Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy. 14533184 533
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I am so thrilled to share that my next book, "Fill the Earth and Subdue It: Religion, Power, and American Pronatalism" is under contract with Princeton University Press. My goal is to have it in your hands by early 2028. @princetonupress.bsky.social @sssreligion.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social 911613 116
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Big development: Dems are growing increasingly bullish on sweeping the big House races in South Texas. A DCCC official tells me internal polling shows Trump's approval cratering in key districts there: TX-15: 36% TX-28: 28% TX-34: 35% This and much more on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2161...newrepublic.comTrump’s Weird Tirade on Midterms Accidentally Reveals Key GOP WeaknessAs Trump’s monologue about his Texas midterm convention exposes a problem for the GOP, a Democratic operative argues that his collapse in South Texas is a real tell about what’s coming. 14494126 494
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We're officially entering the Fuhrerbunker phase of the Trump presidency 1201310330 1.3K
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Think this gets at something quite important: 'If sustained evidence of changing public opinion can justify reopening a fundamental constitutional question in Northern Ireland, why shouldn’t [it] at least allow us to reconsider Britain’s relationship with the EU?' 1931880 318
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026With Trump unleashing insane tirades against regulating AI, Obama just urged Dems to adopt a comprehensive position on it, warning that failure to act now will be "dangerous." Trump's malevolence has given Dems a big opening. They should seize on it. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2154...newrepublic.comThe Real Reason Obama’s Harsh Warning to Dems About AI Is So UnnervingMost Democrats have more or less the right position on AI. But their arguments are way too narrow to dramatize the real stakes. They should aim higher. 541827620 1.8K
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026share.google/AWA0QowotTF2... The RNLI is one of those institutions that make me proud to be British - join me in donating to show your supportshare.googleDonate to the RNLI and help save lives at seaYour donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here. 321157332 1.2K
Jeannette Smyth 🌻 @jeannettesmyth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Trump's mental deterioration increasing and reportedly noticeable. #MidtermElections 000 0
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/08/2026You think Trump can’t possibly become any worse of a monster, and then you find out his administration is sending America’s wild horses to slaughterhouses. What the Trump administration is doing to our wild horses is absolutely disgusting. 🤮 There has to be a line. 34636051192 3.6K
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Farage increasingly providing the kind of dividing lines which will spark cheers in No.10. 'Vote for us to continue homelessness'. 48754164 754
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comUlez led to better lung size and function among London children, study findsResearchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone 382209606 2.2K
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again. 3742381097 4.2K
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Yesterday #sophiefromromania was brave enough to go on the beach until she was scared by the sound of a wave. Today she seemed to decide she loved it. Did some zoomies and even dipped her toe almost in the waves. 53129246 1.3K
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This is an attack on the priciple of an informed public, a subject on which I wrote my dissertation in 1986. pressthink.org/j/rosen-arch... "Truth Social’s Early-Access Scheme Is Indefensible." www.nationalreview.com/2026/08/trut... 624589 245
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Every once in a while you win one. roanoke.com/news/local/g... 1328539 285
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 06/08/2026 Stop assuming GDP is an indicator of prosperity ft.trib.al/OGKDQDV | opinionft.trib.alStop assuming GDP is an indicator of prosperityBillboard-worthy rates of economic growth mask high levels of wealth and income inequality 47621 76
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026There's been a real failure on the part of progressive leaders this summer to link the weather and Net Zero in the public mind. Most people get it, but the consensus is crumbling and it would be useful to reinforce it. 551177295 1.2K
Jeannette Smyth 🌻 @jeannettesmyth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...nytimes.comAuthor of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key ChapterA dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward. 010 1
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Re-reading EM Forster's 'The Life to Come': stories of love and desire mostly unpublished in his lifetime, released only after his death. They have an honesty his novels could only gesture towards. Essential for anyone who admires Forster: great writer, great humanist. 3699 69
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026It's depressing that this moved me so much, but did. First time I've heard a politician praise a group of immigrants, without caveat, for a long while. 641804374 1.8K
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Celebrate the final day of Keir Starmer with our no-holds-barred assessment of two years of waste and squandered opportunity. What did he do right, if anything? Why did we get him so wrong? And what can we learn when we look ahead to the next prime minister? 5118935 189
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I mean, if this ever got to court, she would struggle to explain this message 1818830 188
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026A regime built on a monstrous lie 1230440 304
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Oh, sore loser and sour grapes is good framing. 613626 136
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride 1112270718 2.3K
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026All we have is each other: beautiful little video for Humanists UK by Janet Ellis youtu.be/D1_gSjvV8KI?...youtu.beAll we have is each other | Janet Ellis, Humanists UK PresidentYouTube video by Humanists UK 721944 219
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The instinctive reaction right now is lazy, sleep-walking cynicism, or sullen don't-give-me-hope despair. But the truth is: someone with very good communication skills, the right diagnosis and a reforming zeal is about to become prime minister. That seems pretty fucking encouraging to me. 3249045 490
