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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
JUST IN: Judge Reyes has barred the Trump administration from cutting down additional trees on the East Potomac golf course through at least Oct. 26.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Norway has removed all of its $2tn Investment Fund from Israel linked banks, as it continues its policy of BDS against Israel. Well done Norway.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
i think that the best way the understand conservative legal philosophy is to know that, literally, it was constructed backward from the premise that a Republican president should be permitted to commit crimes against democracy
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 13/10/2026
Ukraine and Moldova have been advancing their EU membership bids in tandem and are currently trying to open all six of the bloc's enlargement clusters — to-do lists of reforms that must be completed to join the bloc. Read more here: kyivindependent.com/ukraine-adva...
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Ukraine advances EU membership bid with 4 of 6 integration to-do lists unlocked
The move was made possible the day after Ukraine's parliament passed a law bolstering the rights of the country's Hungarian-speaking minority — a demand that Hungary had said must be fulfilled before ...
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 13/10/2026
⚡️Ukraine advances EU membership bid with 4 of 6 integration to-do lists unlocked Ukraine celebrated the opening of two more EU enlargement clusters at a ceremony in Luxembourg on Oct. 13, a key milestone in the process to eventually become a member state.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/10/2026
Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Indenture between the "Treasurer and Company of Adventurers of Planters of the City of London for the first Colony in Virginia" and Thomas Bulkeley of Beaumaris [rather of Llanfairfechan], second son of Sir Richard [the third], and later first Viscount. Dyddiad/Date: 1622 BHILL/40
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Gavi @gavi.org · 23h
❓“Will giving my baby multiple vaccines at once overload their immune system?” The quick answer: No. Decades of studies confirm that multiple vaccines don’t overwhelm immunity, don’t increase infection risk and don’t cause chronic illness. The full story: bit.ly/3VyWfXZ
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Anastasia Llewellyn @anastasiallewellyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If you’re thinking about learning Welsh, I say do it! The Welsh speaking community has been so welcoming, beyond anything I could have imagined. And the Dysgu Cymraeg resources and tutors are fantastic. Four hours a week live from September to June for £50 earlybird is the best value around!
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 23h
(Lincoln, Neb., Journal Star)
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 23h
Oct. 13, 1926: The school board in Genoa, Neb., decrees that all girl students must wear skirts long enough to cover their knees—not for morality, they say, but to ensure their warmth in winter. Hazel O'Bryan (seen getting measured) is among girls protesting a dress code from "horse and buggy days."
Hazel O'Bryan being measured by her aunt, Mrs. Mike Brown; at left is her school friend Gladys Bradshaw (Omaha, Neb., Daily Bee)Lincoln, Neb., Journal Star
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23h
A federal judge orders the Trump administration to halt work on a historic D.C. golf course until Oct. 26, pending court action.
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Federal judge orders Trump administration to halt work on historic DC golf course until Oct. 26
Federal judge orders Trump administration to halt work on historic DC golf course until Oct. 26, pending more court action.
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Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
BBC News - MI5 chief warns of threats to UK from Russia, Iran and AI www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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MI5 tackling more state threats than during Cold War, warns intelligence chief
Sir Ken McCallum says more is being done to tackle state threats than since the Cold War - and warns AI could be used to develop drones and potentially bioweapons.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
"When Trump plucked Katie Zacharia from obscurity & appointed her as his new press sec, he called her 'an attorney.' This is also how Zacharia describes herself. But Popular Information searched for evidence in all 50 states, plus DC, that she was admitted to practice law anywhere — & found none."
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Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, claims she’s a lawyer. Is she?
There is no evidence Zacharia has ever been licensed to practice law — and the White House did not provide any
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23h
The Trump regime is paying your tax money to Elon Musk through lucrative government contracts, and then Musk is giving hundreds of million of dollars to the Republicans so they'll keep doing that. It's how oligarchs and Republican politicians scam the rest of us.
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Elon Musk becomes biggest political donor of US midterms cycle with $366m spent
Musk’s midterm donations, mostly for rightwing candidates and causes, surpass his contributions to Trump in 2024
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Hugh Sykes @hughsykes.bsky.social · 23h
Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the head of the security service Shin Bet to prosecute the IDF for harming the security of Israel by bombing Gaza without any care for civilian casualties. Oh. Wrong. He wants to prosecute the makers of a film that revealed it. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...
