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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing. While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too. On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past.
December 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
designmatters.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/welivedi...
The Hard Truth About the D.C. Attack
The danger didn’t come from abroad. It came out of what we did here.
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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newslit.org
🎉 Big NEWS: We've won two Anthem Awards!

ℹ️ We're a Bronze & Community Voice winner in Education, Art & Culture: Education or Literacy Platform: go.newslit.org/AnthemAwards...

❤️ "Let's make news literacy a right, not a privilege, for every student in every classroom."

#AnthemAwards
#NewsLiteracy
Two people working on laptops in a classroom. Overlay text thanks viewers for an Anthem Award win, with festive confetti. Tone is celebratory and grateful.
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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tonywriteshere.bsky.social
The Senate confirmed Harold D. Mooty III to a lifetime judgeship 66-32 on Oct 21, 2025, during Trump’s shutdown. Eleven Democrats voted yes. Don’t take my word for it: check the roll call on senate.gov. This is not bipartisanship. It is permission. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1bAA...
October 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
designmatters.bsky.social
“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”
Thomas Paine
#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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motherjones.com
Erik Prince, Blackwater founder
Jared Leto, actor
Sophia, simply getting a driving lesson

These are just some of the thousands of people in 100 countries we discovered were targeted by phone-tracking tech sold by a secretive firm called First Wap.
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
www.motherjones.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New from 404 Media: ICE, the Secret Service, and NCIS all had access to Flock's nationwide network of AI-enabled cameras, letter reveals. Shows many more federal agencies had access to network that authorities typically use without a warrant to search whole country

www.404media.co/ice-secret-s...
ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras
Flock has built a nationwide surveillance network of AI-powered cameras and given many more federal agencies access. Senator Ron Wyden told Flock “abuses of your product are not only likely but inevit...
www.404media.co
October 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
"You can’t just sit in the stands and say, 'Oh, the umpire is not calling balls and strikes. This is weird.’ You actually have to get out on the field and be the umpire. There isn’t going to be a game unless we get out there and say, ‘OK, we believe in the rules.’"
www.thebulwark.com/p/jack-smith...
Jack Smith’s Not-So-Subtle Message
In two recent appearances, the former special counsel explained his view of what it means to say ‘No Kings.’
www.thebulwark.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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lenasun.bsky.social
NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
October 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
I can’t adequately express how mystified and nauseated I am by the conversation about Trump receiving a Nobel Peace Prize that corporate media is now leading. But as a journalist, attorney, historian and Trump presidential biographer I’m now obligated to make the case *against* in full.

Here it is:
Media and MAGA Calls for Trump to Catch a Nobel Peace Prize Rather Than An ICC War Crimes Indictment Are Obscene
The second-biggest threat to global peace after Putin has earned a cell for war crimes—not a humanitarian award. That his grotesque and scammy appeal for a Nobel Peace Prize is working is terrifying.
sethabramson.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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pressfreedom.bsky.social
Journalists are civilians under international humanitarian law.

Facilities and equipment utilized for reporting and disseminating news are also civilian structures.

They must be respected and protected.

Journalists are #NotATarget.
October 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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muellershewrote.com
In order for the United States to become a party to the International Criminal Court and have our officials be subject to trial at The Hague, the US Senate would need to ratify the Rome statute by a two-thirds vote. Let’s start running on that.
October 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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perezbrenna.bsky.social
DOJ Deletes Data on Political Violence, So Here’s Some MORE Research It Would Delete If It Could! #news #research #data
DOJ Deletes Data on Political Violence, So Here’s Some MORE Research It Would Delete If It Could!
YouTube video by Brenna Perez
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September 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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jfallows.bsky.social
I think this makes a good case.

(Why it makes sense to stay off Xitter, which I left nearly a year ago.)

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s...
Stop Begging. Start Building
As a reminder, I’m on the board at Bluesky, which means you should consider me extremely biased, even as this article isn’t really about Bluesky. The writer Jerusalem Demsas wants you to stay on Tw…
www.techdirt.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves.

I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct.

I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
But on the morning of Aug. 31, as the bus made its way to the airport, A.R.M.D. worried that he would be returned to Guatemala without the opportunity to make his case in court. Sharing his anxiety were other Guatemalan children who, like A.R.M.D., had been roused from bed in the middle of the night at their respective foster homes or care facilities. At a children's shelter in McAllen, Texas, one young.girl "was so scared that she vomited and asked to speak with a clinician." Another teenager, who said that her sister was murdered in Guatemala last year, worried that she, too, would be killed if she returned. Other potential deportees cited personal histories involving family violence, sexual abuse, or human trafficking as reasons why they were afraid to return to their home country. In theory, the law is supposed to protect unaccompanied children from being summarily whisked out of the country by the government.
September 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
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August 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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mcsweeneys.net
"It’s kind of weird, right? Why would my mind make me recall that the Russian Revolution was largely ignited by a devastating economic crisis, social inequality, and the ruling class being aggressively out of touch with the suffering masses?"
I Have No Idea Why I’ve Suddenly Started Thinking About the 1917 Russian Revolution
So there I was, minding my own business, when, for some inexplicable reason, I found myself idly thinking about the fall of the Romanov dynasty. Fo...
buff.ly
August 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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lisaloe.bsky.social
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social Huck! The Herald Angels Sing! @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · Jul 18
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.
July 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
designmatters.bsky.social
Are you paying attention? Are you sure? Not too long to read…and consider.
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Jun 16
A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it.

Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT FROG.”

He has already made at least one run on the stove.

A man stirs the pot with a large stick. “It’s a metaphor,” he says.
Signs the Frog Has Been Boiled
A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT F...
buff.ly
June 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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ecmclaughlin.bsky.social
I haven't ever really spoken about this to anyone, but when I was litigating the so-called "comfort women" case, I went to the National Archives to obtain and read the testimonies of women and girls who were held in sex slave camps by the Japanese military following their release.

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March 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM