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Ellin Stein

@ellinst.bsky.social
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Arts journo (now mostly Slate and Byline Times), MA Screenwriting lecturer @Goldsmiths UoL, authorina wwnorton.com/books/9780393074093, tech fumbler

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26m
"Epstein witness found dead under mysterious circumstances" is a headline that has now occurred nine times, including this week. Imagine what QAnon would do with that. But for US corporate media, these deaths don't even merit reporting. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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The mysterious string of deaths with links to the Epstein case
As the Financial Conduct Authority launches a probe into its handling of allegations made by whistleblower Simon Andriesz following his suicide, Katie Rosseinsky explores the strange and sad web of de...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3h
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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4D4 - Anti Feudal America @antifeudalamerica.com · 1h
A teacher earning $60k pays 20 to 30% in federal income and payroll taxes. The 25 richest Americans paid a true rate of 3.4% from 2014 to 2018. The tax code is not failing. It is working exactly as designed, for those who designed it.
A teacher earning $60k pays 20 to 30% in federal income and payroll taxes. The 25 richest Americans paid a true rate of 3.4% from 2014 to 2018. The tax code is not failing. It is working exactly as designed, for those who designed it.
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 3h
Pressure from the ScotsNats lobby, no doubt.
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 10h
“In ignoring the central premise of the Advisory Group’s position, OpenAI has indicated total disregard for the norms of scientific research — norms that guarantee that mathematics remains trustworthy, ethically researched, and in the public interest”
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 4h
Like *this* mad.
Sculpture called "Medea" of a woman holding a sword and the severed head of a man
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22h
Perfectly put.
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GJRboston @gjrboston.bsky.social · 19h
youtube.com/watch?v=4ka2RctIjS4&xstg=CAMSEBUJ_b-oH-PhF0yjBgbwzzE%3D
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nightshift, is this a great country or what?
YouTube video by Moving Targets Channel
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 4h
So that explains it! I've often wondered.
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Caolan Robertson @caolanrob.bsky.social · 7h
russia just directly targeted busses filled with people in Kramatorsk. 12 innocent civilians murdered. Totally depraved terrorism.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 21h
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 4h
"Prove it, bitch" one is tempted to say (to IO, not you).
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 4h
Tech bro cuts programs called Free Thinking and Thinking Allowed. A bit on the nose metaphorically-speaking, imo.
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 5h
The only poll that counts is on Election Day.
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Psychopathic toddler.
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Appalachian Blue @republicofcascadia.bsky.social · 21h
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 23h
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
To put that into dollar terms: Oregon residents are now paying $1.6 billion more for electricity than they were paying just 5 years ago, which comes out to roughly $950 extra per household per year. Alternately, that $611,000 from the pockets of Oregonians each year for each data center job.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 7h
Every now and then the YouTube algorithm throws up a reminder that good things are happening in quiet places... 'Returning rivers’ natural wiggles and restoring wetlands across the New Forest is supporting the recovery of Britain's rarest wildlife in the area.' 🪲🦗 🦋🌱🐎 🌳🌿 🪳 youtu.be/OllSUolIDjY?...
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New Forest Wetland Restoration | Biodiversity Success Story
YouTube video by New Forest Biodiversity Forum
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Leon Elsjan of Wipper @leoneow.eurosky.social · 7h
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 6h
And you wonder why people aren't having children. We're on a death trip.
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 9h
Billionaire David Ruebens says he quit his London mansion to live in Monaco in response to Labour's punitive tax regime. Only problem with his story, he's been resident in Monaco since 2014. A true patriot, who just happens to have an aversion to paying tax.  www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
theguardian.com
‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 7h
ReformUK has been caught out several times staging videos - using friends, members or relatives masquerading as ‘members of the public’ or passing off film of events elsewhere or even Hollywood film clips, as real events happening in the U.K. Check everything, or you can assume it’s FAKE, FAKE FAKE.
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Dave Tait @davetait.bsky.social · 22h
I hope the poster won't mind. This just seemed so clear and true. The source link is in his post: "Russia's propaganda campaign and subversion directed against us have two goals: concrete behavioral change (Ukraine, energy policy) and the promotion of division/weakening from within."
A graphic show Russia's two-pronged offensive on the West (and others):

