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mallenbaker.bsky.social
YouTuber, making ‘dangerously reasonable’ content about the intersection between politics & science - a political centrist in polarised times when the algorithms love only the extremes http://youtube.com/mallenbaker
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Ukraine stunned by US demands that it withdraw Russia-critical United Nations motion. The latest, and most breathtaking, move by the Trump admin to support Putin

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Can Trump bully Ukraine into giving up their resources by threatening to pull Starlink? It seems we'll find out.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

How Russian disinformation poisoned our society

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Foreign Leader Favourability Ratings amongst British Voters: 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy Favourable: 64% Unfavourable: 16% NET: +48% 🇺🇸 Donald Trump Favourable: 22% Unfavourable: 73% NET: -51% 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin Favourable: 4% Unfavourable: 89% NET: -85% Via @YouGov, 16-17 Feb.

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

The sooner all involved recognise this and reconfigure accordingly, the better. And ... just curious ... what exactly is NATO now?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

What Trump might really be up to with his unilateral approach to negotiations with Putin

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

China is making progress on Taiwan in ways you might not have heard about ...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's Gaza plan has changed the Middle East - with a major sting in the tail

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Triffids turning out to be real would not be the most remarkable thing about 2025

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Never underestimate the ability of smart people to post-rationalise dumb decisions

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Seems entirely legit.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Trump shreds American soft power. Who needs friends anyway when you're the biggest bully in the playground? www.youtube.com/watch?v=eApP...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Morning walk.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

It's good to have a sober take on the tragic air crash in the USA @mallenbaker.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG4J...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Whoever could have predicted that Putin wouldn't just fall in line once Trump was elected? Shocked, I am, shocked I tell you.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

This is always the case. Once a party gets into government it finds it attracts more donations, and so suddenly decides that capping political donations "isn't a priority". Once the pendulum swings, they change their mind - but too late once again. No principle, just self-interest.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

My morning walk

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk and Dominic Cummings "plot" to overthrow Keir Starmer? More to the point, is Cummings recruiting Musk and the tech bros to the populist technocracy underpinning his mooted 'StartUp Party'? And is it an achievable dream even if he is?

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's threat of using force to take Greenland - even if never acted on, has nevertheless embraced exactly the world order that Putin and Xi wanted to bring about. Let's discuss.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

"misinformation is powerful, not because it changes minds, but because it allows people to maintain their beliefs in light of growing evidence to the contrary" from @cwarzel.bsky.social and Mike Caufield www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 47 days ago • 47 comments

The moral of this story is - probably don't make friends with a high-powered unguided missile. I expect Musk will learn the same lesson in a different context soon enough.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

When I good person dies, we discover anew that we all really value the goodness of such people, and reflect on it with fondness in their memory. Then we mostly go back to obsessing with the actions and statements of drongos. I'm not sure our actions are attuned to our stated preferences.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

I'm all a-quiver wondering ... what WILL be the first conspiracy-theory event of 2025? So many possibilities, and the only certainty being it will have happened before we reach January 2nd.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

My video on Rory Stewart's astonishing case study of Kafkaesque struggles between ministers and civil servants - the actual reality behind the mythology of the 'deep state'

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