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Musa Okwonga
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Author, essayist, public speaker. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · Aug 26
In 2008 I met a climate scientist from Mali who was advocating for this so long that he looked exhausted. Absolutely amazing man. He was working so hard on this. And then I see numbers like this and my heart just soars. Youba Sokona, you (and your peers) really did it.

www.ipcc.ch/people/youba...
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mikesenters.bsky.social
This is just the 14 Words but slightly longer. What the fuck are we doing here, man. How the hell did we allow this to happen? Why did my fellow citizens think electing this guy was okay?
rikefranke.bsky.social Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 4h
US national security strategy.
Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe.

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But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure. The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence. Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path. We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation
December 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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‘It was about degrading someone completely’: the story of Mr DeepFakes – the world’s most notorious AI porn site www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
‘It was about degrading someone completely’: the story of Mr DeepFakes – the world’s most notorious AI porn site
The hobbyists who helped build this site created technology that has been used to humiliate countless women. Why didn’t governments step in and stop them?
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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clancyny.bsky.social
TIL Maine didn't let Native Americans vote until 1954. This Silver Star recipient was told he couldn't vote after he showed up in uniform.
Photo of the young Army Private Shay with a peaked cap on He is grinning in a formal portrait. caption: Mr. Shay in 1944. A year later, wearing his Army uniform, he was turned away when he tried to vote in an election in Maine, because the state did not grant Native Americans suffrage until 1954. Credit: Shay family
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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emma-briant.co.uk
Whether or not the targeting of a boat was actually prompted by this tweet, it sends a profoundly disturbing message of how cheap life is, that it is worth less than such a momentary performance.
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7h
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 7h
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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manuelveth.bsky.social
The latest edition of Five Games to Watch this weekend is out.

Every week, I speak to my Transfermarkt colleagues to highlight five games you should keep an eye on this weekend. Here is this week's edition:

www.transfermarkt.us/messi-vs-mul...
Messi vs Müller, Nordderby, Clásico de La Plata & more: Five games to watch this weekend
Using the expertise of our global team, Transfermarkt takes you around the globe to highlight five games you should be watching this weekend.
www.transfermarkt.us
December 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
I keep seeing frustration (this is just the latest) over media only covering the horrors, not what to do about them—but they seem to miss stories about what people *are* doing.

I report on that expressly because I want people to know there are people fighting back, and learn how they could, too.
December 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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explaintrade.com
Finally home after > 27 hours of grindset creating shareholder value through AI agentic workflow and guiding a warrior-ethos meditation during my ketamine break.

My 8 year old dog: "Do you have to slay so hard because the villain misrepresented an OBR analysis to Parliament?"

Me: "Bitcoin."
Alt text: A screenshot of a post on X by Alex Edmans (@aedmans). His profile photo shows a smiling man in a suit and tie. The post reads: “Finally home after > 8 hours of lectures and a conference keynote in my lunch break. My 3-year-old: ‘Do you need to work hard because the villain is taking our money?’ ‘Which villain?’ ‘Rachel.’”
December 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
To be very clear, the mass deaths of millions, children or not, has to be named as his explicit goal, and that of this administration. There is no garbing it in nice words any more.
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d
To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
okwonga.bsky.social
"Is Putin about to go to war with Europe?" - this is not a knock on the journalists or the publication itself (it's a good discussion), it is just that he has already been at war with Europe for years. And I fear that his successors will continue this war too. www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
December 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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gabliotecaria.bsky.social
£12K!!!!! 🤗🤗🤗 There are lots of little lots that would make brilliant treats, go on!

Also remember there are US-located lots, so if you're a pal from there you can grab 'em for a steal! (I really wanted the hair appointments 😂)
louiestowell.bsky.social Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks for everyone who's bid on the #Creatives4Sudan auction so far. In amazing news, we're at 12k. We have TWO DAYS LEFT though. If everyone places lots of little bids, I think we could get to 15k easy. The money is going to Sudanese-run Emergency Response Rooms. 💗🇸🇩 app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
I mean, I guess I know why. But it would be more honest, and in that sense more honorable, if they would admit it.
December 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
Why do men need an exclusive vision of virtue? Why don’t they want a universal, ungendered ideal of a good life? Why won’t they share in that striving with us?
December 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.
December 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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joshspero.ft.com
Interesting interview about why he's retiring from novel-writing www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
December 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
okwonga.bsky.social
How heartwarming in 2025 to see a migrant being truly embraced by their hosts
karenyourish.bsky.social Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · 1d
In Aug., the NY Young Republican Club posted a statement to its website in support of the AfD. The statement concluded with the phrase “AfD über alles” in bold, a play on the line “Deutschland über alles,” which was frequently used in Nazi propaganda www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat
The New York Young Republican Club will host Markus Frohnmaier, an AfD deputy chairman, at its annual gala after calling for a ‘new civic order’ in Germany.
www.politico.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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yugoalman.bsky.social
How it started How it's going
Croatian religious sister stabbed in attack which may have been religiously motivated Police suspect Croatian nun stabbed herself, falsely reported attack
December 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
I love it when people talk to me as if I neither am disabled nor actually study this in my own work. But let me pitch someone else's work here, Doron Dorfman's "Fear of the Disability Con."
Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now:

