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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Aug 27

Depressingly prescient.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Aug 25

Europe is selling its soul to Trump on.ft.com/3JBTEGx | opinion

Europe is selling its soul to Trump

What masquerades as pragmatism is self-harming opportunism

on.ft.com

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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Jul 10

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows

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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Jul 10

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows

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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Jul 10

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows

www.nytimes.com

Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Jun 12

Great insights as ever from @oanalungescu.bsky.social on the threats (seen and unseen) from Russia and what needs to be done and crucially when! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Nato’s moment of truth

Podcast Episode · The Rachman Review · 12/06/2025 · 29m

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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Jun 10

Spot on -
Here’s What’s Happening in America, in Six (Mostly) Russian Terms www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

Opinion | Here’s What’s Happening in America, in Six (Mostly) Russian Terms

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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Apr 19

@nytimes.com I’ve been waiting over 4 hours now for you to call me back about the problem with my subscription. For nearly 10 yrs I’ve been a loyal subscriber but your payment system has now glitched and keeps rejecting my payment. If subscribing to independent journalism matters please fix this.

Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Apr 15

I knew this podcast was going to be great so I saved it up to listen to it all in one go on holidays.
It is an absolute must listen and well done to @suelinwong.bsky.social @samcolbert.bsky.social and the whole team 👏👏

Sue-Lin Wong @suelinwong.bsky.social · Feb 7

My year-long investigation into the multibillion dollar world of online scams is out today — on the cover of The Economist and in my new 8-part podcast series, Scam Inc

Read the article: bit.ly/scam-inc
Listen to the podcast: econ.st/3CFzGaL

The Economist @economist.com · Feb 6

Online scamming is a vast, sophisticated and fast-growing global enterprise that compares in size and scope to the illegal drug industry. Except that in many ways it is worse. As our investigation finds, nobody is safe from Scam Inc econ.st/4gvEhdm

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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Apr 2

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived.

Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Mar 12

Not enough power to share: The political feud behind Rodrigo Duterte's downfall from @pakhead.bsky.social
Hopefully there is some justice for the tens of thousands brutally murdered during his regime. ⬇️

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rodrigo Duterte's downfall marks dramatic end to Philippines power struggle

The ex-president is on his way to the International Criminal Court following his arrest in Manila.

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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · Feb 17

One Russian newspaper today sums up how Moscow views events of the last few days: “Dumbfounded Europe, kneed by America just below the belt, is still struggling to get its breath back.” #ReadingRussia

Steve's Reading Russia - Russian Press Review (17 February 2025)

YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg

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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Feb 15

Another great weekend essay from @financialtimes.com ⬇️

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Feb 15

Who will defend Europe?

https://www.ft.com/content/f268359a-7347-4285-b646-4353f7d6a865

Who will defend Europe?

Caught between an aggressive Russia and a disengaging America, the continent’s western democracies must now rearm — or pay the price

www.ft.com

Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Feb 8

A bleak weekend read⬇️

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Feb 8

The real threat to American prosperity

https://www.ft.com/content/4e3f1731-3d63-4b31-88ce-c3f5157d8170

The real threat to American prosperity

Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu on trade wars, tech industry hubris — and how loss of faith in US institutions could spiral

www.ft.com

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law @sabincenter.bsky.social · Jan 20

🎯🌱 The Climate Backtracker will capture actions taken from today onward by the second Trump presidency, to scale back or wholly eliminate federal climate mitigation and adaptation measures.
Explore the tracker ➡️https://buff.ly/3CgESSg

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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Dec 17

Intellectually I know this sort of hacking is happening but it still takes me aback when i hear about the scale of state actor activity in our data and comms podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

How China Hacked America’s Phone Network

Podcast Episode · The Daily · 12/12/2024 · 33m

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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Dec 14

Our lives are being determined and dictated by the obscene wealth of a bunch of self serving tech oligarchs. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/t...

Tech Industry and CEOs Curry Favor With Trump Ahead of His Inauguration

It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks and compliments for the President-elect.

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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Dec 11

The ripple effects of the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea - www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...

Houthi Attacks Continue to Disrupt Shipping Industry As Israel-Hamas War Rages On

The transport route around the southern tip of Africa was once little used — but freighters are now forced to take it and are charging higher rates.

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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Dec 9

Shaken by Assad's sudden fall, Syria faces seismic turning point

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · Nov 21

A reminder that we have prepared this starter pack with dozens of journalists, academics and media thinkers who are already on this platform. Some work at the Institute. Others are just people we read, learn from and admire

Follow them below
go.bsky.app/6r1SGfR

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Anita Anand @anitaanand.bsky.social · Nov 16

Oh - and if it’s not too much trouble, if you don’t mind Rt this so people can find me here, I’d be very grateful. Thank you

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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Nov 16

Bleak but true.
As Profs Anette Mikes & Steve New said re research “….lift our eyes from our cluttered but comforting academic desktops to a threatening horizon that should be the dominant frame of our daily activity as researchers and teachers.”

www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/oxford-answe...

Our Ministry for the Future – Reshaping capitalism to help solve the climate crisis

In 'The Ministry of the Future', by acclaimed sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson, our current history is depicted as a choice between utopia or catastrophe. Inspired by this 'cli-fi' (climate fiction)...

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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Nov 16

What the all-seeing eye scanning our earth sees / “It sees a species dominated by Lords of the Desert: people prepared to destroy everything as long as they can command the ruins.”

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Nov 15

Here's my column this week, about the astonishing moment in which we find ourselves: facing the greatest predicament humankind has ever confronted, and doing sweet FA about it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29 | George Monbiot

What would it witness in Azerbaijan? A species that knows it is destroying itself but is too greedy to change course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Nov 15

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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · Nov 15

Global climate summit veterans pen open letter in the middle of COP29 with the blunt message of 'This isn't working.'

Signatories include Christiana Figueres, Ban Ki-moon, Maria Robinson and numerous climate scientists and diplomats.

www.axios.com/2024/11/15/c...

Climate summit veterans call for urgent reform amid COP29

The turbulent talks in Baku have underscored problems with the process, signatories say.

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Anna Williams @annajsays.bsky.social · Nov 14

Super helpful! Thanks

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