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Martin Kuz @martinkuz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A week ago, a Russian missile gutted a church in Kramatorsk. Moscow has destroyed at least 740 religious sites in Ukraine, and in each case—and as with every one of the hundreds of strikes on civilian targets daily—there is but a single purpose: terror. And still the regime in DC shrugs. Or cheers.
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Lost sanctuary
Russia’s war of annihilation guts another church as Kramatorsk is slowly ground to dust
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Martin Kuz @martinkuz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As the drone's buzzing persisted, Olga realized that another civilian victim would mean nothing to the occupiers. She accepted that to live she needed to leave. “Every day you are scared, holding your breath. You feel like you are always hiding,” she told me. “The drones are everywhere.”
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Droning on and on
As Russia terrorizes Ukraine with faster, deadlier drones, the Trump regime pays lip service to ending the war
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Aalia Mauro @aaliamauro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I didn’t go to Palestine just to “see”. I went to do protective presence against settler violence, meaning protected Palestinians from and to olive groves and documented violence, apartheid, and segregation.
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Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
28 September 1865 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson made history by becoming the first English woman to officially qualify as a doctor. She later achieved another major milestone by becoming the first female surgeon in England. #History #HistoryMatters
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 28/09/2026
A new lawsuit challenges Medicaid regulations set to go into effect Jan. 1 that could hinder access to healthcare for people with chronic conditions. A Kansas City-based nonprofit says its client qualifies but struggles to clear administrative hurdles.
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140,000 Missourians are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage under a new rule. One enrollee is suing
A new lawsuit challenges Medicaid regulations set to go into effect Jan. 1 that could hinder access to healthcare for pe
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Captain Wonder @capta1nw0nd3r.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
American health care creates no incentive for pharma companies to cure diseases. When you cure a disease, the customers go away. There's no money in that. Curing patients is not a sustainable business model, per Goldman Sachs. news.slashdot.org/story/19/02/...
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Sock Puppet Pundit @sockpuppetpundit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This happened last night. People are like, "How'd kids get guns?" There are politicians who want 18-year-olds to have more access to guns. Kids get guns because gun makers make money selling guns by convincing people they need to defend themselves from the guns manufacturers already sold.
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Georgia park mass shooting wounds 11 teens at birthday party
The wounded victims were identified as four 18-year-old men, five 17-year-old boys and two 18-year-old women, according to the sheriff's office.
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Fabian Society @thefabians.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beyond The Screen: Tackling Online Violence Against Women and Girls In partnership with @refugecharity.bsky.social Tom Collins MP | Ellie Butt | Janaya Walker | Dr Sonia Adesara
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Alma R Ramirez 🤣 @almarosar572.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h... SURE it was "self defense "
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the Texans out there - vote Talarico if you want to change the 30 years of decline in your state
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
texans, you are going to see this clip once a week and twice on sundays until the election
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Moraa Unredacted @omoraa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don’t make legends out of them by calling them the Cornell 7. Call them what they are: the Cornell rapists.
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
President #Zelenskyy 💬 "Every russian terrorist attack results in casualties that could have been prevented if the pressure on russia had finally become all-out. We must oppose everything that finances and produces russia’s weapons of terror, and everyone who uses them.
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Rep. Lloyd Doggett @doggett.house.gov · 28/09/2026
ICE continues on a brutal and lawless rampage leaving a US citizen injured in Illinois. The Austin shooting on Sunday was hardly an isolated incident. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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U.S. Citizen Injured During Mistaken Detention by ICE Near Chicago
The Department of Homeland Security said agents released the man after he identified himself. He was taken to a hospital with head and neck injuries, local police said.
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
FULL STORY: A Chicago police officer who investigators say raped and beat his then 19-year-old girlfriend more than seven years ago should be fired, the agency tasked with investigating police misconduct and former Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling agreed, records show. @wttw.bsky.social
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Top Cop Agrees to Fire Officer Who Investigators Say Raped, Beat Teen Girlfriend: Records
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability determined that not only did Officer Alberto Rodriguez assault his 19-year-old girlfriend but he also held her against her will, conclusions endorsed by fo...
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Over 120,000 people marched across France calling for action to halt global heating. www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
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Thousands march for climate across France: 'I wish there were more of us, after the summer we've just had'
From Bordeaux to Paris, organizers say 120,000 people took part in 260 demonstrations 'for the climate, for life, for peace, for social justice.
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Undead Kat, The Oracle Near Delphi Falls. @originallabgrrl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My son was told about affirmative consent his entire life, so much so that I was wrestling with the cat which was growling at me (not seriously and she was a cat who growled when she was playing also when she ate food) and my toddler son told me that the cat said no. That shit's not hard to teach.
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auntyr.bsky.social @auntyr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know what? I have absolutely no problem posting this. I hope it follows them for years.
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Tony🫘 @mcdeathbruger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When men do it, it's called "holy", when women do it, it's called "wicked" Fuck religion.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 27/09/2026
On this day in 1958, after violent resistance to integrating Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, white residents voted to close local public schools rather than comply with federal desegregation orders.
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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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Valerie Bertinelli @wolfiesmom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We could’ve had a woman who prosecuted rapists as a president. Instead, we got a rapist as a president. 
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A core belief uniting Trumpists with Silicon Valley tech bros is that society should be organized around male entitlement to sex: a cross between Mad Men and the old Playboy Mansion.
