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Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social · 13h
📣 job alert. Lecturer / Associate Prof in computational humanities or social science. Join my team at UCL. Permanent £56-74k. Please share www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Attorney Kathleen Martinez @attorneymartinez.bsky.social · 17h
BREAKING: " Videos collected by local investigators make it “pretty obvious” that an ICE officer intentionally ran over Miguel Parra Hernandez during an immigration stop Saturday, which could lead to assault charges, the district attorney said Tuesday."
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Texas DA says ICE intentionally hit immigrant with a car and may have withheld evidence
Harris County DA Sean Teare told NBC News his office has collected multiple videos for its own investigation but isn’t getting cooperation from the federal government. ICE denied their agent intentio...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10h
to keep functioning, society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Why aren’t more reporters calling out the illegality?
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Three days: sanctioning the international criminal court, announcing that the firing-squad execution of NH will be live-streamed, investigating the WH press on bogus antitrust charges, searching IO’s home on transparently pretextual immigration charges, financing Putin, jettisoning Zelensky.
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Why aren’t more reporters calling out the illegality?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is simply not generating either the volume or tone of scandal coverage that effectively ended Joe Biden's presidency when he was unable to produce a surgically-clean implementation of Donald Trump's totally unplanned & poorly timed withdrawal from Afghanistan: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
THIRTY THOUSAND. Thirty THOUSAND. THIRTY thousand. And the government does nothing why?
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Ed Roberts @ecroberts.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"The problem of the lack of papyrus [after c.1000] forced a receptiveness to new forms of papal government which the high medieval 'reformers' were able to move into and exploit from about 1050"... Absolutely enthralling new article by @cjg70.bsky.social and Ben Savill (Open Access). #medievalsky
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Papyrus Economies and the Experience of Early Medieval Papal Documents*
Abstract. The medium of papyrus, a ubiquitous, state-sponsored product in the Roman world, was turned by the empire’s loss of Egypt in the 630s–640s into a
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“Another US president would be pressuring Russia to stop slaughtering innocents. Trump is instead giving them the means to kill more.” Me on Trump’s darkest turn yet against Ukraine. as.ft.com/r/0f7ee7f8-3...
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Why Trump is going for Zelenskyy’s jugular
No matter how much America’s allies urge the president to back Ukraine, he cannot forgive its leader for showing up his dealmaking impotence
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 13/10/2026
“Congress was clear: the U.S. should not import oil from Russia until it ends its aggression against Ukraine and ceases threats against our NATO Allies," the group of senators wrote.
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US senators from both parties blast Trump order to import Russian diesel as illegal | Arizona Mirror
The Trump administration’s order to allow import of Russian diesel violates a 2022 law banning Russian energy imports while the country’s war with Ukraine is ongoing, according to a bipartisan group o...
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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 13/10/2026
China is doubling down on deep-science startups • US still holds the largest number of deep-science startups, but China's total is growing fast • At over US$1trn, China's annual R&D spending is now above that of America's www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
JUST IN: 'Furious' Judge Ana Reyes (Biden/DC) goes almost medieval on Trump admin for cutting down more than 400 trees at East Potomac Golf Course despite her understanding w/DOJ lawyers for advance notice of any major renovations. w/@kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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‘Furious’ judge halts Trump admin’s tree demolition at DC’s East Potomac golf course
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes berated the Trump administration for failing to notify the court despite ongoing litigation over the preservation of the course.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
UPDATE: The Justice Department apologized to the court and the plaintiffs, saying that it emailed DHS lawyers but they didn't see the message until the morning. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
President @barackobama.bsky.social showed me something in myself I might never have seen without him. I’m humbled to have his support in this fight. The Affordable Care Act will have laid the groundwork for guaranteed healthcare and I'm honored to pick up his baton and finally pass Medicare for All.
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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 12/10/2026
It appears that a GOP Super PAC - running anti-Troy Jackson hits in the Maine Senate race - booked time in Portland…Oregon? #MESen
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Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
On 5–6 October 2026, the University of Oxford hosted two days of discussion on the challenges facing democracy and the strategies available to strengthen democratic resilience. Find out more here:  www.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/democrat…
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
WSJ's Yaroslav Trofimov: "Ukraine damaged three of Yandex’s four main data centers over the past week, and now not just taxi services but payments and other services no longer work in many parts of Russia. Data center vulnerability is the new lesson of wars this year."
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Elon will soon have outspent his 2024 total, at least in what we can track.
nytimes.com
Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Reposted at @theunpopulist.net , my panel with @profmsinha.bsky.social UConn’s Manisha Sinha, Boston College’s Devin Pendas, and Adam Bodnar, Poland’s former minister of justice, on accountability after authoritarianism. www.theunpopulist.net/p/how-to-hol...
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How to Hold Authoritarians Accountable Without Fueling a Backlash
Reconstruction, postwar Germany, and Poland’s recent democratic restoration offer lessons for a post-Trump America
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Commons Library briefing on Russian influence lays bare decades of policy failure. Illicit capital and disinformation eroded democratic resilience. Read the full parliamentary report to see how London opened its doors. Why tolerate dirty money in politics? (1/2) 🤔 #FBPE
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Countering Russian influence in the UK
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the UK has applied sanctions and changed rules around visas and corporate transparency to counter Russian influence.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
As Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff negotiate an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, they are also working with the Kremlin to sell $20 billion in international assets owned by the Russian oil company Lukoil to a group of investors that includes their own business partners. wapo.st/47gE6Rf
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Opinion | ‘Dollar diplomacy’ doesn’t work. Yet Trump keeps using it.
Trump administration pursuit of profit and peace blurs line between public and private interests.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Times from ten years ago this week. They were wrong. In fact Brexit is costing the UK economy roughly £100 billion a year. #ProjectFear
Hard Brexit
could cost
£66bn a year


