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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A Pentagon investigation found that the murder of 123 Iranian children at the school in Minab resulted from a cascade of failures, Bloomberg reports. * Outdated intelligence that still classified the school as an IRGC facility

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Empire of Grift

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you think “healthcare economics” (in the United States no less, good god) is a real science then you’re probably also an expert in transvestigations, phrenology, and race science

A cartoon where a precocious child is standing on a stack of books and pointing at a chart, saying “the poors have to die,” while her father figure gives her a thumbs up and says, “economics is a science”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The “madhouse of corruption that is the second Trump administration is nothing less than an attempt to mulch our civilization so that we may be recycled into something that better flatters a small class of oligarchs.” @dogsinautumn.bsky.social in @liberalcurrents.com on excuses and elite impunity

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A Republic of Excuses

You will not like it here and it will get worse until we get better.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

PSA If you encounter someone who dismisses your #ADHD because they watched 'The Great ADHD Myth?', feel free to tell them to contact me via my site so I can explain, at length, why they're an idiot Hell, send my their address and I'll do it face to face. I'm willing to go full 'Punisher' over this

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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Anyone who has read Merchants of Doubt will recognize the same cynical tactics at play in last night's Channel 4 ADHD-denial documentary. This is dangerous and irresponsible misinformation. ADHD UK has a template you can use to submit a complaint to Ofcom: adhduk.co.uk/challenging-...

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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Everything about this makes me sick. Academia is as culpable as the British media. Both need to be held to account for what they did to him.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“They’re the Vampire Class, sucking the life-blood out of the people beneath them. They want populations weak, powerless, unprotected, sick, hungry. Then they’re no threat.”

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Watch The Shadows

Trump moves the US into the Axis of Evil column

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

One of the worst things about the Senate’s attempted Fauci show trial is how the supposed evidence against him is early in COVID he considered multiple hypotheses, then increasingly ruled some unlikely as evidence came in. The objection is he did science. Fundamentally that is what’s under attack.

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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Oh good, a new slide for my lecture on Popper

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Apparently not part of Western Civilization (incomplete list): Homer, Socrates, Plato, democracy, Aquinas, Shakespeare, liberty, Locke, Montesquieu, Superman, NATO, vaccines Western Civilization that Must Be Defended: Carl Schmitt, the Confederacy, Green M&Ms in heels, the movie 300, domestic abuse

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 20/07/2026

Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM

Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon

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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I almost scrolled past this because I assumed it was a joke. I mean, it IS a joke, but not the kind I thought it was.

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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is the perspective we sorely needed today.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

More than any other global event, the World Cup channels postcolonial legacies and the entangled nature of global modernities, from the countries competing and the commentary about specific teams and matchups, to the makeup of individual squads. I find it poignant, enraging and hopeful all at once.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Yep. We argue in this piece that it's no accident that Musk decried "civilizational suicidal empathy" while his USAID cuts were going into effect, resulting in untold numbers of deaths abroad. It's a test run for a much worse abdication of empathy later:

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

me sleeping seven hours vs. me sleeping six hours and 42 minutes

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 06/05/2026

4/ A country's reputation in the world matters. It just does. "All that naive hippy shit is irrelevant, what it all comes down to is missile destroyers and GDP" is the sort of faux-savvy world-weary cynical take that sounds like wisdom until you remember geopolitics isn't a game of Starcraft.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Journalists might've once had the excuse that the didn’t realize how bad MAGA extremism would be. But they can't plead cluelessness now. What’s left are cowardice, complicity and courage. Pick one. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

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It’s not media cluelessness – it’s cowardice and complicity

But there’s another word starting with “C” that describes some journalists: courage.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

For what it's worth, I don't think Vance is doing this because they think it will change the reasonably apparent outcome that Orban is going to lose at the polls. They are signaling and encouraging that they want him to not accept the result. They want anti-democracy for anti-democracy's sake.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

my kingdom for a single journalist at the BBC, or any other major news org, to push back and point out that 1) settlement is not automatic, and then 2) ask the home office why they have been repeatedly lying about this for months

"A Home Office spokesman said: "The privilege of living here forever should be earned not automatic.

