Matthew Bond
@bondmmc.bsky.social
Labour member. Bloomsbury, London.
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Interesting nugget in this piece on Curtis Yarvin www.persuasion.community/p/the-blogge...
May 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Interesting nugget in this piece on Curtis Yarvin www.persuasion.community/p/the-blogge...
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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
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April 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
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Misogyny, racism, science suppression
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Misogyny, racism, science suppression
A reign of terror appears to be underway at NIH with scientists fearing they must toe RFK Jr.'s "correct line."
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April 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Misogyny, racism, science suppression
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Trump's tariffs are designed for maximum damage—to America This is not a both sides have a point situation.
Maury Obstfeld @piie.com speaking truth to power.
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Maury Obstfeld @piie.com speaking truth to power.
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Trump's tariffs are designed for maximum damage—to America
President Donald Trump touted his bewildering array of "Liberation Day" import tariffs as carefully calibrated to offset trade partners' tariff, nontariff, and currency barriers to US exports. However...
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April 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Trump's tariffs are designed for maximum damage—to America This is not a both sides have a point situation.
Maury Obstfeld @piie.com speaking truth to power.
www.piie.com/blogs/realti...
Maury Obstfeld @piie.com speaking truth to power.
www.piie.com/blogs/realti...
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Baba Stiltz & Okay Kaya | Bedside
Bedside
Baba Stiltz, Okay Kaya · Bedside · Song · 2024
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January 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Baba Stiltz & Okay Kaya | Bedside
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100%. Messaging needs to be clear and forceful. This is bad and it will not help workers.
April 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
100%. Messaging needs to be clear and forceful. This is bad and it will not help workers.
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Trump’s new tariffs are an abomination. It’s not just the economics that is backwards. It’s also the geopolitics/national security angle. Countries have always used trade for geopolitical reasons. But it’s by opening your market to other nations that you get them to align with you, not by closing.
April 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Trump’s new tariffs are an abomination. It’s not just the economics that is backwards. It’s also the geopolitics/national security angle. Countries have always used trade for geopolitical reasons. But it’s by opening your market to other nations that you get them to align with you, not by closing.
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‘I expected to lose’
He’s so predictably pathetic and insecure.
He’s so predictably pathetic and insecure.
April 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
‘I expected to lose’
He’s so predictably pathetic and insecure.
He’s so predictably pathetic and insecure.
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March 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Trump inherited a Goldilocks economy. But he may destroy it faster than even pessimists imagined paulkrugman.substack.com/p/surprise-c...
Chaos Is Bad for Business
Ignorance, megalomania and the economic future
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February 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Trump inherited a Goldilocks economy. But he may destroy it faster than even pessimists imagined paulkrugman.substack.com/p/surprise-c...
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ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
February 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
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Konstantin Kisin ...
'TrUmP WiLl bE GoOd fOr uKrAiNe'
'TrUmP WiLl bE GoOd fOr uKrAiNe'
February 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Konstantin Kisin ...
'TrUmP WiLl bE GoOd fOr uKrAiNe'
'TrUmP WiLl bE GoOd fOr uKrAiNe'
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As you watch Trump berate and put his hand on Zelenskyy just ask yourself one simple question: could you ever imagine him speaking to Putin like this?
BREAKING: There has just been a huge argument between Zelenskyy, Trump & Vance in the Oval Office.
Trump calls Zelenskyy disrespectful and says he “is no position to dictate” to the US.
Trump raises his voice to Zelenskyy. He can’t stand someone standing up to him.
This is unbelievable.
Trump calls Zelenskyy disrespectful and says he “is no position to dictate” to the US.
Trump raises his voice to Zelenskyy. He can’t stand someone standing up to him.
This is unbelievable.
February 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
As you watch Trump berate and put his hand on Zelenskyy just ask yourself one simple question: could you ever imagine him speaking to Putin like this?
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Shame Glenn didn’t ask Musk if he respects “the office”…
February 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Shame Glenn didn’t ask Musk if he respects “the office”…
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Okay... we feel like we say this every week but *a lot* of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)
The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Okay... we feel like we say this every week but *a lot* of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)
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This is what a deal with the devil looks like👇
@housegop.bsky.social JUST VOTED TO CUT Medicaid, SNAP benefits, school meals, & housing assistance all in exchange for giving corporations & billionaires a tax cut all at the expense of the middle class.
@housegop.bsky.social JUST VOTED TO CUT Medicaid, SNAP benefits, school meals, & housing assistance all in exchange for giving corporations & billionaires a tax cut all at the expense of the middle class.
February 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This is what a deal with the devil looks like👇
@housegop.bsky.social JUST VOTED TO CUT Medicaid, SNAP benefits, school meals, & housing assistance all in exchange for giving corporations & billionaires a tax cut all at the expense of the middle class.
@housegop.bsky.social JUST VOTED TO CUT Medicaid, SNAP benefits, school meals, & housing assistance all in exchange for giving corporations & billionaires a tax cut all at the expense of the middle class.
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The Trellick Tower, seen from Golborne Road. A 1972 brutalist classic by architect Erno Goldfinger. And yes, that’s where Ian Fleming got the name #london #photography #brutalist #architecture
February 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The Trellick Tower, seen from Golborne Road. A 1972 brutalist classic by architect Erno Goldfinger. And yes, that’s where Ian Fleming got the name #london #photography #brutalist #architecture
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I present to you the next deputy director of the FBI!
February 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I present to you the next deputy director of the FBI!
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Winter in the city ❄️ #london #photography
February 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Winter in the city ❄️ #london #photography
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I wrote 6 years ago about the intellectual history on the right of the view that black, Asian and mixed-race Brits – whether or not they were born here – are "foreigners", and its mainstreaming in contemporary conservativism.
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Scruton is part of an intellectual culture giving respectability to racism
Howls of outrage over philosopher Sir Roger Scruton's loss of a government job ignore the reality of his output.
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February 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I wrote 6 years ago about the intellectual history on the right of the view that black, Asian and mixed-race Brits – whether or not they were born here – are "foreigners", and its mainstreaming in contemporary conservativism.
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So Kemi Badenoch appeared on this podcast last week. And here they are arguing the toss over whether Rishi Sunak could possibly be English. We used to - rightly - judge Jeremy Corbyn by the company he keeps. We should do the same with Badenoch.
Fraser Nelson arguing that Rishi Sunak is English, while podcast host Konstantin Kisin responds incredulously.
[Kisin has previously described himself as a 'centrist', which is a bad joke.]
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[Kisin has previously described himself as a 'centrist', which is a bad joke.]
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Why Britain's on Benefits - Fraser Nelson
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February 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
So Kemi Badenoch appeared on this podcast last week. And here they are arguing the toss over whether Rishi Sunak could possibly be English. We used to - rightly - judge Jeremy Corbyn by the company he keeps. We should do the same with Badenoch.