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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 09/10/2026
Israel a rare dissenting voice as praise pours in for Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay
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Israel a rare dissenting voice as praise pours in for Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay
Advocates of human rights and international justice cheered, even as Israeli officials fumed, after South African jurist and former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The 85-year-old drew wide praise for decades of work, including investigating crimes in Rwanda, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. 
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan. “releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When I was young, my mother told me to be very wary of people offering up shiny objects. Thanks, Mom.
News headline from Forbes article:
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Jeff Bezos Claims Al Could Allow For 3-Day
Workweeks And One-Income Families
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
Susan Collins claims that our reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account.
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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins
In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Most people use AmEX for the points. In the Amb. Kimberly Guilfoyle texts, it's so the money "won't show" I was an ambassador myself & I've never seen anything like this She denies it, but you can smell this one from Athens! More on @CNN.com 👇
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.
Trump nodding, Susan Dell emoting.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Get the motherfuckin’ popcorn. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary
Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long “Musk” paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
lol
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addiah 🇺🇦 vote blue @addiah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.mediaite.com/media/news/t... The grifter is gonna keep on grifting
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Trump Wants a New Camp David for Future Presidents — at His Own Golf Club
"Just as Camp David, Windsor Castle, or the Elysee Palace are known worldwide, so too will the Presidential Golf Course in Palm Beach County."
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Science Magazine @science.org · 07/10/2026
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry honors Henri Kagan of the Université Paris-Sud and Kenso Soai of Tokyo University of Science for providing clues to how life’s one-handed chemistry might have emerged. Learn more: scim.ag/3Vobwe7
Nobel Prize honors researchers who solved chemistry's asymmetry mystery
Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai win award for reactions leading to one-handed molecules
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A minute ago: Q: What's your view on the Saudi and Yemeni counter attack against the Houthis? TRUMP: It will all work out very well. It's gonna work out very well. Everything is working out!
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 05/10/2026
The Army announced last year that it had enough of a model of armored vehicle and that any more deliveries would be “excess.” But Congress found a way to keep funding alive for the vehicle, and executives at the company found a way to flood key members of Congress with donations. buff.ly/nbAEUVa
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump talking gibberish at the White House: “Canada charged us a lot of tariffs that nobody knew about, except me.”
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
11-yo Andrés lived with his dad in Texas—but was deemed “unaccompanied” by ICE and sent to foster care. “They’re kidnapping people’s kids and keeping them in government custody,” a former Biden official told us. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And by "violating banking laws" CBS News means former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert molested boys he coached for wrestling in high school, boys as young as 14. To-may-to/to-mah-to!
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Mr. Pink Floyd Larson @pinkfloydlarson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm shocked 😲 😯 😮 🫨..but not at all.
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Jt Futurama: Fry's Shocked Reaction
ALT: Jt Futurama: Fry's Shocked Reaction
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 05/10/2026
CBS News set off a firestorm of criticism over its announcement that disgraced Dennis Hastert has died. The network, run by Bari Weiss, left out of its social media post the prison sentence Hastert served after concealing hush-money payments to a former student he had sexually abused.
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CBS News under fire over glaring omission in Dennis Hastert death announcement
CBS News set off a firestorm of criticism over its announcement on social media that disgraced former House speaker Dennis Hastert has died at 84.The longest-serving Republican House speaker was sentenced to 15 months in prison, making him the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to serve a prison ...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Russian officials say she died from pneumonia of an unknown cause, and preliminary tests found no evidence linking her illness to the pathogens she worked with. There are still unanswered questions, but pneumonic plague has not been confirmed at this time.
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Dozens quarantined in Siberia after plague institute lab worker dies
A laboratory worker at a plague research institute in ​Siberia has fallen ill and died in undisclosed circumstances, prompting authorities to quarantine dozens of ‌people, and the head of Russia's hea...
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Leaked audio of Ken Paxton complaining about the Trump team controlling his flailing campaign: "I’ve never been in a race where I felt less control over the campaign. It’s all coming, you know, from DC. I don’t control message or what we’re doing ... I just have to live with whatever I've got"
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The guy who keeps saying the “checks in the mail.”
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The rise in dengue in the US was predicted a quarter century ago by #climate scientists in the first US National Climate Assessment. This article doesn't mention climate change. thehill.com/policy/healt...
