Reposted by David SandersonMarcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 6hThe former boss of Germany's most important intelligence agency, the BND, has been arrested on suspicion of treason. 8289138
David Sanderson @dizzylimit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026He puts most 'accessible' histories to shame (they are generally audience pleasing rubbish). The 'Age' series is a magnificent achievement. 000
Reposted by David SandersonEric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 28/09/2026"An intelligence explosion could be the most consequential technological development in human history compressing years of progress into months or less, threatening human control over AI systems, and severely eroding checks on power within and between states, companies, and branches of government." 1219
Reposted by David SandersonEric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 28/09/2026Fascinating new paper by research directors at major AI companies bluntly warning world policy makers to act now to prevent AI from getting out of control and potentially threatening society/humans. casp.ac/reports/inte... 83820
Reposted by David SandersonEvan Osnos @eosnos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Xi on track to land in DC tonight with a deceptively modest goal: keep things basically as they are. Extend the trade truce. Push off pressure over Taiwan. Give Trump the cordial relationship he values. Above all, prolong what Beijing sees as a window of geopolitical opportunity. 052
Reposted by David SandersonJake McIntyre @jakemcintyre.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The "artist" is Trish Duggan, described in the article as a Trump donor - but perhaps most notable as the biggest donor in history to Scientology. Here she is with David Miscavige receiving one of the ever-larger awards recognizing her extraordinary benevolence. 611134
Reposted by David SandersonSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The story of Donald Trump is not a political story. It's a crime story. 25570189
Reposted by David SandersonJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The United States is preparing to sell Israel 40,000 bombs weighing 2,000 pounds (nearly a ton) each in a $2.8 billion sale. IT’S FUNDED BY U.S. TAXPAYER MONEY. The Trump administration has approved the sale, making it among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions to Israel.haaretz.comReport: Trump approves $2.8 billion sale of 40,000 one-ton bombs to IsraelIn 2023, Israel reportedly used MK-84 bombs, which reportedly make up half of the sale, in areas of the Gaza Strip designated as safe for civilians, with each strike creating a crater measuring at lea... 125520299
David Sanderson @dizzylimit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Followed by demolition of all his horrid kitsch. 000
Reposted by David SandersonSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026 Booker nailed it. 852648573
Reposted by David SandersonAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If Trump wanted to crown himself emperor in the national cathedral alito and thomas would support it 1093969558
Reposted by David SandersonAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children www.propublica.org/article/dona...propublica.orgDonald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian OligarchThe oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large... 15224441310
Reposted by David SandersonForbes @forbes.com · 14/09/2026Macklemore defended his remarks last week, saying, “Wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial.”forbes.comMacklemore Removed From Ed Sheeran's Tour After 'Free Palestine' Remarks, Report SaysMacklemore defended his remarks last week, saying, “Wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial.” 23436811008
Reposted by David SandersonEdward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026 While warning about communism, Trump vows to bribe Americans with their own money (borrowed from China) so that he can keep control of Congress and get even richer. And he calls this proposed budget-destroying bribe a "dividend". Read David. 817459
Reposted by David SandersonMike Forsythe 傅才德 @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Never-Neverland was fine and all, but selling real estate in Sunset Park was much more lucrative. 031
Reposted by David SandersonMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hi Dems, don’t think that millions of Muslims - & not just Muslims but anti-racist liberal & leftist Americans - don’t hear the deafening silence from most of you as the Muslim Democratic mayor of New York is being smeared and attacked by the GOP and right-wing media over 9/11. 1192715551
Reposted by David SandersonAi-Men Lau 劉羿雯 @aimenlau.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This reminds me of the time when a family friend, who doesn’t speak Mandarin all too well, told me that education (from kindergarten to uni) was completely free in China I asked her where on earth did she get that info, she told me her taxi driver told her so 26811
Reposted by David SandersonJean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I found when I was a child that if I could put the hurt into words, it would go. It leaves a sort of melancholy behind and then it goes. 0225
David Sanderson @dizzylimit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I see this in the NYT every day. So dissonant with the reality of Trump. 000
Reposted by David SandersonSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This is Apple Maps. This is Apple bowing down to Donald Trump. This is what happens when oligarchs reveal themselves to be cowards in service to the almighty dollar over our democracy, sanity and the truth. Shame on Apple. 2191854614
Reposted by David SandersonSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It's almost like if you put a pro-Trump MAGA apologist at the head of CBS News you'll get Islamophobic, anti-democratic propaganda. 51757187
