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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026
More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Banned Books Week is almost over! The Trump administration had at least 596 books removed from schools serving military families. Don’t forget to get out there and read some of the books they tried to keep off the shelves. Happy Banned Books Week!
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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is pure performative treachery from Trump. He knows that the amounts Russian diesel are far too small to make a dent on the impact of his illegal Iran war. Trump is trying to scapegoat Ukraine. Putin and Trump, two autocrats looking out for each other. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Zelenskyy furious as Trump announces deal to buy Russian diesel
President says deal essential to lower US fuel prices but move set to create fresh crisis with Ukraine and Nato allies
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 06/10/2026
This reads like an onion headline.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump is literally telling us he's about to attempt to take control of elections. We should believe him.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump and his sons quietly moved 20 billion crypto tokens into an account that lets them cash out. Corruption, plain and simple.
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Is the Trump Family Preparing to Cash Out on Its Own Crypto?
President Donald Trump and his three sons have taken a step that would permit them to sell World Liberty Financial’s digital tokens.
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Subedai @subedai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Is he dead yet?
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Subedai @subedai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 06/10/2026
🚨The government is looking for UK alternatives to Palantir to run the NHS data platform, the FT reports. This follows a week of protests in 40+ places across England and a rally of hundreds at Palantir's London HQ. Help keep the pressue up: nopalantirinthenhs.com
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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Watson is only the latest example of the wider revolving door between Westminster and Palantir. citizensreunited.substack.com/p/labour-blo...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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Subedai @subedai.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Trump’s recent statements on the economy are even more bonkers than usual | Steven Greenhouse
Our ‘genius’ president is revealing his ignorance of economics, fueling concerns about the threat he poses to the world
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
SIX Local Wildlife Sites lie near DC01UK, including one on its boundary. These are homes to diverse wildlife. The developer acknowledged it could significantly damage one via hydrological pathways, yet because LWS aren’t statutory, they are less protected. But what about the animals living there?
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You really need to read this whole thing, because there's a *lot* here: unsigned warrants, wrong address, false arrest of the homeowner, creating a fake social media page to harass the woman he arrested, and on and on it goes Cops are great www.wsbtv.com/news/local/d...
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Deputy on leave after allegations he created Facebook page to harass woman he arrested
Natasha Lopez told Channel 2 Action News she spent months trying to uncover who was behind a series of posts on an anonymous Facebook page that she says repeatedly targeted her.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ICE has a bigger budget than the Marine Corps & still conned Congress out of $20M more for bodycams. Swore every agent would wear one by August. It’s September and ICE shot an Austinite in the back. They say there was no camera. They’re liars with masks and a blank check from Trump.
theatlantic.com
The ICE Officer in Austin Wasn’t Wearing a Body Cam
The officer who shot a Venezuelan man was hired last year from another federal law-enforcement agency.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
22 September 1939 | Dutch Jewish boy, Abraham de Leeuve, was born in Zwolle. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork on 19 Oct 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection with his mother, Dina. --- VIDEO: The first two gas chambers near Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
Vintage black-and-white family portrait featuring a child flanked by a man and a woman. The child is in the center wearing a patterned sweater.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 22/09/2026
When an agency like ICE builds an environment where red flags don’t matter, where violence is minimized, where accountability is optional, this is what it produces. What happened in Texas isn’t a one‑off tragedy. It’s a system functioning exactly as designed.
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Man shot by ICE, detained in Texas with a bullet in his back is back in the hospital, attorney says
The attorney for a Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration officer in Texas says he is back in the hospital after being held at a detention center with a bullet still lodged in his back.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 21/09/2026
Privacy concerns prompt calls to ban smartglasses in Canada
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Privacy concerns prompt calls to ban smartglasses in Canada
Concerns over privacy have led to calls to ban smartglasses in public places in Canada.
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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Meta should go in the bin as X...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
WIRED: “Census Bureau Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank — home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person, used for drawing congressional districts + allocating federal funding…” Nothing to see here, folks! 😕🤷🏼
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The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank
The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 19/09/2026
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab, Iran
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 19/09/2026
The far right has put RNLI volunteers in the crosshairs Online disinformation about channel rescues is no longer just poisonous rhetoric, it’s putting real people at risk westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/the...
