Professor Stephen Boyd Davis
@stepbd.bsky.social
Professor of Design Research
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Trump set new Kentucky records w/his 64.4%, 2024 win.
The nat'l poverty rate is 10.6%. In Kentucky, it's 16.6%.
Jim Beam employed some 1500 Kentuckians - up til now, anyway.
Congratulations, MAGA, you've scored another big middle finger from your lord and master.
The nat'l poverty rate is 10.6%. In Kentucky, it's 16.6%.
Jim Beam employed some 1500 Kentuckians - up til now, anyway.
Congratulations, MAGA, you've scored another big middle finger from your lord and master.
Jim Beam Whiskey will shut its distillery for 2026 thanks to plummeting sales amid retaliatory tariffs from the European Union after Trump's tariffs and a bourbon boycott from Canada.
www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
Major Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam shuttering distillery for 2026
The move comes as Kentucky’s $9 billion bourbon industry is dealing with a glut of supply and slipping sales.
www.kentucky.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Trump set new Kentucky records w/his 64.4%, 2024 win.
The nat'l poverty rate is 10.6%. In Kentucky, it's 16.6%.
Jim Beam employed some 1500 Kentuckians - up til now, anyway.
Congratulations, MAGA, you've scored another big middle finger from your lord and master.
The nat'l poverty rate is 10.6%. In Kentucky, it's 16.6%.
Jim Beam employed some 1500 Kentuckians - up til now, anyway.
Congratulations, MAGA, you've scored another big middle finger from your lord and master.
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A year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO to Thames Water's outrageous deal - being allowed to pollute our water for 15 years.
MARCH: Thames Water & Ofwat both scaremongering in the press about the cost of taking TW into public ownership.
But here's the truth.
#OFWATsayNO vist.ly/4jbqu
MARCH: Thames Water & Ofwat both scaremongering in the press about the cost of taking TW into public ownership.
But here's the truth.
#OFWATsayNO vist.ly/4jbqu
December 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO to Thames Water's outrageous deal - being allowed to pollute our water for 15 years.
MARCH: Thames Water & Ofwat both scaremongering in the press about the cost of taking TW into public ownership.
But here's the truth.
#OFWATsayNO vist.ly/4jbqu
MARCH: Thames Water & Ofwat both scaremongering in the press about the cost of taking TW into public ownership.
But here's the truth.
#OFWATsayNO vist.ly/4jbqu
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UK failure to seal EU tax exemption hands industry mountain of paperwork
UK failure to seal EU tax exemption hands industry mountain of paperwork
Brussels confirms Christmas carve-out from green levies will not happen, leading to Brexit-style requirements
UK manufacturers are to be hit with mountains of Brexit-style paperwork in January on £7bn worth of exports to the EU after the government failed to secure an expected exemption from new green taxes.
The UK had hoped to secure a carve-out by Christmas on the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), but EU commissioners have confirmed this is not going to happen. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
UK failure to seal EU tax exemption hands industry mountain of paperwork
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Sister of Epstein victim reported him in 1996, but FBI failed to investigate, files reveal
Sister of Epstein victim reported him in 1996, but FBI failed to investigate, files reveal
Maria Farmer, whose sister Annie was abused by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, says Epstein ‘stole’ nude images
While Donald Trump’s justice department did not deliver on a legal requirement to disclose all Jeffrey Epstein-related files by Friday, one document in an otherwise underwhelming disclosure lifted the veil on authorities’ inaction – and its dire consequences for dozens of teen girls.
That document is an FBI report from Maria Farmer, a painter who worked for Epstein around 1996. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Sister of Epstein victim reported him in 1996, but FBI failed to investigate, files reveal
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Pictures of Donald Trump are included among at least 16 documents that have disappeared from the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice (DOJ)
news.sky.com/story/images...
news.sky.com/story/images...
Images of Trump among documents removed from latest Epstein files release
One of 16 documents missing from the release includes two photos of the president; one of him with women in swimsuits and the other of him and his wife with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
news.sky.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Pictures of Donald Trump are included among at least 16 documents that have disappeared from the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice (DOJ)
news.sky.com/story/images...
news.sky.com/story/images...
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The UK Government is unlikely to see most of the £148m it is owed by a faulty PPE supplier linked to Baroness Michelle Mone after the company was wound up.
Who saw that coming?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who saw that coming?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Michelle Mone-linked PPE firm liquidated and unlikely to repay £148m
The firm led by Baroness Mone's husband Douglas Barrowman breached a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid pandemic.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The UK Government is unlikely to see most of the £148m it is owed by a faulty PPE supplier linked to Baroness Michelle Mone after the company was wound up.
Who saw that coming?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who saw that coming?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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In WSJ, a detailed unraveling of how Putin came to pick Trump's negotiating team for Ukraine, kicking out Gen Kellogg and putting Steve Witkoff in his place. Astonishing detail here. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
December 20, 2025 at 3:49 AM
In WSJ, a detailed unraveling of how Putin came to pick Trump's negotiating team for Ukraine, kicking out Gen Kellogg and putting Steve Witkoff in his place. Astonishing detail here. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
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I don’t think the law passed by Congress said that DOJ has to release less than 1% of the materials by Dec 19.
December 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I don’t think the law passed by Congress said that DOJ has to release less than 1% of the materials by Dec 19.
