Reposted by Simon CoxGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8hYep. The Texas GOP perfectly captures what the Trump-era GOP writ large has become, but it also shows how this politics is creating space for something better to emerge on the liberal-Democratic side. 216336
Reposted by Simon CoxYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026What people fail to understand is also that Zionism was not just a plan/ideology for Jews in Palestine, it was also a vision for Jewish *diasporic* identity. Much of Zionist activity has always taken place outside Palestine/Israel and was about communal identity and politics. Hence the attachment. 624851
Reposted by Simon CoxDr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 8hIn Australia the big councils with well paid full time councillors are much better run. Here in Brisbane their pay is set just below state MPs. Currently AUD 185k a year. 271
Reposted by Simon CoxChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 9hYeah, it possibly doesn't help that we've also built a system where the rewards of being a councillor are so poor that only the terminally ambitious or those with ludicrous amounts of free time would do it. A system in which the main route to becoming a councillor is who delivers the most leaflets 3142
Reposted by Simon CoxAustin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 8hMy first column is out: "The Baseline: Getting Our Bearings in an Age of Mass Deportation." I'm thrilled to be partnering with @documentedny.bsky.social on a monthly column about immigration data. documentedny.com/2026/10/05/b...documentedny.comThe Baseline: Getting Our Bearings in an Age of Mass DeportationThe Baseline, a new monthly column from Austin Kocher, explores the impact of rising immigration enforcement. 2247
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 8hIs it too early for a referendum on what fulsome should mean? I feel its usage changed more than a decade ago and I’d like permission to stop flinching. 000
Reposted by Simon CoxStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8hThere will never be enough quality candidates for a rightwing party if you make it a condition for entry that you sign up to a position that almost everyone earning above 70k disagrees with: 2221833
Reposted by Simon CoxYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 8h"I don’t like to use words like that. Because that’s obviously a signal that I’m asking the Zionists to commit hara-kiri. They can be Zionists, and they can assert their Jewish identity and their connection to the land, so long as it doesn’t keep the others out so manifestly." Haaretz, 2000 1949
Reposted by Simon CoxDanny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social · 8hThe Conservatives want more road injuries and slower public transport. 0256
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 8h“a walking encyclopedia of [Xxx] law” = won’t shut up “brilliant on his feet” = can’t write “meticulous” = painfully slow 010
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026*personal view* IMHO Legal 500s and Chambers & Partners client-based assessments of barristers are pure hagiography. So this is… bracing ;) www.rollonfriday.com/news-content...rollonfriday.comEXCLUSIVE Legal500 accidentally publishes terrible reviews of top barristersPulls site offline 3101
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz wrote - in an Indigenous Peoples' History of the US - how the Army was “unable to stop”armed settlers used illegal terror against Native Americans www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comIsraeli forces overwhelmed by violent settlers in ‘terrorist attack’ on Palestinian familySettler violence in West Bank makes everyday life ‘untenable’ for Palestinians, says ICRC after assault on family trying to return home in Jalud 022
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Its not the people who never used the account who are fraudsters. Obamacare tax credits are paid directly to insurance companies. Fraudsters trick consumers to enrol to get commission from the insurance companies. bsky.app/profile/stev... 011
Reposted by Simon CoxSteven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A lot of people are dunking on this, but there has been a lot of boiler-room type behavior to sign up people for ACA plans, especially in Florida, with people sometimes unaware what they were signing up for. Bloomberg reported on the practice here: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...bloomberg.comHow Celebrity Deepfakes Supercharged Florida Health-Care HustleA wannabe hip-hop mogul and blue-haired internet marketer turned Obamacare into a lucrative get-rich-quick scheme, with an assist from Bain Capital. 148228
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026US friends - serious Q - what is the supposed fraud here? Can an insured person cash out their subsidised premiums? Can an Obamacare account be used for ID fraud? Why is no-one being prosecuted. Are these claims really as stupid as people say? 374
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Kudos to the journalists, lawyers, priests and others trying to stop immigration judges from holding secret hearings. 064
Reposted by Simon CoxBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.thecityreporter.nycDHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal PlazaA reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst. 14693381
Reposted by Simon CoxAlan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026in case Irish people don't know the context, Stan Cullis played for and managed Wolverhampton Wanderers. in 1938 he objected to a proposed Nazi salute by 🏴 players before a game vs 🇩🇪 and was dropped from the side. he's a club legend at Wolves, the Stan Cullis Stand was where I sat last weekend 110037
