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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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Protocol be damned: here’s what King Charles should say on his visit to the US | Simon Tisdall
The king has the chance to offer some tough love. Perhaps he could start with a speech to Congress about the Trump administration’s reckless trajectory, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon...
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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Woman with three deadly diseases has ‘remarkable’ recovery after cell therapy
Treatment reset wayward immune system of patient with life-threatening conditions, say scientists, in a world first
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Is anyone surprised?
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Firm backed by Trump sons tries to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by Iran
Drone-maker backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr tries to win contracts with Gulf countries protected by US
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
#AI
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I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced
I asked experts if I'm real. Bad news. Even my aunt wasn't sure if I was a deepfake. AI is so convincing that a sitting prime minister struggled to prove he's alive. You might be next.
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out | George Monbiot
The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
“The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump”
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The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall
As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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Ireland announces scheme to provide basic income for artists
The Basic Income for Artists (BIA) project is believed to be the first permanent one of its kind in the world.
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
‘Around the world, previously reliable coastal freshwater supplies are turning to salt, invaded by seawater. This is the strange, slow-moving crisis of saltwater intrusion, and it is increasingly affecting communities around the world.’
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'We prepare for the wrong disasters': Earth's fight against encroaching saltwater
From The Gambia to the US, sea salt is increasingly seeping into the freshwaters people need for drinking and producing food.
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“Keeping Europe safe from extreme weather “is not rocket science”, a top researcher has said, as the EU’s climate advisory board urges countries to prepare for a catastrophic 3C of global heating.”
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‘Daunting but doable’: Europe urged to prepare for 3C of global heating
Advisory board member says adapting is ‘not rocket science’ but Europe already paying price for lack of preparation
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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Europe must now tell Trump that enough is enough – and cut all ties with the US | Alexander Hurst
How do you retain a space of democracy in a world that is reverting to violent conquest? By building a protective moat of federalism around it, says Paris-based Guardian writer Alexander Hurst
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte
It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and children, says journalist Marie Le Conte
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I wrote, arranged, and produced this song two months ago. I was hoping its diagnosis of the Trump regime would not be prescient. But it was. It is.
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Hounds, “Pyongyang Blues”
YouTube video by Seth Abramson
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Don’t blindly trust everything AI tools say, warns Alphabet boss
Sundar Pichai says artificial intelligence models are ‘prone to some errors’ and warns of impact if AI bubble bursts
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say
Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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Dow falls nearly 900 points after Trump reignites trade war between the world’s two largest economies | CNN Business
US stocks closed sharply lower Friday after President Donald Trump threatened to hike tariffs on imports from China, reigniting fears of a trade war that rocked global markets earlier this year.
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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JPMorgan CEO Dimon warns of US stock market correction risk - BusinessWorld Online
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned of a heightened risk of a significant correction in the US stock market within the next six months to two years, the BBC reported. “I am far more worried about th...
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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Truly, madly, deeply: Trump’s desire for a Nobel peace prize is driving diplomacy
The US president’s fervid pursuit of the award is believed to have been a key motivator in brokering peace deals in Ukraine and Gaza
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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How two blonde suburban moms gave Democrats an answer to the rightwing media ecosystem
Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan’s podcast I’ve Had It has risen up the charts and created a community with ‘a brand of fuck-you politics’
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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WATCH: Colombian President Gustavo Petro Urrego speaks at 2025 United Nations General Assembly
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.
After his condemnation and censure, McCarthy continued to perform his senatorial duties for another two and a half years. His career as a major public figure, however, had been ruined. His colleagues in the Senate avoided him; his speeches on the Senate floor were delivered to a near-empty chamber or received with intentional and conspicuous displays of inattention.

The press that had once recorded his every public statement now ignored him, and outside speaking engagements dwindled almost to nothing. Eisenhower, finally freed of McCarthy's political intimidation, quipped to his Cabinet that McCarthyism was now
"McCarthywasm".McCarthy died in the Bethesda Naval Hospital on May 2, 1957, at the age of 48. His death certificate listed the cause of death as "Hepatitis, acute, cause
unknown"; previously doctors had not reported him to be in critical condition. It was hinted in the press that he died of alcoholism (cirrhosis of the liver), an estimation that is now accepted by modern biographers. Thomas C.
Reeves argues that he effectively died by suicide.
