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Alf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social · 2h
I'm so very sad to hear of the death of Esther Ranzen who played an important role in reuniting me with Nicky Winton - the man who saved my life. It's so desperately sad that she couldn't choose assisted dying as was her wish.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 1h
All year, Russia has floated its manufactured narrative that NATO is preparing to blockade Kaliningrad. This week, that propaganda went into overdrive. My latest…
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Why Is Russia Manufacturing a Story About NATO Preparing to Blockade Kaliningrad?
Over the past few months, European governments and intelligence agencies have issued multiple warnings that Russia could be preparing to escalate its attacks against NATO.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h
Republicans keep saying Congress doesn’t need to regulate AI because Big Tech can regulate itself. This is just another form of deregulation under Trump, where financial gains go to the top while the risks and losses trickle down to the rest of us.
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Who Wins in Trump’s Deregulation Spree?
Protecting us from financial predators. Keeping our air and water clean. Making sure our food won’t make us sick.Regulat
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7h
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h
On the same day Trump announces that top tech firms have signed an accord to "self-police" their own AI development, we learned that OpenAI employees and security researchers were reportedly ignored when they brought safety concerns to the company's top executives. See the problem here?
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 5h
One marginal advantage of Trump's idiotic rebranding of AI as "super intelligence" is that it helps to expose which media outlets are fully in the tank for him. There's no official geographical naming excuse this time.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 11h
“Stop accusing us of spying! We’ve been watching you!”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22h
"Everyone knows Frodo’s the hero of Lord Of The Rings, but he’s not in this case, which—I mean, evil is a form of innovation, right?” — Peter Thiel
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Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
BUENOS AIRES—After exhausting a significant amount of his intellectual energy in a series of company launches, a creatively tapped-out Peter Thiel announced Tuesday a new startup called “Frodo, But Ev...
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 4h
Trade figures do not in fact support China Shock 2.0 but why let the facts get in the way of paranoia?
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 4h
I find the imperial attitudes Europe is showing towards China to be utterly nauseating and other countries notice as well, know your place foreigners, to be subservient...
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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 4h
2026: Original Budget Deficit: 👉 3.786 Trillion Rubles minfin.gov.ru/ru/press-cen... End of Year: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but everyone expects it to be a lot more than the original budget (7 trillion and up) IT WILL GET WORSE
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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 4h
2025: Original Budget Deficit: 👉 1.173 Trillion Rubles minfin.gov.ru/ru/press-cen... End of year 👉 5.645 Trillion Rubles minfin.gov.ru/ru/press-cen...
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 4h
Christian nationalist movements are working to criminalize dissent, impose religious rule, & rewrite federal policy. Faith as a Weapon exposes how these ideologies are no longer fringe but embedded in Trump’s inner circle, backed by billionaires, & aligned under a shared goal: a theocratic America.
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Faith as a Weapon: Inside America’s Theocratic Vanguard
Christian nationalism and theocratic extremists didn’t just inspired Jan 6 — they’ve taken over key parts of government, weaponizing faith to dismantle democracy and impose an authoritarian theocratic regime that silences dissent. This poses a direct threat to America’s future.
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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 4h
Today’s auction did fail
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h
The U.S. has withdrawn its last troops from Iraq, 23 years after a Republican president launched a war of choice based on lies that cost trillions of dollars, killed hundreds of thousands of people, and unleashed regional chaos. History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes.
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 2h
So the market is and is going to absolutely throw up all over OATs until the polling changes. And if it doesn’t there’s going to be a European sovereign debt crisis.
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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 6h
The OFZ auction failed minfin.gov.ru/en/document?...
Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation hereby informs about the decision not to fulfill any investor's bids made during the auction of
OFZ Nº 26228RMFS placement on September 30, 2026 due to the absence the acceptable level of prices in these bids.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 7h
A new poll from The 19th News shows faltering Republican support for gender-affirming care bans for trans youth. It also shows that anti-trans ads might be backfiring, with respondents increasingly saying Republicans are talking about trans people too much. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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New Poll From The 19th News Shows Public Turning Against Republican Anti-Trans Healthcare Bans
The poll even shows faltering Republican support for such bans.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h
Fetterman is garbage. He betrays the people who fought for him when he was at his lowest point - and that fight is the only reason he’s in the senate. Now he’s actively working to raise money for Republican PACs.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 7h
Reuters reports that Russia sent NATO a document threatening the use of nuclear weapons if the alliance attempts to isolate Kaliningrad. The alliance responded in writing that its activities are defensive in nature and pose no threat to Russia. www.reuters.com/business/aer...
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Russia sends nuclear warning to NATO as tensions rise in the Baltic
Russia has warned NATO it would be ​ready to resort to nuclear weapons if the Western alliance attempted to cut off Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave that borders the ‌Baltic Sea.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13h
"Shall we adopt this aggressive media and legal strategy?" - No. - No. "Thank you for your media and legal advice, but we are going to do it anyway."
