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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 4h
Caught red-handed with sensitive national defense documents he was not legally entitled to possess, Trump obstructed justice by moving them around to evade detection. Now, he has the audacity to blame the investigators. His mentor, Roy Cohn, would be proud. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
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How the White House Manufactured a Narrative About a Trump Aide’s Call Logs (Gift Article)
A release of selected records from the classified documents inquiry is a case study in how omitting context can create political ammunition.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 4h
This is a truly grotesque "trial" of a vaccine known to be safe and effective. It will in practice randomly withhold that treatment from a percentage of children to see what happens. It is absolutely the reverse of good practice.
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Julia Curlee @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 5h
“If they don’t attack us—kill our children, we won’t attack their diesel.” - Volodymr Zelenskyy The leader of a democratic nation shouldn’t have to beg America to not fund the war killing its children. The time is long past to choose good over evil. We should be ashamed of our leaders.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3h
The Times from ten years ago this week. They were wrong. In fact Brexit is costing the UK economy roughly £100 billion a year. #ProjectFear
Hard Brexit
could cost
£66bn a year


Leaked Treasury papers reveal lost revenue


Sam Coates Deputy Political Editor
Ollver Wright Policy Editor


Cabinet ministers are being warned
that the Treasury could lose up_to
£66 billion a year in tax revenues under
"hard Brexit", according to leaked
government papers.


GDP.could fall by as much as 9.5 per
cent if Britain leaves the single market
and hastorely on WorldTrade Organi-
sation rules for trading with the conti-
nent, compared with ifit stayed within
the EU,theforecasts show.Such a steep
drop in revenue would force ministers
to slash public spending or raise taxes.
The £66 billion drop, contained in a
draft cabinet committee paper seen by
The Times, is nearly a tenth of the
£716 billion that the government is pro-
jected to collect in taxes this year,and is
equivalent to 65 per cent of the annual
budget of NHS England.


Business leaders are_increasingly
worried that the UK could fail to nego-
tiate a deal with the 27 remaining EU
members by the time it leaves the
union, and will face a "cliff edge" of
trade tariffs and barriers,


Several cabinet ministers who sup-
ported Remain are stepping up efforts
to prioritise business concerns and the
economy in Brexit discussions, fearing
that Leave supporters fail to realise the
scale of potential damage, It comes as:;
○ Theresa May faces a potential legal
challenge by a group of Conservative
MPs over the decision to begin Brexit
negotiations without parliament's
approval. The prime minister's spokes-
man ruledoutgiving MPs a voteyester-
day,saying thatitwould"second guess'
the will of the British people.
○ Dominic Grieve, the former attor-
ney-general, said that unless the gov,
ernment could agree,a deal supported
by parliament it would not survive.
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A Tory backbencher suggested that
British companies should hire disabled


Tuesday October 11 2016 | thetimes.co.uk | No 72038


people to do the work of EU migrants
after Brexit.


Mrs May visited Denmark and the
Nethe…
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A couple was taken out from the debris in Zaporizhzhia. Their daughter was killed. Russian aerial bombs hit a residential building, killing twenty people, three of them children.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Suella Braverman selling 106 copies of her book after all that publicity is so delicious.
Crack 'em while you can, though, because Suella's star might just be on the skids. Despite plugging her book on Question Time, on Tim Shipman's Spectator podcast, in serialised excerpts in the Daily Mail, and in a fawning interview with Allison Pearson in the Telegraph, in its opening weekend, Patriot sold precisely 106 copies.

