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“The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.” Be the light, not the darkness 💖🐢🏝💖✨️🍉💖🌎🥄💖🐈🐕💖🌌🛸💖

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Any serious future for democracy in America requires us to get rid of single-member districts. It is the only long-term solution to this nonsense.
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Over 200 Democracy Scholars Call on Congress to End Single-Member Congressional District
More than 200 political scientists, legal scholars, and historians released an open letter calling on Congress to reject the United States’ winner-take-all elections.
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Despondency @velvetllama.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Cmon if you’re going to name Prince Andrew name the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in this post.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/10/2025
Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel
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Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel
Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide Prominent Jewish figures around the world are calling on the United Nations and world leaders to impose sanctions on Israel over what they describe as “unconscionable” actions amounting to genocide in Gaza. 460 signatories, including former Israeli officials, Oscar winners, authors and intellectuals have signed an open letter demanding accountability over Israel’s conduct in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The letter’s release comes as EU leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday amid reports they plan to shelve proposals for sanctions over human rights violations. Continue reading...
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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Israel breaks ceasefire agreement again by only allowing 15% of aid in
Israel continues to throttle aid as only 89 trucks out of the 600 scheduled are allowed to enter daily - yet another ceasefire violation
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Trump's FTC just deleted articles by former Chair Lina Khan about the dangers of AI. Meanwhile, Trump is fast-tracking data center permits after Big Tech gave huge donations to his inauguration. AI is making the richest Americans even richer while everyone else pays the price.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Trump's shutdown isn't just imperiling millions of Americans' healthcare coverage. Nearly 42M people could lose critical food assistance when SNAP funding runs out in two weeks. Republicans think this shutdown is about punishing Democrats. But in reality, it hurts everyone.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Under Mike Johnson, the House has conducted just 20 days of business in the last 16 weeks and refused to swear in Democrat Adelita Grijalva. Don't forget what this is really about: keeping the release of the Epstein Files at bay.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 21/10/2025
So far this year, 16 states have enacted 29 laws that restrict the vote — a rise from previous years. 28 and parts of the 29th will be in effect for the 2026 midterms. Learn more in the latest State Voting Laws Roundup from the Brennan Center and @goldmanschool.bsky.social:
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State Voting Laws Roundup: October 2025
The number of new restrictive voting laws has increased this year, while legislation aimed at expanding voting access has lagged.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Trump's ballroom donors include: -Google, whose CEO thanked Trump for "resolution" of an antitrust case -Palantir, which has lucrative contracts with ICE -Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, who would profit from Trump's regulatory rollbacks for private equity Pay-to-play.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Trump hosted a dinner last week for White House ballroom donors. Then he went to Mar-a-Lago for a $1 million-per-person dinner benefiting his super PAC. Last night, he treated big GOP donors to dinner on his new White House patio. The government has been shut down for 22 days.
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/10/2025
“What Trump is doing is creating more and more permission structures for people to carry out violence for his goals." Experts point to Trump's encouragement of military generals to be more aggressive by using US cities as “a training ground” to fight “the enemy from within.”
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Are We on a Path to Civil War, or Something Else?
Experts in civil unrest don’t think a civil war is around the corner. But they’re still nervous about what happens next: “The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its fi...
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/10/2025
Experts in civil unrest don’t think a civil war is around the corner. But they’re still nervous about what happens next: “The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED.
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Are We on a Path to Civil War, or Something Else?
Experts in civil unrest don’t think a civil war is around the corner. But they’re still nervous about what happens next: “The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 22/10/2025
Israel returned 195 mutilated Palestinian bodies showing strangulation marks, torture, gunshot wounds to the head, and missing limbs and organs. Israel has been doing this for 30+ years. Read their history of organ theft and trafficking. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/a-br...
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A brief history of Israel’s theft and trafficking of Palestinian organs
There are over three decades of evidence that Israeli doctors harvest Palestinian organs in direct violation of international law. These stolen body parts were not just used for transplantation and re...
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Euronews @euronews.com · 22/10/2025
Spotify users boycott streaming platform over ICE recruitment ads
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Spotify users boycott streaming platform over ICE recruitment ads
Spotify has been running a series of recruitment ads for ICE and said that the ads referring to “dangerous illegals” do not violate their advertising policy. This has prompted more and more subscribers to (further) boycott the streaming giant.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
“Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, fueled by dissatisfaction with President Trump's impact on the economy, immigration, race relations and the nation's global standing.” Even 30% of Republicans don’t want this www.axios.com/newsletters/...
“2. 🚨 Most Americans say U.S. on wrong track
 
