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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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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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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

You are awful Chris. But I like you.

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yeah, I feel the same about cricket

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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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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yeah, really. That's what today is, according to my Apple calender. It's also Shakespeare's birthday if you're looking for something alternatively English to celebrate.

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yeah, queuing as well, that's clearly not uniquely English. But both the NHS and the BBC as well as forming queues are quinessential parts of the English experience.

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

That statue of the Duke of Wellington stands in front of the Gallery of Modern Art in Royal Exchange Square in Glasgow, which kinda preculdes its inclusion in any list of things English.

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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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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 · 10/04/2026

That's true. His ashes were scatted from a tower on the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle. His parents had met while students in the Scottish capital. I visited the spot once with his daughter Meegan

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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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