Plain Lincoln
@plainlincoln.bsky.social
An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur?
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Watching Mayor Zohran Mamdani and AG James together feels really good for the soul. So many powerful people are going to do literally everything they can to thwart them— but also they’ve already been trying and look where we are? Nervous, but tremendously excited to see what happens next.
January 1, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Watching Mayor Zohran Mamdani and AG James together feels really good for the soul. So many powerful people are going to do literally everything they can to thwart them— but also they’ve already been trying and look where we are? Nervous, but tremendously excited to see what happens next.
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We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law.
A new generation that renews the “we” in “we the people.”
Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as part of its future.
A new generation that renews the “we” in “we the people.”
Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as part of its future.
January 1, 2026 at 6:00 PM
We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law.
A new generation that renews the “we” in “we the people.”
Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as part of its future.
A new generation that renews the “we” in “we the people.”
Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as part of its future.
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Think @sundersays.bsky.social is accurate here.
The UK has not suddenly become much more racist.
However the (re)normalisation of open racism by "respectable" right-wing media and politicians has led to both increased visibility for open racists, & radicalisation of some "soft" racists/xenophobes
The UK has not suddenly become much more racist.
However the (re)normalisation of open racism by "respectable" right-wing media and politicians has led to both increased visibility for open racists, & radicalisation of some "soft" racists/xenophobes
Longterm intergenerational shift is a civic widening of inclusion. The short-term shift is hardening views within the minority position
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Today's opinion poll news in context. The longer term trend has been away from ethno-nationalism.
Source:
Butt S, Clery E, Curtice J, editors (2022). British Social Attitudes: The 39th Report. National Centre for Social Research.
Source:
Butt S, Clery E, Curtice J, editors (2022). British Social Attitudes: The 39th Report. National Centre for Social Research.
December 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Think @sundersays.bsky.social is accurate here.
The UK has not suddenly become much more racist.
However the (re)normalisation of open racism by "respectable" right-wing media and politicians has led to both increased visibility for open racists, & radicalisation of some "soft" racists/xenophobes
The UK has not suddenly become much more racist.
However the (re)normalisation of open racism by "respectable" right-wing media and politicians has led to both increased visibility for open racists, & radicalisation of some "soft" racists/xenophobes
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There are still great journalists working there, and great stories being published. But now we know that these stories will only be seen when the bosses allow it. And not all those bosses are working at CBS News.
The end of CBS News
Why corporate media won't come to save us.
www.motherjones.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:01 AM
There are still great journalists working there, and great stories being published. But now we know that these stories will only be seen when the bosses allow it. And not all those bosses are working at CBS News.
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ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
(Published November)
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
(Published November)
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
January 1, 2026 at 3:00 AM
ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
(Published November)
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
(Published November)
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It becomes a sideshow because - cold take - these people suck at their jobs and would much rather pretend their laziness is some sort of high-minded calling rather than just the absolute lowest of bars to clear compared to those who engage in the actual hard questions of policy impacts on people.
December 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It becomes a sideshow because - cold take - these people suck at their jobs and would much rather pretend their laziness is some sort of high-minded calling rather than just the absolute lowest of bars to clear compared to those who engage in the actual hard questions of policy impacts on people.
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They're empty. But it's important to know: They are con artists & don't care about the economy/health/welfare of the public at all. They do not share our values. If we don't realize this, we can't deal w them.
See @mkonnikova's book The Confidence Game, a history of con artists, to understand.
See @mkonnikova's book The Confidence Game, a history of con artists, to understand.
December 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
They're empty. But it's important to know: They are con artists & don't care about the economy/health/welfare of the public at all. They do not share our values. If we don't realize this, we can't deal w them.
See @mkonnikova's book The Confidence Game, a history of con artists, to understand.
See @mkonnikova's book The Confidence Game, a history of con artists, to understand.
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The most helpful incident here is the Arab Spring, which all the lads roared for with joy. Amazing, they said: people can use social media to overthrow sclerotic regimes that rule by force, inertia, patronage and propaganda! And then they had a bit of a think about what that could mean, in practice.
What has happened to Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Egyptians, Libyans, and many more? What happened to pretty much every country where British wingnuts have loudly yearned for the freedom of the people, this century? The results are instructive!
