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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Why does nobody ever say, "Thank you government?" Me @FT on.ft.com/43t0aXI
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Thank you, government
[FREE TO READ] Recognising what our leaders get right is as important as blaming them for what goes wrong
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Reading a biography in which someone loses a teenage daughter and thinking: how ON EARTH can anyone think that the way to make any country ‘great again’ is to bring back childhood diseases?
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Can't believe Starmer is about to betray Brexit when it has all been going so well.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2025
they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
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The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Just remembered my favourite ever photo caption.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from reporting on the current DOGE collection of govt data, it is that the people who’ve previously spent their careers carefully handling this information believe there is almost no limit to how it could be abused (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
When the Nazi Party assumed power in Germany, it told Universities to sack highly-qualified scholars who were Jewish, or of the left, for 'presumed disloyalty'. They were then replaced by regime sympathisers - & often by far less qualified party hacks, hired for their political alignment w Nazism.
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
‼️BREAKING: Trump officials face criminal contempt over deportations, judge says - @Reuters www.reuters.com/legal/judge-...
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Judge finds Trump administration disregarded order on Venezuelan deportations
A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday found "probable cause" to hold President Donald Trump's administration in contempt of court for violating his order last month halting deportations of Venezuelan migrants under a wartime law.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.
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Magdi Jacobs @magdi.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
This seems like a case that should get more attention. A man had his student visa revoked in MN. He & his lawyers allege this revocation might be linked to his participation in a 2021 anti-racism protest. Officers cited it at arrest. www.startribune.com/marshall-man...
Supporters of a Marshall, Minn., man detained by federal immigration authorities allege the revocation of his student visa and subsequent arrest are potentially linked to his participation in a 2021 protest against police killings of Black men.
Aditya Wahyu Harsono, 33, an Indonesian citizen, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at his workplace in Marshall on March 27, according to his wife and court documents submitted by his attorney.
His F-1 student visa had been revoked four days prior, an action he had not been informed of, his wife and lawyer said.
Harsono is being held in ICE custody at the Kandiyohi County jail, a locator page on the agency’s website says.
This is despite Harsono having pathways to legal U.S. residency, with a pending application for a green card filed through his wife, Peyton Harsono, a U.S. citizen.
His attorney, Sarah Gad of Minneapolis, said her client has maintained legal status since his arrival and his applications should allow him to stay in the country.
“Even with his student visa revoked, he’s still authorized to remain in the U.S. while his immigration petition is processed,” Gad said in an email Thursday.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Forgive the rant, but what the hell is this Administration doing?  Not gonna be easy to undo the damage, folks. But I’ve got some ideas on where to start.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This quote from Fundstrat Market Strategy & Sector Research is, sadly, spot on.
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Gerry Joyce-Magladene @deaconbluesky.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
War hero schools a chickenhawk.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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RB Friedson @realbleugenes.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Boulder, Colorado Hands Off —- about 4-5,000 participants. Sound up.
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 06/04/2025
Great to be back in Jersey!
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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
remembering fondly when people were like "don't promote 50501, it's not real, it's a psyop"
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Gov Tim Walz (D-MN) to CNN: "I don't know if I'm the best spokesperson to do it... after just losing an election... but what I know is the public ... they're rising up and asking their leadership to do something"
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
From the CWS ARCHIVE. September 2023.
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Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Dumbest oligarchy ever
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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
Haley Britzky @halbritz

AFRICOM commander Gen. Langley tells senators that China is "trying to replicate" USAID programs in Africa as the US scales back USAID.

"They're trying to use that as an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to gain favor by the African countries," Langley said.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Fox removed the stock market ticker from their broadcasts.
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 03/04/2025
This is what happens when people speak up.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Yes, global markets will crash, but at least it’s for no reason at all.
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The main American product the US government is angry Europeans refuse to buy: their bullshit
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Alt US Coast Guard @altcoast.altgov.info · 03/04/2025
As expected, the Signal chat fiasco seems to have been the tip of the iceberg. >20 Signal chats reported. "All four [sources] reported seeing “sensitive information” discussed in these forums, though none said they were aware of classified material being shared" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Mike Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal chats for national security work – report
National security adviser and team shared ‘sensitive information’ in group chats on app, sources tell Politico
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Nicholas Seager @nick-seager.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Fully funded (4 year) PhD studentship supervised across Keele Univ. and the British Library: "Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection". You'll generate your own project focused on how this unique collection was created and used: www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Again.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/04/2025
ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
There’s a mass exodus from AirBnB to VRBO because of a co-founder & board member’s ties to the Heritage Foundation, Project 25, Tesla, and DOGE… Act accordingly. ✨
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
It’s well known that I was on The Apprentice. We were all covered by NDAs at the time, but mine has now expired. And do I ever have some tea to spill. I’ll post it later today after consulting once again with my attorneys.
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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
And in the USA? It’s all going incredibly well.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/04/2025
Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk
theguardian.com
Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk
Older adults in Wales who had the jab were 20% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia that those not vaccinated Researchers who tracked cases of dementia in Welsh adults have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccination reduces the risk of developing the devastating brain disease. Health records of more than 280,000 older adults revealed that those who received a largely discontinued shingles vaccine called Zostavax were 20% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia over the next seven years than those who went without. Continue reading...
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
BREAKING: As Cory Booker goes on to his 23rd hour straight, his livestream on TikTok has been “liked” over 175 million times. Yes 175 MILLION!
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/04/2025
New Study Finds Average American Stands No Chance Against What’s Coming theonion.com/new-stu...
New Study Finds Average American Stands No Chance Against What’s Coming
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people. Blazing your own path for the W 👏👏👏👏👏
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I can’t believe this is real! It’s like the worst caricature of how the right says Soros does politics.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/03/2025
A reminder that Bill Maher has long been an antivaxxer and AIDS denier and helped mainstream the “do your own research” culture now dismantling public health. He is also a good friend of RFK Jr. It’s time for the media to stop giving him a platform. You are not entitled to your own facts.
thedailybeast.com
Why Is CNN Platforming Notorious Anti-Vaxxer Bill Maher?
In a desperate play for relevance, the flailing cable news network gave the neo-luddite comic a primetime slot. That’s a mistake for “the most trusted name in news.”
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Micah ⬇️
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
The image is a heatmap titled "Measles," showing measles cases across U.S. states from 1928 to 2003. States listed on the y-axis include Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The x-axis spans years from 1928 to 2003. A vertical line marks the introduction of the measles vaccine around 1963. The color scale at the bottom ranges from blue (0 cases) to red (4,000+ cases), with shades of green, yellow, and orange indicating intermediate values (1,000, 2,000, 3,000 cases). Before 1963, many states show frequent high case numbers (yellow to red), while after 1963, cases drop significantly, with mostly blue indicating near-zero cases.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/03/2025
Florida Passes Strict Ban On Being Unarmed theonion.com/florida...
Florida Passes Strict Ban On Being Unarmed
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Hiring your brother is the original affirmative action for white people.
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