Morgan
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Good thread. I think what people mean is "where are the evangelical churches" and the answer is that they will largely stay loyal to Trump or stay out of it. And also we must not use their language - despite what they claim, evangelicals are not the only Christians.
Okay, since I’m in a mood, do you know what is annoying mild *annoyance* about all this, rather than a gut-wrenching crisis?
I’m not a Christian but my sense of fairness keeps requiring me to defend the church because people keep posting shit about “Why aren’t Christians speaking up?!”
I’m not a Christian but my sense of fairness keeps requiring me to defend the church because people keep posting shit about “Why aren’t Christians speaking up?!”
January 25, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Good thread. I think what people mean is "where are the evangelical churches" and the answer is that they will largely stay loyal to Trump or stay out of it. And also we must not use their language - despite what they claim, evangelicals are not the only Christians.
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Good. More of this.
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
bit.ly
January 25, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Good. More of this.
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bsky.app/profile/anja... nonviolence is a strategic choice, and it's also a highly risky one *for participants*
the thing about satyagraha is that Gandhi being murdered himself doesn't constitute failure--the point of nonviolent resistance isn't that it's more safe, it's that it dramatizes the violence of the state and highlights its illegitimacy via contrast, and it mobilizes public outrage against injustice
January 24, 2026 at 8:47 PM
bsky.app/profile/anja... nonviolence is a strategic choice, and it's also a highly risky one *for participants*
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"I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny...He lost his life for those values."
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 4:35 AM
"I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny...He lost his life for those values."
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people keep saying this but it's just wrong and insensitive.
The BBC would do whatever is most convenient for them and their interests. Generally that isn't telling the truth be it about feds executing a nurse, trans kids, racism, ableism, Israel's genocide etc and so forth.
The BBC would do whatever is most convenient for them and their interests. Generally that isn't telling the truth be it about feds executing a nurse, trans kids, racism, ableism, Israel's genocide etc and so forth.
If it was filmed in the UK, the BBC (and every other news organisation) would clearly state that the government line was a lie.
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 AM
people keep saying this but it's just wrong and insensitive.
The BBC would do whatever is most convenient for them and their interests. Generally that isn't telling the truth be it about feds executing a nurse, trans kids, racism, ableism, Israel's genocide etc and so forth.
The BBC would do whatever is most convenient for them and their interests. Generally that isn't telling the truth be it about feds executing a nurse, trans kids, racism, ableism, Israel's genocide etc and so forth.
"Just the start" of putting people in camps is Not A Good Thing To Be Starting, Shabana.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
First asylum seekers moved into Crowborough former military site
The Home Office says 27 people seeking asylum have been housed in the training camp in East Sussex.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 4:56 PM
"Just the start" of putting people in camps is Not A Good Thing To Be Starting, Shabana.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
this! this!
we live in the 21st century, where we are a middle-sized nation of middling power. we can't go back to being a great power, we *shouldn't* go back to being the kind of great power we were up to the mid-20th century even if we could
we live in the 21st century, where we are a middle-sized nation of middling power. we can't go back to being a great power, we *shouldn't* go back to being the kind of great power we were up to the mid-20th century even if we could
I do feel quite strongly that the UK should embrace an identity of one of many middle-sized nations in a community of nations, rather than cling to these pretentions of being a great power.
I’ve finally read Mark Carney’s speech to the Davos crowd and agree it’s an incredibly luccid speech that offers a pragmatic and positive view of how middle and also small nations can navigate the new unruly word order www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
January 22, 2026 at 11:28 AM
this! this!
we live in the 21st century, where we are a middle-sized nation of middling power. we can't go back to being a great power, we *shouldn't* go back to being the kind of great power we were up to the mid-20th century even if we could
we live in the 21st century, where we are a middle-sized nation of middling power. we can't go back to being a great power, we *shouldn't* go back to being the kind of great power we were up to the mid-20th century even if we could
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"No justice, no peace" is really not a threat, it's just a fact
January 22, 2026 at 6:24 AM
"No justice, no peace" is really not a threat, it's just a fact
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In all the British liberal pearl-clutching at what is going on in the US, there's never an acknowledgement that the scaffolding exists here, just waiting for a PM and Home Sec to let them loose. And, yes, the kind of people who are in these jobs are *exactly* like those who work for ICE.
We have ICE in the UK. They do everything ICE in America did up till a few months ago, and if you think what ICE is now doing in America can't happen here I have a bridge to sell you.
And no – they're not regular police. They work directly for the Home Office.
And no – they're not regular police. They work directly for the Home Office.
January 22, 2026 at 10:04 AM
In all the British liberal pearl-clutching at what is going on in the US, there's never an acknowledgement that the scaffolding exists here, just waiting for a PM and Home Sec to let them loose. And, yes, the kind of people who are in these jobs are *exactly* like those who work for ICE.
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www.carbonbrief.org/net-zero-sce...
Energy sovereignty through green energy investment and transition would save money (and likely reduce energy security threats)
Energy sovereignty through green energy investment and transition would save money (and likely reduce energy security threats)
Net-zero scenario is ‘cheapest option’ for UK, says energy system operator - Carbon Brief
A scenario that meets the “net-zero by 2050” goal would be the “cheapest” option for the UK, according to the National Energy System Operator
www.carbonbrief.org
January 20, 2026 at 5:53 PM
www.carbonbrief.org/net-zero-sce...
Energy sovereignty through green energy investment and transition would save money (and likely reduce energy security threats)
Energy sovereignty through green energy investment and transition would save money (and likely reduce energy security threats)
it's almost like those policy positions people like to insist no-one can ever take seriously are...quite popular
YouGov poll out today:
Reform 24 (-)
Labour 19 (-)
Tories 18 (-2)
Greens 17 (+3)
Lib Dems 14 (-2)
Changes on last week. 17% for Greens is the joint highest YouGov ever polled Greens.
