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The same team who made ‘Mr Bates vs the Post Office’ is turning its attention to the phone hacking scandal. Journalists uncover amazing stories, but it’s dramatists that make us pay attention, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

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Hearing multiple reports that members of the current ACIP were fired. I hate it when my predictions come true. bsky.app/profile/dave...

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

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Apparently Boeing did 1200 sonic booms over Oklahoma City to see how annoyed the public was + record any damage. This was preliminary to develop a super sonic passenger plane. youtu.be/DhX93KYORPw?...

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Wrote a little something in the mighty @rollingstone.com about #TeslaTakedown. In anticipation of our upcoming second weekend of protests! Join or create an event for ANY day and ANY country at Teslatakedown.com. Download our flyers and background to get informed and get involved!

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On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

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Trump will travel to Moscow to stand next to Putin on the reviewing stand for the May 8 Victory Day celebration, Moscow sources reveal to Le Point. This year's celebration will focus on Russia's victory over Ukraine. How many messages does the world need? (H/t John Paul Fitch)

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Thanks CA Senator Menjivar & Assemblymember @dawnaddis.bsky.social for your leadership. #climatejustice #resilientinfrastructure

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Federal government launches investigation into Maine hours after Democratic governor stood up to Trump’s ‘bullying’ www.advocate.com/politics/tru...

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BBC News on hour reporting straight that Trump has got rid of military chiefs because ‘they’re too mired in woke culture’ 🤯🤯🤯 Traditional liberal democratic media still hasn’t learned how to report on authoritarians, even now when it’s almost too late

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Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

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A man with a conscience John Furlong helped #Bessboro girls escape. RIP John 💐 www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

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The Russian ruble has lost over half of its value in a decade and inflation is rampant - with electricity up 250 per cent and interest rates at 21 per cent. As its citizens become increasingly impoverished, the key to peace will be Putin’s finances www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

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From the @bmj.com but the original article is in @nature.com. Giving money to people in poverty is good for their health… and in other news, the Pope is identified to be a Catholic. Link here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MedSky

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Here's another rare story/topic that you don't often get to read about if you live in the West. "The Pentagon ran a secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during a pandemic." #ICYMI www.reuters.com/investigates...

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Hello, Royal Society, good morning. I hope you slept well and are looking forward to your afternoon nap. @royalsociety.org @deevybee.bsky.social

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"In short, there is method to what seems to be madness in these first few weeks of the Trump administration. The executive orders create a coherent picture of what I’ve called a counter-constitution, an alternative constitutional reality proposed in place of a current constitution."

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The reporting on this bizarre story (gift link) is incomplete. It doesn't address TESCREAL (R=rationalism) & larger links to both AI boys & certain Trumpists. A Silicon Valley Intellectual Society Kicked Them Out. Now They’re Tied to a Killing Spree. www.wsj.com/us-news/zizi...

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#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory 🗃️ 1/2

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Jordan Bardella, the president of France’s hard right National Rally, has cancelled his plans to speak at CPAC after Steve Bannon “proactively made a gesture referring to Nazi ideology.” In other words, Bannon and CPAC are now too extreme for the French extreme right.

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Libs: 71 MPs. Davey's narrative is the UK as a leader, and a call for national and continental unity in the face of fascism. Reform: 5 MPs. Farage's narrative is the UK as an irrelevance, and pushes Russian misinformation in support of fascism. And our media platforms traitorous Lord Yeehaw-Haw.

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One of my ‘favourite’ things about being married to an infantry officer made redundant <while he was deployed in Afghanistan> was when I asked ‘Why? You’re ranked top 2% of your whole of forces cohort?’ He said they sacked soldiers at all levels of ability so as not to distort the future army.

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Not the least surprising after recent days. The EU, UK and Ukraine need to check every dependency on the US in Ukraine's defence - military, intelligence, economic, tech - to see where they have the ability to say no to US pressure. I fear the answers will not be pretty, but important.

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Michael Ayrton was born #OTD in 1921 - for #AdoorableThursday here's his lithograph of the bomb-damaged entrance to Bitterne Manor House in Southampton, from a 1946 volume with poems by John Arlott (yes, that one), inspired by their visits to the site of Roman Clausentum

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I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.

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Yeah “turmoil” and “injecting politics” isn’t gonna cut it here fellas. Installing loyalists at the top of the military chain of command is not some plausibly deniable bureaucratic maneuver. It’s paving the way for authoritarianism. It basically IS authoritarianism. No other explanation.

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New preliminary injunction barring DOGE from Treasury data systems requires govt to provide, by 3/24, proof of DOGErs' training in relevant laws & regs, security clearances, and full explanations of their chains of command.

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The weaponization of US technology companies means we should treat our dependence on them as a national security threat ↘️

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Fascinating -- evolution at the scale higher than genes, but lower than that of the cells! 🧪 #EvoBio cc: @nilese.bsky.social

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Firings at FDA Decimated Teams Reviewing AI and Food Safety www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/h...

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www.semafor.com/article/02/1... Vaccine hesitancy or political ideology.

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Fuck Elon Musk and fuck how he uses Starlink as a weapon. (The Biden administration should have nationalized it).

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Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: “You know Social Security is wrong, you know Medicare and Medicaid is wrong." Trump official calls Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid ‘wrong’ - www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

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