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This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm. Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

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“Trump replied,”stopping the war,” suggesting that not “taking the whole country” is a “pretty big concession.” Putin hasn’t taken #Ukraine because he can’t. Because of Ukrainian courage & resilience. To suggest this is a Russian concession is ludicrous & morally corrupt. www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/p...

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

Trump asked today, why didn’t Ukraine fight back in Crimea in 2014? As I wrote in my book, The War Came To Us, Ukraine’s decision to not fight against Russia’s invasion was largely influenced by behind-the-scenes pressure from the US. Here’s what then-interim President Oleksandr Turchynov told me:

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

The key chart right now: Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers. This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

submitted 7 days ago • 117 comments

We should expect exfiltration ops like this have happened in every system DOGE accessed and that Russia and other US adversaries already have the data. The logs were shut off because they know what they are doing is treasonous.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.

submitted 11 days ago • 64 comments

Super interesting to see data backing up some of the culrural/attitudinal shifts I've observed during my lifetime

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Bat Appreciation Day! The German word for a bat, Fledermaus, means “flutter mouse.” The Basque word, saguzar, means “old mouse.” And the Estonian word, nahkhiir, means “leather mouse.” But to me (and to anyone who’s seen the picture below) the correct term for bats will always be “sky puppies”

submitted 12 days ago • 67 comments

NEW How the United States constitutional crisis is intensifying And what the US government should realise about a cavalier approach to obligations By me Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-un... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

🚨🚨 This is huge news. Very welcome decision by the US District Court of Columbia finding that #Trump Administration's actions amounts to #criminalcontempt. This is a very strong signal to the US Government that the courts are not playing along their game. #constitutionalcrisis to be continued. 👇

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 15 days ago • 720 comments

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent. It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy. based on christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic... 1/18

submitted 15 days ago • 79 comments

My new post mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information. Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully! christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...

submitted 16 days ago • 34 comments

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

submitted 18 days ago • 231 comments

💥 There will be a debate in parliament on 24th April, on the trading relationship with EU, exquisitely timed to be a month before the big summit between VdL and Starmer. Please share if you feel you can (or simply write to your own MP!). hey-mp.uk?c=debate 🇪🇺🇬🇧

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

🚨🚨 This is excellent by @edwardluce.bsky.social on the futility of understanding #trump on the scale of rational foreign policy/trade policy schools of thought: www.ft.com/content/9f51...

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen

submitted 24 days ago • 311 comments

New post from me about Trump's tariffs and why Harold Macmillan was right - we Brits are truly Greece to America's Rome - because our Brexit-era compulsion to think everything was 'simple' has a Trumpian heir. A short thread. 1/n benansell.substack.com/p/simple

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

submitted 25 days ago • 94 comments

While Trump is the central figure with his love of tariffs, he's not alone in basically questioning the relationship between government and business. Companies built modern globalisation, national politicians don't understand or like it very much.

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

This is what empires look like when they fall inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

submitted 26 days ago • 106 comments

What a massive numbty. President Donald Trump imposed 10% tariffs on Heard & McDonald Islands, uninhabited but for their US & U.K. military bases. “It takes around 10 days, depending on the weather, to get to Heard Island by ship from the port of Fremantle, near Perth in Western Australia,”

submitted 26 days ago • 11 comments

Want to know how Trump gets in? Just look at the coverage of Le Pen iandunt.substack.com/p/want-to-kn...

submitted 28 days ago • 29 comments

This is a thread of my favourite ever literal translations, starting with this one… In Greek, the word for a protest, εύπιστος, translates literally to “anger parade”

submitted 28 days ago • 51 comments

Brenna Trout Frey attorney resigns from her law firm: Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, in protest at its craven capitulation to Trump after it agreed to provide $100k free services to groups named by Trump because they had previously sued his administration www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

I have no doubt the Le Pen verdict is deserved. A lot of the political fallout for her, the RN but also for the perceived credibility of the verdict, now depends on the duration of the ineligibility. 🧵

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

submitted 31 days ago • 201 comments

We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

submitted 32 days ago • 543 comments

🚨🚨 Greedy, evil and traitorous robbers: #Trump pushes to control all of #Ukraine’s mineral and energy assets in sweeping new demands. 🧵 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

submitted 32 days ago • 37 comments

Now you can read the Signal group chat texts and decide for yourself whether this is information that should have been classified www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 34 days ago • 129 comments

Pretty sure what we have seen today is Trump and Putin acting as allies to betray Ukraine and isolate Europe. What seems to have happened is this. 1) The US got Ukraine to agree a Black Sea ceasefire on the idea that if Rus broke it, the US would put more sanctions on Rus.

submitted 35 days ago • 30 comments

Excellent and detailed FT piece this week on the £100,000 "childcare trap". If someone earns £99,999 and claims the Governments childcare subsidies, then a £1 pay rise can cost them £20,000.

submitted 38 days ago • 20 comments

Trump is picking off the universities one by one and they are caving very quickly. www.politico.com/news/2025/03... Worth reposting this article i wrote the other week. christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...

submitted 38 days ago • 12 comments

🆕Public conclusive across different questions, in views on englishness. 75% of English people believe that non white citizens born here can be just as english as other english people - agreement across 2024 vote, age, education. (Repost to make clear sample England not Britain)

submitted 40 days ago • 12 comments

🚨🚨 "Trump fails to get Putin to stop the shooting: Russia insists on terms to end the war that spell the end of democratic Ukraine, and has followed up the Trump call with an assault on Kyiv". @politico.eu summarises well the outcome of Putin-Trump call.🧵 www.politico.eu/article/dona...

submitted 42 days ago • 20 comments

When you read this it becomes apparent that Elon Musk is a showman, nothing more. He's not an engineer. The whole thing is an act.

submitted 42 days ago • 81 comments

1. Reading some of the comments beneath this week's column, I'm struck once again by how fiercely resistant many people are to understanding how our food is produced, how it reaches us and how the system works. This willed ignorance is lethal. Short🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 43 days ago • 32 comments

Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]

submitted 44 days ago • 130 comments

🚨🚨"Surprise, surprise"; #Russia has rejected the US proposal for a ceasefire since this would according to Senior Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov give 'temporary respite' for Ukrainian troops.🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

submitted 47 days ago • 10 comments

holy shit -- Trump was reading from a literal Tesla sales pitch, complete with pricing, during his White House event with Elon Musk. (Andrew Harnik/Getty)

submitted 49 days ago • 1500 comments

🚨🚨 "In today's loony madness", the orange Madman doubled his planned tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum products from Canada to 50%, in response to the province of Ontario's decision to place a 25% tariff on its electricity exports to the US. 🧵 www.reuters.com/world/americ...

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

In Icelandic, a word for the haziness of pre-dawn is sauðljóst. It means “the time of day when there is just enough light to see your sheep”

submitted 50 days ago • 8 comments

As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”. The man is a fraud.

submitted 51 days ago • 108 comments

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

submitted 53 days ago • 132 comments

Good to hear some innovative action happening here

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

🚨🚨 All of this. Another stellar instalment by Anne Applebaum. Some quotes here in 🧵

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

The left accelerationist case for Trump paints him as a vile vessel who will, nevertheless, achieve important goals: (1) make the US less militaristic & (2) empower the Global South. It makes intuitive sense bc Trump is weakening USG & Western alliances. But it’s deeply naive. Here's why: 🧵

submitted 55 days ago • 10 comments

🚨🚨Powerful response by the EU team by @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu on Trump's drastic decision to pause their military aid commitment to Ukraine. Her press statement is worth reading in full. 🧵 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

submitted 56 days ago • 14 comments