Leaked Treasury papers reveal lost revenue


Sam Coates Deputy Political Editor
Ollver Wright Policy Editor


Cabinet ministers are being warned
that the Treasury could lose up_to
£66 billion a year in tax revenues under
"hard Brexit", according to leaked
government papers.


GDP.could fall by as much as 9.5 per
cent if Britain leaves the single market
and hastorely on WorldTrade Organi-
sation rules for trading with the conti-
nent, compared with ifit stayed within
the EU,theforecasts show.Such a steep
drop in revenue would force ministers
to slash public spending or raise taxes.
The £66 billion drop, contained in a
draft cabinet committee paper seen by
The Times, is nearly a tenth of the
£716 billion that the government is pro-
jected to collect in taxes this year,and is
equivalent to 65 per cent of the annual
budget of NHS England.


Business leaders are_increasingly
worried that the UK could fail to nego-
tiate a deal with the 27 remaining EU
members by the time it leaves the
union, and will face a "cliff edge" of
trade tariffs and barriers,


Several cabinet ministers who sup-
ported Remain are stepping up efforts
to prioritise business concerns and the
economy in Brexit discussions, fearing
that Leave supporters fail to realise the
scale of potential damage, It comes as:;
○ Theresa May faces a potential legal
challenge by a group of Conservative
MPs over the decision to begin Brexit
negotiations without parliament's
approval. The prime minister's spokes-
man ruledoutgiving MPs a voteyester-
day,saying thatitwould"second guess'
the will of the British people.
○ Dominic Grieve, the former attor-
ney-general, said that unless the gov,
ernment could agree,a deal supported
by parliament it would not survive.
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A Tory backbencher suggested that
British companies should hire disabled


Tuesday October 11 2016 | thetimes.co.uk | No 72038


people to do the work of EU migrants
after Brexit.


