Charles Stewart
@chalst.bsky.social
Born in Canada, schooled in the UK, living in Berlin. Mobility impaired following my treatment for brain cancer.
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Charles Stewart
@chalst.bsky.social
· Sep 5
Charles (@textproof@mathstodon.xyz)
365 Posts, 171 Following, 56 Followers · Editor and logician based in Berlin.
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With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
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🇹🇷📢 Oppositionsführer #İmamoğlu, seit 8 Monaten im Gefängnis weil er in jeder Umfrage führt, wurde nun erneut unter absurden Spionagevorwürfen angeklagt, 1 der letzten 3 unabhängigen TV-Sendern steht unter Zwangsverwaltung.
Ein bisschen Rückgrat stünde 🇩🇪 gut zu Gesicht!
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Ein bisschen Rückgrat stünde 🇩🇪 gut zu Gesicht!
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Kanzler Merz zu Besuch in der Türkei: Präsident Erdogan hält Hof
Der türkische Staatschef ist für Europa wichtig wie nie. Doch gleichzeitig ist Erdogan ein problematischer Partner. Experten erwarten, dass er sich trotz einiger Probleme an der Macht hält.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
🇹🇷📢 Oppositionsführer #İmamoğlu, seit 8 Monaten im Gefängnis weil er in jeder Umfrage führt, wurde nun erneut unter absurden Spionagevorwürfen angeklagt, 1 der letzten 3 unabhängigen TV-Sendern steht unter Zwangsverwaltung.
Ein bisschen Rückgrat stünde 🇩🇪 gut zu Gesicht!
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Ein bisschen Rückgrat stünde 🇩🇪 gut zu Gesicht!
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Labour claims that boosting military spending will produce employment growth. Far from it, argues Richard Norton Taylor, it funnels money to private contractors that should fund public services
www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
Warfare's waste is welfare's loss - Red Pepper
Labour's increased spending will funnel money to private contractors that should fund public services argues Richard Norton Taylor
www.redpepper.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Labour claims that boosting military spending will produce employment growth. Far from it, argues Richard Norton Taylor, it funnels money to private contractors that should fund public services
www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
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dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
“Labour should…find the most extreme examples on the right and demand that Farage and Jenrich disassociate themselves from them…Ian Dunt:
> Right now…several mainstream right-wing commentators are claiming that black people cannot be English. Matthew Goodwin [and] Isabel Oakshott ha[ve] said it.
> Right now…several mainstream right-wing commentators are claiming that black people cannot be English. Matthew Goodwin [and] Isabel Oakshott ha[ve] said it.
The uphill struggle to stop Reform
Making political predictions is foolish, but I can only see two political parties that can stop a Reform government in the UK: Labour and ...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“Labour should…find the most extreme examples on the right and demand that Farage and Jenrich disassociate themselves from them…Ian Dunt:
> Right now…several mainstream right-wing commentators are claiming that black people cannot be English. Matthew Goodwin [and] Isabel Oakshott ha[ve] said it.
> Right now…several mainstream right-wing commentators are claiming that black people cannot be English. Matthew Goodwin [and] Isabel Oakshott ha[ve] said it.
This excellent article identifies a hole in otherwise thriving free political journalism: the failure to cover the nitty-gritty of how policy is made.
washingtonmonthly.com/2015/11/08/c...
washingtonmonthly.com/2015/11/08/c...
Confessions of a Paywall Journalist
Thanks to a booming trade press, lobbyists and other insiders know what’s happening in government. The rest of the country, not so much.
washingtonmonthly.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This excellent article identifies a hole in otherwise thriving free political journalism: the failure to cover the nitty-gritty of how policy is made.
washingtonmonthly.com/2015/11/08/c...
washingtonmonthly.com/2015/11/08/c...
Great post.
If you want to read the post by Ferguson which Josh is commenting on, niallferguson.substack.com/p/how-real-e... is more readable that the version Josh links to.
If you want to read the post by Ferguson which Josh is commenting on, niallferguson.substack.com/p/how-real-e... is more readable that the version Josh links to.
October 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Great post.
If you want to read the post by Ferguson which Josh is commenting on, niallferguson.substack.com/p/how-real-e... is more readable that the version Josh links to.
If you want to read the post by Ferguson which Josh is commenting on, niallferguson.substack.com/p/how-real-e... is more readable that the version Josh links to.
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Reviews like this make every hard part of being an #indieauthor worth it 🥰
To grab your own copy: ravenbelas.co/lesbian-vamp...
#bskybookclub #booksky #queerbooks
To grab your own copy: ravenbelas.co/lesbian-vamp...
#bskybookclub #booksky #queerbooks
October 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reviews like this make every hard part of being an #indieauthor worth it 🥰
To grab your own copy: ravenbelas.co/lesbian-vamp...
#bskybookclub #booksky #queerbooks
To grab your own copy: ravenbelas.co/lesbian-vamp...
