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Growing body of evidence demonstrates that Trump was an active participant in Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women and "DOJ and FBI are doing everything they can to keep the American people in the dark about it." - House Judiciary Democrats democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

On this day in 1866, the Texas legislature passed a law restricting when Black people could testify in court, limiting their testimony to cases that involved people of color.

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

Heat killed a record 50,000 people in European cities this summer, with two in every three of the deaths due to climate breakdown. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

if you ever happen to see someone post a joke you don't understand or discuss a subject you aren't familiar with, you are well within your right to complain, and perhaps even scold them if necessary. you are their customer and you have rights

In just five days, Uganda vaccinated 8.3 million children against measles and rubella. The nationwide drive, which ended on 5 October, covered every child aged nine months to five years, whatever their vaccine history. The Cooperator buff.ly/7VnZOYR #ShareGoodNewsToo

A new NPR podcast explores how viruses that lie dormant in our bodies can wake up when our immune systems are stressed, and what that might mean for long COVID. www.npr.org/2026/10/23/n...

Again I say, the scam economy is consuming the political will to fight authoritarianism.

Staggering corruption

Of course UAE national security advisor Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who invested billions in Trump's crypto company in 2025, plays a role in this story

Dutch intelligence obtained a Russian hack of Kushner's phone and then hacked it themselves to find:

In honor of Julie Dash's 74th birthday today, you should watch "Daughters of the Dust." And it's free on Tubi It was only 35 years ago that she was the first Black woman to have a movie with a theatrical run

Two states asked the CDC to validate a measles test they could process quickly and at high volumes. The CDC waited two months before denying the request, citing "other competing priorities." My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

These days, it’s easy to succumb to hopelessness. But I explain why doomerism can lead to paralysis in a new article I wrote for The Guardian The problem with doomerism isn’t necessarily that the risks are exaggerated, but that it may create a self-fulfilling prophecy and create helplessness

When people hear messages designed to appeal to our fears, they can be moved to take action. But this only tends to work once, and when the messages conveys it’s possible to make a difference. if people are inundated with scary and overwhelming stories about the climate or AI, they tune out.

Solar farms in the Gobi are cutting dust storms. A study of 17 farms found the panels slow surface winds by more than 9% and make soil up to 17% less erodible, reducing springtime dust by about 352,000 tonnes a month. RenewEconomy buff.ly/bambHT8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Here’s what we found in the documents, which were collected over the past three years as part of a collaboration between New York Focus and MuckRock: nysfocus.com/2026/10/21/n... 5/5

The New York State Police are “ignoring, enabling” and “excusing” domestic violence by some of their employees. That’s what one expert told me after hearing details from records we obtained about domestic incidents involving State Police employees. 1/5

A Florida man was found dead in his home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators.

Washington Post: 'Want to reduce chronic diseases? Invest in vaccines.' 'A new study shows that 1 in 8 cancers worldwide are due to infections.' 'Long covid and Lyme disease are further examples of how the consequences of infectious diseases can persist...' www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This year was France’s hottest on record, and the country counted 8,000 excess deaths during the summer’s heat waves. The country’s schools weren’t built for that.

US Democratic congressional nominee Lander detained by Israeli authorities in West Bank reut.rs/4jzKkTB

On this day in 1870, a Black politician named Wade Perrin was assassinated by a white mob one day after he was re-elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives.

The name of New Mexico is funny because it's one of those things that you'd think is really simple (oh, it's it used to be part of old Mexico, so we'll call it New Mexico!), but it's much more complex New Mexico as the name for the area predates Mexico by several hundred years!

🔴 BREAKING - Israeli settlers beat French mayor, attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank

NEW: Chicago-area cops took part in an undercover probe by ICE agents into Minneapolis mutual aid networks last spring, records obtained by WIRED show, including unspecified electronic surveillance, audio recordings, ALPR data by @awinston.bsky.social

Plaque telling story of African-Caribbean prisoners in Britain stolen within days

Here it is! We talked to Patricia Lockwood about judging the Booker Prize, her new poetry collection Agate Head / Stone Soup, Will There Ever Be Another You and the latest round of Covid denialism, and much more @tricialockwood.bsky.social 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/you-make-a-l...

Measles is absolutely tearing through unvaccinated communities. There were more new cases of measles in the US in the past seven days (330) than we had in ALL of 2024 (285). A total 4,410 cases this year, which everyone agrees is an undercount. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-m...

The article emphasized there is 'nothing to do' in severe ME, & it can be challenging to find ways to improve. However, the Mayo article does discuss useful interventions. The issue is, interventions are not applied consistently by medical providers. #MedSky 🧪 www.annfammed.org/content/earl...

This is the disease for which I research and advocate: #MECFS. Even mild presentation is life-changing, and this is what severe looks like. People are surprised so many of us were athletes. They want to believe this can only happen to people who were already unwell. www.bbc.com/sport/athlet...

This is a pogrom, no different than what the Cossacks did to Jewish communities in the Pale of Settlement.

"It may be a "better thing" if fewer children receive the flu vaccine, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told CBS News, after the Trump administration announced sweeping changes to childhood vaccine recommendations."

"dozens" is massively understating it. Hundreds of algerians were thrown into the Seine, and a conservative estimate has the death toll at 200. The chief of police, a lifelong nazi responsible for deporting 1600 french jews, was eventually prosecuted in 1998 and served less than 4 years

If we make screens the villain, then we let the people who control children’s health care — Congress, insurers and health systems — off the hook for the fact that half of American children with a treatable mental illness get no treatment at all.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/o...

Why do people with ME claim to know more about the medical aspects of their disease than their doctors? Because the mechanisms that usually ensure doctors' knowledge fail in the case of ME, and sick people have created mechanisms of knowledge production and dissemination to pick up the slack.

I haven’t been following the discourse too closely but I basically agree that GLP-1s are conscious

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs

Ohio’s Cincinnati Public Schools is the first district in the nation to own and operate a parking lot where families experiencing homelessness can go to at night and sleep in their cars, and has served more than 300 people since opening this past spring ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/14/c...