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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20h

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1h

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

No clearer indication of the right’s moral rot than the swift evolution from angrily denying any association with buffoonish bigots like like Posobiec and Fuentes, to “there’s no harm in having a conversation,” to openly praising and promoting them.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

Not the least surprised by this. I’d hope it might finally wake up some mainstream libertarians to what Smith is really about. But it probably won’t.

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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 1h

Latest Brussels scandal just dropped

Commission to probe reports that Orbán’s spies targeted EU officials in Brussels www.politico.eu/article/orba...

Commission to probe reports that Orbán’s spies targeted EU officials in Brussels

Hungary’s current European Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi was in charge of the country’s embassy at the time of the allegations.

www.politico.eu

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 5h

Huge support to the inflatable frog costume person in Portland for both embarrassing the regime and reclaiming frog imagery from the internet right.

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 6h

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 55m

David Nobbs did however namecheck László Krasznahorkai as one of his. Obvious once you think about it.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12h

Remember that "Pam: I have reviewed ..." TruthSocial post from Trump, the one that looked a lot like a private message?

Yes, it was supposed to be a private message.

Trump "was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 1h

I do adore the US conviction that there's a standard form of English into which any name can be accurately transcribed, as long as you shout one syllable.

Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 1h

Cras now hoar kai

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cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 1h

Probably because he has - just another one of his many jobs for Trump

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2h

Reading Tony Benn’s diaries. Good stuff. In 1976 Benn asks Harold Wilson figuratively “What should we do if you’re run over by a bus?” and Wilson replies “Find out who was driving the bus”

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cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 2h

I vote for you to become the permanent co-host (schedule permitting)

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3h

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 2h

I am Baba Yaga. Come for tea in my lovely house that runs around the forest on chicken legs. it will be fun and great cheese scones.

Erin Garey Art & Illustration @eringareyart.bsky.social · 2d

Spooky folklore of the day
Baba Yaga
#babayaga #darkart #art #illustration #folklore

A spooky woman in black with green graded forehead and hands over her face
Ravens perch on her shoulders and her house on bird feet stands in the background

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 14h

Just a reminder that Jack published a book last year called “unhumans” that makes the argument that all Democrats and anyone left of Francisco Franco should be rounded up and murdered en mass for the rest of the populations entertainment.
Jack is a Nazi and hell bent on the murder of his opponents

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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AladdinNoons @aladdinnoons.bsky.social · 3h

Yes another one

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3h

Reform UK’s Councillor Rowland O’Connor, St. Columb Major, has resigned from the party.

A conspiracy theorist who claimed 17m people have died from the COVID vaccine, among many other claims.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3h

I couldn't find stories in other outlets about,
1) POTUS is clearly OUT OF HIS MIND & as he was babbling WH announced a "yearly" physical tomorrow 6 mos after last one
2) FUCKING PIZZAGUY WAS TREATED AS AN EXPERT
3) Trump, whose Wormtongue is talking suspending habeas corpus, though it was a person

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cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 14h

I did the same last week - £95 but if I miss a teaching session I don't get paid and so many students are getting Covid I can't take the risk.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15h

Trump seeking to invoke the Insurrection Act now sounds more a question of when, rather than if

Alex Koppelman @alexkoppelman.bsky.social · 17h

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h

Posobiec isn't a nazi in some generic rhetorical sense of having fascistic impulses or simply being far-right. He is a full-blown Hitler-loving Jew-hating mask-off literal capital-N Nazi, with a longstanding public record to match.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 15h

Emma Barnett devoted more than 10 minutes to interviewing him this morning on BBCR4 - he went on and on and on saying how humble he was, and how people were always coming up to him in the street to say he had changed their lives 🤷

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@DesignOneThing @designonething.bsky.social · 20h

Happy birthday Faith Ringgold. The painter, fiber artist, sculptor, social activist & educator, famous for her narrative quilts (which echo graphic design & illustration technique), was born today in 1930.
#fiberarts

faithringgold.com

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about Robert Jenrick's embrace of blood and soil nationalism for @bylinetimes.bsky.social

"The British right is adopting an increasingly extreme form of ethnic identity politics, while failing to explain what the rest of us are supposed to be worried about"

bylinetimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

But what about “ethnic change”? Yes, the proportion of Islington’s population who are (like me) white British has dropped from perhaps 85% to about 40%. This change is indeed visible. For West, it is “far beyond what any group would find tolerable.” What he doesn’t and can’t say is why exactly I’m supposed to find it intolerable. Why should I, or my neighbours, be more concerned about what race or ethnicity the kids are at the local school than the quality or financing of local services, or whether the council is successfully balancing the need for more housing with the interests of long-standing residents?

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cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 21h

Wondering if Tories heard that Reeves was thinking about abolishing Stamp Duty in the Budget, Badenoch announces it at the conference as their own policy, then will later claim Labour *stole* their policy

cabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 21h

Not sure I'd want to put it on my head after it had been in the elephant's mouth, but it's a lovely example of the playfulness and sense of humour that many animals display

Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 2d

The elephant pretends to eat this guy's hat.