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28 October 2025 15:24

✡️ Batya Ungar-Sargon: "Only 13% [of Democrats] stand with Israelis against the Palestinians…"

"The thing that makes this so appalling is that Jews built the left in this country. We built the labor movement. We wrote the New Deal. 70% of the lawyers who worked on civil rights cases were Jews!"

"We've been at the forefront of every liberal and leftist issue in this country!"

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28 October 2025 15:20

🇯🇲⚡️- Hurricane Melissa is projected to make landfall in Jamaica within the coming hours, U.S. Airforce Hurricane Hunters report maximum sustained winds of 185 mph (295km/h) and continuing to strengthen.

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28 October 2025 14:50

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the Lyman direction, Russian forces continued their offensive operations and have made new progress to east of the city.

In the northwest, Russian forces advanced further through the forests along the railway line and reached the eastern edge of Lyman. DRGs then infiltrated the city and have since been operating in the area of the freight terminals. They also established control over new parts of the forests and infiltrated further into the Masliakovka District.

To the southeast, Russian forces continued to slowly advance in Yampol. They were able to advance out of the village centre and capture some new positions in the southwestern streets. Ukrainian forces are gradually being pushed back to the southwestern edge of the settlement.

🔗 AMK Mapping

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28 October 2025 11:34

🍼 Income gains only help birthrates if they go to young people. A lopsided economy where the young struggle and financial gains go mainly to senior workers is bad for fertility.

🔗 MoreBirths

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28 October 2025 09:32

🇸🇩 Sudan: RSF militants dominating the streets of El Fasher, riding around on camels and motorcycles like they have been doing since their Janjaweed days.

🔗 Thomas van Linge

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28 October 2025 07:19

🇺🇸🌪 Guantanamo Bay evacuees arrive at NAS Pensacola ahead of Hurricane Melissa

Hundreds of families from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay arrived at Pensacola’s Naval Air Station as a powerful hurricane churns through the Caribbean.

Nearly 864 non-mission essential personnel, including family members, civilian employees, contractors, and even pets, arrived on Saturday.

https://www.wkrg.com/northwest-florida/escambia-county/guantanamo-bay-evacuees-arrive-at-nas-pensacola-ahead-of-hurricane-melissa/

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27 October 2025 20:37

🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 The 2 B-1B Strategic Bombers of the USAF just turned off their responders as they finished their flyover near the La Margarita Islands.

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27 October 2025 20:14

#BREAKING

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪❗️ — The USAF B-1B Bombers were spotted a few dozen of killometers away from Caracas, capital of Venezuela!

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27 October 2025 16:51

🇸🇩⚡- Darfur's Congress Party, a regional anti Rapid Support Forces and anti-Khartoum political party, claims the Rapid Support Forces have killed over 1,200 civilians in al-Fashir in just the past 24 hours.

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27 October 2025 16:17

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👶White British births now make up less than 310,000 of 567,000 in England as of 2024 while they made up ~725,000 of 804,000 in 1966. This is a steep fall. TFR of White Britons probably ~1.4 at this point.

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27 October 2025 14:03

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💎 Archaeologists find 2000 year-old 'Gemstones' in drain beneath a Roman Bathhouse, Carlisle, England

Down a drain beneath the murky waters of an ancient Roman bathhouse in Carlisle, England, near Hadrian’s Wall, archaeologists have discovered a trove of gemstones lost by bathers 2000 years ago. More than 30 gems, including amethyst, jasper and  carnelian have been found so far during excavations at the site. Wealthy bathers likely dropped them back in opulent bathhouse’s heyday in 2nd-3rd Century CE.

“It’s incredible,” says archaeologist Frank Giecco, who led the excavation, to Observer’s Dalya Alberge. “It’s caught everyone’s imagination. They were just falling out of people’s rings who were using the baths. They were set with a vegetable glue and, in the hot and sweaty bathhouse, they fell out of the ring settings.”

The pieces feature deities dedicated to war, sun, commerce,  luck and fertility. The largest were around 0.6 inches and smallest were just under 0.2 inches. Their small size would have made the carvings particularly difficult, requiring the expertise of an advanced craftsman. 

“You don’t find such gems on low-status Roman sites,” Giecco tells Observer. “So they’re not something that would have been worn by the poor.” Still, Carlisle site isn’t entirely unique: In the past, similar gemstones have been found in the drains of other bathhouses during archaeological excavations. 

The small, semiprecious engraved gems are known as intaglios, which were first produced some 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Owners would press their intaglios into clay or wax to create a seal, which they used to authenticate documents (similar to a modern-day signature). “Their material, size and color would reflect the wealth and taste of the patron,” writes G. Max Bernheimer, Christie’s international head of antiquities, on auction house’s website. At one point, he adds, it was in fashion for Romans to wear intaglios featuring the likenesses of their favorite philosophers.

