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Oliver Farry

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Journalist/writer @france24. Irish/Sligonian. 🇮🇪 🇭🇰 🇫🇷. All views my own, d’uh.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Société des journalistes de France 24 @sdj-france24.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“Après Gaza le gouvernement israélien entrave le travail de la presse étrangère en Cisjordanie”. Les SDJ de 30 médias français, dont France 24, expriment leur soutien à la journaliste Alice Froussard, expulsée de force d’Israël alors qu’elle se rendait en Cisjordanie.
Nous, sociétés des journalistes, apportons notre soutien à la journaliste Alice Froussard, expulsée de force d'Israël alors qu'elle se rendait en Cisjordanie pour RFl et plusieurs médias français avec toutes les autorisations nécessaires. Nous dénonçons également avec force les propos du ministre israélien de la diaspora et de la lutte contre l'antisémitisme, Amichai Chikli, qui sur X s'est réjoui de l'expulsion d'une « journaliste qui soutient le Hamas ».
Ces accusations sans fondement jettent en pâture une journaliste expérimentée qui couvre le Proche-Orient avec rigueur et courage depuis plusieurs années.
Cet épisode constitue une nouvelle entrave à la liberté de la presse en Israël et en Palestine. Il intervient alors que la bande de Gaza reste complètement fermée à la presse internationale et que plus de 240 journalistes palestiniens ont été tués par l'armée israélienne depuis la terrible attaque du 7 octobre 2023, selon RSF. Bon nombre d'entre eux ont été tués dans l'exercice de leur fonction.
Désormais, alors que les violences des colons israéliens se multiplient dans toute la Cisjordanie, souvent avec le soutien du gouvernement israélien, nous constatons avec inquiétude que la liberté d'exercer des journalistes palestiniens comme de la presse étrangère se réduit elle aussi rapidement dans cette zone.
Ensemble, nous dénonçons avec la plus grande fermeté cette nouvelle tentative de museler la presse.
Nous demandons à nos dirigeants de faire pression sur le gouvernement israélien afin de faire respecter la liberté de la presse en Cisjordanie.
Nous demandons aux autorités israéliennes qu'elles permettent enfin un accès indépendant aux journalistes internationaux à la bande de Gaza et sans la supervision ni le contrôle de l'armée israélienne. Nous exigeons que cessent les entraves à la liberté de la presse en Cisjordanie et dans les territoires occupés. Cette restriction constitue une entrave majeure au droit à l'information et à la liberté de la presse.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Listening to Nigel Farage this week keep thinking of Ian Paisley. Farage lacks Paisley’s rhetorical flair but the style, the dog whistles, the plausible deniability is all there Crucially, both men sent others off to do violence with their words
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 05/05/2026
Murder in Paris ’68: Enthralling account of a scandal that even now seems hard to believe
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Murder in Paris ’68: Enthralling account of a scandal that even now seems hard to believe
Sensational case - in which movie star Alain Delon was a suspect - exploded further when former prime minister and wife were accused of orgy involvement
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Robert Gerhardt @robertgerhardt.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Israeli strike kills journalist after ongoing attacks blocked rescuers, Lebanon says Amal Khalil had been buried in rubble after an Israeli strike that also injured another journalist, Zeinab Faraj #Israel #Lebanon #freepress #pressfreedom #journalist
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Israeli strike kills journalist after ongoing attacks blocked rescuers, Lebanon says
Amal Khalil had been buried in rubble after an Israeli strike that also injured another journalist, Zeinab Faraj
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HK Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察 @hklabourrights.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🚨Bookstore Boss Arrested Over Sale of “Jimmy Lai Biography” Pang Yat-ming, owner of a HK's independent bookstore - One Punch Bookstore, and three staff were arrested today (March 24) for allegedly selling publications suspected of inciting unrest, including the Jimmy Lai biography. bit.ly/3NTWvNA
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HK indy bookstore staff arrested; Jimmy Lai book among titles seized - report
Hong Kong independent bookseller Pong Yat-ming and three of his staff have reportedly been arrested on suspicion of selling seditious titles, including a biography of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
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Société des journalistes et du personnel de Libération @sjpliberation.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Espionnage de Thomas Legrand et Laurence Bloch : «Une frontière franchie entre le travail journalistique et les coups bas politiques» Tribune signée par les SDJ de 27 médias www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
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Le 16 décembre, la radio Europe 1, désormais propriété de Vincent Bolloré, publiait cinq articles mettant en scène des «révélations» autour d'une conversation présentée comme «secrète» et s'étant tenue la veille dans un café du XIVe arrondissement entre Thomas Legrand, éditorialiste à Libération et ancien producteur à France Inter, et Laurence Bloch, ancienne directrice de France Inter.
Le 15 janvier, la cellule investigation de Radio France révélait qu'un journaliste d'Europe 1 avait lui-même enregistré cette conversation après que son supérieur, Louis de Raguenel, le lui en avait donné l'ordre dans une conversation WhatsApp.

