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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We tested people living near a chemical plant in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire. 70% of people tested had levels of PFAS in their blood that, in the US, would be classed as 'high-risk' for adverse health effects. 1 person had the highest levels of PFAS ever recorded in anyone's blood in the UK.

Our PFAS pollution story on the front page of the Times today

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The insidious nature of PFAS pollution - people who've only ever tried to do the best for their family's health realising something harmful has crept in. ITV News covered the tests we ran on PFAS levels in people's blood in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire: www.itv.com/news/2026-09...

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The proposed ban on non-essential use of PFAS in the EU is being fought by the chemicals industry on a scale, "far bigger than anything the tobacco industry have been able to pull together." share.google/r69snPliLy5N...

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Industry using ‘tobacco playbook’ to fend off ‘forever chemicals’ regulation

Industry-funded research and exaggerated claims litter arguments made by fluoropolymer industry against stricter regulation

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You can hear his full interview, here: BBC Radio 4 - The World Tonight, Blood tests in Lancashire reveal cancer-causing chemicals share.google/I2CicJIBfhhL...

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BBC Radio 4 - The World Tonight, Blood tests in Lancashire reveal cancer-causing chemicals

People living near a factory have higher levels of a so-called 'forever chemical'

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Toby Perkins, MP, Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, was on Radio 4 last night to discuss our findings about PFAS in people's blood in Lancashire. Here, he outlines the sort of PFAS regs he'd like to see in the UK - somewhat akin to the proposed ban on non-essential PFAS use in the EU 👇🏾

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 23/09/2026

The White House launching "Trump TV" using taxpayer funds is propaganda, and a federal crime. @cerin.bsky.social and @rachelegoodman.bsky.social explain the law barring taxpayer-funded propaganda media and what the fallout could look like. ➡️ Read the full analysis: protdem.org/4dLXvwP

A document titled "If you can keep it" features a headline "Trump TV is propaganda — and a crime" dated September 22, 2026, with the subheading "The 'Anti-Publicity & Propaganda Rider' explained." Below are images of a phone displaying a "TRUMP TV" website and a person in a vehicle seen through an open window. An American flag icon is at the top right.

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Pascal Sabino @pascalsabino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Voters nationwide have used initiatives to protect abortion rights, legalize weed & raise the minimum wage. In response, GOP politicians have attacked the people's initiative & referendum powers. So voters in MT & MO are now aiming to safeguard that power by declaring a right to direct democracy:

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To Protect Direct Democracy, Two States Mull a New Approach: Name It As a Right - Bolts

After years of attacks on voters’ power to take matters into their own hands, democracy advocates are going on the offensive in Montana and Missouri. They’ve placed constitutional amendments on... Rea...

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 23/09/2026

Hiag Brown works for a violence intervention program in Portland and sees how this group can defuse conflict after a shooting. “You now have somebody that can walk you through that process of helping you disengage from the gangs and walk away.”

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In Portland, Violence Interrupters Struggle to Keep a Steady Foothold - Bolts

Funding cuts have threatened the work of community groups that work outside of law enforcement to support crime victims and prevent more violence.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 22/09/2026

Sarah George, a reform prosecutor in Vermont, ordered her staff to visit a prison, hoping it would make them think twice before seeking a long sentence. She won her primary last month to serve another term.

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With Latest Win, Progressive Vermont Prosecutor Looks to Double Down on Reforms - Bolts

Over nearly a decade in office, Burlington’s chief prosecutor Sarah George has pursued a platform of restorative justice and dialing back low-level prosecutions.

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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For @lpeblog.bsky.social I wrote about why "bring your own power" is a false solution to the problem of datacenter energy demand and why municipalization (public ownership and control) of regional transmission organizations is necessary to protect ratepayers and accelerate decarbonization.

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The Neoliberal Grid is in Crisis

To protect customers from rising electricity prices, public officials are urging data center developers to supply their own power. But this approach risks privatizing the power grid…

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026

As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

HEY EVERYONE - NEW REPORT!!! NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate. We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record: ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 15/09/2026

Additional international support will also be needed in Djibouti to ensure that refugees arriving from Yemen can continue to access reception, protection and essential services. www.unhcr.org/news/press-r...

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 15/09/2026

The fighting has uprooted families across Al Hodeidah, Ta’iz, Lahj, Aden, Abyan, Marib, Al Dhaleh and Shabwah, raising concerns about further displacement inside Yemen and additional refugee movements if hostilities intensify.

