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maxberger.bsky.social
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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michaelhorowitz.bsky.social
#NEW footage of the aftermath of strike in the La Guaira port, north of Caracas - a ship appears to have been targeted.
January 3, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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cengizyar.com
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.

You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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noupside.bsky.social
Something something censorship industrial complex
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Dec 22
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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michaelhorowitz.bsky.social
US has attempted to interdict and seize another sanctioned vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, two US officials tell Reuters.
December 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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astrokatie.com
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
kendrawrites.com Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Dec 2
I'm so tired of measles.

I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.

Show what measles looks like.
datareport.bsky.social Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · Dec 2
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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zackwhittaker.com
NEW: U.S. banking giants and mortgage lenders are scrambling to figure out how much of their customers' non-public banking data was stolen during a cyberattack on a financial tech firm earlier this month.

Customers of at least JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley are said to be affected.
US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm | TechCrunch
U.S. banking giants including JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and Morgan Stanley are working to identify what data was stolen in a recent cyberattack on a New York financial firm.
techcrunch.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
Seeing some beautiful photos of aurorae tonight, so here's a reminder that other planets get them, too!

This is Saturn, with aurorae visible at both poles in this UV image from Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, taken in October 1997 when the planet was 1.3 billion km away.
A bland view of Saturn, but with bright orange glows at both poles; these are the planet's aurorae seen in UV light.
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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unusualwhales.bsky.social
BREAKING: This politician was literally trading leveraged positions on companies they legislate on.

Representative Rob Bresnahan bought over $1750,00 in option positions in $SPY, $IWM, $QQQ all calls, on September 15th, expiring on the 19th.

They are literally day trading.
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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unusualwhales.bsky.social
BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto wallet was created Friday.

It literally started shorting the market, with Bitcoin & Etherum shorts, JUST BEFORE Trump posted about tariffs.

It last short was placed at 4:49 PM EST.

Trump posted at 4:50PM EST.

It made nearly $200 million in profits.

Unusual.
October 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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unusualwhales.bsky.social
BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made +$192 million in two hours.

Unusual.
October 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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samillingworth.com
⚒️ Clues to the birth of the Iron Age

New research from the Caucasus reveals that Bronze Age copper smelters at Kvemo Bolnisi deliberately used iron oxide as a flux.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#SciComm #Archaeology 🧪
Iron in copper metallurgy at the dawn of the Iron Age: Insights on iron invention from a mining and smelting site in the Caucasus
Despite enormous interest in the origins of the iron, the world's quintessential industrial metal, the technological foundations of the invention and …
www.sciencedirect.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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lawfaremedia.org
Rep. Jordan "treated Google’s resistance as proof of censorship, and his own success in getting YouTube to capitulate on a fact-checking policy as a victory for free speech. He isn’t fighting against censorship, he’s redefining it in service to his political objectives," writes @noupside.bsky.social
Speech, Coercion, and the Myth of the Censorship Regime
Google's letter to Rep. Jim Jordan inadvertently provides evidence against the "censorship industrial complex" narrative he is using it to support.
www.lawfaremedia.org
October 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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michaelhorowitz.bsky.social
The Trump plan faces significant obstacles — Hamas surrender, Israeli coalition fracture, and regional politics. But its ambition matters: for the first time, Gaza’s security and governance are outlined rather than deferred.

My new post on Trump's plan
atimeofmonstersmh.substack.com/p/trump-solv...
Trump Solves Middle East
Trump's plan finally addresses some of the critical points needed to end the Israel-Hamas conflict - but carrying it to the finish line will require stamina rather grand standing.
atimeofmonstersmh.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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kbeninato.bsky.social
The Peripheral.
weegee.bsky.social Kevin Smokler @weegee.bsky.social · Sep 12
Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.

What's yours?
September 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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theonion.com
Trump Announces Seal Team 6 Killed U.S. Protester In Daring Overnight Raid
September 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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markzaidesq.bsky.social
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
August 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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theonion.com
AG Informed Trump His Name Tattooed All Over Epstein’s Body
AG Informed Trump His Name Tattooed All Over Epstein’s Body
WASHINGTON—In another dramatic twist in the ongoing scandal involving the late sex trafficker, sources confirmed this week that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi previously informed President Donald Tru...
theonion.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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ddimolfetta.bsky.social
WaPo: Pentagon’s independent watchdog received evidence that messages from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal account previewing a U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen derived from a classified email labeled “SECRET/NOFORN” ->
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth Signal messages came from email classified ‘SECRET,’ watchdog told
The revelation contradicts the Trump administration’s long-standing claims that no classified information was shared by the defense secretary’s account during the “Signalgate” scandal.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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zacklabe.com
I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
www.science.org
July 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process."

My latest:
FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge
Staffers sound the alarm.
www.thehandbasket.co
July 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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mariainkharkiv.bsky.social
Morning in Kyiv. No sleep. Air quality is extremely bad. City is covered in thick smoke.

This is Russian terror, aimed at people who chose to stay, resist and fight.
July 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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unusualwhales.bsky.social
BREAKING: Senior iranian official confirms to Reuters Tehran agreeing to Qatar mediated, US-proposed ceasefire with Israel.
June 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM