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Aran O’Roe
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charleskeener.bsky.social
They’re fully aware that they’re using a tragic mass shooting as a political cudgel against people who believe Palestinians are human beings. This is just one more cynical manipulation aimed at protecting Israel from criticism so that it can inflict more violence and suffering upon the world.
December 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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aljazeera.com
A new poll shows US approval of Trump’s presidency has dropped to 39% amid growing economic concerns.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Trump’s approval rating drops to 39% amid economic concerns: US poll
Reuters/Ipsos survey suggests Americans are increasingly unhappy with Trump's handling of the economy.
www.aljazeera.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
Another insane move from the Trump regime.

One of NCAR's contributions to climate science is the development of the Community Earth System Model (CESM), which is used by researchers worldwide. Here's a simulation of air-sea CO₂ fluxes from CESM.
December 17, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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pantibliss.bsky.social
The Daily Mail helped get him murdered too
December 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
The Trump regime in a nutshell: gut critical programs, cause devastating harm, celebrate doing so, and lie about causing harm.

The cruelty is endless.
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the po
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December 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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aljazeera.com
How Israel’s expansion push deepens Palestinian suffering in West Bank https://aje.io/jf5ujc
How Israel’s expansion push deepens Palestinian suffering in West Bank
December 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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aljazeera.com
Why are Gaza’s war-damaged homes collapsing in winter? https://aje.io/0kev6c
Why are Gaza’s war-damaged homes collapsing in winter?
December 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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dropsitenews.com
⭕️ Another Palestinian detainee has died in Israeli custody, the Palestinian Prisoner Society reported, amid documented findings by the UN & Israeli human rights groups of systematic torture & abuse in Israeli detention facilities.

Sakhr Ahmad Khalil Zghoul, 26, from Husan near Bethlehem, died...
⭕️ Another Palestinian detainee has died in Israeli custody, the Palestinian Prisoner Society reported, amid documented findings by the UN and Israeli human rights groups of systematic torture and abuse in Israeli detention facilities. Sakhr Ahmad Khalil Zghoul, 26, from Husan near Bethlehem, died inside Ofer Prison after being held for more than 6 months without charge or trial under Israel’s administrative detention system. No cause of death was disclosed. His brother is also detained without trial, and Sakhr’s death came days after another detainee from his town also died in custody. See new posts Conversation Palestinian Center for Prisoners Advocacy @PalPrisonersA ❗️The martyrdom of Prisoner Sakhr Ahmad Khalil Zaoul (26 years old), from the town of Husan west of Bethlehem, in the Israeli occupation’s prisons.
December 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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dropsitenews.com
More than 245 days after an Israeli strike destroyed the Salem family home in Gaza, around 60 ppl are still believed buried under rubble. Families dig w/ hands & minimal tools, because heavy machinery is allowed only to recover Israeli bodies.

Video: Translating Falasteen via X (@: translatingpal)
December 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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boltsmag.org
In Colorado, representatives of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe are negotiating with elections officials to work out a new program to register more Native people. The idea is running into a legacy of violence and mistrust.
On Native Land, a New Push to Expand Voting Meets the Long Tail of State Violence
Ongoing negotiations between tribal leaders and Colorado officials may chart a new path for automatically registering Native voters and growing voter rolls nationwide. But first the state is having to confront a legacy of mistrust.
boltsmag.org
December 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Trump: *now has just a 38% approval on immigration*

So of course, the @nytimes.com:
December 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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aljazeera.com
Lawyers and relatives of the remand prisoners refusing food fear for their lives as they seek meeting with top minister.
Palestine Action hunger strikers could die in prison: Families, lawyers
Lawyers and relatives of the remand prisoners refusing food fear for their lives as they seek meeting with top minister.
www.aljazeera.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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opaltiger.bsky.social
This is a great video for understanding the costs of civic infrastructure, and has a surprising tiny cameo by Auckland.

