Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialjen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025 👀👀👀 29980343
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialRichard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 25/03/2025So the Ammonite Order of architecture exists just enough to get its own Wikipedia page. This is from Gideon Mantell's house Castle Place on Lewes High St, designed by Amon Wilds. 310516
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Study of two tulips from Georg Flegel, to celebrate a day that’s included some good entertainment. And it's Spring! 216221
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal: 14505226021409
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialSander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Bombshell Atlantic piece where Goldberg accidentally got looped into a Signal group of Trump's top brass preparing the Houthi strikes. I’d urge everyone, including economic EU policymakers, to read it to grasp the raw, unvarnished grievance team Trump has with Europe. 38831
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialJames Alexander @jmsalxdr.bsky.social · 24/03/2025If it wasn’t clear already, the Trump Administration loathe Europe. The feeling is mutual, frankly. 24615
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialShane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 24/03/2025In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comThe Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansU.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling. 772165046437
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/03/2025I wrote this in July 2016 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo... 25096053206
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialAnna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Legal eagles: Meta are using pirated books from LibGen to train an AI model. There's a legal action in the US which Meta are defending on the basis of 'fair use'. There's no direct equivalent to fair use in the UK, though, right? Fair dealing is narrower. 4209
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Don McNeil, late of the NYT, with a scorcher on RFK Jr in the Washington Post: wapo.st/41ICahjwapo.stOpinion | RFK Jr. is spewing childish libertarian nonsenseVaccines are not a “personal choice.” We give up some personal freedoms so we all stay alive. 32464511553
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025A crucial moment in global democratic backsliding www.ft.com/content/c1a2...ft.comTurkish police detain Erdoğan’s main political rivalLira and stocks fall as Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, a key challenger to president, held 2582185
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialArthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 17/03/2025This is fair, because the Constitution specifically rules out the use of Autopens. It was something the Framers felt very strongly about. 821923
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/03/2025Here we go: the rewriting of history has formally begun "Oklahoma proposes teaching standards suggesting 2020 election ‘discrepancies’" www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...washingtonpost.comOklahoma proposes teaching standards suggesting 2020 election ‘discrepancies’A new social studies agenda approved by the education board would require high-schoolers to review baseless claims related to President Trump’s 2020 election loss. 18338021569
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialChristopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Yesterday the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services was required to be "eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law," and required to "reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law"whitehouse.govContinuing the Reduction of the Federal BureaucracyBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. 14336
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 13/03/2025As I hear RJK Jr telling us that the measles vaccine is as bad as the measles, I'm thinking about this piece from David Runciman back in 2017 in which he said: www.chronicle.com/article/the-... 59515
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Ever since someone posted that he looks like a racist care bear I can't not think that whenever I see a picture. 1621229
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2025GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "Why is a White House official, that's not even elected, why is that person belittling the Polish foreign minister? It's not appropriate. It's not right. We need more discipline in the White House." 1661335157499
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialLuke Harding @lukeharding1968.bsky.social · 09/03/2025It looks like the beginning of the end for Ukrainian forces inside Russia's Kursk region. Russian troops have today seized villages in the north and east. Their offensive began ... immediately after Donald Trump cut weapons, intelligence & satellite feeds to Kyiv www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...theguardian.comRussian forces recapture villages in Ukrainian-held pocket inside RussiaMoscow claims it is close to surrounding thousands of Ukrainian troops in Kursk region 64123
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialRoland Paris @rolandparis.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Elon Musk’s arrogant response to Poland’s foreign minister underscores the importance of accelerating the development of alternative low-earth-orbit communications systems from providers that can be relied on (including Telesat). 20363120
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/03/2025"Russia’s long-range strikes, by cruise missiles that are among the most costly weapons in its nonnuclear arsenal, are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies" From Graeme Wood www.theatlantic.com/internationa...theatlantic.comA Suspicious Pattern Alarming the Ukrainian MilitaryA Ukrainian military source believes that Russia’s long-range strikes are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies. 35055042894
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/03/2025The problem with Dems chasing public opinion is that THE PUBLIC'S VIEW OF THINGS IS JUST MOVING IN RESPONSE TO WHAT POLITICAL FIGURES SAY AND IT'S VERY OBVIOUS IN THE DATA MY GOD 20963261171
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialghosts of nomads past @ghosts.bsky.social · 07/03/2025wow. they're like actually braindead 33976951025
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialJohn Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 08/03/2025"Will we see you at—" "At the Cromwellian antiques fair? Oh, absolutely!" 0185
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/03/2025Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comThere’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are DoingHow regime change happens in America 17047012672
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/03/2025NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046... 12538931760
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 05/03/2025I know it makes me a sweet summer child, but I honestly had to check to see if this WH statement on threats against judges was real. It is. 1301583307
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/03/2025How did Paul Marshall go from Lib Dem donor to right-wing media tycoon? On the podcast, @PeterKGeoghegan and @moonjets.bsky.social explore Marshall’s ‘symbiotic relationship’ with Michael Gove and the changing shape of conservative politics in Britain. Listen here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...lrb.co.ukPodcast: Peter Geoghegan and Thomas Jones · Who is Paul Marshall? 175
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/03/2025This seems to formalise a rarely discussed social element to political coverage: the inequality of arms between left and right on money/professional opportunity. 27464131
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialMujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Members of the Trump Administration now engaging Zelensky's opponents in trying to bring about regime change in Kyiv Senior EU officials under no illusions there won't be a US backstop. See clearly that the Europeans are on their own with Ukraine www.politico.eu/article/dona...politico.euTop Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponentsAs Washington ramps up its pressure on Zelenskyy to step aside, his rivals are talking to Trump’s team. 1110241
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialChris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 04/03/2025Let's call this what it is—the selling off of the collective assets of the United States to private investors—a massive transfer of wealth from the public sector to (some wealthy) private individuals. (and the GSA will likely lease a significant portion back, reinforcing the wealth transfer). 10235125
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialCasey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 04/03/2025it's working, keep going 937371834496
Reposted by @superpolyphemus.bsky.socialLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/03/2025‘Having a linguistic superpower on the doorstep helped to form a uniquely English set of linguistic neuroses, but over the last century the situation has reversed.’ @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on the influence of French on medieval English: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukJohn Gallagher · What a spalage! Mis languages est bonsWith contemporary English including more than eighty thousand terms of French origin, Georges Clemenceau might have had... 12810
