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So much of Trump’s decision-making can only be explained by an overwhelming thirst for revenge against anyone who damaged (disagreed with) him in the past. Public health included.

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The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work. The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink

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Yes, Trump’s crypto grifts, well reported in NYT, reveal unprecedented corruption. But they also reveal that the people who can ruin the economy are in effect shorting the US dollar.

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It's shocking how many people don't know that the USSR also started WWII, being an aggressor that was later attacked by its Nazi ally.

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Fortnightly 186: Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection, Isabel Colegate’s The Shooting Party, Elizabeth Bishop, @carlhendrick.substack.com on deep reading, Maryanne Wolf & Rebecca Winthrop @humanetech.bsky.social, @emmaturner75.bsky.social on analogue teaching juliangirdham.substack.com/p/186-a-drea...

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The world they worked so hard to build is being destroyed by people who claim their legacy. We must take it back.

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Deeply moving, as truth often is.

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“The analysts behind the calculation”

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Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

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So far no surprises here

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Agree with Sam, but can I just add that it is just wild that 'if you have any system at all that tells parents if a school is good or not, you are going to cause deaths' is considered an acceptable and sane contribution to public policy discussion?

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"deal" is a magic word, part of the Trumpian spell, but vacuous. Challenge to reporters: write the news, especially regarding Ukraine, without using it.

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Daniel James: the booing of a welcome to country on Anzac Day was inevitable in the current political environment www.thespencerstreetend.com.au/p/the-ecosys...

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This is the problem. 28% of Americans polled believe it’s fine for Trump to ignore a ruling by the Supreme Court. More than a quarter believe in Trump above the Constitution.

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A billboard by The Telegraph, reportedly in Kent, England.

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I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

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It’s a feature of sociopaths that they underestimate other people’s intelligence because their self-regard is so out of proportion.

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Ukraine won’t be signing because they know once Trump has that signature he’ll abandon military support, walk away while blaming Zelensky, and boast about what a great dealmaker he is.

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This won’t work out the way she thinks, if she thinks at all.

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This is pretty concerning. It would be crazy to let this policy fail for the sake of of £50-100 million extra funding. Especially as Labour have nothing else to talk about on child poverty.

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‘We’ve negotiated with the shark and swimmers will have to give up some body parts in return for it leaving’

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George Santos given seven-year prison term for fraudulent congressional run. Same old sequence: ‘What crime? Nothing to see here.’ ‘Oh, that crime? Wasn’t me!’ ‘OK, I admit it was me. But it’s not fair to punish me!’ Just like dealing with teens in school detention.

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Clearly written by and for people who have never struggled to pay for basic necessities.

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A great mum resting with her babies after all her hard work 😊

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Reading, language development and science of learning people - the excellent Prof Pamela Snow @pamelasnow.bsky.social has arrived on this platform! Do follow, add to lists, say hi etc!

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It’s not just incompetence, it’s malice. They are trying to see what the world will let them get away with.

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Ok, again. In 2014, when russia launched its invasion, Ukraine held official non-aligned status enshrined in law. Ukraine was a neutral country. This war did not begin because of Ukraine’s NATO aspirations. It started and continues because russia seeks to restore its empire.

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Excoriating. 90 citations in the anti-vax section alone.

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"Not relentlessly gloomy"! Buy it now!

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Good solid explanation here. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Yup. Well said. This particular message from the UK government is getting very, very tired.

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Hubris exposed. Nemesis incoming.

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Yes 🇫🇷

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As Carol Ann Duffy would say: www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/anne-ha...

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Anne Shakespeare, Londoner! Lovely bit of Bristol sleuthing by @matthewsteggle.bsky.social here, and more proof of the power of prosopography!

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Hope the ‘you can just Google it’ crowd are keeping up

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Canada, Lewis Powell and China are all showing that standing up to Trump leads him to fold like a cheap chair--while praising him, "building bridges" and trying to be agreeable gets you nothing but humiliation and degradation. Europe has not learned this yet.

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Time for Europe to step up and push back

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Someone might need this

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Happy birthday to my adopted wolf, Silas. Isn’t he handsome?

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Looooong ago. Like at some point during the fourteen years this guy and his party were supposed to be governing the country. Another example of politicians choosing soundbites on the assumption that no one will remember who could have done something, and didn’t.

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If your best argument against doing something is polling, then you have no argument.

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When I sat down to write this, I thought I was going to write about Virginia Cowles & Martha Gellhorn, about women war reporters and having a history of female journalists. But it turns out I needed to write about appeasement, fascism, Trump & Putin, and Ukraine. open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...