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· May 9
I only read English but I seek out news from other countries to get a bigger view of what’s happening in the world.
Ukraine, France & Japan all have English language versions of their news available on BlueSky.
In case you’re interested, this thread for sources I’ve found.
Ukraine, France & Japan all have English language versions of their news available on BlueSky.
In case you’re interested, this thread for sources I’ve found.
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Multiple allied intelligence officials have warned that Donald Trump’s handling of classified material has created an ongoing risk that sensitive information given to the US will end up in Moscow. Several allies have now limited, sometimes stopped, what they share with the US.
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Multiple allied intelligence officials have warned that Donald Trump’s handling of classified material has created an ongoing risk that sensitive information given to the US will end up in Moscow. Several allies have now limited, sometimes stopped, what they share with the US.
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Despite knowing Clint Massie was abusing girls for years, church leaders never reported him to police.
It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.”
With @startribune.com
It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.”
With @startribune.com
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Despite knowing Clint Massie was abusing girls for years, church leaders never reported him to police.
It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.”
With @startribune.com
It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.”
With @startribune.com
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For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.
Social Security Data Is Openly Being Shared With DHS to Target Immigrants
For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.
wrd.cm
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.
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The original sin: Five Supreme Court Republican appointees, many helped onto the Court by right-wing billionaires, open the floodgates for unlimited political spending. Then they refuse to police anonymous political spending they know is corrupting. This is the result.
How billionaires took over American politics
The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The original sin: Five Supreme Court Republican appointees, many helped onto the Court by right-wing billionaires, open the floodgates for unlimited political spending. Then they refuse to police anonymous political spending they know is corrupting. This is the result.
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KYUK is the only public radio station in remote Alaska that regularly broadcasts in the Yugtun language, providing a crucial lifeline to the Indigenous communities in the area.
After Congress slashed its budget, the station isn't sure how it'll survive.
After Congress slashed its budget, the station isn't sure how it'll survive.
In rural America, public radio saves lives
In remote Alaska, public radio station KYUK is crucial during natural disasters. Without federal funding, how will it survive?
revealnews.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
KYUK is the only public radio station in remote Alaska that regularly broadcasts in the Yugtun language, providing a crucial lifeline to the Indigenous communities in the area.
After Congress slashed its budget, the station isn't sure how it'll survive.
After Congress slashed its budget, the station isn't sure how it'll survive.
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‘We’re basically pushers’: Court filing alleges staff at social media giants compared their platforms to drugs
‘We’re basically pushers’: Court filing alleges staff at social media giants compared their platforms to drugs
Meta said the allegations “rely on cherry-picked quotes and misinformed opinions” to present a misleading narrative.
dlvr.it
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
‘We’re basically pushers’: Court filing alleges staff at social media giants compared their platforms to drugs
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Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation.
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
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Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up a network of resistance & detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained by ICE, leaving the children behind, reports @19thnews.org.
Child Care Workers Are Building a Network of Resistance Against ICE - Bucks County Beacon
Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained, leavi...
buckscountybeacon.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up a network of resistance & detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained by ICE, leaving the children behind, reports @19thnews.org.
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To those still not believing the latest two viral stories of Black mother's being turned away, disrespected as their bodies are literally bringing children into this world... here is my story.
It was a normal night in Florida. I had been experiencing contractions off and on...
It was a normal night in Florida. I had been experiencing contractions off and on...
November 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
To those still not believing the latest two viral stories of Black mother's being turned away, disrespected as their bodies are literally bringing children into this world... here is my story.
It was a normal night in Florida. I had been experiencing contractions off and on...
It was a normal night in Florida. I had been experiencing contractions off and on...
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Social Security is not dying. It is being starved. We need it, the rich do not. The cap that shields the wealthy from paying more is a wall made up of greed. Lift it & the system is reborn. Voters keep choosing those who serve the wealthy, then wonder why the table is empty. #ProtectSocialSecurity
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Social Security is not dying. It is being starved. We need it, the rich do not. The cap that shields the wealthy from paying more is a wall made up of greed. Lift it & the system is reborn. Voters keep choosing those who serve the wealthy, then wonder why the table is empty. #ProtectSocialSecurity
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It would have been so much easier if the 2 competent and smart women NOT in the Epstein Files had been elected in the first place.
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It would have been so much easier if the 2 competent and smart women NOT in the Epstein Files had been elected in the first place.
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I’m sick of hearing that closing the Department of Education would send control back to the states.
The states already have control.
What they really want with a closing is lack of oversight, access to education funding, and more Christian Nationalism in schools.
The states already have control.
What they really want with a closing is lack of oversight, access to education funding, and more Christian Nationalism in schools.
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I’m sick of hearing that closing the Department of Education would send control back to the states.
The states already have control.
What they really want with a closing is lack of oversight, access to education funding, and more Christian Nationalism in schools.
The states already have control.
What they really want with a closing is lack of oversight, access to education funding, and more Christian Nationalism in schools.
