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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 10h

Once upon a time, Trump took out full-page advertisements in all 4 of New York's major newspapers demanding that the Central Park Five (now known as the Exonerated Five) get the death penalty. Trump empathises with the Cornell rapists because he's a rapist whose name is all over the Epstein Files.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 13h

The new track is called “guess what? We’re white”

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 13h

It's impossible to divorce how vital Rui Pinto has been to pulling back the curtain on Man City's criminal finances from Portugal suddenly evicting him from the protected and confidential residence they assigned him to. The threats against him ar real, yet they're offering him up on a plate.

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Man City whistleblower to lose witness protection days after club's guilty verdict

Football Leaks whistleblower Rui Pinto is set to lose his witness protection status in Portugal, his legal team said on Friday, days after an independent commission found Manchester City guilty of se...

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 14h

X: The hallucinatory Bespoke Realities generator that all the politicians and journalists happen to be on

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 17h

From Etihad's "RESPONSE TO CLAIMS RAISED ABOUT STATE-OWNED AIRLINES" filed with the US gov. in 2015. "The assertion that the Abu Dhabi government paid for Etihad’s sponsorship of English Premier League football club Manchester City is [...] false".

The assertion that the Abu Dhabi government paid for Etihad’s sponsorship of English Premier League football club Manchester City is equally false. In 2011, Etihad and Manchester City entered into a 10 year sponsorship agreement, which included naming rights for Manchester City’s stadium. Etihad funded this sponsorship from its own liquidity. It is not uncommon for airlines to have sponsorships with sports teams and their venues.

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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 21h

Also in my newsletter City should have been punished for breaches in 2014. It was Gianni Infantino's craven approach - as revealed in football leaks and his approach to Trump - that let them off. This entire story could have been stopped then www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 19h

I thought that British news networks would know better by now than to book Suella Braverman and give her a platform to spew white supremacist poison. At first I though she was a self-hating idiot doing a bit for clicks. Now? She genuinely thinks Englishness = whiteness. That's dangerous and vile.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 21h

I actually find the opening to this the most fascinatingly unhinged moment "why are the English the only group of people on the Earth who can't define themselves," is an argument that just does not hold up to a second's thought? Is Kylian Mbappe not French because his dad was Cameroonian?

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 20h

First came: "We're innocent. We're going to appeal this" Then: "We have secret evidence proving our innocence" Then: "By the way, Khaldoon has diplomatic immunity" Then: "Etihad Airways is considering suing the EPL" And now: "The UAE might end future investment in the UK" State ownership. 🤢

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 21h

City, not playing the ball. Not even playing the man. Instead trying to play the man's government. These very public tactics making it almost impossible for the authorities not to punish them severely.

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 21h

"They consider the Premier League’s actions to have an influence on the bilateral state relationship, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing undisclosed information" State ownership should be illegal. Man City can't avoid punishment because the UAE is threatening to end trad deals.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21h

Tremendous. I heard some 20-somethings at a gig once saying "ugh, that is so Aids", which was... a thing

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22h

Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation.

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't even want to call this a saga. It was a prolonged argument that was always going to end with Jalen Duren taking long-term guaranteed money over a qualifying offer. No agent worth a damn would allow him to leave $200M sitting on the table. Duren and Cade need a few more years together.

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Other than throwing heavy charges that stick at fascist grifters like Palmer Luckey, Don Jr., and Pete Hegseth, the quickest way to ensure this never happens again is the general populace shunning and stigmatising them so severely that they're legitimately afraid to show their faces in public.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very interesting, but debatable take. In global terms, despite the glut of titles*, Man City are now tainted to such an extent that their commercial value will have nosedived anyway; and it's not as if the PL would suddenly lose its main/only locomotive, like Serie A did when Juve were demoted.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/09/2026

Nolan Wells was murdered. No doubt in my mind.

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's a very good question, because when normal people cheat HMRC out of tax revenue, they get serious charges thrown at them. With the way Khaldoon and City's hierarchy are acting, it wouldn't shock me if they tried claiming that Manchester City has diplomatic immunity via being owned by the UAE.

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So after years of insisting to the point of demanding corrections of anyone saying Manchester City is owned by the UAE and not a private investment of “his highness” sheikh Mansour, City will now insist in its appeal that City is actually owned by the UAE. Riiiggghhht then. 🥸

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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So not only did Jacob Geller apparently commit assault, but he HAD done it years ago and the entire thing was hushed up? This is deeply disturbing stuff to read.

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026

The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.

