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heejinsoulyves. Sullyoon, Kyujin, Giselle, Tzuyu @heejinsoulyves.bsky.social · 19h
For anyone looking up flights, look up the exact same flight in an incognito tab!!
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Richard, Toad the Just, Earl of Sausagetoad 🇬🇧 🇺🇸🌊 @richardlordtoad.bsky.social · 11h
They all knew, but sucked-up anyway...
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 13h
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Screenshot of a message from Kimberly Guilfoyle to Eric Deters, published in the Wall Street Journal. Within a text bubble, it says: "What a nightmare you'll literally cost me my ambassadorship stop writing"
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 19h
I wrote about Elon Musk, and why it bothers me that he is still first and foremost described in the media as an entrepreneur, rocketeer, or tech mogul, when the most salient fact about him is that he is now the world's most powerful white supremacist. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/06/e...
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Elon Musk, the World’s Richest Human, Is a White Supremacist
The latest warning about the Republican Party’s far-right turn has come from the unlikeliest of places: conservative commentator, George W. Bush Chief of Staff, and renowned Republican strategist Karl...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/09/2026
Almost all of Meta's PR about Muse was about how careful they had been to set it up not to do things like this, how they delayed the launch by months to carefully design it so it could be trusted. And then...
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As I pointed out yesterday, communications have been severed across much of Tigray. The UN and HRW were for now, able to contact sources and obtain data for their reports, but things will become much more difficult going forward. There is great reason to be afraid for civilians.
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TitaniumMan @titaniumman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In case anyone hasn't come across it yet, the trailer is on YouTube:
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So they're now talking about attacking the system of policing and law. Arrest these f*ckers. Stop bowing down to them and dancing around them.
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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
jhalak Prize starts the second decade and opens submissions today for three awards: Children’s & Young Adult Prize, Poetry Prize and Prose Prize. 1/n
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meone44.bsky.social @meone44.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is awful www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A new era for Byline Times goes to press! @peterjukes.bsky.social & I are proud to have worked on a print redesign with our new art director Sonny Dhamu. With your support, we continue to grow. This issue marks a story no one else can/will. Two Cambridge professors. Two very different narratives...
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 17/09/2026
The thrill of thinking they might be in front, combined, I suspect, with wallowing in the aggro atmosphere of Twitter, has brought their bullying, nasty side into the open.
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Chad C @chadc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is particularly crazy when you see how many NFL venues are scheduled to host Kanye West, a guy who literally released a song about Hitler. Including two of the stadiums who threatened Sheeran! But he didn’t say anything good about Palestinians so it’s fine.
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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Please sign this petition in support of my colleague Sishuwa Sishuwa and other Zambian citizens whose passports have been revoked. c.org/Msb9SWnLGv
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Sign the Petition
Overturn the cancellation of the passports of Dr. Sishuwa Sishuwa and other Zambians
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026
NEW: EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media. @josephcox.bsky.social reports. Scoop here: www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I ran a marathon to raise money for MSF. Attacks on MSF and RNLI and Amnesty are what fascists literally do. They want to devalue all humane effort, all care for fellow man. These are dangerous, dangerous times.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Just Arron Banks flaunting his racism.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/09/2026
This is the founder of Silk Road – which enabled international drugs trafficking on an industrial scale, among other things – speaking at President Trump's midterm convention (after getting a pardon from him), because lol nothing matters.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I lay out why Elon Musk, Katie Miller, Mike Lee and others on the right are lying about the AfD, the far right, the far left, and more, in just 60 seconds. Time for a debunking - and a 60-second rant!
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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🎧 The official companion podcast to the bestselling collection of essays, The Good Immigrant launches next Tuesday 15 September 2026. Follow on your favourite podcast app! @nikeshshukla.bsky.social
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‘Dr’ Dorothy Koomson @dorothykoomson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
12 Days left to enter The Sareeta Domingo Prize, lovelies. Stop thinking about it and do it, yes? www.thefuturebookshelf.co.uk/tfb-blog/202...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
tmw you're so racist you want international sports stopped because brown people are playing it. There was another country that also believed this. They were called Apartheid South Africa
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As he backs Trump and Stephen Miller’s anti-immigrant purge, Republican Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen’s hog business employs undocumented workers. This is one of America’s worst-kept secrets. US businesses—including the Trump Organization—have depended on undocumented labor.
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As He Backs ICE Crackdown, Nebraska Governor Employs Undocumented Workers
Gov. Jim Pillen’s family business is one of the nation’s largest pork producers. As he seeks re-election, he has aligned himself with President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda even though his farms have...
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
so they're just a bunch of racists?
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Bryan Behar @bryanbehar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Could you imagine anyone else in the history of history, let alone the President of the United States, so blatantly defiling the memory of our fallen brethren? What a terrible, broken person.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 06/09/2026
AfD media relations: 61-year-old journalist writing for Politico says she was physically assaulted and dragged to police by an AfD security guard after attempting to talk to the AfD’s lead candidate She was told “mainstream” press were not welcome at the AfD event www.politico.eu/article/ulri...
Beyond the conviviality of the sausage line, the mood can sour fast — as I discovered when I sought to speak with Siegmund in Lützen, only to be told "mainstream" press were not welcome. I was roughly jostled aside, my arm twisted by a musclebound heavy flanking Siegmund, who sported an earpiece and a lavishly tattooed neck.
"Move or I will take you to the police," he barked. We had a short, unproductive debate about the constitutionally guaranteed right to report freely in public places.
Another hard arm twist and shove ensued, ending with me stumbling over a curb and being dragged to a police car. No one seemed much bothered by this.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Remember kids, it’s only corruption when black and brown people do it. Otherwise it’s just “financial controversy”.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Protecting our women” This footage is genuinely distressing
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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 04/09/2026
Worth noting too how Reform's James Orr—disgraced by Verbatim's Channel 4 exposé—leapt to Nina Power's defence (alongside Kathleen Stock) following the damning judgment and her unmasking as antisemitic conspiracy theorist and anonymous contributor to a notorious neo-Nazi account.
James Orr: "Nina Power is a talented and valuable voice in the postliberal space, so I can understand why progressive authoritarians are so desperate to cancel her; but it's not going to work."

