RQ Skye
@rqskye.bsky.social
Disaster response/relief volunteer. For Frodo. Fear nothing. 💙💛
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Karolina Hird @karolinahird.bsky.social from Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social said Russia's campaign to inventory real estate in Mariupol has two main aims: to generate profit for the Russian state and to repopulate occupied areas with Russian citizens.
November 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Karolina Hird @karolinahird.bsky.social from Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social said Russia's campaign to inventory real estate in Mariupol has two main aims: to generate profit for the Russian state and to repopulate occupied areas with Russian citizens.
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Bellingcat has identified 23 apartment complexes being built in the ashes of the occupied city and listed for sale on Russian websites: Read: www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
Building on Ruins: The Russification of Mariupol, One Apartment Block at a Time - bellingcat
Bellingcat has identified 23 multi-storey housing complexes being built in occupied Mariupol and advertised for sale to Russian citizens.
www.bellingcat.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Bellingcat has identified 23 apartment complexes being built in the ashes of the occupied city and listed for sale on Russian websites: Read: www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
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#influenza #H3N2 drift is important enough for CDC of BC to publish quickly & raise need for more surveillance & viral sequencing from CDC in USA.
Concerns are for potential #influenza 2025-26 #vaccine mismatch, more severe & contagious #H3N2 flu.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Concerns are for potential #influenza 2025-26 #vaccine mismatch, more severe & contagious #H3N2 flu.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine | CBC News
With flu cases now rising in Canada, medical experts are bracing for a difficult influenza season linked to the global spread of an evolving H3N2 strain that could be a mismatch for this year’s vaccin...
www.cbc.ca
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
#influenza #H3N2 drift is important enough for CDC of BC to publish quickly & raise need for more surveillance & viral sequencing from CDC in USA.
Concerns are for potential #influenza 2025-26 #vaccine mismatch, more severe & contagious #H3N2 flu.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Concerns are for potential #influenza 2025-26 #vaccine mismatch, more severe & contagious #H3N2 flu.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Lots of raining going on everywhere, pretty broad, rather than cells or waves. 11/14/25 0641PT #rain #CAwx
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Lots of raining going on everywhere, pretty broad, rather than cells or waves. 11/14/25 0641PT #rain #CAwx
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No major issues (yet) with the rain in Santa Barbara and Ventura County. Looks like Topanga Canyon on the south side closed right now. Some weather related accidents here and there... 11/14/25 0639PT https://quickmap.dot.ca.gov/ #rain #CAwx
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
No major issues (yet) with the rain in Santa Barbara and Ventura County. Looks like Topanga Canyon on the south side closed right now. Some weather related accidents here and there... 11/14/25 0639PT https://quickmap.dot.ca.gov/ #rain #CAwx
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With a possible bad influenza season, Covid, Avian flu, the spreading of tick and mosquito borne disease, contagious diseases like measles and diseases entering the U.S. bc of climate change, it's unconscionable that trump dismantled the various science communities needed to track and keep us safe.
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
With a possible bad influenza season, Covid, Avian flu, the spreading of tick and mosquito borne disease, contagious diseases like measles and diseases entering the U.S. bc of climate change, it's unconscionable that trump dismantled the various science communities needed to track and keep us safe.
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New Jersey man's death first one to be tied to tick-related meat allergy
Though deadly anaphylaxis had been considered a theoretical outcome of the allergy, it had not yet been seen until this case.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/t...
Photo: CDC
Though deadly anaphylaxis had been considered a theoretical outcome of the allergy, it had not yet been seen until this case.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/t...
Photo: CDC
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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"On all platforms we studied, a given user’s posts with links to lower-quality news sources receive more engagement on average than their posts with links to higher-quality news sources."
🚨Out in PNAS🚨
Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"On all platforms we studied, a given user’s posts with links to lower-quality news sources receive more engagement on average than their posts with links to higher-quality news sources."
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⚡️ Azerbaijan filed a formal protest after a Russian Iskander strike damaged its embassy during Moscow’s overnight attack on Kyiv.
“Unacceptable”: Azerbaijan Files Protest After Missile Blast Hits Embassy in Kyiv
Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry summoned Russia’s ambassador over missile damage to its Kyiv embassy, demanding accountability.
united24media.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
⚡️ Azerbaijan filed a formal protest after a Russian Iskander strike damaged its embassy during Moscow’s overnight attack on Kyiv.
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Rep. Loudermilk, who has shared The Blaze story accusing a Capitol officer of being the pipe bomber with no real evidence, asked the FBI for info in response...which confirms that the neighbor in the story was cleared as a person of interest, and actually debunks elements of The Blaze's story.
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Rep. Loudermilk, who has shared The Blaze story accusing a Capitol officer of being the pipe bomber with no real evidence, asked the FBI for info in response...which confirms that the neighbor in the story was cleared as a person of interest, and actually debunks elements of The Blaze's story.
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REMINDER of what corporate media does not want to cover because they fear losing access to Donald Trump: "One of the four women who say they were “groomed” for sex by Ghislaine Maxwell testified Jeffrey Epstein took her to meet Donald Trump when she was just 14." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
REMINDER of what corporate media does not want to cover because they fear losing access to Donald Trump: "One of the four women who say they were “groomed” for sex by Ghislaine Maxwell testified Jeffrey Epstein took her to meet Donald Trump when she was just 14." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Republican senators refused to include an extension of ACA tax credits in the new spending bill, but they did include a clause allowing them to sue for $500,000 per “violation” from the U.S. government over January 6.
Money for themselves – none for your healthcare.
Money for themselves – none for your healthcare.
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Republican senators refused to include an extension of ACA tax credits in the new spending bill, but they did include a clause allowing them to sue for $500,000 per “violation” from the U.S. government over January 6.
Money for themselves – none for your healthcare.
Money for themselves – none for your healthcare.
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Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."
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Don’t forget tipping off terrorists to help them escape
November 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Don’t forget tipping off terrorists to help them escape
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This should work
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This should work
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These men are completely incompetent and have no regard whatsoever for the safety of Americans. We will all pay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
These men are completely incompetent and have no regard whatsoever for the safety of Americans. We will all pay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
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⚡️ Ukraine has for the first time recovered funds stolen through corruption from abroad.
France Compensates Ukraine $3.63 Million in Polygraph Combine Corruption Case
SURYS has paid $3.63 million to Ukraine in a historic anti-corruption case, marking the first foreign compensation in Ukrainian law enforcement history.
united24media.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
⚡️ Ukraine has for the first time recovered funds stolen through corruption from abroad.
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This photo better win all the photo prizes.
This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here.
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This photo better win all the photo prizes.
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CNN: New reports paint picture of an ‘extremely dangerous’ future with warming expected to blow past key limit (paywall)https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/climate/3-degrees-warming-reports-iea-united-nations#climateemergency #disasters
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
CNN: New reports paint picture of an ‘extremely dangerous’ future with warming expected to blow past key limit (paywall)https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/climate/3-degrees-warming-reports-iea-united-nations#climateemergency #disasters
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SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment.
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FBI Informant Who Lied About Bidens Quietly Released From Jail Sparking Trump Pardon Fears
Alexander Smirnov was quietly furloughed from prison months ago.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment.
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jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...
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"On the two September nights that Fox said the neighbor’s confrontation happened, @propublica.org's review found no videos of violent clashes posted on social media, and federal authorities announced no arrests."
NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"On the two September nights that Fox said the neighbor’s confrontation happened, @propublica.org's review found no videos of violent clashes posted on social media, and federal authorities announced no arrests."
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Analysis of Fox News coverage preceding the Portland troop deployment reveals a misleading narrative.
ProPublica found the network used 2020 footage labeled as 2025 and described protests as "riots" contrary to official police designations.
ProPublica found the network used 2020 footage labeled as 2025 and described protests as "riots" contrary to official police designations.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Analysis of Fox News coverage preceding the Portland troop deployment reveals a misleading narrative.
ProPublica found the network used 2020 footage labeled as 2025 and described protests as "riots" contrary to official police designations.
ProPublica found the network used 2020 footage labeled as 2025 and described protests as "riots" contrary to official police designations.
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Sharaa, to himself: "Khalas, habibi.... Ya'ani, haven't you ever heard of spray, delay and walk away?"
Here's Trump spraying Al-Sharaa with his cologne, asking him how many wives he has..at the Oval Office.
Published, naturally, by the Syria team.
Published, naturally, by the Syria team.
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Sharaa, to himself: "Khalas, habibi.... Ya'ani, haven't you ever heard of spray, delay and walk away?"
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Republicans are finally back from their 8-week paid vacation.
Would say welcome back, but their new spending bill fails to save healthcare and lower rising costs.
Will be voting no.
Would say welcome back, but their new spending bill fails to save healthcare and lower rising costs.
Will be voting no.
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Republicans are finally back from their 8-week paid vacation.
Would say welcome back, but their new spending bill fails to save healthcare and lower rising costs.
Will be voting no.
Would say welcome back, but their new spending bill fails to save healthcare and lower rising costs.
Will be voting no.