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Jon Forsyth

@jforsyth89.bsky.social
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history, space, & sci-fi nerd. political anorak. long-suffering, long-distance Swindon Town FC supporter. living in Scotland.

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The Edinburgh Reporter @edinreporter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Police seek help to trace teenager who has been missing for five days Police in Edinburgh are appealing for the public’s help to trace 15-year-old James Boyle, who has been reported missing from the Trinity area since 11am on Wednesday 23rd of September 2026 ....
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Police seek help to trace teenager who has been missing for five days
Police in Edinburgh are appealing for the public’s help to trace 15-year-old James Boyle, who has been reported missing from the Trinity area since 11am on Wednesday 23rd of September 2026 . He is a white male 15 years of age and of slim build. When last seen he was wearing a black North Face beanie hat, black trailburge jacket, black shorts and black trainers. Anyone with information regarding James’ whereabouts is asked to contact Police Scotland on 101, quoting reference 1851 25th September 2026
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 04/02/2026
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) 

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
That heaviness you feel after events like yesterday is real. We've all accumulated a lot of mental and emotional weight in the first year of Trump's disastrous presidency. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physic...
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The physical weight of Trumpism
That heaviness you feel, that drag on your mental health, that drain on your emotional energy and lethargy in the face of world events, like yesterday, is real.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
They think they can murder anyone. Don’t forget, Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose any votes. They shot a scared mom in the face three times. And they’re lying about her, calling her a domestic terrorist. They think they can literally do anything. Anything.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was an “ultimate sin,” said one of the people.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” this person said.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/01/2026
For those of us not in the cult, this is what we hear when anyone from the Trump administration speaks. For the people in the back, this is satire and so well done…
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/01/2026
Watch this. Watch again. "This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/01/2026
Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/01/2026
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 03/01/2026
Exactly one month ago.
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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
“This has happened so many times that I’ve lost count,” a senior U.S. official said. “This is literally killing them. Death by a thousand cuts.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Gift link. This is terrifying.
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The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership (Gift Article)
As President Trump sought a peace deal and Vladimir V. Putin sought victory, factions in the White House and Pentagon bled the Ukrainian war effort.
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Deborah Avant @deborahavant.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Important article by @maxboot.bsky.social. I am hearing a great deal of both discomfort (from those still serving) and disbelief (from those now retired). Those who were sure the U.S. military would resist unlawful orders are now much less so. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The Dilemma of Duty Under Trump
What his assault on the U.S. military means for America.
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NASAWATCH @nasawatch.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Garrett Reisman Sees Fear And Uncertainty At NASA "I’m a former astronaut: NASA workers are afraid, and safety is at risk" by Garrett Reisman www.thespacereview.com/article/5060/1
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
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It’s time to have a serious conversation about Trump’s health
Six questions worth digging into more.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Almost every day there’s a Trump scandal that skates by that in any other moment of presidential history would launch endless follow-up stories, congressional investigations, and sink an administration. I zeroed in on just two of them from this week: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-watergat...
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A Watergate Everyday
Two scandals just this week that are worse than what Nixon did.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
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Jon Forsyth @jforsyth89.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh giving off ‘not entirely extinct volcano’ vibes yesterday.
Smoke from a wildfire appears to rise from the summit of Arthur’s Seat, an extinct volcano in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a “secret police,” with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...
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ICE believes it will never face accountability again
The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
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AWS enters into 'strategic partnership' with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain | TechCrunch
Amazon says it'll work with Humain, the AI company recently launched by Saudi Arabia’s ruler, to invest '$5 billion-plus' in a strategic partnership.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/04/2025
Rather than attended the dignified transfer of the remains of four U.S. soldiers killed on his watch, Trump will be dining with his Saudi golf buddies.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
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Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
100 years ago Saturday the NYT ran a story that did not hold up well at all. www.nytimes.com/1924/12/21/a...
Headline: HITLER TAMED BY PRISON. 
BERLIN, Dec. 20 — Adolph Hitler, once the demi-god of the reactionary extremists, was released on parole from imprisonment at Fortress Landsberg, Bavaria, today and immediately left in an auto for Munich. He looked a much sadder and wiser man today than last Spring when he, with Ludendorff and other radical extremists, appeared before a Munich court charged with conspiracy to overthrow the Government. 

His behavior during imprisonment convinced the authorities that, like his political organization, known as the Volkischer, was no longer to be feared. It is believed he will retire to private life and return to Austria, the country of his birth.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
If anything, we’re probably under-imagining how disruptive and different the next decade or generation of America will be. I sketch out here two scenarios (not mutually exclusive) about the peril and challenge ahead: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/two-scenar...
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Two scenarios for the years ahead
What if America Doesn’t Meet This Moment?
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