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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
On the Arday is a ‘plagiarist/a fraud’. Just done a survey of the small percentage of questioned attribution around two of his 33 peer reviewed papers: over 99% remains intact and unchallenged. How can anyone be called a plagiarist or fraud in that basis?
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
My own view is that Boris Johnson doomed the Tories when he purged them of all the even slightly talented MPs. Sorry, I mean disloyal MPs. 😉
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
observation test for your inner 8-year-old. Can you spot the 6 creatures hidden in the picture? From Treasure magazine, 1965 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Trump forgets that has threatened to invade two different NATO allies, Canada and Denmark. He also sides with Putin over NATO every time. Pro tip for Donnie: Once you blow up a bridge, you can't blackmail people into doing what you want by threatening to blow up the ruined remains of the bridge.
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Dougie G @craggered.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I think you could describe both as cruel dictatorships to be honest. It will be interesting to see if Trump tries to come up with a reason to suspend the next election. He always "jokes" about getting a 3rd term etc so at this point I wouldn't rule that out
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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I think it is useful to periodically restate that in August 2024 the New York Times very self-importantly and for no apparent reason announced it would no longer make endorsements in NYS/NYC elections and then in June 2025 explicitly told its readers not to vote for Mamdani
The New Work Times
GIVE THE TIMES
OPINION
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Our Advice to Voters in a Vexing Race for New York Mayor
June 16, 2025Given those polls, however, the crucial choice may end up being where, if at all, voters decide to rank Mr. Cuomo or Mr.
Mamdani. We do not believe that Mr.
Mamdani deserves a spot on New Yorkers' ballots. His experience is too thin, and his agenda reads like a turbocharged version of Mr. de Blasio's dismaying mayoralty. As for Mr. Cuomo, we have serious objections to his ethics and conduct, even if he would be better for New York's future than Mr.
Mamdani.
For any voters tempted to leave both off their ballots, it is important to understand that this decision would be tantamount to expressing no preference between the two. It is similar to voting for neither major-party candidate in a traditional election. If the polls are correct and the race is between Mr.
Cuomo and Mr. Mamdani, the thing that matters most on a ballot will be the relative positions of those two candidates.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 12/03/2026
Ed Miliband must step in and bar Tesla from holding an energy licence. Elon Musk is a threat to our national security and clearly not a fit person to operate in our energy industry. We can’t have the lights go out because he’s having a strop on X.
“Elon Musk’s Tesla given go-ahead to supply electricity in Great Britain.” A subheading underneath says: “Ofgem licence means firm can replicate Texas setup of powering homes, businesses and EVs.”
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 04/03/2026
Senate Republicans just voted to block our War Powers Resolution & allow Trump's regime-change war of choice in Iran. Once again, they're contracting out their constitutional duties to Donald Trump, despite the will of their constituents. Shameful. www.axios.com/2026/03/04/i...
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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 02/03/2026
Squirrel Bait - When I Fall [USA, Punk/Hardcore] (1985) redd.it/29n28p youtu.be/vCNueJTWCNM
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Squirrel Bait - When I Fall [USA, Punk/Hardcore] (1985)
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 01/03/2026
To be clear, I am writing this to point out the surreal offensiveness of the talking points I’m hearing out of Tel Aviv and Washington, not actually advocating the same treatment be doled out on Americans and Israelis as they’re dishing out to Iranians. Mad that I need to say it but yeah.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I don't know when I last read something like the transcript out of Minnesota, so I spent the evening putting this together. www.lawdork.com/p/the-minnes...
On Tuesday in Minnesota, a lawyer made headlines — including at Law Dork — for her shocking statement in court representing that government that the “system sucks.”

On Wednesday, the transcript made clear that it wasn’t just Julie Le — an inexperienced litigator who was on a detail from her job at the Department of Homeland Security to help with the increased caseload resulting from Operation Metro Surge — who said a lot that matters on Tuesday.

It is an unfathomable exercise to read lawyers and a federal judge discussing at length the ways in which the rule of law is slipping through our nation’s fingers, but it is an absolutely necessary document to read for anyone who wants to protect the rule of law — and America.
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Looking back fondly on this quote Mandelson gave me last September
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/01/2026
No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
From Viz, three years ago: The Brexit Opportunity Detector. Still looking.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I’m the Editor’s Pick today, very personal piece (paywalled) (I did not write the headline) www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...
A screenshot of the Times newspaper website of an article telling my experience with surgeon Ian Paterson. The photo is me, a brunette woman in a green cardigan sitting in a chair.
