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Linguaphile from the US who also cares about current events. Learning Polish, also dabbling in Persian, Thai, French, Japanese, Greek, and other languages here and there. E pluribus unum.

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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 2h
Sudan has faced many cholera outbreaks in its history, usually driven by seasonal rains and weak infrastructure. "Over the past two years, war altered the pattern... our teams have seen cholera follow the routes of conflict." More:
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Why we could not stop cholera in Sudan | MSF
In 2024 and 2025, Sudan endured the deadliest cholera outbreak in its modern history. Dr Micaela Serafini, President of MSF in Switzerland, reflects on the lessons learned from the outbreak.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h
Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.
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Mean Bean Machine 🤍🇦🇫🇵🇸🇸🇩 @floppergostic.bsky.social · 3h
You can literally go to jail for prescribing medications without a proper medical license, but I guess AI doesn't need a license to do the same exact thing. Make it make sense.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · 5h
"No explosion, no ban, and no government can destroy a girl’s dream forever." Fereshteh survived a suicide bombing, earned a spot at Kabul University, and was blocked at the gates by the Taliban. Three years later, she still refuses to surrender. zantimes.com/2026/10/06/i...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15h
A lot of what’s happening doesn’t seem to be spreading anymore by mainstream media. A tree that stood for an estimated 150–250 years was destroyed today to make way for Trump’s border wall.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17h
The IDF came into my Twitter replies to try & boost their fake report accusing Palestinian journalists they murdered of being Hamas. But when Piers Morgan invited them to debate the so-called evidence with me, they didn't show up so... he empty-chaired them. And then I debunked their 'study':
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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 05/10/2026
In Gaza, Palestine, Israel continues to systematically destroy the conditions people need to survive through violence, the deliberate blockade of essential supplies, and the destruction of healthcare and vital infrastructure.
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Three years on: Israel is asphyxiating Gaza and dismantling the means of survival | MSF
In Gaza, Palestine, Israel continues to systematically destroy the conditions people need to survive.
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Mean Bean Machine 🤍🇦🇫🇵🇸🇸🇩 @floppergostic.bsky.social · 20h
When you say "not tea" are you including all steeped hot drinks? There are a lot of flower "teas" that are really good. Also chicory root "coffee". Other than that... warm vanilla oat milk is nice.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026
Donald Trump might believe he’s going to overcome his historic unpopularity by sabotaging the midterms. On October 17, millions of Americans are taking to the streets again to make it clear that’s not happening. Please join us for the next No Kings Day.
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No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wilber was finally able to undergo surgery on Thursday—11 days after he was shot. “When ICE can shoot a man in the back and then barely give him any medical treatment and let him suffer, there’s a reason for that because we have gotten to a point where we see people as less than human.”
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Austin man has surgery 11 days after being shot by ICE agent
The surgery on the Venezuelan national, who has been in custody since his Sept. 20 run-in with an immigration officer, removed the bullet lodged in his back.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 05/10/2026
#ThisIsGenocideNotACeasefire: Israel continues to kill Palestinians, attack hospitals and block access to aid and healthcare. Meanwhile, world leaders are failing to stop it. We call for the protection of civilians in #Gaza and the lifting of restrictions on aid.
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 05/10/2026
When an Iranian drone struck Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, on March 1st, there were no sirens, no air defenses, and no plan to care for the wounded. Six American service members were killed that day, and the ones who survived are now speaking out. They all deserve better. apnews.com/article/iran...
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Exclusive: Soldiers and Gold Star families press Army leadership after deadly Iranian drone strike
U.S. troops wounded in a drone attack that killed six soldiers in Kuwait question Army leadership over safety and say the military medical system failed them.
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Piotr Gąsiorowski @piotrgasiorowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Polytrichum piliferum (bristly haircap moss), in the third photo accompanied by Cetraria aculeata (spiny Iceland lichen). Koziegłowy, Wielkopolska (western Poland). #mosses #mchy #bBryophyta #lichens #porosty #fungi #grzyby #bryology #lichenology #mycology
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ButterflyGuy99 @butterflyguy99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Happy Sunday! Can you spot the Velvetbean moth among the leaves? If I had not seen it fly and land, there is no way I would have seen it. Species name is Anticarsia gemmatalis. #Photography99 📷 #Moths
Camouflaged brown moth among the brown leaves. It also looks like a brown leaf.
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Mean Bean Machine 🤍🇦🇫🇵🇸🇸🇩 @floppergostic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The word "adopted" is doing some heavy lifting here.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
The President, who continues to hide service member casualties, is now sending up to another 10,000 troops to his illegal war of choice in Iran. When Trump says he's planning on renewing his war next month, believe him. Congress must cut off funding. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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U.S. Sending Third Aircraft Carrier, Up to 10,000 More Troops, to Middle East
The deployments come as President Trump weighs resuming bombing Iran after the midterms.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists Destroy 99% of Cancer Cells in the Lab Using a Chemo-Free "Molecular Jackhammer" Activated by light, these tiny molecules vibrate 40 trillion times per second, tearing apart cancer cell membranes and destroying them without relying on chemotherapy.
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"'In Afghanistan, I don't feel alive. It feels like a dark pit that we girls have fallen into.' For Afghan women forcibly deported from Iran and Pakistan, the return means losing everything: education, careers, and freedom. zantimes.com/2026/10/02/o...
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 02/10/2026
More than half of all VA medical centers are now reporting severe staffing shortages. 97% of facilities can't fully staff their doctors, and 58% can't hire enough psychologists. The Trump administration has cut roughly 30,000 VA jobs. Now, Veterans are paying the price. @repvindman.bsky.social
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Cat R.T.(R)(CT)(ARRT) @cats-2024.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A YES vote for Amendment 6 Nov 3rd mandates that all ballot summaries must be clear, unbiased, and easy to understand AND protects our constitutional right for citizen initiative and referendum petition process.
Register to vote by: OCTOBER 7
Early voting begins: OCTOBER 20
Election Day: NOVEMBER 3
~ Missouri Voters Should Have the Final Say, Not Politicians ~
Amendment 6 protects and strengthens our freedom to pass laws through the citizen initiative petition process. Written by everyday Missourians,
AMENDMENT 6 protects your vote from being overturned, guarantees clear ballot language, and protects your right to use the initiative process.
Vote YES ON AMENDMENT 6 on
November 3, 2026.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot. Salah Sarsour was arrested and jailed. The next victim of ICE's cruelty could be you. We must all speak out and demand accountability.
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‘She was pure love’: Renee Good’s partner makes first public comments as family sues U.S. government, ICE officer over her killing
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Good, 37, in the driver’s seat of her SUV during a Jan. 7 en
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At least 56 people have died in ICE custody during Trump’s second term. According to ICE’s internal reviews, detention staff did not provide sufficient medical care to at least six of those detainees. ICE has now taken down those reviews from its website. What other cruelty is ICE trying to hide?
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ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of il
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#NoKings October 17th! Make a plan for October 17th. Make a plan to vote. www.nokings.org
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No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good to be reminded of the young people who helped bring communism in central Europe to a peaceful end. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Americans Can Stop Trump’s Unconstitutional Coup at Any Stage
Trump's ambassador reportedly threatened to overthrow Greece's elected government, as the Justice Department criminally investigates Jack Smith.
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Missouri Workers Center @moworkers.org · 29/09/2026
We’re proud to join workers with @sbworkersunited to #BoycottStarbucks until baristas win a fair union contract. We’re fed up with unchecked corporate greed and wealthy executives ignoring their workers. Let’s show Starbucks that working people stand together ➡️ buff.ly/aSGuneO
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Zan Times @zantimes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Despite interventions from a judge and Amnesty International, Islamabad police still refuse to register a case for missing Afghan journalist Qasim Hashimi, simply because he lacks a visa. zantimes.com/2026/09/29/a...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/09/2026
Millions of Americans will take action on October 17 to make it clear to the regime that we won’t sit by while they threaten to sabotage the midterms. Join a No Kings event to drive massive early voting and recruit tons of volunteers to help protect our elections: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
(around a map showing the more than 1,000 events planned for the next No Kings on October 17) NO KINGS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE EARLY!
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 29/09/2026
1 million seconds ago: about 2 weeks ago. 1 billion seconds ago: 1994. Elon Musk’s net worth is (currently) $910 billion. So...how long ago was 910 billion seconds?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every single word of this. We are embarrassed. We are furious. Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt is unfit for office. He’s a clown. He’s a danger to our country. And he can’t be trusted with the pile of dog shit in my backyard. His term is up in 2028.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
The US says our # 1 priority abroad is protecting Americans. But in the West Bank, 9 Americans have been killed by Israeli settlers or security forces with no justice. Meanwhile, they attack Palestinians daily with total impunity. Today, I'll force a vote to demand accountability.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The mortality reviews that ICE published late last week show that medical neglect is widespread in Trump's concentration camps — something immigrants, advocates and attorneys have said for years, and which ICE routinely denies. New from me in @prospect.org.
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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect
The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: We must abolish ICE. "These black box detention centers are for-profit institutions... that's why they're going after every man, woman and child that is engaging in productive activity... because the CEOs of GEO Group & CoreCivic have profits to post."
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Piotr Gąsiorowski @piotrgasiorowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dicranum polysetum (EN rugose forkmoss, PL widłoząb kędzierzawy). Wronczyn, Zielonka Forest, Wielkopolska (western Poland). #mosses #mchy #Bryophyta #bryophytes #mszaki #bryology #mossfriends
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Caturday OMG….
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unnerving @washingtonpost.com exclusive: US and Russia worked in secret to remove "a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons." For instance, leave targeting to AI, no human review required. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4yWadkR
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Piotr Gąsiorowski @piotrgasiorowski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Porozmawiajmy w języku praprzodków sprzed siedmiu tysięcy lat.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 26/09/2026
The president who called American soldiers that died in war “suckers” and “losers,” is now hiding the number of service members killed & injured in his war of choice. Absolutely disgraceful.
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Jason Rosenbaum @jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BREAKING: THE SUPREME COURT SAYS MISSOURI MUST USE THE 2022 MAP IN THE NOV. 3 ELECTION.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rowan MacGregor, UK based artist making delicate copper sculptures #WomensArt
Flat copper artwork featuring a central tree with birds and a human figure either side of the trunk
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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 24/09/2026
🔴 West Bank: On 23 September, Israeli forces demolished the homes of 91 people in Jinba, Masafer Yatta, Palestine. They destroyed 12 homes, including one belonging to an MSF community health worker, plus water tanks and animal shelters. This is the third mass demolition in Masafer Yatta this month.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction upbraiding ICE for mass arrests that have strained detention facilities and forced detainees all over the country into "overcrowded, squalid, and degrading rooms for excessive periods of time" www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...
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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 24/09/2026
“We all felt scared when we heard the sound of explosions, we all have families who live close to the site of the explosion, and we were worried about them. But as a medical team, the patient comes first and we provided the best care for all cases.
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 24/09/2026
Elon Musk's DOGE is gone, but the wreckage it left behind at the VA is still being felt. A new VA Inspector General report found that DOGE, alongside Trump's VA appointees, terminated 435 contracts worth a total of $1.1 billion. www.stripes.com/veterans/202...
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$1 billion in VA contracts terminated following requests from DOGE, senior officials
Most of the terminated contracts were for consulting services, which included administrative and program management as well as communications.
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scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 24/09/2026
10/10 banger 🥭 🍍 🍌 🍉
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Mean Bean Machine 🤍🇦🇫🇵🇸🇸🇩 @floppergostic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm gonna be honest, at first I didn't even parse that she said "same-sex" bathrooms... Like ma'am at this point I think you're *more* progressive than most Dems if you're against same-sex bathrooms 😂
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Piotr Gąsiorowski @piotrgasiorowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Przyszła jesień, nie ma na to rady. Z tej okazji przypominam wpis o pochodzeniu nazwy jesieni i jej różnych nawiązaniach etymologicznych. eksperymentmyslowy.pl/2025/09/15/e...
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