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NEW: In November, I wrote a Guardian column headlined 'How to Survive the Broligarchy'. Pretty much everything predicted has now come true. What I'm launching today is part handbook, how to protect ourselves? And part manifesto, how to fight back? Please join me. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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I’m going to see Much Ado tonight.

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Trump could have pushed for an end to the war in Ukraine without becoming actively hostile to Ukraine. Instead, he has imbibed Putin’s lies. Have written about the emergence of a new US/Russia axis, where it comes from and the staggering implications for Europe. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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Financial Times investigation finds evidence that Russian executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war are not isolated incidents but likely part of a broader pattern pointing to systematic policy, described as 'priority number one' by head of Ukraine's war crimes department www.ft.com/content/d731...

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Trump’s standing in the UK - what little there was - is collapsing further after the events of the last few days. A new YouGov poll of Brits find just 3% agree with him that Ukraine was the cause of the war. That’s 13% below those who think the moon landings were faked.

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Hold pretend elections. Kill political opponents. Not a dictator apparently

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They are all the little children, all the mothers. What Hamas did on 7th October was utterly wicked, they knew the retribution would be terrible and did it anyway.

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I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

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I want every Democrat to sound like this. Meanwhile I'm listening to the sounds of (congressional) silence.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence denounced Donald Trump over his biggest, most flagrant lie of late — the infuriating claim that Ukraine started the war with Russia. Pence reappeared to slam Trump’s Putin-inspired lie. Posting the indisputable truth on X, Pence emphasized his…

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He’ll claim King of New York like Musk claims the ambiguity of a gesture from the heart. But in each instance the wider introduction is made.

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"even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making" "Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination"

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As detailed in Proof of Destruction—see below—the claims that America has sent hundreds of billions to Ukraine and that half of what America sent is missing were laundered by the Kremlin and the FSB through Tucker Carlson, who Canada calls a Kremlin agent. The actual figures: $56 billion and <2%.

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Perhaps our greatest contemporary thinker on democracy.

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Can imagine a not too distant future when our social media will be scrutinised before we’re allowed to enter America.

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Somehow we have to grimly hang onto fact. It was the same with Brexit. Stick with facts at all times. Though about half of America aren’t hearing. Even now.

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Hanging onto reason but emotion is building. By which I mean outrage.

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I feel myself getting more and more extreme in response to what is being done.

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All these individuals, their families, losing their income. As they and the work they do is utterly devalued. So Trump and Musk can steal that money instead.

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This is a must read. It’s the first comment I’ve read that truely precisely understands Trump. Journalists & officials should read it every day just so they never forget. Trump’s enemy is liberal democracy. If you’re on that side, you have to face him.

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Just over half.

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Insane

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Putin definitely has something on Trump, don’t you think? Anyway Trump has always been available to be bought.

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There’s still NATO. So far. If French and British forces are protecting Ukraine and they’re attacked by (yes, expansionist) Putin could NATO, including the, US be called upon to repel Russia? Is that the Starmer/Macron strategy? Though a gamble Trump wouldn’t walk away anyway.

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#Macron joining Starmer on his visit to Washington next week. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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I can’t be in London on 22nd -big family birthday- but I would have liked to go to this.

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In other words, a group of law-abiding citizens had their doors smashed in by the Border Force at night, because the Prime Minister wanted some "man of action" pictures for the telly. And this is regarded as a political "F-up", not an abuse of state power. It's like we learned nothing from Windrush

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Taverner’s marvellous Sanctus written about 1527. With top flight trebles available to him. Probably commissioned by Cardinal Wolsey. Playing on @BBCRadio3 Beyond time.

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Great thread

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Untrustworthy America, killing the country’s soft power globally in a foreseeable future. America isolated in thrall to Putin who will stranglehold a vulnerable Trump looking to psychopath MBS for riches.

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America allied with Russia and the horrific MBS. Tyrants gathering together. Against Europe. What too many in America voted for. As a woman I don’t think fielding an accomplished woman of colour as a candidate was worth this. A gamble too far. Women knew how pervasive is mysogenism.

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I think we’ve lost.

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The high interest rate that Thames water has to pay to receive a loan will be paid by their customers … it should go broke #wato

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We know what they’re letting us know, wonder what they’re hiding.

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An Attorney General prioritising fidelity to law and principle, instead of chasing cheap headlines with bogus and exploitative legal applications, is a welcome change.

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I know Stathis. He was a colleague of mine at the University of Chicago. He is a pretty buttoned-down scholar. For him to tweet this out is… something.

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So Elon Musk is doing off-label at-home ketamine therapy; acting drug-addled every day; a woman who is lying about being linked to him and the USDS (his DOGE grift) is linked to at-home ketamine therapy...so what are we to deduce from this? He hired his drug supplier, and she’s a liar? Nothing good.

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This is like if Roosevelt had met with Hitler to negotiate Britain’s surrender while Britain tried to hold out against Nazi forces invasion

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"Europe must stop kidding itself. Trump’s America has started its own cold war against liberal democracy. His weapons include the withdrawal of military support, the elevation of Vladimir Putin from pariah to partner, propaganda attacks, and subversion. nickcohen.substack.com/p/trumps-tru...

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