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I’m pleased to say (as its President Elect) that @resmedia.bsky.social board of trustees agreed on Friday that the Society will stop using X (FYI @sundersays.bsky.social ) 241102119 1.1K
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Bit grim, but this is a very useful graph for why we are more likely than not to rejoin the EU. 46656135 656
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Authoritarian Rhetorical Tricks Used to Prevent Voting open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...open.substack.comAuthoritarian Rhetorical Tricks Used to Prevent VotingLet's take a closer look at the tricks supporting the "SAVE" Act 14927 49
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Finally! "Not the odds, but the stakes" is consenus thinking. Columbia Journalism Review: "The larger consensus among everyone I talked to here is that many of the conventions that shape US political reporting are outdated or should never have been employed at all." www.cjr.org/feature/out-... 1015958 159
Jeannette Smyth 🌻 @jeannettesmyth.bsky.social · 12/06/2026David Hockney. Ciao, bello. Only you, Mike Davis and Eve Babitz (RIP) ever clocked the modernity that is Los Angeles. I am picturing the three of you eating a legendary 40-course Basque meal under an arbor in Bakersfield, which according to Babitz, was paradise. archive.ph/HcJlb 241 4
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Starmer won't prevent far-right riots because he will not take on X. He won't ramp up defence in the face of Trump and Putin because he refuses to take hard financial decisions. He has failed to protect Britain against its enemies - foreign and domestic iandunt.substack.com/p/swirling-i...iandunt.substack.comSwirling into chaos: No.10's inertia threatens national securityFrom riots in Belfast to invasions from Moscow, the UK is failing. It cannot prepare for conflict or protect its citizens. 59862259 862
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same. 8136031128 3.6K
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 07/06/2026The BBC 10 o’clock news says the right wing idea of ethnic minorities being given preferential treatment in criminal justice is likely to become a “growing fault line in our politics” WITHOUT POINTING OUT THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What’s the point of the news if it doesn’t correct disinformation? 972709801 2.7K
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Stop making me like the pope this is so fucked up 891650231 1.7K
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Here's the letter: "We are current and former journalists, professors and advocates who oppose the proposed merger between Paramount-Skydance and Warner Bros... "The merger would open the door to improper political meddling in journalists’ editorial decisions." media.freedom.press/media/docume... 25113 51
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Excellent, thorough piece on the perverse impact of UK's restrictive attitude to migration. Government claims it wants to improve economic outcomes and encourage integration -and is achieving precisely the opposite. (draws on @migobs.bsky.social/my research) www.economist.com/britain/2026...economist.comBritain has crushed immigration, and harmed itselfNobody seems to have noticed 9276118 276
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Blair's ideas are either vacuous, or commercially suspect, or irrelevant to the modern period. What a sad end to the most talented politician of his generation inews.co.uk/opinion/tony...inews.co.ukTony Blair's downfall is complete - what a sad, irrelevant endHis ideas are either vacuous, or commercially suspect, or irrelevant to the modern period 98865174 865
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 27/05/20263. There is no real policy on energy here. Which reflects the failure to recognise the real pressure on bills is twofold. Our - reliance on hydrocarbons - need for investment in energy generation/distribution (in part because of a criminal lack of investment in 2010s & 2000s) 720921 209
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/05/2026To suceed as a project Trumpism likely needs both core constituencies and irregular non-MAGA voters brought in by economic dissatisfaction/his cultural aura. But it may be that this coalition can't hold together under the conditions unleashed by Trumpist governing: newrepublic.com/article/2108... 1143474 434
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026In case you missed it earlier in the week... 817949 179
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026"Each pseudo-scoop is as ephemeral as a mayfly. But who can resist?" David Remnick comments on reporters calling Trump's cellphone for a handy exclusive late, late into the night. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Irresistible. 1613941 139
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Asymmetry between the major parties fries the circuits of the mainstream press. When one party powers itself through a non-stop attack on basic journalism, while the other bids for favorable coverage in a once-normal way, any "both sides" newsroom collapses in its logic. Are we clear on that? 1/ 429880 298
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 31/12/2025An absolute must to read and ponder. Right through to the end. By Spencer Ackerman. "Weiss simply has no idea what it took to report this story, and even less about the value of what her reporter delivered. Ellison would not have installed someone who did." www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...forever-wars.comWatching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBSNotes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked 4295117 295
Jeannette Smyth 🌻 @jeannettesmyth.bsky.social · 09/11/2025One way to #Resist is to support the very best local indie journalism you can. Mine comes in the shape of @haussamen.bsky.social. In the spirit of great indie reporting, check out this excellent local enterprise story by @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...sheffieldtribune.co.ukA London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrivedExclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says 030 3
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Yes, the people on your screen observing on the election should know that there's an alternative model for how to do it. It's called the citizens agenda. I have been writing about it, and advocating for it, since 2010. pressthink.org/2010/08/the-... Errol Louis was alluding to it last night: 015944 159
Reposted by Jeannette Smyth 🌻Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about. During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere. 76959376 959