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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 15h
update: per a hearing today Oscar Belgal was detained overnight in Elizabeth NJ and is now being held in Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn as his attorneys push for his release. he is still in pain and apparently has a bullet still in his body.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 16h
The ICE agent at the center of the shooting in Marble Hill on Thursday is a familiar face to those closely following the Trump administration’s ICE crackdown in NYC. The City Reporter wrote about Brenden Cuni in May. 🧵
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 25/02/2026
Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix
A poem in the shape of the artist beating Henry Kissinger to death, full text can be found on the website Taco Bell Quarterly
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Documented @documentedny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The person was conscious and being treated at a nearby hospital, police said.
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Federal Officers Shoot Man in The Bronx, NYPD Says
The person was conscious and being treated at a nearby hospital, police said.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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SpaceRunaway 🥐 @theideon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
so I'm once again asking people to help lighten the weight of this albatross that I've hung from my neck. These books have been described as Tomino's magnum opus, and I sincerely believe that this is valuable work...maybe you do too?
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Well, I've made it to 1 year | Byston Well Stories
Since May (18th) is the 1 year anniversary of this Patreon, I thought it was time to do some reflecting on the current state of things. Tha
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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I just posted a whole thread about why you should subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com immediately, but here's the TL;DR: We're fun, brave, independent. We've been covering the BK Dems, NYC courts & judges like crazy. We'll keep covering NYC like this JUST FOR YOU. This week is our most generous sale ever:
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Hell Gate's Biggest Sale Ever
To celebrate another successful year, we're offering an unprecedented deal on all annual subscriptions.
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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Been thinking of how best to say this, but my team is always reminding me not to overthink things so I'll just say this: I'm so proud & grateful for Hell Gate, the local news outlet I work for—& now part-own! Every year we hold one major sale. It's happening now, & this is why you should subscribe:🧵
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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The launch of the Defendant’s Union is a tragic but welcome development. I was glad to speak with @onofftherecord.bsky.social about why and how it fits within a longer effort to yoke defendants together as part of a larger movement
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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had a panic attack writing this and setting it up because I have a million things on my plate, and it never stops. I really really need money to move and sign a new lease. www.gofundme.com/f/a-fresh-st...
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Donate to A Fresh Start: Help Jourdain Move, organized by Jourdain Searles
I desperately need money to move and sign a lease on a new apartment. My … Jourdain Searles needs your support for A Fresh Start: Help Jourdain Move
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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW from Public Collectors! People on Your Block is a self-assessment guide to help you gauge your awareness of your neighbors and how deeply connected you are to the people that live on your block. Intended for private personal use. $2 PDF now. Print in 2 weeks? halfletterpress.com/people-on-yo...
The cover of People on Your Block by Marc Fischer, published by Public Collectors, showing a very blue sky with the moon in the distance, part of a building, trees, and a light pole.A spread from the booklet showing the sky with dramatic clouds, part of a tree and multi-unit home and the first page of text:

How many of these questions can you answer about people on your block?

What are the names of your next-door neighbors?
If you live in an apartment or multi-unit building, what are the names of your neighbors on the other floors or sections of the building?
What are the names of your neighbors who live two doors down?
How many other neighbors do you know by name?
How many neighbors do you know by both their first and last name?
Which neighbors have children? Do you know their children’s names?
Do you know only neighbors that are close in age to you, or do you talk to neighbors that are a variety of ages?
Which of your neighbors own pets? What are the names of their pets? Are any of them service animals?
How many neighbors have pets whose names you know, but not the names of the neighbors that own them?
Which neighbors drive a car? What kind of car do they drive? Is it normally parked on the street? Can you match cars to people and houses?
How long have your neighbors lived on your street? 
Which neighbors know the history of your block going back 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, or even more years?
How long have they lived in your neighborhood?
How long have they lived in your city?
What languages do your neighbors speak and can you communicate with them in a language that you both speak?
Do you have any neighbors with disabilities? 
Are any of your neighbors blind, deaf, non-verbal, or challenged by mobility limitations?
Do your neighbors own their homes or do they rent?More questions from the booklet (excerpt):

Which buildings on your block are being used as Airbnbs or other forms of short-term rental? 
Which buildings are owned by people living in other cities, states or countries?
Which buildings are owned and managed by a corporation?
Which neighbors have solar panels or other forms of off-grid energy they can draw from?
What are your neighbors’ occupations?
Are any of your neighbors doctors, nurses, lawyers, tech workers, teachers, therapists, dentists, chefs, mechanics, plumbers, electricians, maintenance workers, metal scrappers, social workers, architects, writers, artists, financial advisors, engineers, musicians, athletes, actors or designers?
What other forms of expertise do your neighbors have?
Which neighbors can you hire, and which neighbors can you barter skills or services with?
Which of your neighbors own a ladder, a lawn mower, a snow blower, a leaf blower, a generator, a tire pump, a battery charger, a drill, welding tools, a chainsaw, a water pump, and hand tools?
Which neighbors drive a truck or other utility vehicle?
Which neighbors drive a tow truck?
Which neighbors know how to fix a car, bicycle, motorcycle, skateboard, or scooter?
Which neighbors maintain a garden and grow their own food?
Which neighbors do not have a garden but know a lot about plants and gardening?
Which neighbors understand canning and other methods of food preservation?
Which neighbors know how to mend clothes or fix appliances or electronics?
The back cover of the booklet (excerpt of text):

This booklet is a self-assessment guide to help you gauge your awareness of your neighbors and how deeply connected you are to the people that live on your block. It’s intended for private personal use. 
I’ve lived in the same house in Chicago with my wife Jen for 14 years. For about half of these years, I did not know many of my neighbors. Some events changed this. A development was proposed next to our property, and we felt it would be detrimental to the block. We went door to door to get signatures to oppose it. We met many neighbors, and we defeated a terrible project. We also worked with a neighbor to collect signatures to get speed humps for our street. We collected enough signatures because we knew a lot of neighbors. Three years later the city still hasn’t given us speed humps, but at least we still know all those neighbors. Six years ago we adopted a small, cute dog that we walk. He helps us meet our neighbors. I know the names of over 35 nearby dogs and about 60 people on my block. Finally, I became one of the moderators in a private social media group for our neighborhood. It has over 11,000 members. Some of them live on our block. 
What would it mean to know every neighbor’s name? I talk to neighbors, but I don’t know everyone. Many people do not know their neighbors but would like to. This publication contemplates what a more detailed ‘knowing’ might be. I want to consider more ways our neighbors could be an immediate resource—particularly should a crisis occur, and as an alternative to depending on police or government agencies to solve problems that we may be able to solve with others through shared labor, mutual aid, understanding and kindness. I’ve seen unlikely friendships develop on my block, and have experienced them myself. I’ve never felt as deeply connected to a place as I do now. I have answers for most of the questions in this booklet.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Trump administration is carrying out wide-scale family separations, far more than in the first Trump term. @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSXN...
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A ‘MASSIVE CRISIS IS UNFOLDING’: The hidden family separations happening under Trump’s second term
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
there's a phrase cameron says at the end of this clip that risked breaking me and michael permanently. i could feel each of us trying to hold onto the railing for fear of spiraling away, off of the earth, forever
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 03/10/2026
Nine of the people who died from heat this summer in Cook County did so inside their homes or apartments and many had no working air conditioning, according to a review of records from the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
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'All heat-related deaths are preventable' but in the Chicago area 16 died from heat this summer
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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Help Rowan out. She’s in the grim slog of disability bureaucracy where they fuck with you for years on-end and demand you basically turn “fighting the system” into an unpaid full time job when you’re at your most depleted.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026
We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs
Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BEN RICE GRAND SLAM SECOND HOMER TONIGHT YANKEES LEAD BOSTON 9-0!
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound.
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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The Mask of the Red Jeph @ass.golf · 22/09/2026
I must once again emphasize that if you are putting art on the internet, you need your own website in case some fucking management ghoul decides the platform they paid too much money for isn't worth how much they paid for it
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026
Some 150 Catholic priests and friars, a bishop and nuns from around the world have marched to the Vatican to call for an end to what they called the "genocide" in Gaza.
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Priests, nuns march to Vatican to demand end to 'genocide' in Gaza
Some 150 Catholic priests and friars, a bishop and nuns from around the world have marched to the Vatican to call for an end to what they called the “genocide” in Gaza.
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Documented @documentedny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The secretive rollout of NY1 — a new immigration courtroom located in a DHS space on the third floor of 26 Federal Plaza — has unnerved immigrants and advocates alike.
