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Emeritus Prof, Hull. Writing Collingwood bio / Philosophical Idealism, Environmental politics & ethics, Elections/electoral systems / /[email protected] / https://hull.academia.edu/JamesConnelly / https://www.minstersrail.com .. more

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James Connelly @jamescon.bsky.social · 9h
The world's real problem is not Trump Derangement Syndrome, but Trump Dementing Syndrome. Pass it on.

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 9h
Elon Musk is casting Asian immigrants as orcs and calling for "hard men" to fight them. This isn't edgy posting—it's textbook fascism with a Lord of the Rings filter.

@polphilpod.bsky.social
Even by a Strict Definition, Elon Musk Is a Fascist
He is weaponizing Tolkien to promote violence by ‘hard men’ against Asian immigrants
www.theunpopulist.net

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 15h
“A Hobbesian world without constraining rules may seem more terrifying than a world of rules constantly broken by those who can get away with it. We should settle for neither.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Donald Trump has laid bare the myth of the west’s rules-b...
The president’s crude ‘might is right’ language has broken the code of hypocrisy that allowed old habits of empire to continue
observer.co.uk

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 15h
BREAKING: Staggering scenes as brave Iranians stand up to their illegitimate government in Tehran... um, hang on, I'm being told this is actually Minneapolis. Forget I said anything...

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 15h
Can the BBC please circulate this memo asap, word for word:

When populists talk about preserving culture, they mean race. They are talking about preserving white skin and "whiteness" as they define it. Stop being dumb.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 15h
Kemi Badenoch calling Greenland a "second order issue" while Labour leaders hide from it is another datapoint for how UK political elites are intellectually and psychologically able to cope with an imploding global order that no longer matches the world they grew up in during the 90s and 00s

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Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social · 16h
I am here and trying to use Bluesky more! There are certainly far more Simpsons memes than on the other place. Do please add me to the relevant lists/starter packs etc
a cartoon character says hi everybody on a blue background
ALT: a cartoon character says hi everybody on a blue background
media.tenor.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17h
Janet Daley is a splendidly perfect summary of the psychosis on the right of politics, vaccilating from endorsement to condemnation, seesawing from hope to cope.

And she is doing all this, while continuing to inflate the very same authoritarian blimps, over here in the UK.
Janet Daley Trump is now unstoppable – and he’s ready to change the world His speech spoke of the need to unite the country. Whether he fulfils this promise or not, the fact of his election must be respected Janet Daley Janet Daley 06 November 2024 8:34am GMT Janet Daley Britain and Europe are too far gone – the Trump solution won’t work here The US president is attempting to reverse 40 years of occidental cringe by diktat. Wokery is too entrenched on this side of the Atlantic Janet Daley Janet Daley 25 January 2025 1:00pm GMT Janet Daley The true Trump has revealed himself: he is a wannabe autocrat The tariff shenanigans have put on display the President’s unmatched vanity and rampant disregard of American norms Janet Daley Janet Daley 12 April 2025 12:12pm BST Janet Daley Trump will not destroy the rules-based world order…and my other prediction for 2026 It takes more than bombastic rhetoric to fundamentally change the American Constitution and international treaties Janet Daley Janet Daley 10 January 2026 11:02am GMT

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 17h
Polls show voters are against closer ties with the US. They show opposition to quitting the ECHR, abandoning net zero and deporting people with the legal right to live in the UK. Yet parties in favour of all these things - and who will torpedo closer ties with the EU - are on track to win GE 2029.

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Kassandra @kasst.bsky.social · 17h
The Nazis had a name for that,The Lebensborn ("Fount of Life")program was a state-supported,SS-managed initiative in Nazi Germany designed to increase the number of "racially valuable" children,in accordance with Nazi eugenics & racial ideology.It was founded by Heinrich Himmler on December 12,1935

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 18h
this piece ... was really good

newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1d
Lib Dems urge MPs who are being paid to post on X to give the money to charity, after that site is flooded with Grok-generated sexualised images of children.

@victoria-collins.bsky.social said Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe and other MPs being paid by the Musk-owned site are receiving “tainted money”.
Lib Dems call on Reform MPs to donate income from X to charity amid Grok row
Exclusive: Party says Nigel Farage and colleagues receiving ‘tainted money’ for their posts on Elon Musk’s platform
www.theguardian.com

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annec72.bsky.social @annec72.bsky.social · 1d
Sadly, I would say MOST people don't get the serious nature of 2 degrees global warming.

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MS NOW @ms.now · 1d
BREAKING: Minnesota Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison denied access to Minneapolis ICE facility

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 1d
I think Petroc Trelawney is the finest broadcaster on the BBC ... Loving his Philadelphia programme... @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social

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James Connelly @jamescon.bsky.social · 1d
For Collingwood (The New Leviathan), the ideal of civility is the elimination of force in human relations. Barbarism is a revolt against this ideal: “By barbarism I mean hostility towards civilization; the effort, conscious or unconscious, to become less civilized than you are.” Hello Donald Trump

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 1d
The BBC is doing it again. On both the Radio 3 & Radio 6 news it reported Vance's story about that video of Renee Good's murder and denials of it, without telling us the facts. It should have the same approach to weather forecasting: "some say it'll rain, some say it won't. Who can tell, eh?"

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 1d
“When Brexit passed, the economic impact was initially minimal. But a decade later, the UK is estimated to have lost 6 to 8 per cent of GDP relative to its pre-Brexit trajectory. Structural damage reveals itself slowly, and always too late to be reversed.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Don’t be fooled — everything has changed for the global economy
Damage caused by US tariffs has so far been muted but that won’t last
giftarticle.ft.com

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 2d
Ghana has repealed LI 2462, a law that allowed mining in forest reserves, including globally important biodiversity areas.

Passed by Parliament in December, the move is a major win for forest protection — though experts warn deeper forestry reforms are still needed.
Ghana repeals legislation that opened forest reserves to mining
After facing sustained pushback from environmental groups, Ghana revoked a 2022 law that had empowered the president to allow mining in the country’s forest reserves. In December, the Minister for…
news.mongabay.com

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James Connelly @jamescon.bsky.social · 2d
Plymouth Rock is weeping.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d
Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d
ICE is claiming that the officer feared that Renee Good was about to seriously injure or kill him at this moment.

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 2d
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org

religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."

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ClientEarth @clientearth.bsky.social · 2d
Rising ocean temperature is making extreme weather more dangerous around the world.

The ocean absorbs more than 90% of global heating and this trapped heat is intensifying hurricanes, typhoons and flooding.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Profound impacts’: record ocean heat is intensifying climate disasters, data shows
Oceans absorb 90% of global heating, making them a stark indicator of the relentless march of the climate crisis
www.theguardian.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d
Farage's shifting answers about his racist bullying as a teenager at school (Guardian timeline)
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage’s shifting answers on school-days racism claims – a timeline
Reform UK leader’s responses to allegations of racist and antisemitic behaviour at Dulwich college have varied over time
www.theguardian.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 7d
I think FIFA must rescind Donald Trump’s FIFA inaugural peace prize or I think the reputation of the FIFA peace prize could be severely compromised and it will be seen as just a sycophantic bauble - poor FIFA

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Philip Ardagh @philipardagh.bsky.social · 8d
A quick reminder:

1. Venezuela has the LARGEST PROVEN OIL RESERVES IN THE WORLD.

2. Donald Trump is still a CONVICTED FELON and still appears in THE EPSTEIN FILES.

Thank you.