“The intaglios can be seen on many levels,” Giecco tells Artnet’s Min Chen, “from pieces of art to connections to the individuals who owned them.”

In addition to the gemstones, the team at the Carlisle bathhouse found over 40 women’s hairpins and 35 glass beads in drain. Hundreds of other artifacts, including pottery, weapons and coins have also been uncovered at the site. Eventually, discoveries will most likely go on view at Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery.

“Carlisle was very much at the center of the Roman frontier,” Giecco tells BBC News, “and we are very excited to go back … for more amazing finds, as it is the site that just keeps giving.”

🔗 archeohistories

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27 October 2025 11:20

🇺🇸🌎 America's newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), departed Split, Croatia, en route to SOUTHCOM. After the carrier strike group crosses the Atlantic, ~19-23% of the deployed US Navy fleet will be in theater.

🔗 Ian Ellis

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27 October 2025 09:29

🇪🇺⚔️🇷🇺 Brussels feels like a city preparing for war

Though it is outlandish even to type the words, Brussels the international capital—the home of the European Union and seat of the nato alliance—feels like a city bracing for combat. “Europe is in a fight,” declared Ursula von der Leyen.

To be sure, the old flaws of pan-European governance—vapid oratory, bureaucratic turf wars and expensive something-for-everyone compromises—persist. For all that, in the headquarters of the eu and of nato, very different institutions at opposite ends of the city, recent months have seen a stark change of mood.

Europeans “only start organising ourselves when we are threatened”, says an official. The threats are clear now. The most urgent involve three strongmen who view Europe with either disdain or hostility: Presidents Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. Brussels has come to a grim realisation. War is raging on the European continent, in Ukraine, and none of those strongmen is guided by anything resembling European values.

Few EU citizens must worry about the bottom tier, dealing with such basics as food and shelter for survival. Above that comes “safety and security”, whether that means an absence of war, a clean environment or freedom from acute want. As governments built welfare states and controlled pollution, progressives called for Europe to tackle problems that align with Maslow’s higher needs. Those include “love and belonging”, “esteem” and “self-actualisation”, or the pursuit of a life of purpose and joy.

European voters seem focused on more basic needs. They have elected a string of conservative national governments, who have sent correspondingly flinty politicians to run EU institutions. After years spent passing onerous environmental and social regulations, the bloc now spends much of its time repealing job-killing rules. New Euro-laws that can secure a majority, whether in the European Commission or European Parliament, often involve get-tough policies, like the removal of asylum-seekers.

There is painful clarity about Europe’s defence alliance with America. In the wake of Mr Trump’s latest about-turn on Ukraine, there is exasperation over the time and energy European leaders spend on Trump “damage control”. But grief and denial about America’s unreliability have given way to resignation. It is now a planning assumption that America will give no more aid to Ukraine, and that even its willingness to sell advanced weapons to Europeans for donation to Ukraine will not last.

As for the broader defence of Europe, Plan a is to work with America for as long as possible. Europe still relies on America for “critical enablers” including intelligence from satellites, long-range weapons, air defences, heavy transport planes and the digital systems that glue different weapons together.

There is much talk of building up Europe’s arms industry, but also agreement that it cannot entirely replace America as a supplier for ten years or more, which is too slow for a continent rearming to deter Russia from attacking it. Fear of Russia makes officials wary of even engaging with the most sensitive question of all, whether Europe needs a Plan b for its security, if America walks away one day. Some fear that to discuss American abandonment is to invite a Russian attack. Others seek to identify investments that work with both Plan a and Plan b: either making Europe a better partner for America, or helping it go alone.

🔗 https://archive.ph/2025.10.24-020046/https://www.economist.com/international/2025/10/21/brussels-feels-like-a-city-preparing-for-war

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27 October 2025 08:18

🇺🇸 'Bottom line, the well has run dry': SNAP program halted

IDAHO, USA — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued a stark warning that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits will not be distributed on Nov. 1, citing an ongoing government funding impasse.

In a notice posted on its website, the USDA stated: "Senate Democrats have now voted 12 times to not fund the food stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Bottom line, the well has run dry. At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01. We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats. They can continue to hold out for healthcare for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition assistance."

The announcement comes as food banks across Idaho's Treasure Valley prepare for a potential surge in demand from families who rely on federal nutrition assistance.

SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, serves millions of low-income Americans nationwide. In Idaho, thousands of households depend on the program for basic nutrition needs.

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/snap-program-unfunded-heres-a-list-of-treasure-valley-food-banks-nation/277-93a73c3b-73bc-4dcf-a375-40a2f79dfb69

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27 October 2025 07:33

🇺🇸 The Trump admin, after agreeing to "bail out" Argentina for $40B, denied FEMA aid funding to the poor, overwhelmingly white, Republican Maryland counties of Allegany and Garrett after they suffered devastating floods—seemingly due to some personal beef with Gov. Wes Moore.

