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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“This is Evergreen State all over again!” I wail at the news that a white supremacist has been suspended, from my office on a campus where you can’t screen a documentary or host a talk about the history of Palestine

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

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Joe Spearing @joespearing.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

An eclipse and a meteor shower in the middle of a drought.... medieval peasants would be shitting themselves.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Burnham: "Social care in England is as unfair as American healthcare." It's a very good line.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Falconer: ".. the real importance of trying to get more young people into work.. also making sure the PIP system incentivises that" Except PIP isn't an out of work benefit, its a benefit to help with the extra costs of living with a disability, & plenty on people PIP do work

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A professor in Tufts University’s School of Engineering required one of his international graduate students to work an unpaid TA job this past spring semester. After she went to her union and blew the whistle, Tufts withdrew her from her program. A thread of rage. 1/

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Immigration went down, and they didn't even care. Time to continue taking their demands at face value, I guess.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

one thing i respect about the UK is they’ll choose a prime minister and then almost immediately turn around and be like “actually we fucked up, this guy sucks”

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Joe Spearing @joespearing.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Every 100 years or so an aggressive nationalist power has to sign a humiliating agreement in Versailles in which it agrees to providing reparations for starting an aggressive war and those are the rules of global politics

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Joe Spearing @joespearing.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

"Anti-anti-racism". Is there a... shorter way of saying that, maybe?"

Text from a post by the Spectator including the words "anti-anti-racism" about the Makerfield by-election.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 30/05/2026

It is often said that a “wave” or “tsunami” of technological change is heading our way. These metaphors are powerful because they shape our sense of what is reasonable, and what is unreasonable. What does AI as a "wave" imply is a reasonable course of action? (1/...)

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Joe Spearing @joespearing.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

PIP receipt does not depend on your employment or earnings. It is designed to increase financial support for those who need this help to do everyday tasks. That's the opposite of promoting "incapacity" or "non-participation". You should spent 15 minutes on Wikipedia before writing the next blog!

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Joe Spearing @joespearing.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

In a glorious moment of national unity, everyone agrees that these local election results confirm exactly what they believed yesterday.

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Joe Spearing @joespearing.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Starmer can chair a meeting. He can draft a minute. He can lead a team. He can override the rejected vetting of a close friend of the world's most famous pedophile for the role of the uk's most prestigious diplomatic position and then lie to parliament about it

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I don't think I ever posted this here, but last year GB News saw one of my infographics and asked me to appear on the show. I made my answer extremely clear: NO.

GB News: "dear team, [censored] here from GB News, hope all is well? I was wondering if someone from your team would come on the channel today? Thanks [censored]

Stats for Lefties: "Hi. I'm a disabled transgender woman and the daughter of an immigrant, so I would rather stick hot pokers in both my eyes and eat raw sewage than ever appear on GB news. Don't contact me again."

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Cartoon by Drew Sheneman

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Joe Spearing @joespearing.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I assume there will now be calls to nationalize the university of leciester in order to save these "highly skilled, well-paying, unionized jobs", or do these ones not count because women do them? thetab.com/2026/03/23/u...

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UK uni cancels offers of 300 students after axing half the arts and language courses

The uni is scrapping the Modern Languages and Film Studies programmes

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

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Dane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

of course it has anxiety, you’re training it on multiple generations of anxious peoples’ content

I stole this from someone who didn’t use alt text.

Alt text: a polymarket tweet that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18/02/2026

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

sort of unrelated to this point, though not entirely: the fact that there's such a thing as professors of rare moths etc is one of humanity's crowning achievements to date and this is what the right wants to take away from you

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Joe Spearing @joespearing.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Your policy is to make people from abroad litter pick for free to "earn" the right to stay in the communities they live in.

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Joe Spearing @joespearing.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I'm hearing that the frog has never been so furious as he is with the scorpion for stinging him as he carried him across the river.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is... www.ft.com/content/a23c...

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UK drops target for international student recruitment

Government to encourage education providers to open campuses overseas as it focuses on reducing migration

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

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Joe Spearing @joespearing.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The argument for a wealth tax is to contain wealth inequality, not to raise revenue. Either he's not read his opponents' arguments, or he has and he's being totally disingenuous. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber

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Joe Spearing @joespearing.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Yeah if you have any academic standards at all, this is a fail. At college level, you don't get to just "think" things. You have to have a reason for it. It's what makes academic work different to just "having an opinion".

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Joe Spearing @joespearing.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

“My daughter, who is autistic, does not sleep much so I am constantly exhausted. My body is in so much pain. I need to try to get some medication from the doctor to deal with this pain so that I will be able to work the extra hours.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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UK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled to

Woman cancels all benefits including disability living allowance for daughter after policy change announcement

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

He was making a list, And checking it twice. Was gonna find out who’s naughty and full of vice. Then President Trump had him murdered.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Remembering talking to a Chilean refugee who had finally been able to visit Chile after decades in UK. "It was nice, but it is a different country now." She had put down roots in the UK and raised a family. Her life was, and is, here. This is the human reality that Mahmood and Labour want to destroy

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

i now believe that jeffrey epstein killed himself because if i wrote like that i would kill myself

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

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Joe Spearing @joespearing.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Cutting PIP in order to increase labour supply amongst disabled people makes no sense because PIP doesn't come with work restrictions and isn't means-tested. Either the chancellor doesn't know that (unlikely) or she doesn't want to admit that she wants to cut PIP to save money.

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The case for tax rises is stronger & clearer than Reeves pretends. It's that, given our lack of productive capacity, we have an inflation problem, which means that the alternative to tax rises is either infeasible cuts in public spending or higher mortgage rates.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ. We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights. Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal

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Defend Kat Against Unjust Charges

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Aujourd’hui sort mon nouveau livre «Les milliardaires ne paient pas d’impôt sur le revenu et nous allons y mettre fin.»🧵

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Kirsten Grady @mrskgrady.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

A scorpion wanted to cross a river but couldn’t swim. He asked a frog for a ride. The frog said, “You’ll sting me.” The scorpion replied, “If I sting you, we both drown.” The frog thought, He wouldn’t sabotage himself. So he agreed.

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Joe Spearing @joespearing.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Was just canvassed by a reform activist who said it was not the party's policy to end indefinite leave to remain for everyone and that deporting my wife and mother of my daughter would be "crazy" and "we're not monsters". Has anyone told Nigel and Richard this?

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 16/10/2025

This is such a good corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "working-age welfare spending is exploding/out-of-control" narrative that more & more people seem to see as an incontrovertible fact www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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