October 1933 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Vera Erdesz, was born. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
Vintage sepia-tone photograph of a smiling girl with braided hair.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“The Post reported last month that the numbers of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting…Hegseth called that reporting ‘a complete lie.’ However, late Friday, the Pentagon raised the figure to include additional deaths.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Pentagon raises official toll of troops who died during war with Iran to 21
The Post exclusively reported last month that the numbers of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting in its public database.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/10/2026
Hegseth owes the public a clear accounting of how his new projects will make the country safer—not from ideas he doesn’t like, from people he finds substandard, or from cultural currents he doesn’t partake in, but from America’s foreign enemies.
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Pete Hegseth Made Six Big Announcements. I Have Lots of Questions.
Like: Who? And: Why? Among others.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The epitome of greed is to have more money than you could ever spend in 100 lifetimes and still refuse to pay your employees a livable wage.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
10 October 1943 | After the selection of 1,000 Jews deported to Auschwitz from Drancy, 491 people were immediately murdered in the gas chamber. One of those killed was Charlotte Salomon, a German-Jewish artist from Berlin. The author of the autobiographical series "Life? or Theater?: A Song-play".
A girl, Charlotte Salomon, painting outsite. She is sitting surrounded by grass.Self portrait of Charlotte Salomon.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ONE WEEK FROM TODAY IS NO KINGS #4 (Details at: nokings.org) We must turn up in MASSIVE numbers to show the world we don't support this Administration or a criminal president who has enriched himself to an obscene level at the expense of everyday hardworking Americans! #GettingReadyToDump-tRUMP 🟠💩 👎
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Super dumb: “Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department.”
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Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website (Gift Article)
The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 09/10/2026
Yesterday, ICE agents in New York shot Oscar Belgal in the neck while his son was in the backseat. This horrifying violence isn't a surprise — it's a predictable result of this rogue agency's brutal mass deportation drive. Enough is enough, Congress must stop these ICE raids NOW.
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Stop ICE's Killings
ICE is traumatizing families and communities across the country. Agents have shot, injured, and killed multiple people in our streets as part of Stephen Miller and President Trump’s crusade against im...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights
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Know Your Rights: Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) - MOIA
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A new lawsuit has been filed opposing the construction of Trump's planned "egregious and unlawful proposed" arch at Memorial Circle. We partnered with @VoteVets and @TCLFdotORG to educate Americans about the controversy surrounding the arch and give a voice to the veterans, Gold Star families, hist
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026
An ICE agent on the scene of a shooting in upper Manhattan on Thursday has repeatedly been accused in federal court of unlawful arrests and using force during arrests in New York and Minneapolis, a WIRED investigation finds.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
NEW: Have you had a prior authorization request delayed or denied by your health insurer? We want to hear from you. Your experiences help us better understand the real-life stakes.
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We’re Investigating Prior Authorization. Help ProPublica Understand Your Health Insurance Denial.
ProPublica is looking into the ways health insurers’ use of prior authorization impacts patients. We need your help to figure out if the process is still leading to delayed or missed treatments, tests...
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
9 October 1932 | A French Jewish girl, Rose Aboulafia, was born in Paris. In April 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her mother Victoria and younger sister Odette. They were murdered in a gas chamber. --- Ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
Vintage black and white photo featuring two young girls, one seated and the other standing, posing for a portrait with a blurry background.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026
“A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.” theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...
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ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE shot a man in New York City today while he was in a vehicle with a 5-year-old child. Abolish ICE.
nytimes.com
ICE Agent Shoots Man in New York City (Gift Article)
The person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooti...
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Kraig Peck @kraigpeck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson signs grocery 'fair pricing' into law, bans surveillance! www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Seattle mayor signs grocery ‘fair pricing’ into law, bans surveillance
Seattle is the first city in the U.S. to prevent large grocery retailers and delivery services from using personal information to manipulate prices customers pay.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: The ICE agent seen wearing a hi-vis vest and waving around an AR-style rifle at the scene of the shooting in New York was a supervisor named Brenden Cuni, who has a history of alleged violence and lying in court. @dmehro.bsky.social, @awinston.bsky.social, and @regret.bsky.social report:
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 09/10/2026
Across America, there is trouble at food banks. Overwhelmed by some of the same economic challenges as the people seeking their assistance, including skyrocketing costs of groceries and fuel, food bank officials say they are nearing a breaking point — and many blame federal budget cuts.
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Overwhelmed food banks face ‘heartbreaking’ choices amid rising hunger
The Trump administration’s cuts and changes to federal food benefits are driving record need in many communities, dozens of food banks told NBC News in a survey.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I spoke to @kattenbarge.bsky.social about the media coverage of “inconsistencies” in Jane Doe’s case, as well as my own experience with USA Today misusing my words in a story smearing her. As always, Kat understands the way victims are punished from coming forward. This article is a must-read.
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Debunking the smear campaign against the Cornell Jane Doe
Authorities, media outlets, and pundits are lying about this woman. But only her credibility is getting judged.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor / Shall be lifted—nevermore!” ~From Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 gothic poem "The Raven." Poe (b. Jan. 19, 1809) died in Baltimore at age 40 on this day 177 years ago: Oct. 7, 1849. Image: Public domain.
This black and white photo shows a mustachioed man, Edgar Allan Poe, wearing a dark coat, vest, and tie with a white shirt. He looks at the camera or perhaps just off to his right.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
7 October 1916 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Sophie Slier-Roselaar, was born in Amsterdam. In October 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Video about the history of Auschwitz: youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
Black and white portrait of a woman in profile, with short wavy hair and wearing a knitted sweater.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
7 October 1889 | A Czech Jewish woman, Anna Freundová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 15 December 1943. She was registered in the family camp for Jews from #Theresienstadt. She did not survive.
Vintage sepia-toned photograph of a woman wearing a bowler hat and a tailored coat, standing among leafy bushes.
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