January 1, 2026 at 10:18 AM
The most helpful incident here is the Arab Spring, which all the lads roared for with joy. Amazing, they said: people can use social media to overthrow sclerotic regimes that rule by force, inertia, patronage and propaganda! And then they had a bit of a think about what that could mean, in practice.
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this is why I think publications that focus almost solely on culture war issues are so empty. The genuine economic, health, welfare etc impacts of policy are much more important than Ivy League coursework discourse but become sideshows to these people.
December 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
this is why I think publications that focus almost solely on culture war issues are so empty. The genuine economic, health, welfare etc impacts of policy are much more important than Ivy League coursework discourse but become sideshows to these people.
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What has happened to Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Egyptians, Libyans, and many more? What happened to pretty much every country where British wingnuts have loudly yearned for the freedom of the people, this century? The results are instructive!
January 1, 2026 at 9:56 AM
What has happened to Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Egyptians, Libyans, and many more? What happened to pretty much every country where British wingnuts have loudly yearned for the freedom of the people, this century? The results are instructive!
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Photos: Zohran Mamdani becomes New York City’s first Muslim mayor https://aje.io/kqqphz
![New York Attorney General Letitia James, left, administers the oath of office to Zohran Mamdani, centre, as his wife Rama Duwaji looks on in New York [Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreifnd4mgjuwkwdbrb57lulrt2mxjeb3qidv7m6sc2ec5ezuqtufgbm@jpeg)
![New York Mayor Mamdani signs the official registry while city clerk Michael McSweeney holds the book during the swearing-in ceremony. [Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreifr5rlli5ea3rnjmmexkzjgnpzlf4vkc3ifk5gmbk57lgecbblldm@jpeg)
![Born in Kampala, Uganda to filmmaker Mira Nair and academic Mahmood Mamdani, the new mayor relocated to New York at age 7 and attained US citizenship in 2018. [Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreie4e5hh7xzxv4mdo75tmbozwc43dgfbe45upbrlqv2hzpkzp2tqk4@jpeg)
![Mamdani attended his swearing-in ceremony in New York accompanied by his wife, Rama Duwaji, as his parents proudly observed the occasion. [Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreickj7oke2koebq2s4dnmvyebcjeyb75jqn6hfrtsc4cvvw3dobspi@jpeg)
January 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Photos: Zohran Mamdani becomes New York City’s first Muslim mayor https://aje.io/kqqphz
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The KKK staged a big rally in 1924 in South Bend. The Klansmen were confronted by a group of about 500 Notre Dame students who chased them through the streets, jumped them, beat them up in alleys, ripped their KKK robes and masks off and used them as battle trophies.
December 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The KKK staged a big rally in 1924 in South Bend. The Klansmen were confronted by a group of about 500 Notre Dame students who chased them through the streets, jumped them, beat them up in alleys, ripped their KKK robes and masks off and used them as battle trophies.
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There are now also rather clear orders and advisory opinions by the ICJ laying out that this is in breach of international law
WATCH: MSF Executive Director @sana.msf.ca speaks to CTV about vital humanitarian activities in #Palestine at risk from Israeli registration rules.
MSF provides a vast amount of life-saving healthcare, yet even this is not enough to meet the overwhelming needs of people in #Gaza.
MSF provides a vast amount of life-saving healthcare, yet even this is not enough to meet the overwhelming needs of people in #Gaza.
December 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
There are now also rather clear orders and advisory opinions by the ICJ laying out that this is in breach of international law
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Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.
Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.
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December 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.
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We found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children.
Published Nov. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Published Nov. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
December 31, 2025 at 4:00 AM
We found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children.
Published Nov. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Published Nov. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
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Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files.
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
www.propublica.org
December 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files.
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
"...also largely applies in the UK/Europe"
Because much of the impetus therefor (funding, leadership, rhetoric, etc.) is being exported to UK/Europe by US fascists🤔
Because much of the impetus therefor (funding, leadership, rhetoric, etc.) is being exported to UK/Europe by US fascists🤔
"Immigrant Derangement Syndrome is a top-down phenomenon, not a broad popular movement. It reflects the perverse obsessions of MAGAdom, with racism a key component.'
