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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

1/ Donald Trump has abandoned legally mandated US and international efforts to hold Russia accountable for its war crimes in Ukraine, in an apparent undisclosed favour to Vladimir Putin. ⬇️

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CNN @cnn.com · 22/04/2025

Bill Owens, the executive producer for CBS News’ flagship “60 Minutes” program, announced he will resign from the top job on Tuesday, saying he no longer has control over the show. Read more: cnn.it/4jKGOTk

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2025

When I took the history reporter job, I told my editor I would never "both sides" the Civil War, Confederates or slavery. I never did. But here, ChatGPT (pic 1) has turned my work (pics 2,3) into whitewashed pablum and put MY FUCKING NAME on it. I am livid, I am shaking. I don't know what to do.

A screenshot from ChatGPT: "Amid the tension that led to the Civil War, Lee was presented with a choice: remain loyal to the to Union, or side with his home state of Virginia and the Confederate cause. His decision to join the South has been interpreted in myriad ways. Some point to his deep ties to Virginia, and his personal conviction that he could not raise arms against his homeland. Others argue it was a reflection of a broader worldview, one that saw slavery as integral to Southern society -- a worldview that Lee never fully rejected despite his many claims of personal discomfort with the institution.

A screenshot of my actual work reading: "And despite what old revisionist history or social media memes claim, Lee owned enslaved people. He drove them hard, and he pursued and punished them when they escaped. He separated families to pay off debts and fought in court to prevent them from being freed."

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"A survey of more than 500 political scientists finds that the vast majority think the United States is moving swiftly from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism." www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

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Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism

Most — but not all — political scientists are deeply troubled by the president's attempts to expand executive power, according to a national survey.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This is a travesty.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...

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Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away

Managing those AI identities will require companies to completely reassess their cybersecurity strategies.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

One of the key observations from The Politics of Competence by @profjanegreen.bsky.social and me is that when politicians and parties start losing a reputation for competence they lose it across all issues.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Congress literally created an Alien Terrorist Removal Court for the expeditious removal of aliens who are designated as terrorists, under a preponderance of evidence standard. I think problem isn’t the time it would take, but the fact that the government would have to produce actual evidence

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Credit where it's due, Bxl negotiators have managed to lock the UK into our defence standards, and remove fishing as an issue *entirely*. That's the major European objectives sorted. Europe can afford a shallow reset deal. The political risk is gone. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Starmer close to post-Brexit defence deal with EU after concession on fishing rights

British firms will be able to access an EU defence fund after negotiators prepared to make concessions on fishing

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“.. In recent weeks she has spoken to leaders from Iceland, New Zealand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Canada, India and the United Arab Emirates who were looking for ‘strong, reliable partners.’” @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/urus...

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Katja Bego @katjabego.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Not mild: The Dutch military intelligence service today warned that Russia's grayzone tactics are getting more aggressive - and are getting close to tipping over into something even bigger. It also calls on Europe to urgently ready itself for such an escalation. www.defensie.nl/downloads/pu...

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Openbaar jaarverslag 2024, Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst

Nederland wordt steeds vaker geconfronteerd met hybride aanvallen die onze samenleving proberen te ontwrichten en verzwakken. Met name de Russische brutaliteit ziet de Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veili...

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 22/04/2025

The BBC is getting less flexible even as it needs to do just the opposite to stay relevant (and to keep talent). Simultaneously, climate is getting more politicised just as it *must* do the opposite for action to happen in time. Two interlinked problems going in the wrong direction.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The first 750 free breakfast clubs are running in schools today. They mean no child needs to start the school day hungry, while offering a supportive start to the day and chances to socialise with other children before learning begins. Parents can also benefit from them... 1/2

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Free breakfast clubs roll out as costs for families cut by £8,000

Thousands of children to attend free breakfast clubs across the country today, as government delivers its manifesto commitment and promise to working families

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Joni Ernst and Thom Tillis — 2 GOP senators who knew how bad Hegseth was but voted for him anyway out of personal ambition — should lose their re-election bids over this if they run in 2026.

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Exclusive: The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary

The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21/04/2025

Donald Trump made nearly $240M off of inauguration donations from billionaires & corporations—and we have no idea where the money is going.

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Trump Broke His Own Inauguration Fundraising Record—by a Long Shot

And we have no idea where the money is going.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

21 April 1900 | Pole Michał Mazurkiewicz was born in Lwów. An accountant. In #Auschwitz from 18 May 1942. No. 35717 He perished in the camp on 20 July 1942.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Holy moly! This isn’t wink-wink nudge nudge flirting with trutherism, it’s the whole thing. It was probably inevitable we ended up here.

