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Phil S

@phil-stokoe.bsky.social
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British husband, father and economist. Likes football (Chester FC, DC United), trains, castles, travel and music. Born in England, living in USA

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Labour was polling a little over 30% when these articles were written. It is genuinely strange that the Conservative Party is not being subjected to the same obituaries by op-ed given its frequent sub-20% polling.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … Jim Ratcliffe lamenting the decline of once-mighty empires
Our cartoonist on Manchester United’s billionaire joint-owner showing a startling lack of self-awareness
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Canada reached a trade agreement with us, the President blew it up for no reason while threatening to annex them, and Congress didn't do squat about either. It sucks, it's objectively bad for America, but WaPo is outright lying that "spite" is driving Canada's policy. It's the only rational choice.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Instead of saying "the Kennedy Center board decided to close" we should note that "a group of Trump appointees including Laura Ingraham and Dan Scavino decided to shut it down"
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
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John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
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Phil S @phil-stokoe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Proper Woke Adverts - just heard Dychey on Capital UK advertising something or other with full Dyche gruffness - games gone @footballcliches.bsky.social
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Phil S @phil-stokoe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Listening again to Jon Lovetts interview with Steve Hilton and the discussion on housing was maddening. Hilton saying it’s unfair to force change on existing cities and neighborhoods and the answer is just to build more and more suburbs and exurbs and new towns. I.e Suburban sprawl.
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Phil S @phil-stokoe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Absolutely infuriating interview between Jon Lovett and GOP candidate for CA Governor Steve Hilton in Pod Save America today. Listening to him talking about the need to turn down the temperature on discussions about immigration, or complaining about the broken immigration system.
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Phil S @phil-stokoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Would a $5000 check to every American (which to be clear, is not going to happen, even if Republicans win the midterms no matter what Trump said), likely to be inflationary? In what Trump says is the hottest economy in the world right now? What would the Fed do to interest rates in response?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We love how much this upsets MAGA. 😂
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The Green Party now has 78,000 members. Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line. I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The course of human history would have unfolded differently if—the first time that fat orange failson launched a con—the rule of law had come down on him like Fury fucking incarnate. Cowardice. The spinelessness of thousands of people and hundreds of institutions led us here.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Has Mike Rogers disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ken Paxton disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Mike Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Jon Husted disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Susan Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Moody disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Hinson disavowed Elon Musk yet?
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Phil S @phil-stokoe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
@alimaxwell.bsky.social @davidcameronwalker.bsky.social @georgeelek.bsky.social gents - been trying to find the recording of you guys singing unwritten in a German karaoke bar for ages now - with no luck - do a brother a favor and point me in the right direction!
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Phil S @phil-stokoe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Goose. Because he’s Batcat. #caturday.
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Phil S @phil-stokoe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
@maddowblog.bsky.social Hi guys - long time reader - is the blog now behind a paywall?
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Phil S @phil-stokoe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Watching @garethdennis.uk interview with @aaronbastaani.bsky.social last year on YouTube, and accidentally paused the video capturing this epic moment! 😂😂😂
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Imagine a man driven to kill himself because the British media destroyed his reputation based on lies. And then imagine that, even after his death, that same media carry on tormenting his family with the same soul destroying lies. Incredible, isn’t it. But here we are
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Votey McVoteface @wokeymcwokeface.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Phil S @phil-stokoe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@chrislhayes.bsky.social @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social just listened to the Why is This Happening episode. Have you two guys noticed that you basically have almost the same voice?
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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
welcome to britain, bangers are sausages but also second hand cars and also good songs, good luck out there
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Phil S @phil-stokoe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
@footballcliches.bsky.social Adam! Can Dychey really be considered Mr Burnley? Never played there, but was manager for a long time, but do managers have the same threshold for the recently discussed “Mr” moniker?
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Public figures should absolutely be reported with their percentage truth of previous statements after their name giving a bullshit ratio: "Elon Musk (BR 0.0012% truthful) says he'll put a human colony on Mars by 2039. He first said he'd do it by 2017." finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...
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Elon Musk Says SPCX Could Reach 10,000 Starship Launches Annually by 2030: ‘Still Tiny’ Compared With Air Travel
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) CEO Elon Musk says that the commercial spaceflight company has targeted conducting 30 launches of the Starship rocket per day by 2030. 10,000 Launche...
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It's so blazingly obvious that this is true. A university lecturer being fired for plagiarism would not be national news >99% of the time. It was inflated into one this time purely because it fit into racist "culture war" narratives about "DEI".
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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If Bluesky was really as dead as they say, could I do THIS?? (okay I am going to need this to do big numbers)
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m sorry, you simply can’t lead your newscast with that Miller tape on the birthright citizenship “order” without pointing out that that’s not the damn way it works. It’s just not journalism.
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Phil S @phil-stokoe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
UEFA is out of patience with Infantino and FIFA
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Explosion Explosion Walk Away
ALT: Explosion Explosion Walk Away
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Phil S @phil-stokoe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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レミー ディズニー 料理 ネズミ
ALT: レミー ディズニー 料理 ネズミ
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Phil S @phil-stokoe.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Number 10 North is a cracking name for a restaurant @soozuk.bsky.social - I trust some Northern restauranteur is working on this already somewhere
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The most important - and most ignored - news story of this century is that the dominant political party of the world's most powerful nation is a disinformation factory that has half the country's citizens - including its president - believing lies about every aspect of politics and daily life.
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Juke Slytalker @blackskyeddie.blacksky.app · 16/07/2026
There are whole ass countries that don't have 22 shootings by law enforcement in a decade. Yet we don't eye to an agency w/ 20k ghouls hitting that mark in less than 2 years. #AmericanExceptionalism
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I made this because as far as I can see nobody else has?
Skegness is so bracing but I've made him into Count Binface and it says Clacton is SO Binface
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
So, hey, everybody in the news business, could you maybe stop saying it’s being “tested” or “strained”? TYSM
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Phil S @phil-stokoe.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
@footballcliches.bsky.social can’t believe you said Keysey was moving into a whole new realm, moments after the bit about him lasering his hands and bollocks, when it’s obviously a whole new ball game! That’s a miss worse than that Swiss CB penalty yesterday
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Any Clacton residents who want to nominate your friendly neighbourhood intergalactic space warrior, ping me a line!
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Phil S @phil-stokoe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Should have played 6’7 Dan Burn from the start, he’s used to playing at altitude
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/07/2026
Travis Kelce Wins Coin Flip To Kick Off Vows
Travis Kelce Wins Coin Flip To Kick Off Vows
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Worthy institutions like this make X look like a normal website with normal, fair, pluralist discourse. By doing so they contribute to the ongoing threat to our information ecosystem and our democracy. This is surely contrary to their purpose which is to educate and inform.
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Spook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The news photos when the temperature hits 55c and kills thousands:
That meme photo of a happy family on a jetski that is usually an example of how positive the pictures are when a white man kills his entire family
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Look, Americans, British homes aren't designed with air conditioning in mind. Our architecture values other things: heat retention, space management, trapdoors, automated breakfast-serving mechanisms which can be operated by a literal dog
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Fauci needs to sue this man into bankruptcy, if only to dissuade the other inveterate liars of this administration.
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
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The quiet collapse of British universities
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
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