Les règles de base de la déontologie journalistique imposent de n'enregistrer des personnes à leur insu que si cela permet de rendre publiques des informations d'intérêt général impossibles à obtenir autrement. "L’élément déterminant, lors de la mise en balance de la protection de la vie privée et de la liberté d’expression, doit résider dans la contribution que les photos et articles publiés apportent au débat d’intérêt général", soulignait la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme en 2004. Qu'ont apporté les «exclus» d'Europe 1 issues de cette grave intrusion dans la vie privée de deux journalistes ? De la confusion bien davantage que de l'information, les propos relatés ayant été tronqués et tordus.

Que les choses soient claires : l'enregistrement et la diffusion d'une partie de ces propos ne relève pas d'une démarche journalistique, mais d'une opération d'espionnage.
Les articles et commentaires qui ont été diffusés à cette occasion servent non pas l'intérêt général, comme doit le faire une production journalistique, mais un intérêt particulier : celui d'un groupe médiatique en guerre contre le service public de l'audiovisuel.

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Nous ne défendons pas une confraternité absolue à laquelle devraient se soumettre tous les journalistes, quelles que soient leurs pratiques. Ici, une frontière a été franchie entre le travail journalistique et les coups bas politiques. Avec, en toile de fond, la mise au pas d'entreprises médiatiques au service d'un combat propagandiste d'extrême droite.

Les sociétés de journalistes signataires de ce texte refusent de banaliser ces méthodes qui bafouent tous les principes d'un journalisme digne de ce nom.

La SDJ de Radio France et la Société des journalistes et du personnel de Libération (SJPL) sont à l'initiative de ce texte.

