“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers

theguardian.com

RFK Jr is one of the worst people to ever wield power in US government. Eternal shame on anyone who has ever elevated him.

Rachel Fairbank@sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 10h ago

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

People keep repeating this number as though it represents a poll of Michigan Jews. It does not. There has been no poll of Michigan Jews. It’s literally just a number one member of one synagogue board pulled out of their head. (www.thefp.com/p/they-were-...)

This seems like a very bad idea

anyway one thing was that I did not realize that this was possible until I read this story and now I can't stop thinking about it. I've learned all sorts of things this year!

'Years of dog pee' blamed for fallen street light in Little Italy

Transportation workers said the base of the streetlight was corroded from 'years of dog pee."

timesofsandiego.com

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.

I apologize. All of this is on me. I heard this song in 1994 and thought, well, “give the fascist man a gunshot” was a bit *extreme* and surely we could be more reasonable than that in fixing things, no? So I read and learned and explained and pleaded and marched and…here we are 😡

Chumbawamba & Credit To The Nation - Enough Is Enough

YouTube video by RileyELFuk

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Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.

NYPD keeps insisting it’s not working with ICE in the narrowest scope of not literally participating in kidnappings but then goes silent when people present evidence of ICE using their precincts/parking lots, of NYPD doing crowd control. Big difference in technical and de facto assistance.

NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests

Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.

wired.com

This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehro.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

For the Israeli mindset to change, the consequences of occupation, annexation, and genocide must become unmistakable.

As Lists of Companies Complicit in Its Crimes Grow, Will Israel Finally Pay a Price?

Reports, databases, and sanctions remain insufficient—and risk becoming meaningless—unless they are followed by sustained monitoring and practical action.

commondreams.org

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

In May 2025, ICC President Akane publicly asked for help from the EU. Specifically, to implement its own law that would protect Judges from sanctions being imposed on them *within the EU*. The EU has turned a deaf ear. That was 17 months ago. Today, this: www.reuters.com/world/us-imp...

EXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize

The Trump administration has long been hostile to the court and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges.

reuters.com

“My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.” These titans of business. These masters of the universe.

My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.

Shane Mac, the CEO of XMTP Labs, got a rude shock when one of his AI agents posted his monthly bank audit in a company Slack channel.

businessinsider.com

This is clearly not acceptable

#Breaking Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Bryant has banned the Orange Order parade at Drumcree, saying it is "not in the public interest" for it to proceed | Follow live

NI Secretary to ban Orange Order Drumcree parade

Follow live developments as Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Bryant is asked to review the Parades Commission determination to allow the Orange Order march at Drumcree.

rte.ie

A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.

A good time to remind people that Chris Van Hollen is the only Member of Congress to have ever called for European states to sanction the President and Secretary of State, in this case specifically in response to their attempts to destroy the ICC in order to protect Israel.

Senator Chris Van Hollen@vanhollen.senate.gov · 3w ago

If European countries & other signatories to the International Criminal Court have any self-respect, they'd sanction Rubio & Trump for obstructing investigations of Netanyahu's war crimes.

This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

For non-Brits wondering why our politicians and press always behave like this: any future substantially left wing government would likely be open to - say - considering arrest warrants for politicians found to have materially assisted particular war crimes.

last night eyewitnesses saw Oscar Belgal — the man shot by ICE with his 5 year old in the car — discharged from the hospital into ICE custody, with feds speeding off as NYPD cleared the roads for them of protesters. his attorneys don't know where he is; he's seemingly been taken out of NY state.

I hope Mamdani clarifies whether NYPD support for this action was at his direction or if the NYPD acted on its own; if the latter, why do they have that latitude and what is being done to reign in a rogue agency?

Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · 2d ago

last night eyewitnesses saw Oscar Belgal — the man shot by ICE with his 5 year old in the car — discharged from the hospital into ICE custody, with feds speeding off as NYPD cleared the roads for them of protesters. his attorneys don't know where he is; he's seemingly been taken out of NY state.

United States "imposed institutional sanctions on the International Criminal Court... hours after one of its founding judges won the Nobel Peace Prize. The measures target the court as an institution after sanctions were imposed on half of its 18 judges..." www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...

US sanctions ICC after former judge awarded Nobel Peace Prize

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I wrote about Jim Bakker, whose parasocial style of grifter evangelism seemed freakish to mainstream society in the 80s and is now the machinery by which mainstream society operates

The Death and Afterlife of an American Con Man

Jim Bakker’s vision of the future came to pass. Just not in the way the disgraced televangelist imagined.

theringer.com

Carson is the second female Nobel winner in recent years to have been denied tenure. Katalin Karikó was denied tenure at Penn www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

Researcher Demoted By University Of Pennsylvania Wins Nobel Prize For mRNA Discoveries—And Some Academics Urge Penn To Apologize

Katalin Karikó’s research laid the foundation for both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.

forbes.com

Pete Hegseth says Americans will be able to watch a Trump-approved firing-squad execution. If he follows through, the U.S. could join a disturbing club of countries known for public executions—including Iran, Afghanistan, and North Korea.

Hegseth Turns Trump’s Firing Squad Into a Public Spectacle

The Army has scheduled Nidal Hasan’s December 3 execution at Fort Hood — the first military execution since 1961 — while the Pentagon still will not explain how the firing squad will operate.

meidasnews.com

its just weird how theyre never gaming out scenarios for curing cancer or anything like that, i couldve sworn they said that was one of their big goals

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago

“.. AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event .. most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.” @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/10/09/a...

"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?" Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize