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thephotoroadies.bsky.social @thephotoroadies.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
with @billybragg.bsky.social performing to a SOLD OUT crowd at The Spire last night. Fans heard #cityofheroes #Fascists #shield #greetings #alltheclassics #KPPCONCERTS Stuart Roberts - Kingston, ON #havecamerawilltravel #supportartistsontour #supportlocalmusicvenues #experiencethemusicjourney
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It's been months now but my mind keeps returning to that guy who wasn't Chappell Roan's bodyguard but he wanted to be so he shouted at a little girl in the vicinity of Chappell Roan. Manifestation king, freelance dreamer
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Some reflections on the Semiquincentennial of the United States open.substack.com/pub/braggb/p...
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The stars finally aligned! Wilco and I finally got the play those Mermaid Avenue songs together at Solid Sound last weekend. You can stream the whole set here www.nepm.org/podcast/the-...
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The Arts Fuse @theartsfuse.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Paul Robicheau at #Wilco's #SolidSoundFestival: a @billybragg.bsky.social reunion, festival deep cuts, and a weekend of discovery turn #massmoca into a communal music feast. artsfuse.org/331012/music...
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Steve Darnall @stevedarnall.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Steve Darnall and @alexrossart.bsky.social find Uncle Sam out on the street, help him to his feet, and send him off to confront those who believe that they alone speak for the Founding Fathers." - @billybragg.bsky.social What's he talking about? Find out at www.abramsbooks.com/product/uncl...
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Uncle Sam Special Election Edition
The long-awaited reissue of the classic Vertigo miniseries Uncle Sam by Steve Darnall and Alex Ross is a sharp political fever dream praised by Kirkus as a "truly subversive graphic novel" and "a damn...
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Some thoughts on the difference between pride and prejudice and an alternative anthem for the 4th of July open.substack.com/pub/braggb/p...
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“The Rainbow-Striped Banner”
An alternative anthem for a land of empathy
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The Economy: Better under Trump or Biden?

All Voters: 
🟦 Biden: 56% (+4)
🟥 Trump: 44% (-4)

Independents
🟦 Biden: 70% (+5)
🟥 Trump: 30% (-5)

