Robert Clark

Modern science is built on Islamic maths and science. Islamic scholars rescued classical texts. Without them we'd have no Aristotle. MAGA is a continuous war on knowledge & science

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Incredible that Trump's never been asked to disavow the klan despite his father's affinity for it

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump says El-Sayed is a jihadist and shouldn’t be allowed to serve in the Senate

Good day for democracy

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Brazil rejected Bolsonaro. Serbia's students beat Vučić. Machado is home in Venezuela. What a day for democracy.

haha nailed it

Pissedoffpundit@pissedoffpundant.bsky.social

😂👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏❤️👏❤️👏❤️👏❤️👏❤️👏💯🙏

Literally bothsidesing it

Sato Juniper@satojuniper.bsky.social

It's inexcusable, ABC, to not state clearly that this is PALESTINIAN land. Those attacking & destroying lives & olive trees are not "settlers". They're ILLEGAL INVADERS, seeking to remove the existing & rightful inhabitants by destroying their means of existence & in many cases killing them. #Auspol

And got rid of Joffrey. Hero to the end

hero.tohero.to

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I hope this means people go to jail. It is to our shame that perpetrators of this cruel and reckless scheme still walk among us. And if we don't punish them now they will return to commit more crimes

Rick Morton@squigglyrick.bsky.social

It’s almost here!

youtu.beWOW!! AG Blanche BEGS Judge To DISMISS My EPSTEIN LAWSUIT!!YouTube video by Katie Phang

Running down the clock?

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social

Another NEW development in my case against AG Todd Blanche: he has now filed a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings, trying to get rid of my case at this stage of the lawsuit. Blanche must be a glutton for punishment because he just recycles the same losing arguments. youtu.be/32RC_CPlZhI?...

The real shock is not that Maga voters still supported him but media, Wall Street & Silicon Valley all gave him a pass despite knowing this was true

Joe Walsh@walshfreedom.bsky.social

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

He is also insane

RoseInOregon@roseinoregon.bsky.social

This 100% 🇺🇸 Nothing he does makes sense unless you look at it from Putin’s perspective of dismantling our democracy. Who exactly is winning here?

14 Sept

Yes they certainly shouldn't be wasting their time on keeping people safe

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP@hongkongfp.com

Hong Kong police must remain vigilant against national security risks and root out threats at the earliest stages, the city's national security police chief has told new recruits to the force. In full: hongkongfp.com/2026/09/14/h... Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.

11 Sept

Taking a break from eviscerating Blanche in court to disembowel Trump in Dallas

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Katie Phang hands down has the best coverage of the Republican Midterm Convention

washingtonpost.comTrump says he has secured a vast U.S. stake in Venezuelan oil industryThe plan involves the United States taking more direct control over Venezuelan reserves as crime and steep logistical challenges discourage private investors.

29 Aug

Raw gangster politics

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social

WaPo actually does some reporting(!), calls the oil deal “a potentially costly and legally precarious proposal” and notes that the key Venezuelan partner is under investigation for money, laundering, and embezzlement. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

25 Aug

How it's done

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Watters: Do you think men should play in women’s sports? El-Sayed: I'm running for U.S. Senate. I'm out here trying to take on the health care crisis and big pharma, and you're asking me about who gets to play what sports

21 Aug

That's how to talk about GOP clowns

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Psaki: Why do you think Mike Rogers is so far refusing to agree to a date for this debate? El-Sayed: I mean, I hate to say it, he’s a coward. Rogers the Dodger does not want to actually debate because he knows that he’s an empty suit with no new ideas

scoop.co.nzShelves Go Dry, Services Collapse, Anti-rights Forces Surge And Deepen The CrisesNelly Munyasia, Executive Director of the Reproductive Health Network Kenya (RHNK) described a healthcare architecture that had become dependent on a single external agency.

11 Aug

A crime

Global Abortion Rights News@globalabortionnews.bsky.social

The Trumpian destruction of USAID has caused a collapse of the HIV treatment system in Kenya. It also fractured health systems, emptied pharmacy shelves, drove up unplanned pregnancies and unsafe abortions, and enabled anti-rights groups.

I'm shifting towards NYT skepticism

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social

Democracy Docket last Tuesday. NYT today. Support independent media. demdock.com/4w6emld

I think about this too. What the hell happened?