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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One of the theologians I read a lot recently did a long essay on how doing a big Bonhoffer project helped him realize that MAGA evangelicals have kind of already gone through the process that made the German people see potential mass murder as sanctifying! Once you see it, it's hard to unsee
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 25/01/2026
Minnesota believes in law and order. We believe in peace. And we believe that Trump needs to pull his 3,000 untrained agents out of Minnesota before they kill another American in the street.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
man the stuff i am seeing on IG from the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen's note to Starmer after visiting Chequers yesterday.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Renee Good was shot 3 times by ICE The first two shots were non lethal. One to her left forearm & another to right breast The final shot entered the left side of her head & exited the right side He didn’t have to keep shooting. He was out of the vehicle’s path before the kill shot That’s murder
abcnews.go.com
Law firm representing Renee Good's family releases findings from independent autopsy
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Jana Puglierin @jpuglierin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I keep returning to one passage from Trump’s Davos speech. “You need ownership to defend something,” he said. “You can’t defend it on a lease. Who the hell wants to defend a licence agreement, or a lease?” Taken seriously, this logic is devastating. 1/4
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Rusty @el-presidente.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Even, er contextier
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
From @faisalislam.bsky.social Surreal, but heard at Davos: Official Danish archives show Woodrow Wilson’s 1916 signature & Secretary of State Robert Lansing, committing US by treaty that Denmark has right to “whole of Greenland”, after Trump written denial of right.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Never forget: never let anyone else forget either.
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polillitam G.M. 💙🦋🦋🦋 @polillitam.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Everyday
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Just a month ago the UK agreed to a deal in which the NHS has to pay £3bn a year more for US drugs. The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs. Today that deal has been broken by the USA. The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.
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David Pickworth @davidpickworth.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
„It [Denmark] lost more soldiers per capita than the United States did in Afghanistan“. This says it all. A small country experiencing enormous loss of life in defence of an ally is discarded and ridiculed by weak, bullying, demagogues trying to make up for their obvious inadequacies.
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Ryan Larson @ryanplarson.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
There are many signs of the fear and distress people are feeling in my home town of Minneapolis. One signal of elevated strain is the rise in 911 calls for help — up about 9% daily in the new year relative to previous daily averages across 2020-2024.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Do you know why you've heard of the Boston Massacre? Because in 1768, when the British military began occupying Boston, Bostonians syndicated a "Journal of Occurrences" in newspapers around the country to help Americans understand what abuse of power looks like. By the 1770s, readers understood.
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Laurence Turner MP @larry-turner.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This is not exercising freedom of speech. This is misogynistic intimidation.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/01/2026
Tapper to Noem: "I just showed you video of people attacking law enforcement officers on J6. Trump pardoned them all. You said Trump is enforcing all the laws equally. That's just not true. There's a different standard for LEOs being attacked if they're being attacked by Trump supporters."
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 10/01/2026
This is Minneapolis: -drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents -go to brunch with your wife -get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt -get groceries as helicopters roar overhead -deliver food & this vehicle passes you
Photo through the windshield of a car showing an armored police vehicle driving on Nicollet
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The response to the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good is not what the White House was expecting. Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Well, the FIFA Peace Prize committee must be feeling very silly today.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Good Morning and welcome to another episode of regime change by the USA. The US seems to be militarily trying to get rid of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro right now. There are reports of US ground forces in action. However, watch the Cubans too. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
open.substack.com
The US Is Attempting Regime Change In Venezuela
Watch Cuba
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Mollie Simpson @molliesimpson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
thanks to @alphaville.ft.com for selecting our investigation into Andrew Milne as one of the best non-FT pieces of journalism of the year www.ft.com/content/72d0...
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenterIn a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
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I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B
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Joh Fonte @coolorado.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This is why Musk and Trump (and in the background Putin) are now attacking the EU with their propaganda to want to dismantle the EU. It's all about the money
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I wonder if Trump is in such a hurry to appease Putin (and Netanyahu) because of the looming Epstein files disclosure, and Epstein’s proximity to Russian (and Israeli) intelligence services
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🇺🇸‼️🇪🇺🇬🇧 Full story: US plan to restructure the economies of Russia and Ukraine is causing conflict with Europe, - WSJ
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quizzzical.bsky.social @quizzzical.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
To avoid this taxation doom loop, maybe it’s time for Rachel Reeves to think the unthinkable & require people to pay for access to the NHS. This should reduce demand & its substantial budget as well as raising money: a virtuous circle. It might not be popular tho www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
dailymail.co.uk
Reeves to hit middle class earners with £60b tax bomb, economists warn
In trying to meet her Budget targets, the Chancellor may face a £20billion to £30billion black hole, according to analysis by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR).
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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quizzzical.bsky.social @quizzzical.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa! c.org/J5PLhkWSXf
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Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)
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Eric Lisann @ericlisann.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
You can't legally fight a system where the supreme arbiter of what is "legal" systematically redefines this as whatever the fascist leader says it is.
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