To state the obvious, this analysis by @pkrugman.bsky.social also largely applies in the UK/Europe.
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To state the obvious, this analysis by @pkrugman.bsky.social also largely applies in the UK/Europe.
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Immigrant Derangement Syndrome
Blaming brown-skinned people for everything bad
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December 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"...also largely applies in the UK/Europe"
Because much of the impetus therefor (funding, leadership, rhetoric, etc.) is being exported to UK/Europe by US fascists🤔
Because much of the impetus therefor (funding, leadership, rhetoric, etc.) is being exported to UK/Europe by US fascists🤔
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"Immigrant Derangement Syndrome is a top-down phenomenon, not a broad popular movement. It reflects the perverse obsessions of MAGAdom, with racism a key component.'
To state the obvious, this analysis by @pkrugman.bsky.social also largely applies in the UK/Europe.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
To state the obvious, this analysis by @pkrugman.bsky.social also largely applies in the UK/Europe.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Immigrant Derangement Syndrome
Blaming brown-skinned people for everything bad
substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"Immigrant Derangement Syndrome is a top-down phenomenon, not a broad popular movement. It reflects the perverse obsessions of MAGAdom, with racism a key component.'
To state the obvious, this analysis by @pkrugman.bsky.social also largely applies in the UK/Europe.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
To state the obvious, this analysis by @pkrugman.bsky.social also largely applies in the UK/Europe.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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And the lads do have a way of making very sure you understand that, once you’ve been shoved out of the Circle Of Trust, you are O.U.T.
December 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
And the lads do have a way of making very sure you understand that, once you’ve been shoved out of the Circle Of Trust, you are O.U.T.
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Just mentioned it once in the period where it was absolutely imperative that Peter kept his mouth shut, or else, and then it was once more like nothing had ever been said. Just pure commentariat excellence at its peak, that.
December 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Just mentioned it once in the period where it was absolutely imperative that Peter kept his mouth shut, or else, and then it was once more like nothing had ever been said. Just pure commentariat excellence at its peak, that.
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Some of the lads then retaliating by revealing everyone had always known McSweeney was Mandelson’s creature - probably knew it back when they were all repeating Morgan’s WhatsApp drivel as a terrifying national emergency in 2018 - was amusing. And them noting it once, then forgetting again, was 😘👌
December 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Some of the lads then retaliating by revealing everyone had always known McSweeney was Mandelson’s creature - probably knew it back when they were all repeating Morgan’s WhatsApp drivel as a terrifying national emergency in 2018 - was amusing. And them noting it once, then forgetting again, was 😘👌
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Nothing beats Mandelson standing up and loudly threatening to bring down the whole Labour plane - opening his jacket to reveal a suicide vest of receipts for hilariously corrupt bungs, electoral fuckery and other disgusting shenanigans - only to be loudly shushed into sitting down and keeping quiet.
December 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Nothing beats Mandelson standing up and loudly threatening to bring down the whole Labour plane - opening his jacket to reveal a suicide vest of receipts for hilariously corrupt bungs, electoral fuckery and other disgusting shenanigans - only to be loudly shushed into sitting down and keeping quiet.
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Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
December 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Open up this picture fully.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
Then look at the surface of Mars.
Then look up to the top right.
Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.
Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.
That's Earth.
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This is what was supposed to happen when Johnson was elected and Brexit shoved through: the public would see that the system is so utterly crooked and self-serving that it cannot be fixed, so they would rise up. And well, all of that happened exactly as you’d expect, except for the rising up part.
December 31, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This is what was supposed to happen when Johnson was elected and Brexit shoved through: the public would see that the system is so utterly crooked and self-serving that it cannot be fixed, so they would rise up. And well, all of that happened exactly as you’d expect, except for the rising up part.
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I notice how - whether it’s war, austerity or this particular shitshow - nobody ever asks the people who correctly predicted they would be disastrous why they got it spot on, while the smart politics understanders repeatedly fucked it. Could this be because nobody wants to know the actual answers?
December 31, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I notice how - whether it’s war, austerity or this particular shitshow - nobody ever asks the people who correctly predicted they would be disastrous why they got it spot on, while the smart politics understanders repeatedly fucked it. Could this be because nobody wants to know the actual answers?