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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Strong Message Here - Super Intelligence (with Stewart Lee and Carole Cadwalladr) - BBC Sounds
A look at the rebrand of AI. Is it really super?
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 30/09/2026
The new case everyone’s talking about isn't an isolated incident. From Cornell to the London School of Economics, universities are failing women and protecting predators. We need to break the silence. Add your name👇 👇 👇 goodlaw.social/u6dj
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An AI engineer with round glasses says "we figured out that in order to get the A.I. to make more human-like art, it needs to draw from a set of personal emotional experiences..." He holds up a tablet displaying a program entitled "C-PTSD-GPT" and says "so we gave an A.I. the memory of having divorced parents." He gives it to an engineer with square glases who sees that it has generated art of a sitting childlike figure flanked by two arguing, monstrous dinosaur-like skulls. He comments "Wooooah... this is DARK." Round glasses replies "you think that's good? Wait until you see the one we molested!"
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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thomas described as a "long term campaigner" here and no mention of his deliberately slashing an occupied liferaft with a knife during this event. BBC News is a fucking embarrassment. BBC News - Dozens of migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Dozens of migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea
Protesters had earlier gathered in Gosport after an initial report that the small boat would be brought further west.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Scientists have developed a nanomaterial that leverages the body’s own healing process to stimulate new bone growth. So far tested in rats, the material is biocompatible and generates a microenvironment that is conducive for regenerative growth. #chemsky 🧪
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This nanomaterial stimulates the body’s bone-growing process
If successful, it could help treat cleft lip and palates earlier in life
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One Track Mind with Ryan Luis Rodriguez @onetrackmind.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ryan’s Recommendation(s): “Brazil” (1985) My personal favorite Terry Gilliam film, a beautifully-rendered lucid dream with meticulous detail occupying every square inch of the screen. Something amazing happens every minute, so naturally Universal decided to recut its theatrical release. #FilmSky
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Some of Radio 1's early nineties shows with comedians as DJs didn't quite work, but it's staggering to think now that at one point they had Armando Iannucci, Lee And Herring and Chris Morris on the station, all scaring listeners in entirely different ways. timworthington.org/2019/06/20/t...
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Terry Pratchett & Rob Wilkins @terryandrob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“People who weren't certain they were right argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.” @BillBailey and @MaisieAdam narrate Truckers, Diggers & Wings in new audiobooks coming 12th November: linktr.ee/Bromeliad
Bill Bailey narrates the Bromeliad Trilogy with Maisie Adam as the voice of the Thing
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Extinction Rebellion London Actions MoM (Movement of Movements) @xrlondonactions.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
FACTORY FARM STOPPED 🥳 Approval for Ingleby Farm (Lincs) was unlawful, West Lindsey District Council has admitted! This is a huge win! But the battle will rumble on, as the applicant can now submit new documents and try again.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6
Advertising for betting should go the same way as tobacco ads did. Gambling firms are very much the modern day peddlers of misery and exploitation that cigarette makers were, and should be treated as such.

anon_opin GOLD from 6th March 2023
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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Parliament-Funkadelic will continue until morale improves. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5aH...
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Parliament Funkadelic - The Mothership Connection (Live in Houston, TX, 1976)
YouTube video by AM FUNK
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nicholasnovak.bsky.social @nicholasnovak.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Every AI CEO is this, but unironically
Classic tweet stating, “RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but I’m different. And better. Maybe even better than the gods.”
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SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 @clairecopperman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The BBC cancelling Winterwatch is such a shame, especially when we need to be connecting with nature more than ever. If we want people to protect our wildlife, we have to show them it! Add your name to ask the BBC to reconsider. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
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Tell the BBC: Save Winterwatch!
The UK is losing its wildlife, and shows like Winterwatch are vital for connecting us to nature. The BBC's decision to cancel it makes no sense. Let's ask them to rethink this! Add your name here:
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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So this happened to a protestor at the Reform conference. Just a bunch of feral OAPs turning violent.