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1) Concrete change in behavior

Less support for Ukraine

No European defense strategy

Energy dependence on Russia

Abolish sanctions

Improved image of Russia

2) Division of societies perceived as hostile

Polarization

Intensification of social conflicts

Strengthening of populist, anti-system movements

Reduced democratic resilience

Destruction of trust in the rule of law, free media, and political leadership
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h
Sarah Rogers Censors Conference on Disinformation emptywheel.net/2026/10/08/s...
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Sarah Rogers Censors Conference on Disinformation - emptywheel
The Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers pressured the EU, Lithuania, and Canada into pulling support for a disinformation conference that already had pulled its punches when disc...
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 6h
Got to be closer to 70% before any gov't will touch that particular tar baby.
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 6h
??? That's not what I said. I was responding to the previous poster's characterization of the books as "fascist IP". Same problem arises with Ezra Pound's poems or Roald Dahl's novels and anti-semitism. Is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "fascist IP"? Banning books is what the fascists do.
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 16h
i would expect no less.
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🦋🐕‍🦺🌺LadyWillow💚🐾🦋 @ladywillow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Failures of privatisation. Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs Foreign-owned RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets even after regulator lowered them. Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p. When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. Poor service at triple price. Customers fleeced.
bbc.co.uk
Royal Mail plans to cut 2,500 head office jobs
The postal service firm wants to cut the head office and other jobs by the end of 2027.
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 23h
I suspect I'm going to be posting this a lot.
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 23h
Basically a cross between a courtroom drama (Sorkin doesn't know how to quit them), All The President's Men, Citizen Kane, and The Social Network. Not much (none) in the way of sex or action, but civics fans will love it.
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Quick! Snatch those Harry Potter books out of children's hands before their innocent minds are corrupted by the fascism!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?
theguardian.com
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't think we'll ever be done with the "I fucking told you so's." The Food Research & Action Center reported that these changes would weaken safety nets and worsen food insecurity for low-income families: frac.org/blog/project...
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Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Who’s going to pick up the phone if there’s a Marburg outbreak and the Zimbabwe office has closed?” she said, referring to the severe hemorrhagic fever virus that has sparked outbreaks in several African countries recently. We just invite the Marburg home 🤷‍♂️
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America’s disease detectives overseas are starting to close up shop — POLITICO
The State Department’s new approach to foreign aid is changing the way the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention works abroad.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"died to gun violence" - irony we get. Syntax, not so much.
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JTMLX @jtmlx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#GFT_ARTICLE TRUMP'S JUSTICE DEPT., NOW AN AGENCY OF RIGHT-WING TERROR, IS FILLING ITS MANY VACANCIES WITH PARTISAN LOYALISTS AND CONSPIRACISTS They've recruited people whose work histories and dearth of education and experience would have disqualified them before www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks (Gift Article)
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Let’s remember that in 1930 Hitler wasn’t even on the ballot, because he wasn’t a German citizen: he was a foreigner who had a criminal record for trying to mount a coup and was at risk of being deported." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong
In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
feels like a real landmark of impunity that major corporations are making federal crimes part of the interview process
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Let's remind Badenoch that it was the Conservative Party who cut UK defence spending to the bone during the 2010s: and then pulverised the economy with austerity: plus a hard Brexit: plus Liz Truss & Kwasi Kwarteng's catastrophic mini-budget: so that there's no growth and so no money for rearmament.
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is he saying his president is a practicing Shia Muslim?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No outraged speech from Reform UK 'I'm not racist' Farage, no social media disgust from Restore Britain Lowe, no marches by Patriot Platform ... maybe, just maybe, because none of them are black or brown! meme via We Demand UK
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
"Whatever conclusions reached by the commission of an octogenarian crank and two billionaires, they'll be handed off to Hegseth, who believes wars are won by whichever side can do the most pushups, and whose obsession with creating an all-white, all-male military is dragging DoD down by the day."
publicnotice.co
“Project Meridian” is the stuff of satire
Elon Musk, Newt Gingrich, and Palmer Luckey walk into a bar ... and are given the keys to the DoD.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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