Deborah Weeks/A Woman for An Eternity@deborah-10.bsky.social

That's how to message as a progressive politician

M Meerkat@kackbro.bsky.social

If That's What Mayor Mamdani Has Been Doing For NYC,Count Me In...

Staggeringly expensive pointless deal and one of Albanese's biggest failings in not taking the opportunity to dump it.

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com

Australia’s blind faith in the Aukus submarine deal is “stark staring bonkers,” the former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has told a public inquiry, arguing the asymmetric deal with the US and UK will likely result in no submarines at all for Australia. 🎥: Public Inquiry into AUKUS

theguardian.comFrom the Pocket: No surprise as booing of Isaac Quaynor is met with the usual equivocationWant to get this in your inbox every Wednesday afternoon? Sign up for the AFL newsletter here. The booing began when Isaac Quaynor pounced on a loose ball 10 seconds into last week’s game between Adelaide and Collingwood. They booed Billy Frampton, a former Crows player. They booed Dan Houston, who had ironed out Izak Rankine in his final act as a Port Adelaide player. But most of the boos were directed at Quaynor, partly because of the history between him and Adelaide, and partly because he kept getting the ball. The resentment over the handling of Rankine’s homophobic slur last August was clearly still lingering. Local broadcaster Stephen “Rowey” Rowe had predicted a cacophony of boos in the lead-up to the game. “I think they’re a bit dirty ‘cos he sooky-sooky la-lahed, and rightly so,” he told Eddie McGuire. This is an extract from Guardian Australia’s free weekly AFL email, From the Pocket. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions Continue reading...

29 July

It takes a certain kind of heroic victimhood to abuse a victim of vilification. McRae is right, booing is pathetic

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com

From the Pocket: No surprise as booing of Isaac Quaynor is met with the usual equivocation

hongkongfp.comHK judge Wilson Chan to retire early after repeatedly committing plagiarismA Hong Kong judge will retire early this week after he was found to have committed plagiarism in his judgements at least three times over as many years.

28 July

Former star national security judge had trouble articulating his own thoughts apparently. But a whiz with cut and paste hongkongfp.com/2026/07/27/h...

22 July

More rain?

theguardian.comVictoria announces new social media ‘demasking’ powers for accounts accused of vilificationNew laws would give Vcat power to force social and AI platforms to identify anonymous users in move premier says will protect children * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Social media companies could be forced to identify anonymous accounts accused of online vilification, under new laws being proposed in Victoria. The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, announced a suite of social media reforms on Sunday, saying families needed new ways to protect their children online. Continue reading...

19 July

Good but need big penalties for social media sites that enable and encourage hate content

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com

Victoria announces new social media ‘demasking’ powers for accounts accused of vilification

15 July

A favourite pro-govt talking point: Hong Kong's security laws, that have jailed entire opposition leadership, restrict civic participation to pro-govt 'patriots', closure of dozens of media titles & bookshops & allow trial without jury, are no different from anywhere else

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP@hongkongfp.com

Hong Kong national security laws need constant improvement to close loopholes, ex-Beijing official says 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2026/07/15/h...

scmp.comWhy China’s ethnic unity law marks a shift towards assimilationThe law has been criticised by the EU and US, but Beijing says it is designed to build a sense of ‘national community’.

15 July

Talk about meeting of minds. Xi Jinping & Pauline Hanson are both all in on assimilation to create single national community www.scmp.com/news/china/p...

hongkongfp.comHong Kong independent bookstore Have a Nice Stay announces closureIndependent bookstore Have a Nice Stay has announced its closure, citing financial difficulties and "unclear red lines" that make it hard to determine which titles can legally be circulated in Hong Ko...

15 July

Another one bites the dust. Another victory for rule of law with Hong Kong characteristics where security police refuse to reveal which books breach the law hongkongfp.com/2026/07/14/h...

hongkongfp.comIndependent bookshop Elmbook to close physical store after HK Book Fair banElmbook, an independent bookshop that opened in 1997, has announced it will shutter its physical store in Mong Kok after being banned from the Hong Kong Book Fair.

10 July

Another casualty in the war on knowledge hongkongfp.com/2026/07/09/i...

10 July

One of the most cynical predatory companies ever to creep across the earth

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hongkongfp.comHKU student publication Undergrad shuts down after 74 yearsA student magazine at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has announced its shutdown after failing to recruit enough members for its editorial board, bringing an end to its 74-year run.

30 June

Understandable. Young HKers have zero interest in journalism which now means a career writing handouts praising the govt hongkongfp.com/2026/06/29/u...

