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tired-native.bsky.social @tired-native.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I heard someone describe religion as similar to Bitcoin. There's money in it but it's based on nothing. 😂
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 23/09/2026
靖国神社で礼拝を挙げる政治家はまだ多すぎます。
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 20/09/2026
Is that a part of the JDP's definition of the order that migrants must respect?
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 19/09/2026
Evolution provides a direction for time by providing a historical record. - Stephen Jay Gould in his Structure of Evolution.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Release ALL the Epstein files NOW
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Divorcing Religion @janiceselbie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is SO concerning www.alternet.org/amp/trump-st...
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Ex-federal judge reveals Trump’s plan for 'catastrophic end' of democracy
On Thursday, a former federal judge detailed what he deemed “the final battle for America’s democracy,” laying out President Donald Trump’s plan to seize power on January 3, 2027.
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Cultish @cultish.skyfleet.blue · 08/09/2026
Newsletter: “It could never happen to me!”
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Newsletter: “It could never happen to me!”
People don’t join cults; they are recruited.
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cultnews.bsky.social @cultnews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Open Minds Foundation: Mandated Shunning: A Core Manipulation Tactic in High-Control Groups Mandated shunning is a psychological tool used by high-control groups to keep members trapped through the fear of total isolation. #CoerciveControl #CultRecovery www.openmindsfoundation.org/blog/mandate...
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Mandated Shunning: A Core Manipulation Tactic in High-Control Groups | Open Minds Foundation
Imagine being told that leaving a group could mean losing contact with the people you love most. Your family. Your friends. Your community. Your support net ...
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 06/09/2026
Hagiographer Breen needs to deal with politicians that provide cover to abusive religious groups. Is it proper for a religious group to support politicians who enable the group's abuses?
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 06/09/2026
The prosecutors have appealed the short sentence.
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David McNeill @davidamcneill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Japan’s minister in charge of harmoniously coexisting with foreigners seems to embody an increasingly xenophobic national mood. My piece with Karyn Nishimura. fccj.or.jp/number-1-shi...
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 01/09/2026
Thomas Edison also tried to develop such a transceiver.
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地平社 @chiheisha.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
【社説】外国人の永住、突然高くなる壁 望みを砕く変更は悪手だ:朝日新聞 www.asahi.com/articles/ASV... 〈かけがえのない人生を送る地として日本を選び、永住をめざしている外国人の望みや意欲を打ち砕くような改定だ。人道上も看過できない〉
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【社説】外国人の永住、突然高くなる壁 望みを砕く変更は悪手だ:朝日新聞
かけがえのない人生を送る地として日本を選び、永住をめざしている外国人の望みや意欲を打ち砕くような改定だ。人道上も看過できない。 出入国在留管理庁は、外国人の永住許可審査で用いる指針の改定案を発表した…
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Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The newest members of the SAIS community have arrived in Washington, D.C.! 🏛️ Over the past week, our new students connected with classmates, faculty, staff, and alumni during Orientation 2026. Take a look at the moments that kicked off the new academic year! 🌍
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ぽちたま(高市早苗は統一教会) @pochitamadesu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
2026年8月28日の深夜に行われた統一教会の徹夜精誠 その中の【合心呼名祈祷】より オモニム ムジェ ソッパン‼️ オモニム ムジェ ソッパン‼️ オモニム ムジェ ソッパン‼️ (お母様の無罪釈放) 求刑13年を無罪釈放にしろと❓💦 いくら何でも有り得ないだろうし、おこがましいにも程があるのでは無かろうか?
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 25/08/2026
Considering the phrase "mystical intuitions are a core component of any fully holistic scientific research," it's hard to decide who is the crackpot here. Mystical and science do not mix, full stop.
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 24/08/2026
Sick until proven healthy - the wellness/industrial complex open.substack.com/pub/erictopo...
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Ground Truths | Eric Topol | Substack
Facts, data and analytics about biomedical matters. Click to read Ground Truths, by Eric Topol, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 23/08/2026
Science tikkun: a bioscience pandemic framework in a Hebrew tradition of global repair
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Teddy Hose @teddyhose.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A leaked letter from Natalie Harp to Trump & a post about it from a Bill Gothard cult survivor. It's understandable to feel Natalie reaped what she sowed, but this person who posted & myself, a Moonies cult survivor, picked up on the abusive grooming in Natalie's words. I hope she finds help 😔
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 21/08/2026
中国、日本の沖縄帰属に「疑義」 フィリピンにも類似主張(共同通信)
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 21/08/2026
日本人の台湾“進学”10年で2.8倍 米国より安価な留学費用、誘致手厚く「学費無料、生活費支給」(西日本新聞me)
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elle hardy @ellehardy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Hey folks, I have some free audiobook codes to give away for my first book, Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World. If you want one shoot me a DM
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Caelyn Cobb @caelyncobb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Lovely to see this review in @jacobinmag.bsky.social of one of my recent favorites to work on at @columbiaup.bsky.social, Jie-hyun Lim's VICTIMHOOD NATIONALISM jacobin.com/2026/08/lim-...
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The Dangerous Rise of Victimhood Nationalism
From Israel and Russia to Germany and Japan, we can find nationalists laying claim to a state of perpetual victimhood to justify present-day chauvinism. This brand of “victimhood nationalism” is becom...
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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Placing East and Southeast Asia in Convo, Forum In Memory of Aaron Stephen Moore got published! Writing "Agents of Development: The Roles of Insects + Entomological Expertise in Japanese Technical Aid in Southeast Asia"=next best thing to talking w ASM in person read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
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Agents of Development: The Roles of Insects and Entomological Expertise in Japanese Technical Aid in Southeast Asia
Abstract. Japanese overseas development assistance intersected with sericulture in Southeast Asia especially during the 1970s and 1980s. Piecing together disparate entomological engagements as reporte...
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
my latest on the miracle of the MMR vaccine. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trump-and-...
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Trump and RFK Jr need to shut up about the MMR vaccine
A reminder of how terrible these diseases used to be
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地平社 @chiheisha.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
【既刊案内】 デジタル・デモクラシー ビッグ・テックを包囲するグローバル市民社会 著者:内田聖子 ビッグ・テックが独占するデジタル技術によって監視や搾取が世界的に広がり、抗議の声が各地にわきおこっている。公正で倫理的なテクノロジーを求める民主主義の姿とは。 chiheisha.co.jp/2024/03/07/9...
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デジタル・デモクラシー  |地平社
巨大IT企業vs民主主義ーー市民たちの闘い。
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cultnews.bsky.social @cultnews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Chosun: Unification Church Leaders Indicted for 188 Million Won Illegal Donations 132 politicians received funds unaware of Unification Church's role; Shincheonji probe into Democratic Party ongoing www.chosun.com/english/nati...
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Unification Church Leaders Indicted for 188 Million Won Illegal Donations
Unification Church Leaders Indicted for 188 Million Won Illegal Donations 132 politicians received funds unaware of Unification Churchs role; Shincheonji probe into Democratic Party ongoing
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地平社 @chiheisha.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
外国人政策の厳格化加速 高市政権「永住」厳しく 「選ばれぬ国に」懸念の声:時事通信 news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/5c2... 「この時期の見直しは小野田紀美外国人政策担当相がとにかくやりたいと急いだ結果だ」 「法律に匹敵する厳しい要件を(ガイドラインで)勝手に定めるのは国会の権限の侵害だ」
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外国人政策の厳格化加速 高市政権「永住」厳しく 「選ばれぬ国に」懸念の声(時事通信) - Yahoo!ニュース
高市政権が外国人政策の厳格化を加速させている。  在留資格を巡る手数料の大幅引き上げを7月に打ち出したのに続き、8月に入って永住許可の取得要件を厳しくする案を公表した。外国人急増に伴う一部の国民
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The Rockefeller University @rockefeller.edu · 13/08/2026
In @cp-cellrepmed.bsky.social: Paul Cohen's lab at Rockefeller finds that three minutes of sprinting can do something that 90 minutes of moderate exercise cannot: dramatically reshape the molecular contents of the bloodstream. #hearthealth #metabolicdisease #aging 🔗: bit.ly/3SuOD7y
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"government overreach designed to disconnect citizens from the truth and advance an authoritarian agenda" "must recognize how critically linked science is to democracy itself and defend its integrity with every tool at their disposal." @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our understanding how our brain ages and why our memory begins to slip around age 50 have been completely revamped through 2 new landmark studies involving the microglia, the brain immune cells erictopol.substack.com/p/why-our-me...
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Why Our Memory Slips After Age 50
Landmark independent studies challenge longstanding dogma for brain aging
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Super excited to see one of my DH grad students co-author a paper on her statistical/topic modeling work related to Chinese film reviews! She was way above my level already working on this project, but I'm happy my class gave her space to refine it for eventual publishing! doi.org/10.1007/s107...
A screencap of the article title Mapping China’s Memories: Contested Histories and National Narratives in Social Media Reviews of Post-Mao Films with some segments of data visualizations below it.
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 12/08/2026
Add to the pro-science reading list bookshop.org/p/books/beyo...
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Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works
The remarkable story of the global movement championing the idea that evidence, not opinions, should guide our decisions Today, more and more people around the globe are using scientific evidence to f...
