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Trump, Putin, Xi and the global succession crisis

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 17d

Russia, China and the US are led by ageing strongmen whose deaths will throw the international order into disarray, writes @isabelh.bsky.social.

Russia, China and the US are led by ageing strongmen whose deaths will throw the international order into disarray

The new culture of nuclear fear

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 15d

Books and films informed our atomic nightmares during the Cold War. They are doing so again, writes @isabelh.bsky.social.

Books and films informed our atomic nightmares during the Cold War. They are doing so again

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 28d

6/ This isn’t the first time ProPublica has reported on ICE under Trump 2.0 acting in unprecedented ways. In July, my colleagues @mckenziefunk.com and @nicolefoy.bsky.social documented ~50 incidents of officers shattering car windows to make arrests.
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We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 28d

4/ Congressman Dan Goldman promised to follow up on the incident, which he called another example of “secret police officers who are attacking our communities with excessive violence…and they just think that they can do it with impunity, because nobody is holding them accountable.”

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 28d

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · Sep 24

And it was a great panel, thanks to the great panellists!

Trump delivers dumbest climate speech of all time

Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · Sep 24

Dumb speech? Emily Atkin counts the ways ... heated.world/p/trump-deli...

The president's easily-debunked 10-minute climate tirade at the U.N. was so stupid and unoriginal, it was actually kind of funny.

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · Aug 14

a nonprofit research outfit that tracks global conflicts. In 2020, such groups were linked to 13% of all U.S. extremist-related demonstrations and acts of political violence, or 57 of the events ACLED tracked. By 2024, they accounted for nearly 80%, or 154 events.'

Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · Aug 14

There is no crime wave in Washington, but Trump might want to direct his law enforcers to this problem, reported by Reuters: "White extremists are committing a growing proportion of U.S. political violence, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data project,

Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · Aug 13

What does the delayed US State Department say about Israel? Not a lot, it seems. UK is lambasted for "criminalising silent prayer" whatever that is, but the section on Israel is much shorter than last year’s and somehow fails to mention the deliberate starvation or the 60,000 violent Gaza deaths.

中华人民共和国商务部令二〇二五年第5号关于对欧盟两家金融机构采取反制措施的决定

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · Aug 13

BREAKING:

China has sanctioned two Lithuanian banks in response to the listing of two Chinese banks in the latest package of Russia sanctions

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · Aug 13

I'lll be there next week. hope to see you

The Museum of the Trump Resistance

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨 #ResistanceMatters

@nupinytt.bsky.social @norwaymfa.government.no @norwayinusa.norway.no #ICYMI

Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · Aug 13

Robert Kuttner on the museum of Norwegian resistance to the Nazis:

"We have a narrowing window when Trump can still be stopped and constitutional democracy restored.

There are no museums to the resistance in nations where tyrants prevailed.

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Someday, we will honor those who resisted Donald Trump. But first, we need far more courageous resistance.

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · Aug 13

After putting him on the school sports council, Trump asked him to speak at the White House about the project. “I don’t know what we’re supposed to be doing,” Taylor said. “But I’m here to serve.” An unqualified paedophile? Dealing with school kids? He’ll fit right in.

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · Aug 13

Taylor, “a former N.F.L. linebacker whom Trump has referred to as “an incredible guy” and “a friend of mine for a long time—too long,” pleaded guilty in 2011 to two misdemeanors after paying to have sex with a sixteen-year-old. “

Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · Aug 13

Anyone see a pattern here? The New Yorker reports that Trump has appointed Lawrence Taylor to his recently invented President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition (for schools.)

PR is no longer unthinkable

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · Aug 11

Turkeys don’t usually vote for Christmas, and governing parties don’t usually vote for proportional representation. But Reform’s rise could change that, writes @tom-clark.bsky.social.
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Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas, but if and when Labour members pick the next PM, electoral reform could become unavoidable

Chinese vessels collide while pursuing Philippine boat in South China Sea: Manila

Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · Aug 11

Couldn’t happen to a nicer crew…

Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · Aug 11

Chinese navy and coast guard vessels collide while pursuing Philippine boat in South China Sea, Manila says – AFP: ‘releasing dramatic video footage of the confrontation.’
‘Tarriela told AFP the Chinese crew “never responded” to the Filipino ship’s offer of assistance.’

MANILA: A Chinese navy vessel collided with one from its coast guard while chasing a Philippine patrol boat in the South China Sea, Manila said on Monday (Aug 11), releasing dramatic video footage of ...

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · Aug 11

Netenyahu’s murder of the Al Jazeera journalists was premeditated, the FT reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists last month warned that Netenyahu was smearing Sharif with unproven ties to Hamas to pave the path for his assassination. Israel has killed more than 180 journalists,

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · Aug 10

Israelis murder al Jazeera journalists in Gaza. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

Anas al-Sharif among 4 Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza City

Al Jazeera staff killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists.

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · Aug 5

Rags for everyone else, riches for Mr Osborne observer.co.uk/news/busines...

‘Austerity’ Osborne bags fortune from £150m bank sale

The former chancellor, who presided over Treasury during the Great Recession, will profit handsomely from the sale of Robey Warshaw to a Wall Street inve...

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · Aug 5

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It’s refined in India, but Russian crude is still gushing...

Oil products worth millions have been imported from a refinery owned by a sanctioned Russian firm

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University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 2

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation

The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.

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Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social · Aug 3

Amazing