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ARTISTS! You can DISABLE this feature! Protect yourself and don't assume that you're safe if you're an sfw artist!
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
ARTISTS! You can DISABLE this feature! Protect yourself and don't assume that you're safe if you're an sfw artist!
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They rationalized their support for a man whose entire life is touched by corruption. When confronted with inconvenient facts, they reject them. When Trump does cruel and wicked things, they ignore them. They use Bible verses to justify their support for Trump.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Intellectual and Moral Decline of the American Right
The conservative backlash against Nick Fuentes has yet to challenge the president who had him over for dinner.
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
They rationalized their support for a man whose entire life is touched by corruption. When confronted with inconvenient facts, they reject them. When Trump does cruel and wicked things, they ignore them. They use Bible verses to justify their support for Trump.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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if you have issues with your brain, it is SO MUCH MORE LIKELY to be because of trauma, or lead poisoning, or microplastics, or covid, than it is to be anything genetic. But accepting that our current society is unavoidably brain damaging is a convo nobody is ready for
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
if you have issues with your brain, it is SO MUCH MORE LIKELY to be because of trauma, or lead poisoning, or microplastics, or covid, than it is to be anything genetic. But accepting that our current society is unavoidably brain damaging is a convo nobody is ready for
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This is your Thanksgiving table conversation. Trump is the blowhard uncle who hates socialists but actually loves the things socialists want to do.
"I expect to be helping him, not hurting him. A big help" -- Trump is totally charmed by Mamdani
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This is your Thanksgiving table conversation. Trump is the blowhard uncle who hates socialists but actually loves the things socialists want to do.
Nobody can resist a metrosexual!
I am LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY at this meeting! Republican campaign consultants built their entire midterm strategy around making Mamdani into the devil incarnate and the face of Democratic Party, then Trump slobbers all over him today in the Oval!
November 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Nobody can resist a metrosexual!
High speed lines plz!
Despite challenges Amtrak closes FY 25 with record ridership and revenue. People want to ride trains! Give the people more trains!
www.masstransitmag.com/rail/news/55...
www.masstransitmag.com/rail/news/55...
Amtrak closes FY25 with record ridership, revenue
The company spent the past fiscal year launching new services and improving the customer experience with new trains and upgraded safety policies.
www.masstransitmag.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
High speed lines plz!
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November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into overshoot within the next few years": a stark message by PIK Director Rockström & James Dyke in @theconversation.com. Yet, science shows a way back: fossil-fuel phase-out, nature protection, carbon removal.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into overshoot within the next few years": a stark message by PIK Director Rockström & James Dyke in @theconversation.com. Yet, science shows a way back: fossil-fuel phase-out, nature protection, carbon removal.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
Just like the prequel haters before them, they can’t stand the fact that SW was made relevant to a new generation.
Feels like another "bad" Star Wars day so I just need to repeat this again.
The Force Awakens is great.
The Last Jedi is great.
AND The Rise of Skywalker is great.
All of the sequel trilogy movies are great.
If you come in to spam threats over towards sequels, RJ, or JJ, GO FUCK YOURSELF.
The Force Awakens is great.
The Last Jedi is great.
AND The Rise of Skywalker is great.
All of the sequel trilogy movies are great.
If you come in to spam threats over towards sequels, RJ, or JJ, GO FUCK YOURSELF.
a woman holding a light saber in front of a red wall
ALT: a woman holding a light saber in front of a red wall
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Just like the prequel haters before them, they can’t stand the fact that SW was made relevant to a new generation.
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Vaccination must reclaim its original purpose: protecting health. It should be seen not as an act of loyalty to any political agenda but as a necessary precaution essential for the survival of both individuals & society as a whole. theins.ru/en/society/2...
Virusocracy: How anti-vax became a political platform
The United States and Europe are facing a rise in cases of measles, a disease long considered eradicated. These are the first visible consequences of a rapidly spreading anti-vaccine trend that has be...
theins.ru
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Vaccination must reclaim its original purpose: protecting health. It should be seen not as an act of loyalty to any political agenda but as a necessary precaution essential for the survival of both individuals & society as a whole. theins.ru/en/society/2...
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CNN: If a sailor in the Caribbean is given an order they think possibly could be illegal, what are they to do?
HOULAHAN: If you receive an order you're not sure of, you have a duty to question your commander, the person next in your chain of command. You have a duty to go up the chain of command
HOULAHAN: If you receive an order you're not sure of, you have a duty to question your commander, the person next in your chain of command. You have a duty to go up the chain of command
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
CNN: If a sailor in the Caribbean is given an order they think possibly could be illegal, what are they to do?
HOULAHAN: If you receive an order you're not sure of, you have a duty to question your commander, the person next in your chain of command. You have a duty to go up the chain of command
HOULAHAN: If you receive an order you're not sure of, you have a duty to question your commander, the person next in your chain of command. You have a duty to go up the chain of command
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The Art of the Deal. [Cartoon by Dennis Goris]
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The Art of the Deal. [Cartoon by Dennis Goris]