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Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @cjpme.org · 4h
We are disgusted and disturbed to see a piece run in the National Post that appears to potentially endorse violence against NDP Leader Avi Lewis for his argument that we all bear a collective responsibility to stop the genocide in Palestine. See our joint response:
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Marie-Helene @ediblepetals.bsky.social · 43m
His own children will be hearing echoes
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 43m
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
ICYMI — Paxton admitted Trump is a “drag” on Republicans and said the weird Trumpapalooza midterm narcissism convention “dropped our numbers” 👀🤷🏼 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 58m
Trump moves 9,000 troops to Middle East after threatening to hit Iran ‘very hard’. Distraction from Trump's economic failures, midterm blues, capitulation to China, court rebukes, tariff and press wars, self-aggrandizement, family fortunes from corruption Why does US Congress not check his abuses?
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Trump moves 9,000 troops to Middle East after threatening to hit Iran - latest
The US president said the war will end ‘one way or another’
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 1h
Dozens of broke new readers have signed up to get free solidarity copies of HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY. It costs $37 to send a stranger a book and share our buried history www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/nnkuy...
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Buy a Stranger a copy of "Here Where We Live is Our Country" — Molly Crabapple
So many broke young people want copies of HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY . When Molly does signings, there are a lways many trios and quartets of friends pitching in to buy a single copy to...
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brianloveswords @brianloveswords.com · 4h
it's the least mind-boggling thing i've ever heard; it's a connect-the-dots with two dots.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 5h
It's not ideal when your top peace negotiator has a huge interest in Israel’s largest arms manufacturer. 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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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Our dad was not a criminal. He was just a man who loved his family and woke up before the rest of the world did to put an honest day’s work." - Ronaldo Salgado speaking about his father, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo TIME has recognized him and his brother as Latino Leaders 2026. ✍️: @tusk81.bsky.social
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TIME Names Houston Dad Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s Sons To Latino Leaders 2026 List
“Ronaldo and Lorenzo Jr. were born U.S. citizens, and feel a sense of responsibility to use their voices to call for change.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h
For profit, the executives of MS-NOW happily implicate themselves in Trump's embezzlement of Treasury funds for a political ad campaign. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump buys ads on CNN, MS NOW as he fights to bar them from the White House
Taxpayer-funded ads denouncing the “deep state” and “globalists” aired locally on the two cable networks Trump has sought to ban from White House grounds.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 7h
it's fine, it's just a dumb thing for a SoS to be spending time on
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“It wasn’t a mistake”🤔 “Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?” 🤔 @ericschmittmo pathetically attempts to play it off and act like he didn’t publicly humiliate himself in front of the nation today 🤡
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt: When you're too incompetent to win, but also too dishonest to admit you lost.
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UK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 8h
TRIBUNE: Britain is finally naming Israel’s unlawful occupation - but not its own role in building the system of dispossession, emergency rule and legal impunity that helped create it. - by John McDonnell
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Britain Has Found its Voice on the Occupation, But Still Can’t Speak About its Own Record
To play a serious role in resolving the crisis in Palestine, the UK must first admit that we helped to cause it.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8h
MAGA looks even more stupid right now.
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Video Proves Jack Smith Was At Iowa Hawkeyes Game And Not In Atlanta After MAGA Senator's Epic 'Gotcha' Blunder
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🇨🇦DUNK🇨🇦 (Proud Part owner of Canada) @noofieninja.bsky.social · 10h
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 8h
We see you Oz and RFK jr. We see all of you. Is there ANY Man on the Hill, NOT an Epstein club pedo member?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
The Vineland facility’s 62 gas-fired generators became public in August after a Floodlight/Guardian visual investigation found them operating without permits. The New Jersey department of environmental protection last week fined the company over the fleet but did not disclose how long the generators
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US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits
Records show Vineland facility in New Jersey emitted health-harming pollution before regulators stepped in
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
had been operating nor how much air pollution they had released into the surrounding community over the past year. "Our best estimate is that the generators emitted about 140 tons of NOx,” said Xiaomeng Jin, an assistant professor at Rutgers department of environmental sciences.
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MellowSteadyFlow @mellowsteadyflow.bsky.social · 8h
www.rawstory.com/eric-schmitt...
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The slam dunk that sidelined a MAGA senator's career
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) was being hoisted as a potential 2028 vice president pick — until this slam-dunk disaster.Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h
This is the infuriating thing. We must spend a zillion pounds on missiles and tanks, so we have to slash benefits. Well, couldn’t we just raise taxes on middle class people? Wouldn’t that be much easier? Absolutely not, a totally insane idea, I would rather die.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 8h
Old people are richer! Can we tax them? No! But we can cut a bit of income the poor ones care about and the rich ones don't
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h
I mean, look: this stuff is the lib equivalent of that “We can’t give aid abroad while our people are hungry/Can I have some food/Fuck off” cartoon. Money cut from pensions will be money cut, it’s not going to a care service or to improve the lot of young people. It’s just cuts, and bullshit.
