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Ed Douglas

@calmandfearless.bsky.social

Writer. Loves the spikier bits of the planet. Bath addict. Contributor to Guardian Country Diary. Represented by David Godwin Associates.

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Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3w ago

Even while denying the significance of Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the Trump family has cultivated friendships with the Tate brothers, and the Trump Administration has intervened on their behalf with Romanian authorities. A lot of the US far right is in bed with them, so to speak:

Tate made a deal with the right-wing streaming service Rumble, which had recently received major investments from Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire, and J. D. Vance, Trump’s future Vice-President. The details have not previously been confirmed, but a confidential contract shows an agreement to pay Tate at least six million dollars a year for a weekly quota of five short videos and a thirty-minute live stream. His presence inspired a forty-five-per-cent increase in active users, sending Rumble to first place on the Apple and Google charts. A few months later, Elon Musk bought Twitter and reinstated Tate’s account. When Tate was arrested on human-trafficking charges, his allies defended him. Donald Trump, Jr., called the case “absolute insanity,” and Musk suggested that the authorities were targeting the Tates while ignoring “actual sex trafficking.” Carlson, who had just released a documentary called “The End of Men,” devoted hours of airtime to proclaiming Tate’s innocence; so did the right-wing podcaster Candace Owens. The activist Charlie Kirk praised him onstage. “What he says is so powerful,” Kirk said. “Our society is configured towards collapsing the American man.”
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3w ago

We can all cackle but this is important and should be celebrated: The final day of the Far Right CPAC conference with Liz Truss and Aus’ Pauline Hanson speaking had just 100 people in the audience.

Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 3w ago

China’s approach to Tibet is entering a new phase. @savetibet.bsky.social analysis argues Beijing is embedding AI, algorithm-driven communication, & “cross-cultural empathy” into a coordinated system designed to shape international narratives on #Tibet. savetibet.org/lhasa-confer...

Lhasa conference signals escalation in China’s efforts to institutionalize AI-enabled narrative control on Tibet

July 15, 2026 China’s Second Tibet International Communication Conference, convened

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Ed Douglas@calmandfearless.bsky.social · 4w ago

Publication day for my new book Upland: The Strange History and Vital Future of Britain's Mountains. It's essentially about how they were made, literally and in our heads, and how we used and abused them, and how they still carry us along. Enjoy!

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David Benedict@eggsbened.bsky.social · 4w ago

“I am the most verbally and physically attacked public figure or politician of modern times.” The disgraceful Nigel Farage. Remembering Labour MP Jo Cox, born 1974, murdered 2016.

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Pascal Jacquemain@jacquep.bsky.social · last mo.

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys share.google/nw0ojKKXnID1...

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...

High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought

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