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Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I can’t think about Gloria Steinem without immense gratitude for the time she agreed to blurb Sherie Randolph’s terrific biography of Flo Kennedy for me. There were all the amazing immense things she wrote and did, and then there were little things like this.
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Florynce "Flo" Kennedy
Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (1916–2000) left a vibrant legacy as a lead...
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Never seen a churchyard angel looking more like a 1960s radical trying to hitch a lift while suffering from fatigue on a protest march.
A tired-looking angel, possibly trying to hitch a lift, from the churchyard in Holne, Devon.
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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Clue is on YouTube for free If you are like me and missing our boy Tim today youtu.be/PT02T3kXDJY?...
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Clue
YouTube video by YouTube Movies
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EL País Unofficial @elpais.skyfleet.blue · 23/08/2026
Carl Wunsch, oceanographer: ‘The consequences of Trump are terrible. Funding is denied because, apparently, all of our research is a hoax’
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Carl Wunsch, oceanographer: ‘The consequences of Trump are terrible. Funding is denied because, apparently, all of our research is a hoax’
The US researcher is a pioneer in understanding the effects of climate change on the oceans. In this interview with EL PAÍS, he warns about the risks posed by deniers and advocates for international cooperation
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Physical proof of a vanished human species that walked the Earth alongside our ancestors. The Harbin skull, aka Dragon Man, was confirmed as the first skull ever found of the Denisovans, a human species, identified from 0.3 milligrams of plaque on one tooth 🏺🧪 scienceblog.com/b-in-1933-a-...
The Harbin skull
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Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge August 14 - movie or TV character played by Steve Martin that is NOT Father of the Bride Rigby Reardon - Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) #filmsky #moviesky
Steve Martin and Rachel Ward in the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid movie poster (1982)
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 12/08/2026
We’re preparing to give 16-year-olds the vote. So why do we still educate young people in a system built around compliance, standardised tests and exam results? Teacher Gary Champion argues that if we want critical thinkers, we need to rethink what education is actually for ⤵️
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Beyond the test: let’s reclaim education for the next generation
How we can reclaim educational practice to make education more meaningful and worthwhile for young people? How we can reclaim educational practice to make education more meaningful and worthwhile for ...
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
REVEALED: Joe McLaren's full fabulous jacket design for my new book. Pre-ordered yours from @breakthroughbook.bsky.social for next month here: www.breakthroughbookcollective.com/product/curi...
Joe McLaren's salmon pink, hagstone-themed cover design for my sixteenth book - and second short story collection - which I have called Curious Events Lately Occurring In This Neighbourhood.
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b3ta @b3ta.com · 11/08/2026
Artist: HappyToast b3ta.com/board/11430137 From the 'Comic Book Characters on TV ' challenge b3ta.com/challenge/comicbookcharact… #ComicBookCharactersOnTV
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 09/08/2026
The Great Farage Funding Timeline “He’s a symptom, not a cause.” Introduced by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, all the facts we’ve unearthed about Nigel Farage’s biggest benefactor, Christopher Harborne, plus other key facts reported elsewhere, now in one handy forensic resource 1/
Who Funds Farage? 

Follow the money The Farage funding timeline. 

Illustration of Farage, smiling widely, with Harborne and Cottrell in the background and coins falling around him
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
John the Baptist, just chilling in the v. lively wilderness with his lamb in 1489. By Hieronymus Bosch, whose day is today.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 05/08/2026
Palantir is shifting profits from its European operations to the U.S., allowing the Florida-based data analytics giant to pay minimal taxes in Europe, a new report finds. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/pala...
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 05/08/2026
The biggest mass funeral in Gaza was held this week for 112 people (including 44 children) that were killed in an Israeli strike on a residential block in 2023. Their bodies were only recently recovered from the rubble in an operation that spanned across two weeks.