This is unconscionable.

🔗 Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews)

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28 October 2025 15:22

🌪🇯🇲 Hurricane Hunters just found 893mb extrapolated pressure in the eye of Melissa!

That would make Melissa the 4th strongest storm all-time in the Atlantic Basin only behind 1935 Labor Day, Gilbert, and Wilma.

🔗 Dylan Federico

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28 October 2025 15:17

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the Gulyaipole-Pokrovskoye direction, Russian troops breached another set of Ukrainian obstacles and defenses and captured the village of Yegorovka and moved past it towards Danilovka

Danilovka is a village on the Gulyaipole-Pokrovskoye highway, a key supply line for a Ukrainian stronghold that has resisted Russian attacks since the spring of 2022.

Russian troops are 2.5 miles (~4.3 km) away from cutting this highway and semi-encircling the city of Gulyaipole.

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28 October 2025 12:44

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli forces have sealed off all access points to Hizma, a Palestinian town northeast of East Jerusalem, blocking residents from entering or leaving, Wafa reports. The town lies in the occupied West Bank.

🔗 Al Jazeera

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28 October 2025 10:30

🇺🇸🇯🇵 Trump thanks Japan's first female PM for placing a "very large amount of new military equipment" orders with the U.S.

🔗 Disclose

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28 October 2025 08:01

🇻🇪🇺🇸 Reports suggest Venezuela’s opposition, led by María Corina Machado, has a 100-hour plan with the Trump administration for a peaceful transition of power.

“There’s a possibility perhaps the armed forces might split,” says Venezuela-based analyst Phil Gunson. “There’s a possibility they might oppose a new government coming in.”

🔗 60 Minutes

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28 October 2025 06:13

🇺🇸🇻🇪 The U.S. sent another pair of B-1B Lancer bombers to the Caribbean today - the 3rd bomber mission in less than 2 weeks. The Bones reappeared on radar ~20 miles off the coast of Venezuela, the closest bombers have flown to the mainland, and were tracked ~50 miles north of Caracas.

🔗 Ian Ellis

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27 October 2025 20:36

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪 — 2x B-1B Strategic Bombers of USAF sent a "Hello" for the Chavista Elites and their Iranian guests by passing near the La Margarita Island

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27 October 2025 19:48

🇺🇸🇹🇹⚡- Joint US - Trinidad and Tobago military exercises have begun, as a pair of MV-22B Ospreys were seen operating in the west of the country.

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27 October 2025 16:51

🇸🇩❌🇸🇩 — Sudanese Media reports that El-Fasher city has fallen after the SAF troops inside the El-Fasher International Airport, besieged by RSF forces, were captured

Sudanese Media blames Colombian PMCs for helping the RSF with intelligence and logistical support during the ongoing battle

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27 October 2025 14:48

🇷🇺 Putin says Russia successfully tested the 9M730 Burevestnik (SSC-X-9 Skyfall) — a nuclear-powered, nuclear-capable intercontinental cruise missile with theoretical unlimited range and the ability to evade missile defenses.

The missile flew for 15 hours, 14,000 km.

Putin claims it has “no analogues in the world.”

🔗 Clash Report

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27 October 2025 12:59

🦋 A scientist who discovered a new species of butterfly has named it after Iryna Zarutska to ensure "she is never forgotten."

The scientist said, "Her name will be forever immortalized as a butterfly..."

The butterfly is called "Iryna's Azure."

🔗 Matt van Swol

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27 October 2025 10:53

🇯🇲⚡- Hurricane Melissa has achieved near-perfect symmetry to Jamaica’s south, sitting a mere 115 miles southwest of Kingston.

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27 October 2025 08:47

🇷🇺🇻🇪 Russian Aviacon Zitotrans ✈️ Il-76TD Cargo Plane (reg RA-78765) landed in Caracas, Venezuela.

🔗 MenchOSINT

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27 October 2025 07:54

🇺🇸 FEMA validated 33.7 million damages claims in Allegany and Garrett counties, Maryland.

The only thing that’s missing is a decree from Trump to authorise the disaster relief.

Allegany and Garrett voted massively in favor of Donald Trump during the 2024, 2020 and 2016 presidential elections and Trump betrays them.

What the people of Allegany and Garrett counties asked for is chump change compared to what Trump gave to Argentina.

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27 October 2025 07:32

🇺🇸 The 'Armed Services YMCA,' an organization that provides support to American military families, reports a 30%-75% increase in demand at its food banks near military bases since the government shutdown began.

🔗 Mr Lou Rage