A split bar chart showing the share of Americans who say things are headed in the wrong direction, from a survey conducted in August and September 2025. Roughly 60% all Americans say aspects of the government and economy are headed in the wrong direction, with about 90% of Democrats and 25% of Republicans in agreement.
Data: PRRI. Chart: Axios Visuals
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, fueled by dissatisfaction with President Trump's impact on the economy, immigration, race relations and the nation's global standing, Axios' Russell Contreras writes from a new poll with a big, broad sample.

Even among Republicans, a significant share — nearly 30% — gave Trump low marks on the economy and how the government is functioning.@
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists. @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools
Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...
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Front Range Antifascists @frontrangeantifa.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
NEW: CU Boulder sophomore Nathaniel Ellis has been identified as a member of the white supremacist groups Patriot Front and Active Club. Nathan is on the Executive Board for CU Boulder's Turning Point USA Chapter. Read the full report: frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/nathan-ellis/
Three photos of Patriot Front member Nathaniel Ellis
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Chuck Klawans @cklawans.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
ICE becomes, by budget, the 13th largest military in the world. Obviously they need guided missles. www.commondreams.org/news/ice-wea...
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Trump’s ICE Jacks Up Weapons Spending by 700%—Including ‘Guided Missile Warheads’ | Common Dreams
The Trump administration's massive increase in funding for ICE weapons is alarming. ICE is now armed to the teeth, treating its officers as a private military to deploy against Americans. Why does ICE...
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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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LilyisaCat @lilyisacat5.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
$170B budget isn't really for illegal immigration it is being used to build an army that will be used against all of us.
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New Funding Increases Immigration Enforcement
A new law gives federal agencies $170 billion for anti-immigrant enforcement, detention, and deportation. Here’s where the money will go.
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LilyisaCat @lilyisacat5.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Guided Missiles, Chemicals, Bomb supplies WTF!!!!! popular.info/p/ice-boosts...
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ICE boosts weapons spending 700%
A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 28/09/2025
Israeli forces today carried out an airstrike on a home in Al-Zawayda, central Gaza, killing Dr. Ismail Mansour Abu-Rkab, head of the Mental Health Department at Al-Aqsa Hospital, together with his wife Amani and their 16-year-old daughter Shaima. The Health Ministry has now recorded the killing…
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Northwestern is banning over 300 students for refusing to watch an extremist indoctrination video that demonizes anti-Zionists, including Jews, as Nazis and Klansmen. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training
Students say mandatory training video is biased in favor of Israel and could inflame campus tensions over Gaza
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Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
How to drive away foreign investment in the U.S.: www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...
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South Korea Raises Concern After U.S. Immigration Raid At Hyundai EV Battery Plant In Georgia
U.S. immigration authorities detained around 450 people from a Hyundai EV battery plant in Georgia, including more than 300 South Korean nationals.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/09/2025
Video shows the moment Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian journalists in Gaza as they were conducting an interview.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2025
Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year We are getting dumber as a society
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Trump just said ‘knows nothing about’ the 2019 SEAL raid in NK he had to personally sign off on. We’ve accepted lying from our POTUS. What a weak ass press corp not to follow up and let him endlessly spew his propaganda against immigrants.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/09/2025
Genuinely embarrassing to be an American right now.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/09/2025
REPORTER: The DOJ is reportedly considering a ban on trans people owning guns after the Minneapolis shooting TRUMP: Are we talking in the military? REPORTER: No TRUMP: Ok. I thought you were talking about in the military
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Chris Barks @chllsp.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
It's trafficking.Those women (and children) get"deported"bringing in a lot of money from the pimps that buy them.Man often just disappear.Since there is no warrant, no charge, no due process, nobody can find out what happened to them. All they know is not white. Those agents must sleep well at night
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Global Patriot @b21raider.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
You gotta wonder what arrengement they have with the elites in these random countries where they “deport” people to who have no connection to them: El Salvador, Jamaica, Uganda, etc
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Look at her hands clasped together, pleading for mercy. Just terrified that she is never going to see her mother again. These men are animals. Human filth. Do with them what you will. I don't care.
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Charles Cooper 🇨🇦 @charlescooper.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Gestapo. Such cruelty. And Noem is bragging that there have been 5000 arrests in Los Angeles alone. American society will pay the cost in PTSD and moral injury for decades to come.
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irunamuk @irunamuk.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Get clear videos of their faces so they all can be brought to justice when this is over. And so they can have no peace until then.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
ICE kidnapping a mother as her child begs the officers not to take her. Heartbreaking 💔 😢
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/08/2025
The last photos taken by Mariam Dagga show the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she would be killed by an Israeli strike moments later.
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Journalist Mariam Dagga's final images show where she was killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza
The last photos taken by Mariam Dagga show the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she would be killed by an Israeli strike moments later.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Derry tomorrow ✊
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
At @techpolicypress.bsky.social, we published a piece with this title this morning. www.techpolicy.press/ai-companies...
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AI Companies’ Race for Engagement Has a Body Count | TechPolicy.Press
News reports of deaths related to AI chatbots should be setting off alarm bells for all of us, writes Common Sense Media founder and CEO Jim Steyer.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
"While ChatGPT use has been linked to suicides and mental-health hospitalizations among heavy users, this appears to be the first documented murder involving a troubled person who had been engaging extensively with an AI chatbot."
While ChatGPT use has been linked to suicides and mental-health hospitalizations among heavy users, this appears to be the first documented murder involving a troubled person who had been engaging extensively with an AI chatbot.

Soelberg posted hours of videos of himself scrolling through his conversations with ChatGPT on social media in the months before he died. The tone and language of the conversations are strikingly similar to the delusional chats many other people have been reporting in recent months.

A key feature of AI chatbots is that, generally, the bot “doesn’t push back,” said Dr. Keith Sakata, a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco who has treated 12 patients over the past year who were hospitalized for mental-health emergencies involving AI use. “Psychosis thrives when reality stops pushing back, and AI can really just soften that wall.” 

OpenAI said ChatGPT encouraged Soelberg to contact outside professionals. The Wall Street Journal’s review of his publicly available chats showed the bot suggesting he reach out to emergency services in the context of his allegation that he’d been poisoned.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
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A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich
“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 29/08/2025
"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷
Mural by JDL Street Art in Roubaix, Lille, France, depicting the Statue of Liberty covering her face with both hands in a gesture of shame. The figure is painted in shades of grey with teal accents on the torch and crown, set against a muted background with a golden halo-like circle. The artwork spans the side of a tall brick building, contrasting modern street art with historic European architecture in the surrounding cityscape.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/08/2025
UK bans Israeli officials from flagship defence show
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UK bans Israeli officials from flagship defence show
Israel says Britain’s decision to exclude it from military weapons showcase is a ‘regrettable act of discrimination’ The UK government has banned Israeli officials from attending the country’s flagship defence event next month. Israeli industry, including UK subsidiaries of Israeli companies will be able to attend London’s Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) show in September but the UK government will not invite representatives of the Israeli government to the major industry event. Continue reading...
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 29/08/2025
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/ali... "The masquerades being performed by our supine press and politicians in this wonky, fractured place do not protect our interests. But Alice represents us." Article by Claire Jones for West England Bylines -
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Alice in Trumpland: the unhinging of politics
Trump has pushed leadership and political reaction down a rabbit hole into a bewildering, menacing ‘wonderland’
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