"We must be honest about the scale and impact of hundreds of thousands of low skilled migrants getting settlement rights."

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

schools are never valid military targets, on or off base if someone bombed a DoD school in Okinawa and killed a bunch of American 4th graders, that would be a war crime. The murder of Iranian schoolchildren is a war crime.

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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This might be the funniest (and may favourite) lead photo/ headline combination of the year.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 18/02/2026

Democrats spent most of the Trump era being forced to defend existing institutions against a corrupt demagogue. Now those institutions are destroyed and replaced with kleptocracy and fascism. Being anti-system isn't only the easy thing, it's the *only* thing.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

People are mad at @samuelmoyn.bsky.social but this is a good piece from him and @ryandoerfler.bsky.social on need to accept that SCOTUS has become functionally illegitimate. Key point is legitimacy does require the public to think the court operates in good faith: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn

We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/02/2026

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 20/01/2026

The Trump disbelief that the Norwegian govt doesn't control the Nobel process is deeply indicative of his thinking. He can't conceive that an institution could (or should) be genuinely independent of coercion or political power. That's the change he represents.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

“I sometimes wonder why journalists are so nice to the people who want to destroy them.” My free Stop the Presses newsletter.

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Fascists are at war with journalism. Why aren’t journalists at war with fascism?

Mainstream media seem willing to drop their duty in order to pick up profits

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Regular people in Minnesota standing up to ICE and protecting their neighbors. Denmark and Belgium taking the strongest stances of European countries against Trump’s Greenland threats. Amazing how those with less power take action and sacrifice, while so many of the powerful equivocate and cower.

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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

If we ever get out of this enshitifying techno doom spiral, moving forward, the phrase "humans possess intelligence, and machines do not" should be enshrined in the constitution and written on our goddamn money.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I see this take around from time to time and totally disagree. ICE just murdered a woman standing up to them. No Kings is among the largest protests in history. The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership

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I'm struck by the contrast between the passion for democracy shown by Iranians willing to die for it and the complacency with which many Americans have accepted an authoritarian slide.
Americans should cheer for Iran's democrats--and also learn from their determination.

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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I felt this way in 2008 as well, and I still believe we're where we are now because we didn't bother to do this back then.

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David Mallery @dmallery.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

“The idea of turning Greenland into America’s rare-earth factory is science fiction. It’s just completely bonkers,” said Malte Humpert, founder and senior fellow at The Arctic Institute. “You might as well mine on the moon. In some respects, it’s worse than the moon.”

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‘Completely bonkers’: Trump’s Greenland mining dreams collide with reality | CNN Business

Greenland’s untapped mineral wealth has landed the island at the top of President Donald Trump’s empire-building wish list.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The gall to treat the 2024 election like it was a binding referendum on American culture, a lasting “vibe shift” to which others must accommodate, then within a year proclaim the cultural change over, as if a bystander, not an active contributor manufacturing vibe shifts by overdetermining results.

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Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 09/12/2025

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

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How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it

I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

George Orwell warned: bad writing leads to bad thinking. Academia trains us to write for journals, not the public. Clarity feels risky, because it exposes us. But clear communication is essential for democracy. So how do we do it? 🧵 New post 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/why-clarit...

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Why Clarity Feels Dangerous (Especially If You’re an Academic)

The Hardest Work in Writing Is Saying What You Really Mean

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Why? Because neoliberalism replaced empowered freedom with economic freedom, it hollowed out the democratic functions of public life, while at the same time failing to deliver, and even betraying, those functions at the institutional level.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

"If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.“ Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Can't help but think of a paraphrase of William Gibson's old chestnut: The war is already here, it's just not evenly distributed.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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