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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I think it's bad that the UK press can escalate what is essentially a workplace matter into national news ahead of the fucking country being on fire and then get away with hounding their victim until they die.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I was not informed by the BBC that they would have a right wing political figure or lobbyist on after me to rebut what I said. The individual in question went on to spout lies about China, etc. to distract attention from the Trump administration's assault on climate action. This is unacceptable.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/05/2026

No one is better at keeping hope alive than Rebecca Solnit, the historian and essayist whose *Hope in the Dark* got me through the first Trump administration and whose *A Paradise Built In Hell* inspired my novel *Walkaway*: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301070... 1/

Alexander Rodchenko's classic Russian constructivist 'books' advertising poster; Lilya Brik's face has been replaced with Greta Thunberg's, and instead of shouting the word 'books,' a spray of geometric sunbeams are emanating from her mouth. Superimposed and beneath her is a Soviet propaganda poster of a furiously pointing Lenin. Lenin's skin is Cheeto orange and he wears a straw-yellow Trump wig.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

In the last 20 years, the "two state solution" has been a discursive mechanism to convince people that (1) this is a "conflict between neighbouring peoples" rather than between the state and dominated/colonised people within (2) That there's a credible route towards partition, when there isn't one

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Science is full of wizards! Read Babbage about his encounter with Merlin the automaton-maker as a boy, Einstein riding a light beam, Lovelace imagining machines that might one day sing, Leibniz hoping for a symbolic language of all ideas, Turing on kindness toward future mechanical minds.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/11/2025

1/ What a Russian breaking of the ceasefire will look like, step by step. There are far better experts on this, but I was an Australian diplomat in Ukraine in 2014 so I've seen this play out up close. So join me, brothers and sisters, as we count down to a fullscale re-invasion.

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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I’ve written a long read on the NHS, the 10 year plan, and how we can unstick the system What does a digital-era healthcare system really mean? (Warning: It’s one for a cup of tea!). (1/n) medium.com/@jamestplunk...

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What does digital-era healthcare really mean?

A long read on the NHS, the 10 Year Plan, and what it would take to unstick the system

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?" So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

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jientho.bsky.social @jientho.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

THIS 👆🏾!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Not a word has come from this government, for a month, about Racist attacks in Britain: graffiti & intimidation The sewer of racism online These racist attacks on government ministers The world's richest man promoting fascists who want to eradicate minorities from the UK

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

One more tout today (for the west coasters) of this provocative new piece I wrote for Public Notice: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

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Making Slavery Great Again

It's less outlandish than it sounds.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 03/08/2025

If you're going to send me something written by an LLM then save us all time and resources and just send me your prompt instead. I'll value a text that says "Heartfelt condolence message with reference to a list of events" more, because this way I at least actually know what you were thinking

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

These astute points from @seanconnorswrites.bsky.social neatly demonstrate why Europe is not going to relent on commitment to the euro for applicant states And it comes down ti that much abused phrase "single market" A 🧵 (Apologies @brainburnnow.bsky.social + @andrewbrook.bsky.social forimages)

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

In an effort that will no doubt torch my follower base, I have laid out some basic numbers around our fiscal situation. Obvious, but still a little sobering for me. freethinkecon.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/t...

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There really is no getting out of this fiscal corner

It is something of a cliche to argue that Britain is running out of money, living beyond its means, wandering through a fiscal fool’s paradise – but no less true for that. The trend of …

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/06/2025

Police departments have exponentially more control over how officers are recruited, trained, and overseen than a protest does over its participants, but are allowed by a sympathetic press to use the "bad apples" defense to separate deeds from goals and institutions in a way protestors often aren't.

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Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🧵 My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life. In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously wounded. 1/n

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Some thoughts about the US deportations court order case, where today saw (1) a judgment from the federal district court and (2) a hearing at the federal court of appeal. Judgment: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Hearing (audio on YouTube): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DoT... 1.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/02/2025

Putin planned to take Kyiv in three days, but he couldn't take Kyiv in three years. The only way Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to abandon Ukraine. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation

The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.

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Andrew Levi @andrewprlevi.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Could we all, please, stop saying this is caused by social media? It isn’t. And suggesting it is dangerously distracts us from what matters most. Pol Pot didn’t have YouTube or Instagram. Hitler didn’t have Facebook or Twitter. Stalin didn’t have TikTok. A 🧵 /1.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13/02/2025

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different. In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that. a 🧵

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

We gave you *all* the money and the 5% of global electricity you said you needed, and some lad’s gone and knocked up something better in his shed for the price of a Bugatti while you and your pals were busy fellating fascists at Mar-a-lago.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/01/2025

If you’re at all familiar with Peter Thiel’s youth in apartheid South Africa/Namibia — where his German dad helped run a concentration camp-like uranium mine under military control that violated international law — his name-checking the Truth and Reconciliation Commission here is especially gross.

A screenshot of the headline for Peter Thiel’s FT op-ed, “A time for truth and reconciliation.”

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Social media has done one unequivocal good thing and that is definitively refute the myth that wealth follows intelligence.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Whitewashing the uncomfortable parts of the past doesn't just affect Black stories. For example, you can't fully appreciate how a peanut farmer from Plains, GA became a beloved president unless you know TRUE Black History. The unwhitewashed history of Jimmy Carter: A thread.

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 06/01/2025

Why will there not be a rival to Eurostar any time soon? It's NOT - Brexit - Schengen - Passports - Bag scans - Track access charges - Maintenance facilities It IS - no wannabe rival has any trains

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Sobering discussion on Today of the tech billionaires jostling to buy influence with Trump, so they can gut the regulation of their industries. It's plutocratic feudalism, with tech-barons fighting to control the court. The long project to bring economic power under democratic control is in ruins.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

What Smartphones are doing to kids' mental health is NOT terrifying (no matter what a child psychiatrist says) theneuroscienceofeve... My response to the Guardian's latest 'Phones are destroying the children!!' article. As ever, it's... problematic #Phones #screens #brains

What Smartphones are doing to kids' mental health is NOT terrifying (no matter what a child psychiatrist says)
The Guardian has done another shoddy article about why smartphones are definitely bad. But what's really 'terrifying' is how many apparent experts are so keen to join in with them.

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

whatever you feel about this you have to admit it's rare for a radicalized man who's frustrated or angry and ready to choose violence to actually correctly identify the source of their suffering, instead of just blaming and killing women and minorities.....

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