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kevinflintk2.bsky.social
Writer, philosopher, runner, biker, climber.
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Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 29 days ago • 616 comments

Read this account of a milestone in military history: The first ever all-drone assault by Ukraine. From The Counteroffensive, a terrific publication edited by @timkmak.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/countero...

submitted 26 days ago • 29 comments

ominous assault on the Federal Election Commission

submitted 27 days ago • 31 comments

Tulsi Gabbard is not just completely unqualified to be Director of National Intelligence – she is anti-qualified. snyder.substack.com/p/tulsi-gabb...

submitted 35 days ago • 192 comments

"In every living thing there ticks a clock...": @david-farrier.bsky.social superb & unsettling on how "wild clocks"––spruce saplings, oyster colonies, reindeer herds––are falling out of synchronization as the Earth transforms. It’s becoming harder to keep time. emergencemagazine.org/essay/wild-c...

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

Intertidal, by Yuvan Aves, is an extraordinary book: a passionate study of the ancient conversation between sea & land; a work of meditation, activism, field-naturalism––& vast generosity. I love it so much I've written a foreword to the UK edition: pub. 6 Feb. Recommended with all my heart.

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

Rachel Reeves holds newts in contempt, it seems. So I thought I'd post this glorious painting of a "lion of the duckweed" by Jackie Morris + my paean to these "kings of the pond", both from The Lost Words. Newt-lovers, unite!

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments

American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 38 days ago • 91 comments

New episode this week: Honeypots & Stalin’s vodka. The big one: Brexit

submitted 42 days ago • 10 comments

JUST HITTING THE DOCKET: A federal judge has blocked certain sections of Trump’s birthright citizenship Executive Order, finding that the States (the plaintiffs) have shown a likelihood of success that the EO violates the 14th Amendment and the INS Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 42 days ago • 53 comments

"Avery believes conservation charities must do more to mobilise their memberships", and says he is "disappointed" by Labour so far The legend that is @markavery.bsky.social is stepping back from Wild Justice, but has some blistering words for the Govt & NGOs: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

Big story with national consequences, and a rare ray of hope www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

When a government tells us, within the course of one week, that we can't have new hospitals but must have new runways, you know that it is not working on our behalf, but on behalf of economic power.

submitted 42 days ago • 65 comments

Taxpayers forced to buy global warming so a few billionaires get richer. www.levernews.com/the-dark-mon...

submitted 45 days ago • 43 comments

A president’s executive order cannot undo a law or a Supreme Court decision, let alone a provision of the Constitution. Forget that and you do have a dictatorship on day one.

submitted 45 days ago • 176 comments

Elon Musk did the Hitler salute twice during his speech today. But it isn’t clear what this gesture might have meant.

submitted 45 days ago • 225 comments

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

submitted 45 days ago • 78 comments

Tiktok has been banned in the US on the grounds that China could use it "to manipulate and control Americans by spreading propaganda and misinformation." In other words, China *might* do exactly what Elon Musk *has done* with X. It's a blatant double standard.

submitted 48 days ago • 61 comments

1. Now, on top of all the other things we can't have, we learn we can't have new hospitals. Why? Because Starmer's government is committed to a higher principle than saving lives: saving money. Never mind that trying to keep old hospitals running costs a fortune: a classic false economy. ... 🧵

submitted 47 days ago • 59 comments