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I am a longtime resident of Laniakea. Galaxy Quest tells us how to fight for progressive social & economic policies: Never give up, never surrender. #Landback! Restore Native sovereignty over the Black Hills

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 15h
Gee. Just yesterday it was announced the U.S. was finally pulling out of Iraq and there were muted hurrahs. Not muted enough as it turns out. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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U.S. Sending Third Aircraft Carrier, Up to 10,000 More Troops, to Middle East
The deployments come as President Trump weighs resuming bombing Iran after the midterms.
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MingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 7h
And he didn't do it alone.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 19h
From the latest @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social survey: "The percentage of registered voters who say they hear about global warming in the media dropped 11 percentage points from 2024 (30%) to 2025 (19%), which is the lowest it has been since the question was first asked in 2015." This is on you media!
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ThinkingFella @thinkingfella.bsky.social · 12h
www.unchartedblue.com/federal-judg...
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Federal judge issues official writ of Shut Up Already to U.S. 'Attorney' Jeanine Pirro
The case against Olympian David Hearn, charged with touching Trump's 'renovated' Reflecting Pool, is dismissed with prejudice.
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 15h
Gee. Just yesterday it was announced the U.S. was finally pulling out of Iraq and there were muted hurrahs. Not muted enough as it turns out. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
wsj.com
U.S. Sending Third Aircraft Carrier, Up to 10,000 More Troops, to Middle East
The deployments come as President Trump weighs resuming bombing Iran after the midterms.
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 15h
How much “assistance“did White House provide in this arrest? Will Marco Rubio soon be viceroy of Bolivia the way he is of Venezuela? What about Ecuador? www.commondreams.org/news/roger-m...
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Days After Rubio Pulls Visa, Agents in Bolivia 'Kidnap' Attorney General Who Charged 'MAGA's Man in LatAm' | Common Dreams
The Bolivia Public Prosecutor's Office denounced the "kidnapping" of their attorney general, Roger Mariaca, after he was detained at the airport. Is this a political move by the US government to silen...
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 17h
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 15h
But our Outlaw Prez there’s nothing to worry about because AI developers are “morally bound” to police their own work to keep us all safe. We might as well just turn things over directly to the Terminators. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 19h
The much longer history of carbon offsets (especially forest or biomass based offsets) does not fill me with confidence for the efficacy of habitat offsets.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 30/09/2026
Absolutely wild how you can see it in their body language - Mike Lee's smug smirk, Capito's relaxed cheer, Heinrich's pursed lips, Whitehouse's slump, both Democrats looking down and away...
Mike Lee, Shelley Capito, Martin Heinrich, and Sheldon Whitehouse promote an environmentally catastrophic "permitting reform" deal
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 19h
In this issue... ➜Trump-Xi summit skirted climate and inked a deal for coal ➜China urged EU to keep its car market open and avoid “a trade war” ➜Five-year plan for the battery industry released ➜China’s response to the unfolding El Niño ➜New science: wind potential, humid-heat extremes, GDP exposure
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China Briefing 1 October 2026: Xi-Trump summit | ‘Trade war’ plea | ‘Strongest’ El Niño - Carbon Brief
The summit between Chinese president and US yielded an agreement on buying coal, and more news related to climate change and China from this fortnight.
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🎉🎉🎉
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
War(ped) Secretary Pete Hegseth has told the military academies not to give any more civilian professors tenure. Next up, already tenured civilian profs will be given tests to see if their testosterone levels meet the sectetary’s standards. www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...
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Hegseth directs military service academies to immediately stop giving tenure to civilian professors
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered institutions like the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy in Annapolis to stop granting tenure to civilian faculty, in his latest change to mili...
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More like the Office of NeoReligious Wars. Hegseth wouldn’t surprise anyone if he soon required everyone promoted to general or admiral to get a Crusader tattoo just like his. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
2021 solar+wind generated > electricity than nuclear for 1st time. 2025 solar+wind generated 2x as much power as nuclear.Solar alone out-generated nuclear 2025 & wind power will out-generate nuclear 2027/28.Nuclear power's 25 year stagnation no end in sight reneweconomy.com.au/nuclear-powe...