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Florida’s dengue outbreak reportedly largest US has seen in decades
A dengue fever outbreak in the state of Florida appears to have grown to the largest in the continental U.S. in decades, totaling 252 reported cases this year in the Sunshine State according to an …
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ken Paxton's joint fundraising committee took $25,000 from one man. That man ran a company ICE pays to fill detention beds in Texas. Republicans fired a sitting senator to get Paxton. He's trailed in eight of nine polls since. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Darline Graham's campaign has filed exactly one finance report. It covers two weeks. An ICE jailer's former CEO is already on it. Some senators take years to get that comfortable. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Adam Kidan was Jack Abramoff's business partner. He went to federal prison for fraud and was ordered to repay $21.7 million. Trump pardoned him anyway. Seven Republicans on the Senate ballot have his money. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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RFI English @en.rfi.fr · 02/10/2026
Farmers unite worldwide against what they call ‘chemical colonisation’
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Farmers unite worldwide against what they call ‘chemical colonisation’
Farmers and activists around the world are mobilising on Saturday for an international day of action against pesticides – denouncing products sold by major agrochemical companies that they say are damaging their health and destroying their livelihoods.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The State Department directed millions of dollars originally earmarked to promote human rights to promote far-right causes including Afrikaner rights in South Africa, safeguarding "Western civilizational norms," and documenting "backsliding" in Europe related to mass migration. cnn.it/471EYZQ
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is this front page news everywhere, the way it would have been if Biden was president?
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 01/10/2026
If "communism is the greatest threat to our country in its history" and he wants to root it out of America, then why is he hanging pictures of communist authoritarians in gilded frames in the White House?
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
El Paso County Attorney Christina Sanchez got a ransom note from Trump: citizenship-check every voter or lose your counterterror money. She called it "reckless" and took him to court. He lost. Everywhere. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cartoon by @danboriscreates.bsky.social. Full Speed Into Midterms.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Over 4,000 Texans showed up for James Talarico in Ken Paxton's home county 👀
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Susan Collins to the now convicted felon she sent taxpayer dollars to while pocketing his campaign contributions: "You've seen me deliver." Vote her out.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The more desperate he gets, the more ludicrous he sounds.
Donald J. Trump O+
@realDonaldTrump
I stated, numerous times, that it would take 4-6 weeks to get rid of THE IRAN NUCLEAR THREAT, and I did it in one night! The rest of the time is just to make sure it stays that way. President
DONALD J. TRUMP
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump is planning to deliver 40,000 - 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, weapons that prompted such concerns about mass casualties in Gaza that the Biden administration halted their delivery. There is little left to bomb in the ruins of Gaza except PEOPLE. Let that roll around in your head for a while.
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When faith becomes murder.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/10/2026
Eric Schmitt’s attempted gotcha of former Special Counsel Jack Smith failed spectacularly—but in Schmitt’s MAGA bubble, there's no such thing as a gaffe, Helen Lewis argues:
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Eric Schmitt’s Very Bad Day at Work
For MAGA politicians, there’s no such thing as a gaffe.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
👀
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
2/ Oof!
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump's Energy Secretary wrote a check to help elect Trump's Senate pick. Under "employer," the filing says "US Dept of Energy." They didn't even bother to hide it. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Donald Trump addressing Hispanic people and making a "you people could survive a great fall because you've had practice illegally climbing over my border wall" joke. He's smart, aware, and sensitive that way.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today, Pretend Patton lectured men who don't, unlike Pete Hegseth, have makeup rooms, on the traditional norms for manliness.
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Lypscratch @lypscratch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I didn’t see this at the time. This should be shared and discussed far and wide. They are _dancing_, playing celebratory music, _WHILE THEY WATCH THE MOB INVADE THE CAPITAL AND POLICE BEING ATTACKED_ on January 6. Celebrating insurrection. Celebrating violence.
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cartogeek @cartogeek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
so is Mango Mussolini planning on blaming Canada when his party loses 'bigly' in the midterms? Trump trade adviser says Canada will 'pay even more dearly' if 'you interfere' in U.S. midterms: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Trump trade adviser says Canada will 'pay even more dearly' if 'you interfere' in U.S. midterms | CBC News
One of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade advisers is threatening repercussions for Canada if it "interferes" in the upcoming midterm elections — though it's not clear what he anticipates the country...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: Sen. Eric Schmitt exposed Jack Smith — as a Caitlin Clark fan. Schmitt's erroneous effort to catch Smith in a lie resulted in Smith confirming he went to see Clark's Iowa Hawkeyes play the Terrapins in Maryland in 2023. w/ Chris Marquette www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Sen. Eric Schmitt pins down Jack Smith — as a Caitlin Clark fan
It appeared that the Missouri Republican misinterpreted a text message reference to the "hawks."
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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