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Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social · 43m

10 OCTOBER 1776, NEW YORK: Lord Howe’s secretary Ambrose Serle dines with Guy Johnson, the imperial government’s superintendent of Indian relations, and “had much Conversation with him on the Subject of Americans & American affairs.

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 34m

whatever happened to that pezze di merde Paul M*anafort?

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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 1h

Picking up on @susanwabuda.bsky.social‘s comment below, the problem w/ calling this “medieval” is the implication that only the deep dark past was cruel. Surely the events of the last 125 yrs demonstrate that mediatized cruelty is thoroughly modern & American/Western. We need to own it: This is Us.

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 36m

Indeed, and not helped one jot by institutional 'considerations' for this substantive and procedural rubbish 😑

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 47m

In Which the conversion of the Federal City into another Drumpf Dump Continues Apace (but at taxpayer expense to add insult to injury) 😑

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 56m

hopefully it won't become 'impactful' [sic] but live again in hope rather than expectation 😑

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

a grandmotherly woman just got booted from the Trump rally for protesting, and she went out like a hero talking trash and flipping the double bird

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

🔥 “What did HIS health care book say? Did you read it? He doesn’t have one. I actually write my ideas down… he takes money from Blue Cross Blue Shield.” Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social eviscerates Mike Rogers on health care, and expertly makes the case for #MedicareForAllNOW

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14h

(1/2) "This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. ...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1h

The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 12h

1294 years ago, on the 10th of October 732, Frankish and Umayyad forces clashed in the battle of Tours, which would result in a Frankish victory. This stopped the Umayyad expansion into Europe. #otd #history 🗃️

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Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours, depicted in the Grandes Chroniques de France

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 5h

The 'Insolence' History Seminar Programme has arrived #earlymodern

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14h

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.

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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 20h

From Aberdeen to Lambeth, Newcastle-under-Lyme to Holborn & St Pancras, Reform contested five by-elections yesterday. 💪 They lost all five… 😬 Five contests. Five defeats. That’s eleven out of eleven lost in a fortnight. Reform are not inevitable. 😉 Have a great weekend! #ReformLose

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 17h

'Leader' @schumer.senate.gov : 50 years of 'public service' to no purpose excepting self-aggrandizement 😑

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 19h

Do not forgive Trump voters and non-voters for the betrayal they facilitated in 2024. From Ukraine to the Levant. Across hemispheres. Betraying allies, threatening friends, embracing enemies, and triggering famine. Good work.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

Central casting.

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 21h

No market really understands how to value women.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A trial presided over by the regicide and former Mayor of Congleton, John Bradshaw. Buried in Westminster Abbey his body, along with those of Cromwell and Ireton, was disinterred, hanged at Tyburn and his head displayed on a spike in Westminster Hall.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22h

When someone is a true degenerate malefactor it can be pretty hard to keep up with all the different kinds of misbehavior they're either committing or proximate to.

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 23h

Montenegro is expelling Mikhail Zvinchuk, founder of the Russian pro-war Telegram channel Rybar. Authorities say they prevented “potentially dangerous activity” by him and others in the country. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

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Montenegro expels founder of Russian pro-war Telegram channel Rybar, citing ‘potentially dangerous’ activities — Meduza

Montenegro is expelling Mikhail Zvinchuk, founder of the Russian pro-war Telegram channel Rybar, from the country. News of his detention emerged on the morning of October 9.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

a very long time ago, however (even Neil Young has aged!)

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

JUST UNSEALED: A judge ruled this week that the first Trump admin's "Remain in Mexico" policy illegally subjected thousands of people – many with meritorious asylum claims — to horrifically dangerous and violent conditions and deprived them of access to attorneys. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/en/legal-doc...

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm afraid I am unable to offer any sympathy on this score @amandajsummers.bsky.social but permit me to offer 'help' in the form of an image of an arguable parallel to aging brain of which 😬you might be aware @davidveevers.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpAP...

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Buffalo Springfield Performs "For What It's Worth" | The Smothers Brothers Show (1967)

YouTube video by The Smothers Brothers

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

📌Greg Abbott received a $7.4 million dollar judgement in 1985 when a tree fell on him putting him in a wheelchair. When he later ran for office, he was instrumental in passing tort reform laws capping insurance payouts for victims of accidents like his at $750,000. Enough of these horrible people.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

AI propagandists are already at work building an intellectual framework portraying critiques of AI as discrimination.

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Microsoft Research
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University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
University College London
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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Although native New Yorker 🙄 Drumpf wouldn't be caught dead S of 34th St so doesn't know where 'Little Italy' was but he's seen the Godfather Part 2? 🙄

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Joe Wrote @joewrote.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Future Congresswoman Darializa Avila Chevalier is brutally assaulted by the NYPD while protesting an ICE shooting. Without hesitation, she gets right back up to defend her community. Most politicians would never.

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Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Here is one of the best-known depictions of the Battle of Lepanto in October 1571. Lepanto is today's Nafpaktos in western Greece; Ottoman Turkish: İnebahtı The image represents the Holy League’s victory over the Ottoman fleet. 🧵1/ #MaritimeHistory #EarlyModern #OttomanHistory #galleys #ships

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this does beg the question as to how Mr Noncontroversial Law Enforcer (TM M M*llin) M*rkwayne will respond to an ICC 'invitation' to explain himself after he has 'left office'

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/10/2026

NEWS: Eight major U.S. allies—including Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—have issued a joint rebuke of the Trump regime’s sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court. They vow “unwavering support” for the ICC’s independence.

A vertical graphic on a white background displays an October 9, 2026, joint statement from the foreign ministers of Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The full statement, presented in black serif text, reaffirms unwavering support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), strongly opposes U.S. sanctions against the Court, warns of their impact on its work, staff, and families, and pledges continued support for international justice, accountability, and the rules-based international system.

Marco Rubio, mouth agape, as he announces sweeping sanctions on the ICC to try to punish them for acknowledging Bibi Netanyahu’s war crimes

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well, well, well. So the "most likely" catastrophe will be an infrastructure incident, not some Rube Goldberg plot from a sci-fi movie? huh. bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Why would we let Anthropic decide this for us? If you ascribe to a moral philosophy or religion that disavows being mean to a toaster, that is fine. It is not however fine for a tech company to make, functionally, a moral law for a talking word toaster that is promised to rule us one day.

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

tbf, no one has ever accused M*llin of having any brains

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