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Jabberwock

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#LCFC Fan, interested in UK and US politics and global current affairs. A sucker for those who can present data well. Play #fpl, #aoe2, and (in bursts) #chess

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/08/2026
New from me: Britain’s graduate earnings premium is falling, cue “too many go to university!” But non-university outcomes are also bad, cue “we must reform vocational routes!” Both miss the point: people used to think education drove economic outcomes, but the economy drives educational outcomes.
Chart showing that US workers who are functionally illiterate earn roughly the same per hour as the average British worker
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/08/2026
I'm not an economist but my back of the envelope math suggests that Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI can't all simultaneously sell $30 trillion dollars worth of enterprise solutions to a global economy where the sum total of all economic activity currently adds up to under $120t.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 25/08/2026
see you're going to read the headline and you're going to think "hmm, but how bad can it be" and then you're going to click on the link and go OH, OH QUITE BAD YEAH
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/08/2026
Woah.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 09/08/2026
For sure, though the most important change driving the gap is UK productivity stagnating and wages actively falling. Britain is more exceptional than the US here
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Dang they really got a category for everything
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Louis C.K. Wins Grammy for First Special Since Sexual Misconduct Allegations
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 30/06/2026
As called on TV Trece in Paraguay:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
And then President Trump is going to beat up Iran's dad in front of the whole school and then President Trump is going to take us all out for McDonalds and then President Trump is finally going to tell me that he loves me and then
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Jabberwock @j4bberwock.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Few sources of national pride these days… but nobody does election photos better than Britain.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
SpaceX market cap $2.1tn Microsoft market cap $2.8tn SpaceX revenue ~$20bn Microsoft revenue ~$300bn Incredible.
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Jabberwock @j4bberwock.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Allowing one person to hoard that many resources is surely an indication of a failing society?
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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It's important that people understand that this is the mechanism by which monetary policy is supposed to work. The final step is 'unemployment will rise, therefore workers will be less likely to ask for a pay rise. Wage growth will weaken, so firms won't need to raise prices to defend margins'
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Wes Streeting is right
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Labour has done a great deal of damage to itself and the country by making “win over a caricature of Reform voters” and “panicked stakeholder management” its only governing priority. Time to make “win over a caricature of Green voters” and “panicked stakeholder management” the aim instead.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 07/05/2026
Unluckiest alleged phone thief in London. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Met police arrest man over theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone
Suspect, 28, is accused of selling the device that belonged to Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff and contained WhatsApp messages about Peter Mandelson
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The 2025 numbers are really striking. www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Da...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/03/2026
Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle." trib.al/NcbpdiX
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geekysteven @geekysteven.com · 30/03/2026
your grandparents voting for reagan
Coop from Interstellar piloting a spaceship and saying "This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years"
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
FT exclusive: The UK government is on the verge of fully nationalising British Steel, almost a year on from using emergency legislation to take control of the business www.ft.com/content/f885...
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UK government on verge of full nationalisation of British Steel
Talks with Chinese owner Jingye continue while losses mount
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Compared to a month ago: UK 2yr yield +98bp, FTSE All Share down 8.3% German 2yr +67bp, DAX down 10.6% US 2yr +54bp, S&P 500 down 5.7%. Proper moves. Hard to say markets aren’t taking this seriously but also hints at differing degrees of pain.
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Jabberwock @j4bberwock.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
What a day for Ipswich to have a sale on their Black Shirts
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Trumpton Fire Brigade ultra @captainflack.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Hearing Ipswich Town have renamed their stadium Deportman Road
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Hate to say this, but UK gilts look grisly. Trump just cancelled most of what you want, sorry.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23/03/2026
Four years into a war launched by a 70 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power, an 76 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power convinced a 79 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power that they needed to bomb Iran to take out an 86 year old man wo...
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I think there is a genuine problem here. Big US houses unlikely to publish research suggesting the policy of the President has materially messed up the global economy.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Trump: “A great war historian told me today, "Nobody would have thought you could do that much damage in that little time."”
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Pretty staggering that the FT Trump interview opens with ‘if NATO doesn’t help us sort this mess, there’ll be problems’ and ends with ‘Russia might be helping target American soldiers, but really that’s sort of fair enough - we started it’. www.ft.com/content/1ca6...
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
6th March/14th March BBC lead stories.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It’s almost like Putin and Netanyahu control our foreign policy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/03/2026
a slurring Trump in new video on American troops killed by Iran: “Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is. Likely be more.“
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
BBC *finally* report on the dozens of Iranian schoolgirls killed — about 32h later.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
interesting that new Green MP Hannah Spencer talks almost entirely about public services, cost of living, NHS, the grind of making ends meet.... and hardly ever mentions ecological/environmental issues.... this is the pivot that scares Labour the most
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CNN @cnn.com · 19/02/2026
A large banner of Donald Trump was hung outside of the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, DC, emphasizing the White House’s control over the nation’s top law enforcement branch that once pursued criminal prosecutions against the president. cnn.it/4cBCqW7
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Jabberwock @j4bberwock.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
An unusual moment of pride in Britain today, the sight of Prince Andrew being arrested showing that here the law still applies to the powerful. Though it is still stunning to me that not a single Epstein client has been charged with child sex offences.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/01/2026
Trump's new pick for Fed Chair makes an appearance in today's Epstein Files release:
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/01/2026
Whoa. This is from an FBI email with the subect "Re: Epstein - Cellmate Interview" Here are the summaries provided by the FBI agent.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/01/2026
The new Epstein files production features numerous allegations made against Donald Trump and others.
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Jabberwock @j4bberwock.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
What is happening in America is terrifying, and I honestly feel slightly nervous pointing to it in a public forum using an anonymously named account. Tells you all you need to know.
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Zach Rosenberg @zachinflight.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bearwitness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I’m really quite surprised at the BBC website today. ‘Here is a video, some people say it does not show what it very obviously shows’ is not how you report this.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.
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The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
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