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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 7h

My friends can't cope with my hateful zealotry. See also Hadley Freeman and Suzanne Moore.

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 9h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h

Israel sent back Greta Thunberg’s luggage scrawled with “Whore Greta”, an Israeli flag, and a penis.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 8h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12h

My conversation with Jane Bradley about how US anti-abortionists are supporting Reform - and why we need to talk about Russian influence - is also available in full on the Democracy for Sale YouTube channel

Do sign up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5p0...

Nigel Farage’s New Backers: Inside the US Anti-Abortion Group Courting Reform UK

YouTube video by Democracy for Sale

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

As if they keep writing all these headlines - and our membership numbers and polling just keeps shooting up. 🚀

Now at 110,000. Over 55% increase in just one month!

Lower bills. Fund NHS. Tax the super rich.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

Greens who want to save the world by destroying britain

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22h

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 16h

Friends & Followers in Dublin! I'll be giving the annual Edmund Burke Lecture at TCD today 18:30, at the Edmund Burke Lecture Theatre. All most welcome (but do register)

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence & the Pillage of an Empire share.google/Yxfq3IMYhcKd...

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire - Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Edmund Burke Lecture 2025

The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Edmund Burke Lecture 2025 will be delivered by author and historian William Dalrymple.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19h

On Friday I’m going to have a premium newsletter with a generous (2600 word) free intro about the nasty demands of Sam Altman and OpenAI. They need $161 billion in the next six months - it’s the only way for them to complete any of the plans they have agreed to. A truly nonsensical time.

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The Pitch Inspection @thepitchinspection.bsky.social · 21h

Trump: ”If somebody is doing a bad job and if I feel there's unsafe conditions, I would call Gianni, the head of FIFA, who's phenomenal, and I would say, let's move it to another location. And he would do that,"

FIFA / Infantino = MAGA lapdog.

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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 1d

BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview

www.thenational.scot/news/2554271...

BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview

ZACK Polanski will be interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg after the BBC received complaints from the public for the lack of coverage of the Green Party…

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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 1d

For the jogo bonito lover in your life, this Christmas it has to be Samindra Kunti, 25% off all pre-orders www.waterstones.com/book/brazil-...

Brazil 1970 by Samindra Kunti | Waterstones

Buy Brazil 1970 by Samindra Kunti from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 1d

How can the man who tracked down the members of the most famous team in the history of football forget to add a link for us to buy his discounted ideal-for-Christmas paperback?

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 1d

“Infantino has abandoned all pretense of the political neutrality that FIFA espouses & is statutorily committed to uphold, & has put FIFA firmly in the corner of Donald Trump & Benjamin Netanyahu,” said @ncgeehan.bsky.social, director of the human rights advocacy group @fairsq.bsky.social

FairSquare @fairsq.bsky.social · 1d

Why Was the President of FIFA at the Gaza Summit? Featuring comment by FairSquare’s @ncgeehan.bsky.social

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Why Was the President of FIFA at the Gaza Summit?

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FairSquare @fairsq.bsky.social · 1d

Why Was the President of FIFA at the Gaza Summit? Featuring comment by FairSquare’s @ncgeehan.bsky.social

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Why Was the President of FIFA at the Gaza Summit?

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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 1d

"Peace is a good broadcast deal and a viral PR moment." @karimzidan.com excellent as always on Infantino and the 'peace summit' at @sportspolitika.news www.sportspolitika.news/p/nfantino-p...

Gianni Infantino, Peacemaker

Infantino’s diplomacy is not the diplomacy of treaties and compromises. It is the diplomacy of branding and spectacle. Where others see conflict, he sees opportunity.

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Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 1d

It's amazing how many other contexts you can find in which to use the ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN line "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."

Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 1d

Investors are betting big bucks on the idea that AI will create an explosion of leisure time...e.g. it was a key part of the public rationale for the massive $55bn takeover of video games maker Electronic Arts. But are they right?? (short thread linked to my column today www.ft.com/content/4011...)

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Many on the right will try and belittle and undermine what’s happening.

But here’s the truth. Tens of thousands are joining Greens. Polls are at record highs. People are just starting to feel hope again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The truth about the green party's booming membership

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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 1d

I know I keep going on about how it's structural, but the structure doesn't half propel the worst characters into the most senior positions.

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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 1d

Gianni Infantino's latest Instagram post on how FIFA is going to help the Palestinians is only for those with strong stomachs. Infantino appears to be laying the ground to buy off the Palestinian Football Association and get them to drop their complaint against Israel, which has FIFA in a corner.

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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 1d

"Stay away from the United States. In our circus, the elephants run loose." @julesboykoff.bsky.social and @edgeofsports.bsky.social on US 2026 and how @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social could push the debate beyond ticket-pricing www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Zohran Mamdani Is Right to Call Out FIFA. But He Doesn't Go Far Enough.

Mamdani is right to hold FIFA accountable for fleecing its fans. But cheaper prices won’t matter if you end up in the back of an unmarked van.

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Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social · 2d

“No one in the Middle East and likely beyond will ever forget the Israeli slaughter, nor the U.S. weaponry that facilitated it, nor the U.S. mercenaries of the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" who murdered starving people seeking aid.”

FOREVER WARS @foreverwars.bsky.social · 2d

“If Israel wants to actually prevent the next October 7, in whatever form it will take, it must free Palestine,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social. “The rest is commentary. Or avoidance.”

‘The Barbarism of The Enemy’

Notes on the third ceasefire, and prayers that there won't have to be a fourth. Free Marwan Barghouti. Free Palestine

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 2d

I think hope just means a prominent political actor who we can believe is a good person and can conceive of doing good things.

That's really important right now, because all the votes of despair land with Reform.

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 2d

Good time to read a profile of the City owner here

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...

The Sheikh Who Conquered Soccer and Coddles Warlords

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 2d

That’s right, reminder that we’re still waiting for a result in the 130 charges case.

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