@stillfree78.bsky.social
Dear Bluesky friends, I hereby announce that I am going to abandon my attempts to become the Olympic men’s 100m champion if I don’t run it sub 10s within the next week.
Trump threatens to abandon Ukraine peace efforts unless deal reached ‘very shortly’
President says US may ‘take a pass’ on brokering agreement as Kyiv signs minerals memorandum
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Dear Bluesky friends, I hereby announce that I am going to abandon my attempts to become the Olympic men’s 100m champion if I don’t run it sub 10s within the next week.
Hey, Americans!
This is what you look like to the rest of the world.
A bunch of bully boy weak little men who y’all elected.
Scrawling with their crayons.
Sending your country to the dogs.
Time to stand up and be counted.
This is what you look like to the rest of the world.
A bunch of bully boy weak little men who y’all elected.
Scrawling with their crayons.
Sending your country to the dogs.
Time to stand up and be counted.
April 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Hey, Americans!
This is what you look like to the rest of the world.
A bunch of bully boy weak little men who y’all elected.
Scrawling with their crayons.
Sending your country to the dogs.
Time to stand up and be counted.
This is what you look like to the rest of the world.
A bunch of bully boy weak little men who y’all elected.
Scrawling with their crayons.
Sending your country to the dogs.
Time to stand up and be counted.
So is Trump mentally ill?
Or is Trump a Hitler-style fascist?
Or is he both?
My vote is both.
American academics welcome to the rest of the world, we’ll happily benefit from the Great Trump Brain Drain.
Or is Trump a Hitler-style fascist?
Or is he both?
My vote is both.
American academics welcome to the rest of the world, we’ll happily benefit from the Great Trump Brain Drain.
Trump threatens to ban 'joke' Harvard from enrolling foreign students
'Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning,' the President says.
www.nzherald.co.nz
April 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
So is Trump mentally ill?
Or is Trump a Hitler-style fascist?
Or is he both?
My vote is both.
American academics welcome to the rest of the world, we’ll happily benefit from the Great Trump Brain Drain.
Or is Trump a Hitler-style fascist?
Or is he both?
My vote is both.
American academics welcome to the rest of the world, we’ll happily benefit from the Great Trump Brain Drain.
Because it is.
April 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Because it is.
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I often give MSM headline-writers/editors a hard time on framing of political news.
So now a note of compliment to hed-writers + photo and layout editors who put together today's WSJ print front page. (h/t @jorgeguajardo.bsky.social )
If Dickens or Dreiser were writing this, would seem overdone
So now a note of compliment to hed-writers + photo and layout editors who put together today's WSJ print front page. (h/t @jorgeguajardo.bsky.social )
If Dickens or Dreiser were writing this, would seem overdone
April 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I often give MSM headline-writers/editors a hard time on framing of political news.
So now a note of compliment to hed-writers + photo and layout editors who put together today's WSJ print front page. (h/t @jorgeguajardo.bsky.social )
If Dickens or Dreiser were writing this, would seem overdone
So now a note of compliment to hed-writers + photo and layout editors who put together today's WSJ print front page. (h/t @jorgeguajardo.bsky.social )
If Dickens or Dreiser were writing this, would seem overdone
I love a good protest sign.
April 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I love a good protest sign.
How many of us have thought this???
April 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
How many of us have thought this???
Chinese stock market already seems to be demonstrating how ineffective #Trump tariff catastrophe will be for America. I thought USA wanted to dominate? Looks like capitulate to me…
April 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Chinese stock market already seems to be demonstrating how ineffective #Trump tariff catastrophe will be for America. I thought USA wanted to dominate? Looks like capitulate to me…
Come on America.
Is it 25th amendment time now? Is it?
Is it 25th amendment time now? Is it?
April 5, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Come on America.
Is it 25th amendment time now? Is it?
Is it 25th amendment time now? Is it?
#Trump message to his blue collar voters. As prices rise and families starve, auto plants close, the sick no longer have Medicaid, pensioners and vets struggle with late beneficiary checks, black peoples lose the few rights they have in racist USA. It’s you - your POTUS thinks you’re weak.
April 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
#Trump message to his blue collar voters. As prices rise and families starve, auto plants close, the sick no longer have Medicaid, pensioners and vets struggle with late beneficiary checks, black peoples lose the few rights they have in racist USA. It’s you - your POTUS thinks you’re weak.
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David Lammy says Trump has taken US economic policy back 100 years with ‘return to protectionism’ – UK politics live
David Lammy says Trump has taken US economic policy back 100 years with ‘return to protectionism’ – UK politics live
David Lammy, foreign secretary, says UK is ‘a nation that believes in open trade’ and says government is negotiating with US over economic agreement
The official plan to increase access to NHS dental services in England has been a “complete failure”, and some of the government’s initiatives have worsened the crisis, a damning report warns, Andrew Gregory reports.