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 12/08/2026
Add to the pro-science reading list.
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 07/08/2026
in order to rally voters, but can also serve to legitimize exploitation of migrants on labour markets by providing a moral justification for depriving them of their basic rights.” - de Haas, et al., The Age of Migration, 6th ed., 2020
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 07/08/2026
“Dual labour market theory is useful to understand how the irregular status of migrants may serve employers’ interests by creating a vulnerable and docile workforce. In this perspective, politicians’ xenophobic discourses not only fulfill a symbolic function
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 07/08/2026
Japan governors' association declaration on equal treatment of immigrants www.nga.gr.jp/committee_pt...
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 04/08/2026
www.goodreads.com/book/show/53...
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The Age of Migration, Sixth Edition: International Popu…
Long established as the leading textbook on migration a…
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 03/08/2026
The Age of Migration Website www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/the-age-of-m...
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The Age of Migration 6th Edition By Hein de Haas,Stephen Castles and M
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 03/08/2026
For a very readable account of how modern medicine is based on critical thinking and avoidance of “authority:” Helen Pearson’s
Photo of cover of Helen Pearson’s Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 03/08/2026
When copyright trumps #immigration.
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 03/08/2026
Korekawa Yu (2025) writes that de Haas et al is the most authoritative text on immigration. Now to read it.
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 03/08/2026
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Cult Podcasts @cultpodcasts.com · 02/08/2026
"Escaping the #Moonies: Teddy Hose' Story of Survival" Cultimatum-The Culture of Cults & Human Trafficking @teddyhose.bsky.social 2 Aug 2026 [0:56:50] #UnificationChurch #Cult s.cultpodcasts.com/o4eF772LhU_e1ADV…
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Escaping the Moonies: Teddy Hose' Story of Survival
Ep. #129 Teddy Hose-Ex-Moonies Please consider buying us a cup of coffee or two by clicking here. Your support helps fund our out of pocket expenses In this episode, Teddy Hose, a former member of the Unification Church, shares his experiences growing up in a cult, the impact of cult leadership on families, and his journey to leaving the church. He discusses the psychological effects of being raised in a high-control environment, the abuse he witnessed, and how he has used his multimedia skills to raise awareness about cults. Teddy also reflects on the role of humor in healing and his experiences participating in documentaries about cults. In this conversation, Teddy, a cult survivor, shares his experiences and insights about life in and after the Unification Church, also known as the Moonies. He discusses the rise of cults, the impact of media portrayals, and the importance of critical thinking for those questioning their beliefs. The conversation also touches on the similarities between different cults and the societal implications of cult dynamics, including human trafficking and political influence. Teddy's Contact Info: Teddy's Instagram Link Teddy's TikTok Link Teddy's Bluesky Link Teddy's Threads Link Teddy's Facebook Link Teddy's Website Link Teddy's Substack Link Cultimatum's Contact Info: Email: cultimatumpodcast@gmail.com Cultimatum Facebook Group Cultimatum Instagram Link Cultimatum TikTok Link Cultimatum YouTube Channel A Production of the Anonymous Andrew Podcast Studios: Website: www.anonymousandrewpodcast.com Disclaimer: Cultimatum is a documentary-style podcast that explores real events and personal experiences related to cults and coercive groups. The content reflects individual perspectives and reported accounts. For full legal disclaimers, visit our website.
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 02/08/2026
Lewis Goodall is a disputed hack, at best,
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Two things. One of the main exploitation methods of those spreading misinformation is to take normal scientific arguments over details and suggest they imply doubt over an entire subject. The second, what is ‘at best’ supposed to imply other than that the idea that long covid itself is a lie?
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Ubu @ubuhanabusa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
本日7月29日、永住許可有志の会は下記の声明を発表します。当会は、国会審議や附帯決議が実際の制度運用においても誠実に反映されることを求めます。 「永住資格取消制度」のガイドライン策定及び運用に関する声明 〜国会審議及び附帯決議の趣旨を踏まえた制度運用を求めて〜 eijukyokayushi.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/s... 永住許可有志の会 IG: www.instagram.com/p/DbXrOSsz4iE/ X: x.com/eijukyoka_20...
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「永住資格取消制度」のガイドライン策定及び運用に関する声明
「永住資格取消制度」のガイドライン策定及び運用に関する声明 ―国会審議及び附帯決議の趣旨を踏まえた制度運用…
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 29/07/2026
Evil
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 29/07/2026
When science and religion conflict, religion is never right.
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kijinosu (Alan Engel, PhD) @ttcrossroads.net · 29/07/2026
Sunny afternoon with a good book
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