24 June

Wow, corporate Australia doing the right thing for once

Gadget@gadget44027447.bsky.social

🚨 Karl Stefanovic has reportedly been SACKED by Channel Nine as presenter of The Today Show (Australia) after his propaganda interview with Tommy Robinson. Karl gave long-time violent criminal Tommy a friendly platform to lie uninterrupted about his legal troubles for 40 minutes straight.

23 June

He's gone from demented to fully reality-adjacent.

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social

I hired Obama to do my rain gutters last fall and his guys never even showed.

15 June

Regulate all social media like utilities with full transparency of methodologies that manipulate content & specific rules on content for children

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social

Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

15 June

$300 billion! A cargo fleet of cash

Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social

This is what US defeat looks like.

10 June

If a hurricane came along would he flee to Mexico?

darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social

has anyone asked ted what “masculinity” has to do with anything

30 May

How is he not in jail?

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

In yet ANOTHER decision by a judge trying to unstick Alex Jones' abuse of the legal process to prevent us from paying the Sandy Hook families, Texas judge Maya Gamble said Alex Jones has conducted "outrageous discovery abuse, tampering with evidence, and continuous, callous disrespect" for the law.

25 May

Christ how many layers of self-importance, fuckwittery , contempt for the public and having NFI about his actual job. Thanks Ronni

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ft.comXi Jinping railed against Japan’s ‘remilitarisation’ at Donald Trump summitChinese president became heated when criticising US ally for its increased defence spending

25 May

Xi drinking his own bathwater. No one in east Asia cares about Japan rearming. It's not the one threatening war. Its mil budget is <1/5 of China's www.ft.com/content/70e9...

19 May

Yes barely noticeable

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

TRUMP: Routinely falls asleep on camera, has unexplained injuries on his makeup-caked hands, regularly makes genocidal threats, posts nonstop AI slop, compares himself to Christ, goes on unhinged rants every time he appears in public THE ATLANTIC: "He's becoming purer"

15 May

The last 16 months have been spectacular, like nothing seen before, it was all Xi could talk about

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Sure he was, dude. What a pathetic loser.

erstestiftung.orgA Speech to Europe 2026 »The European Moment« - ERSTE FoundationIn her speech »The European Moment«, Anne Applebaum warns of global threats to democracy and the EU and calls for greater European sovereignty and cohesion.

15 May

And attacking science and discarding any kind of independent expertise. They are the foundations of western freedom and prosperity

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

"You cannot celebrate European civilization while simultaneously attacking the legal and political order invented here, or while openly seeking to undermine the institutions that protect pluralism and dissent" An answer to Vance and Rubio: www.erstestiftung.org/en/a-speech-...

404media.coChina Pressure Canceled World’s Largest Digital Human Rights ConferenceRightCon's organizers said Beijing was upset over over the inclusion of speakers from Taiwain.

4 May

China forced the shutdown of @accessnow.org annual digital rights conference in Zambia becuase of presence of Taiwan rights activists. China's war on civil society in Chinese cultural world is global www.404media.co/china-pressu...

20 Apr

This is how to talk about Trump

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

10 Apr

Stalin: How many divisions does the Pope have?

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

I’m Team Pope Leo. And you don’t have to be a practicing Catholic to think — what the hell is wrong with the Pentagon’s mouthpiece? This is repugnant.

9 Apr

Impeach this deranged moron

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Trump says the U.S. military is “loading up” around Iran and threatens that if his demands aren’t met, “the Shootin’ Starts,” while threatening “our military is looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest.”

theguardian.comIn a war with no winners, Netanyahu looks like the biggest loserAs Iran and US agree fragile ceasefire, Israel’s conflict has turned out to be a bust and, say opponents, ‘a political disaster’

9 Apr

Maybe Netanyahu's shifty grifty career is finally catching up to him www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

hongkongfp.comAll HK eatery licences to inc. nat. security clauses by Sept: ministerAll Hong Kong restaurant licences will include national security clauses from September, Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan has said.

9 Apr

Hong Kong authorities move decisively to extinguish the threat of the dreaded cook and waiter uprising hongkongfp.com/2026/04/09/a...

8 Apr

huge win

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

So there’s no regime change, we lift all sanctions against them going back decades, they retain missile and drone capabilities, they control the strait and can charge tolls, and keep their enriched uranium. So much for “unconditional surrender.”