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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I'm willing to bet that American ignorance of African history is sufficient that a lot of people think that this is a description of actual historical events.

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Tirana Albania is out again tonight! Trump and Kushner out of Albania!🇦🇱

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

AMLO and Claudia Sheinbaum have lifted 13.5 million people out of poverty in the last 8 years, but NYT wants us to know that Mexico “can’t go on this way.”

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, is brilliant on the Turkish forces. Andrew Mango's biography of Ataturk provides a lot of interesting material on his protagonist's role in the battle.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A central problem is that many American investors, both brokers and retail, are operating on the basis of a stupendous ignorance of supply chain realities and global politics. This creates wildly over-optimistic share prices, and thus a false sense that everything will 'work out'.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Yes, people are still going to fly - just not to the USA.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The Summer of 1929 was glorious.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

In April 1653, Oliver Cromwell told the Long Parliament: "You have sat there too long for any good you have been doing. Depart I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!" That seems like the appropriate quote for today.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

To add an international perspective, the University of Oxford owns three major farms and a thousand acre forest.

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

In the UK, Australia and elsewhere in the Anglophone world 'jabs' has been standard slang for over a century and is not at all pejorative. But I can see why it might 'hit differently' in the US where 'shots' has been the equivalent.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Oh yes, Politico, a publication that 'totally' has the interests of the Democratic Party at heart.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

He has an MD. Therefore he's a Doctor. I used to like McMorrow, and I'm sorry she's now decided to get down in the gutter.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Jeff Bezos can absorb the coming $8 a gallon gas price, but people who drive themselves to work cannot.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

During World War I more American soldiers were killed by the Great Flu than died in combat.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Well, if it makes you feel better about your complete subservience to the power-holders, have at it.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Sociology has been going downhill ever since Weber died in 1920.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

"All the Quotas have been Exceeded" - Stalinist slogan.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

That's yet another reason why we need a wealth tax on billionaires.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 09/04/2026

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Any Democratic politician who follows your suggestion will find that there is a large number of normally reliable Democratic voters who will no longer vote for him/her. You don't appreciate how angry much of the base is with the party establishment.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Thanks to MS Now for the endless interviews with failed establishment Dem pundits. No wonder everybody's watching YouTube videos.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

He has more viewers than MS Now.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This post remarkably combines ignorance of the history of warfare with ignorance of the history of the nation-state.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

There was an old German philosopher who made that same point, but for the life of me I can't remember the guys' name.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

They are referring to the disease called Bilharzia. Tiny snails live in stagnant water; their larvae burrow into human skin and develop into parasite worms. Historically it's been a big killer in Africa, although it's now treatable. But mosquitos kill far more than any other creature via Malaria.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This will have the effect of banning at least five of Shakespeare's plays.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The kind of handwriting that I want to see is Billionaires' signatures on big checks to the IRS.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 25/03/2026

You know, once a jury has made its decision you are extremely justified in dropping the "allegedly"

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Yeah, Scotland, the country that his ancestors left because of land dispossession and mass poverty, and which only has a decent standard of living because of reforms initiated by the labor movement, which he hates.

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Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Quelle belle victoire ! Ce soir Paris a choisi. Et Paris a choisi l'avenir avec la gauche démocratique et l’écologie. Merci aux Parisiennes et aux Parisiens. Je remercie les électrices et les électeurs qui se sont déplacés en nombre pour exprimer leur choix sur l'avenir de Paris.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Special shout-out to the 17 Democratic Party Senators who voted to confirm her because 'Bipartisanship'.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Like the US, the UK lacks proportional representation, which is the only rational electoral system. But the UK has viable third parties, whereas in the US the duopoly has managed to keep the lid on them. The result is that UK elections are decided by pluralities, not majorities.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Colonel McCormick's Tribune was the journalistic mainstay of 1930s / early 1940s American opposition to involvement in Europe, right up to the moment that Hitler declared war on the United States. McCormick published leaked US war plans three days before Pearl Harbor.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Be an Al Green Don’t be a Hakeem Jeffries

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NPR @npr.org · 24/02/2026

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Australia has a right to its share of tepid centrist horse-race political takes.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Over 80% of Americans believe in God. If you think that religion should not matter in politics, that's fine. But if you think it does not matter, you are out of touch with reality.

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Jon H @jonhobserver.bsky.social · 21/02/2026