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Jeannette Smyth 🌻

@jeannettesmyth.bsky.social
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The truth is mighty, and it shall prevail. "Not the moment we might have chosen, but the one we were made for." -- possibly G.K. Chesterton

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I 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
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Big 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...
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Trump’s Weird Tirade on Midterms Accidentally Reveals Key GOP Weakness
As 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.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We're officially entering the Fuhrerbunker phase of the Trump presidency
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Think 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?'
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
With 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...
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The Real Reason Obama’s Harsh Warning to Dems About AI Is So Unnerving
Most 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.
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
share.google/AWA0QowotTF2... The RNLI is one of those institutions that make me proud to be British - join me in donating to show your support
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Jeannette Smyth 🌻 @jeannettesmyth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trump's mental deterioration increasing and reportedly noticeable. #MidtermElections
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You 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.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Farage increasingly providing the kind of dividing lines which will spark cheers in No.10. 'Vote for us to continue homelessness'.
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ulez 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/...
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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Look, 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.
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yesterday #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.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This 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...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Every once in a while you win one. roanoke.com/news/local/g...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 06/08/2026
Stop assuming GDP is an indicator of prosperity ft.trib.al/OGKDQDV | opinion
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Stop assuming GDP is an indicator of prosperity
Billboard-worthy rates of economic growth mask high levels of wealth and income inequality
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There'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.
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Jeannette Smyth 🌻 @jeannettesmyth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
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Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter
A 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.
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Re-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.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It'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.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Celebrate 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?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I mean, if this ever got to court, she would struggle to explain this message
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A regime built on a monstrous lie
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Oh, sore loser and sour grapes is good framing.
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Jeannette Smyth 🌻 @jeannettesmyth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A change is gonna come.
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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
All we have is each other: beautiful little video for Humanists UK by Janet Ellis youtu.be/D1_gSjvV8KI?...
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All we have is each other | Janet Ellis, Humanists UK President
YouTube video by Humanists UK
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The 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.
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I’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 )
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Squee!
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Bit grim, but this is a very useful graph for why we are more likely than not to rejoin the EU.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Authoritarian Rhetorical Tricks Used to Prevent Voting open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
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Authoritarian Rhetorical Tricks Used to Prevent Voting
Let's take a closer look at the tricks supporting the "SAVE" Act
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Finally! "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-...
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Jeannette Smyth 🌻 @jeannettesmyth.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
David 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
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Starmer 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...
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Swirling into chaos: No.10's inertia threatens national security
From riots in Belfast to invasions from Moscow, the UK is failing. It cannot prepare for conflict or protect its citizens.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The 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?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Stop making me like the pope this is so fucked up
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Here'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...
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Excellent, 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...
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Britain has crushed immigration, and harmed itself
Nobody seems to have noticed
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Blair'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...
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Tony Blair's downfall is complete - what a sad, irrelevant end
His ideas are either vacuous, or commercially suspect, or irrelevant to the modern period
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
3. 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)
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
To 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...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
In case you missed it earlier in the week...
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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.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Asymmetry 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/
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
An 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...
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Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
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Jeannette Smyth 🌻 @jeannettesmyth.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
One 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...
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A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Yes, 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:
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
New 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.
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