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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In terms of messaging, this is very positive, and a big shift from the nature-hatefest of the Starmer administration. Mind you, most tree-planting is unnecessary: I'd like to see much more emphasis on natural regeneration. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government

Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 29/09/2026

person talking to computer, saying "will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
computer replies ">you got it, boss"
person replies "oh my god."

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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

George Conway: "Trump is everything we teach our children not to be. He's the lowest of the low." Rock bottom has a new basement. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This, my friends, is one of your legislators. We didn't elect him, but he sits in the House of Lords as a reward for bringing us Brexit, injecting his bigotry, perversity and ignorance into our lives. Daniel Hannan in the Daily Mail today, once again grossly misrepresenting history.

Meanwhile, Caribbean countries are demanding ‘reparations’, not from the African states that enslaved their ancestors, but from the nation that poured its blood and treasure into a relentless campaign for abolition.

Incredibly, African countries – which became British colonies, in no small measure, because we were trying to extirpate slavery – also straight-facedly demand compensation.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Can we please stop doing this? I made a comic about it and everything!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.

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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

Squirrel to other squirrel (human body behind them) : “I’ll help too bury your acorns, then you help me with my thing.”

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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loic-yengo.bsky.social @loic-yengo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m currently recruiting an experienced postdoc to join our team in Brisbane for at least two years, working on some cutting-edge problems in statistical genomics and genetic epidemiology. Link: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/uqcare...

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Research Fellow in Statistical Genomics

Institute for Molecular Bioscience Full-time fixed-term position for up to 2.5 years Base salary will be in the range $106,293.57 - $113,659.72 + 17% super (Academic Level A) or $119,462.94 - $141,545...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The question that keeps occurring to me is this: If a group of people had taken office with the deliberate intention of destroying the global standing, democratic claims, credibility and power of the United States, what would they do differently? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Trump says every adult American will get $5,000 if Republicans win midterms

Speaking at a party convention, the US president gave no details on how the plan would work or where the money would come from.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A top Anthropic researcher just quit over concerns AI superintelligence could "kill us all" in a decade. Remember: The AI industry has spent $100M+ on federal lobbying and elections this year to stop real AI safety regulations from being enacted. Money in politics is dangerous.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

At what point does ‘the masked men on the street have legitimate concerns’ and ‘Just Stop Oil/Palestine Action are terrorists’ become two tier policing?

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Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!” Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised

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Eleanor Martinez @northstar1939.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”--US Senator Carl Schurz (R-MO), 1871.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

by artist Ginny Robbins

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Facts like this are the main reason people should be on BlueSky

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

British editorial cartoonist David Parkins illustrates the bottom line.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 02/09/2026

2014: Harmful air pollution above legal limits. 2024: Harmful air pollution driven down to legal limits. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Bravo @mapquest.com…. for not bending the knee! #LakeOntario-Now&Forever🇨🇦

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 31/08/2026

Abdul El-Sayed: “Canadians are like the only people in the world who are going to preemptively apologize for something they didn't even do. So if you're starting a trade war with Canada, it's because you're the asshole.”

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/08/2026

Pritzker: So here’s the truth, plain and simple: Our state is under siege. Not by protesters, immigrants, the deep state, the press, Canada or Mexico or Greenland, Antifa or Jewish space lasers or pride parades. No. Our state's under siege by a petty, corrupt man in Washington.

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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Perfect response in its entirety - but especially the highlighted part.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

👏🏽👏🏽 Thanks to vaccines, Australia is on track to become the first country to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035 news.uq.edu.au/2026-08-20-y...

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20 years. Millions of lives saved. One revolutionary vaccine

Gardasil 20-year anniversary story.

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WutTheWut😵‍💫 RBroeck🗳️💙 @wutthewut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Believe the science. It is literally written in stone. Vaccinate.

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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 27/08/2026

There is currently a Wikipedia edit war on the Great Lakes Wikipedia pages because everything is so stupid

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh, honey . . . Dolly Parton disliked everything you are. You are a selfish, venal fool who mocks those with misfortunes, lies, and takes food and medicine away from children. She was a generous, incorruptible sage who comforted those with misfortunes, spoke the truth, and gave to children.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ladybird Book Nature Corner ‘Periwinkles’ A gem of a painting by artist Jill Payne ‘Seashore and Seashore Life’ (1964)

Close-up of seaweed covered in periwinkles like little jewels. The seaweed is growing on an old wooden post in the sand. Sand and sea are hinted at in the background.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Letter from 130 bioethicists condemns the “unwarranted, ill-advised, & frankly bizarre vendetta against a scientist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, rather than making a sincere effort to learn from the painful experiences of the pandemic to improve national preparedness” bioethicstoday.org/blog/an-open...

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Blog - An Open Letter of Support for Anthony Fauci from the Bioethics Community - Bioethics Today

As individuals concerned with ethics in science, medicine, and public health, we wish to express our dismay at the approach taken by Senate leaders to

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DaughterOfDefiance @z-buck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

And that folks, is how you do it.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

UK transit nerds are next level.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

When did it become normalized for the President of the United States to threaten to "bomb the shit out of" our allies—our *allies*—without that immediately leading to a serious conversation about whether he's mentally fit to serve as president

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I simply do not understand the mentality of people who prefer oil and gas and "drill baby drill" to the cost of the Earth and our pockets... to those of us who want clean, cheap, renewable energy. How brainwashed by big oil and its (often) paid advocates do you have to be? How gullible.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There’s something deeply repellent about Reform’s vengeful and racist obsession to take money from the most vulnerable when they’re under multiple investigations for breaking rules, dodging tax and gorging on £millions for themselves. (And trashing our EU agreement is just so thick it hurts) iPaper

EU'would retaliate on welfare plan'
By Arj Singh
The EU could launch a trade war against the UK and would probably strip British expats of benefits in retaliation to Reform's plan to ban foreign nationals from nearly all welfare payments.
Nigel Farage was warned that Brussels was likely to react with fury to his party's plan to bar foreign nationals, including EU citizens with settled status, from claiming most benefits in Britain.
Under the terms of Brexit, the EU could also launch economic retaliation, for exampleby suspending parts of the trade deal between the two sides including putting up tariffs that would hit the economy. Anand Menon, the director of the think-tank UK in a Changing Europe told The i Paper: "The proposals would breach the terms of the withdrawal agreement and the EU will doubtless retaliate, whether that be by making life harder for Britons in the EU or by triggering retaliatory trade measures.
"Either way, it will impact severely on UK-EU relations."
Reform's Treasury spokesman, Robert Jenrick, insisted that the ban was necessary because
"forcing British workers to pay for the benefits of foreigners is not just economically illiterate but plain immoral".

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