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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 10h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11h

The ease with which officials lie in 2025 is honestly terrifying

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BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 1d

When an Oath Keeper leaked the 2009 DHS memo about militias recruiting members of the military, the entire right-wing went ballistic about “presidential tyranny” and “political prosecution” and “patriotic dissent” and “domestic extremism” and “government overreach.”

just saying

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11h

It’s this multiple times a day

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 11h

Interesting piece. Reform currently control Staffordshire CC and the company HQ is at Rocester with major facilities at nearby Uttoxeter. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uk/...

The right’s love affair with JCB

The British firm has acquired an obsessive fanbase and influential political allies in the UK. But in India and the West Bank, its big yellow diggers ...

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12h

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 1d

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 12h

The coming market crash will be a heck of an opportunity for businesses and investors who survive through more cost/energy efficient models

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 13h

If going out for half healthy food becomes ever more unaffordable then the demand will still be there even if current PE financing models crater

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13h

A man born in Pretoria, 1971, left for Canada in 1989, might want to wind his neck in (though apartheid South Africa was not necessarily too traumatic place for those who could benefit from apartheid if could manage to resist being too troubled by the racist principles of the state and society)

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 13h

So much of the angst over structural changes to economic behaviour gets distracted by symptoms without really engaging with the central cause

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 13h

Once you take your kids somewhere travel costs, requests for another round of orders from the menu, stopping elsewhere all starts to accumulate further. At home it is the one order and that is it

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 13h

One of the advantages of living around North Derbyshire and South Yorkshire is that is occasionally possible to take 3 kids out for meals that don't destroy your wallet

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 13h

As long as costs spiral upwards to the extent that eating out becomes unaffordable for a family in London then this kind of delivery-based food economy can become the only option for parents when they don't have the time or energy to cook every day

David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 18h

Reading @londoncentric.media and reflecting on how everything wrong with Britain can be seen through Deliveroo:
- much of the economy is fraudulent
- people don’t go outside
- workers are underpaid and insecure
- the immigration system is broken
- society is being eroded by Big Tech

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 13h

It’s not just the Jewish suitcase at the back of the hall. It’s the Muslim suitcase, the Hindu suitcase, the Sikh suitcase all sitting at the back of the hall, with many asking why they should stay in a country where both the left & right are immersed in racism & xenophobia.

The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 13h

It is extraordinary to report that, in 2025, the Jewish suitcase is back in the hall, waiting for the moment of sudden flight. I feel nothing but shame

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The Jewish suitcase is back in the hall

After Manchester, many British Jews are asking why they should remain in a country where they feel despised

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Oisin @oisindubai.bsky.social · 16h

Its the assets that are piling up debt. Like Neom. PIF is a cross between ADIA and ADQ or the old Mubadala. A SWF that's also a national development vehicle. Less risky to not have those under the same management

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Jose Garcia @joseggarcia.bsky.social · 16h

Novartis is laying off thousands in the US and expanding their European workforce. Part of a larger trend in the life sciences.

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Clément Plaisant @cplaisant.bsky.social · 20h

After Ekrem İmamoğlu and Özgür Özel, is Mansur Yavaş the Turkish government's next target? The Palace appears to be stepping up its operations against the CHP-run municipality of Ankara, which has already been the subject of judicial investigations for some time.
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Turkish Prosecutors Plan Misconduct Probe of Ankara Mayor Yavas

Turkish prosecutors have requested official permission from the country’s interior ministry to investigate Ankara’s mayor, a move likely to further heighten political tensions.

www.bloomberg.com

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 16h

UAE maybe. The costs the Saudi government faces in domestic politics is another matter

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 16h

If this is happening at the Centre for Disease Control and military troops are going to foodbanks, imagine the condition US government agencies are in that are tasked with managing financial market risks

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 17h

Which also raises questions about the financing structures underpinning sports clubs and player transfers

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 17h

Underwriting standards have collapsed

Folks holding the bag this time going to include lots of ME sovereign wealth money

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 17h

13/ "That is, on the one hand, a person can't understand for themselves how far they need to fight to win, and they can't even plan their own path, because they no longer belong to themselves "until the end of the SMO," and when it will end is still unclear.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 17h

12/ "The lack of a "finish line" has a detrimental effect on initiative, motivation, and planning. Added to this is the open-ended contract until the end of the Special Military Operation.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 17h

1/ The question of why Russians aren't flocking to fight in the war in Ukraine is continuing to exercise Russian warbloggers. 'LIVE Z' highlights the devastating effect that indefinite military service is having on family life, which he says is a "defining issue". ⬇️

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