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 15/09/2026

UNHCR is warning that rapidly escalating hostilities along Yemen’s western coast have displaced more than 100,000 people inside the country and forced thousands more to seek safety across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in Djibouti.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

BREAKING NYT: Investigators may have broken state laws under the direction of top Trump Homeland Security leaders by posing as voters as part of an expansive effort to find noncitizens on the nation's voter rolls, according to a federal whistleblower's account just released.

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Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud

Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My read is that there aren’t five votes to let Trump literally rig elections. Roberts and Barrett won’t greenlight overt election subversion or chaotic, illegal interference with voting. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch aren’t reliable but don’t love the chaos either. Thomas and Alito want to end democracy.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Empire of Grift

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

thinkin bout this - along with pollution, ai psychosis & ai enabled (industrialized basically) online harassment, discrimination, plagiarism, propaganda and ncii/csam (etc.) farrr more than “extinction” by ai within a decade

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We have a data-heavy package in this week's @economist.com on the state-of-play ahead of the midterms. Donald Trump has tied himself to inflation-boosting policies that swing voters hate. His historic unpopularity could sink the Republican Party: www.economist.com/interactive/...

Three charts:

(1) How registered voter split between their 2024 vote and 2026 intention. Around 65% of Trump voters are sticking with Republicans, compared with 76% of Harris voters.

(2) The top issues for Americans. Despite the inflation rate falling since 2022, the share saying inflation and prices is their top issue has risen from 20% to 30% in the past four years. The second top issue is jobs and the economy.

(3) Trump's approval rating with different groups over time. His approval among black, Hispanic and white under 30s fell rapidly in 2025. In 2026, his approval fell furthest among whites aged 30-64

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sweden's centre-left parties managed to turn out many more voters in areas with large migrant populations than in 2022

Scatter plot of 5,024 Swedish electoral districts showing a strong positive relationship between the share of eligible voters born abroad and the change in the left bloc’s vote share from 2024 to 2026. In districts with few foreign-born voters, the left bloc’s vote share was roughly unchanged or slightly lower; in districts where around 70–90% of eligible voters were born abroad, it typically rose by around 10–20 percentage points. A fitted trend line rises from about −3 percentage points in the districts with fewest migrants to nearly +20 points in those with the most.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/09/2026

On Monday night, the Supreme Court blocked Trump's last-minute plan to interfere with the US Postal Service's handling of midterm mail ballots. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Supreme Court blocks Trump’s mail ballot scheme

The decision prevents massive disenfranchisement and chaos in November.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/09/2026

By the time of his passing on August 31, the 92-year-old had lived many lives—as a farmer, teacher, philosopher, environmental activist—and inspired several generations of writers, farmers, and advocates in turn.

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The inspirational life of environmentalist Wendell Berry

A prolific author, farmer, and lover of nature, he found joy in a world without end.

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Re-sharing this as #TUC26 begins tomorrow go.bsky.app/LLUZ4bx

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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“We’ve sold off all of our assets but kept all of the liabilities… our national debt is a limit on our democracy, we have given a veto to foreign capital, we have got to do something about that." RMT General Secretary Eddie Dempsey at #TUC26

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"There is no spiralling welfare bill.. PIP is not an employment related benefit.. this kind of misinformation that we see in reporting is so hard to tackle" Natasha from the @nujofficial.bsky.social tells #TUC26 that social security is a trade union issue. Absolutely.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"we have all seen where outsourcing leads, the inevitable erosion of terms and conditions.. the breaking up & decline of services.. at the same time the outsourcing companies extract huge profits" A great speech by @andreaegangs.bsky.social from @unisontheunion.bsky.social at #TUC26 on outsourcing

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default share.google/eiB2yDC1Gz69...

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How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 13/09/2026

I've been checking the source of quotes for my forthcoming book, and the performance of Gemini is extraordinary. I paste the quote into Google, and Gemini will barge in with the wrong answer over and over again. It's not an occasional thing - it's reliably wrong. Very odd.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I managed two and a half. It’s difficult cause the pro AI people will focus exclusively on the things that are impressive - and I’m sure they are - but the fact is, there are huge, fundamental issues with every single part of this as a product.

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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Interesting eg of how views can change when people have to deal with the real life consequences of policy failure. Housing support has fallen way below rents, meaning large numbers of people on low incomes face hunger, hardship & homelessness. Massive knock on effects & cost for local authorities.

