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Meercat

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Information addict. I promise you do not want to follow me. I will annoy you at 2am with my OCD information gathering.

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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 7h
Another tanker hit.
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 5h
How convenient. If in fact both sides have agreed to it, Russia can still switch targets to city centers or other infrastructure. And, as such, Ukraine can go back to pounding warehouses and data centers. The "don't break it" part is asinine, as when Russia breaks it, he says nothing.
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 3h
With about 56% KIA/MIA
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27m
Iran’s Security Council Secretary:
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محسن رضايى
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The U.S. has agreed to some of Iran's seven conditions, but we consider its response INADEQUATE.
Iranian diplomacy has changed and there will be no return to the status quo ante.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.
gadgetreview.com
Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 9h
17 tankers is a noticeable and somewhat significant uptick.
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Julia Curlee @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 22h
“America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin’s war machine…Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine.” — Mike Pence I briefed him as Vice President. He’s right. Lifting sanctions doesn’t buy peace. It funds the war. Slava Ukraini.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 22h
Marching orders have clearly gone out to declare ideological war on Zelensky and Ukraine - with insane lies like Ukraine has killed a million Russian kids. Expect full-court MAGA assault on Zelensky & Ukraine in the coming days bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10/10/2026
Trump is trying to create chaos and confusion around the midterms. Our job is to deny him the fear and cynicism he needs.
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
No one remembers this, but *everyone* took COVID seriously until the new York times reported that black americans were being disproportionately impacted (bc of less access to remote work) Suddenly masking became political
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He’s mad our country is run by crooks and murderers and so am I. I’m no longer interested in negotiating with these people and neither is he.
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/10/2026
Public executions are what dictators do.
thegodshow.com
Thou Shalt Not Livestream Executions And Call Yourselves “Pro-Life”
Dear Humans,
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 09/10/2026
On Supreme Court term limits: Sen. Susan Collins: “Absolutely not. I’m sure that Troy wants to pack the court.” Troy Jackson: “I wouldn’t have to pack it if you didn’t put in Kavanaugh."
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Patrick deHahn @pdehello.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The victim, Rosa said, was on the ground bleeding and being held down by the agents. A baby, she said, was in the car and was held by ICE agents until someone picked the child up."
theintercept.com
ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 08/10/2026
Their closing argument for the midterms is blood.
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PR05P3CT0R @pr05p3ct0r.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We are the USSR now:
theguardian.com
DoJ seeks to charge ex-Trump aide who gave key testimony on January 6 attack
Cassidy Hutchinson told panel she had been told Trump lunged for wheel of SUV to try to join mob at Capitol
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I remember last year when ppl on here insisted that the effect of these devastating cuts from the OBBA legislation wouldnt hit until after the midterms, as if Republicans cared any more about being strategic instead of just being maximally cruel www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
washingtonpost.com
Hospitals are closing across America, and it’s only getting worse
Closure rates were almost the same between urban and rural hospitals.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
These same guys already did a coup & have committed so many war & financial crimes over the last year plus that I’d honestly be floored if they conceded election losses of any kind. 1st step is to vote en masse but then we’ve got to be prepared to apply overwhelming pressure to force their hand.
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been hearing about small modular nuclear reactors since the 1990s. The UK is planning the first operational one in Europe...in the late 2030s. 40 years! The world's first commercial reactor, the UK's Calder Hall, opened in 1956. In 1916 Einstein had just solved general relativity.
theregister.com
UK signs Rolls-Royce SMR design deal
: Contract kicks off design work, but SMRs unlikely to generate power before the mid-2030s
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 07/10/2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle exchanging favors and promises of influence for money. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
RIP. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
news.mit.edu
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People do not understand how men who are white supremacists can have wives who are women of color and I need folks to realize that those men see their wives as subordinate property and not equals. These men are foaming at the mouth to bring back quadroon balls.
Screencap from Invincible: "I do love your mother, but she's more like a pet to me."
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Straight Outta Cortisol @silvawolves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Just because she put herself in a vulnerable position doesn’t give a man an excuse to physically or sexually assault her.” The “vulnerable position” she “put herself in” was just being a woman out alone at night. WTAF?! That’s literally the “vulnerable position” women find themselves in everyday.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Carlson rationalized Germany’s invasion of Poland, suggested Hitler had no interest in going to war with Britain, and asked whether the UK was actually any better off for having beaten the Nazis because — wait for it — some people in Britain don’t speak English."
thebanter.substack.com
Tucker Carlson Has a Nazi Problem
What is driving Tucker Carlson’s dangerous descent into Nazi apologism?
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404 Media @404media.co · 07/10/2026
Apple's Inactivity Reboot feature made it harder for cops to break into locked iPhones after 72 hours of inactivity. @lorenzofb.bsky.social obtained a video that shows how a new tool offered by GrayKey can crack that. @josephcox.bsky.social has more. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpzC...