Mrs May visited Denmark and the
Nethe…
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This week's review covers A VITAGRAPH ROMANCE (1912), a frothy little film about a young couple who find love and reconciliation on the Vitagraph lot. Of course, that Vitagraph lot is the real star of the show. moviessilently.com/2026/10/12/a...
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A Vitagraph Romance (1912) A Silent Film Review
When an heiress falls for a poor writer, her father tries to separate the pair. However, with the help of the newfangled “movies,” things soon take a turn for the better.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Unsurprisingly, four days later, mathematicians have weighed in. And the results are equivocally valuable at best. More importantly the dump has flooded the zone with shit, which is precisely in line with this industry’s weaponized agnotology. Now actual scholars have to waste their time on this.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"The whistleblower says FBI supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
what would it look like to actually make it more difficult for indoctrination to take root in our schools? dems ought to be discussing that in serious ways
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
imagine a life without log-ins, passwords, multi factor authentications, platforms, and SAP CONCUR
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Did you ever think you would miss Bond-villain-looking Steven Mnuchin? Mnuchin was a faithful Trump lapdog but he was still in some vague sense trying to be Secretary of the Treasury. He wasn't a daily presence on cable news acting as a partisan hack attack dog. He wasn't... this.
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My mom, age 96, has voted in every election since 1952. Be like her! Get your ballot in now! @thirdactorg.bsky.social
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League of Women Voters of Williamsburg Area @lwvwilliamsburg.org · 11/10/2026
Postal delivery is slowing down. Don’t let a late postmark void your vote. Your ballot can take an extra day to be postmarked and reach election officials. Return it early—or better yet, put it in an official election drop box. vote411.org @lwv.org @lwvva.bsky.social
We Vote! Stay out of our way! By mail or in person. Do it now. LWV
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.
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Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is real. One quibble. The article says Texas A&M doesn’t use ai to censor. TAMU uses ai to review all our syllabi, and the admins have admitted it’s inaccurate.
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Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society @sanhs.org · 11/10/2026
* TALK * GREY, RED AND VIOLET, POWDER BLUE AND SEAWATER GREEN: a multi-coloured industry by Mary Siraut Tuesday 13 October - 7.30pm Wyndham Hall, Taunton Please book by 12 October - see SANHS website for full details: sanhs.org/event/sanhs-...
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/10/2026
Andy Burnham says it is clear Russia interfered in Brexit vote
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Andy Burnham says it is clear Russia interfered in Brexit vote
PM says he asked question upon entering No 10 but does not reveal who gave him ‘clear answer’ that Russia meddled Andy Burnham has said it is clear Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum, after seeking answers on the Kremlin’s involvement in the 2016 vote when he entered Downing Street. Burnham said he had asked whether Moscow had attempted to influence the referendum and received a confirmation that it had. Continue reading...
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 11/10/2026
How a growing network of Reformed pastors and influencers is blending segregationist theology, the manosphere, and internet outrage to monetize white supremacy. open.substack.com/pub/confront...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
How a growing network of Reformed pastors and influencers is blending segregationist theology, the manosphere, and internet outrage to monetize white supremacy.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"...evidence suggests that investment in data centers comes at the expense of other investments...AI 'crowds out' other potential uses of capital. Moreover, because data centers employ so few workers, the vast spending on AI...taking place will also significantly reduce the demand for labor."
paulkrugman.substack.com
Will AI Crowd Out Jobs?
A different and alarming take on the economic risks
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Helene Harrison MA MSc @tudorblogger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Today on my blog and Substack I've posted a review of 'Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence' edited by Janel Mueller. Substack: tudorblogger.substack.com/p/book-revie... Blog: tudorblogger.com/2026/10/11/b... #history #bookreview #katerynparr #tudors #janelmueller
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.
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Tondu @tonduturk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
President Trump's Iran War - Twelve killed and over 300 injured in attack on airport in Saudi capital Riyadh. This is the worst attack on Saudi Arabia in over 10 years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...
bbc.co.uk
Saudi airport attack: Twelve killed and 300 injured in attack in Riyadh
Saudi and US officials blame the attack on Yemen's Houthis, who have not commented on the latest strike.
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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.
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