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Lori Eades

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 8h
Trump wants the Supreme Court to rule that DHS can imprison-indefinitely-immigrants who enter the US illegally He wants ICE to arrest millions of migrants and keep them incarcerated-maybe for years-until they can be deported Even if they have legal status In violation of their due process rights
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 21h
I have a new novella out in the 20th Anniversary edition of Clarkesworld this month! "The Job" is about a woman with serious self-image issues who takes a contract to survey an alien ocean for corporate exploitation, wearing the body of a bioengineered whale. clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/
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The Job by Elizabeth Bear
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21h
When I get down about what has become of journalism, of speaking the truth, I think of Jamal. I lost my Washington Post job. Jamal lost his life. Both of us — all we wanted to do was write and help people.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 13h
if NAZA is playing near you, i recommend seeing it. not just because of its exposure of Israeli war crimes, but because it opens up serious questions about modern systems of killing and warfare broadly, and so our complicity in them.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13h
And by a current Cornell student: "This putrid treatment of women did not originate in this house. It is a culture created over years of “tradition,” and it is what fraternities are built to produce, no matter what we say about the usual exceptions to the rule."
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Cornell, abolish your fraternities
The case surrounding the ‘Cornell 7′ is as lurid as it gets; whether or not these men face prosecution, it will not change the structural issue with Greek life
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 13h
pls share widely
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
UCLA illegally fired me as DEI Director. Why? B/c I posted truth about this bigoted piece of garbage after he died. Please consider helping me keep my head above water, until my lawyers reach a fair resolution with UCLA. My pack and I could use your support: gofundme.com/f/waiting-for-justice-auvzc
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 13h
jaw dropped when I read this www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
But for many Brazilians, the most pressing issue as they prepare to vote on Sunday is a crisis much closer to home: crushing personal debt.
More than 80 percent of Brazilian families are in debt, a historic high for the country, according to the National Confederation of Commerce, a retail group.
Brazil also has the highest benchmark interest rate among 40 major economies, and families spend nearly 30 percent of their income on debt payments, according to Brazil’s central bank. In the United States, that figure is about 11 percent.
Unlike in the United States, where most household debt is driven by mortgages, in Brazil debt is fueled by credit cards, payroll loans and retail store installment plans carrying among the highest interest rates in the world.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist who is locked in a tight race against a right-wing opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, has seized on this concern in the closing days of the campaign. On Friday, Mr. Lula signed an order banning online gambling, which was legalized in 2018 and has supercharged the household debt crisis.
Brazil is the first country, experts say, to ban online gambling after introducing and regulating the industry.
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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 18h
Eight years ago today the Saudi government murdered WaPo columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. Today they own 49.5% of the biggest media/news company in America.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 19h
“We swim in rape culture in the United States to the point where it doesn’t even register anymore. It simply floats by with the rest of the news, barely a blip in our consciousness.”
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Everywhere in the world, they hurt little girls
Losing My Perspicacity, October 2, 2026
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WIRED @wired.com · 15h
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 16h
Heather MacDonald of the same Manhattan Institute that employes Chris Rufo. When institutions show you who they are, believe them.
Ayfkm Heather Mac Donald?

