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Our annual viewing of the Brutalist Easter Bunny in Jyväskylä, Finland. www3.jkl.fi/taidemuseo/v...

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It makes more sense on its side

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If as a Democrat you can't draw a rhetorical through-line from Trump's abuse of IEEPA to bypass Congress, weaponising tariffs as his personal extortion racket, and his using ICE deportations to El Salvador to bypass immigration courts... ... you are bad at politics. Get out of politics.

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My parents holding hands after their assisted deaths: Martin Roemers’ most personal photograph

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“There’s a lot of misplaced optimism about [a UK-US] deal. It’s inconceivable that the Trump team do a deal that doesn’t involve a big concession from us... If you want a quick win on UK growth, reducing trade barriers with Europe looks like an absolute no-brainer.” ~AA inews.co.uk/news/politic...

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Not enjoying the JD Vance piece on #r4today.. “There was a strong sense he sees Britain as something rather different from Europe, wasn’t there?” Of course. We’re much more desperate and exploitable on our own. Stop looking for a ‘special relationship’ in the fake flattery of ugly nationalists.

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a space suit that requires spanx is not gender equality

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🚨 UPD: On Palm Sunday, Russia struck downtown Sumy with missiles as people returned from church—21 killed, 83 injured, including 7 children.

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Funny as it is to see this creepy dry well of an ideology getting covered at the classic 3:1 adherents-to-journalists ratio that applies to conservative stuff, I am baffled by the endless appetite in the press for more iterations of the same story. I know these people already, and have for years.

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Wearing a leather jacket while I pay for avocados in monthly installments

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David Brooks, who holds no advance degrees but has nevertheless served as a visiting professor at both Duke and Yale -- solely on the basis of his conservative ideas -- thinks that universities are deeply unfair to conservative thinkers.

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Heaven help us

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President Trump has ordered the federal government to scrap its diversity, equity and inclusion policies. One man in the White House – Stephen Miller – has been plotting this for years. Listen to today's Sensemaker: lnk.to/1oispEBS

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This week’s book is ‘The Tenement Revealed’ by John Gilbert. A comprehensive guide to the construction of tenement housing in Scotland from 1700 to 1915, it is both historical record and maintenance manual for those working on and living in tenements today.

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NEW: On 7 May at Oxford Brookes, I'll be speaking about New Labour, and discussing its history and legacy with ex-Cabinet Minister John Denham. Come along! It's between 6.30pm and 7pm. All welcome! www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...

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Am pleased to say that my article on Newcastle’s postwar play streets has been published www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... It draws attention to how traffic engineers framed streets as too dangerous for children’s play but not dangerous enough to warrant infrastructural changes.

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“Er, my question is really in two parts…” From the new Private Eye, out now.

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So much of what passes for comment in Britain is just liquid garbage. These people should not be allowed to pollute the common weal in this sickening and deliberate manner.

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Another piece of the jigsaw.

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Side entrance to Art Nouveau “Frog House” in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, built for the owner of a wine bar originally located there, with carousing frogs ~ one lounges, smoking a pipe, glass in hand & leaning on a barrel, as the other plays a mandolin (1903)

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Nothing - absolutely nothing - prevented news organizations from running this headline before the election, when it was equally true as now and could have made a difference.

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social What are you going to do, now? You can no longer say we’re the only country in history that has voted to put economic sanctions on ourselves?

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I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

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Cory Booker: "I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America." Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"

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Wow. "The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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An album of illustrations of eye diseases, used for teaching in the world’s first university eye clinic founded in Vienna in 1812

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Let's hope @pbs.org survives airing this Amanpour and Company interview with Jason Stanley, author of "Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future" and "How Fascism Works," about the Trump Administration's war on democracy, education, free speech, and dissent.

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Found the most obscure book ever

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The Palestine Red Crescent Society has confirmed 11 more bodies have been found in Gaza's Rafah, with six identified as its members and four with the civil defence agency. The eleventh body is being identified. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/wpyvd6

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For example, the Times running PR for a far right has-been. It’s a miracle the left achieves anything with the media we have

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Tech tip for people who are not as good at computers as me: A great way to organise your files is by storing them in "folders". And the most useful part is that computers are so advanced nowadays that they automatically number your folders so that you can easily tell them apart 👍

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🔴The False Economies of Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement There is nothing “responsible” about forcing hundreds of thousands of people into poverty, while putting even more strain on those public servants who will have to pick up the pieces, argues Adam Bienkov bylinetimes.com/2025/03/26/t...

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It might not seem like the major issue, but the historical illiteracy of an American administration complaining that freeloading Europeans haven't done enough to militarily control the Suez Canal is quite the thing, eh?

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Market Street, Manchester, 1975. View towards St Mary’s Gate and Deansgate during construction of the Arndale Centre (MMU archive).

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