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous
Last weekend, it fell to ordinary people to oppose the far right and others. The national toxicity has reached us: a kind of hate I haven’t seen since the 1970s
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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From now on, Labour has one mission only. It must focus on saving Britain from Farage | Polly Toynbee
The hard right doesn’t speak for most voters. The progressive cause is not yet lost, but there is an urgent need for energy, purpose and clarity, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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AI industry pours millions into politics as lawsuits and feuds mount
From Super Pacs fighting regulation to OpenAI’s first wrongful death lawsuit, the AI tech giants are spending big and facing growing scrutiny
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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Trump makes false claims about US tariffs revenue and says White House trash video is ‘AI-generated’ – live
After Space Command announcement, president gives press misleading answers in first White House pool in a week
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Desi Doyen/Green News Report @greennewsreport.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Excellent analysis of the differing approaches by Newsom and Pritzker, reaching different audiences in different ways: “This is about confronting Trump in a way that undercuts his basis of power, even while embarrassing the press of all stripes to stop normalizing Trump’s authoritarianism”
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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Rising inequality is turning US into an autocratic state, billionaire warns
Ray Dalio says business leaders scared to criticise Donald Trump as he warns of debt-induced crisis for the economy
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The immigration problem that really concerns me? US celebrities (Frances Ryan)
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The immigration problem that really concerns me? US celebrities | Frances Ryan
There are worrying signs that this uber-wealthy wave of migrants don’t truly understand British values. Have they even been to the big Asda?, writes Frances Ryan
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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Trump needs to understand what the war in Ukraine is really about | Kenneth Roth
It’s not about Nato or the Soviet Union. It’s about democracy.
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Brilliant👏
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Ben Jennings on the prospective meeting between Trump, Putin and Zelenskyy – cartoon
The US president has suggested brokering a meeting in an attempt to end the Russia-Ukraine war
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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There is no ‘Trump Doctrine’ in foreign policy. Just chaos | Sidney Blumenthal
The recent summit meeting in Alaska between Trump and Putin was nothing short of a theater of the absurd
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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How Spain put up wealth taxes - without chasing away the billionaires
Amid calls for Rachel Reeves to bring in a new levy for the super-rich, Madrid offers lessons for policymakers
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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How Trump is using ‘pure lies’ about high crime in US cities to justify federal takeovers
Local officials slam president’s remarks and point to federal funding cuts as the real harm to public safety in their cities
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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The enormity of the attacks on Ukraine is impossible to grasp. Let me show you the horror of a single day | Oleksandr Mykhed
The rumble, the explosions and the deaths: they are so frequent that they seem normal. It’s a fight to protect our homes, our cities and the psyche, says author Oleksandr Mykhed
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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Lula says Trump would be put on trial in Brazil if January 6 riots took place there
Brazilian president’s comments come amid US attempts to pressure judges in coup trial against Trump ally Bolsonaro
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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North Koreans tell BBC they are sent to work 'like slaves' in Russia
More than 50,000 North Koreans will be sent to work in Russia, as Moscow's war in Ukraine drains labour pools.
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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Ukraine war briefing: Russia preparing for fresh offensives not a ceasefire, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian president says Moscow moving its troops for new operations as he attempts to shore up international support ahead of Trump-Putin summit. What we know on day 1,266
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Sandy @sanwil.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
💲Between Mar-a-lago, Trump merch, the D.C. hotel, middle eastern “deals”, the private 'gift' jet, Trump Hotel Hanoi, the “corporate squeeze”, Truth Social, 1789 Capital, the crypto schemes.. 47 has already taken in 💲3.4 Billion.💲 David D. Kirkpatrick, staff writer at The New Yorker
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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Trump orders homeless he passed en route to golf course to leave Washington DC
President demands unhoused residents leave US capital or face eviction and vowed to use officers to make arrests
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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Alaska summit: Europe allies urge Trump not to deal with Putin without Ukraine
The White House says Trump is open to Ukraine joining talks with Putin on Friday, as Zelensky insists any deal without Kyiv is a “dead decision”.
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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Tens of thousands protest in Israel over plan to escalate war on Gaza – latest updates
Protesters took to streets in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to oppose plan to seize control of Gaza City; wider Israeli cabinet expected to approve plan as soon as Sunday
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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Brazil judge hits back at ‘cowardly and treasonous’ plot behind US sanctions
US put sanctions on Judge Alexandre de Moraes as an apparent move by Trump to help his ally Jair Bolsonaro
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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Trump to blame for high cost of living, Americans say in new poll
Six out of 10 Americans fault president for financial struggles and eight out of 10 worry about tariffs’ impact
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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Is this tough US-EU trade deal a triumph for Brexit Britain? Only in leavers’ most delusional fantasies | Polly Toynbee
Yes, Britain secured better terms with the US than most other countries. But compared with the huge loss of European trade, it’s a drop in the ocean, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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US-EU trade deal is a ‘dark day’ for Europe, says French PM
Trump tariff of 15% means European exporters will face more than triple the average 4.8% levy now in force
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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Vienna has been declared a renters’ utopia – here's why | Justin Kadi
Social housing makes up almost half of the city’s 1m homes. The system isn’t perfect, but it gets a lot of things right, says housing expert Justin Kadi
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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To defeat Trump, the left must learn from him | Austin Sarat
Six months into his second term, the president has been disastrous for democracy – but extraordinarily politically adept
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Last&FirstName @barbs24.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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Vienna has been declared a renters’ utopia – here's why | Justin Kadi
Social housing makes up almost half of the city’s 1m homes. The system isn’t perfect, but it gets a lot of things right, says housing expert Justin Kadi
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