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Fear of the Disability Con: Perceptions of Fraud and Special Rights Discourse Law & Society Review, Vol. 53, No. 4, 2019 41 Pages Posted: 18 Oct 2019 Last revised: 18 Dec 2019 Doron Dorfman Seton Hall Law School Date Written: October 3, 2019 Abstract This Article presents a new framework for analyzing the development and implementation of disability law: the prism of the fear of “the disability con” — popular perceptions of fraud and fakery. We all encounter disability rights and accommodations in everyday life. However, people with disabilities pay a price for the legal recognition of their rights. People who park in disabled parking spots, use service dogs, move to the front of lines, receive Social Security benefits, or request academic accommodations are often viewed as faking disabilities and abusing the law. This disability con stereotype thus serves as an important invisible barrier preventing Americans with disabilities from fully taking part in society, as it not only undermines the public legitimacy of rights but also restricts the design and implementation of the legal regime illustrating those. Nevertheless, this moral panic around disability con in American society and its manifestations has yet to be studied in a systematic-empirical way, nor has it been addressed in socio-legal scholarship. Using a mixed-methods approach composed of an original nationally representative survey along with in-depth interviews, this article fills this gap. The data suggest that the stereotype of disability con applies to multiple disability rights across venues and contexts; that nearly 60% of Americans with disabilities feel that others question their disability; that the stereotype of disability con extends to visible disabilities and to less apparent ones; and that, counterintuitively, the people most suspicious are nondisabled individuals with a personal connection to a disabled person and disabled people who experience suspicion themselves. Based on the richer un…
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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okwonga.bsky.social
“Final Hillsborough report ends investigation with no consequences:
Failings of legal system mean 97 people were unlawfully killed, but no one will be held accountable.” www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Hillsborough families decry ‘bitter injustice’ that no officers will face disciplinary proceedings
None of the former officers named by the IOPC will face disciplinary proceedings because they have all retired
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
okwonga.bsky.social
“Final Hillsborough report ends investigation with no consequences:
Failings of legal system mean 97 people were unlawfully killed, but no one will be held accountable.” www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Hillsborough families decry ‘bitter injustice’ that no officers will face disciplinary proceedings
None of the former officers named by the IOPC will face disciplinary proceedings because they have all retired
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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meganclement.bsky.social
The world agreed on a strategy to end AIDS known as 95-95-95: 95% of people with HIV should know their status, 95% of the diagnosed should be on medication, 95% should have the virus suppressed.

By 2022, the world reached 87-89-94. Then Trump killed aid funding.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/01/t...
The End of Ending AIDS
As the Trump administration pledges to meet global health targets, it has terminated some of its best tools for doing so.
foreignpolicy.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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meganclement.bsky.social
If this is the alternative to the manosphere, we are in trouble.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And the “provide” element he couches largely in economic terms. “I tell my sons, when you’re in the company of women, you pay for everything. And if you can’t, you don’t go out … A woman is not going to have sex with a man who splits the bill with her.” Signalling resource is one of the three things women find most attractive, according to another of his maxims, along with kindness and intellect. He admits his sons tell him this is a boomer view of modern dating, but “I try to go where the data takes me,” he says. “Research shows that society, and men themselves, are really hard on men when they’re not economically viable.” A woman is not going to have sex with a man who splits the bill with her And if men aren’t economically viable, that’s when the problems start, he contends. “They’re just going to have an absence of mating opportunities. And when men don’t have a romantic relationship, they tend to kind of come off the tracks.” He cites statistics that women fare much better without men than vice versa. “Men have a difficult time maintaining friendships without a romantic partner. They tend to reallocate that energy into conspiracy theory, going extremely online, porn – and they never develop the skills to establish a romantic relationship.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM