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☸️🇺🇦🇨🇦 Will entertain requests for astrophotography targets. If you follow me for the space pix, be prepared for some politics. And chronic illnesses. Amateur astronomer Hoagiemouth Wannabe 🇦🇺 In an abusive relationship with my immune system.
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Where we are as a country: in opposition to the establishment of democracy in Venezuela because it could infringe on the extractive contracts the president’s buddies have arranged with the current regime.
Where we are a a country: the Secretary of State waning a Nobel Peace Prize winner not to peaceably assemble because that won’t lead to democracy. www.axios.com/2026/10/27/r...
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LEGAL immigrants in Tennessee are now unable to renew their driver’s licenses because of a new law from Tennessee Republicans. www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...
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Finland’s President Alexander Stubb and Norway’s PM Jonas Gahr Støre held a joint call with Vladimir Putin on October 27, in consultation with Ukraine. They discussed ending Russia’s war, future negotiations and upcoming meetings in Abu Dhabi. #Ukraine
❗️Bloomberg reports Putin is preparing talks with Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre on prospects for a Ukraine peace deal. The calls could take place Tuesday and would mark his first direct contact with top European leaders allied with Kyiv since July 2025. #Ukraine
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1/ Saturday's Ukrainian attack on Omsk in Siberia, at a distance of over 2,500 km, is causing fresh angst among Russian warbloggers over the poor performance of Russia's air defences. "[We're being hit] further and deeper," one complains. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/kyiv...
Long-range strike drones hit Russia’s Omsky Kauchuk chemical plant and an Ozon logistics hub in Omsk, sparking major fires. Located over 2,500 km from Ukraine, the Siberian sites were evacuated as blazes erupted across the industrial facilities. Videos: Telegram channels
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Guyana vs US GDP Per Capita In 1980 vs 2025 Explanation & More Comparisons: brilliantmaps.com/usa-gdp-p...
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An Arab invented algebra. You snorted cocaine off a toilet seat. You are not the same.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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Did not realize he said this in Michigan, which has a large Arab population they have completely written off. bsky.app/profile/theb...
RFK in Michigan: "Mike Rogers was talking about the Muslim Brotherhood. That's something I can talk about…Islamism, which is the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, took over…That's why you don't see any Muslims, any Arab Muslims winning the Nobel."
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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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Evidence "shows that Trump lied about kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club," according to a new report from the House Judiciary Dem staff. The report also reveals for the first time Beatrice Keul's account of allegedly having been raped by Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...
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JWST and Hubble image of Arp 142, also known as NGC 2936 and NGC 2937, or the Penguin and the Egg. In Hubble’s visible light image (left) a dark brown dust lane crosses the Penguin. In Webb’s near-infrared view (right), this dust is fainter. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Source
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(Reuters) - US President Donald Trump on Sunday escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a "shit house country" and saying Norwegian immigrants were not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee .. had not awarded him a Peace Prize. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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The Republican Party takes your money and uses it to openly bribe voters. bsky.app/profile/atru...
JD Vance: "Today, the Dept of Agriculture is announcing millions of dollars in new grants toward 10 meatpacking facilities right here in the state of Kansas"
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BREAKING WaPo: Brazil's right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro just effectively conceded defeat to the incumbent left-wing president — minutes after Trump indicated he would not intervene on his behalf.
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Lol congrats to all the chuds who spent the past 24 hours clutching their pearls pretending that Obama insulted Cheesecake Factory just so Trump could actually insult it.
Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"
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Lancaster County logged 23 new measles cases in the past week, bringing the county total to 478 cases this year. Statewide, the number of people infected with the virus rose by 74 since last Monday, raising Pennsylvania’s total to 1,360… lanc.news/4yI8UFK
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Pretty grim footnote to West's career that he ended up serving the richest man in the world's successful attempt to restore white nationalism to the US government.
NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...
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The Justice Department plans to deploy 1,000 election monitors nationwide, including to polling stations in Philadelphia, Allegheny, Luzerne, and Lehigh Counties.
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A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...
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North Carolina - Senate Polling: 🔵 Cooper: 52% 🔴 Whatley: 43% Quantus / Oct 25, 2026 (Republican Pollster) (Current NC-SEN Model: DEM 54% - GOP 44%) unitedstatespolling.com/p/the-gops-m...
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