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10h
I'm being told Article XXIV of the WTO GATT says the UK can rejoin the EU unilaterally and under any terms it wants with a one page memo... if Meghan Markle has the courage. Send post. Turn off notifications. Smash phone. Throw phone in river. Enter witness protection. Raise goats.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
If you’ve decided to start calling something by a new name because Donald Trump decided he wants everyone to call it something different, then you are in a cult of pathetic morons.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 10h
If Palantir are so trustworthy, why are they intimidating anyone who criticises them? www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewis-tom…
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'We're watching you': MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel's AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously'. By Carole Cadwalladr
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 10h
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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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 9h
We’ve a report coming out soon on the civil and criminal tax implications of the Manchester City shenanigans. To catch it first you can subscribe to our free newsletter buff.ly/QEAHmgK
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Kungahuset @kungahuset.bsky.social · 11h
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Danny Tommo denied bail and remanded in custody as Tommy Robinson jets off on another luxury holiday searchlightmagazine.com/2026/09/the-...
Court image of danny crying
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 13h
Exam question is, 27 of your neighbours have decided to be in a club, several others have decided to be heavily aligned, do you want to be in it or not.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 14h
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 13h
They KNOW why some trans people fiercely protect this information. They KNOW how profoundly private it is, how disclosure can be dangerous, yet they nevertheless contemplate NON-DISCLOSURE becoming part of the basis of a rape prosecution.
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Bottles @bottles1936.bsky.social · 13h
Yet apparently trans people are expected to navigate their intimate lives beneath the shadow of a prosecutorial interpretation of criminal law that the CPS itself acknowledges has never been determined by the appellate courts. Oh, and the CPS is crystal clear about something else:
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 23h
7/ the whole US is a petrostate discourse misses the fact that the country is the second largest installed base for solar power in the world. solar and battery boom continues under trump. It’s the EV and wind boom that has been curtailed bsky.app/profile/jose...
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 17h
i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better
@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 16h
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Florence @flore14.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🙄 This week, bot farms have been busy posting "russia is not my enemy". Yesterday, russia sent its drones after scientists, doctors and children, after animal shelters, food storage facilities and business centres. It isn't hard to pick a side. Mine has a truck to fund ⤵
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Sublight Drive Crafts @sublightdrive.bsky.social · 14h
Today's the last day to get any kits or templates from my Etsy shop while they're on sale! Go check it out NOW or suffer the consequences!! (the consequences are paying full price at a later date) Behold a small sampling of the spaceships YOU could be building THIS INSTANT:
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 14h
Even bolder, perhaps engage with the real opponents of deeper UK-EU relations, those who have as an example been trying to sink the modest reset under way. But will the Prime Minister be able to take on the Home Office? Because movement of people is the central question.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 14h
A couple of really radical options - engage in Brussels with why the UK wants to talk and what the EU is actually prepared to offer - learn from what has mostly failed in the approach to the EU question for the last ten years Which would quickly narrow the path forward.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 14h
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23h
Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims
Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 29/09/2026
UK police say no explosive devices found in airbase probe reut.rs/3U03EPo
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UK police say no explosive devices found in airbase probe
Britain's counter-terrorism police said on ​Tuesday that no improvised explosive ‌devices had been found as part of an investigation into a suspected plot targeting a British ​airbase used by US forces ​to strike Iran.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Russell Brand is currently charged in the UK with 3 counts of rape, 3 counts of sex assault, and 1 count of indecent assault. He is set for trial in London in two weeks.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After heavy lobbying and huge donations from Big Tech, Trump killed a proposed Biden-era rule requiring AI companies to disclose their riskiest experiments to federal officials. Everything is for sale. This is worth a read: www.levernews.com/ai-regulation-was…
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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest
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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Notes from Russia’s 1998 financial crisis: See how quickly these things can spike? www.everycrsreport.com/files/199902...
High Interest Rates. For a critical period in 1998, Russian interest rates increased sharply as a sign of loss of investor confidence. In May 1998, interest rates on GKOs, that is Russian treasury bills used to finance government budget deficits, roughly doubled from 27.8% the month before, to 54.8%. They continued to climb and peaked at 135.3% in August 1998. Other critical interest rates also climbed to very high levels. The Russian Central Banks's refinancing rate spiked at 150% during the week of May 27 to June 4, 1998. While rates have decreased they nevertheless remain high. High interest rates cripple Russia's ability to finance its government budget deficits and have stifled investment in the non-government sector as well.
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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For January-August 2026 the number of registered companies and individual entrepreneurs specializing in grain growing decreased by 34,6% vs 2025 due to the decrease in profitability and uncertainty of exports. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8988938
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Инвесторы скосили излишки
Количество регистраций бизнеса по выращиванию зерна упало на 34,6%
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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Russian business news 29/Sep/2026: Putin signed a decree making the information about the fuel and energy sector classified. Things included are volumes sold, prices, buyers, sellers, routes, delivery times. Everything we used so far. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8989019
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Сливать не велено
Президент РФ засекретил информацию о топливно-энергетическом комплексе
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Until the Reagan years, the SEC considered stock buybacks to be illegal stock manipulation. Now, NVIDIA has announced the largest buyback in American history — fueled by the data center boom. It's time to make buybacks illegal again.
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Stock Buybacks, Explained | Robert Reich
Robert Reich explains that Trump's corporate tax is going to stock buybacks, leaving most workers behind.Watch More: Tru
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