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Jesse Farrell

@jfarrell.eurosky.social
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🏳️‍⚧️ powerlifter, unfree software repairbot, cat mum. 🏉: UBB/Leinster/🇮🇪 (♂️) 🇼🇸/🇹🇴/🇫🇯/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (♀️). @pingouin@tech.lgbt in fediverse. 🇧🇧🇲🇸 Pro-democracy, antifa-scist. Capitalism is a choice.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h
The National Association of Evangelicals has now aligned itself fully with the statement of Archbishop Coakley for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, condemning Hegseth's plans for a live-streamed execution at Ft Hood. religionnews.com/2026/10/09/h...
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Catholic, evangelical leaders condemn public execution plan of Fort Hood gunman
(RNS) — ‘The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people,’ Archbishop Paul S. Coakle...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11h
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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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 4h
This is clearly not acceptable
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Ruth Nineke @ruthnineke.co · 7h
If you look around at the world, your environment, or your reality and they're not what you want, then you have to dream up a new one and build it. For every complaint you have, find the action - not word, action - within your reach, and do something about it. The life you want IS ON YOU.
There is never a reason to stop believing in yourself or following your dreams.What are you giving people?Our lives are short and unpredictable. Our passions and our hearts must be our only guidance.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11h
I like it and I'd like more of it
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 9h
A batch of previously undisclosed documents also reveals Exxon promoted climate-solution claims, such as its work on biofuels and carbon capture and storage, that its own scientists said were unlikely to reach commercial scale: arstechnica.visitlink.me/tPZG9V
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Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign
Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Additionally, JD Vance announced that Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, Pitt, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT are also under investigation for their use of J-1 visas
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 6h
Huge opportunity for any anglophone country not undergoing nativist paroxysms right now
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 8h
It would really be great if folks not affiliated with the Trump Administration could stop using "Department of War." The Department of Defense is a statutory creation, and the name is statutorily given--the administration cannot unilaterally change it.
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Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Carney just appointed Danielle Smith's top justice official, who oversaw the 4x use of the notwithstanding and anti trans laws. The discrimination of kids with disabilities. The americanization of election laws etc etc etc. www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
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Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Alberta
The Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, today announced the following appointments under t...
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HG Rugby @huwgriffinrugby.bsky.social · 6h
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Alan Siegel @alansiegella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"The apotheosis of insanity.” For the 20th anniversary of 30 Rock, I went deep on my favorite thing about it: all the fake shows, movies, and songs. With help from Tina Fey. www.theringer.com/2026/10/08/t...
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From ‘MILF Island’ to ‘The Rural Juror’: Inside the Fake World of ‘30 Rock’
Nothing explains the greatness of the NBC sitcom—which premiered 20 years ago—like its TV, movie, and song parodies. “They were a treat to write,” says Tina Fey.
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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 23h
3 UK universities have now discontinued Turnitin as a result of their plans (past, present, and future) to train AI models using student data. At BCIT, I am making sure Turnitin is on the agenda. You should too. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/more-un... (must be logged in with free account)
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More universities end Turnitin contracts as concerns mount
Newcastle and Westminster join Southampton in decision not to renew deal with plagiarism checker amid questions over how once-ubiquitous service is adapting to AI age
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 9h
Also I'm not being funny but no, the US has not done something comparable to a public execution in a very long time.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 7h
Folks...she's coming back to Michigan. Join @aoc.bsky.social and me in the UP on October 15th! ESCANABA: a4-m.org/escanaba-1015 IRON MOUNTAIN: a4-m.org/ironmountain... MARQUETTE: a4-m.org/marquette-1015
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 6h
One of the Cornell Chi Phi fraternity members alleged to have gang raped "Jane Doe" is trying to get AG Letitia James disqualified from her role investigating what happened in October 2024. I explain his legal filing & why he’s unlikely to succeed at this point: youtu.be/rUlWY5XeuOM?...
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WOW! Cornell FRAT Member Tries To REMOVE NY AG Letitia James From Assault CASE!?
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h
NEWS: Eight major U.S. allies—including Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—have issued a joint rebuke of the Trump regime’s sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court. They vow “unwavering support” for the ICC’s independence.
A vertical graphic on a white background displays an October 9, 2026, joint statement from the foreign ministers of Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The full statement, presented in black serif text, reaffirms unwavering support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), strongly opposes U.S. sanctions against the Court, warns of their impact on its work, staff, and families, and pledges continued support for international justice, accountability, and the rules-based international system.Marco Rubio, mouth agape, as he announces sweeping sanctions on the ICC to try to punish them for acknowledging Bibi Netanyahu’s war crimes
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Kavi Kat 🌬️ @katinthestars.bsky.social · 7h
By impersonating construction workers, ICE invited confidence per the definition of perfidy under Article 37 of Additional Protocol I (1977). This distinguishes this act from ruses of war, violates international humanitarian law, and can be considered war crime. THIS IS DOMESTIC TERRORISM❗️
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Analysis of Brenden Cuni, the Bronx ICE Agent Shooter
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 6h
AOC to campaign with Abdul El-Sayed at six stops next Thursday and Friday, per email:
 NEW YORK – Next week, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed will be joined on the campaign trail by special guest Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Abdul and Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez will join Michiganders to discuss the cost of living crisis, our broken healthcare system, and policy solutions that put money and power back in the pockets of working Michiganders. Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez and Abdul will campaign together in the Upper Peninsula, then the Congresswoman will host solo events in Southeast Michigan.

The people of Michigan are fed up with a status quo that prioritizes the interests of the wealthy, well-off, and well-connected. Together, Abdul and Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez have proven that even in the face of unprecedented outside spending, a movement powered by the people, for the people will always prevail.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h
Will complete the transformation of the FBI into a kayfabe operation
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 23h
‘IceCube’ is a massive detector buried deep in Antarctic ice helping scientists trace elusive “ghost particles” from space — work that just earned the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. Here’s what it took: theconversation.com/icecube-is-b...
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IceCube is built on decades of research into tiny ‘ghost particles’ – but it was the first to find neutrinos coming from deep space
IceCube looks for high energy neutrinos from space. It joins the ranks of complementary experiments that study neutrinos originating closer to home.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 6h
Incumbent U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson is a Bolton, Mississippi, native and a graduate of Tougaloo College and Jackson State University. He was first elected in 1993 and is Mississippi's only Black congressman and the longest-tenured of the state's congressional delegation. buff.ly/jtV3pb5
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Meet the Candidates for Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District
Mississippi voters in the 2nd Congressional District will choose one of three candidates to represent them in Congress on Nov. 3.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h
Adam Hamilton keeps racking up endorsements from retired senior Kansas Republican office holders, who seem to have a very low opinion of the incumbent Sen Roger Marshall.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 6h
Record high Latino turnout while Latino approval of Trump is at 27% spells big trouble for Republicans. Great story 👇🏼
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 6h
More: westernpriorities.org/2026/10/trum...
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Trump exempts Arctic winter oil and gas drilling from environmental review - Center for Western Priorities
The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it will exempt winter oil and gas drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska from the environmental reviews normally required by the National...
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Jesse Farrell @jfarrell.eurosky.social · 4h
Anything beyond a "Trump appoints new Head Spokesliar" headline is just yanqui kremlinology. You know what she's going to do, and it will be substantially the same as what her predecessor did: aggressively lie. The End.
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 6h
We're proud to organize with the East Fishkill community against a proposed data center that would consume more electricity than the entire city of Buffalo. Is it any wonder this town opposes it?
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‘This is not an anti-tech town’: backlash to datacenter in city once home to IBM
Fight in East Fishkill, New York, part of a growing divide over whether AI benefits outweigh enormous downsides
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Carmine @carminemac.bsky.social · 6h
Well, I'm about to.
An "I SAW MUSK" pin. It features a silhouette of Elon Musk holding a chainsaw and #WatchMUSK.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 6h
Okay so. Here’s what’s happened since my original post, and why I’m suddenly boosting this left and right again. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 7h
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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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 6h
The DSA, Schrödinger’s socialists. It’s like this all the time. Official DSA National organs and people will write pro-Fidel stuff and do other praxis posting. But when asked, DSA-ers run away from the label, suggest it’s all fear mongering, and plead smol-beanism. And I like plenty of DSA pols!
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 6h
NEW: An abortion provider suing the FDA for restricting the drug mifepristone obtained emails showing White House staffers meddling in statements about abortion pills. WH made edits to a letter RFK Jr sent to red-state AGs seeking crackdown @autonomynews.co storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA

WHOLE WOMAN’S HEALTH ALLIANCE, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, et al.,
Defendants.
Case No. 3:23-cv-00019-RSB

PLAINTIFFS’ REPLY MEMORANDUM IN FURTHER SUPPORT OF
RETAINING JURISDICTION PENDING REMAND TO FDA

Defendants do not dispute that this Court has the authority to retain jurisdiction over this case pending the completion of FDA’s mifepristone review. See ECF Doc. 101 at 4–5 (citing cases). Nor do they dispute that it would be improper for FDA to disregard the statutory factors that should guide its mifepristone review in favor of political considerations. Instead, **Defendants disparage Plaintiffs’ concern about political interference with FDA’s review as “unfounded speculation.”** ECF Doc. 102 at 4. **Far from it — Plaintiffs have the receipts.**
Last week, in response to a FOIA request, Plaintiffs’ counsel received a production of FDA documents that included **a September 3, 2025 email from an “eop.gov” email address asking FDA and HHS for “a briefing on the status of the FDA [mifepristone] study design and proposed timelines.” Exhibit A. “EOP” stands for “Executive Office of the President” and “eop.gov” is the email address for the White House.** An HHS employee agreed the agencies would “do our best to accommodate.” Id. This document confirms that the threat of political interference with FDA’s review of the scientific evidence is very real. This Court should exercise its authority to retain...

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https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67347356/whole-womans-health-alliance-v-united-states-food-and-drug-administration/?order_by=desc
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h
Eric does great work, folks.
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Kyle Khan-Mullins @kylekhanmullins.bsky.social · 6h
NEW from me for @forbes.com: The House’s, and Congress’s, top 5 data center investors. Number one is a certain former Speaker of the House! www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...
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Here Are The Members Of Congress With The Most Invested In The AI Data Center Boom
Forbes examined financial disclosures for every sitting House member. We found hundreds of representatives and at least $45 million in investments tied directly to the data center boom.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Happy second birthday to @51st.news! Great people doing really great local journalism, and an amazing print edition modeled on the late Express. To many more years!
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 11h
Cable Giants Ironically Plan To Sue FCC For Illegally Killing Media Ownership Limits I've explored how Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr has been working tirelessly to illegally... www.techdirt.com/2026/10/09/cable-g…
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Cable Giants Ironically Plan To Sue FCC For Illegally Killing Media Ownership Limits
I've explored how Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr has been working tirelessly to illegally destroy what's left of already shaky U.S. media consolidation limits. He's particularly interested in helping Trump-friendly local broadcasters like Sinclair, Tegna, and Nexstar merge and dominate what's left of broadcast TV "news," as a very obvious reward for their loyalty to...
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 8h
Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 15h
The last day of the working week is here. But there are no days off on the frontline, no rest for a country trying to survive, protect freedom and democracy. It's Day 1689 of the monumental struggle against a not only corrupt, but psychopathic regime in Moscow I've done this every day, here's the🧵
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 12h
Me continually looking back and forth between the words “POLITICO Europe” and “Peruvian”
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 12h
Schroder’s conduct is particularly galling given Russia’s escalating hybrid warfare against the West, and Germany in particular. Does Germany have no laws to address conduct that serves the interests of a hostile power?
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 11h
I saw an advert for a book on instagram and had purchased it from my local bookshop within an hour and a bit. It made me think that the biggest driver of me buying books is knowing they exist. And that's the hardest thing to let people know as an author, somehow!
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 12h
Yet another example of Germany’s long-standing problem with Russian influence, a problem decades in the making that German leaders seem remarkably reluctant to address on a systematic level. "German leader outraged at Schroeder's birthday visit to Putin" sg.news.yahoo.com/german-leade...
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German leader outraged at Schroeder birthday visit to Putin
Chancellor Friedrich Merz is outraged that former German leader Gerhard Schroeder visited Vladimir Putin in Moscow on the Russian president's birthday, Berlin said Friday.The Kremlin said on Thursday ...
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 11h
In just two days, Russia’s rampage of violence has killed 78 people and wounded 215. Buses attacked. Innocent civilians targeted as they go about their daily lives. Never to return home. Pure and simple - these are war crimes.
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Laurie May @lauriemay.bsky.social · 11h
Also needs to be said that this legal fiction erases the entire intersex community
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Catherine @accomplishedseer.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Twitter is owned by the Kremlin. It operates on the same policies as the Kremlin. www.theguardian.com/news/2017/no...
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Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner investor
Institutions with close links to Kremlin financed stakes through investor in Trump son-in-law’s venture, leaked files reveal
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 11h
Garda watchdog Fiosrú logs breaches including laptop left in Dublin taxi
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Garda watchdog Fiosrú logs breaches including laptop left in Dublin taxi
Sensitive personal information sent to wrong recipient and correspondence delivered to the Garda Commissioner in error
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 11h
The ICE outrages, the inversion of civil rights enforcement, the attacks on voting rights, the bullying of arts institutions, the shakedown of corporations and colleges, and now public executions. The plan is to strip America of democracy and make it a sheikdom.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11h
I became a Public Notice subscriber because I appreciate Aaron Rupar's video clips of today's often absurd political commentary. But I've been pleasantly surprised by the exceptional quality of the written pieces by Aaron and his colleagues. Subscribe!
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12h
Great piece by Lisa Needham for Aaron Rupar’s Public Notice: Trump meme coin investors, including rich foreigners, have lost $3.81 billion but gained an opportunity to bribe the president of the United States. It’s mindblowingly corrupt.
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