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Silversprite @silversprite.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Disabling insidiously-placed AI on a few bits of tech I'd missed, using the check-list compiled by @librarian.bsky.social (thanks): www.librarian.net/NoToAI/
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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The COVID brain fog explained. The COVID-19 virus binds to the ACE2 receptor to enter cells. Dopamine producing neurons are rich in the ACE2 receptor. The virus causes disruption in the dopamine network in the brain. 🧪 tech-paper.com/scientists-f...
tech-paper.com
Scientists finally have a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can't think clearly. They scanned their brains and found the dopamine system was physically damaged - T...
Millions of people with long COVID report the same cluster of symptoms: a crushing lack of motivation, an inability to think clearly, memory that slips, movements that feel slower than they should. Fo...
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
“Not to know what’s beyond is like spending your life in the cellar, being completely oblivious of all the wonderful things around us.” Astronomer Helen Sawyer Hogg was born #OTD in 1905. She was an authority on variable stars and globular clusters, and a sci-com pioneer. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔭 Image: U. Toronto
A color photo of astronomer standing in front of a University of Toronto observatory. She is wearing a mauve jacket with a gold necklace and a gold broach on her right lapel. Her white hair is pulled back behind a headband, and her head is turned so she is looking upwards and to her right. She is wearing tortoise shell glasses.
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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 31/07/2026
Who doesn't love a cute animal video? But now that AI can generate convincing-looking fur and feathers, some of those adorable videos on your feed are total fakes. In this week's episode of Two Truths and AI, we take a look at three strange animal clips. Can you spot the fake? youtu.be/h8zZo6BVLLo
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Which strange animal video is AI-generated? | Two Truths and AI
YouTube video by News Literacy Project
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UConn Rudd Center @uconnrudd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
For years, Red Bull financed studies that disputed the risks of mixing energy drinks + alcohol. This is yet another example of food and beverage companies shaping research to influence #FoodPolicy and public opinion. Nutrition "research" funded by the food industry is simply marketing in disguise.
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Is it safe to drink Red Bull and vodka? Dubious research tied to the company has shaped energy drink policy.
The company paid scientists whose studies largely found that mixing energy drinks and alcohol isn’t harmful, contrary to most research.
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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"This story didn't do what I think is should have. Pay attention to me." Have you considered trying another story? There's lots of them.
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Nathan Rohde @pacnorthimages.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Nature’s tiniest nests 🪺🍄 Bird’s nest fungi growing on a mossy log. The “eggs” are actually spore packets called peridioles. When a raindrop hits just right, it launches them out like tiny splash-cups so they can start new colonies. #mushrooms #fungi #NaturePhotography #macrophotography #mycology
Close-up of several small, cup-shaped bird’s nest fungi growing on a dark, textured log covered with patches of green moss. The fuzzy, light-brown cups contain clusters of tiny, oval, grayish-beige “eggs” (peridioles) nestled inside, some with a few scattered on the wood nearby. Soft natural lighting highlights the textures of the fungi and moss against a blurred dark background.
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b3ta @b3ta.com · 27/07/2026
Looks like i'm back on my bullshit Artist: Moon Girl Technologies b3ta.com/board/11429738
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Subject: Looks like i'm back on my bullshit

Body: it's been a while! how is everyone
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
How many bodies would you guess the average country churchyard in Britain contains? When I’ve asked most people this, their answer has usually been “a few hundred” or “maybe a thousand”. The truth is usually at least ten thousand.
A fabulously lichen-blotched gravestone in the village of Buckland-In-The-Moor, Devon.
