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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He was told it was coming and did nothing.
abc.net.au
Netanyahu was warned of October 7 Hamas attack, reports say ahead of election
With only weeks to go until elections in Israel, an unrelenting stream of well-sourced, detailed stories has suddenly appeared, documenting multiple failures by Benjamin Netanyahu to heed warnings of ...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...
iandunt.substack.com
Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment
It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/09/2026
Netanyahu under pressure over reports he was warned about October 7 ft.trib.al/3PHq7RS
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Netanyahu under pressure over reports he was warned about October 7
Opposition attacks Israeli premier ahead of election over leaks suggesting Egyptian and Emirati officials alerted him to Hamas threat
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kash Patel should resign in disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
Ciaran Martin, the former head of Britain’s cyberdefense agency, said the F.B.I. hack likely had “huge impact on the operational capability” of the bureau and could rank as one of the most consequential data breaches in history — graver even than the Office of Personnel Management burglary.

“Losing the data on 20 million federal employees to the Chinese was bad,” Mr. Martin said. “But you knew the Chinese weren’t going to sell or publish it.”
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Ariel J. Blocker @drugdesigns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Face-to-face with ‘bomb plotters’: Farmer tells of 999 call after stumbling on masked men Gifted piece www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/8b5405c...
telegraph.co.uk
Face-to-face with ‘bomb plotters’: Farmer tells of 999 call after stumbling on masked men
Exclusive: Gloucestershire villager feels lucky to be unharmed after she encountered suspicious group near RAF air base
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 25/09/2026
poor fucker
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Allyn Gibson @allyngibson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This photograph from the White House today... Who was Trump so furious with? And why? What happened on the balcony? What is he reacting to? Why does he look like he's going to unalive someone?
Photo of Donald Trump on the White House portico, facing away from the Washington Monument, giving a glare of absolute fury at the photographer, while Melania (to the the left) looks alarmed, Chinese Premier "Winnie-the-Pooh" Xi (to the right) looks mildly bemused, Xi's wife looks content, and a military guard gestures into the White House with a slightly sad expression.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/09/2026
Trump winces in pain during the loud military flyover as Xi shows no reaction
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
*About that bombed girls' school in Iran. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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NeoEonOne @neoeonone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
An American interviewer asked Count Binface where he stands on the political spectrum.
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 13/03/2026
EXCLUSIVE - I've just been passed the latest copy from the Papua New Guinea Courier's USA correspondent. Subscribe to my Substack for more! mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-latest...
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is so incredibly addictive anyhumanever.com
anyhumanever.com
Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Natalie Harp sprints after Donald Trump at his golf course in Scotland: (source: www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...)
Trump in a golf cart with a figure in black running after him in the background
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Shafm @shafm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Don't do this very often but today's was pure guess. My best since my starter word was the answer. ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ 🟩 ⬜ 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 Wordle 1,886
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This must be the third video of wonderful voices singing global scales I have seen, and each is mesmerising and has taught me things I didn't know. Such as: That these scales exist and how they, the bare backbone of tunes, reflect and unlock whole world regions' music. This is amazing.
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He didn’t change. They did.
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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Agreed. This just completely cracked me up. bsky.app/profile/neoe...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/08/2026
14 million souls ended in a single year by Elon Musk's cruelty and stupidity Here are some of the comparisons: Rwandan genocide: 800k dead Cambodian genocide: 3 million dead The Holocaust: 7 million dead
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Day17 @day17anne.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Given it's recycling bin day in Clacton, time to dig out my favourite roast. #VoteBinFace #FarageIsATraitor #TakeTheTrashOut
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Shafm @shafm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
@pfrazee.com
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...
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Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering
These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races
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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Terrifically terrifying
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Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner
Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/07/2026
It’s unfortunate that almost none of the people behind these accounts actually know very much about the ancient world.
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Why Stone-Faced Fascists Keep Getting Antiquity Wrong
Online bigotry masquerading as a love of history in the fever swamps of Elon Musk’s X.
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cfun.bsky.social @cfun.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
bsky.app/profile/mens...
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Spain is a team of 11 midfielders, and Argentina is a team of 10 bastards and a genius — and it doesn’t make for great telly
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I wanted to be cremated, but now my skull has a hole and a titanium cover. Maybe future historians would be interested. So I still want to be cremated, but not the head. When I'll be older, I'll go to a funeral home and ask if I can have a 50/50. With ashes stored in my skull
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OldSchoolJourno 🦘🏏🎶 @psclazzac.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Australian: Fuckln' legend mate.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/07/2026
Two baby beaver kits have arrived at Ealing's Paradise Fields. Reintroduced in 2023 with Ealing Wildlife Group and Citizen Zoo, beavers are already stopping Greenford station from flooding and saving us money on infrastructure. Here’s what they’ve been up to 🦫
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🤣🤣🤣🥂
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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 08/07/2026
This one is better youtu.be/aGOmzQbRT_E
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Count Binface: I'll take on Farage in by-election | BBC Radio 4 Today
YouTube video by BBC Politics
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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The facade is cracking
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Sb @xtasbe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Jordan Henderson: "Wasn't picked. Got booked while not playing. Fell over and broke my wrist."
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Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is astonishing, please send to all your hometown friends and parents and second cousins and academic administrators: lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...
lareviewofbooks.org
A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books
Did the Weather Underground have a point?
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The average life expectancy of a Russian recruit, from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone, is estimated to be between 10 days and 3 weeks. Once sent into combat in Ukraine, however, their survival time is reported to be just 20 to 35 minutes. 200.zona.media
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
As Trump announced his whimsy war in Iran, I was reading about another imperial campaign, long ago, against an Iranian people. I found a perspective on the wars of today, & a sense of why, beyond his obvious incompetence in military matters, Trump had to lose his. snyder.substack.com/p/of-stoicis...
snyder.substack.com
Of Stoicism and Stupor
The Wars of Marcus Aurelius and Donald Trump
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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A fifth of Leave voters have died.
Graph showing the movement of Leave and Remain voters since 2016
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 21/06/2026
History has hatched in London. For the first time in over 360 years, pelican chicks have successfully been born in St. James’s Park. These four new arrivals mark a monumental milestone for wildlife in the heart of our capital.
londonist.com
More Beaks To Feed! Pelican Chicks Born At St James's Park For The First Time
Four additions to the feathered family.
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Shafm @shafm.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Rose garden in Greenwich park, London is at its peak after renovations in recent years. #gardening #roses
Pink roses on bushPink roses, daisies underneathCornflowers and other bedding flowersGrand red brick house behind rose garden, path lined with roses bushes and other flowering plants.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I love this. Unmute.
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Shafm @shafm.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove dancing at Aberdeen nightclub
Mr Gove was seen dancing at the club in his hometown of Aberdeen by numerous punters. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster reportedly told fellow clubgoers he "loves to dance".
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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Go for it. I don't even care any more.
Photo of a sketch of a Neanderthal. The headline reads:
Scientists Growing Neanderthal
'Minibrains', Will Connect Them to Crab Robots
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Shafm @shafm.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Better job than my last dentist.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
RFK jr's brain worm forgot he had a wife and initially left her behind
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/04/2026
Is the pope Catholic? JD Vance thinks he has an answer | Marina Hyde
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Is the pope Catholic? JD Vance thinks he has an answer | Marina Hyde
When it comes to theology, Donald Trump’s vice-president clearly knows best. Are we about to see an American break with Rome, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
When you feel imposter syndrome sneaking up on you, just remember that JD Vance lectured the Pope on theology.
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