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Candace Owens denied visa to Australia by country’s highest court The court ruled that the conservative speaker had failed a “character test” to enter the nation.

The entire world should deny the entry of any member of the Trump regime as well as it's supporters. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Dearest Father
This is my 7th day here in war torn Portland and I fear we may run out of cashew milk soon. Things are still in flux, a strange mix of waiting and sudden flash mobs - a trend that I thought ended in 2013.

I want to be careful with what I say. But know that I am well, and safe for now

World Naked Bike Ride to protest Trump’s guard deployment President Trump announced that he will deploy 200 National Guard troops in Portland, and organizers of the naked bike ride planned an emergency event.

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Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Robots are learning to make human babies. Twenty have already been born. One in six people of reproductive age suffer from infertility. Start-ups are using AI-powered robots to increase IVF success rates and lower costs.

What an age to be living in....every day the headlines just get more and more unreal
#dystopian #scifi

Robots are learning to make human babies. Twenty have already been born.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

This photo just about sums it up

A chart titled "How Rich is Donald Trump: $7.3 billion," showing his wealth skyrocketing in 2025

Look at that huge jump in Trump's wealth in 2025.

Americans can't afford groceries or health care.

But the Trump presidency is working out great for Donald Trump.

www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

Yes!

Portland is such an anarchic hellscape🙄

Civil society helps uphold democracy and provides built-in resistance to authoritarianism There are growing signs that American civil society is becoming more vulnerable to the president’s preferences and dictates – something that happens in authoritarian countries.

Good civil society explainer

Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

a Reichstag fire, but one of them every week

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children In the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no associ...

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol

2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.

news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

Cancel culture and removing the first amendment all to appease one man and his bloviated ego.

Willie Nelson with The Muppets.

I must confess that it took me a while to pick him out! 🤣

Robert Redford on the phone, plus Dustin Hoffman. From All the President’s Men

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

Calling it now: almost all the coming crackdown on progressive groups will be focused on those that provide funding, resources, research, knowledge, or assistance of other kinds to Democratic candidates, voters, and institutions focused on winning the midterm elections.

An authoritarian crackdown.