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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is shockingly common for child welfare agencies to remove children from parents because they can't afford housing. Billing them for the foster care really is just beyond the pale. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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“Nobody Blames the Landlord. They Just Take Away the Kids.”
All too often, when parents can’t afford safe housing, the solution child welfare services offer is putting their children in foster care.
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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
People have no idea that the child porn isn’t being made by Twitter, but is being made by SpaceX. This is quite deliberate; if you sell your company as the sole hope of mankind’s goals among the stars a LOT of emotional men will fight for you for your right to make child porn. Important to Elon.
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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes! The problem wasn’t the SpaceX business but the valuation, based entirely on the value of its division SpaceXAI, which is essentially Grok, a terrible product the world universally hates but offered for sale at *absurd* value under SpaceX’s name, making the market think that’s what they bought.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 29/09/2026
Israel's UN ambassador said these children's drawings asking for peace were "hateful". He wants the UN to tear them down. Can someone help me understand this?
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don’t ever get immune to the inhumanity and dehumanization of what the Trump/Miller project is doing to children and families,” said one advocate. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...
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'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences | Common Dreams
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we allow this injustice to continue? The Trump administration's fast-tracked deport...
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Michael Terrell Ford III @mtfiii.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Judge Orders New York to Scrap Rollout of Second-Home Tax and Start Over A Staten Island judge sided with a group of homeowners who had sued the city over its introduction of the tax, dealing a blow to Mayor Zohran Mamdani. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Judge Orders New York to Scrap Rollout of Second-Home Tax and Start Over
A Staten Island judge sided with a group of homeowners who had sued the city over its introduction of the tax, dealing a blow to Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
We are not fucking calling it that.
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👻ZH00000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Legalized state sponsored human trafficking
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Israel summoned Spain’s chargé d’affaires on Monday after Spanish Youth and Children Minister Sira Rego expressed support for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea,” prompting a new diplomatic dispute between the two countries. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260929-isr...
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Jasmine @feistybunnygirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember when they kicked an entire girl’s softball team out of the championship game because a player posted a private Snapchat where she was flipping off the camera? It’s funny how they never worry about ruining girl’s futures.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s going to be pretty fucked up when this baby yeti starts telling people to kill themselves.
Subway display ad for meta’s muse ai product billed as “ai that gets it done.” The mascot is a little smiling fuzzy white puppet guy.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Google Earth updated the images of Gaza. It's devastating.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gaza authorities report over 5,100 Israeli ceasefire violations, warn of ‘imminent catastrophe’ as winter approaches
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Gaza authorities report over 5,100 Israeli ceasefire violations, warn of ‘imminent catastrophe’ as winter approaches
Israel has committed 5,147 violations of the Gaza ceasefire agreement in effect since Oct. 10, 2025, killing 1,421 Palestinians, the Government Media Office said Tuesday, warning of an imminent hum…
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🆘Mahmoud is slowly dying. My daughters are very sick. We have no food, no medicine, and no safe place to stay. Every day I tell my daughters that tomorrow might be better. I don’t know how many tomorrows we have left. Please don’t scroll past us as if we don’t exist💔😭 chuffed.org/project/omsh...
Three sad sisters sitting on a grey couch. The youngest one in the middle is crying.Mahmoud asleep in a hospital bed with both his legs completely bandaged and stabilized with metal fixators
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Jori M. @jorinyc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ICE enforcement around healthcare facilities in Pa. leads to fears about immigrants who need care www.newsfromthestates.com/article/ice-...
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ICE enforcement around healthcare facilities in Pa. leads to fears about immigrants who need care
Earlier this month, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation targeted construction workers building an addition at the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Montour County.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Free Press bravely challenging the orthodox belief that film criticism should involve watching the film.
A headline from Bari Weiss’s The Free [sic] Press:

“Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary

There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,' including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.”

