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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 15h

In fairness, if the media won’t just accept their bags of chips and cash and shut up, it’s very hard to know what he can do.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 15h

That press conference shows the tragedy of Eric Adams. He had some real successes: City of Yes, trash containerization, crime reductions, etc. but couldn't stop tripping over all the bags of money he and his aides kept taking from people and now thinks it's the media's fault for reporting on it.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 16h

Blue Monday: Fats Domino 9/10
Blue Monday: New Order 10/10
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 19h

Fun music game.

Take two songs with the same name and post your combined score out of 10. How high can you get?

No covers/no triples (e.g. Power of Love)

My first effort, which i think is hard to beat...

Zombie (Fela Kuti) 10/10
Zombie (The Cranberries) 7/10

Total score: 17

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21h

Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year https://theonion.com/third-amendment-rights-group-celebrates-another-success-1819569379/

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 1d

I see @jamesrball.com is worried about looking like a weedy nerd. Well, I'm 55, last week completed a challenging 100-mile bike ride with lots of climbing and on Saturday was described by a stranger as looking "frail". So welcome to the club, James. Weedy nerds power the world.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

BREAKING: In what seems to be a deliberate snub of Trump, Nobel Peace Prize goes to the woman who was yelling, "Leave 'im, Dave, 'e ain't worf it!" in the Dog & Strangler car-park at 11:45 last night.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 1d

Milngavie

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 1d

Like probably most people of a centre-left inclination with ties to New York, I’ve been entranced by Zohran Mamdani’s remarkable rise. But this piece tells me an almost perfect point I didn’t know: he formed citywide friendships as a teenager through cricket:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power

The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?

www.newyorker.com

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 1d

Because I know Hungarian, I feel obliged to read him in the original, as I did with Imre Kertesz. But this sounds like it would be particularly forbidding.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 3d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 3d

“People who mix less and fewer”.

Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 3d

‘The 2025 Conservative Party Conference’

Shar A @sharal.bsky.social · 3d

“Give it some minge!” he exclaimed.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 3d

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 3d

Heavily Hindu seats in north-west London are now the Tories’ safest seats.
While I take on board @roberthutton.co.uk’s point, I think a lot of their voters there love their tendency to say disobliging things about Muslims.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 3d

I like your current sketching-with-a-purpose persona.

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Gavin Shuker @gavinshuker.bsky.social · 3d

I could write for a long time, and never produce an intro as good and, crucially, important, as @roberthutton.co.uk.

‘The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something.’

thecritic.co.uk/rob-whistle/

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting the...

thecritic.co.uk

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 3d

Being an older person in Portland really looks the way one might think.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

Shoutout to the Boomers, really showing everybody else up in 2025

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 3d

I think they've got "in the manner of Sir John Soane" and "cluttered" confused. They're not the same thing.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 4d

But I suspect she’s not looking at BlueSky anyway.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 4d

I see from this morning’s Politico Playbook that Robert Jenrick’s wife reads out comments about him to motivate him. So now I’m tempted to post that he seems like the kind of man whose wife would perpetually be wondering if she could have married better.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 4d

Great to see you’re back to commenting on issues related to animals, @alanbeattie.bsky.social

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 4d

I think it's striking that Conservative policy is currently that, when looking at this video, one should be on the side of the masked thugs: bsky.app/profile/cris...

Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 4d

They should take it out and replace it with a reference to " @twlldun.bsky.social's social media posts", really.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 4d

But I also automatically thought it related to Glasgow Rangers. And that made me, too, sad.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 5d

This video is one of the things I’ve seen in the last little while that’s given me most optimism about the future of the United States.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 5d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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