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NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film’s interviewees
Israeli PM calls for criminal investigation into soldiers and officers interviewed in Guardian-produced documentary
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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 23h
Not sure if Andy Burnham was single-handedly keeping the trams functioning here but I’ve had nothing but problems with them since he stopped being mayor, I think there needs to be a conversation
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23h
BREAKING: Cornell bans fraternity parties in wake of gang rape allegation and says the state police will investigate campus sex crimes.
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Cornell suspends fraternity parties for rest of academic year amid sexual assault controversy
Cornell University is suspending parties and other social events at fraternity houses for the rest of the academic year.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Elon Musk has spent at least $276 million since July to boost Republican candidates, a record-breaking sum. That’s just 0.028% of his total net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Additional fraternity assault allegation -- this time, at the University of Chicago:
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UChicago frat suspends events after report of sexual assault; students question campus training, Greek life
The university and the fraternity's national headquarters said they were still gathering information and would suspend events at the AEPi chapter during the investigation.
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Man in a gilet stood on platform 12 gives up on reading the display and asks ChatGPT out loud if he is on the right platform for his train. I don’t want to be dramatic about it but Eratosthenes figured out the circumference of the Earth using a stick and knowledge of a distant well.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 23h
I don't even want internet-connected internet at this point
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/10/2026
🚨 Our DC Chief Scott MacFarlane was INSIDE the courtroom as federal Judge Ana Reyes erupted at Trump's DOJ lawyers. “I've never seen anything like that before.” Scott describes the judge screaming at the top of her lungs after the gov cut down hundreds of trees despite assurances to the court
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 23h
Things were semi-formal, but no precise wording was required, and admissibility in court very much judge dependant, until 1986, with the emergence of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, commonly known as PACE. This required the police to use a precise wording. Fans of the Bill in the 1990s…
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 23h
The idea of cautioning a suspect before asking questions or conducting a formal interview has been going on in one form or another since the policing began. But the first formal rules emerged in 1912, known as the Judge’s Rules. These rules set down guidance for questioning and court admissibility
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 23h
Mike Pence: ‘Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. Enough is enough. President Trump should rescind the diesel deal with Russia and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House;’ 1/ ‘
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23h
Read all about 'Operation Simplistic Bollocks', our latest attempt to appeal to racist numbskulls while distracting attention from my £5m dodgy gift. parodypm.substack.com/p/our-plan-t...
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 23h
Ken Paxton skipped 730 workdays as Attorney General, often traveling to luxury resorts. He left a combined two years empty on his calendar.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 23h
France accuses Elon Musk of 'online harassment' of Europe leaders
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France accuses Elon Musk of 'online harassment' of Europe leaders
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot warned Tuesday of foreign interference in France's presidential election in spring 2027. He singled out US tech billionaire Elon Musk for using social network X to attempt to influence debate in European democracies.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
'“Russia did not interfere in British politics“ says the man who shook off his own Security Officers to go to a party with KGB officers, gave a peerage to one of Putin‘s own KGB-connected millionaires, played tennis with the wife of an oligarch for a massive donation to the Tory ...' via Will Blaik
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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 23h
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Kimberly Guilfoyle steps down as US ambassador to Greece after alleged misconduct
White House asked Guilfoyle, who is alleged to have sought a bill payment from a Trump donor, to resign from post
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Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 12/10/2026
“Women wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them ‘whores’ misogynists.”
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Dan Levy Calls Out Shane Gillis’ ‘SNL’ Monologue and Says ‘More Men Need to Be Standing Up’: ‘Speechless That Something Like That Can Exist on Live National Television’
"Schitt's Creek" star Dan Levy is calling out Shane Gillis' "Saturday Night Live" monologue, saying that "more men need to be standing up."
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 23h
Ukraine has been elected to the UN Human Rights Council! Andrii Melnyk:
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Edward Driftwood @edwarddriftwood.bsky.social · 23h
The fact that The Times has descended to the level of insanity of the Sun, Telegraph etc. is underpriced and seems to go unnoticed by many people who still see it as "one of the better ones" is worrying. That this blindness by them in turn isn't being commented on is worrying as well.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h
The EHRC @equalityhumanright.bsky.social - where I am one of the newer Commissioners since May 2026 - are now looking to appoint the next Scotland Commissioner and next Wales Commissioner. If that might be you, please do consider applying: links follow in thread. The closing date is November 9th.
