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Robin Mulvihill

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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 WaPo writing on Lee: 
"Lee is sometimes defended as a "man of his times," who, by the standards of the day, could not have concluded that slavery was wrong or that he could choose loyalty to the United States over Virginia. The former claim ignores the millions of Black Americans who were able to divine slavery's evil at that time, not to mention White abolitionists and White Southerners such as Cassius Marcellus Clay, James Birney and Elizabeth Van Lew, who inherited enslaved people and freed them. As for the latter claim it is worth noting that other high-ranking military officers from Virginia remained loyal to the United States, among them generals Winfield Scott and George Thomas."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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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Okay Markwayne.
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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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Clarissa Sr, American Grandma (AG) @clarissasr.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
👀 👀 👀 👀 💯⚖️🇺🇸💪🏼📣 youtube.com/watch?v=NZil...
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Sheldon Whitehouse on Trump’s Flying Monkeys, Cosplaying Billionaires, & his Festival of Corruption
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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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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Robin Mulvihill @mulvihill.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Orange Bastard should self-deport to CECOT.
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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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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 22/04/2025
Carnegie Mellon staffed a fake company with AI agents. It was a total disaster.
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Your next assignment at work: babysitting AI
Carnegie Mellon staffed a fake company with AI agents. It was a total disaster.
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Robin Mulvihill @mulvihill.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Like helping the bears build human-traps.
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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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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The Kremlin’s 30-hour truce was designed to shift blame to Ukraine. Did Trump buy it? edition.cnn.com/2025/04/21/e...
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The Kremlin’s 30-hour truce was designed to shift blame to Ukraine. Did Trump buy it? | CNN
It was unexpected, barely implemented and not even extended. But the Kremlin’s hopelessly short-lived Easter truce was aimed directly at US President Donald Trump and at shifting blame for his disastr...
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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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Robin Mulvihill @mulvihill.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I’m still trying to make sense of it from Friday. Not even the loosest of allegories fit.
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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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Robin Mulvihill @mulvihill.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
More of a pickled vegetable.
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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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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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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.
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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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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Robin Mulvihill @mulvihill.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Pair of Johnsons.
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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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Robin Mulvihill @mulvihill.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
When the inevitable and avoidable fiasco occurs on his watch, due to his utter unfitness for the position, it’s key that every single person who wants something better makes it known that he was approved by spineless GOP senators.
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Robin Mulvihill @mulvihill.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
How was this ever going to end anything other than terribly and quickly.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Are we are in the final chapter for Three Gin Pete? www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Hegseth Faces Heat After New Signal Chat Emerges and Claim of Pentagon ‘Chaos’
A former top Hegseth adviser suggested Sunday night that Trump should consider replacing the embattled Defense chief.
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Robin Mulvihill @mulvihill.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
He’s a bit drunk there, isn’t he.
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Robin Mulvihill @mulvihill.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
For MAGA: Ukraine is on the table.
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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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Robin Mulvihill @mulvihill.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“Don’t Boo that Goose!”
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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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Robin Mulvihill @mulvihill.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Animal Pontiff: Papa Alpaca?
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 21/04/2025
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Suspect Guilty GIF
Alt: Suspect Guilty GIF
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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!!
“The War on Science”
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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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Robin Mulvihill @mulvihill.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Kiss me Quick(sand)
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Robin Mulvihill @mulvihill.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Get some glass bridges in there. More the better - will impress the neighbours.
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Robin Mulvihill @mulvihill.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
And me - membership is in the balance.
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