Leigh
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
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September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.
April 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.
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Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
April 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
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"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..."
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How to Save a Democracy
Americans can learn from opponents of authoritarianism elsewhere.
www.foreignaffairs.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..."
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a NEW peptide antibiotic that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria INCLUDING those RESISTANT to existing antibiotics. This discovery marks the first potential new class of antibiotics in NEARLY 30 YEARS. 🧪🧵⬇️
March 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a NEW peptide antibiotic that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria INCLUDING those RESISTANT to existing antibiotics. This discovery marks the first potential new class of antibiotics in NEARLY 30 YEARS. 🧪🧵⬇️
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We are not talking enough about the epidemic of #Indigenous deaths during police interactions. From Aug. 30 to Dec. 14, 2024, 15 Indigenous people died, either in police custody or in police interactions. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com #policing #racism
Opinion: We are not talking enough about the epidemic of Indigenous deaths during police interactions
To truly stand together as a country, Canadians need to respond to the call for change from Indigenous peoples about our justice system
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
We are not talking enough about the epidemic of #Indigenous deaths during police interactions. From Aug. 30 to Dec. 14, 2024, 15 Indigenous people died, either in police custody or in police interactions. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com #policing #racism
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Curious that all the places Trump wants to annex would be geographically convenient for a Russian partner in annexation.
March 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Curious that all the places Trump wants to annex would be geographically convenient for a Russian partner in annexation.
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"Antisemitism in the Oval Office: A confrontation seen with a historian's eye"
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Antisemitism in the Oval Office
A confrontation seen with a historian's eye
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March 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"Antisemitism in the Oval Office: A confrontation seen with a historian's eye"
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Gift link to the whole thing: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
March 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Gift link to the whole thing: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.
February 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.
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Well, I was going to write today about Trump throwing our allies and democratic values under the bus for Putin...then GOP said they'll cut Medicaid, so I wanted to write about that...now Trump is coming out and saying he's King after quoting Napoleon a few days ago...
February 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Well, I was going to write today about Trump throwing our allies and democratic values under the bus for Putin...then GOP said they'll cut Medicaid, so I wanted to write about that...now Trump is coming out and saying he's King after quoting Napoleon a few days ago...
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"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible"
The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today.
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The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today.
snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...
Appeasement at Munich
World Wars, Past and Possible
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February 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible"
The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today.
snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...
The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today.
snyder.substack.com/p/appeasemen...
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These are research grants awarded through evaluation of their merits by scientific peers, in which the investigators are carrying out important, ground-breaking work. They're being targeted because, as required by NSF guidelines, they include some investment in benefits for the broader community.
Ted Cruz released a spreadsheet of NSF grants found to be "questionable projects that promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda."
There are more planetary sci grants here then I expected. Are you here?
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
There are more planetary sci grants here then I expected. Are you here?
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database
www.commerce.senate.gov
February 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
These are research grants awarded through evaluation of their merits by scientific peers, in which the investigators are carrying out important, ground-breaking work. They're being targeted because, as required by NSF guidelines, they include some investment in benefits for the broader community.
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Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
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Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
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February 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
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Let me emphasize: Elon Musk has not been confirmed by Congress. His “department” was never actually enacted. No one other than Trump has given him any authority.
Democrats and any Republicans with a spine need to step in and stop this madness.
Call your rep now (202) 224-3121
Democrats and any Republicans with a spine need to step in and stop this madness.
Call your rep now (202) 224-3121
February 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Let me emphasize: Elon Musk has not been confirmed by Congress. His “department” was never actually enacted. No one other than Trump has given him any authority.
Democrats and any Republicans with a spine need to step in and stop this madness.
Call your rep now (202) 224-3121
Democrats and any Republicans with a spine need to step in and stop this madness.
Call your rep now (202) 224-3121
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You say: they shutdown USAID.
You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
February 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
You say: they shutdown USAID.
You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
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February 2, 2025
February 2, 2025
Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually a...
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February 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
February 2, 2025
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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
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The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
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February 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
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The corporate coup is global.
Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it.
They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule.
They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth.
Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it.
They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule.
They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth.
February 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The corporate coup is global.
Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it.
They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule.
They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth.
Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it.
They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule.
They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth.
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Conflicted about the US-Canada fight. I'm registered with a Canadian First Nation, and enrolled in a US tribe. Our culture straddles the border. So, fully boycotting the US isn't an option. These countries are both foreign impositions on us. Both have harmed us. But obviously one is worse. 1
February 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Conflicted about the US-Canada fight. I'm registered with a Canadian First Nation, and enrolled in a US tribe. Our culture straddles the border. So, fully boycotting the US isn't an option. These countries are both foreign impositions on us. Both have harmed us. But obviously one is worse. 1
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Meanwhile, Governor Prince Ricky prepares his Christmas address to a wealthy audience. He reviews his remarks and wants to make more of a point of eradicating piracy globally. “It really was quite easy. Even China’s “greatest pirate” turned out to be no more than an easy mark.
January 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Me, flailing wildly, having unexpectedly stumbled across this account and entire thread. Swoon!!!
1775. An editor comes into work on Christmas eve to find a manuscript on his desk. The title: A HISTORY OF PYRATES by Charles Johnson. (We have no budget so we’ll say the editor is played by Michael Stuhlbarg).
January 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Me, flailing wildly, having unexpectedly stumbled across this account and entire thread. Swoon!!!