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Nuclear power's quarter-century of stagnation has no end in sight, and has been overtaken by solar PV
Latest nuclear status report details the glum state of affairs for the far right's favourite clean power source. It's already been overtaken by solar for the first time.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"'We're rapidly running out of time': 7 of Earth's 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns" 'Our planet has had its annual health check, and the prognosis is pretty grim ...' www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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'We're rapidly running out of time': 7 of Earth's 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns
Our planet has had its annual health check, and the prognosis is pretty grim. Despite breached planetary boundaries, however, scientists argue that Earth can still have a safe and sustainable future.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 23h
Pathetic and Insanity 😡 I've been there.
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More like the Office of NeoReligious Wars. Hegseth wouldn’t surprise anyone if he soon required everyone promoted to general or admiral to get a Crusader tattoo just like his. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rep. Jamie Raskin recently noted that the Trump family knows the end is coming for their government-assisted grifting, so they are looting all they can before the window closes, sort of like those people who win contests where they get 15 minutes in a store to grab all they can from the shelves.
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Last year, 232,000 zero-emission heavy trucks — think semis — were sold in China, or 28% of total heavy truck sales. Most were electric. In the EU, just under 5,000 such trucks were sold, 4.5% of total sales. In the U.S., 875 such trucks, 0.34% of total sales. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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China Has an 18-Wheel Answer to Soaring Global Diesel Prices
Around a third of trucks sold in China this year will run on electricity, furthering Beijing’s goal of bolstering energy security.
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
While much of the progressive attention on the Trump regime focuses on outrages the Donvict & many of his top minions post on social media, serious damage being done behind the scenes by the likes of Russell Vought needs spotlighting. Like this: revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/reversing-...
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Reversing Voughtism; or, Creating a Pro-Worker Government to Save Lives
The Trump regime is dismantling the federal government’s ability to protect you. Undoing the Vought-led onslaught is a matter of life-and-death, and it would be good politics.
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
While much of the progressive attention on the Trump regime focuses on outrages the Donvict & many of his top minions post on social media, serious damage being done behind the scenes by the likes of Russell Vought needs spotlighting. Like this: revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/reversing-...
revolvingdoorproject.substack.com
Reversing Voughtism; or, Creating a Pro-Worker Government to Save Lives
The Trump regime is dismantling the federal government’s ability to protect you. Undoing the Vought-led onslaught is a matter of life-and-death, and it would be good politics.
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
10 charts from the Economic Policy Institute showing the impacts of 50 years of wage suppression. www.epi.org/publication/...
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Wage suppression in 10 charts
Wages for typical workers lag far behind productivity growth. It hasn't always been this way and does not have to be this way. These 10 charts outline the historical context of workers’ wage trajector...
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rep. Jamie Raskin recently noted that the Trump family knows the end is coming for their government-assisted grifting, so they are looting all they can before the window closes, sort of like those people who win contests where they get 15 minutes in a store to grab all they can from the shelves.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/09/2026
Breaking News! The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly for Sept. 29th came in at 3.18°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This marks yet another record all-time high and the 123rd consecutive record daily high at 1.1°C above the previous daily record set in 1997.
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Ruben Garcia @gorubenruben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The human, environmental and economic cost of the war on Iran www.greenpeace.org/internationa... via @greenpeace.org
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The human, environmental and economic cost of the war on Iran - Greenpeace International
Six months into the US-Israeli war on Iran, people are paying the price in lives, environmental damage and higher bills. The crisis shows how dependence on fossil fuels leaves people exposed to volati...
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!
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GISMAU @gismau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
El calor extremo y la contaminación atmosférica exponen a casi el 40 % de la población mundial a niveles peligrosos de ozono troposférico. Con aportaciones de Cristina Linares y Julio Díaz de @gismau.bsky.social sciencemediacentre.es/el-calor-ext...
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El calor extremo y la contaminación atmosférica exponen a casi el 40 % de la población mundial a niveles peligrosos de ozono troposférico
El análisis Atmosphere Watch, publicado por el Servicio de Vigilancia Atmosférica de Copernicus, muestra cómo este 2026 la contaminación atmosférica ha cruzado fronteras y ha provocado que cerca del 4...
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For the record, Eric Schmitt was a hyper-partisan idiot BEFORE embarrassing himself Tuesday with his facts-invented, off-the-rails attack on Jack Smith.
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Plunderdome” is pretty apt for what companies are doing, says climate activist Bill McKibben. www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...
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Welcome to the Plunderdome: How Big Tech Sold Out Its Climate Pledges to Power AI | Common Dreams
​Amazon and the rest of the once aspirationally green tech industry are adding 19th-century smoking chimneys to their facilities in order to churn out more Compute, the 21st century equivalent of wool...
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And then there’s the chasm between the rich, the very, very rich and what we used to call the middle class. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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The Gap Between the Rich and the Very, Very Rich Is Getting Wider
The 0.1% are worth $28 trillion, or about 15% of the nation’s total wealth. The average wealth for a household in this group is over $200 million.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
War(ped) Secretary Pete Hegseth has told the military academies not to give any more civilian professors tenure. Next up, already tenured civilian profs will be given tests to see if their testosterone levels meet the sectetary’s standards. www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...
cbsnews.com
Hegseth directs military service academies to immediately stop giving tenure to civilian professors
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered institutions like the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy in Annapolis to stop granting tenure to civilian faculty, in his latest change to mili...
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here is also a 2009 precursor to the 2009 Scientific American paper on the energy security benefits of clean, renewable energy Review of solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy security web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Last year, 232,000 zero-emission heavy trucks — think semis — were sold in China, or 28% of total heavy truck sales. Most were electric. In the EU, just under 5,000 such trucks were sold, 4.5% of total sales. In the U.S., 875 such trucks, 0.34% of total sales. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
China Has an 18-Wheel Answer to Soaring Global Diesel Prices
Around a third of trucks sold in China this year will run on electricity, furthering Beijing’s goal of bolstering energy security.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The four lowest years on record for Antarctica's sea ice have all occurred in the past four years. Area falls 1m sq kmshort of long-term average, as scientists warn of a ‘now problem’ #climatecrisis Story by @readfearn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Antarctic winter sea ice falls to third-lowest level on record as scientists warn of ‘now problem’
Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely driving losses
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The Mighty Jungle💙💛 @ocanannain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‼️ Expect more violent ICE thugs on the streets: "The agency is still digging itself out of a vast backlog in vetting the backgrounds of officers and others who were brought on last year. Nearly 7,500 people are still waiting for the extensive background checks..." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive (Gift Article)
A similar surge last year resulted in undervetted officers initially being let in and then removed as the agency skipped basic checks for new recruits.
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Again the SupCt allows the Trump team to keep doing what it’s doing while the justices dilly-dally on ruling whether what‘s being done is constitutional. How many people will be deported while the Court slow-walks its “expedited” ruling.” Just like the ballroom. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations, for Now
The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dreadful, stupid idea, but at least he isn’t proposing to build a giant, mixed martial arts arena atop the Old Faithful geyser. apnews.com/article/wyom...
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MLB considers Grand Teton National Park for baseball game site, prompting concern
Major League Baseball has been considering holding a game in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. An MLB official confirmed Monday that the idea was being discussed.
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump regime pretty much wrecked the 250th birthday of the U.S. as part of their effort to wreck democracy. But there’s a way we citizens can squeeze in a proper commemoration over the next 5 weeks — by ejecting as many Trump sycophants from public office as we can.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths.
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Robert Kuttner at The American Prospect: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer installed out-of-state campaign staff whose main goals seem to be to turn Maine‘s Senate candidate Troy Jackson into a bland generic Democrat and neutralize his quirky outsider strengths. prospect.org/2026/09/29/c...
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Chuck Schumer Neuters Troy Jackson - The American Prospect
Can the populist Maine Democratic Senate nominee take back his own campaign?
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump regime wants to push its trad-wife dogma with a plan that would strip resources from the Child Care & Development Fund helping low-income working families and divert the $$ to stay-at-home moms, including affluent ones. A real improvement would fully fund CCDF. tinyurl.com/57danaru
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How much worse can WaPo headlines and stories get? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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How Trump’s sweeping changes are remaking Washington
No modern president has done more to personally reshape the nation’s capital.
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Israeli authorities pretend to oppose settler violence directed at pushing Palestinians off land their families have lived on for generations to fulfill Likud’s effort to occupy and control every square meter of the region “from the river to the sea.“ www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
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150 settlers rioted in West Bank, blocking IDF effort to let Palestinians home
Settlers set fire to structures and vehicles, threw stones and wounded three Israeli officers. Three were arrested. A senior security source told Haaretz the IDF 'failed big time' when it only sent 12...
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