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bumpintheroad.bsky.social
@bumpintheroad.bsky.social
Interested in History, Literature, Travel, Politics, Ideas. Prepared to change my mind. Humanist. Career in international business. 🇬🇧 supports 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 , strong attachment to places and people where I have spent time 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇩🇪.
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My girlfriend has kindly agreed to buy Matt Goodwin a house in Gorton & Denton.
January 28, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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Ghislaine Maxwell filed a petition claiming there are 29 individuals — four alleged co-conspirators and 25 men who reached secret civil settlements connected to Epstein’s abuse — whose names remain hidden and protected from public disclosure by the DOJ.
www.thedailybeast.com//ghislaine-m...
Maxwell Lobs Grenade Naming 29 ‘Protected’ Epstein Friends
Documents revealing “secret settlements” reached by Epstein associates have still not been released by the DOJ ..... our must-read newsletter The Swamp reveals.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science.

www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
www.science.org
January 28, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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William Butler Yeats, one of the 20th century's most influential poets, died on this day 1938. He led an Irish literary revival and in 1923 became the first Irish person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Later he served two terms as a senator of the Irish Free State.
January 28, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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MILAN MAYOR SALA:

“.. This is a militia that kills. ..
It's a militia that enters people's homes by signing permits for themselves. … It's clear that they're not welcome in Milan, there's no doubt about that."

@cbsnews.com
www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-mil...
January 28, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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'Thaw' by Edward Thomas
January 28, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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January 28, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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US President Trump has hung a photograph of himself with Putin taken in Alaska inside the White House. Below it, Trump placed a separate photo with his granddaughter, White House correspondent for PBS News Hour Elizabeth Landers reports. #Trump
January 27, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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Interesting: "Sweden has had very early discussions with France and the United Kingdom about possible nuclear weapons cooperation, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has revealed." breakingdefense.com/2026/01/swed...
Sweden weighs Franco-British nuclear weapons cooperation  - Breaking Defense
"I say that when we joined NATO, we are fully involved in all discussions, including those in Europe revolving around nuclear weapons," Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said.
breakingdefense.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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Trump: “The dollar’s doing great”

The Dollar: 🫤
January 27, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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Italian centre-left politicians protested in the Lombardy regional council over reports that United States ICE agents could be involved in security for the upcoming Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.
January 27, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Neil Young. Still showing us the way all these years later..

If you haven't heard, he gifted his entire catalog to Greenland for free. He says he hopes it will "ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,”
January 27, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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Anyone who works on pluralistic alignment, making AI "unbiased", or "AI for social good" should read these two papers
- Os Keyes et al.'s A Mulching Proposal dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
- Ben Green's Data Science as Political Action ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
January 27, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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Turns out Canada DID have some cards, after all. 🤡

@financialtimes.com #OOTT ⛽️
www.ft.com/content/2662...
January 27, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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I have some good news to share.

Because of people like you, The Onion, Stan Kelly and @raygunsite.com raised $27,600 for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota solely on sales of these Sinister Minnesotans shirts.

Thank you so much for buying these. You can buy more shirts or donate directly here:
January 27, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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ICE to be in Milan for Olympics; mayor says they're 'not welcome'
www.upi.com
ICE to be in Milan for Olympics; mayor says they're 'not welcome' - UPI.com
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January 27, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Magnificent!🤣 30p Lee takes a leaf out of Orange Donny's book, and invades Angela Rayner's patch. By mistake...

Mark you, he's not the only Reform MP unsure of where a constituency is. Is he Nigel? 🤔

share.google/Wra0FuSUM00C...
Reform mocked by Angela Rayner over Greater Manchester by-election photo blunder
MP Lee Anderson shared photos as parties are set to campaign in Gorton and Denton
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January 27, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled
January 27, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Despite gloomy mood music around prospects for the economy, there are some early and encouraging signs that the pace of productivity growth has begun to accelerate.

Read more ➡️ buff.ly/VWHNFCb
January 27, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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This is the passenger train russian drones struck today in Kharkiv region.

291 people were on board.

There were 3 drones, not 1. This was no mistake - it is terrorism.
January 27, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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Philip Glass wrote a symphony honoring Abraham Lincoln. His Symphony was set for its world premiere this June.

On Tuesday, Glass informed the Kennedy Center that he did not want his symphony performed on its stage www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/a...
Philip Glass Withdraws From Kennedy Center, as Its Symphony Vows to Play On
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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CONFERENCE BOARD: “.. Confidence collapsed in January. .. All five components of the Index deteriorated, driving the overall Index to its lowest level since May 2014 (82.2)—surpassing its COVID-19 pandemic depths.”
Lowest consumer confidence since 2014:
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 PM