Harvard/Harris (+/- vs Apr) | 5/29-31
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
An effective push back against GOP culture war tactics? Seems to me it should be.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Trump said that repairs to the DC Reflecting pool would cost $1.8 Million. Now? The price tag is $13.1 million. The company doing the repairs got a no-bid contract for the project after previously working on pools at Trump's properties. Where’s the uproar about waste, fraud, and abuse now?
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
When did we normalize this? When did it become okay for a president to tell a female reporter she’s a ‘dumb person’ for asking a totally legitimate question about his contradictory answers? Was there a specific date and time it become okay? Normal? Normalized?
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The new Supreme Court case about mifepristone is about more than just one abortion drug. It’s about whether conservatives can enforce a nationwide ban and we need to all be aware of the details. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Mifepristone and the Court
This is an update on an item we covered in Sunday’s Week Ahead post, when we discussed the mifepristone case that has landed on the Supreme Court’s shadow docket.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Here’s the full documentary “Following the Ninth” which begins with @billybragg.bsky.social explaining how he rewrote the lyrics to Ode to Joy and the Queen requested an autographed copy.😂 I guarantee this documentary will lift your spirits.
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Following The Ninth: In The Footsteps of Beethoven's Final Symphony
YouTube video by Ode To Joy Foundation
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Mark Ashton, central character in the film 'Pride', worked at the Red Wedge office in 1986/7 where his radical energy kept us all on our toes. I'll be performing at a celebration of his life and activism at The Vauxhall Tavern in south London on Thursday May 21st. link.outsavvy.com/80f7cb6p
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'Pride and Perverts' supporting Terrence Higgins Trust, the UK's leading HIV charity Tickets - London - OutSavvy
An evening celebrating and commemorating Mark Ashton, lost to AIDS in 1987, founder of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners.Pride and Perverts is an evening of drag, dance and speakers with Billy Brag...
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Looking forward to this being entered as an exhibit in the Comey case.
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The Daily Mail are losing their sh/t over the rise in popularity of Zack Polanski's Green Party.
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Andy Green FRSA @andy-green.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The Bard of Barking meets royalty - the Pearly Queen of Fulham - to launch 'The story of England in 50 objects' for #StGeorgesDay promoting an inclusive sense of English national identity. More at www.averyEnglishchat.org.uk @billybragg.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2026
"From a legal standpoint, this indictment is crap. From a political standpoint, it’s an effort to avenge the KKK and enshrine white supremacy in America. Both should be dismissed with prejudice." — @lizdye.bsky.social
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Trump DOJ will avenge the KKK by taking out SPLC
The racism is not subtle.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The Republican men who pretend to care about women’s sports standing in front of the actual athletes really sums their whole charade up perfectly
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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Imagine, if you will, how Fox would have reacted had Hunter Biden bragged about something like this on CNN.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Two and a half decades of Tea Party work, down the drain.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
wild stuff.
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Happy St George’s Day! Here’s a poster of 50 objects telling the story of England, based on suggestions of over 3000 people compiled with the aim of creating an inclusive sense of Englishness against those who promote division Join the fun by listing your five objects at www.averyenglishchat.org.uk
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"logic of Musk’s empire is total. X shapes the discourse. Grok automates it. Grokipedia rewrites the historical record. Starlink can deliver it all, everywhere, to everyone. Each layer reinforces the others. It’s not about winning arguments in the public sphere. It’s about building a replacement."
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir. The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm So we’re taking legal action. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...
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BREAKING: We're taking the government to court over Palantir
Peter Thiel's surveillance firm is embedded in the NHS. Wes Streeting won't show us the briefings - so we have launched a legal challenge.
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Todds Unlimited @toddindeed.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Sometimes the callout blazes like a white hot sun.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Translation: If JD Vance (Peter Thiel) & MAGA are in control after 2028 they will try to *force* our children to serve in the military to implement their Manifest Destiny BS: “We should…seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force...” x.com/palantirtech...
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
No Left Field this summer, but you can recharge your activism at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival. It's a celebration of worker's power with music, talks, workshops and a whole weekend of radical solidarity. Get down to Dorset and get organised! Tickets and details here: www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Sorry to hear that my old sparring partner Andy Kershaw has passed away. His eclectic taste in music and enthusiastic promotion of the artists he loved made him a brilliant broadcaster
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Very grateful to Senator Bernie Sanders for bringing U.S. unions together to create a common front in the face of the threat AI poses to workers and much else. Sometimes it takes an 84-year-old to do the high tech stuff! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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LIVE: Sanders, Labor Leaders Call on Congress to Protect Workers from AI
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The #StopTheGame campaign has been launched to cancel Ireland’s Nations League matches against Israel scheduled for 27th September and 4th October. Irish soccer fans don’t want their team to take the field against Israel and are calling for a boycott
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
A historic number of Senators voted to stop the transfer of bulldozers and bombs to the Israeli military tonight. And we will continue to grow and get louder until we have stopped arming Israel. Fund people, not bombs. Stop arming Israel.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"Orbán’s Hungary has been the model for the global fascist assault on democracy. Maybe it can also serve as a model for its defeat." Important piece from Jason Stanley for Zeteo on the big story of the day:
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What Viktor Orbán’s Landslide Defeat Can Teach Anti-Fascists Across the World
Philosopher Jason Stanley, who has been visiting Hungary for over 15 years, breaks down the historic defeat on Sunday of Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu’s top EU ally.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
0 for 2
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In memory of Phil Ochs - singer-songwriter, anti-war activist, father, true patriot - who took his life fifty years ago today m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmb0...
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No More Songs
YouTube video by Phil Ochs - Topic
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Hegseth must go.
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Great that the space race isn’t over after all, but I’m surprised that after 54 years communications from Artemis II still sound as brittle and crackly as the did back in the day.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This is appalling: “Case counts [of measles] in 2026 are more than double what they were the same period of 2025 and more than ten times what they were in 2024.” 4/1/26 … 1/ www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.
Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Extract List of Jews From Penn
The decision to allow the government to collect the names and phone numbers of Jewish people on campus could allow the government to pursue similar tactics elsewhere.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right
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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
During a new interview with anti-Muslim figure Amy Mekelburg (known online as "Amy Mek" www.huffpost.com/entry/anti-m...), far-right figure Tommy Robinson said he would be meeting with Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL). (Mekelburg also said that she & far-right figure Laura Loomer "work together.")
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Massive turn out for the Together Alliance march in London at the weekend. The vibe was reminiscent of the big Rock Against Racism marches of the late 70s www.nme.com/news/music/b...
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Billy Bragg says London march sends message to far right: "The people of Britain will not allow themselves to be fooled by such shysters"
Billy Bragg has spoken about yesterday’s massive march in London, saying it will send a message to the “shysters” on the far right in the UK.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Quiet. Part. Loud.
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
While our American cousins take to the streets to protest against Tяump's authoritarianism on No Kings Day, we're marching in London to prevent his divisive politics being imported to the UK. I'll be playing a few songs in Whitehall around 2:30pm www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Billy Bragg calls for big turnout at London march against far right
Musician urges public to send clear message at what is expected to be UK’s biggest ever multicultural rally
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/03/2026
NEWS: Trump-backed effort to repeal Utah’s anti-gerrymandering law FAILS after grassroots campaign removes enough signatures to block it from the ballot. 1/
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The military attacked another boat accused of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean. At least 163 people have so far been killed in US boat bombings. Remember: No judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're taking Trump's word for it. This is a danger to us all.
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Paul Leigh -Some Rascal on the Internet @pleightx.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The White House sending out proof that Trump was indeed talking to Iranian officials these past few days, despite Iran's denials of such talks.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/03/2026
To tilt Hungarian election, the Russians proposed staging an assassination attempt www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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To tilt Hungarian election, Russians proposed staging assassination attempt
To aid Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a friend of Russia, in his election, operatives proposed “the Gamechanger” — a staged assassination attempt to stir supporters.
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