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

“Not the Hungarian” is a crude and arguably discriminatory heuristic but by God it’s a reliable one.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Per source convos this afternoon, and I really hate to break it to you, I don’t think this trump wh “search” for another defense secretary is going anywhere…..,

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

"the coddling of the american conservative" would be such a good book

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 21/04/2025

It’s time to retire the phrase, “when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold” on.ft.com/3RoUozD The US, not others, will feel most pain from its economic mistakes

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The US, not others, will feel most pain from its economic mistakes

[FREE TO READ] America is not the powerhouse it once was

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Thank you to Larry David for this artful, effective public rebuke of Bill Maher. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

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Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf (Gift Article)

When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

"good news Mr Vice-President, you're no longer going to be remembered as the guy who fucked couches"

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

If you know, you know

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left. YALL, THE TITLE!!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/04/2025

Remember the 6 men who forcibly removed Dr. Teresa Borrenphol from the Coeur d'Alene town hall? They’ve been arrested and charged! www.kivitv.com/news/six-men...

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Egregious French tourist Théophile Gautier is dismayed to arrive in Granada in 1840 and find people are wearing Paris fashions, not moorish garb. One of the earliest rants about mass-tourism making everywhere the same. Just 5 years after the first train ran in mainland Europe.

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Morgan McSweeney is a man who has created a mythical Labour voter that is actually a Reform UK voter Labour thinks he is a master strategist, but he just managed to be in the room where Labour just had to say nothing to win an election Now he is just pushing away the Labour base, including me

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Jacob was liberated in the Gunskirchen subcamp on May 4, 1945. He died four days later in a hospital in Wels. The father of Sol (holding his photo), who survived the Holocaust. The grandfather of Joseph Finkelstein, who today is a member of the Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial Foundation board.

An elderly man in a suit holds and looks intently at an old black-and-white portrait photograph of another man.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

19 April 1898 | Polish Jew, Jacob Noah Finkelstein was born in Końskowola. A sales representative of a Belgian chocolate company & inventor of a type of resin glue. In #Auschwitz from 31 July 1944.  Deported from a slave labor camp for Jews in Pionki. No. B-252 Taken on a Death March to Mauthausen.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Trump just posted a photo of himself holding up a piece of paper claiming to show tattoos on Kilmar Abrego Garcia that are related to MS-13. The paper he’s holding up has been digitally altered to add the characters MS-13. The claim comes from neo-Nazis on X who say the tattoos cover up “MS-13.”

Trump: This is the hand of the man that the Democrats feel should be brought back to the United States, because he is such "a fine and innocent person." They said he is not a member of MS-13, even though he's got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles, and two Highly Respected Courts found that he was a member of MS-13, beat up his wife, etc. I was elected to take bad people out of the United States, among other things. I must be allowed to do my job. MAKE AMERICA
GREAT AGAIN!

Images on a person’s knuckles that show a marijuana leaf, a smiley face, cross and skull. The characters MS13 have been digitally added

Neo-Nazi Twitter user Captive Dreamer on Twitter: This looks like the most damning evidence yet.
Knuckle tattoos on Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Marijuana leaf = M
Smiley face = S
Cross coverup = 1
Skull coverup = 3
MS-13.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 18/04/2025

The cow gets it.

A screenshot from a newspaper with someone feeding a cow and the headline: upstate New York farmer, shocked by Trump tariffs, mistakenly thought Canada would pay

A close-up of the cow, looking with scorn towards the viewer

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

‘Simon Being Taken out to Sea for the First Time since His Father Drowned’, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire, in 1983 photo by Chris Killip. Weekly ritual to prevent him becoming afraid of the sea, where the community earned its living.

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Claire G. Griffin @polargriffin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This is a WILD list of data to disappear. I was braced for climate stuff, but not, like, shoreline maps and coastal bathymetry

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Journalists quite often get emails written in exactly this style, often sent to scores of recipients on multiple publications, and the sadly reliable assumption is that the irate sender is miserable, paranoid and probably unwell.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This is a disgrace.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Judge Boasberg finds that there is probable cause to find the government in CRIMINAL contempt over its non-compliance with his order prohibiting the removal of people to a prison in El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

On the evening of Saturday, March 15, 2025, this Court issued a written Temporary Restraining Order barring the Government from transferring certain individuals into foreign custody pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act. At the time the Order issued, those individuals were on planes being flown overseas, having been spirited out of the United States by the Government
before they could vindicate their due-process rights by contesting their removability in a federal
court, as the law requires. Trump v. J.G.G., 2025 WL 1024097, at *2 (U.S. Apr. 7, 2025) (per
curiam). Rather than comply with the Court's Order, the Government continued the hurried
removal operation. Early on Sunday morning — hours after the Order issued — it transferred
two planeloads of passengers protected by the TRO into a Salvadoran mega-prison.
As this Opinion will detail, the Court ultimately determines that the Government's
actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to
conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt The Court does not reach such conclusion lightly or hastily; indeed, it has given Defendants ample
opportunity to rectify or explain their actions. None of their responses has been satisfactory.

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