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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He had joined the Keminaissance.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

5. After around 30 hours at sea, the dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI and those on board transferred to two lifeboats. Two lifeboat personnel tried to secure the empty dinghy. Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026

It remains shocking watching it in real time as commentators and news reporters try to impose coherence and summarise his ramblings.

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Incredible

It is the Jews. It has always been the Jews.
Not all of them, but always them.
There is no avoiding this truth. Everything else is a distraction. Once you notice, you cannot unsee.
Marxism/Communism/Socialism, Bolshevism, Feminism, Liberalism/Libertarianism, Anarchism, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theories, transvestism/ transexualism/transgenderism, racism,
Neoconservatism, Zionism.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

quite something this paragraph.

After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yet another begging bowl email from the Labour Party this morning. ‘There is no pretending about the scale of what we’re up against.’ If only you guys had a massive majority in Parliament and could pass legislation to protect our democracy from ‘what we’re up against’.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Reform is the richest party in Britain. Its leaders are almost all millionaires. It is funded almost exclusively by billionaires. It has a supportive TV station and widespread media backing. So naturally, this donation comes with the usual attack on "elites". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire

Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Genuinely gasped. This is why leaving Nandy in post is such obvious vandalism, the BBC does not deserve to survive like this.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 11/09/2026

Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

nytimes.com

Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists

Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The UK economy has three major industries: Warhammer, Onlyfans and Little Alex Horne

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?

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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

yesterday there was some discourse that miliband's gesture wouldnt make any difference in practice, and today theres some discourse about how andy burnham calling out racism wouldnt make a lot of distance in practice, i am just going to tell you guys straight: politics is primarily symbolic

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Leftback @leftback.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well at least we've heard the worst of this story oh wait the mob got into the hotel onto the floor the players were on and were knocking on bedroom doors. I think I'm moving to rage now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I feel this increasingly strongly. If the Labour party want to damn themselves by going "oooh, but the electoral calculation-" before having the balls to speak out against racism, that's up to them, but I think we should be saying this shit is wrong *even if it doesn't change a single damn thing*

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/09/2026

A friend sent this to me.

man in a flat cap
In those days, the Internet was in black and white.
It was only on for three hours a day.
We used to get dressed up in our Sunday best to log onto it.

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s

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Amy Borrett @amyborrett.ft.com · 08/09/2026

Britain’s state-owned electricity system operator has awarded Palantir a £21mn contract without inviting rival bids, arguing critical processes are too reliant on its tech to run a competitive procurement process Latest for @financialtimes.com: as.ft.com/r/7fe6c0b7-2...

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Britain’s grid operator gave Palantir contract without inviting rival bids

Neso cited a legal exemption that removes the requirement to consider other suppliers if dependencies leave no alternative

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here's The Times trying to make masked fascists look good while one *does a Nazi salute in the story's cover photo*

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Times. Explicitly and deliberately, as a matter of editorial policy, promoting violent racist thugs.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If "legitimate concerns" were considered to excuse illegitimate methods, then nobody from Just Stop Oil or Palestine Action would have been arrested. So we know it doesn't. In fact that phrase is only ever used in one context. Only in that context is uniformed mob intimidation "peaceful protest"

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Andrej @tepid.meme · 07/09/2026

At some point we are going to have to address the fact that these people fundamentally want migrants gunned down in the water and nothing short of corpses washing up on beaches will make them happy - and that that’s not a “legitimate concern”

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

2) and 3) are intimately linked, in that the BBC (the organisation that really matters in the modern environment) treats 'claims by rival parties' as the operating frame for how it covers everything. The failure from Labour and the Conservatives to say 'this stuff is bad' is really, really bad.

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Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I have legitimate concerns about the rise of the far right in the UK and I want to know what the politicians are going to do about it.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In June 1934 the British Union of Fascists - the Blackshirts - staged a rally at the Olympia in London. One protestor after another was singled out and beaten up by the crowd. Here's how Ronald Blythe described it.