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New Immigration Courtroom at Federal Plaza Sparks Chaos, Confusion
The secretive rollout of NY1 — a new immigration courtroom located in a DHS space on the third floor of 26 Federal Plaza — has unnerved immigrants and advocates alike.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'Black Site Dockets’ are the latest source of confusion and alarm for advocates and immigrants attending hearings at 26 Federal Plaza. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/22/i...
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DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza
A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
People are hiding at home, afraid to go outside and encounter ICE. They're struggling to find food and holding kids out of school, as friends and family are disappeared in bunches. This is now the reality of daily life across the U.S., and I took a snapshot of what it looks like in one community:
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“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts
Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
wikipedia's new editor count is down a bit and perhaps it's your time to try it editing!!! it's a small and concrete way to help and here are a few ways to start!!!
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026
Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 20/09/2026
Please support Mohamad Hamad, a 24-year-old Lebanese-American pro-Palestine organizer who has spent the last year of his life in federal prison awaiting trial. Mohamad is facing over 35 years in prison after a raid on his family home resulted in Islamophobic manufactured charges.
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Justice for Palestine’s Voice: Help Mohamad Get a Lawyer
We’re launching this campaign to raise funds for my brother Mohamad, who is currently awaiting trial for charges related to his loud and unapologetic advocacy for Palestinian rights. This is part of t...
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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 18/09/2026
I cannot get over this new Carl Stone / Arthur Fischl record, it is absolute insanity. I could not hope to describe it in words one iota, so you should just listen to it.
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Arthur Fischl Conducts the Music of Carl Stone, by Carl Stone
8 track album
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An analysis of public records shows NYPD boss Jessica Tisch has assigned dozens of officers with extremely troubling records to Community Response Teams. The Adams-era jump-out squads are known for routinely violating the constitutional rights of Black and brown New Yorkers.
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Why Does Jessica Tisch Keep Stocking the NYPD's Most Problematic Unit With Problematic Cops?
An analysis of public records shows Tisch has assigned and promoted dozens of officers with troubling records to Community Response Teams.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My artist friend Scott Eagle's video of his process in creating what amounts to narrative for me, out of lighthouse photos from the contest earlier this year. One person cut off by edge of the photo suggested both a disappearance and a horrific completion. For the Southern Reach coffee table book.
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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Worth the wait! @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social has finally published their footage of Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn hiding under a tablecloth while leading reporters on a crazed chase through a golf course on a fine summer night. ny1.com/nyc/brooklyn...
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How local political parties control the judicial bench
Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn hid behind a tablecloth so she would not have to answer NY1's questions.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The amount of times I said "holy shit" reading this story. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...
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Probe reveals elaborate network of audio surveillance at Santa Fe Public Schools
Santa Fe schools recorded audio without notice for years. A report found leaders knew, and district security chiefs took the fall.
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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 also happens to be the anniversary of augusto pinochet's 1973 coup in chile, backed by the nixon administration. thousands of left-wing politicians and activists were tortured and "disappeared" in the aftermath.
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1973 Chilean coup d'état - Wikipedia
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An analysis you won’t see in the U.S. press: The long history of the U.S. effort to subvert Cuban sovereignty by destroying the country’s economy and reducing its citizens to penury. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Tony Wood · Short Cuts: Cuba on the Brink
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026
Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture. (Published May 2025)
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The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
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Erin Returns From The Grave 🦇🖤🦇 @woodaba.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
OBJECTIVELY the funniest screenshot in any nintendo direct im dying
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Please read this piece about a man who died by suicide after months of talking to ChatGPT. Now his former partner is speaking about how ChatGPT pulled him away from his family/friends. Before he died, he wrote letters instructing them to look at his ChatGPT history www.404media.co/austin-gordo...
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'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI
After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.
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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 13/11/2025
Yeah I support LGBTQ Light rail Going from Brooklyn To Queens
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Caelyn @caelyn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We're completely out of money, we have about £70 left on a credit card and it's going to be ten days until Rune gets paid. Please share and help if you have anything to spare.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/09/2026
friends! i haven’t asked for you to donate to rent in awhile but i got a request in our inbox for an undocumented ecuadorian mother of two who is $850 short on her $1700 rent you think we could raise that? maybe helping someone will make me feel less shitty venmo @ziibiing pp: @standwithminnesota
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sama'a and her family have so little, and they rely on us for access to food and medicine. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...
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Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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