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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch

The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nobody in the Manchester City hierarchy should ever work in football again. Ferran Soriano can't hide behind lawyers and "no comment" forever. Long-time City fans deserve better than evasion, delays, lies, and talking points. British journalists door-stepping Khaldoon is firmly on the table. #MCFC

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading the independent report into Man City's financial "arrangements" now, stopping after every paragraph, saying "Jesus"..."JESUS!"..."Holy fuck!" and again. This is beyond anything anyone imagined. Also started to wonder whether criminal proceedings are in the picture now.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The continued coyness of the Premier League to specify exactly how many charges Man City were found guilty of is doing nothing to allay my suspicion that everybody given a copy was also given a slightly different number so they could trace the inevitable leak...

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When Manchester City have the book thrown at them, this will be a big reason why. The contempt that the Abu Dhabi Group have shown for the Premier League's rules, regulations, and financial guardrails is overwhelming. Even when they're eventually forced out, the club's reputation is destroyed.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The league said the commission had found City used schemes “to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900m during the affected period, to appear to comply with financial rules”. £900 million.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The purpose of these schemes was found to have been to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900 million." That is an absolutely massive sporting fraud. www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727...

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Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC

An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nigel Farage and his merry band of fascists either don't realize (or don't care) that Daniel Thomas (Danny Tommo) gave his address as no fixed abode, refused to co-operate with the enquiry by withholding his phone PIN, and poses a serious risk of re-offending. That's why he's sitting in a cell.

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Adam Levitt @adamlevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Figures. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

swearing aside, the strategy of just making the right stand by the things they say to each other seems pretty good. that was the secret sauce behind the "weird" messaging way back when (that they abandoned for whatever reason)

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's kinda funny the way this article describes how a model being unsafe -- ignoring guardrails, pretending to have done things it didn't, not following user instructions -- also makes a model a shitty consumer product

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If we're being completely honest, deep down Manchester City fans had to have known about the double contract Roberto Mancini was on. Those bespoke designer suits (and shoes!) of his weren't paying for themselves. He wore a different one every week for nearly three and a half years.

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyone wondering why The Cornell Sun sounds familiar should recall this. Brave student journalists have been putting their bodies on the line long before the recent sexual assault scandal. The "IDGAF about access, we're speaking truth to power" mantra is everything. Long live college newspapers!

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.

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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not sure it’s tenable if, going forward, every president knows that so long as they have firm control over DOJ, enough loyal senators to avoid removal, and are willing to issue blanket pardons on the way out, they can break any law they please while in office.

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The most frightening aspect of the RAF Fairford security incident is how fast the worst people imaginable (Trump, Rupert Lowe, Nigel Farage, etc.) started screaming about Iran, Muslims, invading foreigners, and the usual white supremacist bile. They genuinely don't care about facts. Just clicks.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/09/2026

This is…very much not in line with Donald Trump's comments last night. Which could get interesting later. The investigation is still ongoing, of course. But the fact police have given bail does seriously change things.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 28/09/2026

Releasing the five people arrested by the airbase on bail after 24 hours is so weird, would be fantastic if it turns out they were just up to no good on an unrelated minor jape and accidentally created an international security story.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Poor old Nigel Farage, he must be disappointed. The Fairford suspects didn't arrive by boats but a white van on the M4.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"We will continue to isolate Iran so that they re-open the Strait of Hormuz, which is so essential to tackling the cost of living crisis here at home" Do we have any idea what happened to make them close it?

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Claire @clairepull.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nigel Farage has demanded that the identities of the RAF Fairford suspects be released, saying the public "deserve to be told the truth". Yes they do Mr Farage, and that is something you and your party could take forward. As an aside, how stupid would he look if Putin is in any way implicated?

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Farage (et al) literally panting for Fairford to be linked to asylum seekers and, as usual, the ludicrous demand for immediate information with totally irresponsible implication that the absence of such information is suspect.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Way too close, but thankfully someone was paying attention and alerted the police before this got really bad. They reportedly tried to call RAF Fairford to report 3 suspicious vans, but couldn’t get an answer from the base.

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 27/09/2026

How can there be a Star Wars 10 when there was no Star Wars 9

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And there it is again. All it takes is one through-ball to slice past multiple England defenders. This time it was Mikel Oyarzabal who tucked it past Trafford. 3-2 Spain. Konsa and Nico O'Reilly have really underwhelmed tonight. #ENGESP

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That last miss from Lamine Yamal was a gift. He never flubs chances like that. Then, within seconds, England vomit all over themselves and gift the ball right back to Spain, and Alex Baena tucks it past Trafford. 2-2. #ENGESP

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

2-1 England after a Harry Kane header deflects off Cucurella and past Unai Simon. Spain have been the far superior side, but sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. #ENGESP

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

True to form, the only time England ever look like they can grab control of a match is when they're on the counter-attack. Anthony Gordon just knotted up the match at 1-1 after Nico Williams fell over in the box. #ENGESP

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What do you even call this kind of defending? Spain could (and probably should) be up 3-0 by now. They're carving England up at will. Guehi, Konsa, and Anderson need to take a long look at themselves in the mirror after this. #ENGESP

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