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Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

Tim Walz is the ONLY guy the democrats have that can bring farmers and ranchers back to the table. He's it.

I'm from a multigenerational ranching family. I'm a co-owner today. I exist in the ag world and nobody is talking to them. Walz can break through, and that's important.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius. Nearly 2000 years later, we can at last read these lost treasures

Amazing story of the scrolls of Herculaneum, thought lost after Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. Could we find lost works by Aristotle and Theophrastus? www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

Reform suspends KCC councillor following complaints from female staff A Reform UK spokesperson has said it is being treated as a disciplinary matter

Kent councillor stripped of Reform UK whip following complaints from female staff

Workers intimidated and abused for taking down flags There are numerous reports of workers being assaulted, spat at and verbally abused

Workers hired to remove flags are being intimidated and abused

leftfootforward.org/2025/10/work...

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

This should alarm every one of us who have a moral conscience.
The truth has risen.
#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks

The young educated women who want society organised so that wealth is fairly distributed and the natural environment is saved from pollution won’t want to date young men who think pissing on beggars is a hilarious expression of their political outlook.

“I object to seeing brown people on my street but I will give up this view if graduate requirements are shortened from two years to 18 months” give me a fucking break.

It is laughable to think that you can neuter the far right with minor tweaks like this.

How many Conservative or Reform supporters even know that immigrants have to pass a language test? They object to immigration on emotional grounds, not because they have dry objections to eligibility criteria.

IF THIS IS NOT HOSTAGE TAKING, WHAT IS? Israel refuses to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya who insisted on staying with his patients in his bombed hospital even after his own son was murdered. Since then he has been held in one of Israel's torture facilities.

Hank Aaron Used Record-Setting Hate Mail for Inspiration Before Breaking Babe Ruth Record “If I was white, all America would be proud of me,” the baseball legend said before passing the record in 1974

They sent this man death threats by mail because he was on the cusp of breaking a white man's home run record. He used their hate mail for inspiration to go on and break that record.

It was Hank Aaron's big "f**k you" to all of those racists.🖕🏾😝

🔥☕️

people.com/sports/hank-...

Sri Lanka: Ruinous Tax Policies Stoke Inequality Sri Lanka’s tax policies played a driving role in the country’s devastating 2022 economic crisis and have contributed to the chronic underfunding of education and other public services.

Today, @hrw.org released the 1st major report on tax, documenting how policies that favor the rich drove Sri Lanka into economic crisis & starved its public education system. UN tax treaty negotiations are historic chance to address a root cause. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Young Republicans: “ I love Hitler” and want to bring back the gas chamber. These racist cretins are the future of the GOP. What used to be hidden deep inside the Republican Party is now out in the open. This is how Republican talk to each other when they think no one is listening? #ProudBlue

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

I will bet my bike that close to zero of the British racists that this law is pandering to could pass A-level English.

No Kings, No Pants, No Problem How Portland answered authoritarianism with bare asses and better ideas.

open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
There is something spectacularly stupid about watching a man in full tactical armor aim a sniper rifle at another man’s baloney pony. A rooftop Rambo sweating through forty pounds of gear, laser-locked on a moving target that happens to be democracy

This should affect the kind of people who stroll around at private parties dressed in Roman costumes while knocking back a swimming pool's worth of Moet Et Chandon. But I get the feeling it won't.

Check the timestamps. On CNN’s website, the uploaded interview starts at 2:52. On their YouTube page, the upload starts at 2:47. The “plenary authority” comment by Miller was at 2:41, as shown in my side-by-side video post. CNN should be reporting on what Miller said. It’s news!

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

This idiot keeps bragging about the 20 hostages being released in another country while he's kidnapping thousands of people a day here in America.

Fuck him and the fascism he rode in on.

UK's Reeves should use budget to reform tax system, IFS says British finance minister Rachel Reeves should use her budget in November to carry out a long overdue reform of the taxation system which could help her to raise more revenue while limiting the hit to the economy, a think tank said on Monday.

Faintly amusing that the IFS' argument to Reeves on tax reform is basically: You're fucked either way, so you might as well do something decent for the country while you're taking all this pain www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...

Seriously. Inform us of the action taken and less of the intent to take action.

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.