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The Onion @theonion.com · 18h
“Upon reviewing the disciplinary action we took toward the seven Chi Phi brothers who allegedly gang-raped a student for over seven hours, we have concluded that the mandated two-page minimum on essays was woefully inadequate.” — Michael Kotlikoff, Cornell president
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Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
ITHACA, NY—Acknowledging serious missteps in their handling of a 2024 campus sexual assault case, administrators at Cornell University vowed Tuesday that, going forward, rapists would be forced to wri...
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Michelle likes democracy. @democracymichelle.bsky.social · 9h
Naming the people at the top, like Michael Kotlikoff, is something I wish people would do more of. If their names are heavily associated with these criminal acts and dangerous incidents, accountability may yet continue to exist.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 17h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Tom Marshall @ttamarshall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not convinced Macfadyen is froggy enough but I’m excited for this. deadline.com/2026/09/lega...
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Matthew Macfadyen Is Iconic Le Carré Spy George Smiley In First Glimpse At The BBC & MGM+’s ‘Legacy Of Spies’
A first image is out of Matthew Macfadyen playing George Smiley in 'Legacy of Spies' and Charlie Hunnam playing Alec Leamas in the BBC-MGM+ series.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks
In fact, these are scenes we have not seen on British streets. Immigration needs to be deal with, I will be the first to say that and we are dealing with it. The boat crossings have been halved since six years ago, net migration is down massively.
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Tom Marshall @ttamarshall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anne Applebaum on Firing Line: youtu.be/4okBq3W_E-o?...
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Anne Applebaum | Full Episode 9.25.26 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS
YouTube video by Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Home Secretary made an entirely incorrect claim that the care worker u-turn could cost £10 billion. The likely saving of making them wait 15 years is much smaller. Even the saving of mass forced remigration is next to nothing as lose 30 years of fiscal gains first. Giving the real data would help
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the pull quote for me. Yes, voters were angrier about the government failing to condemn the far right re-normalising open racism at home than they were about a war two thousand miles away. Why is this unreasonable, except that you marched against one and were complicit in the other?
Arguing that Starmer wasn't that bad for progressive voters because something something Iraq it's the voters that are wrong.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s brilliant to see two key government reviews will likely seek to end the pointless reassessment of many disabled people. I’ve written for years it’s a waste of resources and has a huge strain on disabled people forced into regularly proving their condition. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Severely disabled young people should get fast-track access to benefits, Milburn says
Alan Milburn said 16- to 24-year-olds with most complex needs should not have to keep proving they cannot work
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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Arguably a big difference is that the likes of Milburn have thought through their positions, and thus aren't immune to arguments for compassion or imperfections. Whereas if haven't thought through you just take the posturing hardline surface. A cargo cult where don't know *why* want to be tough.
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 25/09/2026
By driving Russian forces back to their 2022 lines and crippling refineries deep in Samara, Operation Vivaldi shows how a tech-heavy Ukrainian corps can threaten not just a single sector near Lyman, but Russia’s wider ability to wage war.
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First blind the Russians, then catch them with robots: Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi shows cutting edge of modern warfare (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,674)
By driving Russian forces back to their 2022 lines and crippling refineries deep in Samara, Operation Vivaldi shows how a tech-heavy Ukrainian corps can threaten not just a single sector near Lyman, but Russia’s wider ability to wage war.
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Borners @borners.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Worse as @miyhnea.bsky.social observed to me once, central and eastern Europe went through the same shock and didn't go on genocidal imperial wars (Chechen war was in 1994). Except Serbia which of course is another recipient of Tankie support.
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Tom Marshall @ttamarshall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The soft bigotry of low expectations. Russia has been an imperialist power since inception, but its latest phase of invading, brutalising and spoliating its neighbours is somehow our fault? Tankie hogwash.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Moldovan police found wreckage of a Geran-4 drone 1.7 km away from Ukraine. The craft detonated midair after hitting trees at roughly 10 meters in Briceni district, damaging surrounding flora within 25 meters. Recovered body parts, wings, electronics, and a turbojet engine were sent for forensics.
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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
still sort of struggling to believe that amidst everything else going on, Andy Burnham popped up this week to say we should bring back drinking in stands at football.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So they're now talking about attacking the system of policing and law. Arrest these f*ckers. Stop bowing down to them and dancing around them.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These groups need to be proscribed immediately. They are a threat to public order and the rule of law.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Relatedly: More could be done under existing legislation against platforms that host videos of criminal activity and individuals or organisations who profit from posting videos of crimes they & their members commit. This is also relevant to curbing stuff like dangerous driving video content.
