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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I wrote something like this thread on Byline after the Southport riots. I've updated it here, cos I think (not sure, but think) it might have something important to say about our current crisis with social media, news reporting, and disinformation. Sorry it's long. (1/42)

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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Also, courage is contagious. I continue to stand against American fascism in the hope that others will take heart, too.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

New article! On surviving the next few years, including Trump, the oligarchs, and their accomplices: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/intermission

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Intermission

Tired of the Trump Show? Time to change the way you watch.

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Day 2 of my (b)advent calendar highlighting the top 20 worst fox hunting crimes with @huntsabs.bsky.social . . . it’s a recent one from the West Somerset Vale Hunt This isn’t trail hunting , it’s wildlife crime . #RealBanNow

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Those saying Joe Biden’s pardon of his son gives “permission” to Trump to issue wild pardons forget that Trump never asks or needs permission to do anything wild.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

www.sarahkendziorbooks.com

a long quote from the book THEY KNEW about how people who investigate conspiracies would rather be wrong

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Out of the 91 attempts the @UN has made to deliver aid to besieged north #Gaza between 6 October and 25 November, 82 have been denied and 9 impeded. (UNRWA)

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"Everyone on the Donald Trump Legal Show has their prescribed role. The most important role -- the one they all share -- is running out the clock." From "America's Legal Soap Opera", published 1/20/24: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/americas-l...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"I don't believe in hope and I don't believe in hopelessness. Hope can be lethal when you're fighting an autocracy because hope is inextricable from time. An enduring strategy of autocrats is to simply run out the clock." --HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) www.sarahkendziorbooks.com

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

In case you're STILL confused about mafia enabler Merrick Garland, please read this article. I wrote it in 2023. It is not a response to current events. It explains why the these events would happen unless good people intervened -- which they did not. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...

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Servants of the Mafia State

Merrick Garland, Jamie Gorelick, and the truth

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

1. Consent in our pseudo-democracies is strained at the best of times, but it hangs on the belief that there is some kind of justice: through inquiries, tribunals, sometimes even the law, powerful people who commit crimes against us will one day be held to account. But what if this no longer works?🧵

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Free; my bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social about the festival of hypocrisy and self interest that characterises the debate about private education and inheritance tax for the landed gentry. open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...

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Russell Jones's Week Moment: All Aboard With Jeremy and Nigel on the Inheritance Tax-Avoiding Tractor Wagon!

The bestselling author of 'The Decade in Tory' on the festival of hypocrisy and self interest that is the debate about tax and farmers

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“Too much of the discussion draws on religion. This cannot be just. Imposing religious doctrine on a largely secular country is archaic.”

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Today, November 25th 2024 is the day we officially learned that justice in America, in fact, does NOT matter. #sad

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

When elitist pundits claim "No one saw it coming", all that shows is who they consider to be no one. Never let them tell you who you are or what you're worth. From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020):

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Trump and the FBI are not enemies. They are longtime collaborators. Two former heads of the FBI went on to work for the Russian mafia. Another, James Comey, removed the head of the Russian mafia from the ten most wanted list for no good reason in December 2015. From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT:

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This is a very important point. Please let everyone know.

Post by John Nichols:

Harris is now winning a higher percentage of the popular vote than Trump in 2016 or 2020.

Trump 2016: 46.1%

Trump 2020: 46.8%

Harris 2024: 48.4%

Trump didn’t win a “landslide” in 2024. In fact, his victory margin is one of the smallest in US history.

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The owner of that site, the second most important man in the west, is now openly supporting far right Islamophobes whilst campaigning for a petition calling for a general election in the UK. We are in frightening times. What is our govt going to do about it?

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

"A lifestyle of total impunity, powered by fraud and threat, is the goal. Raw power is not measured in money but by how little you need it. Money is beneath you when you live above the law." From my book THEY KNEW, on the mafia, Trump mentor Roy Cohn, Israel, and the FBI:

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

1. I’m thinking aloud here, as I really don’t have the answers. This is a thread about the political challenge of the very large numbers of young men now supporting the far right. I’m writing it without blame or derision. I’m just trying to find a way through. 🧵

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

When the next pandemic strikes, Americans will again depend on our mainstream media to inform the nation's response & reassure the public. But media outfits like the Washington Post have (as Peter Hotez & I detail in the forthcoming #ScienceUnderSiege) have shown themselves not to be up to the task.

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Tobi @tobifrenzen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

1/ 🚨 Conspiracy theories about the 2024 election miss the bigger picture. The truth? It wasn’t one night, one hack, or one fraud. It was a system rigged in plain sight – right in front of us. The playbook was out in the open for years. But hardly anyone paid attention. Here’s how they did it... 🧵

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

When Republicans are in power, they rack up giant deficits, mainly by cutting taxes on corporations and the wealthy. Then when Democrats take the reins, Republicans blame them for being big spenders. It’s always the same story.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

these two in particular stood out for me

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example). 1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company. 2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly. 🧵

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

1. Who really won the US election? The fossil fuel companies and other polluting industries. We scarcely heard about them during the election campaign, which is just how they like it. Almost everything we *did* hear about was a distraction from the real agenda. 🧵

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

The world’s richest 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% put together, according to @Oxfam. There is no moral justification for this extraordinary level of inequality. It's distorting politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

1. I’m sorry to return to this question, but I think it hints at everything that's wrong with our media and public conversations. *When did you last hear a critique of capitalism on the BBC?* A thread/

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

For years, both Conservative and Labour governments ripped into the regulations designed to protect human life, workers, consumers and the living world, favouring corporate interests over the public interest. The Grenfell Tower disaster is one of the results. 🧵

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Seven years ago, just after the #Grenfell disaster, we made this video about the ideological attack on public protections by extremely rich and powerful people, that has caused innumerable tragedies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNHv...

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George Monbiot and the Bonfire of Red Tape

YouTube video by Double Down News

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

. @OurWorldInData provides a lot of valuable information. Nevertheless, this article by @cketchamwild makes some astute and important points about its ideological framing of this data, false explanations of certain trends and selectivity. A must-read. www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/26/t...

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The Unbearable Anthropocentrism of Our World in Data

How billionaire elites help fund an Oxford statistics lab that makes the destruction of Earth look just great. Roughly a decade ago, a

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Whether it's about repressive legislation or the treatment of asylum seekers or welfare recipients, Labour seeks to appear as "tough" as the Tories, to appease the billionaire press. a. It never works. b. It leave us with a cruel, dysfunctional system. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

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Home Office to continue appeal over protests law, says human rights group

Liberty accuses government of ‘disregard for rule of law’ after judges found Braverman’s measures were unlawful

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Every study ever: Overworked employees are less productive. Employees who work from home are just as productive as employees who work in the office. The evidence is indisputable. Managers: I see. But I have a hunch that the complete opposite is true.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

1. Whenever I write about new fermentation technologies, that could greatly reduce the environmental impacts of our diets as well as the exploitation of animals, I run into the same set of objections. In this thread, I’ll take them one by one.🧵

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