David Lammy, the foreign secretary, is at the Nato HQ in Brussels this morning, where Nato foreign ministers are meeting. Speaking to the media, he said President Trump was taking US economic policy back almost a century by embracing protectionism. He said:
The United Kingdom, like France, is a great maritime nation.
We are a nation that believes in open trade, and I regret the return to protectionism in the United States, something that we’ve not seen for nearly a century. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
David Lammy says Trump has taken US economic policy back 100 years with ‘return to protectionism’ – UK politics live
Boycott American products.
Who wants their junk anyway?
Who wants their junk anyway?
April 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Boycott American products.
Who wants their junk anyway?
Who wants their junk anyway?
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A $20 million intervention by Elon Musk failed to stop Wisconsin voters putting a liberal judge on the state supreme court in an election the tech billionaire had described as vital to “western civilisation”
Elon Musk loses Wisconsin’s battle of the billionaires
www.thetimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
A $20 million intervention by Elon Musk failed to stop Wisconsin voters putting a liberal judge on the state supreme court in an election the tech billionaire had described as vital to “western civilisation”
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Oh.
"What Brexit has meant for the [legal] profession is that we moved from one single set of rules... into 27 different regulatory regimes."
Marco Cillario from the Law Society sets out the impact of Brexit on our legal sector at today's UK-EU reset evidence session. 👇
Marco Cillario from the Law Society sets out the impact of Brexit on our legal sector at today's UK-EU reset evidence session. 👇
April 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Oh.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, we get it #JokeFührer! #Trump rolls out a pre-agreed line with Papa #Putin. Now, get back in your box little #kompromat, or it’s time for the tapes!
Yeah, we get it #JokeFührer! #Trump rolls out a pre-agreed line with Papa #Putin. Now, get back in your box little #kompromat, or it’s time for the tapes!
Donald Trump says he is ‘very angry’ with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine
US president says his Russian counterpart’s questioning of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s credibility could delay ceasefire
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:51 AM
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, we get it #JokeFührer! #Trump rolls out a pre-agreed line with Papa #Putin. Now, get back in your box little #kompromat, or it’s time for the tapes!
Yeah, we get it #JokeFührer! #Trump rolls out a pre-agreed line with Papa #Putin. Now, get back in your box little #kompromat, or it’s time for the tapes!
Well, quite
It is absolutely right that we do not need Greenland (or Canada) for natsec reasons because they are already close NATO allies. So the only rationale to turn the US into an aggressor in our own hemisphere is if you don’t plan on NATO being a US alliance in the future.
March 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Well, quite
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In public, President Trump has defended his national security adviser in the wake of the Signal leak. But behind the scenes, he has been casting around for advice. Read an inside account of Trump’s deliberations over what to do about Michael Waltz.
‘Should I Fire Him?’ Inside Trump’s Deliberations Over the Fate of Michael Waltz
In public, President Trump has defended his national security adviser. But behind the scenes, he has been casting around for advice.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
In public, President Trump has defended his national security adviser in the wake of the Signal leak. But behind the scenes, he has been casting around for advice. Read an inside account of Trump’s deliberations over what to do about Michael Waltz.
Last night I made a mistake. I conflated a post objecting to facial recognition with my feeling that people in the centre of politics cannot express socially conservative views without being cancelled. And that the far right weaponises that to polarise. Both issues are real, but unconnected.
March 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Last night I made a mistake. I conflated a post objecting to facial recognition with my feeling that people in the centre of politics cannot express socially conservative views without being cancelled. And that the far right weaponises that to polarise. Both issues are real, but unconnected.
So again, I’ll apologise for my use of the term far left. Facial recognition software is widely used in supermarkets in Australasia. It has tight measures around its deployment, especially given the software is still evolving. It reduces crime, and allows people to shop with greater confidence.
March 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
So again, I’ll apologise for my use of the term far left. Facial recognition software is widely used in supermarkets in Australasia. It has tight measures around its deployment, especially given the software is still evolving. It reduces crime, and allows people to shop with greater confidence.
And I agree on polarisation of the discourse, and apologise if you felt I was characterising you. But I hold firm on my view of the issue. Commonly held views are cancelled for anybody who wishes to disassociate themselves from the worst excesses of the far right. What about issue by issue politics?
March 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
And I agree on polarisation of the discourse, and apologise if you felt I was characterising you. But I hold firm on my view of the issue. Commonly held views are cancelled for anybody who wishes to disassociate themselves from the worst excesses of the far right. What about issue by issue politics?