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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 4h
🤬 Russian jet-powered drone strikes Pivnichnyi Bridge in Kyiv
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Russian jet-powered drone strikes Pivnichnyi Bridge in Kyiv
A Russian jet-powered drone struck Kyiv's Pivnichnyi Bridge, according to local Telegram channels and Mayor Vitali Klitschko. No information about the extent of the damage or possible casualties has b...
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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 3h
"Russian authorities recently took control of the domestic operations of German wholesaler Metro Cash & Carry, Swiss food giant Nestlé, French retailers Auchan and Leroy Merlin (renamed to Leman Pro in Russia), as well as two French logistics companies.” www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/e...
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Ex-German Chancellor Schröder Joins Board of German Chain in Russia - The Moscow Times
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has joined the supervisory board of Hyperglobus, the Russian arm of the German superstore chain Globus, business media reported Friday.
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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 3h
"In Medicaid Advantage...only 11.5% of care denials are appealed—though 80% of [appealed cases are won]. "cancer treatments to air ambulance...advanced imaging (such as MRIs), cardiac catheterization, pacemakers, Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs)...." arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 7h
I will never forget how he said immigrants take “Black jobs” Slaves. They want slaves
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 8h
ICE builds more prisons because the goal is explicitly to warehouse surplus labor, criminalize poverty, and assert total control over all of society. When Stephen Miller claims there are 25, 30, or even 50 million "illegal immigrants" in the US, he's betting on how many of us he'll need to imprison
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 6h
My goodness that is sleazy. Thank you for the warning. I will now have to begin every recorded interview by stating that this recording is for the use of the interviewer only.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 4h
If a man was at a party with a dozen women and he got so intoxicated that he couldn't function, he'd be about as safe as anyone could be because 99 times out of 100 the women would look after him and see that he got home safely.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13h
lmao awesome
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 13h
The US, citing security concerns, today suspended all consular services at its diplomatic missions in Brazil ahead of Sunday's first round of the presidential election. oglobo.globo.com/brasil/notic...
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EUA suspendem atendimento em Embaixada e consulados no Brasil; Austrália também fecha unidade por segurança
Locais ficarão fechados nesta sexta-feira por medida de prevenção; governo australiano também recomendou que cidadãos evitem instalações diplomáticas americanas
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 13h
WSJ - The FlyDubai co-pilot who stabbed his captain and sent Flight 1073 diving toward the ground had previously been banned from flying by Oman over concerns he had adopted radical ideological views. www.wsj.com/world/middle-east...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12h
WASHINGTON (AP) — Court prohibits Trump administration from building border wall in Texas’ Big Bend region, for now.
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OPB @opb.org · 11h
In an email, a Nvidia spokesperson confirmed the ambassador program is on pause, but would not explain why, and did not respond to questions about whether other programs in the company’s Deep Learning Institute were also being paused.
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Nvidia program on pause year into deal with Oregon to get AI education in schools, colleges
Computer chip company Nvidia paused its AI ambassadors program that, in an agreement with Oregon, was meant to get AI concepts into schools and college campuses.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11h
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regional leader Friday. www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 15h
We’re standing up against a new Trump administration rule that would make Oregonians pay more for gas. The federal government is trying to roll back fuel economy standards and let automakers sell less fuel-efficient cars and trucks – and we’re pushing back.
AG Rayfield takes action to stop Trump from gutting fuel economy standardsAG Rayfield is taking action to stop a new Trump administration rule that would roll back fuel efficiency standards and let automakers sell less fuel-efficient cars and trucks, a move that means Oregonians will pay more at the pump. For nearly 50 years, federal fuel economy standards have required new cars to go farther on a gallon of gas. “When gas prices are at an all-time high, it’s astonishing that the Trump Administration would want to roll back fuel efficiency standards,” said Attorney General Rayfield. “The administration’s actions would cost families and small businesses billions of dollars, increase air pollution, and lead to even hotter summers.”
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15h
i am using the axiom of choice to pull the partition of correct answers out of an infinite set of distributions. i am sampling by contemplating my navel
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 16h
you need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal.
