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Flowers lie on a snow-covered concrete stele of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Berlin, Germany, January 27, 2026. 📸 Annegret Hilse
January 27, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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‘Perhaps it’s time for all of us to face up to what the victims of empire and colonisation have known all along: for generations, humanity’s hopes for a better future have been built on a gross distortion of history.’

David Wengrow on ‘rules-based’ order, from the blog
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
David Wengrow | Against the Grotian Tradition
The World Economic Forum in Davos is ending with talk of a rupture in world affairs, a collapse of international law, a...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Screenshot of text: Instead, what they discovered in the frozen North was something different: a real resistance, broad and organized and overwhelmingly nonviolent, the kind of movement that emerges only under sustained attacks by an oppressive state, Tens of thousands of volunteers —at the very least-are risking their safety to defend their neighbors and their freedom. They aren't looking for attention or likes on social media. Unless they are killed by federal agents, as Pretti and Renee Good were, other activists do not even necessarily know their names. Many use a handle or code name out of fear of government retaliation. Their concerns are justified: A number of people working as volunteers or observers told me that they had been trailed home by ICE agents, and some of their communications have already been infiltrated, screenshotted, and posted online, forcing them to use new text chains and code names. One urgent question among observers, as the videos of Pretti's killing spread, was what his handle might have been. Screenshot of text: If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it "neighborism" — a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn't be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that "it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, 'I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don't want to live next to four families of strangers.'" Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America. Screenshot of text: The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive-because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force. Screenshot of text: No matter how many more armed men Trump sends to impose his will on the people of Minnesota, all he can do is accentuate their valor. No application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors. These agents, and the president who sent hem, are no one's heroes, no one's saviors—just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back
January 27, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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lrb.co.uk
‘Tens of thousands of lives hang on trending patterns and the small print of crowdfunding platforms that are increasingly blocking the transfer of funds to Palestinian territories.’

New on the blog: @selmadabbagh on the situation on the ground in Gaza.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Selma Dabbagh | They call it peace
The destruction of Palestinian lives is now a base line in a holding pattern. The ferocious white heat of the past two...
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January 23, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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fortydeucetwits.bsky.social Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 9h
Oop. Coco just demolished a racquet backstage.

I really hate that those cameras are there.
January 27, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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Obviously Bompastor felt differently about her to Emma Hayes, but her team shape felt like it really needed Maika Hamano at the 10 instead of Guro Reiten. Hamano is usually v disciplined out of possession.
tim-stillman.bsky.social Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ @tim-stillman.bsky.social · 1d
With graphics from @matterofarsenal.bsky.social how Arsenal used central overloads to overwhelm Chelsea

🔴Mead or Fox drifting in field to create a box shape
⚪️Cuthbert and Kaptein consistently outnumbered
🔴Also meant Arsenal could win the ball back quickly and cut off long balls 👇🏻
January 26, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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Reform’s newest MP backs scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance, saying that the healthcare system needs to be more “efficient”

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Reform MP Backs Privatising the NHS to Make It More 'Efficient'
Andrew Rosindell, who defected last week from the Conservatives, says he "would not object" to replacing free healthcare with a private insurance system
www.adambienkov.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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None of what is happening in #Minneapolis is new - the playbook, the excuses, the slandering of the dead victims has all been done before.
tupped.bsky.social Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 2d
If you were wondering where the US regime found their internal oppression & lies blueprint, take a read of the Statement from the U.K. Govt after the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry.
January 25, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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I'm glad to share that my post-op appointment went well. I'll be cleared for exercise in about 3 weeks. In just enough time to pack and get ready to move. I'm touring apartments beginning next week. I'd like to clear another $2000 by 2/15. Can you help me to keep going? gofund.me/2c3e2358a
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January 21, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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"The destruction the bombs failed to cause, the long aftermath often completes. "

A new piece by Abdullah Hany Daher, a Palestinian writer from Gaza
jewishcurrents.org/after-the-rain
After the Rain
In Gaza, rain once meant renewal. Now it is only a reminder of the slow violence we are living under.
jewishcurrents.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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I wrote about Bari Weiss, Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil (RIP), and CBS News
The Five Farcical Principles of the ‘CBS Evening News’
Tony Dokoupil and Bari Weiss’s new broadcast has been one debacle after another. Let's try to make sense of it all, with or without whiskey.
www.theringer.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Wrote about the state of play for football, getting data, and getting insight, in the aftermath of the FBref news

www.getgoalsideanalytics.com/square-one/
Square one
Some thoughts on where to start if you're interested in football stats with a bit of an analytics mindset. And links, of course.
www.getgoalsideanalytics.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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And has raised the level her peers can earn in the process. You want to afford or renew a top level player now...
January 22, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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Among South London's best 😊✊🏽

Still commemorated on the wall of PeckhamPlex by the entrance.
January 22, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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Such a slept on aspect of his skillset. While "crowd pleasing" isn't my personal fave brand of movie, it's still a hugely tough thing to do, and the fact he can combine that w/films of real depth is wild.

Creed's the perfect example. That should never have worked, but Ryan somehow managed it.
sorayanadiamcdonald.com Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 5d
Have folks started recognizing Coogler as Spielberg's millennial successor yet? Because that's the space he fills, to me.

