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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 14h

Is that the Powers Booth one?

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 20h

Are you now working for Britain Remade?

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 20h

Do tell

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 21h

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 21h

If you think UK defence procurement is bad then have a load of this from SA

R7.7 billion and 18 years later: Badger project has delivered zero vehicles

defenceweb.co.za/land/r7-7-bi...

R7.7 billion and 18 years later: Badger project has delivered zero vehicles - defenceWeb

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has still not received any Badger Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs), despite first signing a contract with

defenceweb.co.za

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 22h

Quite

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 23h

It's almost exactly four years since Tim Shipman's notorious "Boris Johnson squats like a giant toad" tweet.

Seems like important context given how we often talk as though the next election – four years away – is a done deal.

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Peter Ungphakorn @coppetainpu.bsky.social · 23h

'Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one ... friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense.'

My reason was simpler. I can't stand X's owner + Bluesky had momentum. I'm under no illusion about toxicity on any platform. It's human nature.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 23h

You don’t hear so much about states’ rights these days

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Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social · 1d

Our exclusive report on Russia’s tank production is out. Using internal files and state contracts, we show production plans for the next decade and current output. A short thread will follow soon, but for now, you can read the report

frontelligence.substack.com/p/exclusive-inside-russias-20262036

Exclusive: Inside Russia’s 2026–2036 Tank Fleet Modernization and Buildup Plans

In the spring and summer of 2025, as part of our own operation, our team obtained exclusive documents that provide new insight into Russia’s tank-production plans and confirm the existence of a little...

frontelligence.substack.com

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Avoiding choices is his mode of operation

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t beat the algorithm

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1d

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

“institutional norms, no matter how deeply rooted, cannot survive determined bad faith.”

True also for the UK

open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

What Can Be Done When the Supreme Court Is Fully Corrupted?

The answer cuts to the heart of democratic fragility.

open.substack.com

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Dude her catalogue is huge

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Nena in London

Who’d have thunk it

She’s f’ing good for 65 - though high as a 🪁

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo says Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions.

"Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty...or agrees with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the US,
is not really pro-life."
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

www.npr.org

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

All very Thunderbirds

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

Margaret Thatcher recognised the need to provide asylum for refugees, as well as the need to distinguish them from immigrants. No hope of that from her successors, of course.

Ian Gow MP (Thatcher's PPS) to Tony Marlow MP 23 August 1979:

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Is it anti semitism or is it super strength cannabis?

🤔

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure a guy in a glass house who wants to leave NATO should throw stones at Reform about Russia

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Agree with that - and next year looks like an oil glut

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Thiel saying the quiet bit out loud

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Israel has already taken Sparta I am afraid

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