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OPB @opb.org · 15h
Trump sought to make an ally out of fishermen during his first term, but recently fishermen have expressed frustration with high fuel costs, a trade war with Canada and cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Trump tried to make an ally out of fishermen. Some have started to turn on him
Fuel costs have also crept up during the war with Iran, pushing diesel fuel into the $6-per-gallon range when it was less than $4 per gallon a year ago. And the trade war with Canada has complicated the American seafood industry’s relationship with a country it has long been interconnected with.
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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 15h
Reminder: New Zealand's hospitals were at more than 100% capacity because of the severity of this flu season, so get a flu shot.
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OPB @opb.org · 16h
Oregon law requires public officials to report sources of household income on annual ethics disclosures, including spouses’ income sources, especially if there may be a conflict of interest. But the head of Oregon's housing finance agency didn’t do either until ProPublica asked her about it.
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Her agency distributes billions for Oregon housing projects. Her husband’s company helped develop some of them
Andrea Bell, executive director of Oregon Housing and Community Services, filed amended state ethics paperwork after ProPublica asked about her husband’s work at a firm that’s consulted on projects receiving or in line for money from her agency.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 20h
Randomly remembering an Uber where the driver was on a call talking about opening a chicken place and when they hung up I tried to make conversation about cooking and they accused me of stealing their recipe and lied about me not wearing a mask so I had to take a picture with it on before every ride
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Heather @hhanson.bsky.social · 19h
abcnews.com/video/136522... Uber is the worst. #DropUber4Em
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Video Family speaks out after $40 million payout from Uber
The parents of a 23-year-old woman who was struck and killed after her Uber driver left her along a California freeway were awarded $40 million in an arbitration against Uber and the driver.
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OPB @opb.org · 18h
Two years after announcing the first round of grantees, Oregon has yet to build any federally funded electric vehicle fast-charging stations along the state’s most-driven highways.
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2 years in, Oregon still has no electric vehicle fast-charging stations through a $52 million federally funded program
Today, there are more than 5.3 million electric cars and trucks registered across the nation and about 140,000 of those are registered in Oregon. But building critical charging infrastructure has not kept up despite millions in federal funding
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18h
This is bizarre in part because if the idea that AI models have “moral standing” were actually taken seriously, all of these companies would immediately be banned.
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OPB @opb.org · 17h
Hours after the Portland Trail Blazers announced they had hired announcer Braiden Bell, a KGW-TV reporter uncovered racist and misogynist posts on Bell’s Twitter account from 2012 and 2013.
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Portland Trail Blazers fire brand-new announcer for racist, sexist tweets
While reporting on the story, KGW-TV reporter Devon Haskins uncovered racist and misogynist posts on Bell’s Twitter account from 2012 and 2013, when Bell was a teenager.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 17h
WaPo - More than a year after the Trump administration attempted to dismantle Voice of America, it is paying an estimated $1.6 million a week to keep 420 of its staffers on administrative leave. wapo.st/4j1UpbF
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Trump administration is paying $1.6 million a week to keep Voice of America staff on leave
Hundreds of VOA staffers have been on paid leave since the agency sidelined them in March 2025.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17h
BREAKING NYT: The top super PAC for Senate Republicans is canceling all the remaining ads it had booked in North Carolina as of Friday — shifting away tens of millions of dollars in a move that signals that Republicans no longer see a path to winning the state this fall.
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Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim
The Senate Leadership Fund is diverting money to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party as it seeks to hold its majority.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 02/10/2026
It shows you how bad the problem is that limiting people to 24 submissions a year will make a meaningful difference.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UK-Iran national arrested under Terrorism Act over RAF Fairford incident www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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UK-Iran national arrested under Terrorism Act over RAF Fairford incident
Counter-terrorism police arrest 25-year-old in Westminster and search two properties in central London
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bellingcat's won 3 awards at the Online Journalism Award, two for Agents of Chaos, our collaboration with @calmatters.org and @evidentmedia.org calmatters.org/investigatio...