Reform 24 (-)
Labour 19 (-)
Tories 18 (-2)
Greens 17 (+3)
Lib Dems 14 (-2)
Changes on last week. 17% for Greens is the joint highest YouGov ever polled Greens.
January 20, 2026 at 2:06 PM
it's almost like those policy positions people like to insist no-one can ever take seriously are...quite popular
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This point about the way that liberal patriotism is separated from the wider population as an ideology typically across lines of citizenship and franchise in the country people are being patriotic about is so key.
This is why people from a whole spectrum of minoritised groups looked incredibly askance at Kier 'I always sit in front of the Union Jack' Starmer. Feel-good patriotism has always been the pretty bunting on state efforts of control by delineating an 'us' and a 'them' that we are set against.
Tell me right now when patriotism was good? When was American national glorification a positive force for humanity in the world?
The right didn't co-opt patriotism. Patriotism was already right wing and liberals tried to separate the feel good vibes of it from the rest of its problems.
The right didn't co-opt patriotism. Patriotism was already right wing and liberals tried to separate the feel good vibes of it from the rest of its problems.
January 20, 2026 at 7:26 AM
This point about the way that liberal patriotism is separated from the wider population as an ideology typically across lines of citizenship and franchise in the country people are being patriotic about is so key.
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The look on the dog’s face speaks for us all
The UK would be “foolish” to embrace the seemingly “simple solution” of a new customs union with the EU in an effort to boost economic growth, business secretary Peter Kyle has said despite growing fears of a trade war with Donald Trump.
(FT interview)
www.ft.com/content/73c8...
(FT interview)
www.ft.com/content/73c8...
UK would be ‘foolish’ to pursue customs union with EU, business secretary says
Peter Kyle warns against ‘simple solutions’ for boosting growth in FT interview
www.ft.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:08 AM
The look on the dog’s face speaks for us all
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I feel like America plotting to annex Greenland while masked state goons terrorise their own communities at will should encourage British press and politicians to reflect on what happens when you act like "far right" is an unfair slur rather than a necessary descriptor of a real political position.
January 19, 2026 at 8:26 AM
I feel like America plotting to annex Greenland while masked state goons terrorise their own communities at will should encourage British press and politicians to reflect on what happens when you act like "far right" is an unfair slur rather than a necessary descriptor of a real political position.
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Some people say Keir Starmer has been dealt a bad hand.
We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is.
We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.
We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is.
We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.
When Trump says "one way or another we're going to have Greenland" - we should sit up and listen.
Time for British leaders to stop burying their heads in the sand.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Time for British leaders to stop burying their heads in the sand.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Trump's threat to Greenland must be a wake up call for Britain
For too long our politicians have toadied to a dangerous president
www.newstatesman.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Some people say Keir Starmer has been dealt a bad hand.
We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is.
We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.
We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is.
We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.
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what kind of traditional man who embodies the traditional virtues of masculinity complains that a woman glaring at him while driving a car made him bleed internally
January 14, 2026 at 5:43 PM
what kind of traditional man who embodies the traditional virtues of masculinity complains that a woman glaring at him while driving a car made him bleed internally
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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪
January 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪
thinking war crimes are cool and wanting to show off that he can get away with doing as many of them as he likes
which apparently he can
which apparently he can
There’s really no good way to explain Hegseth doing a perfidy to attack an unarmed boat beyond “doing war crimes because you think war crimes are fucking cool.”
January 13, 2026 at 1:34 AM
thinking war crimes are cool and wanting to show off that he can get away with doing as many of them as he likes
which apparently he can
which apparently he can
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none of us are immune to propaganda or misinformation. i recently unwittingly reposted a story that turned out to be unverifiable & i have seen more fake stories circulating. yet ppl in the comments were stuck on "it feels emotionally true". that is a really dangerous place to be. that's not okay.
January 11, 2026 at 11:52 PM
none of us are immune to propaganda or misinformation. i recently unwittingly reposted a story that turned out to be unverifiable & i have seen more fake stories circulating. yet ppl in the comments were stuck on "it feels emotionally true". that is a really dangerous place to be. that's not okay.
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A new digital library full of manuscripts and incunabula to discover! 📜
#medievalsky #DigitalHumanities
#medievalsky #DigitalHumanities
#Italy #DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage #GLAM
'The platform, developed by the University Library System, offers online access to more than 200,000 images representing around 4,000 digital objects.'
www.theflorentine.net/2026/01/09/f...
'The platform, developed by the University Library System, offers online access to more than 200,000 images representing around 4,000 digital objects.'
www.theflorentine.net/2026/01/09/f...
Florence University launches digital library showcasing rare historical materials | The Florentine
The University of Florence has unveiled Impronte Digitali, a new digital library designed to preserve and make accessible rare historical materials held in the university’s libraries.
www.theflorentine.net
January 12, 2026 at 2:17 PM
A new digital library full of manuscripts and incunabula to discover! 📜
#medievalsky #DigitalHumanities
#medievalsky #DigitalHumanities
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🧵 in both directions
One thing: I think the big barrier to letting in people ready to listen is the fact that a lot of these people have done real harm and it feels like letting them off the hook
To which I'd ask: is it more important for these people to suffer for their crimes or to live in a better world?
To which I'd ask: is it more important for these people to suffer for their crimes or to live in a better world?
January 12, 2026 at 12:26 AM
🧵 in both directions
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Baby gang gang cockatoos have literally the silliest cutest faces
January 9, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Baby gang gang cockatoos have literally the silliest cutest faces
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Barnabe Rich explaining that "bookes are like cheese"
January 6, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Barnabe Rich explaining that "bookes are like cheese"
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Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
January 6, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/