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The far right has put RNLI volunteers in the crosshairs
Online disinformation about channel rescues is no longer just poisonous rhetoric, it’s putting real people at risk
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Subedai @subedai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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The spectre of ‘remigration’ is haunting Europe. Slovenia in 1992 gives us a blueprint for this state terror | Miha Mazzini
In February that year, the Slovenian government officially deleted 25,000 citizens, turning them overnight into illegal immigrants, says writer and film-maker Miha Mazzini
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Katherine Denkinson @kdenkwrites.com · 16/09/2026
NEW: The Reform councillor supporting Patriot Platform, and the veteran-led group who want to establish a UK version of ICE. My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
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The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked 'Patriot' Anti-Migrant Network
A Reform councillor and campaign co-ordinater urged his followers to join and support the masked group
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In 2024-25 HMRC failed to collect £59.2bn of tax; £500bn since 2010. £12.8bn lost through profit shifting by multinational corporations. Promoters of a business rates avoidance scheme boasted that they have deprived local councils of £500m. Billions can be raised by ending abuses.
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 15/09/2026
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Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract
City: Flock enabled "nationwide lookup" despite contract requiring it to be disabled.
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Finally grasp the nettle and bring not just water but every critical asset that this country has, from data to health to housing, where people need it, under our control, owned by us" 🔥🔥🔥 @labourlewis.bsky.social says we need public ownership to tackle the risks facing this country
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Even leaving any politics at all aside: as general rule, no state can allow a group of masked men to be able to close down critical infrastructure. This is basic stuff.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is absolute madness Labour - and I’d say what’s left of the centre right - is an existential battle against oligarchy But it hasn’t a clue that it is
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
After Pretti was killed, Savageford, who is Asian-American, said she was taken to a warehouse near the Whipple detention center where immigrants were being detained. She was strip-searched, including by male agents who Cook told HuffPost on Friday were “touching her privates.”
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote about Ben Delo back in July... was obvious something like this was about to happen. Also, further evidence that Starmer was completely asleep. Donations reform should have been a priority as soon as Labour got in www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It is our solemn duty not just to remember what happened 25 years ago but to acknowledge and repudiate the brutality it summoned in America. robertreich.substack.com/p/a-quarte…
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It would be no surprise if we saw more black clad far right thugs making threats this weekend. Likes of BBC actively giving them a prominent platform, and Labour Ministers and MPs spouting tripe about "legitimate concerns", is giving them what they want and helping "normalise" this racism. #r4today
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
UK electricity grid update needed to accommodate renewables energy. National Grid paid £28bn+ in dividends since privatisation, lack of investment. Upgrade will add £100 a year to household bills. Companies raising funds from customers, not shareholders.
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Speed up electricity grid upgrade or else face higher bills, warns UK watchdog
National Audit Office says failure to implement £70bn modernisation would also hold back economic growth
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
South East Water aborted £200m bond issue after attracting insufficient demand. Expect more customer fleecing. England water companies are financially, environmentally and morally bankrupt. Up to one-third of your bill covers cost of debt. Public ownership is the only viable future.
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Embattled South East Water abandons bond issue as investors flee sector
The company, which has left thousands of customers in Kent without running water on several occasions, told investors this week that it would not proceed with the debt issuance, Sky News learns.
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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
These obscene donations - funding a party of bigots determined to divide & conquer our politics - have to stop. When will government act to make this illegal?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11/09/2026
📈"Rising global temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels are transforming the world’s forests, wetlands and tundra to the point they are releasing emissions that could further worsen global heating by as much as 30%, a new study has found." 🚨We must act on climate change - and quickly.
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Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds
Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says
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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform is the party for oligarchs and billionaires That much is obvious But this is also a way to get around the settled will of Parliament that we need to keep big money out of politics Typical of Reform crookery and disdain for democracy
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/09/2026
How it started / How it's going
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The elderly president was caught on camera exploding at a female journalist who dared to ask about his dubious plan to give every adult American $5,000 if the Republicans win the midterm elections.
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Unhinged Trump Lunges at Female Reporter Over Embarrassing Question
The president responded furiously to his dubious plan being exposed.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Republican members of Congress keep hiring neo-Nazi for top staff positions. Neo-Nazis have realized they’re welcome at the highest reaches of the Republican Party because it’s become a fascist party.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Oh look, what's this, the consequences of failing to respond firmly to masked mobs roaming the streets yesterday? Two years in and somehow the Labour government still just do not get it.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I wish it was more of a scandal that our government is staffed by neo-Nazis.
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