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😂 exactly my morning

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

One consequence of the National Gallery rehanging and general sprucing up is that the Boris Anrep mosaics have had a scrub. They Joe jump out at you. And they have some #histsci Here, for example, is ‘Curiosity’, with Lord Rutherford, a king of physics 1/a few

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Reeves Spending Review heralds a more social democratic economy - credit where it’s due. Good piece by @josiah.writes.news via @bylinetimes.bsky.social. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/13/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

it's kind of wild that tottenham hotspur threw a bigger parade than the us military

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Dunno man, I'm pretty sure that when the Tea Party managed to gather like 500 people outside a Chuck E. Cheese or whatever, the media interviewed every single person there fifteen times, declared it an unstoppable popular tsunami, and amplified its every inane grievance as purest Vox Dei.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I think the Army is malicious compliance-ing its way through this parade

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

This is actually shaping up to be Trump 2’s worst day so far. His parade has been massively counterproductive. This is the day the anti-fascist coalition became a real thing. It’s clear the attempt to use shock and awe to cow the nation has failed. And no one gives a shit about his birthday.

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Dude's wanted a military parade for himself for years and he finally makes it happen and turnout is worse than at a medium sized city's farmers market on a rainy day while like 2% of the entire country went out to protest his bullshit

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Millions march across America to demand #NoKings. Meanwhile, a one person deep line assembles to watch Trump's birthday parade in Washington DC. Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day generates more enthusiasm than this pathetic show.

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🏆🥇First Prize

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Musk bought Twitter to turn it into a right-wing propaganda network precisely in moments like these.

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"So Bezos really has given the crazy English lettuce woman space in our paper..." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Talked to so many people who were at the first protests of their lives today. Ex-Republicans, introverts, 90-year-olds and 3-year-olds. This was at an intersection in a 60,000 person town. Haven’t felt hope like this in my life.

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Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

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Another example of the right wing media machine selectively presenting and then twisting “evidence” into their strategic frames. This is how they work ALL THE TIME. As soon as an event happens, it’s all hands on deck to assemble evidence to fit their frames.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

that's an anti-fascist popular front :)

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

how about just the fact that i am not inundated with nonstop antisemitism day-in, day-out for talking about jewish stuff or jewish people?

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

This week on Wonkhe: Industrial strategy could be perceived as signalling a shift away from fundamental research. Brunel vice chancellor Andrew Jones unpicks the myths driving this misconception

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Compelling

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A lot of analysis around Iran's options is reminiscent of speculation in 2024 about supposed asymmetric retaliation Hezbollah was going to inflict through attacks in Europe and the Gulf only for structural pressures to paralyse it in the face of an Israeli onslaught that ignored old unwritten rules

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Saturday Quiz In the Spending Review, which agency got more money than it asked for?

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#PalantirOut

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“Hint machine” is exactly how I use the chatbots.

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Coming to a town near you whenever Nigel Farage decides to blow his whistle… This is what happens when you fail to regulate Big Tech effectively.

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On Facebook, there is a live "Ballymena Reaction Group" page saying it is a "war" and which has over 2 days posting information to direct attacks, issuing threats, and asking mobs to exempt some houses. It has 4.8k followers We urgently need to Make Facebook & X Lawful Again

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Want to know about the effect of political short-termism on the Prison Service in England and Wales? New to the blog!⚡️ @samwarner.bsky.social @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @profdaverichards.bsky.social policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/06/12/t...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Here's the recent history of UK govt R&D spending in real terms. Worth noting that actual spending in 2023 (last year for which we have figures) was £17.4 bn, so the 25/26 allocation of £19.1 bn (in 2023 money) does represent a significant increase.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Tomorrow, 15 people charged with gambling related offenses linked to last year’s general election appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court from 10 a.m. Most people will have forgotten this but not @robfordmancs.bsky.social, @psurridge.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social and me! #BGE2024Book

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I know the distinction is hard to grasp for people who support tech monopolies but there is, in fact, a difference between "fashion eyewear" and "fascism eyewear."

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Damn, that's crazy, I wonder if anyone has a recording of the event to figure out who was telling the truth. If only there were journalists who worked for this organization who could find out what happened!

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

A fascinating, and accurate, piece of research which gives the lie to the (now) common complaint that the civil service is too slow/seeks to frustrate the delivery of ministers’ objectives open.substack.com/pub/ukcivils...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

this 48-second video of a protest in ontario, california is top-tier storytelling 🤌🏽🤌🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 119 comments

shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"

submitted 3 days ago • 156 comments

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

submitted 4 days ago • 60 comments