She’s doing apologia for the Cornell 7
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 15h
Did the president really just publish the words “drunken orgy sex” on his social media account
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026
This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is part of the regime's attempt to crush organized labor and replace unionized TSA workers with contractors. They tried to eliminate workers bargaining rights last year, then forced them to work through the shutdown w/o pay for more than a month, and now this.
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not even The Onion could make this up: Before deciding whether to intervene in Venezuela, Trump reportedly spent hours consulting an AI chatbot about how Venezuelans would react to his plan to invade the country and overthrow Maduro.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/10/2026
1,439 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and 5,052 injured since the 'ceasefire' began in October 2025.
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Israeli drone kills Palestinian in Gaza, settlers kill another in West Bank
1,439 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and 5,052 injured since the 'ceasefire' began in October 2025.
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Ticky🏳️‍🌈 @drac.at · 02/10/2026
I wrote a little piece about the ongoing battle for the soul of software as a craft, where we've been, and where I hope we're going
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The Silent War for the Soul of Software - drac.at
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 01/10/2026
The Trump administration has moved to cripple Title IX protections against sexual assault and harassment on the same day New York prosecutors reopened the investigation into heinous allegations of a fraternity gang rape at Cornell University. trib.al/QewniBV
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Trump Weakens Title IX Rules Amid Cornell Gang Rape Investigation
The Education Department has just weakened protections for sexual assault victims in schools.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wrote about the Trump administration attempting to deport an anti-Zionist Hasidic Jew to Israel, and what it says about the conditions of Jewish identity imposed by the administration's "anti-antisemitism" campaign. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/01/t...
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Trump Admin Trying to Deport Anti-Zionist Hasidic Jew “Home” to Israel
The Trump administration is trying to deport Yehonatan Ovadia, a Satmar Hasidic religious teacher in Rockland County, New York. His alleged offense: taking part in a 2023 protest against an Israeli fl...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026
There you have it. After a 10-day halt to Trump's third-country removal scheme, it has officially started again.
An ADSBx map showing a GlobalX jet going from Harlingen to AEX, to Guatemala to Costa Rica, which is a third-country removal.
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Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Exclusive: Israeli spyware maker Paragon positions itself as more responsible than competitor NSO Group. But company's new US CEO says in candid interview that while they will cut off customers who misuse their spyware they have no ability to detect or investigate customer misuse, nor want ability
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The Secrets of a US Spyware King
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd reveals the limits of the company’s promise to keep bad actors from abusing its powerful espionage tool.
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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 01/10/2026
👀 Fascinating to read the Paragon Solutions (US) CEO’s interview in @wired.com. We know so much more about the #spyware vendor today than we did when I first uncovered its $2m contract with 🇺🇸ICE back in 2024.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Surveillance and Autonomous warfare are an important part of a cycle that siphons billions off the US in the form of contracts for technology with heinous effects, CEOs who get rich and have ideologies that necessitate the deployment of their tech, and the politicians propped up by that money.
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Joe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Meet the mega-donor Pete Hegseth just named as the leader of his new automated war initiative, along with mega-donor Elon Musk and Newt Gingruch. Donald Trump Jr. invests in his company. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Exclusive: Major Republican fundraiser winning contracts from Trump administration, emails reveal
Palmer Luckey has donated $5.9m to Republicans and bundled more, while reaping billions in Pentagon contracts
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Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
« Putin possesses kompromat designed not to destroy Trump — but to control him. The goal is strategic: ensure Trump remains aligned with Russian geopolitical interests. That includes undermining NATO, destabilizing the EU, and pressuring Ukraine into surrender. » open.substack.com/pub/closerto...
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WHAT PUTIN HAS ON TRUMP
On August 12th, 2025, Alnur Mussayev, the former head of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin possesses a comprehensive kompromat file on Donald J.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The former head of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee alleged that Vladimir Putin possesses a comprehensive kompromat file on Donald J. Trump. He didn’t suggest it. He stated it. The file, he said, is extensive, meticulously documented, and designed not to destroy Trump — but to control him.
According to Mussayev, the kompromat includes financial records showing illicit transactions connected to accounts either owned by Trump or clearly affiliated with his name. It also contains statements from operatives who were directly involved in kompromat operations — individuals who could, if necessary, provide witness testimony confirming the authenticity and intent behind the material. Most damning of all, he claims, are the recordings: audio and video documentation of sexual crimes against minors and acts of violence against women.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us
Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1: 
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 01/10/2026
Brock Pierce still has some tiny semblance of Tether equity and the reality is that other Tether equity holders don’t care about his past. You should. protos.com/brock-pierce...
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Brock Pierce’s dark and disturbing friendship with Jeffrey Epstein
It’s impossible for Brock Pierce to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein. The pair's legacies will be tied together forever.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026
This ICE flight has landed in Ghana, a possible third-country removal. Immigrant passengers onboard have been shackled for at least 18 hours.
An FR24 map showing N59JE landing in Accra
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Domestic Violence court, near which ICE vehicles were seen today, is one of ICE's favorite Chicagoland targets. Per info from Cook County public defenders, ICE has been at DV court over 2 dozen times between July 2025 and the start of September 2026. More incidents have occurred there since.
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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Holy shit. The premier program in journalism.
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026
As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"By theoretical degeneration...I mean the erosion of coherent emancipatory frameworks that incorporate the contradictions of the present. In their stead has grown up a reactive and accomodationist theory that...accepts some of the right’s own viewpoints." salvage.zone/on-theoretic...
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On Theoretical Degeneration - Salvage
By 1900 the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) was the strongest socialist party in the world and its Erfurt Program the model for almost all others. In 1912, the SPD was able to win 4.25 million vo...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As more people die of measles, I’m reminded of this quote from RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan: “What we’re going to have is a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles. What is the new incidence of hospitalization…of death?” They are running their experiment.
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US committee is reconsidering all vaccine recommendations
Move is dramatic departure for advisory group under Kirk Milhoan, who says he dislikes the term ‘established science’
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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EXCLUSIVE: US waives rights conditions for $320 million in military aid to Egypt, letter shows
The US State Department has waived human rights conditions for ​more than $300 million of military aid to Egypt in light of Cairo's "helpful role" since the launch of the US ‌war with Iran, according ...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
Black text on white page that reads:

The Rent Guidelines Board’s rent freeze for one- and two-year leases goes into effect today! 

If you’re in a rent-stabilized apartment, any lease renewal starting today must remain at the same rent that it was last year.

Contact 311 and ask for the Tenant Helpline to find out whether your building is covered and your rights as a tenant.
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Money Power Politics with Stephanie Ruhle @moneypowerpolitics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A New York Times report reveals that Meta is telling the IRS that their A.I. data centers are a giant experiment or “pilot models” allowing the company trim almost $4 billion off its tax bill last year. #meta #irs #tax #money #a.i. #datacenter #markzuckerberg
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On a personal note, it was a delight to be interviewed by Becca Rothfeld, whose nonfiction I love, including her piece on Rachel Cusk recently. She is one of the many, many sharp, analytical writers who in their substance and style are their own intrinsic argument against generative AI.
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CNN International PR @cnnipr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jared Kushner's private equity company is the largest shareholder in an Israeli firm with Israeli military links, a CNN investigation has found. He is also negotiating a deal for Gaza. New reporting from CNN's Katie Polglase, Allegra Goodwin, and Majlie de Puy Kamp edition.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
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Jared Kushner’s company has large stake in firm with Israeli military links | CNN
At the same time Jared Kushner has negotiated in the war in Gaza, his company has held the largest stake in a firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Harvest Moon with Erupting Mount Etna: Have you ever seen the full moon rise? This colorful image was photographed last weekend in Sicily, just outside the town of Nicosia, in Italy. It is a composite photograph that shows the Moon rising as the sky turns darker.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
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