Well-crafted, beloved, quality, big-audience studio pictures. Run him his propers!
January 22, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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Get the rocket built. Spare no expense
fintwitter.bsky.social FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 5d
MUSK: I WANNA DIE ON MARS, BUT NOT ON IMPACT
January 22, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Bought a ticket to see Dara Ó Briain down in Crawley (his London shows were all sold out) on the 4th of next month, but I'm already feeling a bit iffy about going so have slung it up for resale, if it's of interest to anyone in the area secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/350060FA9...
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January 22, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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Screenshot of text: English football likes to brand itself as "fast", "intense", and even "physical". There is some truth to that, but if we're being honest, it's not really a cohesive identity anymore. If you watch the Bundesliga, La Liga or Serie A, you can see plenty of distinctly German, Spanish or Italian football. Those leagues are dominated by managers native to said countries, who share a certain tactical identity that has been shaped by a national "way of playing". The same can't be said in England. Most managers are hired from abroad, and even the few domestic coaches aren't particularly wed to a philosophy. Other than nationality, there is nothing particularly linking the way Sean Dyche, Eddie Howe and Scott Parker play football. It's a mish-mash. The Premier League's strength has been exactly that. It has outperformed other leagues by importing the best talent and being open to all sorts of different ideas. As strange as it sounds, this isn't as new as you might think. Screenshot of text: I don't want to suggest that Spanish football is exciting and technical while English football is physical and boring, because I don't think that's true. "Positional play" is essentially a Dutch idea reinterpreted as part of a Catalan natonalist project. It's not really that "Spanish". Spain has more than its fair share of reactive managers, focusing more on countering the opposition than developing their own game. Unai Emery is probably the best practitioner of this style right now. I've always felt that the typical Spanish manager is less like Guardiola and more like Rata Benitez. Screenshot of text: Arteta might be the ultimate product of the Premier League. He's a Basque-born former player who learned a mix of Scottish and Catalan ideas about football while in England. It could only happen here. Arteta is the result of a footballing culture more cosmopolitan than elsewhere. English football has been in an identity crisis for a long time now, ever since pundits on TV started complaining about the number of foreign players and managers. But what if this is who we are now? What if Arteta, an immigrant long settled in the country, best represents what the Premier League is about?
January 22, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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Ask Ben Shelton and Tommy Paul what you asked Coco about the Trump regime. I dare you!
January 22, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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gregk.co.uk
Massive hats off to everyone who dedicated their energy in the months after October 7th to attacking the UNRWA, discrediting the UN, and dismissing, sanctioning, intimidating the ICJ and ICC. Amazing work.
Politics POLITICS • 6 MIN READ Trump says Board of Peace established to oversee reconstruction of Gaza 'might' replace the United Nations 11 HR AGO By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood
January 21, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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The Daily Tarheel 🔥

www.dailytarheel.com/article/5671...
Column: When this is over, we will need another Nuremberg
"Regardless, we need to establish a few fundamental values: no grace for fascism, no tolerance for state terror and no illusions that compromise will beget accountability."
www.dailytarheel.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:36 PM
tokenbg.bsky.social
So, this trophy is basically like John Cena's first WWE title belt?
January 20, 2026 at 3:18 PM
tokenbg.bsky.social
And also because of transphobia?
jessothomson.co.uk Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 7d
Oh are we doing that whole bit again where we pretend Brianna Ghey died because of social media rather than because of the people who stabbed her 28 times.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d
Mother of murdered Brianna Ghey urges Starmer to ban social media for under-16s
January 20, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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Screenshot of text: Through detailed explanations of the role that slavery played in every region of early America, you learn that Delaware passed a law prohibiting free Black people from moving to the state. You learn that in 1730, almost half of all white residents of New York personally owned an enslaved person. You learn that by the mid-18th century, enslaved people made up 70 percent of Charleston's population. Screenshot of text: Less than a mile away from the Legacy Museum is the First White House of the Confederacy, where Jefferson Davis and his family livedin the breakaway nation's earliest days. This White House receives substantial funding from the state of Alabama, and its mission is codified in Alabama state law: "the preservation of Confederate relics and as a reminder for all time of how pure and great were southern statesmen and southern valor." In 2023, the Associated Press reported that people who visited the museum, including thousands of Alabama schoolchildren, were taught that President Davis had led a "heroic resistance" in the "war for southern independence" and was "held by his Negroes in genuine affection as well as highest esteem." Screenshot of text: I asked Stevenson if he thought the United States should have a public, national museum, in addition to the Smithsonian's NMAAHC, dedicated specifically to slavery, or if it was better to have privately funded institutions like the Legacy Museum focus on that history. He paused and considered the question. 'I'm not sure we're ready for a state-sanctioned truth telling about the history of slavery, " he said. "We can have a state-sanctioned space, but I don't know why we would expect it to be a truth-telling space." He pointed his finger down on the table. "Because the reality is we're not yet at the point where, some would say, it's in the state's interest to be truthful about this history, so it would take a lot to get that truth to come through." Screenshot of text: Touring the Legacy Museum that afternoon, I'd seen a Black family with three children standing in a long hallway that outlined the chronology of Black life in America. The two older siblings ambled from one photo and caption to the next, while the youngest, a boy of about 7 years old, stood with his parents and read the captions out loud as his mother helped him through the words he couldn't pronounce. They came to an image of a young white boy, about the same age as the Black boy, standing beneath the dangling feet of a Black man who had been lynched from a tree. The man's face was cropped out of the photograph. The boy in the museum locked eyes with the boy in the image. I heard his parents tell him that sometimes children attended lynchings as well. The father stroked the top of his son's head, and they walked on.
January 20, 2026 at 12:29 PM