Kathleen Stock: "@Nina_Compact is an original, stimulating, light-footed writer who always makes me think; I'm very happy I supported her crowdfunder a few years back; and I get a lot from @compactmag where she is editor…"

The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs: "James, she made sure her Nazi sympathies would be publicised when she tried to silence - "cancel" if you will - a critic who she'd been subjecting to Antisemitic bullying. Help me out. Can you explain how the marketplace of ideas has failed here exactly? Because I'm CONFUSED."
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Are we going to get the 200 articles on James Orr then? Maybe read and interrogate the footnotes of his doctoral thesis? Is Cambridge going to have to issue out statements about its hiring standards?
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/09/2026
Cambridge university was ordered to pay £5,000 compensation to a former PhD student who was found to have been bullied by Professor James Orr, who is also Reform UK's head of policy as.ft.com/r/c0b319f3-2...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nigel Farage filmed celebrating illegal foreign donations Undercover footage reveals plot to break the law by funnelling offshore funds through a UK donor. Donations funded a series of widely reported polls boosting Reform ahead of the local elections channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Another reminder we live in opposite-land.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Germany, 2026. A far-right politician calling for the mass deportation of 20 million people, to loud applause. A clear call for mass violence.
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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This woman should not be having to do this.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
the largest donor to republicans created a child pornography generator and he is most likely responsible for more child pornography and non-consensual sexual imagery being publicly distributed than any one person in the history of the planet
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
that is quite the choice for a photo
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
There are genuinely times in the last few years when this country has felt as if it is in the early stages of a zombie apocalypse. The blank stares as the fascists rise in popularity, the anger at the foreigners taking up “their” space. The rhetoric, gearing up for physical cruelty. Grim times.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Court docs vs Tate lies
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
When the order came to abandon ship, Doris Miller didn't. He stayed and pulled men out of burning water. He was 24 when he was killed. www.JackHopkinsNow.com
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
NEW How do you regulate media frenzies? Why the law cannot easily be used to stop mainstream and social media pile-ons By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Similar to stochastic violence or terrorism is the pile-on by those on social media or mainstream media, or both. Here each individual contribution can be justifiable, at least in the view of that contributor. They will see what they have to say as legitimate and, if challenged, they will invariably assert the righteousness of being able to say what they want to say.

But in the aggregate, something quite ferocious, overwhelming and even lethal is created. In the olden days, even great celebrities only had exposure to the public for a limited period. Now with social media and 24-hour news anyone caught up in the news will have constant and relentless exposure from which there is no realistic escape. And, of course, such unremitting hostility and abuse can have real consequences, sometimes tragic. Recent history shows that those caught up in such media storms may not survive the encounter.

But from a legal perspective there is the difficult question of what exactly is the legal wrong being committed? If each individual contribution is somehow “legitimate” when does the accumulation of those contributions become illegitimate?

This is a question with which the law now has to wrestle. When people came together to live in towns and cities there soon were laws about riots and disorder which meant mobs and mob-rule could be checked. But what can be done in confined physical spaces is less easy on open media platforms. One cannot meaningfully read out the Riot Act to those on social or mainstream media.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The jokes. They write themselves.
BBC NEWS AFRICA
President Paul Biya, who has not been seen in public for more than two months, congratulated the team from Switzerland.
He described the players as "valiant" and
"gifted"
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and unwavering resolve."
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
On the subject of Cambridge, the @bylinetimes.bsky.social has a fantastic investigation in the current edition about how tech billionaires are buying professorships and chairs for far right thought leaders at the university. (Consider a subscription). subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/88/r...
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Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned University Revealed – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and hard-right and foreign influence at...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Sunday Telegraph reports on how Miles Routledge advocating total remigration & hoping for a new Hitler by 2039 was no barrier to Restore Britain accepting him into Rupert Lowe's Cromwell Club. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Restore donor said he had hoped there would be another Hitler - Telegraph report
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