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Richard D. Gregory @richgreg3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
‘Shocking and sobering’: UK bird populations fall to lowest level on record Nearly 1/2 of species are in decline, with farmland birds and seabirds the worst hit, conservation bodies say @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️🐦 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Shocking and sobering’: UK bird populations fall to lowest level on record
Nearly half of species are in decline, with farmland birds and seabirds the worst hit, conservation bodies say
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 22h
Authorities have also harassed and arbitrarily detained journalists covering the protests. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government should stop the ill-treatment and arbitrary detention of protesters, allow people to protest peacefully, and restore mobile internet services and freedom of movement.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 22h
As the protests have grown, the police have beat protesters, forcibly dragged them on the streets and stuffed them into vans and buses, arbitrarily detained them, imposed excessive restrictions on movement, and suspended mobile internet services.
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Rhian Williams @rhianwilliams.bsky.social · 21h
They were at one time, but a long time ago. #TheArchers
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h
I missed this earlier. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey vetoed an ordinance passed by the City Council to regulate autonomous rideshare vehicles, which would require a human to sit in the driver's seat of a robotaxi www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey vetoes driverless rideshare ordinance
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey vetoed an ordinance passed by the City Council to regulate autonomous rideshare vehicles.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Trump is now openly advocating for Russia
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 22h
The layers of insanity: 1) The President has a public tantrum 2) over an award 3) directed at a sovereign nation 4) not actually responsible for the award 5) given for peace that he wants for “winning a war” 6) that he hasn’t even won
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I’m in Cardiff tomorrow giving a free talk. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-news-i...
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The News is Dead: Why the media is broken and what you can do about it
Journalist and author Mic Wright on what's really going on behind the headlines, why we don't get the news we deserve.
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Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🚲🍉 @onebiskuit.bsky.social · 22h
I feel your pain. First it was policemen who seemed to be looking younger. Then came cricketers. Cabinet ministers followed, but I never thought I would one day be older than a Pope!
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
He may actually have lost the ability to tell reality from what he's imagined.
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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 22h
Noson dda iawn yn @librarywales.bsky.social yn gwrando ar y ddwy fardd, Menna Elfyn ac Elinor Wyn Reynolds, yn trafod casgliad diweddaraf Menna 'Carco'
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Xanderl @xanderl.bsky.social · 23h
Equity's statement on the proposal to move recording of #TheArchers away from Birmingham. Makes the very good point that Birmingham has already lost "Doctors" www.equity.org.uk/news/2026/eq...
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Equity opposes The Archers Birmingham axe
Equity is opposing the BBC’s proposal to end recording the flagship radio drama The Archers in Birmingham, with cast members up in arms over the move. The proposal comes as the BBC says it will no lon...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22h
Calvin Robinson wants to disenfranchise many men & even more women so that the voters could not choose to elect any women at all, least of all ethnic & faith minorities. This is his response to the by-election in Holborn, and his attempt to set a new bar in the radicalisation race on X
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22h
Zacharia is just the reductio of how unseriously Trump has always taken the position of Press Secretary. While Sean Spicer did occasionally try to do the job in a minimally professional way (occasionally), none of his successors have done so. They just insult, rant, repeat talking points, and lie.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h
This fraud was then perpetuated by Elon Musk himself, who was running DOGE at the time, and who retweeted a post about the incident while declaring it a "criminal act." The government now "concedes ... that Mr. Musk and officials at FEMA and DHS knew this information was false."
vi. February 11, 2025, Statement by Elon Musk On February 11, 2025, Elon Musk, a Special Government Employee and head of DOGE, retweeted on X a photo of Ms. Comans along with the statement, “FEMA CFO Mary Comans was just fired for funneling $58M to illegal migrant hotels in Manhattan” and he called it a “criminal action.” The Government concedes and the Court finds that other than the fact that Ms. Comans had been fired, the post by Mr. Musk was entirely false. The Government further concedes and the Court further finds that Mr. Musk and officials at FEMA and DHS knew this information was false at the time it was posted. Based on the unchallenged facts and the fact that Mr. Musk was the head of DOGE, he knew or should have known that any payments made to state or local governments through a FEMA grant in February 2025 were approved by his subordinates. Finally, the fact that Mr. Musk posted a picture of Ms. Comans to his millions of followers while falsely characterizing her government service as a “criminal action” was clearly intended to make her afraid. Posting Ms. Comans’ picture served no legitimate governmental interest and was little more than state sanctioned intimidation.
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