modi has spent the last 12 years being the guy that Trump wishes he could be and gets about 1/300th as much attention as Orban who was lording it over a country maybe 1/35th the size

Athul K. Acharya@athul.acharya.cc · yesterday

Holy shit they disenfranchised nearly ten percent of the population. It’s like a GOP wet dream

My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

Positive Deviance NYC: Building Clean Air Culture

Back our next three clean-air NYC music events in 2027 and join a growing community building a more accessible cultural life.

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israel has the same right to exist that apartheid south africa and rhodesia had, which is none whatsoever

What Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd was a public extrajudicial execution. Keep that in mind when you say we haven't had a public execution since 1936. We have, actually. Many times. They're called police murders.

Ese México me gusta.

Tom Moore@sirtommoore.bsky.social · 3d ago

Yeah that Mexico with the really excellent and well educated leader Claudia Sheinbaum

COVlD levels in #NewOrleans have rebounded. Take your highest-level precautions. Mask up, test before gatherings and when ill/exposed, stay home if sick, and get your booster today. Move events online/outdoors.

I say this every year, but we need a Nobel prize in public health & it should absolutely go to all the fine folks working to clean the air, mask & spread knowledge of the harms of airborne pathogens 🦠

She wrote this op-ed last year.

Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 3d ago

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

There is exactly 1 US public health agency still doing the work.

Durham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH)@durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 3d ago

It's that time of year: lots of people will be sick, and many won't know what sickness it is. It's a good idea to get tested, but even if you don't know what it is, *please* stay home as much as possible, get plenty of rest to help yourself recover, and wear masks if you have to go out while sick!

Gen X, millennials, Gen Z - I need more of us to sign up to be election workers. I'm at election worker training right now and I am the youngest here by at least 20 years. I'll be 46 at the end of this month. Remove me and the median age is probably 70. You want change? Get tf involved.

"Artificial" isn't the misnomer "Intelligence" is

You have to be the WORST bastard cop for your own side hustle contractor to get so scared of you that they drop a dime lmao CANNOT! BE! REFORMED!!! "The newest allegation against Fries involves text messages he sent to a contractor for his business, Fries Consulting."

Allen County Sheriff files new claim against corporal he recommends be fired

New allegations are being released against the Allen County Sheriff’s Department corporal whom Sheriff Troy Hershberger recently asked to be fired.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 2w ago

You have to be the worst bastard cop imaginable for your fellow bastard cops to get so fucking scared of you that they go to IAD about it fuckkk real I learned it by watching you, Dad hours

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Meta Is Refusing to Remove AI-Generated Facebook Videos of Graphic Child Abuse, Including a Baby Roasting in an Oven

We sent Meta 19 Facebook accounts sharing AI-generated videos of graphic child abuse. 24 hours later, it hadn't taken them down.

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This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5d ago

oh my GOD

Sec Homeland Security: Nuh uh! I’m not eugenicist, you are! Sure buddy.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d ago

Meanwhile, over on X, the Secretary of Homeland Security is posting about "vandalizing the demographics of America," a phrase which is either a chilling suggestion of white nationalism from Mullin or just straight pablum which means nothing but sounds just fash enough to excite the faithful.

Looking back at a course I taught on trauma/fear-conditioning in 2021 and realizing that I used a different slide theme for each lecture to engage contextual conditioning through amygdala-hippocampus interplay but then I never explicitly said at the end why I did that. I guess that one was for me.

You mean Epstein’s guy? Is now highly influential in global politics and governance? What an amazing coincidence. *Every week, sometimes every day, this happens

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d ago

Oh thank goodness I was worried it was going to be some sort of horrific evil company

FUCK YES. This is the energy, morality, and courage that I expect from leaders. Unbelievably brave.

Erica Ifill@wickdchiq.bsky.social · 5d ago

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

Dear journalists, If you're looking to interview a doctor on Covid in 2026, a good probing question is whether they wear a respirator mask in their practice. If not, maybe time to source a new expert

"But landlords would lose money" I don't care. "But vax-hesitant people would feel discriminated against" I don't care. "But jilted Trump voters would feel unwelcome" I don't care. "But people who like ai would be mad" I don't care. "But that's not fair to the rich" I don't care.

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Meta Is Kicking Gay Bars Off Its Apps While Allowing Videos of Graphic Child Abuse

Meta censored the Instagram and Facebook accounts of two gay bars in Austin, Texas, without giving any explanation.

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UK: COVID cases and hospitalisations surge in September • Cases: 1,374 → 4,589 (+230%) • Hospital admissions: 950 → 4,939 (+420%) • Hospital test positivity: 5.9% → 7% (+1.1%) • XFG: >50% of positive tests Cases are at their highest since October last year

PMC COVlD Update, Oct 5, 2026 ◾️Levels peaked at ≈610,000 estimated new daily infections in mid Sep ◾️36 states still with known outbreaks (see Alt text) ◾️13th COVlD wave Website: pmc19.com Interactive county-level map: pmc19.com/map

California and New York alone sent the federal government $352 billion more than they received in fiscal 2024. Kentucky took in $2.28 for every dollar it sent in fiscal 2023. Blue states are funding their own oppression. The solution is

ProPublica has made a database of all the incidents they could find where ICE detained citizens. Important work. This kind of data is too often hidden and lost.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 6d ago

12/ We spent months compiling every case we could find of immigration agents detaining Americans. We did it because the government hasn't. And now, we're sharing every one of those cases with you. Explore our database: propub.li/4egbSK2

Everyone in the Western Hemisphere should translate this article and read what JD Vance is doing. Then maybe also read about the Lima Group 2017 declaration. Which I only know about because the last chapter of Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad (2021) reads like a prophecy, unfortunately.

Intercept Brasil@intercept.com.br · 2w ago

Leia a matéria completa no site do Intercept Brasil: www.intercept.com.br/2026/09/29/r...

Lula (president of Brazil) “asked the court to investigate possible support from the Rockbridge Network, a [Peter Thiel-backed] conservative U.S. donor network co-founded by…JD Vance. It said a political organizer tied to the group works at Flávio Bolsonaro’s campaign headquarters...” 10/4/26 …1/

Lula seeks probe into possible US election interference

Lula’s coalition asked Brazil’s top electoral court to investigate actions benefiting Flávio Bolsonaro, while the Workers’ Party sought a Federal Police inquiry from the Supreme Court.

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I think we missed a huge opportunity to normalize masking as a public health tool. We eradicated an entire strain of the flu with Covid prevention measures. Masking shows respect for those around you. It shows solidarity with the disability community. It shows you value long term health.

Not sure if there’s a version of this in Portuguese, but I’m sure someone in Brazil can read it and think about whether the polls were off or if maybe they were accurate…

Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll@brendonowicz.cryptoanarchy.network · 5mo ago

Not saying I agree that wavelet analysis is the key technique here (also didn’t use it much in my work FWIW), but once again Kait Justice pieced together a ton of great findings and evidence in a way that is believable and testable. Literally made it make sense. open.substack.com/pub/kaitjust...

More evidence of the alliance between Tech Bros & Theo Bros. Joshua Abbottoy — Founder of Ridge Runner, which is building Christian communities in Appalachia—will attend Balaji’s “network state” conference. (Abbottoy is also Managing Director of New Founding—backed by Thiel ally Marc Andreeessen) 1/