— from Ian Winwood’s New World piece.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 10h
One of the joys of living with a moronic dog is that he drags my useless arse out of bed to see mornings like this. And then he rolls in a dead seagull so I have no time to enjoy it. Swings and roundabouts.
A beautiful sunrise over Sandbach, with dew turning to low mist over an open field, hiding the base of a huge oak tree so it seems to float above the ground.
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One foot in the crave
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Pandora’s Chocs
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 11h
“A survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has discovered that the once endangered species is thriving” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island
Free-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Imagine deciding to go out and pitch that the Pope is the Woke Antichrist because he has concerns about AI, when you look like the lovechild of Satan and the guy whose face melts in Robocop. If a homeless guy gave this 'lecture' in Hyde Park, he would be sectioned. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures
The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.
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Jim Snowden @snowdenwriter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Look, guys, I can’t disappear people if I up and tell you where they are, now can I?”
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's the job of the media to scrutinize such statements and decide whether there's a story here at all (maybe the story is Anthropic researchers have fallen into a fantasy-land and brought many policymakers with them), not to just platform them. >>
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million/yr on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” Investing in bike infrastructure saves money.
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One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Patriot is a tapestry of bilious grievance from a politician whose star is very much declining ✏️ Ian Winwood
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Suella Braverman’s book has sold only 106 copies. This is why
Patriot is a tapestry of bilious grievance from a politician whose star is very much declining
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Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I see Newcastle's new Dot Bikes hire scheme are causing controversy by being left on pavements. Thankfully drivers are fighting back with their dockless vehicles.
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#NonFlintFriday. Lovely new paper on Neanderthal wooden tools from Abric Romaní in Catalonia: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... . I was lucky to visit the site a few years ago, loved it (some picture from my visit).
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 09/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn… …seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Andy Buss @ambuss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: A US trade judge approved class-action status for a legal fight over $166B+ in refunds for President Trump’s global tariffs, finding that it was necessary to make sure tens of thousands of importers, esp. small businesses, aren't shut out of getting money back buff.ly/Q1faoU8
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Trump has some sort of large contraption around his waist again today that makes him look vaguely like a centaur while he stands
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Pete Hegseth gave Jack Posobiec an exclusive interview and he sounds like a total maniac
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes
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Andy Buss @ambuss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Growing monoculture crops at wide scale is not natural. Ban intensive farming!!
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m on the upper deck of a London bus right now. Guy got on with a large dog and they sat in the front right seat facing out the front window. “My dog likes to pretend he’s driving the bus” Fair play doggo
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/10/2026
Norway plans to introduce a law to parliament that would temporarily ban the tech at places such as parks, beaches, schools, and kindergartens, while also setting up an expert group to propose permanent national rules: arstechnica.visitlink.me/5Agx05
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AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 07/10/2026
BREAKING Reform UK's internal inquiry says the party did not break the law over the donations sting 🤔
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I will admit that I am currently obsessed with the new Quiet Lane & Rectory Farm. Several joggers and cyclists using it, and speaking to someone at the farm apparently parent & child from the village using it to learn to ride a bike yesterday 😍. Also Rectory Farm’s pumpkin patch is amazing! (1/2)
Me by the quiet laneA large pumpkin patch
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Andy Buss @ambuss.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh honey…
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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 06/10/2026
Now-obsolete slide. I showed in my intro course a mere five weeks ago. WBD and Paramount collapse into a single entity, the Big Four becomes the Big Three media companies that bring in more than 90% of revenue depending on how you measure (we studied the Big Ten when I was in college in the '90s).
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Ruth Mersereau @ruthmersereau.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Update 1/3: I’ve just submitted objections to 6 separate applications for more of these Digital Advertising Screens (DASs) in City Ward, Sheffield. Businesses applying for planning permission are now submitting applications for "communications kiosks”, but these kiosks incorporate big DASs...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Andy Buss @ambuss.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Based on my experience living on a high frequency bus route, switching many services to electric buses solves most of the noise complaints immediately. It’s the poor design and soundproofing of low cost clanky diesel buses that is a prime issue
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Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Effective point, well made
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What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tanker rates, already higher than most imagined possible, just spiked again 🚢US-Europe suezmax index jumped 150% w/w to $577,792 per day; West Africa-Europe suezmax index rose 145% w/w to $567,138 per day www.lloydslist.com/LL1158620/Ta...
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Tanker rates, already higher than most imagined possible, just spiked again
Crude tanker markets hit a tipping point in mid-September, surging to a new level as more crude exited the Strait of Hormuz. Over the past three days, rates crossed another tipping point, spiking even higher due to the lagged global ‘cascade’ effect
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To the surprise of absolutely no one, but to their courage, victims of far-right figures arguing they are “protecting women and girls” from unknown and unseen particular threat from migrants are coming forward to tell their story of sexual and domestic abuse
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 06/10/2026
Higher temperatures around the world due to the record-breaking El Niño will lead to an estimated 450,000 extra deaths by February unless swift action is taken, warn researchers
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El Niño heat could kill half a million people by February | New Scientist
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Paying taxes is punishment is it? Some might say it's a contribution to the infrastructure and regulations (like the rule of law) that enables you to build a successful business and, being less transactional, your contribution to society..
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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