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Julia LeeThorp

@julialt.bsky.social
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Wandering SAffer, retired professor of archaeological science interested in all things human, animal, vegetable and mineral

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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Heather Cox-Richardson’s @hcrichardson.bsky.social pithy summary of Trump’s threat to destroy the Kennedy Center unless he gets to “renovate” it and add his name in gold as a metaphor for his attitude to the USA: “Nice country you got there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.””
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Paul Krugman’s pithy summary of the USA’s self-immolation. An astonishing capitulation to a malignant, corrupt regime open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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How China Won the Iran War
Trump has shattered American power, and Beijing is picking up the pieces
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Chris Norman @chrisnorman80.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There once was an MP for Clacton Whose downfall gave me great satisfaction He had a face like a Gremlin And worked for the Kremlin Then got caught in a dodgy transaction
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Dollar Brand - Abdullah Ibrahim - Cape Jazz Guru. Some personal memories.
Hamburg  February 2025 Dollar Brand , as he will always be to me, not out of a lack of respect but because that is how he was known when we...
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Timely by Greenhaigh and colleagues wrt Hanta virus transmission, specifically urgent need to adopt precautions based on airborne transmission. It’s hard to believe that we having this debate again, ~6 years after same arguments with COVID open.substack.com/pub/trishgre...
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Respiratory protection and the precautionary principle in the current Andes virus outbreak
An open letter to the World Health Organization on 11th May 2026 by Don Milton, Trisha Greenhalgh, David Fisman, Amanda Kvalsvig, Lidia Morawska, Joe Vipond and Jonathan Samet
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Pete Thompson @pete-t.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Maybe someone needs to explain to the Daily Fail in very simple terms what the definition of democracy is, they seem to be struggling to understand.
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🌊💙Michelle💙🌊 @michelle1111nc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Arrest the 🍊 not the 🍋
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foadftw.bsky.social @foadftw.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Reminder that Alex Pretti demonstrated a bravery that the NYT has eluded in these dark days of trump tyranny.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
how far is Davos from Dignitas
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Off the scale bizarre, repetitive, resentful, ignorant, malevolent, boring, stream-of-consciousness nonsense. Amazed that the audience did not get up & leave. Guess who? A world of contrast to Mark Carney at the WEF yesterday
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
What if the MSM wrote about the goings-on in Trump’s USA in the same way as they report on events in African or Middle Eastern countries? This article provides a flavour that is spot-on and disturbing open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
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US Authoritarian Regime Executes Unarmed Civilian as Ruler Grows More Erratic, Isolated
What if we wrote about events in Trump’s America in the way that Western media describe African and Middle Eastern countries?
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Southern Pacific @southernpacific78.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I'm confused We are holding a foreign president for violating US law, but we can't hold our president for violating US law?
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Peter Horne @peterhorne.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Why can’t we see the unredacted Russia Report that Johnson kept under wraps until after the 2019 election.
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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Georgian protesters have now reached the Government Administration building, demanding an international investigation into Georgian Dream’s use of chemical agents during last year’s crackdowns — as revealed by the BBC. Day 374 of nonstop protests in Georgia. #theCamiteCase
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency." New analysis by @lgilbert.co ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 03/11/2025
What Zohran Mamdani means for the future of progressive politics You don’t fight hate with hate. You don’t win over their voters by being a watered-down version of the real deal. You have to forge your own identity and do your own thing northeastbylines.co.uk/news/opinion...
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What Zohran Mamdani means for the future of progressive politics
You don’t fight hate with hate. You don’t win over their voters by being a watered-down version of the real deal. You have to forge your own identity and do your own thing
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
What a fantastic and on the button idea!
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This interview is deeply disturbing This British Conservative Is Calling Out the UK’s Support for Israel open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
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This British Conservative Is Calling Out the UK’s Support for Israel
Journalist and author Peter Oborne also talks to Mehdi about Tony Blair being offered a role in Gaza, the UK ban on Maccabi hooligans, and the influence of Britain's own pro-Israel lobby.
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Bearded Vulture nests as archaeological sites, wonderful!
