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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 9h
This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13h
For LOTS OF REASONS I don’t think it is ever okay for a professor to date a student in their own department. It’s an obvious power imbalance and potentially disastrous for the student’s education and career. So it is real jarring and not fun to see it portrayed as a cute happy romance in a novel!
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15h
My three-year-old was watching the Jack Smith hearings yesterday when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why does the Senator think the nice bearded man was in Atlanta?" And when I told her "Because our Senate is filled with fucking idiots," she started crying.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16h
It’s notable that the purportedly liberal news outlet consigns Noem’s very well documented relationship with Lewandowski to the status of a disavowed rumor and buries it in the last paragraph of this report on her divorce filing. www.ms.now/news/kristi-...
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Kristi Noem files for divorce from Bryon Noem
The announcement of the separation comes six months after a bombshell tabloid photo leak of her husband, Bryon Noem.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 17h
🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 18h
Our compilation returns, examining the state of play when it comes to sentencing for driving offences committed towards cyclists in the UK... road.cc/news/augsept...
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 19h
An (inter)nationally important archive and library being moved to an industrial estate in Bonnyrigg so the existing site in central Edinburgh can be turned over to student housing is so very on trend.
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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 17h
*leaps out festooned in hi viz, reflectors & LEDs* Bicycle lights are an individual solution to a systemic problem! *turns off LEDs, covers self in hooded floor length black cloak & disappears into the night, secure that my absolute invisibility will thwart any & all attempts at apprehending me*
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 17h
Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative… bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/kemi-bad…
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Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 17h
🔴 NEW Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban By Byline Times Team Read below. ↓
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Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18h
They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”
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How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 20h
you broke it, you fix it
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026
Jesus Christ Cornell
What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 21h
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Clown Makeup Transformation
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 23h
Temperatures in the Central Pacific El Niño region are the hottest ever measured (top panel), and far above any other El Niño at this time of year. But, if you adjust for the warming of the global ocean, the current trajectory is not so different from other very strong events.
Two panel plot showing daily time series of temperature anomalies in the Central Pacific Nino3.4 region during the last four strongest El Niño events without and with correction for changes in global ocean mean temperature.
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 23h
A feature of post-war German democracy has been that the left has traditionally had far more of a firewall to the far left than the center right has had with the far right. The central role of anti-communism in Cold War West Germany created a structural asymmetry that has not been reckoned with.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23h
"In the past 24hrs 10 Palestinians have been killed.. the number is expected to rise" Hind Khoudary reports on Israels latest attacks in Gaza, including on a tent housing displaced people in Al Mawasi, a woman asleep in her house in the middle of the night, & someone fishing for food
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 23h
After the first one opened on London Road in 1876, public bath and wash houses rapidly became a key part of life in Glasgow, and by 1914, there were 26 of them spread right across the city. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #publicbathhouses #glasgowhistory
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23h
There was a chance here to look more grown up and it is entirely unsurprising that Badenoch did not take it.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Diabolical defending.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Have now slowly re-read the ruling, and it is even more damning than at first reading. The ruling pretty much sets out Manchester City was fraudulent on a systemic long-term basis. Not just mere non-compliance, but ‘concealments’ and ‘disguises’. Also some MCFC witnesses were ‘dishonest’.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21h
Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 21h
A *third* Byline Times journalist has now been barred from Conservative conference – Chief Reporter @josiahmortimer.bsky.social. It comes after Political Editor @adambienkov.bsky.social and the late, great David Hencke were barred last year. bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
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Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference
The National Union of Journalists described the bans as a threat to media freedom which "undermines the Conservative Party leader’s repeated pledge to fight for free speech"
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 23h
Yesterday the CEO described the (very exhaustive) ruling as "an opinion of the Premier League commission that is negative to our interests". Bizarre!
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 23h
"Shall we adopt this aggressive media and legal strategy?" - No. - No. "Thank you for your media and legal advice, but we are going to do it anyway."
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 23h
BREAKING: The Telegraph has just broken the news that Andy Burnham may want to rejoin the EU. On the day after Burnham's speech at 9:30am.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Even Farage has failed to tweet about Burnham's Brexit angle. Only about the triple lock – tweeted twice.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22h
The old hits start to sound stale after a while.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Sell It All Today - Margin Call
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is an outstanding point
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Plot twist. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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One of the five men arrested near RAF Fairford called 999 himself
He made the call almost an hour before a farmer also called police after seeing men in balaclavas.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
15 minutes later, they admitted their mistake and released him without any apology. He was in the area outside the Labour Party conference with his dog, his mum and his sister witnessing the arrests of over 150 peaceful sign-holders, and at no point did he hold a sign himself.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
UNLAWFUL ARREST On Sunday, police forcefully detained and handcuffed a young man under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act. They stripped him of clothing while dragging him across the floor. He had not committed any crime.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In terms of messaging, this is very positive, and a big shift from the nature-hatefest of the Starmer administration. Mind you, most tree-planting is unnecessary: I'd like to see much more emphasis on natural regeneration. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government
Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation…
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An annual report reveals how criminals are getting away with torturing and killing wildlife. In 2025, there were 2,149 reports of suspected wildlife crime, but 41 convictions. The Wildlife and Countryside Link report shows a stark reality: most wildlife crimes can be committed with total impunity.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 NEW Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations By Samantha Asumadu Read below. ↓
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also bizarre that the #BBC & ##Newsnight present the papers without ever calling the right-wing papers what they are: right-wing papers. Presenting them as somehow neutral judges.
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Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 01/08/2026
How did Denmark get from basically 0 to 80% new sale of EVs in 5 years? Here’s my slides from a recent presentation on what I think has been instrumental in achieving this.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Environmentalists Warn U.S. Running Out Of Small Wooded Areas Where Buddies Can Smoke Up theonion.com/environmentalists-warn…
Environmentalists Warn U.S. Running Out Of Small Wooded Areas Where Buddies Can Smoke Up
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump pardoned Jack Abramoff's old business partner in July. We went through the federal filings and found the man's money in eight Republican Senate campaigns. Six belong to sitting senators.
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Trump Pardoned Abramoff’s Partner. We Found His Money In Eight Republican Senate Campaigns.
Also: a congressman on his way out files 26 impeachment charges against Trump, a carpenter beats ICE in Manhattan, and farm country picks a side.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most swing state GOP Senate candidates took $$ from Jack Abramoff's now pardoned partner.
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Martin Price-Phillips @mpricephillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The driver happened to collide with a pedestrian in a pedestrian zone, no less.
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Car hits woman before ploughing into central Birmingham building
Police are appealing for anyone who witnessed the incident to get in touch.
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You're not safe from drivers anywhere.
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