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Russia's agricultural industry is collapsing due to rising fuel costs and falling revenue. Food prices in Russia are predicted to almost double again this winter.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Collapse is happening.” In dozens of Russian cities, the heating season could not begin due to the wear and tear of utility networks. In Omsk alone, 4100 people are now without heating.
ru.themoscowtimes.com
«Коллапс происходит». В десятках городов России не смогли начать отопительный сезон из-за износа коммунальных сетей - Русская служба The Moscow Times
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jaculis.bsky.social @jaculis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Our contention is rather that the intrinsic character of Fascism, its whole appeal, its economic programme, its method of dealing with its internal difficulties, are of such a kind as to make war, sooner or later, inevitable." — John Strachey, "The Menace of Fascism", footnote, p. 76
Highlighted text on p. 76 from "The Menace of Fascism": "Our contention is rather that the intrinsic character of Fascism, its whole appeal, its economic programme, its method of dealing with its internal difficulties, are of such a kind as to make war, sooner or later, inevitable."
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jaculis.bsky.social @jaculis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"There exists a good deal of evidence that while the Fascist terror as a whole has the perfectly definite object of destroying all the forces of progress, it is carried out by men who delight in torture for its own sake." — John Strachey, "The Menace of Fascism", footnote, page 74
Highlighted footnote text at the bottom of p. 74 from "The Menace of Fascism": "1 Another extremely interesting subject for study is the psycho-logical basis of Fascist terrorism. There exists a good deal of evidence that while the Fascist terror as a whole has the perfectly definite object of destroying all the forces of progress, it is carried out by men who delight in torture for its own sake."
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
n.pr
Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This might have been the sort of sessions that resulted in Canada and Lithuania pulling out of #Disinfo2026 at the last minute, question is, whether it's from direct US pressure. I think we all deserve an answer, is US foreign interference the acceptable face of FIMI now?
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Dr Oddman - #AntiFa @droddman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEARLY 12,000 BOOK BANS IN ONE SCHOOL YEAR! Our newest book ban report found nearly 12,000 instances of book bans in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year Texas is leading state on book bans! Do you know who else banned books (1930ies Germany)? pen.org/report/book-...
pen.org
A Spotlight on School Book Bans
Nearly 12,000 books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
legalizing gambling was the single biggest social disaster of the last decade, and that's a high bar to clear.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/10/2026
one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them
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Cynthia @cynthia13.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
MIT associate professor, Biologist Kevin M Esvelt, PhD in Biochemistry, focus on the bioethics and biosafety in bioengineering. Opinion on Russia’s lab plague death.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 06/10/2026
According to MIT biosecurity researcher Kevin Esvelt, Russia's response to a suspected plague death doesn't match a routine lab accident. Nearly 200 people were placed under medical observation, according to The Moscow Times.
bit.ly
'New nightmare fuel dropped': Frenzy as MIT researcher picks apart Russia's plague story
A thread from MIT biosecurity researcher Kevin Esvelt arguing that Russia's response to a suspected plague death doesn't match a routine lab accident drew a wave of reaction from prominent scientists and physicians Monday.Russian authorities have been responding since late September to the death of ...
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The daily sea surface temperature is now so high, they had to add more chart because the previous version only went up to 30C
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
lol like no matter HOW you slice it, this is objectively ridiculous. One person has majority control over two MAJOR news broadcasts and nearly ALL entertainment streams, including children programming, globally. ONE person. A single human being.
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The New Voice of Ukraine @english.nv.ua · 07/10/2026
🇩🇪 German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Russia’s plans extend beyond Ukraine to Georgia, Moldova and the Baltic states. He linked this to Vladimir Putin’s statements about the Soviet Union’s collapse 🔗https://link.nv.ua/1dm2Wn 📸: Johann Wadephul / Facebook
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
remember after citizens united when everyone pretended super pacs wouldn't coordinate with politicians and would be truly independent entities? that was a fun five minutes
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When I tell people I research and teach military ethics, the response I often receive is "that's an oxymoron, isn't it". I reflect on the importance of teaching ethics to militaries, and outline some concerns, in a new essay. www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/online-exclu...
ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org
The Ethics of Military Ethics: Teaching Right and Wrong to People Trained to Kill
Military ethics education today must contend with the potential negative effects of the increasing prioritization of speed and optimization in war, and the ways in which this sidelines the experience ...
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Leah-Bug @leah-bug.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How does Russia take out 20% of the United States’ most senior military leadership without firing a shot? By turning to the same man who is responsible for the destruction dozens of bases in the Middle East, the depletion of our arsenal, and hiding it all from the American people, Petrov Hegseth.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The details of the Tate extradition case are even worse than I expected. Selling sexual content involving a child on WhatsApp. Extreme porn involving a horse and an eel. Human trafficking, isolation, and violence against women and kids. Just awful, weird shit. Lock them away and throw away the key.
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