Description of the BUF Olympia rally, at which a series of hecklers were violently attacked by Blackshirts. The sadism, Blythe writes, reached "an erotic intensity".

Stanley Baldwin's private secretary expressed shock and dismay: "It was a deeply shocking scene for an Englishman to see in London."

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Someday someone is going to an interesting study on the brain chemistry of billionaires...what pathologies are required to get there, what additional pathologies are created by becoming so rich you don't feel the laws of human reality apply to you. Here's one smallish brain to start with.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What we see again and again from the modern American elite is the insistence on receiving the prerogatives and deference due to their positions without any of the accompanying obligations.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I don't know who needs a real pickmeup today, but in recent court filings about the wealth owned by Andrew Tate, they indicate the Bugattis and Aston Martin he always bragged about owning... were rented. All of them.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Man City's owners sent foreign mercenaries to the UK, who discussed how to "locate, track and potentially kill their target - a prominent political campaigner." www.itv.com/news/2026-08...

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UAE-funded mercenary 'ran covert operation' against British activist in London | ITV News

Mercenary Abraham Golan was allegedly hired to mount a covert surveillance operation against a British academic, on UK soil. | ITV National News

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A Serco employee has been charged with misconduct in public office, over sharing the addresses of the houses of asylum seekers, with people who wanted to target those people. Serco says it is cooperating fully - but can not comment further while the case is active. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Man charged with sharing asylum seeker addresses in Thetford

The 62-year-old man is remanded in custody and will appear at Norwich Crown Court on 14 September.

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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“Trump is permission to be your worst self” is still the most coherent explanation of Trumpism as a phenomenon.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This 1-2 (from when the plagiarism story first broke) really struck/still strikes me. The schoolyard bullying that followed an unusual (though, re plagiarism, not unique) story was appalling. Criticism of his practice was clearly fair, but it tipped over into something else - particularly on X.

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Chris @basiclychris.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hearing from the emergency alert that Susan Hall has just about clinched it.

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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

it remains insane to me that Elon Musk and Trump being responsible for more death than any one else in the 21st century is just a non-story, like a total non-event in the discourse.

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Walt Shitman @waltshitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

“Fantasy author” is a fake job created by Big Hat to sell big black hats.

George R. R. Martin wearing a black fisherman’s cap

Sir Terry Pratchett wearing a big black hat

Robert Jordan wearing a really big black hat.

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tallestdude @coreyc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate #hackers

Screenshot of the scene in the movie "Hackers" about Zero Cool crashing 1507 systems on Aug 10, 1988

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The upshot is that cities are safe and crime is down in both Europe and the US, and the whole narrative of a migration-driven rise in crime is identity-politics-driven bullshit and always has been www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

economist.com

Is Europe safer than America?

A novel dataset provides some surprising answers

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."

wired.com

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

Tweet from x.com by Kevin Schofield of HuffPost:

NEW: Kemi Badenoch says what former neo-Nazi Joshua Bonehill-Paine did was "appalling and abhorrent", suggests she wouldn't want him to be a Tory MP, but says it's OK for him to be a councillor because they only deal with things like "parking and putting out bins".

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Over the past 10 years, the misogyny of the manosphere has become more open and strident, but the big innovation seems to have been combining that conspiratorial misogyny with earnest self-help advice. Heartbreak and rejection leave people emotionally vulnerable, and the manosphere pitch often comes paired with benign advice about standing up for yourself, being mentally tough, or becoming physically active. But getting yourself together with the expectation that soon everyone you meet will be forced to respect you inevitably leads to disappointment.

When that disappointment sets in, the manosphere has an explanation: Can’t find a girlfriend? It’s because women who make their own living can no longer be forced into marrying guys they don’t like. Can’t find a job? It’s because undeserving women and minorities are being picked instead of you, even though you’re better. Feel bad about yourself? It’s because our feminized society deprived you of a life of meaningful toil, military adventure, and elevated social status. It is a bleak view of the world, a kind of male doomerism in which a meaningful life can be found only in the domination and exploitation of others.

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