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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Amazing how this was written in 2008 and just showed up today.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He Wrote the Book on the Sedgwick ‘Family Disease,’ and Succumbed to It
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He Wrote the Book on the Sedgwick ‘Family Disease,’ and Succumbed to It (Gift Article)
John Sedgwick was born into an illustrious family, but privilege was only part of the story.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unlesbar. Vollkommen irrsinnig.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Even when speaking about the targeted killing of Australian Zomi Frankcom, the prime minister dared not mention who was responsible nor explain why hundreds of humanitarian workers have been killed by the Israel Defence Forces.”
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How To Arrest Netanyahu www.thenation.com/article/worl...
thenation.com
How to Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu
Make no mistake: The United States can seize Netanyahu for crimes under US law and prosecute him in US courts when he is in New York City this week.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The ICC arrest warrant is specifically for war crimes and crimes against humanity — not “the destruction of Gaza”.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“No other industry poses this level of danger to civilization.”? It’s like there’s a competition.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“The lesson I take is that when past abuses are glossed over rather than prosecuted, they set precedents that can come back to haunt us.”
theguardian.com
George W Bush’s impunity led to Trump’s lawlessness | Kenneth Roth
The reluctance of later administrations to repudiate Bush-era torture and endless detention laid the groundwork for recent violence
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Wow -- RNC video: "On June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,' so God gave us Trump." It only gets more unhinged and culty from there.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Is this not the case with any world-historical event? Of course the encapsulated retelling is not going to have the same rawness and confusion as much of the world experienced on that day. What an astonishingly dumb thing for a professional historian to say. That is all history, ffs.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Controversial policy” @tampabaytimes.bsky.social ? Controversial? It’s blatantly cruel, abusive and illegal. Great reporting but that’s some piss-weak editing. Did you fight with your lawyers to call it what it actually is, or did you just not want to hurt the fascists’ feelings? Pathetic.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Maximum sentence, not political timidity.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Live by the troll, die by the troll.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/08/2026
How many students were kicked off their campuses for protesting this stuff? It's not just the psychotic openly genocidal propaganda, it's that the people in power in the US made it so that if you criticize this openly, your life could be destroyed.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Why did this happen? What led to it being possible? Who was prosecuted? Who wasn’t? There’s part of your answer…
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Vividly recall the ‘Degenerate Art’ exhibition at the Smithsonian in 1991, echoing the original ‘Entartete Kunst’ exhibit of 1937 Munich, which pilloried Grosz and his comrades. If we only knew…
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
And go to The Hague.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
C’mon — props for Neil Postman.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Everything should be bigger news.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Thank goodness for @latingle.bsky.social - it is only because of her reputation and stature that she can speak plainly
abc.net.au
Israel's impunity has been virtually unaffected by collective concern
Even the United States is now criticising Israel's ongoing settler violence in the West Bank as Benjamin Netanyahu, once the "Trump whisperer", becomes the Trump ignorer.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A righteous and comprehensive rant:
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#gaza #genocide #freepalestine
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
More than four decades after his Holocaust story Maus transformed the graphic novel genre, Art Spiegelman discusses Trump, the shadow of 9/11 and the rise of fascism in America www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Horizontal drinking to remain shamefully unregulated.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
JFC. These people. Stairway to Heaven shot is perfect.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
And the Empire State is downtown from the Flatiron? Very worrying.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“George Orwell, whose work seems more relevant by the day, knew all about this mindset.”
open.substack.com
Reality is a Communist Plot
Of MAGA and the totalitarian mindset
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Not reporter. Opinion columnist. Esteem level: questionable.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“Our experience is that AI tools are great at finding news, but struggle with context, nuance, prioritisation — essentially, news judgement. So, in a central bank communication, for example, AI is likely not to capture the significance of a dove making hawkish comments.”
abc.net.au
Can journalism reinvent itself before AI completely upends it?
What will a trusted, sustainable, global news organisation look like in an era of agentic AI? And can we reinvent ourselves before someone else builds a less trustworthy, more dangerous alternative?
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Fcking outrageous that this Damon guy, an American of entirely British and Nordic extraction, was cast as a legendary figure from Ancient Greece. An absolute abomination. Who made this movie? Have they no shame?
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I think you mean the current America debacle.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Presumably he’ll fire the air traffic controllers in his first move as esteemed and honorary Grand Pooh-Bah.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
… meaning few will get a whiff of the disdain, disgust and sheer contempt this episode has sparked towards the US. Here in Australia it seems to have tipped from a steady “What the hell’s going on, mate?” to “Aw, fuck you lot. We’re done.”
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Another in a neverending series of disgraces. But with all due respect, Ambassador, calling an Afghan “someone who fought alongside us in Afghanistan” really captures the arrogance with which the US approached the entire project - I was there and saw it - & the outcome tells all.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Old enough to remember ‘76. That place is gone. Glad to be living in the future.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/07/2026
"The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark". A gift link here: lnkd.in/dAYq6ydz
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
There’s a twist. Wow.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
What trash. The narrative of so-called hunter/gatherer societies coming to a screeching halt to grow crops and build cities is bunk. The Dawn of Everything looks at this myth and blows it to bits. Nothing in that excerpt shows any evidence, only hollow assumptions serving a fascist project.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
10,000 words in the New Yorker still won’t make Charlie Kirk interesting, profound or sympathetic. Pass.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Sorry but that dangling modifier is hilariously inappropriate.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The passing of the baton to Harris — which corruption-worshipping crybaby MAGA cultists screamed was a “coup” — was like a party leadership spill in a parliamentary system, which happens (or is attempted) lots. Not a coup, obvs.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The question is when is the sad MAGA cult going to realise their hot-tub Svengali is just un coglione, as Libero so sweetly put it? When do they chase him to the reflecting pool with pitchforks and torches? Right — sorry, never.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries.” | Current Affairs www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo...
currentaffairs.org
How Elon Musk Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People
Former USAID global health official Nicholas Enrich explains the catastrophic human toll of DOGE's cuts to the agency.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“Through disciplined and stylized violence, the UFC audience learns to appreciate the emotional grammar of a post-liberal masculinity that is brutal, resentful of helplessness or fragility, and ravenous for recognition within an explicitly established hierarchy of prowess.”
nybooks.com
Planet UFC | Nic Johnson
For decades it has been White House tradition to invite Ireland's prime minister, the Taoiseach, to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day with a ceremonial
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
No bread, only circus.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Stopping the Trumpist ratfuckery.
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Scamalot
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Slammyapple @slammyapple.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
May they all rot in a syphilitic reflecting pool for eternity.
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