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️
Rachel Carson photo credit: Science History Images / Alamy
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natou @tichatnwa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i need you to understand something our friends in gaza are not just dying they are being murdered they have survived this long and they are being slowly murdered w lack of food . water . medicine . shelter and that's on top being constantly bombed and shot at fucking help
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Denisovian @denisovian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Israel is deliberately employing a scorched earth policy in Gaza. The olive harvest is about to begin and so the IDF has sent in the bulldozers to flatten, uproot and torch the olive groves on the West Bank. Some of those trees were older than the state of Israel.
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Civil.ge @civil.ge · 27/09/2026
"Abkhazia is Georgia. Glory to heroes. Russia is enemy" - crowds march to mark the anniversary of Fall of Sokhumi. 📹 Nini Gabritchidze/Civil.ge
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...
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Sept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring Published
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.
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The Epstein Files @pattytrelles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vote. Vote. Vote. 🗳️ Vote 🗳️ BLUE 🗳️ No matter who
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Tiger-Fred @tiger-fred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lets not forget that Palestine is still undergoing a genocide. It's not gone away. The press has stopped talking about it and people are forgetting the horror of it all. That's how people become manipulated.
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BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More @bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BRITISH COLUMBIA: “A new program is offering free doorbell cameras to survivors of domestic abuse across British Columbia.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - CBC News BC #BritishColumbia #DomesticAbuse #DomesticViolence #PublicSafety
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New B.C. program gives domestic abuse survivors doorbell cameras | CBC News
An initiative led by the B.C. Society of Transition Houses (BCSTH) in partnership with Tech Safe B.C. will provide 3,000 Ring doorbells to survivors across the province.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Lady Di @ladydi2020.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is where we are at. The U.S. was the only one to oppose… 😡 #Pinks
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BanmarNJ @banmarnj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Witnesses recount Sunday's ICE incident in Evanston, ‘He was screaming ‘I’m a U.S. citizen. Leave me alone’
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Witnesses recount Sunday's ICE incident, ‘He was screaming ‘I’m a U.S. citizen. Leave me alone’ - Evanston RoundTable
When federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents attempted to detain a resident — who they later discovered was a U.S. citizen — last Sunday
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Karen Mulreid @beatingblog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm actually really annoyed now. God we're so complicit, as a country. Our Government is so weak on Palestine, still haven't passed the Occupied Territories Bill, still haven't officially expelled the ambassador, now we're still engaging with them internationally in sport. No. It's not right.
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A.J. @andynear70.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
substack.com/@politepoet/...
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Polite Poet (@politepoet)
Great idea.
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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"federal agents who were arresting a man in Maplewood, NJ earlier this week called out the full names of bystanders who were filming the incident." villagegreennj.com/community/ic...
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ICE Agents Use Intimidation Tactics on Bystanders During Arrest in Maplewood - The Village Green
”They were using their full names and addresses, telling them to go back inside, not to bother. It was clear that it was being done to intimidate or suppress the community from being out and being res...
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Dav Raye @davraye.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's how this big government bureaucracy is going to keep millions of eligible voters from voting, nearly all because they have foreign or black sounding names. By the time they can prove they are citizens the election will be over. This is all very well planned, no accidents in US politics.
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Jarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 24/09/2026
Amazing editorial cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 😃
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Rick Allen @rallennautilus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An eyewitness has described how two federal immigration agents allegedly beat and badly injured a US citizen in a botched arrest attempt in Illinois, and left the man dazed and bleeding on the ground as they walked away after realizing their apparent mistake. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US citizen injured after ICE agents reportedly mistook him for fugitive
Man left bloodied and hurt after immigration enforcement agents tried to arrest him in Evanston, a Chicago suburb
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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
U.S. has worse wealth distribution than pre-revolutionary France did. #EconSky
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Rise Up Western Mass Indivisible ❌👑 @ruwmi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Join us for this month’s multi-state coordinated overpass standout! Friday, 4:00-5:00PM www.mobilize.us/riseupwester...
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Overpasses for Democracy: I91-Longmeadow (Monthly) · Rise Up Western Mass Indivisible
Stand up for democracy with your neighbors across the region! Hundreds of us will stand with banners, flags, and signs on overpasses across Massachusetts, Vermont, and Connecticut. These standouts hav...
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Scare-ah Boo-le 👻 🎃 @thesarahboyle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A cat rescue in Rockaway Beach just said "We won't adopt to anyone who supports ICE and you should unfollow us on social media" and I am here for it. How many animals have become homeless due to ICE snatching up their families? Have any suffered and died in an empty house? Cruelty trickles down.
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Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine @ldfpalestine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Magnificent speech by King Abdullah of Jordan at the UN General Assembly, calling out Israel’s war crimes. x.com/AJENews/stat...
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Al Jazeera Breaking News (@AJENews) on X
Jordan's King Abdullah II decried Israeli settler incursions in the occupied West Bank as a strategy of ‘forced displacement’ that should be considered a war crime.
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Kgusler @kgusler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Scientists say a critical Atlantic Ocean current is weakening and the effects could be global
Scientists have found strong observational evidence that a key part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has been weakening across a wide stretch of ocean for nearly two decades. The slo...
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Dave 86-47 @bulldogdemocrat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NFL study reveals CTE in 25% of players who died sports.yahoo.com/articles/nfl...
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NFL study reveals CTE in 25% of players who died
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — In a new study posted by ESPN, at least one in four NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021, had degenerative brain disease known as CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy). ...
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