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sweden's cities swung left while rural areas moved to the right. Change in left bloc vote share: Stockholm +2 Göteborg +3 Malmö +6 Uppsala +3 Linköping +1 Örebro +4 Västerås +2

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sweden's election is partly a story of turnout, which fell substantially in municipalities that lean towards the Sweden Democrats

Scatter plot showing that turnout fell more in Swedish municipalities where the Sweden Democrats (SD) won a larger share of the vote in the 2026 election. The x-axis shows SD vote share, from around 5% to 40%; the y-axis shows the change in total votes cast between 2024 and 2026, from about +10% to −30%. A downward-sloping trend line indicates that higher SD support was associated with larger turnout declines. Points are sized by votes cast and coloured by the winning party—Moderates (blue), Social Democrats (red) or Sweden Democrats (yellow).

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Last Friday, the nation solemnly observed the 25th anniversary of the heinous attacks of 9-11. Today marks a related anniversary that has gone largely unnoticed, as we begin the 26th year under the state of emergency declared on Sept. 14, 2001. 1/14

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The Economist @economist.com · 12/09/2026

For decades, in books, articles and poems, Wendell Berry tried to persuade Americans to understand the value of agrarian living. We remember the life of the writer and activist

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Wendell Berry urged Americans to think little, local and deep

The agrarian writer, poet and activist died on August 31st, aged 92

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 10/09/2026

The biggest concerns ahead of the midterms are voter confusion, an anti-voter Supreme Court, and foreign interference. But the administration’s attempts to interfere with the election are failing. bit.ly/4r1RAZY

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Election Interference Won’t Work If Americans Vote

The administration’s attack on elections has failed in Congress and courts. Now it’s up to voters.

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Paul Williams @paulwilliamsnhm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A British bumblebee on a Sumatran mountain? The strange case of Bombus melanopoda - see www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Lateral view of the NHMUK holotype of Bombus melanopoda, described as collected in Sumatra.
The bumblebee taxon Bombus melanopoda Cockerell is known only from the holotype female. Confusion had arisen because the holotype of B. melanopoda is labelled ‘Sumatra’, appears in the Natural History Museum (NHM) accession catalogue as originating from there, and is similar in its near-all-black colour pattern of the hair to many individuals of both of the other bumblebee species known from Sumatra: B. rufipes Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau and B. senex Snellen van Vollenhoven. However, a COI
barcode obtained from this individual is identical to another from the European species B. ruderatus (Fabricius) and the morphology matches that of many British females of B. ruderatus. Therefore, B. melanopoda is synonymised here with B. ruderatus (syn. n.).
This is a salutary tale for not accepting data labels at face value without question and demonstrates again the value of COI barcodes.

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Lisa Sorg @lisasorg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“It is shameful to sign away public trust while residents are left to ask basic questions about our energy, wells, water, wildlife, and our health." Richmond County officials secretly crafted the deal w Amazon then sprang it on an area burdened by pollution insideclimatenews.org/news/0408202...

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Inside the Secretive Deal for a $10 Billion Data Center in Rural North Carolina - Inside Climate News

Residents say they were left out of the decision-making process for a project that includes hundreds of polluting diesel generators.

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Barry Howard 🔶h @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A Poll in the Daily Mail clearly did not go the way expected. 84% of respondents want to rejoin the EU. #RejoinEU 🇪🇺

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A new study has found that the British public greatly overestimate the number of sex crimes committed by foreign nationals: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... Wonder where people might be getting such misconceptions… #ukmedia #migrants #gbnews #misleading #mediahate

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chrisjuhn.bsky.social @chrisjuhn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I witnessed Spider-Man going into action yesterday in Minneapolis. He rode in on the back of a muscle car. Then leaped onto the pickup, right before unleashing a hail of fists onto his nemesis, Jake Lang, Jayden Scott, and their minions.

A man dressed as Spider-Man attacked Jake Lang and Jayden Scott on the back of a pickup truck.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Strange isn't it that there are all those calls from right-wing influencers and libertarians on sm for Ukraine to hold elections in the middle of a war... but absolutely no calls for free and fair and transparent elections from the same people in the Russian dictatorship. Which is also at war.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🤔 I really wish more of the discourse around Cofnas, Yarvin, Musk, Thiel etc and their successful lynching of a Black academic would refer to @quinnslobodian.com's "Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right" tracing Silicon Valley's route from Ayn Rand to 'race science.'

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Carney: “Canada fuels American growth, supplying 99% of their natural gas imports, 85% of their electricity imports, and 60% of their crude oil imports. “I don’t think they want us to stop sending any of that energy.”

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