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“AI used as much water as the water industry this year” is fucking wild
December 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“AI used as much water as the water industry this year” is fucking wild
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The Met is using powers it doesn't have to quash protests against Israel's genocide, say experts.
When it comes to Palestinian rights, the Met appears "not to care if it is acting within the law".
More here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
When it comes to Palestinian rights, the Met appears "not to care if it is acting within the law".
More here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
December 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The Met is using powers it doesn't have to quash protests against Israel's genocide, say experts.
When it comes to Palestinian rights, the Met appears "not to care if it is acting within the law".
More here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
When it comes to Palestinian rights, the Met appears "not to care if it is acting within the law".
More here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
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Including Hungary suing the EU court because it objects to a judgment imposing a €200 million fine (plus €1 million/day since) for non-compliance with previous asylum law judgments
(Nb there are no "similar cases", at least in the sense that this was the first judgment applying fines re asylum)
(Nb there are no "similar cases", at least in the sense that this was the first judgment applying fines re asylum)
December 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Including Hungary suing the EU court because it objects to a judgment imposing a €200 million fine (plus €1 million/day since) for non-compliance with previous asylum law judgments
(Nb there are no "similar cases", at least in the sense that this was the first judgment applying fines re asylum)
(Nb there are no "similar cases", at least in the sense that this was the first judgment applying fines re asylum)
December 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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2025: Boris Johnson, "If Labour MPs try to reverse Brexit they will be walking into a hail of machine gun fire"
2019: Boris Johnson, "We must all be clear that violence and intimidation anywhere is wholly unacceptable in this country"
2019: Boris Johnson, "We must all be clear that violence and intimidation anywhere is wholly unacceptable in this country"
December 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
2025: Boris Johnson, "If Labour MPs try to reverse Brexit they will be walking into a hail of machine gun fire"
2019: Boris Johnson, "We must all be clear that violence and intimidation anywhere is wholly unacceptable in this country"
2019: Boris Johnson, "We must all be clear that violence and intimidation anywhere is wholly unacceptable in this country"
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WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
December 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
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In case you were wondering how that ceasefire was going…
Israel bombed a wedding in Gaza today
We will never forget.
Israel bombed a wedding in Gaza today
We will never forget.
December 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In case you were wondering how that ceasefire was going…
Israel bombed a wedding in Gaza today
We will never forget.
Israel bombed a wedding in Gaza today
We will never forget.
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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At least 16 files from the Epstein release have disappeared from the DOJ webpage, including the only photo of Trump. No explanation has been given, AP reports.
December 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
At least 16 files from the Epstein release have disappeared from the DOJ webpage, including the only photo of Trump. No explanation has been given, AP reports.
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Out on a Limb. Newly nominated peer did not have a PhD as she has frequently and publicly claimed or an MA bit.ly/3MRLAmD she is also chair of King’s Foundation charity and was chair of Scouts and Athenaeum. She’ll get £371 a day taxfree for turning up at Lords. She says she has honorary doctorates.
Labour nominee for Lords lied about having a PhD
Dame Ann Limb, chair of the King’s Foundation, called herself a doctor
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Out on a Limb. Newly nominated peer did not have a PhD as she has frequently and publicly claimed or an MA bit.ly/3MRLAmD she is also chair of King’s Foundation charity and was chair of Scouts and Athenaeum. She’ll get £371 a day taxfree for turning up at Lords. She says she has honorary doctorates.
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Yesterday played out exactly as many expected a cover-up. When 119 pages of grand jury documents are released entirely redacted, that goes far beyond protecting victims’ identities. A court ordered these records released, yet what the public received was effectively nothing.
December 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Yesterday played out exactly as many expected a cover-up. When 119 pages of grand jury documents are released entirely redacted, that goes far beyond protecting victims’ identities. A court ordered these records released, yet what the public received was effectively nothing.
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Went to thesis reviews at Cooper Union, and I’m moved, as always, by how much *everyone* benefits from an international cohort — the comparative perspective, the denaturalization of your own experience, the broader geographical and historical context: all threats to an authoritarian regime
December 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Went to thesis reviews at Cooper Union, and I’m moved, as always, by how much *everyone* benefits from an international cohort — the comparative perspective, the denaturalization of your own experience, the broader geographical and historical context: all threats to an authoritarian regime
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Glad Rolling Stone published this, especially given the loud silence from the rest of the media on this grim watershed moment in US political history.
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Glad Rolling Stone published this, especially given the loud silence from the rest of the media on this grim watershed moment in US political history.
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Relatives of the late President John F Kennedy have expressed outrage at the proposal to rename the arts centre.
White House says Kennedy Center board has voted to rename after Trump
Relatives of the late President John F Kennedy have expressed outrage at the proposal to rename the arts centre.
www.aljazeera.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Relatives of the late President John F Kennedy have expressed outrage at the proposal to rename the arts centre.
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Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote:
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
December 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote:
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
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Turn on Radio 4 and it’s what sounds like Matthew Goodwin explaining in folksy terms why Christian Nationalism is great, and very reasonable
It’s wild how quickly the Overton window in British politics has catapulted rightwards
It’s wild how quickly the Overton window in British politics has catapulted rightwards
December 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Turn on Radio 4 and it’s what sounds like Matthew Goodwin explaining in folksy terms why Christian Nationalism is great, and very reasonable
It’s wild how quickly the Overton window in British politics has catapulted rightwards
It’s wild how quickly the Overton window in British politics has catapulted rightwards