First line: “i haven't seen the film,”
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From Al-Jazeera: "Google Maps just updated its satellite imagery of Gaza ... exposing the utter devastation left behind by Israel’s genocide." #BDS #BoycottIsrael #FreePalestine #Gaza #GazaNews #GazaGenocide #GazaStrip #Israel #IsraelNews #MiddleEast #Palestine #PalestineNews #Zionism
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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh hey artists, is this YOU? LMK 🌱
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Marion @marionv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Unfortunately, we haven't received any donations for days.Look at our situation in Gaza.My children are living in tents, growing up without food or medicine. I hold back my tears, afraid I won't be able to protect them from hunger and pain.Your support is our lifeline." chuffed.org/project/plea...
A picture of Iman while she is cooking outside, on a fire.Iman’s son Elias, lying on the ground in a tent. Iman’s sons, Zakaria and Elias, lying on the ground in a tent. Elias seems to be crying.
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Al Robertson @alrobertson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well played, Sarah Connor, well played...
Sarah Connor subtly disguises herself to suggest a new way of resisting Skynet in her article about keeping the robots away for the FT.
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Simon Dean @ihategod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
About time
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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
❝ The real danger isn't in how these lethal technologies, including pellet guns, are exported and shared; the greater peril is in the precedent their use against civilian protesters sets ❞ — Anuradha Bhasin
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'Non-lethal': How India and Israel's brutal use of pellet guns spread worldwide
The real danger isn't in how these lethal technologies, including pellet guns, are exported and shared; the greater peril is in the precedent their use against civilian protesters sets
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 29/09/2026
Say what you will about Posadism, but those folks helped liberate Cuba and that is not nothing.
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 29/09/2026
Honestly, as an Argentine with some pretty clear leftish inclinations, I'm a little hurt that more aliens haven't come to Buenos Aires to check out our dope ass socialism for humans, aliens and dolphins alike.
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 29/09/2026
This is how you definitely know UFOs are real. Because, obviously, why would aliens want to visit anywhere else but the Anglophonic world?
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf on Monday said Israel is seeking to divide Somalia, attacking Syria and Lebanon, and failing to uphold the Gaza ceasefire agreement. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260928-at-...
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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ireland rolled out red carpet for Intel. Barred by EU sanctions from exporting hi-tech chips to Russia, Ireland's been sending heaps to Israel. They've both civilian and military uses. Israeli defence co. Elbit Systems uses them in "advanced tactical computer" for infantry, Special Forces etc
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Tax breaks, grants and energy costs: How Ireland rolled out the red carpet for Intel - The Currency
In the two weeks following the last general election on November 29, 2024, the dust settled and it became clear that the outgoing Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael-led coalition would remain in government once it...
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is expected to meet mediators in New York on Monday to discuss proposals concerning the Strait of Hormuz and talks with the US, Iranian news agency ISNA reported. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260928-ira...
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Helen Pappas❤️💙 @hpappas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Would argue that it's the government that lacks credibility here: "You're a free market now" *Caps tuition for over a decade despite inflation "Make it up on international students" *Makes country inhospitable for immigrants* "Compete for funding" ...
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sharkastic.bsky.social @sharkastic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes, but what do a bunch of farmers in Moate think?
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Dublin Commuters @dublincommuters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every piece of Government advice is telling them to Stop the Fare Hikes The Just Transition Commission is urging public transport fares to be maintained at an affordable level to reduce the National Carbon Footprint Please Email your TD’s!! 📧 www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
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Coalition urged to scrap public transport fare hikes as €100m-a-month fuel excise cuts continue
The Government is being urged to halt planned public transport fare hikes amid warnings that climate action and the cost of living should not be pitted against each other.
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iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 29/09/2026
Strong Anthropic IPO coverage on @reuters.com right now: www.reuters.com
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iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump is a fucking psychopathic narcissist and needs to be removed and locked up for life or executed for treason:
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Norway produces more oil than Venezuela. And yet, between January and August 2026, electric vehicles made up 97.8 percent of all new cars sold in that country. Moving to EVs is often based on intelligence, not need. Which is why it lags in the notoriously short-sighted and stupid United States.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tomorrow's front page 📰 New satellite pictures lay bare Israel's destruction of Gaza
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Jo Ní Ghiolla Shúiligh @jogil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fionnán greatly underestimating how much the people of Ireland enjoy a bank holiday.
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
imagine seeing a scene like this and thinking "yes, this is good" just speaking personally here it makes me incandescent with rage
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 28/09/2026
Video: איתמר בן גביר via X (@itamarbengvir)
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 28/09/2026
⭕️Israeli Nat'l Sec. Min. Itamar Ben-Gvir published footage Sun. showing him inside the prison cell of Palestinian prisoner Hassan Salama, telling him: “I want to kill you. … I want you executed.” ➤ Salama, 55, has been imprisoned since 1996 & is serving 48 life sentences over his alleged role in...
⭕️ Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir published footage Sunday showing him inside the prison cell of Palestinian prisoner Hassan Salama, telling him: “I want to kill you. … I want you executed.”

➤ Salama, 55, has been imprisoned since 1996 and is serving 48 life sentences over his alleged role in a series of Hamas-orchestrated attacks. He has spent a total of more than 14 years in solitary confinement.

➤ The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society condemned Ben-Gvir’s threat, saying it reflected a broader Israeli policy rather than an isolated act and warning that such public threats could precede attempts to kill Palestinian prisoner leaders.@itamarbengvir
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A huge full circle for me!

As a teenager, I stood in the streets and protested after the horrific hellish bombings on bus line 18 in Jerusalem. Dozens of innocent people were murdered, and entire families were destroyed.

About two weeks ago, I arrived at the prison and came face to face with the arch-terrorist Hassan Salameh - one of Hamas's top leaders, friend and partner of Yehiya Sinwar may his name be erased, who was sent by the tyrant Muhammad Deif may his name be erased to Judea and Samaria to organize those same bus bombings.

I told him that the boy who protested in the streets back then is today the Minister of National Security, and I looked the devil in the eyes. He trembled and was terrified - and he has good reason to be.

As Minister of National Security, I led a policy that turned his life into hell. And with God's help, as Defense Minister, I will act to ensure that murderer terrorists like him are put to death, and I will advance the immigration policy from Gaza and from Judea and Samaria.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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