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
It’s pretty obvious that they did esp since the tide of denial on ongoing genocide is turning & authoritative UN report is now out. Beeg question is why they over-reached like that, they will have a hard time living it down
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Great article by Pam Jarvis, reminding us that we are all descended from immigrants. I’ve always sniggered at those who claim to be “pure” Anglo-Saxon Brits but, as she points out, what is sorely needed is better education on who we really are yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/immi...
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Immigration: who do we think we are?
How far back in your family do you have to go to find an immigrant ancestor?
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Makes sense to me across the pond open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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If Democrats got off their asses, here’s what they’d be doing now
Nine critical steps
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
He just doesn't get it, does he? You can't beat populists by copying their narrative and thinking you can do it better. You beat them by creating an alternative narrative that appeals to people's hopes, intellects, and feelings of shared humanity.
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Why indeed? We need to change the power balance
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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allie10.bsky.social @allie10.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Keep it going 🗽🇺🇸⚖️🇺🇦🇨🇦💙🩷🍀
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Bjørn (No ALT? No RP) @sarcasticsmall.eurosky.social · 20/07/2025
It has become the Don't Annoy Israel Act.
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Ann Harries @annharries.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
More likely in Trump’s case that there is no blood going to his brain.
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Old Hobbit🐸 @oldhobbit.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Time for the Tax on Wealth Acquired Trinkets, also known as the TWAT tax.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
111 BBC staff have signed a letter to their bosses saying "The BBC is often performing PR for Israel." and it is unacceptable. Why is this allowed? The BBC Board should be fired today. Like/RT if you agree.
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Richard Cubitt @richardrcubitt.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Strikes me that the statue being pulled down was the most historic thing which ever happened to it, and did far more to raise awareness of actual history, than erecting it did.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🧵 I’ve talked a lot about disordered discourse, conspiracies, polarisation, denialism. But maybe the better question is: why does this keep happening? Why does our shared reality keep fracturing? What are the drivers I talk about as a dimension of disordered discourse?
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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I finally had a read of the MAHA report today, and aside from the obvious use of generative AI and false citations, what strikes me is how remarkably unprofessional and amateurish the document is. It's just wild garbage 1/n
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Genius, it’s what we expect from Harvard 👏🏼👏🏼
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
“Hard Brexit was xenophobic, economically illiterate and narrow-minded. An apology from the Brexit lobby is too much to hope for. Silence might be a relief. An appalling mistake was made. It awaits correction.” Yes. Such damage and waste. For nothing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort | Simon Jenkins
Keir Starmer is not blameless when it comes to Brexit, but he is moving in the right direction. Even the Tories attacking him know that, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
How bizarre, I would say that these Western leaders have been emboldening Netanyahu, for years by always giving him the benefit of the doubt. + heavy military aid. With terrible consequences www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Netanyahu accuses leaders of Britain, France and Canada of ‘emboldening Hamas’
The Israeli prime minister made the statement after the leaders called for a halt to the Gaza offensive and an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
What a lot of people are wondering!!
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 19/05/2025
Social media this morning is a zombie apocalypse of dinosaur Tory politicians and right wing hangers-on hankering after the nasty Brexit wars of the last decade. Our country has moved on!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Remote control.
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Larry Hochman @larryhochman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I will stack up Carl Sagan or Neil deGrasse Tyson against any - and I mean ANY - religious figure for wisdom, perspective and compassion.
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Rainbow Trout @kathyfreeman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... The similarities are terrifying. Looks like Trump/Stephen Miller et al based their plans on Hitler’s, right down to the details and even the excuses
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Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs
By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards.
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The benefits of a much closer relationship with the rest of Europe dwarf any deal with India or Trump. It’s time to get serious with the EU and consign Brexit era dogmas to the dustbin of history. 🇪🇺👍
Graph showing how a better deal with the EU dwarfs what can be achieved with Trump or India.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The same kind of folks who spent years complaining about masks that slowed the spread of disease are now wearing masks to facilitate the spread of fascism
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Julia LeeThorp @julialt.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My God this is catastrophic for science. WTF do Trump & his minions know about science, they’re literally killing it. Even if stopped now it will take years to get back up Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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