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Agents of Chaos: Border Patrol’s year of unchecked force
A visual investigation shows how five agents moved from city to city, with their tactics becoming more brazen at each stop.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazing news! MLB has dropped its proposal for a baseball game in Grand Teton National Park! Thank you to everyone who pushed back and stood up for our parks!
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We need to take our country back from the fascists and make it a civilized place to live.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A Texas GOP State Rep is retweeting Team Talarico
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
Todd Blanche’s motion for summary judgement in my Epstein redaction training video lawsuit is due tomorrow after a short delay. Multiple sources told me there were videos training FBI agents on how to redact Trump from the Epstein files. I’m suing to get them.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AP-NORC poll: Only 17% of U.S. adults say Trump keeps his promises — including just 4% of Democrats and 36% of Republicans.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you need to send a fundraising email with the header “We know you’re not an ATM” maybe it’s a sign you ought to reign in the grifter consulting firms that are alienating supporters with a constant stream of panhandling spam to raise money that mostly gets poured back into their own coffers?
Dem fundraising email headed “We know you’re not an ATM”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A federal judge has ruled that Roger Rogoff, the judicially appointed U.S. attorney in Seattle, has been illegally fired by the Trump admin and must be provisionally reinstated by the Justice Department.
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Trump illegally fired Seattle’s U.S. attorney, judge rules
The ruling is the latest in a string of decisions finding that the administration bent federal law to keep loyalists in key prosecutorial posts.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING WaPo: Major League Baseball has abandoned a proposal to build a ballpark in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park.
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MLB drops proposal to host a baseball game at Grand Teton National Park
After The Washington Post reported on the proposal, local leaders sent letters to the Trump administration and the MLB commissioner expressing strong opposition.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the thing about court expansion is that the only way it can declare it unconstitutional is by defining itself in opposition to the new majority. if the new majority says "we are the supreme court" and everyone proceeds as normal, they are the supreme court.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from the Trump Justice Department seeking to compel Georgia to hand over sensitive voter information. It's the latest in a string of legal losses for the Trump admin as it seeks voter data ahead of the midterms.
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Judge tosses Trump administration lawsuit seeking Georgia voter data
A federal judge says that Georgia elections officials are not required to hand over voter information being sought by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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boomdeyada.bsky.social @boomdeyada.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
gofund.me/ba9dcb1b6
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Donate to Stand with Nurse Chloe Freeman, organized by Mary Dooley
I, and old nurse who has now officially seen too much, am setting up this account to help a… Mary Dooley needs your support for Stand with Nurse Chloe Freeman
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just had to check
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 01/10/2026
⁨Arizona was hit hardest by SNAP cuts. A 52% reduction in recipients - that's 400,000 people, including hungry children, who have been kicked off assistance. Juan Ciscomani voted for this in the BBB and expects Arizonans to forgive him?⁩
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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Agreed. They should have all been jailed.
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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So desperate that they will make up anything. Can "they are eating the dogs" be far behind? The reality is that Texas Republican officeholders will let women die rather than give them healthcare, and they want as many pregnant women as possible. We see that in their actions. And they lie, clearly.
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daviss @daviss.org · 01/10/2026
Today, disgraced border commander Gregory Bovino was sued by the family of Renee Good. On the day Good was killed, he showed up within a hour to stand in front of cameras. While calling himself "Mean Green", he claims he showed up so others didn't "contaminate a crime scene".
photograph of greg bovino taken by chad davis on january 7, 2026
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OPB @opb.org · 01/10/2026
“These assaults are not believed to be related, but several alleged perpetrators may have taken advantage of the fact that the victims were intoxicated at social events,” officials wrote.
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University of Oregon receives five sexual assault reports within first week of classes
Officials said four incidents involved university students, and the fifth occurred near campus.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the conjunction of: (a) code-trained persistent agents deciding "i know, i'll solve my problem with code" when their problem is "this is impossible" or "403 forbidden," and (b) open-weight models both improving their coding capabilities and being completely laissez-faire about what the models do
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The GOP plan for this fall is to swamp races with dark money and turn the racism dial up to 100
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