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I have a to-do list longer than a queue for a beachside bog on Boxing Day, but somehow I can find time for subjecting complete strangers to unsatisfyingly moderate opinions, lame jokes & nitpicks.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
He knows once he's out, everything he did will be torn down and removed. All the gold shit and stuff he named after himself will be gone. But a finished ballroom will be used by future presidents. He won't be forgotten like all the other losers.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The White House Is Delighted With Events in Los Angeles
But Trump aides know there are real risks for the president if troops are involved in violence.
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Bashing on regardless @bashingon.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
It's not "crossfire" when it's one person who was *aiming* at your camera operator.
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Jonathan Douglas PhD CPsych @jonathanconp.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
“Be warned: Trump is expecting resistance. You will not be heroes. You will be the pretext.”
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jacki @jacki.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I don’t want a Joe Rogan of the left. I don’t even want the Joe Rogan we have. One is too many. We have too many Joe Rogans as it is.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10/05/2025
Not sure why on every new Papacy we end up running through this phase of shock on discovering thst the Pope is, actually, a Catholic.
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Bashing on regardless @bashingon.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Mr Dutton, thanks for your time. No worries, I'll have no shortage of that after tonight. Your party must be disappointed with the result. Delighted, Brian, DELIGHTED. What? You really think that a party that wanted to WIN would make ME its leader AND jump on the Trump bandwagon? #auspol #binnight
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 30/04/2025
😂😂😂
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The Trump 'peace' plan for #Ukraine is no such thing; it is an instrument of surrender. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Trump’s Plan to Sell Out Ukraine to Russia
His proposal to end the war isn’t a peace plan—it’s a reward for aggression.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.
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josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 02/04/2025
val kilmer’s turn in TOP SECRET is one of the single best comedy performances ever committed to film, both in terms of comic precision and mechanical virtuosity. just watch this whole clip in its entirety; it’s stunning
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Bashing on regardless @bashingon.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
An actor who makes any movie better: Sir Alec Guinness.
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Bashing on regardless @bashingon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
RIP Group Captain John Hemingway DFC, the last of 'the few.' Survived several mishaps as well as being shot down 4 times. Lived to 105. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Bashing on regardless @bashingon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
You can design one that's less susceptible to authoritarian incursion, and many places have such systems.
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Since I don't know who most celebrities are, to me entertainment headlines sound like: "Stranger is Wearing Clothes Made By Another Stranger." "Two Strangers are Now Dating Each Other." "Stranger Photographed Eating Strange Food At Unknown Restaurant." "Stranger Seen Driving Unrecognised Car."
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
At 15:15 in the video here, President Trump says he's heard President Zelensky had admitted "he didn't know where half the money [US Aid to Ukraine] is." Via Politifact, it's another conspiracy theory pushed by Elon Musk. www.politifact.com/factchecks/2... www.c-span.org/program/whit...
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President Trump Signs Executive Orders in Mar-a-Lago
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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The Rotting of the Conservative Mind: the Tory party bends the knee to Donald Trump. A disgrace and one for which they deserve to be judged. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...
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The Rotting of the Conservative Mind
Britain's Tories bend the knee to Donald Trump and disgrace themselves
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/02/2025
For eight decades, alliances have formed the bedrock of American foreign, trade and cultural policy. But not any more. Europeans, but also America's Asian allies, need to accept this new world, and learn how to live in it. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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The End of the Postwar World
Trump’s cruelty and lies about Ukraine send a dark message to America’s other allies.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2025
yesterday?
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Bashing on regardless @bashingon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
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Bashing on regardless @bashingon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The NATO big 'uns minus the US need to get together and plan to back Ukraine to the hilt, pronto. Don't waste time with the EU or wrangling other nations. Tell those to either get on board or get out of the way.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I’m not sure you can spend the last decade painting anyone who still supports membership of a trading partnership as a traitor then pivot to “we must give the authoritarian invader of Europe everything he wants” and not expect a teensy bit of Quisling chat back, if I’m honest.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
In case it hasn’t been apparent since 2022: Volodymyr Zelensky is the leader of the free world.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
A Secretary of Defense who knew what he was doing would have read that speech before he gave it and then made sure to coordinate with the White House and NSC before reversing some 80 years of U.S. policy and leaving Europe in the lurch while the biggest war since the 1945 was underway.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
To the right-wing pundits crowing over Vance's speech: if you are really "less worried" about a dictator-state that's invaded its neighbour, killed tens of thousands of people, reduced cities to rubble & engaged in mass rape and child abduction, than you are about "wokery", then you are truly lost.
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The healthcare system of the nation that leads the world in medical research is now governed by cranks who believe in incantations and magic potions. Me in @TheAtlantic on COVID's 5th anniversary www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Why the COVID Deniers Won
Lessons from the pandemic and its aftermath
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/02/2025
A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 11/02/2025
A fundamental story of the last decade is that a lot of basically incompetent people got fed up by competent people telling them they were wrong, constructed a more welcoming alternative ecosystem of competency cosplayers, and then somehow turned the whole government over to them.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Just relentless insanity
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Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 07/02/2025
That is excellent. Have you seen the John Fogerty one?
A screenshot of a Spotify playlist called “John fogerty finding out what rain is and then immediately hating it”. It has three songs: Have You Ever Seen The Rain?, It Came Out Of The Sky, and Who’ll Stop The Rain?
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We've reached the chapter in Gibbon where the mad emperor is appointing magicians, acrobats, and paid agents of the Persians to the highest offices of state.
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The costs to American consumers are real. The concessions by Mexico are fake. How Trump lost his trade war - and how China won. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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How Trump Lost His Trade War
His on-off caprice has mainly disadvantaged the United States.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/02/2025
"America First" becomes "America Alone" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Price America Will Pay for Trump’s Tariffs
Alienating allies and partners that the U.S. desperately needs means that “America First” will be “America Alone.”
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“Toward the end of the November dinner, Trump raised the matter of the lawsuit, the people said. The president signaled that the litigation had to be resolved before Zuckerberg could be “brought into the tent,” one of the people said.” They’re in the tent now. Cowards.
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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 26/01/2025
No. The “CIA” doesn’t favor it, Trump appointee John Ratcliffe does. And, buried 14 paragraphs in: “The agency made its new assessment with “low confidence,” which means the intelligence behind it is fragmentary and incomplete.”
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C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins (Gift Article)
A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate.
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
It will change it a little bit in that these traitorous shitbags can now recruit and act again and the message sent to new recruits is that they can get away with it so long as Trump is in power.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Look at this disclaimer. Fucking bonkers.
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Bashing on regardless @bashingon.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
It's now 1/1/25, so happy 124th birthday, #Australia.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Here are the most appalling clichés of modern political economy writing, that it's possible to read everywhere all the time. 1. Inequality is always getting worse and we never talk about it 1/
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 25/12/2024
I love how much Alec Guinness loved Wallace & Gromit
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Yes. It’s a narrative that infantilizes them.
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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Typically persuasive stuff from Daniel Finkelstein: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... (non-paywalled version here: archive.is/IxquW) but its most potent value may lie in having attracted this comment, which captures the nature of populism in 2020s Britain even more eloquently than the column itself.
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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 09/12/2024
I'm sorry, but I couldn't unsee it.
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New York Street with Moon (1925)
Batman from the end sequence of the intro to Batman the Animated Series has been edited in at the top of the building
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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Things Which Are True Concurrently: 1. Hunter Biden was given an extra dose of persecution on account of his surname. 2. Pardoning your son is a disgraceful move. 3. The whole thing is a great example of the "If the other team did it, what would you think?" game.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Yorkshire Cyberman
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Saw a tweet saying “the Barbour jacket is fast becoming a new overt symbol for the right” and wondered how anyone could send a tweet from 1952.
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