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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
- Obtain Greenland - Make Canada 51st State - Rename AI/Gulf of Mexico/Lake Ontario/Atlantic, Pacific Oceans - Declare War on Iran - Kidnap Venezuelan President - Build Ballroom/Triumphal Arch - Want Face Carved on Mt. Rushmore - Buy Putin's Oil - Remove Russian Sanctions - Deploy ICE Goons
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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 11/10/2026
this story happens all the time btw. like constantly. everywhere
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California)
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am aware of the history of 20th century fascism and grew up around Holocaust survivors. When fascism returns, they said, expect indifference or outright cowardice from 90% of your friends, neighbors and colleagues. AND YET, it still shocks me to see this groveling cowardice in real time.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Wendy the Woke @nomorex61.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Bos, 30, plans to spend the final weeks before the November election canvassing votes for Democrats” 3X Trump voter realizing he got played and he’s man enough to admit it.Trumps economic policies are just not working unless.. you are a billionaire donor. #Sheshed apnews.com/article/trum...
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
President Donald Trump is trying to rally voters in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday. But days ago, 1,400 workers were laid off from a truck factory there.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 26/07/2026
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 24/06/2026
A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.
A photo of  Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada, who looks like a cuddly and rad dude, smiling while holding a sketchbook full of drawings of baby hippos.
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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Mike Johnson just told you the quiet part out loud: Republicans have a plan to gut Social Security next year. They’re waiting until after the midterms so you can’t vote against it. Don’t let them wait you out. Make this the only issue that matters in November. #HandsOffSocialSecurity
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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Trump staffing cuts left Social Security at near 50‑year lows, with closed offices and endless waits. Republicans underfund the agency and then call it “dysfunctional” to justify more cuts. That’s sabotage. Fund SSA and protect every earned benefit. #HandsOffSocialSecurity
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
How severely should we punish immigrant babies? Should we deprive them of food & torture them with lights on 24/7? Should we permanently damage their intellectual development to where they stop talking & start wetting or hitting themselves? No? Well, Trump & his #ICE thugs are doing just that!🧵
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This point can’t be stressed enough. Just as Musk bought Twitter to try to make himself seem popular, he bought Tesla to make himself seem smart. The only thing he’s actually invented is a mythology about himself
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The Ellisons now own TikTok, Paramount, Warner Bros, CBS News, HBO, Comedy Central, and CNN, among other major channels. They are also the largest private donor to "Friends of the IDF." They also paid $7 billion for streaming rights to UFC, which is hosting an event at the White House.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.
Joint Statement on the "State of Scholarship" Report
The Vanderbilt University and Washington University chapters of the American Association of University Professors express our profound disagreement with the "State of Scholarship" report commissioned by our universities' chancellors. The report distorts the state of humanistic and social scientific scholarship at our universities and in the academy overall. Worse, it proposes a shocking intrusion of university administration into faculty governance and portends greater threats to academic freedom that should concern all faculty.
The report currently appears on Vanderbilt's website under the insignia of both Vanderbilt and Washington Universities. It is already receiving public condemnation. As the American Council of Learned Societies makes clear, the report is founded on false premises and anecdotal evidence and thus does nothing to "ensure deeper and more meaningful relations among scholars and members of the public." No doubt more rebuttals from scholars, departments, and professional societies will follow. It suffices for us to say that the report falls far short of the standards of political neutrality and disinterested inquiry it claims to champion. Historians, literary scholars, and anthropologists are singled out for caricature while the authors fail to acknowledge their own public biases against scholarship performed in the name of social justice. Nor does the report divulge its source of funding or conflicts of interest that may entail - standard practice for any work of humanistic or social scientific scholarship. In sum, the report is itself a clear example of "politicized" research that its authors attempt to decry.
What is most alarming is the guidance the report offers to its intended audience of university chancellors and presidents. By falsely arguing that humanities and social science departments are in the throes of an epistemological crisis, the authors lay the groundwork for university adminis…Weakening faculty governance does nothing to solve the real challenges facing our universities, and undermines our ability to effectively address society's most profound problems and challenges, from the inequalities of wealth and white supremacy to the political consequences of climate change.
Indeed, the direst threats to public trust in higher education are not philosophical debates about the nature of truth. Currently, the federal government is dramatically cutting funding for the humanities and social sciences as well as for the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, public health, and the arts. In response, university administrations have instituted austerity measures, even as administrative salaries and administrative positions have taken up an increasing share of decreasing budgets.
The best way for scholars to cultivate diverse opinions and advance knowledge is by strengthening academic freedom. Political threats to higher education have degraded, and will continue to degrade, the quality of all fields of our universities' research, to the detriment of America's global standing.
We note that the organizations now working most actively and successfully to defend academic free inquiry from politicized federal interference are not university leaders but the American Council of Learned Societies, the Modern Language Association, and the American Historical Association - professional societies of the very disciplines chastised by the report.
We call on our chancellors to rescind the report and affirm their commitment to the intellectual autonomy of faculty, academic departments, and governing faculty bodies. Administrative interference into academic departments, as licensed by this report, is a violation of the standards of academic freedom that have made American universities the envy of the world. Rather than undermining these bedrock principles, administrators should vigorously and publicly defend them.