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Tom Marshall @ttamarshall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Patriot Platform is a terrorist organisation and Labour under Burnham are still going to “legitimate concerns” themselves into inaction until they kill people.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am going FUCKING insane at this utter nonsense. The intent was clearly to disrupt emergency workers, individuals came armed with blades intent on sinking vessels at sea. By what definition does that fit "peaceful protest"? I give up
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Great reminder that, for all the advances with crypto, nothing beats old fashioned money laundering through the banking system
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Following Logan Paul's Pentagon cameo, diplomatic cable leaked to me touts admin's work with Nicki Minaj "to combat the persecution of Christians” and Tim Tebow’s efforts “to end child trafficking": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-full-...
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Leak: Full Metal Jackasses
Logan Paul’s Pentagon cameo follows Nicki Minaj, Tim Tebow UN stunts
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The S&P 500 is negative through its 13th trading day of September. Since 1950, when SPX is down at this stage, the full month has rebounded just once in 34 tries (1953, pre-index launch). The rest of September finishes positive only 38.2% of the time. 📉 From @Bluekurtic
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The USG crusade to destroy the ICC seems primarily motivated by a desire to shield Israeli officials like Netanyahu and Gallant from accountability. Worth recalling that those two face charges related to using starvation as a method of warfare in Gaza.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 20/09/2026
Breaking News! Code FUBAR!!! Yesterday's Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly (preliminary) was a record 3.047°C above the 1991-2020 baseline, beating the previous record of 3.034°C set on November 19, 2015. It will take about 2 weeks to verify. Stay tuned!
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Tom Marshall @ttamarshall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a juvenile and unserious framing of the Letby case that trivialises and mischaracterises Thirlwall and others’ statements.
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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Reform donor Bassim Haidar tells Tel he's leaving UK bc of taxes -- as he also said in 2024 Luckily for his finances, leaving the UK will also limit his donations to Reform, per the incoming £100k cap on overseas donors Good place to advertise your luxury flat tho!
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 20/09/2026
hold up, this guy is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and he didn't know there were banking sanctions against Russia?
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/09/2026
Saudi Arabia are like Spurs: they've spent a huge amount on their defence, yet they are still getting hammered www.ft.com/content/07fd...
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Saudi Arabia sounds air-raid alerts as missile and drone assault intensifies
Authorities issue warnings in the capital for the first time since Yemeni rebels reignited conflict
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Tom Marshall @ttamarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think there’s truth in the idea that nationalists, in contrast to patriots, hate their own country.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 18/09/2026
US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A lovely pair of anecdotes about two wine scams www.ft.com/content/b431...
The most notorious wine auction was in 1985, when a bottle of Château Lafite 1787, supposedly ordered by Thomas Jefferson and engraved with his initials, was acquired for the American publisher Malcolm Forbes in a Christie’s auction for the record sum of £105,000. Having been displayed upright under warm lights, it came to a sorry end when the cork shrivelled and fell into what rapidly became vinegar. 

Furthermore, these Jefferson bottles were later proved to be the work of Hardy Rodenstock, one of the most famous of a new sort of counterfeiter attracted by the dramatic increase in fine wine prices. Much to the ire of another American billionaire collector, Bill Koch, the German Rodenstock refused to stand trial in the US. His technique of gaining the confidence of collectors by exceptional connoisseurship was mirrored by the next high-profile wine forger, Rudy Kurniawan, who spent seven years in a Texas penitentiary as a result, and has recently been demonstrating his skills as a copyist at events in Singapore.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 19/09/2026
These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Sept. 19, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Interestingly enough, i was told one big difference Business Insider and Business Insider Europe found in their audiences was that Americans really clicked on ‘rich person says this’ stories while Brits and other Europeans didn’t. Fills me with hope.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We’re all Stephen Watkins.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It appears the analyst in question didn’t even bother to check his own work or the conclusions reached by the chatbot
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The late DJ John Peel apocryphally once said to a colleague at radio 1 "I don't understand why this record isn't in the charts - everyone I know has bought it". The colleague replied "no John, you know everyone who bought it"
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
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RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump just said he’d deny FEMA funding for storm-ravaged North Carolina if the Republican lost. “If Michael loses, I’m not sending it, okay?” Threatening disaster aid is fucking sick. #cdnpoli
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Funny that randos on this website new this was the endgame back on February 28
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Tom Marshall @ttamarshall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I note Nicholas Brandram won a “Military virtues in business award” in 2019, two years after he tried to kill a woman and 6 after his hit and run. I’m sure more to follow. www.forcesnews.com/military-lif...
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Ex-Forces In Business Awards: How Veterans Are Storming The Business Battlefield
The annual ceremony celebrates the achievements of ex-military personnel making names for themselves in new vocations.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In their wildest dreams Hamas couldn't do as much damage to Israel as Netanyahu and his government has.
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