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Pro-Trump group wages campaign to purge “subversive” federal workers Federal employees faced a barrage of intimidation and harassment after a group linked to the Trump administration posted their personal information on online “watchlists” denouncing them as liberals. Some have been fired. Two have moved abroad, fearing for their safety.

"Anderson changed her hairstyle to avoid recognition, stayed indoors, rerouted packages from her Atlanta home and reminded her children to lock the doors and check the security cameras."

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"Provocative" lol. Why is Canadian legacy media so embarrassing on this issue?

Icons and Guns: Inside Russia’s Largest Far-Right Group Emboldened by an ultraconservative state agenda and the war in Ukraine, extremists are cautiously welcomed by the government

More than three years into Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin is increasingly co-opting far-right groups like Russkaya Obshchina, raising concerns in Russia's ethnic republics and elsewhere, reports @Giovanni Pigni for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

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One of the worst current trends in online video ads is loud whispering. It has been years since ASMR was a popular topic of discussion so I am not sure why there is an uptick of it in advertising.

Fascistic and absurd

Just to give the TL;DR on this one:

*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

The dahlia season has started, and it reminded me of this painting by 🇺🇦 artist Kateryna Bilokur. Her paintings were exhibited in the Louvre and used as trays for pig by her neighbors. The story of her life is a testament to human will and talent. Read it here: daryazorka.substack.com/p/the-queen-...

America’s medical profession is collapsing. Canada’s just got… 22 years ago BC doctors were called out for a culture of impunity. Nothing happened. Until now.

America’s medical profession is collapsing. Canada’s just got stronger. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/07/28/a...

by @codeblackamerica.bsky.social

The unlikely coalition fighting to keep Energy Star labels on your appliances The Trump administration wants to eliminate the energy efficiency program, but bakers, builders, and chemical companies are trying to save it.

The unlikely coalition fighting to keep Energy Star labels on your appliances.

The Trump administration wants to eliminate the energy-efficiency program, but bakers, builders, hot tub lobbyists, and chemical companies are trying to save it.

grist.org/energy/unlik...

#Appliances #House #Energy

Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians Microsoft developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians.

Revealed: Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians

The tech giant developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians.

www.972mag.com/microsoft-82...

It’s Time to Designate The Base as an FTO With increasing violent extremism and waning DOJ interest in curbing far-right extremism, a failure to address The Base could prove fatal.

Important analysis from @lbaum94.bsky.social:

"If Washington cannot muster the resolve to designate The Base after an overseas assassination, then when? The choice is stark: lead the fight against this threat now, or watch it metastasize beyond our ability to contain in the future."

The British media outlet ITV also went on a Jordanian airdrop and simply ignored the Israeli government’s illiberal demands:

www.itv.com/news/2025-08...

It's such an indictment of the media and wider society that Harvard caught more flack for the Claudine Gay thing than this.

As an aside, Martin Nowak, mentioned at the end of the article, had a long relationship with Epstein and kept receiving visits from him at Harvard after Epstein's 2008 conviction. He still works at Harvard. www.oeb.harvard.edu/people/marti...

www.thecrimson.com/article/2020...

Facebook post with a photo of Alec and contact information: MISSING: Alec Luhn, last seen July 31st in the afternoon. Was headed from Odda, Norway on a solo backpacking trip to explore the glacier @folgefonnanasjonalpark. Planned to stay at DNT Holmaskjer and DNT Breidablikk and finish Monday morning at Årsnes Kai bus station. Red Cross search with volunteers and dogs and helicopters is underway in the area. PLEASE SHARE AND TAG AND REPOST THIS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. If anyone has seen him or has information please contact Drew Avanell Gaddis or Veronika Silchenko

Our friend @alecluhn.bsky.social is missing in Norway's Folgefonna National Park after a backpacking trip to the glacier there. Please share if you're in the area or know people who might be. Come home safe, buddy

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and as far as responsibility goes, i think ferritor should be held criminally liable for the laws he broke while doing DOGE's work and referred for crimes against humanity

what ferritor needed was moral education — and the limits and boundaries that come with it. he needed to learn that he had obligations beyond his own interests & personal advancement. he needed to learn that he had duties to other people. his parents fostered his brilliance at the expense of a soul.

Yes, absolutely. I have never understood why anyone would think that giving "gifted" people the right to break rules is a good idea. That's a recipe for creating a monster. I have never seen good come of it.

A hostile environment: language, race, surveillance and the media A hostile environment: language, race, surveillance and the media is the second of two reports analysing parliamentary and media debates from 2010-2024, and shows how large sections of these debates encouraged widespread hostility to migrants.

Our government and media are complicit in enabling racist violence, our latest report shows.

One year since the racist riots broke out across the UK, violence which has continued since, those in power cannot continue to deny their enabling role.

Read the report here 👉 www.runnymedetrust.o...

5 things to know about GardaWorld, one of the contractors behind Alligator Alcatraz share.google/qeupq1rRYhom...

Ya I was shocked when I realized that other people literally have inner monologues. I also thought it was a metaphor. That being said, writing out or speaking my thoughts does help me problem solve.

Real quick PSA in light of the uproar.

Don't forget you can DETACH yourself from someone quote posting you here.

So, if someone is trying to start something or dogpile you, you can detach yourself so they no longer have your post on their TL and then block.

It's another great privacy feature.

What about their statement: "the state we identify following SARS‐CoV‐2 infection is antiprotective and represents an epigenetic phenomenon that is distinct from trained immunity."
They mention later that they suspect this state is short-lived, but still.

Shawn Micallef: Doug Ford’s plan to sell off chunks of this popular beach threatens something we should hold dear If Doug Ford wanted to create a real legacy, he’d start an aggressive expansion of public parkland in Ontario to keep up with its massive population.

This weekend I wrote about Doug Ford’s plan to sell off a large chunk of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park. Exactly the opposite of what should be happening: parkland expansion.

Why can't the Premier just focus on the basic business of provincial government like reducing wait times at hospitals and ensuring schools aren't falling apart. Why is everything with him another damn scheme?

We focused on Polish paleontologists turned victims of Nazi aggression, but what about academics who voluntarily joined Nazi ranks & what consequences (if any) they faced? A thread about Jurassic bivalve researcher, Dr. Richard Lebküchner, a sadist responsible for deaths of 50 East Europeans 🧵

The Museum of Art Fakes in Vienna displays famous forgeries of famous paintings.

EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.

Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum security camp under a “lesser security transfer” (code 308), a move BOP insiders call “obvious corruption” and unprecedented for individuals with "sex offender designation" early in their sentences. A special waiver made it happen. #OpDeathEaters

“The abyss Germany is spiraling into is terrifying me. I’m writing this as a kind of alibi, I suppose.”

This grim assessment of where German media and society are right now is one of the most worrying things I have read in a long time. It’s an Instagram slideshow from Tomer Dotan Dreyfus, a writer and translator based in Berlin. Please read the comments too.

www.instagram.com/p/DMyPn55sFi...