Vanderbilt University AAUP
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10/06/2026
If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...
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Taking action against AI harms - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The Trump administration is illegally withholding $150 million for domestic violence service providers, which has led to "layoffs, diminished services for survivors and sacrifices among advocates." A 24-hour hotline is now closed on nights and weekends. 19thnews.org/2026/05/dome...
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No one to answer the phone: What a missing $150 million means for domestic violence services
The 19th reached out to over 250 domestic violence shelters, organizations and municipalities that have received federal grants in the past to determine the impact of withheld funds.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I just can’t anymore. Needless wars, people starving, jobs disappearing, and these STUPID FUCKS are full on speedrunning Court of the Sun King into the French Revolution.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/05/2026
The 10,500 diesel backup generators attached to data centers in Virginia produce enough pollution to harm public health in the region even if used rarely, according to a new analysis of emissions permits for The Post. wapo.st/4wSVnvi
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Power belongs to the people, not corporations—especially political power. 💥 Hawaii Rep. Kanini Souza drops some absolute truth to power in this #CupOfJoe. It is well past time to undo the massive damage caused by #CitizensUnited and reclaim our democracy. 🗣️🇺🇸
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
As I just posted the other day, Republicans were appalled at the slush fund, not because it was , illegal, unconstitutional, and the epitome of greed, but because they hadn't yet figured out how to grift from it. Apparently they figured out a way to grift from it.
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Brian Rosenworcel @brianrosenworcel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Steve Kerr spot on as usual
I’d vote for him
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/04/2026
The WaPo editorial board when Republicans gerrymander in Texas versus when Democrats gerrymander in Virginia.
Screenshot of an online opinion article by the Editorial Board. The headline reads, "The Texas gerrymander freakout," with the subheadline, "What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy." The publication date is August 20, 2025.​Screenshot of an online opinion article from The Washington Post by the Editorial Board. The headline reads, "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss," with the subheadline, "The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden. This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years. But he’s the one who is actually doing it.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
they are calling it the perfect summary of the "keep men out of women's sports" movement
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 21/04/2026
Filming another TikTok or going onto another podcast isn’t gonna win us Gen Z. What will is giving people a place to go and a reason to come back, and letting the politics follow from the belonging, not the other way around. open.substack.com/pub/santiago...
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Winning Gen Z Isn't About Likes
Soccer tournaments, scavenger hunts, and what a mayoral race is actually teaching us about 2026.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The corruption is just stunning. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...
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Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report
At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions). Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom. And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ. Remember this.
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Just Jill 💖 @justjill.sheshed.rocks · 20/04/2026
These are our families, neighbors etc. These are the people we walk with unknowingly. They are clearly enjoying harming others. They need to be abolished completely, charged and imprisoned. Warning: These pictures and videos are very graphic. #SheShed www.propublica.org/article/vide...
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
"In the first major case in which the Court granted emergency relief as a means of shaping nationwide policy, it turns out that the justice who led the charge was the one who was doing quite a bit more than calling balls and strikes." Me on Saturday's @nytimes.com scoop in today's "One First":
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221. Chief Justice Roberts and the Clean Power Plan
Remarkable reporting from the New York Times provides a peek behind the curtain of the February 2016 rulings that ushered in the modern emergency docket. And what it reveals is pretty discouraging.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 19/04/2026
"The single most important speech...that should never have been given." Fmr. federal judge J. Michael Luttig, a lifelong conservative, slams Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for a recent address he gave. "I certainly wish Justice Thomas had not written and given this speech." #velshi
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'Most important speech...that should never have been given’: Fmr Judge pans SCOTUS justice's remarks
At a recent event, the conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a grievance-soaked address that argued that progressivism is incompatible with the Declaration of Independence. Former federal judge J. Michael Luttig, a lifelong conservative himself, took issue with the address. “I believe that this speech could prove to be the single most important speech of political and constitutional philosophy that should never have been given,” he tells Ali Velshi. “I certainly wish Justice Thomas had not written and given this speech.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”
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Rod (Izzy) Ⓜ️Ⓜ️ 🦅🇺🇸 @1zzyzyx1.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This man is gaining support in the polls, and it's been built from the ground up, with everyone collaborating on social media to rally support for @xavierbecerra.bsky.social. Let’s keep it going.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/04/2026
NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE. www.404media.co/thomson-reut...
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Thomson Reuters Shareholders Demand Investigation into ICE Contracts
The shareholders explicitly cited multiple 404 Media investigations, including one that showed Thomson Reuters' CLEAR is integrated with a tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to target.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Before Donald's war, Iran did not control the Strait of Hormuz. Oil tankers moved freely. After Donald attacked, Iran cut off travel through the Strait. Gas prices rose sharply. Under the ceasefire Trump just negotiated, Iran still controls the Strait. Art of the Deal? 🤡
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Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
APNewsAlert: TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — #Iran includes 'acceptance of enrichment' in Farsi version of its ceasefire plan, something missing from English versions.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Israel bombed it on Passover.
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