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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

American Liberals and Leftists should not be surprised if America faces a lot of scepticism even after Trump is gone from Canadians, Europe and the rest of the world as long as Democrats and DSA preach norms of international law they refuse to implement towards their own country

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The electoral farce in occupied Ukraine is so absurdly sinister it reads like evil satire

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

American news media and think tanks are still incapable of coming to terms with how a majority of American voters opted to elect a demented sociopath as their President

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nigel Farage professes his innocence

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

You have to wonder about the insanity the Trump administration has planned for the days after the World Cup final

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Turkish activists have hung a huge banner on Istanbul's Haliç Bridge saying “Hide your children—Trump is coming” ahead of his attendance at the NATO summit in Ankara Tuesday.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The Trump party line on war and peace with Iran

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I suspect many of us would like to donate to a reliable charity or community group, that's helping the victims of the race-riots in Belfast last night. Any suggestions? (Organisations, please, not individual GoFundMe pages, which can be faked).

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 10/06/2026

Yes. It simultaneously is why Brexit was going to be fine because no border, and is something we should absolutely be getting rid of so that there'll be a problem which now won't be a Brexit problem because.... ??????????? 10 fucking years.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

A lot of datapoints now for Putin losing whatever tenuous grip on reality he still had before 2022. That doesn't end the war now, or his regime soon. But it leaves a heck of an unstable mess for whoever his successors will be in 2030s Moscow.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

There is something hilariously absurd about Putin demanding that the United States sticks to what he claims is a "Spirit of Anchorage" that it's pretty likely that Trump can't even remember

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Donie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Ireland, Seen as a Weak Link in Europe’s Defense, Is Trying to Bulk Up, @meganspecia.bsky.social reports. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/w...

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Ireland, Seen as a Weak Link in Europe’s Defense, Is Trying to Bulk Up

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 16/05/2026

More leaking looking like an attempt to stop upcoming madness.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Why do prime ministers keep failing? This is a really useful blog from @samfr.bsky.social Much of what he says resonates with me BUT I do think that a febrile press addicted to drama feeds a trigger happy public making MPs trigger happy in turn carry more weight open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/w...

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Why do prime ministers keep failing?

So here we are again in another protracted leadership contest.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Behold, the median European voter

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 05/05/2026

How popular is Donald Trump in Europe (7-23 April) 🇩🇰 -90 (+1 from Mar) 🇩🇪 -79 (-3) 🇮🇹 -79 (-11) 🇬🇧 -75 (-8) 🇪🇸 -74 (-6) 🇫🇷 -67 (-3) yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

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William Reymond @williamreymond.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

J'ai raté cet extraordinaire dessin de Clay Bennett. Pas grave, il marche encore aujourd'hui. Et demain...

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

And again, a reason I hate the TACO meme is in how it generates a false sense of predictability when it comes to a US president whose defining trait is erratic sociopathy

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

So deeply unserious. We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It is astonishing to see Americans in the quotes not getting this. Those who understand Diplomatic English know this is Charles effectively saying: yes, Hans, you’re the baddies.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 28/04/2026

Quite an achievement by the Trump DOJ: The second criminal case against James Comey is even dumber than the first. x.com/CarolLeonnig...

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Hey everybody, we found the weaponization of government! This shows that Blanche and the DOJ will go to the most extremely absurd lengths to serve Dear Leader. Calling this a banana republic move would be an insult to banana republics. It's clown-car authoritarianism and an unhinged abuse of power.

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 23/04/2026

Three dynamics are now dissolving it. First: the algorithmic shift. Platforms moved from social graphs to interest-based recommendation. You see what the model predicts will hold your attention, not what your network shared. TikTok set the template; everyone copied it. The social network is dead.

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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 24/04/2026

As one Pentagon analyst said to me in 2016: think of the election of Donald Trump as the marriage of the Russian mafia in the West with the Russian mafia in the East.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Two things can be true at the same time: 1. Russia's economy is in deepening crisis that without a change of course could threaten cohesion of a post-Putin Russian state. 2. As long as Putin holds the system he built together the Russian state remains an acute threat to Europe.

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Sar mc Donnell @sarmcdonnell.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

A must read analysis of what’s really happening behind the scenes and is he actually presiding.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I noted yesterday that we would do well to describe what role the actions Trump is performing, rather than assuming he is functioning as President. Mostly, Trump is an old man retreating into his lifelong hobbies: construction, cons, and corruption. With lots of golf.

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Sar mc Donnell @sarmcdonnell.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Keep on going about the unpublished EPSTEIN’s files!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/04/2026

I can think of a lot of more accurate and less flattering terms for dudes who travel to other countries to trap foreign women in subservient relationships than “passport bros”

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The best explanation of what is happening between the US and Iran right now is that Trump is openly live-blogging the kind of fraught consultations that any sane US president in the past would have kept secret to avoid putting themselves and the other side under domestic pressure

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

New euphemism for "pure, unadulterated horseshit" just dropped

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

#C4News last night reported on the wholesale targeting of ambulances & paramedics in Lebanon by Israel, including the recent 'triple hit', when Israel attacked an ambulance, then attacked paramedics who went to help, and then attacked further paramedics also trying to help.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12/04/2026

sort of hard to convey the sheer joy, scale and absurdity of it but Budapest's streets are currently so full, past midnight on a Sunday, that it feels like I'm personally walking back to my room, accompanied by my eight to twelve thousand best friends

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Thus, today's election is not really the end of an authoritarian regime. Rather, it is the first step in a much longer unwinding process. It is massive and absolutely necessary first step — one that anyone who believes in democracy should celebrate. But it's more a beginning than an end.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The Orbánist is deeply entrenched across the Hungarian government: courts, bureaucracy, regulators, tax agencies, even cultural organizations were all part of it. If Magyar does not use his power to enact sweeping constitution changes, much of that system could survive.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Combine the anger of people power with the ruthless professionalism of a political operation that has enough former regime insiders to anticipate the autocrat's every move

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 08/04/2026

America’s intervention in Iran, Feb-April 2026

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Sar mc Donnell @sarmcdonnell.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Judge John Roberts will go down in history as a collaborator and a far right authoritarian ideologue.

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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 07/04/2026

So much of this could have been prevented if the men in the Epstein files had been prosecuted instead of protected.

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Iran is not the only place that will experience dramatic escalation this week

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This is correct news copy practice in reporting Donald Trump’s activities. www.economist.com/the-world-in... from The Economist

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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

If you can’t sack your demented, insane president are you even a democracy?

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The founders believed that if a madman became president, members of Congress would serve the country’s interest and remove him from office. That seemed a reliable system to safeguard the republic. Boy, did they screw up.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Trump's competence to be President is undercovered in the US media but does show up in US public attitudes. This is a complicated case as the problem is a combination of potential cognitive decline, aligned to the character/conduct flaws that have always been there edition.cnn.com/2026/02/26/p...

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Polls show increasing concerns about Trump’s mental acuity | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential race after his initial opponent, then-President Joe Biden, withdrew over worries about his age and mental sharpness.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Oof. www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

“Jared Kushner makes up for his flaws as an investor by being a wildly corrupt appendage of his father-in-law’s wildly corrupt administration. The guy is literally on the payroll of the Saudi government and trying to take even more of their money while simultaneously hijacking U.S. foreign policy with his shadow State Department. The U.S. becomes less safe and more corrupt every day Jared Kushner remains involved in our political system,” said Senator Wyden.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Hey everyone! Follow @julianborger.bsky.social for international news!

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