Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialDonald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025To all the European leaders: KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON. 953076649
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 04/03/2025Market reaction to Trump’s latest round of tariffs has been pretty brutal. All of the post-election market gains on the S&P500 have now gone. 33516114
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 01/03/2025Keir Starmer embraces President Zelensky as he arrives at Downing St. 1244381541
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 01/03/2025As I argued some weeks ago, we have to listen to what Trump and Vance are telling us, as uncomfortable and even scary as it might be. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla... 2441282
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 01/03/2025…Those illusions should be shattered after yesterday, but such is the reluctance to confront those hard truths, that we’ll probably hear more of the same, despite it all. 2049349
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 01/03/2025For weeks, ministers and other British politicians have been trying to convince the rest of us and perhaps themselves that Trump is more normal than he is, that he cares about Ukraine and Europe more than he does and that is less inclined towards Putin than he is... 671160209
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialJeremy Konyndyk @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social · 26/02/2025So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically. 455214688836
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025In “Way of the Kings” there’s a cursed king who doesn’t know whether he will wake up a genius or an idiot each morning. That’s how I am now with anger. Today I am very angry. 676205761299
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 25/02/2025These are dark days. But for Starmer, the collapse of the old order is a moment of political promise. He can use it to remake his premiership and the continent: new political space has unfolded before him in every direction. Will he seize it? New writing from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...open.substack.comEurope’s darkest moment could be Starmer’s biggest opportunityThe collapse of the old order is a moment of political possibility. Starmer must seize it. 961031188
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 26/02/2025An important reality check for Donald Trump. Graph from the @financialtimes.com 12496220
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/02/2025You first. 551111041313988
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Our German supporters made us realize we made a mistake, and we want to acknowledge it. Germany, you’re in our thoughts. While we’re relieved that AfD was defeated, we understand this is not a moment for celebration. There is still much work ahead, and we stand in solidarity with you. 421494055746
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialEllen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon. 632314843227518
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 07/02/2025Exactly a month since client journalists tried to confect a market crisis and opposition demanded that the Chancellor cancel her China trip. I have seen few reports on this since and not one piece entertaining the possibility her decision not to add to the panic was right. ~AA 1328674
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Absolutely spot on from Rory Stewart 597149653263
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialMartin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 25/01/2025I say this with 100% faithfulness. I just walked past these two in Central London and asked if I could have a photo. They were lovely. 3764214
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 25/01/2025No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration. 623375927553
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialJeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 21/01/2025from today's post — link is here: bit.ly/4jio26l 661163763865
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Fuck. This is so fucking stupid. 210180491172
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Fun fact - the "roman salute" is a myth. There is no mention anywhere in Roman literature or iconography of such actions. We think otherwise because of films and 19th-century art ... oh yes and the Italian fascists and Nazis who pretended it was a thing. One might even call it "Fake history". 861741498
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialMira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Not once but twice 42738127
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is. 4935674610292
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Holy shit. This is real. 1299159133476
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialMartin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 20/01/2025Blue Monday is a piece of crap pseudo science originally part of a travel company's press release to sell holidays. Can we all try to avoid rewarding marketeers, using this term, which tries to sell goods by parasiting on the back of real mental health campaigns. 681859444
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind. 24183502430
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialChasing Oz @chasingoz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Can you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men. 1687571782
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 19/01/2025I’ve been thinking a lot about how, in 2005, I was invited to a house party to view a screening of a left-wing 9/11 truther conspiracy documentary and how, after i got that invite, I just stopped hanging out with that person. 1237058186
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 19/01/2025I dunno, sometimes I feel like I’m never gonna become an oligarch 😔 42012561617
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Sounds like a plan 657294246443
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialBNO News @bnonews.com · 16/01/2025BREAKING: Debris seen over the Caribbean after SpaceX's Starship explodes during test flight 1905123893309
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialJohn Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Dear World, We’re sorry. Sincerely, Sane, Decent Americans 1048363716572
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialSupertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 03/01/2025And so it begins… You can’t appease these people. They only respond to decisive limits. Don’t implement them and they’ll take the piss. We are already in a democratic recession. Labour’s inaction won’t just screw them, it’ll screw us all. Our elections will be bought. 961391525
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialHappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 03/01/2025"truth teller" horrifying 18886
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Trying to approach 2025 the way St. Margaret is approaching Beelzebub 423280094192
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialAlastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Bumped into an old friend at the US embassy Christmas party 76152670
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/12/2024We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunning military achievements in modern history. 850423189779
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 02/12/2024"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"thelondoneconomic.comEuropean Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on XThe EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries. 20488041115186
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024httpspspspspspsp://media.tenor.coma hamster is running in a clear cage in a room .ALT: a hamster is running in a clear cage in a room . 1027893665
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialDale Vince @dalevince.com · 01/12/2024We’ve already got too many right-wing media barons (often tax exiles) controlling what people read and hear and ultimately believe. Out of that concern I’ve expressed an interest in the sale of the Observer and discussed the situation with the GMG. bit.ly/4eQYGZObit.lyDale Vince expresses interest in acquiring The ObserverGreen energy tycoon to look at buying Sunday newspaper and holding it in a trust if agreed sale to Tortoise falls through 1221736459
Reposted by @trytothrowaway.bsky.socialSean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social · 21/11/2024For every repost this post gets, I’ll share one song, podcast or article recommendation from this year 38289