#bskybookclub #booksky #queerbooks
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Non-USA #medlibs might find this useful www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Non-USA #medlibs might find this useful www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Free Press.
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Only a Billionaire Could Look at Network TV News and Say: We Need More Bari Weiss
Billionaire David Ellison installed conservative ideologue Bari Weiss atop CBS News, dropping any pretense of independence at the network.
theintercept.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Free Press.
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House Democrats release latest Jeffrey Epstein documents with Musk, Thiel, Bannon and Prince Andrew mentions.
Democrats release Epstein docs with Musk, Thiel, Bannon and Prince Andrew mentions
Small tranche of documents includes meeting itineraries, flight manifest and redacted financial transactions
www.independent.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
House Democrats release latest Jeffrey Epstein documents with Musk, Thiel, Bannon and Prince Andrew mentions.
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Not great
www.ocregister.com/2025/09/24/w...
www.ocregister.com/2025/09/24/w...
Westminster man, a former DACA recipient picked up in a car wash raid, dies in ICE custody
Ismael Ayala-Uribe is at least the 14th person to die this year while in ICE custody.
www.ocregister.com
September 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Not great
www.ocregister.com/2025/09/24/w...
www.ocregister.com/2025/09/24/w...
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“That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them.” —The President of the United States, speaking at a memorial service
September 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them.” —The President of the United States, speaking at a memorial service
“Nexstar was the real driver of the Jimmy Kimmel story. FCC Chair…Carr made his demand. Nexstar needs Carr’s help with their merger. So they cut off Kimmel and then ABC did too.
The Age of Monsters
We live in an age of monsters: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“Nexstar was the real driver of the Jimmy Kimmel story. FCC Chair…Carr made his demand. Nexstar needs Carr’s help with their merger. So they cut off Kimmel and then ABC did too.
Good to see Jeffries has a spine.
Hakeem Jeffries:
“Republicans will own a government shutdown, period. Full stop. It’s the Republican shutdown.”
😬
www.huffpost.com/entry/house-...
“Republicans will own a government shutdown, period. Full stop. It’s the Republican shutdown.”
😬
www.huffpost.com/entry/house-...
Republicans Pass Bill Funding The Government, Jam Senate Democrats
All eyes now turn to the Senate, where Democrats have said they’ll hold out for health care policies.
www.huffpost.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Good to see Jeffries has a spine.
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Trump defamation lawsuit against NYT is STRUCK, thrown out of court, for being bloviating BS. I'm not joking, see next:
September 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Trump defamation lawsuit against NYT is STRUCK, thrown out of court, for being bloviating BS. I'm not joking, see next:
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Chicago: ICE agents with suspicious looks and tattoos stoped a truck with three Latino construction workers inside. The 3 men were asked for their papers and taken into custody just because of their ethnicity. Racial profiling is now a norm in America.
September 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Chicago: ICE agents with suspicious looks and tattoos stoped a truck with three Latino construction workers inside. The 3 men were asked for their papers and taken into custody just because of their ethnicity. Racial profiling is now a norm in America.
Another false claim from The Mail.
"This is categorically false," a representative for Fleetwood Mac tells Rolling Stone"
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September 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Another false claim from The Mail.
Great thread.
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
September 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Great thread.
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Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
September 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
A reply to a post about Nancy Mace threatening to censure Ilhan Omar.
The censure cited this video; you can check Omar said nothing untoward: www.youtube.com/live/wFN8bCT...
The censure cited this video; you can check Omar said nothing untoward: www.youtube.com/live/wFN8bCT...
September 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
A reply to a post about Nancy Mace threatening to censure Ilhan Omar.
The censure cited this video; you can check Omar said nothing untoward: www.youtube.com/live/wFN8bCT...
The censure cited this video; you can check Omar said nothing untoward: www.youtube.com/live/wFN8bCT...
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September 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
@talkingpointsmemo.com is pro-democracy and independent.
I see Boris Johnson has become more extreme since he was booted out as PM.
September 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I see Boris Johnson has become more extreme since he was booted out as PM.
The right-wing media in the UK is fanning anti-immigrant sentiment.
1 in 3 doctors were born overseas.
1 in 5 university academics were born overseas.
1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas.
1 in 2 builders were born overseas.
1 in 5 nurses were born overseas.
1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas.
The media, their framing, IS the problem
1 in 5 university academics were born overseas.
1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas.
1 in 2 builders were born overseas.
1 in 5 nurses were born overseas.
1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas.
The media, their framing, IS the problem
September 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The right-wing media in the UK is fanning anti-immigrant sentiment.
By firing skilled human workers and replacing them with spicy autocomplete, Musk is assuming his final form as both the kind of boss who can be conned into replacing you with a defective chatbot and as the fast-talking sales rep who cons your boss.
Pluralistic: AI can’t do your job (18 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
By firing skilled human workers and replacing them with spicy autocomplete, Musk is assuming his final form as both the kind of boss who can be conned into replacing you with a defective chatbot and as the fast-talking sales rep who cons your boss.