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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 8h
Growth in FRED users well above 20% *per year* for 30 years. That's impressive!
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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lots of different euphemisms for “I can’t get the price I’m looking for” I guess
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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The one-way ratchet structure of US mortgage market has basically removed the forcing mechanism of high rates into price falls via forced sales. So the major impact is basically the marginal demand channel, which is a pea-shooter by comparison.
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MellowSteadyFlow @mellowsteadyflow.bsky.social · 8h
They will find a way round it. Only #ReNationalisation can stop the rot. inews.co.uk/news/finally...
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Finally, sewage-dumping water bosses to lose their bonuses
The move marks a new win for The i Paper’s Save Britain’s Rivers campaign, which has been calling for tougher measures to restrict bonuses at underperforming water firms
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
It's heart warming to see Mark Dubowitz's relentless bullshit extrusion machine taken on so vigorously.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 8h
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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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 8h
Renee Good’s family sues US government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis
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Renee Good’s family sues US government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 9h
Knicks owner Jim Dolan built himself a private surveillance state. Now he's spending millions to give New York a governor who supports Flock, ICE, and AI data centers. My latest in @wired.com ... www.wired.com/story/madiso...
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Madison Square Garden’s James Dolan Is Spending Big on New York’s Governor Race
James Dolan has put surveillance at the center of his sports and entertainment empire. Now he’s getting involved in GOP politics by backing a candidate who supports Flock, ICE, and AI data centers.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
via Dave Wright
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Libération @liberation.fr · 13h
Mathilde Mauté était la femme de Paul Verlaine et la mère de son fils. Victime des excès et des coups du poète, elle s’éteint en 1914. Sa biographie historique, signée Hélène Mathieu et Daniel Grandclément, s’attache à la faire sortir de l’oubli. ➡️ l.liberation.fr/Hx2
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h
CNN and MS NOW are complicit in Trump’s illegal scheme to steal taxpayer money for political ads. Why are they accepting stolen money to run illegal ads?
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 10h
Ahead of a pivotal midterm election defined by concerns around surging rent and gas prices, student debt is emerging as an affordability issue some voters say is being overlooked.
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Soaring Student Loan Bills Add to Voters’ Affordability Squeeze
More than 9 million Americans are at least one year behind on their payments.
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Freddie_Rose🌹 🇨🇦 ⚕️ (Dr. F. Rogers) @freddierose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Come on Maine...get rid of Susan Collins 👊
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Why Trump's tariffs could cost Republicans a crucial Senate seat in Maine | CBC News
The Canada-U.S. trade war is playing out amid a tight race for U.S. Senate in Maine. The election result will help determine which party controls Congress for the remainder of Donald Trump's term as p...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h
The midterms are being flooded with dark money & Trump is doing everything he can to suppress the vote. But remember — WE THE PEOPLE outnumber Trump and his billionaire backers. Keep phoning. Keep canvassing. Keep getting out the vote for candidates on the side of working people. It is essential.
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Plain Lincoln @plainlincoln.bsky.social · 9h
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 9h
Scott The House Bessent call your office
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Paste Magazine @pastemagazine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately
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Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately
The rapper's three-day tour includes stops in Dublin, Paris, and London, all scheduled for the last week of October.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h
the democrats who put themselves in a panic over hasan piker are the same democrats who push the party to be anti trans, and a generation ago were the ones saying we cant oppose the war in iraq these people are never right they doom the party they hurt america stop listening to them
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 9h
lis smith failed running presidential campaigns for pete buttigieg and martin omalley and then pivoted to becoming andrew cuomo's bag man and the dem establishment and the media still love her. this is the whole fucking problem.
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 10h
🚨It was only a matter of time before the good people of the BIS got around to looking at AI circular financing www.ft.com/content/8787...
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Is circular financing in AI a problem?
Only if the wheel stops spinning
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 9h
"It was nice of Trump to throw the glitzy lunch for the AI guys and sign off on their no-safeguards policy. It should make it even easier for Dems to say that Trump and his party are bought and paid for by big AI. The tsunami forecast could turn out to be right." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-ai-b...
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Trump + AI = Blue Tsunami
It doesn’t take super intelligence to realize the GOP is screwed.
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Krawallier @krawallier.bsky.social · 10h
That was my first thought too, and in fact, for every deceased Remain voter, there are two deceased Leave voters. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ex-pol...
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Pro-Brexit Majority Of 2016 'Has Literally Died Out', Polling Expert Reveals
The founder of YouGov said there is now an 8.1 million majority in favour of rejoining the EU.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 11h
Avg GDP growth 1945-79: 2.8% Since then: 1.6% And this apparently "broken, economically stagnant" basket case kept its AAA status right through the Winter of Discontent We lost it under Cameron, and it fell again under May, then Johnson, and then Truss: i.e. the whole time Clarke was in govt
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11h
A lot of independent college daily newspapers show what journalism could be in the absence of corporate control.
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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