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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · Aug 16

Trump’s Self-Own Summit with Putin

My column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Donald Trump’s Self-Own Summit with Vladimir Putin

Even the puffery-prone President couldn’t alchemize his non-deal with Russia into Trumpian gold.

www.newyorker.com

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · May 27

Interesting polling from YouGov on who’d make the best PM.

Farage loses to every other major party leader including Davey.

▪️Starmer beats Farage by 44% to 29%
▪️Starmer’s lead over Kemi Badenoch as best Prime Minster is 36% to 25%
▪️Britons prefer Badenoch as Prime Minister to Farage by 29% to 25%

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · May 12

Endless references in media coverage today to the rapid increases in net migration in recent years and often too little explanation as to why: (i) keeping UK HE/social care afloat and (ii) an attempt to deal with post Covid labour shortages/supply chain inflation.

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Neil @pitonman.bsky.social · May 12

Beginning to think that myself

Neil @pitonman.bsky.social · May 12

Wow Rachael Blackmore quits riding!

Neil @pitonman.bsky.social · May 8

I’m sympathetic to some policies the Green Party have but it’s this kind of batshittery that holds them back.

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · Apr 30

47 years ago today

The Clash: Rock Against Racism London 1978

#punkrock #theclash #fightracism #fucknazis #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Apr 28

Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

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Neil @pitonman.bsky.social · Apr 29

Money buys you success. Shock horror!

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Neil @pitonman.bsky.social · Apr 21

Haha they’ve been sent off while Irish anthem was being played 🤣

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · Apr 18

The cruelty is the point. The banal, vicious, performative cruelty. Turns out ‘anti-woke’ just meant anti-decency, anti-humanity & anti-rule of law.

The White House Twitter account’s dishonest & hideous doctoring of a New York Times front page describing Senator Chris Van Hollen’s meeting with a wrongly deported man with no criminal record.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Apr 12

This will appear in a few future history books as the perfect metaphor for current events....

Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · Apr 12

now *this* is the anecdote of the day

While many Chinese businesses are reeling from the trade war, Qi, the Maga merchandise maker, brushed off any suggestion his might suffer.
Trump supporters, he said, were willing to pay any price for items bearing the image of their beloved president - and US suppliers were making such a huge profit on them that they could afford to partially absorb the tariff impact.
A Trump baseball cap, for instance, cost only Rmb7.50 ($1) to produce. Tariffs might raise that cost to Rmb2o, but the caps were being sold for $50 in the US.
"American sellers could even use the tariffs as an excuse to raise the price to $60 - yet the extra cost will still be borne by the US consumers,
" said Qi.

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Neil @pitonman.bsky.social · Apr 9

This is a distract the beast news conference from the orange buffoon

Neil @pitonman.bsky.social · Apr 9

I see Trump has been caught by reality

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Apr 9

Trump tells his followers to buy stock in the morning, minutes after the market opens, then announces he is pausing tariffs 4 hours later.

Nothing to see here.

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Neil @pitonman.bsky.social · Apr 6

@thetwomatts.bsky.social you completely missed Bob Dylan!

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Neil @pitonman.bsky.social · Apr 4

Tripoli Flyer as per normal can’t jump

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Neil @pitonman.bsky.social · Apr 3

Ed Chamberlain “Huw Edward’s will be making headlines with that ride” 🫣😬

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · Mar 30

He believes absolutely that tariffs are The Answer, as if they were passed down by God himself. It's his one big idea and now that he's escaped all accountability for everything and he's descending into dementia like his father, there is no talking him out of it. Or anything.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Mar 30

It feels like Trump has been willing to inflict pain and anger so many people because he truly believes that his tariffs will usher in some golden age that will make everyone forgive him, so when that turns out *not* to be the case, it's going to get very weird, very fast, as he tries to adjust.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · Mar 18

The British public have clearly got a sense that *someone* undeserving has taken all the money, which is true, a class of people have, but it's truly a sign of painfully evil the British spirit is that so many are convinced it's the disabled and people on benefits who have made off with it.

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Neil @pitonman.bsky.social · Mar 19

No love lost between Nadia Whitome and Camilla Tominey eh?!

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · Feb 28

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

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Neil @pitonman.bsky.social · Feb 28

Have Jeremy Bowen and Bill Bailey ever been seen in the same room?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Feb 28

Where is Starmer's statement of support for Zelenskyy. No excuses. No equivocation.

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · Feb 28

Do you think Trump and Vance would have spoken to Putin like this? We all know they wouldn't dare.

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