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The Little News Bot @thelittlenewsbot.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
YouTube still recommending eating disorder videos to teens, research finds The site is continuing to recommend harmful videos despite new rules meant to better protect teenagers in the UK, a study finds. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yzn2g…
YouTube still recommending eating disorder videos to teens, research finds
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I'd very much appreciate it if you took a moment to read the alt text on this. www.tom-cox.com
The photo is one I took during a long coastal walk of the Daymark, a brutalist Victorian shipping tower in Devon, UK. It's old, mysterious, seems a bit like it's from outer-space, likes being near the sea, and looks like it could be a great psychedelic record cover so I think it quite sums up the writing on my website, which I wanted to invite new followers here to have a look at via the link above. There's absolutely LOADS on there, much of it readable for free, if you decide to sign up for the emails where I send it out. I deleted my Instagram account today and it's my hope that I can soon get to the stage where Bluesky is the only social media I use and everything else goes to people via my site, without idiot algorithms getting in the way. Which will ultimately give me more time to write (I hope). My suggestion is that you sign up for the free package then, if you like it, you can always support my writing by signing up for the paywalled stuff too. I've offered a choice of prices, starting at less than £2 per month, so hopefully everyone who really wants to read everything I write will be able to afford it.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 09/07/2026
You don't have to censor a newsroom to censor the news. You just have to penalize those who share it. Protecting press freedom must mean protecting everyone who reads, circulates, and discusses reporting.
freedom.press
The government wants to scare Americans out of sharing the news
The Department of Homeland Security has a new tactic to suppress reporting: silence people who repost information from news stories
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Did you know that charities working to challenge racism, support refugees & promote human rights increasingly face large-scale online abuse & threats? What this report - quite strikingly - omits to mention is that such abuse often follows hostile UK media attacks /1 news.sky.com/story/staff-...
news.sky.com
Staff at 'thousands of charities' threatened and intimidated for 'doing their jobs'
The Charity Commission surveyed nearly 3,000 charity trustees, and over a quarter said they had been affected by a "challenging social environment"
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TD Warner @triciadmwarner.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE said Salgado Araujo ignored commands to stop his vehicle, saying he “rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle, refused to follow multiple verbal commands, and weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer”. ⁠ Same excuses aje.news/dexmt7
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US immigration officer shoots and kills man in Texas
Man, identified as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, is latest to be killed by ICE officers since President Trump took power.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Outgoing South West Water boss Susan Davy (pictured) received a £270,000 bonus for 2024-25. She presided over a cryptosporidiosis outbreak affecting 17,000 households in south Devon that made 140 people ill, hospitalising four of them. ‘Turd of the Week’ in the new Private Eye, out now.
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Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences @suartsciences.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🧪 "Can sand learn?" sounds like a trick question. A&S physicist Jennifer Schwarz means it literally. Her models of how sand, cells and tissues adapt could point the way to #AI that uses far less energy than it does now.
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Can Sand Learn?
A Syracuse physicist believes that learning isn’t confined to the brain. Her work with materials like sand, cells and tissues might prove her right.
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prattleon.bsky.social @prattleon.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Great to see these guys in court why does it take Swansea CC to prosecute this Essex firm?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/07/2026
UK government and Christian churches oversaw system that separated 185,000 babies from their mothers from 1949 to 1976.
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UK's Starmer apologises for the state's role in decades of forced adoptions
UK government and Christian churches oversaw system that separated 185,000 babies from their mothers from 1949 to 1976.
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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
All of a sudden Farage’s draft crypto friendly bill has vanished from the Reform website. Farage’s lobbying for it in the wake of his £5 million Harborne bung will be under serious scrutiny and he’s trying to cover his slimy tracks. #Faragebung www.thenerve.news/p/reform-cry...
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‘It’s like this was made up by a schoolkid’: Reform’s vanishing crypto bill
Nigel Farage launched it in Las Vegas and promised to make it law. Now, as his links to cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne are under scrutiny, Reform’s flagship policy has disappeared. When you un...
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 24/06/2026
Journalists who depend on confidential sources should be alarmed that journalist Catherine Herridge has been ordered to pay $800 a day for not burning her sources. Congress must pass a strong shield law like the PRESS Act to protect journalists. Our statement:
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Court forces reporter to pay $800 a day for refusing to identify source
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:New York, June 24, 2026 — A D.C. appeals court declined yesterday to pause an $800-per-day fine against investigative reporter Catherine Herridge for refusing to identify her con...
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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