Reposted by David SandersonZeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Told my mum I wanted to be a scientist at 10; ended up a science journalist. That counts…right? But hi, I’ll be @nytimes.com’ new China Science Correspondent. If you are a Chinese scientist in China, outside China, on the fence, floating around…I’d love to hear what you are working on!nytco.comA New Reporter to Cover China’s Scientific Advancements | The New York Times Company 66413
Reposted by David SandersonSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"It’s not new that Americans are seen by others as an unserious people. But the willingness to twice elect a man so buffoonish, depraved and hateful to our highest office provokes the belief that Americans...cannot be trusted any longer to do the right thing." open.substack.com/pub/america/...open.substack.comWill Future Generations Blame Us All?Or will they recognize that most of us were mad as hell and refused to take it? 36438491094
Reposted by David SandersonClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king 296140143199
Reposted by David SandersonTim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops 6277262026
Reposted by David SandersonYaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Terrific piece by @goldkorn.bsky.social, capturing the duality of China today: incredibly efficient and convenient, yet strangely lifeless and soulless. www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...chinafile.comApp Life in China“It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked-in grin. We were waiting for our food in a Taiwanese restaurant in a lovi... 1135
Reposted by David SandersonJommy Tee @jommytee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Awaiting calls from Jillian Segal for a good news story on Israel to counter news that Israel has washed it hands of criminal investigation into Zomi Frankcom's murder. 1213157
David Sanderson @dizzylimit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The Dying Swan. A concerto in five movements. 000
Reposted by David SandersonJean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Nothing. I must be solid as an oak. Except when I cry. I watch my face gradually breaking up - cheeks puffing out, eyes getting smaller. Never mind. It isn't my face, this tortured and tormented mask. I can take it off whenever I like and hang it up on a nail. 0175
David Sanderson @dizzylimit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026He just made his job marginally more interesting. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auACT opposition leader admits to texting 'f*** my job is boring' during hearingACT opposition leader Mark Parton has admitted he sent a text message complaining about how boring his job is during budget estimates. 000
Reposted by David SandersonContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Using Water as reflection in Photography 1217625897
Reposted by David SandersonBelinda Barnet @manjusrii.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Media outlets should all stand together in opposition to this: boycott the conference altogether. The ban will grow to include you one day if you don’t cut it at the root 33913
Reposted by David SandersonRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it. 626217996306
David Sanderson @dizzylimit.bsky.social · 31/07/2026There's a lesson here for Australia and the One Nation party led by Pauline Hanson. Her credibility has very thin foundations which are not hard to crack. ##auspol 000
David Sanderson @dizzylimit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The LRB needs a pop controversy every now and then. This has created the latest. 000
Reposted by David SandersonSilvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Echoes of Stalin—in 1937 he received an 11 minute standing ovation. Everyone was too afraid to be the first to stop clapping. 914846
David Sanderson @dizzylimit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Trump’s Kiss of Death (Gift Article)On top of everything else, the president is inept. 000
David Sanderson @dizzylimit.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Why did Labor give her so much power and prominence? 000
Reposted by David SandersonTony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Trump’s social media company has discussed charging traders and investors as much as $100,000 a month for faster access to the US president’s posts on his Truth Social platform - FT scoop www.ft.com/content/e466...ft.comTrump Media pitched $100,000 monthly fee for fast feed of president’s postsFamily company has quoted the six-figure sum for high-speed access to Truth Social platform 184
Reposted by David SandersonBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Selling access to Trump's tweets to businesses held hostage by the mad king (and thus worried about what he'll do/say and how it'll affect their bottom line). Just endless grifting. 610257
Reposted by David SandersonCenter for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The total cost of Trump's unlawful war in Iran, so far, is about $1,100 per American household, considering the roughly $150 billion in costs to date across energy, airfare, groceries, and borrowing plus defense spending. Get the breakdown of costs ⬇️ ampr.gs/4ytTBlkampr.gsFact Sheet: Costs of the Trump Administration’s War in IranThe collapse of the ceasefire will only add to the mounting defense spending, economic costs, geopolitical damage, humanitarian costs, and environmental and health harms from the conflict. 085
Reposted by David SandersonEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Reader, I checked and checked again, and this is Secretary Hegseth’s actual account 961221218
Reposted by David SandersonMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026There are dozens of actual far-right extremists in the House GOP caucus, people who have said and done racist, corrupt, crazy things. And you’ve never heard of them. Because the Times and other establishment media outlets have never negatively profiled them like this. The GOP gets a pass.nytimes.comWho Is Darializa Avila Chevalier? 722398528
David Sanderson @dizzylimit.bsky.social · 25/06/2026@gideonrachman.bsky.social On your recent podcast Kevin Rudd was the outstanding thinker. I think that was likely your conclusion, given the way the discussion flowed. 010