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I don’t think this climate change thingy is a quick end…. 100
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Which leads to solidarity, anger and attention-seeking rather than embarrassment, reflection and maybe change. Or just acceptance. 000
Reposted by Simon CoxStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There is literally no statistical evidence that this is a growing trend, it’s just that social media exists and people talk about it more. (Which I would expect will lead to more people doing it, but I have no evidence for this view!) 1825826
Reposted by Simon CoxTyler 🏳️🌈 @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Now think about civil lawsuits. How many people have wanted to sue somebody else in small claims court but they couldn’t get the case together on their own? What happens when everyone has an “AI Lawyer”? 151
Reposted by Simon CoxDerrick Perkins @derricktperkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I mean, it would be funny if we all had to revert to 1990 because the internet has become a poisoned well. There's probably a great short story there 2184
Reposted by Simon CoxJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 26/09/2026I do wonder sometimes if certain people in Labour have ever met the modern working class. I know in reality they have, but it never feels like it. Working people are overwhelmingly literate now! Most know people of other races! Many have gay friends or family! Some worry about climate change! 1322730
Reposted by Simon CoxMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Alastair Campbell's new book is. called Persevilience: The Word the World Needs Now. And you’re telling me we’re not living in some kind of shoddily written satirical simulation? 3511410
Reposted by Simon Coxflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There is IMO something absolutely spot on about the British ruling class not at all recognising that smashing up the state to sell it for scrap and cocaine might be a problem, until it started to somewhat impede their ability to wage a really serious war. 14541124
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“Everything you buy depends on diesel” is exactly why it’s good for diesel prices to be high and stay high - to force suppliers to shift to cheaper, greener transport systems like rail and electric vehicles. 151
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026As a teenager in Sydney, the would-be Wimbledon champion was working towards a singular goal when an act of racism shattered her naivety www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...theguardian.comI was focused on becoming the first Aboriginal tennis champion. Then one remark changed something in meAs a teenager in Sydney, the would-be Wimbledon champion was working towards a singular goal when an act of racism shattered her naivety 022
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Isn’t that great though, to know there are still so many unknown pleasures? 000
Reposted by Simon CoxMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/09/2026Tonight begins the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. May a sukkat shalom — a shelter of peace — spread over our city. To all celebrating: Gut Yontif and Chag Sukkot Sameach! 9976461091
Reposted by Simon CoxOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one 201213209
Reposted by Simon CoxProtik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 26/09/2026any y'all been to ke lebab 34414
Reposted by Simon CoxPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hey you know who else did this? Elon Musk, at DOGE. 0203
Reposted by Simon CoxWill Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 26/09/202610000% This. It's not the worse thing she's done obviously, but I do find it genuinely insulting that she thinks I and everyone who looks like me, is irredeemably racist 2275
Reposted by Simon CoxAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We’re at the “shipping container courts” stage of ICE’s mass expansion of the enforcement system. 641320721
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026That’s an arrogant tweet about a High Court judge’s ruling after a 5 hour hearing. And since the PC’s decision was to allow the march to go ahead with condtions, why wouldn’t the High Court have jurisdiction to suspend the decision to let it go ahead? 210
Reposted by Simon CoxSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Sure. Brexit meant we huffed out of our agreements on managing the flow of asylum seekers. The boats symbolise “taking back control” by going it alone. But it’s only a “crisis” because politicians and media choose to blame immigrants for their own failures. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...independent.co.ukBurnham blames Brexit for small boats crisis - but rules out early general electionBurnham lamented a ‘loss of collaboration with neighbours’ following Brexit but has ‘knocked dead’ the idea of an early election before 2029 59811235
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Protests at the housing crisis in Spain after the dramatic eviction of MariCarmen, an 87-year-old woman, from the home in Madrid where she lived for seven decades. 1156
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Posting is like praying, it only requires faith that someone might read it - we are not to expect proof. 030
Reposted by Simon CoxLorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I really don’t think it’s an oopsie that AI is hacking the government. 56414