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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I make periodic attempts to find the times we live in “interesting,” but most of the time I just get stuck on “mortifying” As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falters www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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Jack Smith Defends Trump Charges as Senator’s Perjury Claim Falters (Gift Article)

A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 28/09/2026

Greetings from the path from Prague to Stará Boleslav, where Czechs (and at least one Englishman) are gathering in honour of that "good king" from the carol. For the day that's in it, here's a new piece about why his name in English has an N, but not so in Czech. dannybate.com/2026/09/28/g...

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Good King Václav

Every September 28th, thanks to a brutal fratricide over a thousand years ago, the Czech Republic gives itself a day off. The victim of that crime was Wenceslaus, ruler of Bohemia from 921 to maybe…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Academy of Sciences in Kyiv 🙏🇺🇦

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...

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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“AND” is the conjunction you are looking for, @nytimes: “AND Denmark gets to keep it.” “But” implies an unexpected or irregular outcome. Denmark keeping their sovereign territory in the face of bullying demands by the U.S. president is decidedly NOT irregular. Seriously, why is this so difficult??

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The slip says it all: presumption of personal ownership of US government. Sure, he doesn’t need to let reporters into “his house.” But he sure does need to let them into “the people’s house.”

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Let’s see, a fleeting shudder in one segment of the stock market, or a 10% chance of complete annihilation of human civilization, which is worse…? 🤷‍♂️🤔

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I should say: contingent on NO other name being added—the selflessness would make the donor’s name resonate further than would letters on a wall

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Looks to me like a call for someone with a gazillion dollars to make a very public and very huge donation to the Kennedy Center contingent on that other name NOT being added in any form

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

'Despite all the progress, we still only understand a tiny fraction of what goes on inside these models.' The Dario Amodei statement. Worth a read. It's form is also proof that reports of the demise of the essay as a means of communication are premature.

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Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I will be deep-fried in a $105 barrel of Brent crude before I click on that headline @nytimes.com please oh please, in the name of all that is sacred on this day, do not make it about him! #September11

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So this regime has made promises to cut checks to US citizens that add up to a number so large my calculator can only express it by resorting to letters. Ok, sure.

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

State honours for a war criminal shake Serbia's EU ambitions. Dr Jessie Barton Hronešová discusses Ratko Mladić's legacy and whether the funeral could become a turning point in relations between Belgrade and the European Union. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ojL...

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State honors for a war criminal shake Serbia's EU ambitions | Jessie Barton-Hronešová

YouTube video by TALKING WITH TVP WORLD

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UCL Arts & Sciences @uclartssciences.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📢 The UCL Arts and Sciences department is seeking a Professor of Creative Writing to lead our new Creative Writing MA course which starts in September 2027. Further information can be found at www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... The advert closes at 23.59 on 6 October.

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ukrainian equivalent of Patriot missle? Ukraine demonstrates Korall, a mobile anti-ballistic missile system (launched from chassis of Czech Tatra truck).

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NY Times Pitchbot wins comedy award with joke headline describing Trump’s latest venal lie about his role after 9/11: @nytpitchbot.bsky.social @nytimes.com

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2026

Trump allies himself w/Kim Jong Un against South Korea: “Based on my very good relationship w/Kim Jong Un, I am not happy that the US has agreed to Joint Military Exercises…I recently asked the President of SK if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of Iran, & they said, ‘No thanks!’”

Trump allies himself with totalitarian dictator Kim Jong Un against South Korea: “Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea. These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful … While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, ‘No thanks!’”

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“Dem socialists will eliminate our system of checks and balances.” Chuck, you may want to sit down and take a deep breath: I have something to tell you.

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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If you saw a US administration as dysfunctional and disdainful of its allies as this one, with its limited bandwidth reduced yet further by its futile adventure in Iran, and you were looking to shift the dynamic of your own unwinnable war, wouldn't you think of having a crack?

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Billions of dollars wasted in destroying our only hope to mitigate climate change because the man with the worst aesthetic sense in history finds windmills “ugly.” Mind-boggling. Trump Administration to Pay German Firm $1.2 Billion to Cancel Wind Leases www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/c...

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Trump Administration to Pay RWE to Cancel Wind Leases

It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This—unfortunately—is a very clear-eyed thread:

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Periodic reality check how far we have fallen: the vocabulary of “choking” and “folding”—an explicit admission that the task at hand for POTUS is not evaluating evidence but blind resistance and insistence—is no longer something people even bother pointing out, let alone having consequences.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/08/2026

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

GOP senators; “We demand written assurances you will not behave as personal attorney to POTUS if confirmed as AG.” Blanche: “I hereby assure you, in writing, that I will only illegally protect POTUS and his immediate family. His extended family are on their own.” GOP senators: “OK.”

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

So Blanche’s first official act to try to persuade congress that if made AG he will not act as personal attorney to POTUS is… an illegal act benefitting POTUS Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It really boggles the mind that anyone in control of big money pays any attention to this anymore. “What we’re doing now is we’re talking to them in the form of a negotiation.” 🙄 🥱

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Unlike someone on this summer’s silver screen, who is not polytropical, but merely tropical

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The heat this summer is not simply tropical, it’s polytropical (Sorry)

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Peter Zusi @peterzusi.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The first two words *entirely* undermine the rest of this headline

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Olesya Khromeychuk @okhromeychuk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Friends in Edinburgh, we'll be recording The Ukraine Shelf in front of a live audience at the @edbookfest.bsky.social for the second year running. This year’s guests are Charlotte Higgins, Chief Culture Writer at The Guardian & Bohdana Laiuk, Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Culture. 1/2

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

'Government investment in defence-related higher education recognises the need for engineering, computing, cyber, robotics and autonomous systems. But if universities educate the next generation of defence specialists while weakening subjects that teach conflict resolution' [continued] 1/3

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What universities count – and what they cannot afford to ignore - HEPI

This blog was kindly authored by Anna Zimdars, Christopher Playford, Eve Worth, Luke Graham, Joanna Merrett and Joseph Crawford, members of the Centre for Social Mobility, University of Exeter. He tha...

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