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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For our symposium on "The Forever War and the First Amendment," @knightcolumbia.org and @harpers.bsky.social co-commissioned this essay from @harikunzru.bsky.social about art and censorship after 9/11. It's really good, and I'm hoping Hari will turn it into a book. harpers.org/archive/2026...

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Stargazing, by Hari Kunzru

Art and censorship after 9/11

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No matter how weird you think they are, they are even weirder than that

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s banned book week and I hope that you support authors of banned books. Creep: Accusations and Confessions was the target of a book ban in Santa Paula, California. I was banned from Long Beach Unified School District property for speaking out against corruption.

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CNN @cnn.com · 05/10/2026

The White House is refusing to allow Politico on Air Force One on Monday, which means the news organization cannot fulfill its press corps pool responsibilities. cnn.it/3TnDczb

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026

NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.

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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours

The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So Reform UK are a pro-homemade explosive party?

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We are heading down there shortly in fact!

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What a "generous" fellow saying that Jane Doe is not the main villain. Ignoring his bloviating approximation of journalism, let's be clear he doesn't believe her and is trying to undermine her because all he sees is her trying to "self-declare some form of victimisation". A contemptible man

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Perhaps they mean darkest in terms of IP - six dead characters means six merchandising opportunities closed off (cue: A solitary tear rolling down the exec's cheek)

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Film is a medium that has represented a number of genocides, war crimes and tragedies but yes, a Marvel film (owned by Disney) will be one of the darkest movies ever made. They need to go outside

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not my finest moment! However, the triviality of the punishment was a weirdly neat fit for the triviality of the violation. It is not a neat fit for what Cornell appears to be trying to obscure - a grotesque fit if you ask me.

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I studied in Penn State I had to write an essay after I got told off by the RA for drunkenly playing the piano in the common room. That this is the same "punishment" given to 7 men who allegedly drugged & gang raped a Cornell student is utterly shameful www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Séamus Dooley, NUJ assistant general secretary, pays tribute to Martin O'Hagan and explains why the union continues to call for justice 25 years after his murder. NUJ members will gather for a vigil in Writer's Square, Belfast, at 12pm today. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/tri...

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Tribute to Martin O’Hagan

Séamus Dooley, NUJ assistant general secretary, recalls the murder of Martin O’Hagan 25 years ago today.

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yesssss!!! I have finally infiltrated the pod

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The US is the only country in the world that hasn't turned its capital city into the Death Star. Outrageous!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026

I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.

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Ally Tibbitt @allytibbitt.me · 18/09/2026

That far-right goons were able to close down a community run library and language school in Glasgow was bad enough. And now this. Extraordinary that RNLI and their volunteers get so little support from authorities they need to close a life boat station.

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Foreign Policy Centre @handle.invalid · 18/09/2026

📢 Attending #LibDemConference this weekend? Join FPC Executive Director Susan Coughtrie on Saturday for a fringe discussion on Anti-SLAPP Law, alongside Jess Brown-Fuller MP and Edward Lucas. 📅 19 Sept | 2pm 📍 St Paul’s Church, West Street #SLAPPs #MediaFreedom

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That'll do it. *Dusts off hands* all sorted

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Has he said that you can only change something from the inside yet?

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I respected Watson a lot for his stance against Murdoch, News International and the phone hacking scandal (granted a long time ago but still). I have no respect for this decision www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir

Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As someone of mixed race heritage and the son of a migrant, this vile, bigoted barely-contained glee cuts deep. While they bask in their cruelty we must demand better.

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Regular reminder that JG Ballard’s final novel, “Kingdom Come” (2006), is about a far-right English town which creates their own militarised breakaway state in a shopping mall, where they worship the gods of St George and consumerism. Old JG wrote it as tongue-in-cheek satire. At the time.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In a world drowning in bad news, we must hold on to the good. Today, our former @indexoncensorship.org colleague Andrei Aliaksandrau and his wife Irina Zlobina were released from a Belarusian prison after 2073 days. While they never should have been imprisoned we celebrate their release

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How states respond to journalism and critical scrutiny defines their principles and what they value. That the Israeli regime calls a documentary an act of treason and threatens to render the filmmakers stateless tells us quite a lot, and none of it good.

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Awkward on a number of fronts, especially for terminology in political response and media coverage, but proclaiming not to be a protest movement doesn't actually change police obligations They are based on the rights of freedom of assembly and expression, rather than any definition of protest

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/09/2026

“Jimmy Kimmel Live” has decided against broadcasting an interview on Thursday with James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, and will instead post it on YouTube. Kimmel said that the show made the decision because the FCC had “threatened” ABC over “traditional editorial decisions.”

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Jimmy Kimmel Moves Talarico Interview to YouTube Because of F.C.C. ‘Threat’

In a monologue on Wednesday, Mr. Kimmel said that the show made the decision because the F.C.C. had “threatened” ABC over “traditional editorial decisions.”

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Also the response from the MP, @amandamartinmp.bsky.social is frankly shameful, appearing to suggest there are legitimate targets for this type of mob violence, which did not include the cricketers. Who would be the rightful targets of such lawlessness?

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A reminder that a previous elite-led panic stirred up lynch mobs in the UK with one mistaking a paediatrician for a paedophile. We are in a dark place www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...

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Protestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotel

Misinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They're now just targeting random groups of dark-skinned people. What's going to have to happen before the government starts taking this seriously? www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...

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Protestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotel

Misinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/09/2026

Paramount is using a fake public interest group named "Neighbors For Strong Communities" to create bogus, AI-generated support for the company's $111 billion merger

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I Typed ‘Block the Merger.’ AI Revised it to ‘Drop Your Opposition.’

An AI assisted generator dramatically altered my statement before my own eyes.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

For a party led by a politician who whinged after having a milkshake poured over this head, the sycophant Jenrick should be careful when downplaying a political assault with "boo hoo"

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Clarification: they have called for a National Emergency, which is far less specific than a state of emergency but could include such measures.

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Is this the two-tier policing we have heard so much about? If this was environmentalists they would have been arrested. The clampdowns on all protest are illiberal & not human rights compliant but now we know they are ALSO partially deployed. The worst mixture www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent

Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So Reform UK have in the past few days - been embroiled in YET ANOTHER funding scandal involving allegedly foreign funding - had their supporters ASSAULT a protester as Farage smirks on approvingly - promised a STATE OF EMERGENCY to bypass judges And we can't call them a far-right party?!

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Not that many years since a popular position in right-wing British politics was calling for the police to use significant force to remove protesters blocking roads Of course, that was when environmentalists were doing it

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"The situation is desperate." Sending love to everyone who knew #Daphne and was touched by her incisive writing and rage to a system that facilitated her hounding and assassination and continues to hinder justice.

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Honoured to have my first byline in the @bigissue.com with an op-ed about the scourge of SLAPPs. Pick one up if you can!

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Experts are asked to visit a sanctuary to assuage the concerns of multinational's insurance company. The company was right to be concerned

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"It worked for Vance, so why won't it work for us?" A reminder that repressive practices cross borders and perpetrators learn from each other but also that opposition somewhere could also be opposition everywhere.

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Have written this obit for the courageous and gloriously mischievous Thai journalist and campaigner, Chutima Sidasathian. Was wrenching to write and I hope I did her justice. A remarkable person who always fought for others. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/08/a-co... @mediadefence.bsky.social

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A courageous Thai journalist and advocate for marginalised communities - Index on Censorship

Index remembers Chutima Sidasathian who was criminalised in Thailand for her reporting and who died last weekend

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