Sociétés signataires :
La SDJ de France 24
La SDJ de Radio France Internationale
La SDJ de France TV rédaction nationale
La SDJ de franceinfo numérique
La SDJ de France TV Sport
La SDJ de France 3 rédaction nationale
La SDJ de ARTE
La SDJ de Public Sénat
La SDJ de BFM TV
La SDJ de BFM Business
La SDJ de RMC
La SDJ de LCI
La SDJ de Sept à Huit
La Société des rédacteurs du Monde
La SDJ de Mediapart
La SDR du Nouvel Obs
La SDJ de l'AFP
La SDJ des Echos
La SDJ du Télégramme
La SDJ du Parisien
La SDJ de l’Informé 
La SDP de l'Humanité
La SDJ de l'Express
la SDJ de La Tribune
La SDJ de Télérama
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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal @asiancha.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒—Oliver Farry writes about 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 (2025), directed by Bi Gan: "In the future, humans no longer dream, having relinquished the ability in exchange for longer life." @oliverfarry.com ⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/25/r... 。。。。。
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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal @asiancha.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒—Oliver Farry on Guan Hu's 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝐷𝑜𝑔: "The casting of Jia Zhangke as the chief dog catcher Uncle Yao is ingenious. Jia’s presence carries an intertextual weight that goes well beyond cameo novelty." @oliverfarry.com ⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/25/b...
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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 25/12/2025
Late, as ever, but I managed to finally get my films of the year in in time for Christmas, in case you need some reading material before the turkey. oliverfarry.com/on-film/film...
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Films of 2025
For a long time in 2025, I felt I was waiting for the good films to come along, as the first half of the year was mostly creditable if unspectacular fare. Then Cannes, which had an unusually strong…
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Société des journalistes de France 24 @sdj-france24.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Les SDJ de France 24 et RFI dénoncent la malhonnêteté intellectuelle de la chronique de Bérengère Viennot publiée sur le site @lepoint.fr le 21 octobre 2025. Que nous reproche son autrice ? D'être rigoureux ? De nous conformer au droit international ?
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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...
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Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report
Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🔴 Tony Blair's ties to Larry Ellison should disqualify him from any role in Gaza - or in Britain's tech future. New by me and @daniel-howden.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale and @lighthousereports.com democracyforsale.substack.com/p/tony-blair...
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Tony Blair - Larry Ellison's man in Gaza?
Blair's ties to the Oracle founder and Trump booster should disqualify him from any role in Gaza - or in Britain's tech future
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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 17/09/2025
TBH, I stopped reading Business Insider long ago because I assumed AI was being used to write most of its content, so flat and insipid it had become.
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Here are some tweets from Charlie Kirk over just the last few days. They are an impressive mix of hatred towards: Blacks, immigrants, women, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, academics.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/09/2025
His killing was a tragedy, and we should say so. But let's not go so far as to airbrush out his spreading of antisemitism, Islamophobia and disinformation: this is not "practicing politics the right way".
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 11/09/2025
Ireland will not take part in 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if participation of Israel goes ahead, RTÉ Director-General says
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Ireland to withdraw from Eurovision 2026 over Israel
RTÉ has announced this lunchtime that it will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song contest "if the participation of Israel goes ahead."
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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
If you continue to contribute to the success, visibility and profitability of Musk's platform X, by still posting there, ask yourself why.
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Société des journalistes de France 24 @sdj-france24.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
At the rate the Israeli army is killing journalists in the Gaza Strip, there will soon be no one left to inform you. The editorial committees of France 24 and RFI, along with those of roughly 40 other French media outlets, are signatories of this statement in support of our colleagues in Gaza.
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
"Her cubicle becomes a chamber of obsessive self-scrutiny, where reflection no longer stabilises identity but fractures it." @myetcetera.bsky.social reviews "Lake Like a Mirror" and "Tongueless." lareviewofbooks.org/article/tongues…
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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 28/07/2025
Same goes for Keir Starmer's UK. The stated reasons for passing the law outlawing Palestine Action were remarkably similar, and equally spurious, to the HK government's for the National Security Law. Beijing and HKSAR will have been paying attention.
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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Today is the 10th anniversary of Ireland's gender recognition act. Ireland's gender recognition is through self-declaration without the need for permission from a doctor, panel or judge etc. In the past decade nothing bad happened. youtu.be/1f8OxezAqTk?...
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The Gender Recognition Bill Becomes Law in Ireland
YouTube video by TransgenderEquality
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
My report from the Palestinian Christian town of Taybeh: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I hate living in a country were Zohran Mamdani has to answer for allegations of antisemitism because he believes Palestinians deserve basic rights, but the richest man in the world can use his AI to spread neo-Nazi propaganda and there are basically zero consequences.
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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 10/07/2025
I don't know if it counts as obscure but I find myself quoting Spinal Tap's "You know where you stand in a hellhole" quite often.
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Dermot Hanney @hanneydp.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
It does make you wonder if we transferred the review and rigour into what musicians are saying at Glastonbury into what people say daily on political tv shows, in newspapers, and on podcasts we’d probably be in a far happier place all round.
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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Oliver Farry on Sam Dalrymple’s Shattered Lands. Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia: Wonderful telling of a sad history. Work of great scope and verve draws on a range of superb memoirs and testimonies, covering much more than India and Pakistan www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Shattered Lands. Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia: Wonderful telling of a sad history
Work of great scope and verve draws on a range of superb memoirs and testimonies, covering much more than India and Pakistan
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Merely confirmation of what was clearly happening. Palestinians on the ground have repeatedly described these aid distribution sites as "traps". This is what happens when armed forces steeped in racist ideology are sent on a mission of vengeance, and granted months of absolute impunity.
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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Genocide in Gaza: three new books take stock. Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim; Catastrophe: Nakba II by Fintan Drury; and The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective by Gilbert Achcar - reviewed by Oliver Farry www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Genocide in Gaza: three new books take stock
Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim; Catastrophe: Nakba II by Fintan Drury; and The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective by Gilbert Achcar
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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · 15/05/2025
‘Chinese labour is actively and visibly contributing to the construction of Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land.’ ‘several state-owned Chinese companies, along with other private Chinese firms, have invested directly or indirectly in Israeli settlements or companies operating within’
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How China is quietly aiding Israel's settlement enterprise
Away from Beijing's lofty rhetoric about defending Palestinians, Chinese firms are helping to sustain illegal settlements
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right. It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵
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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 12/05/2025
I remember reading this first, with more detail, in the now-defunct Vox magazine in late 1991.
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Okay look I am very opposed to increased militarism and but if you think the state shouldn't seek to replace outdated weapons systems and infantry vehicles, just be honest and say you want the Irish army abolished because that is in effect what you are arguing for
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I don’t usually do this, but please read this piece - it’s about good people in terrible circumstances and the world has sort of forgotten them
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Mitchell Plitnick @mjplitnick.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
ICE ambushed another #Palestinian #Columbia student, this time at a meeting he thought he was attending to complete his citizenship. This is also intended to frighten green card holders away from completing the citizenship process. Pure evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...
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Columbia Activist Arrested by ICE at His Appointment for Citizenship
Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident, has lived in the United States for 10 years and was arrested in Vermont. He has not been charged with a crime.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/04/2025
I am begging people in the left to learn a bit more about China
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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 07/04/2025
The answer is José Manuel Barroso. I have yet to meet the former Portuguese prime minister and former President of the European Commission.
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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 06/04/2025
5 famous people you've met but one is a lie Jacques Derrida Kim Deal José Manuel Barroso Chelsea Clinton Shane MacGowan
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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 05/04/2025
Not to the point, I know, but the first thing I noticed in this graphic was how they mangled the demonym for El Salvador. It's "Salvadoran". You don't put the definite article in an adjective, folks.
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Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 04/04/2025
⚫ Amadou Bagayoko, qui formait avec sa femme le légendaire duo de musiciens aveugles Amadou & Mariam, est décédé vendredi à Bamako à l’âge de 70 ans des suites d'une maladie, a-t-on appris auprès de sa famille et du ministre de la Culture malien #AFP ⤵️
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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is absolutely horrifying. What justification could they possibly give for strip-searching those women? This is intimidation. This is punishment by sexual assault.
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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic.”
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Oliver Farry @oliverfarry.com · 30/03/2025
“What’s Up?” by 4 Non-Blondes. It’s the Sistine Chapel Ceiling of terrible songs.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Reactionary centrism has been crucial in legitimizing the far right. They don’t only share a rejection of a truly inclusive democracy, but also a tendency to debate in bad faith. And yet, many liberals continue to engage with them, giving them legitimacy and amplifying their voice.
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