#nzpol
December 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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adamweinstein.bsky.social
Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
As a Border Patrol boss, Bovino has repeatedly cited the threat of undocumented immigrants who’ve killed U.S. citizens while driving drunk. The Trump administration said Midway Blitz was launched in Chicago in honor of one of them, a 20-year-old DUI victim. In 1981, Bovino’s father, Mike Bovino, killed a young woman after drunkenly crashing his truck head-on into her car in the hilly little resort town of Blowing Rock, N.C., near the Bovinos’ home. Newspaper accounts described the victims’ car as “bowled over by the impact.” There were no skid marks. Bovino was uninjured. (Chicago Sun Times)
December 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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sfchronicle.com
Theo Baker, who managed to oust the president of Stanford University while a freshman reporter on his student newspaper, will explain Stanford’s role in cultivating billionaires in his new book.
He toppled Stanford’s president as a freshman. Now he’s written a tell-all about the university
Theo Baker, who managed to oust the president of Stanford University while a freshman reporter on his student newspaper, will explain Stanford’s role in cultivating billionaires in his new book.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.

Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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dropsitenews.com
🚨 Must watch: Nicole Widdersheim of Human Rights Watch, her voice audibly breaking, describes atrocities against civilians in Sudan that are now “on par, if possibly not worse,” than those during the Darfur genocide 2 decades ago.

She said both the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) & the Sudanese Armed...
🚨 Must watch: Nicole Widdersheim of Human Rights Watch, her voice audibly breaking, describes atrocities against civilians in Sudan that are now “on par, if possibly not worse,” than those during the Darfur genocide two decades ago. She said both the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) are “targeting civilians,” and that the RSF is carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign marked by mass executions and widespread sexual violence, including rape, forced marriage, and child marriage—acts she said are “very likely” genocide. She said the SAF has also committed war crimes, including indiscriminate airstrikes, mass detention, and abuse of civilians in areas it has retaken. Widdersheim said RSF fighters have filmed themselves committing massacres “with no fear,” including killing civilians as they attempted to flee—evidence, she said, of total impunity. She warned that civilians in South Kordofan now face an “imminent risk of mass atrocities to the level and the volume that we saw in al-Fashir just two months ago.” She condemned what she called a “pathetic” international response, saying U.S. policy across administrations has been uncoordinated and ineffective, allowing violence to escalate unchecked: “These have all been acts with words and no actions.” Widdersheim criticized the lack of a clear U.S. and Quad strategy on Sudan, saying, “The United States government is a major actor in this situation. It can do much more than it has… In my 27 years working on Sudan and South Sudan, I have never seen the U.S. government writ large so unengaged on the region.” “The U.S. is losing its moral credibility in the world and in Sudan,” she warned. “There’s so much more you can do to help the Sudanese people survive this terrible time.” She pleaded Congress to either advance the Sudan Peace Act introduced by Rep. Sara Jacobs or pass new legislation establishing clear, enforceable recommendations to guide the Trump administration in the President “newfound interest in Sudan to bring peace.” @NWiddersheim
December 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Trump is sinking us in inflation and debt.
Tweet by Alex Cole stating that Republicans blamed Biden for eight years over the national debt, yet Trump has added $2.3 trillion in under a year, followed by a NewsWire headline reporting that the U.S. national debt has risen by $2.3 trillion since Trump took office.
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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"Nothing is more enervating, demoralizing or hopeless than being the upholders of the proprieties of a vanquished order. Simple rule-following or, even worse, norms-following is simply too thin a reed for any political movement or political party."

I loved the account of the historical parallels.
December 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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ryanboyd.bsky.social
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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drsepinwall.bsky.social
I'm catching up on the Epstein photos drop today.

And what do we have here but Elisa New (aka "Summers' wife") happily on the plane with LS & Woody? We already knew she liked powerful men even if they were pedophiles but this is still enraging on so many levels. www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...
Picture of Elisa New, Larry Summers and Woody Allen, with a caption calling her "Summers' wife"
December 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Tennessean reporter Vivian Jones pointing out the inherent hypocrisy in the @SenJohnson @MarshaBlackburn TP USA announcement

Trying to imagine the reaction if Dems used the Capitol to announce a government-backed plan to put DSA chapters in every high school
December 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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charleskeener.bsky.social
Award-winning Palestinian reporter Mohammed Mhawish, who left Gaza last year, joins us to discuss his new piece for New York magazine about Israel’s surveillance practices.

www.democracynow.org/2025/12/12/m...
Gaza Writer Mohammed Mhawish on Life Under Israeli Surveillance
Award-winning Palestinian reporter Mohammed Mhawish, who left Gaza last year, joins us to discuss his new piece for New York magazine about Israel’s surveillance practices. It describes how Palestinia...
www.democracynow.org
December 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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meganjherbert.bsky.social
Surrender.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM