Giles MacDonogh
@gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social
British-Austrian Historian, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, author, occasional artist, linguist, food, wine and cooking.
As though Farage has any worthwhile contribution to offer to the social care debate. Might as well ask my gerbil to answer the Schleswig Holstein question.
Yale is on the verge of cutting a deal with Trump to change its admission procedures. Reminder for any school dealing with Trump's extortion: You can't appease a tyrant. Surrendering to authoritarianism only invites more of it.
Yale Loses the Capitulation Bowl - The American Prospect
The university’s president embarrasses herself in trying to give in to Trump blackmail.
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Things reached a tragi-comic level when America’s UN Ambassador, Mike Waltz, went on Meet The Press. In a series of wonderfully contradictory statements, he first said that the shortfall in US munitions existed because of the Biden administration, then he said it was not true and the US military
Midweek Update #21: Iran Is Toying With The USA
Plus: Iranian Strategy; How Does This End?
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The diplomatic row was initially sparked last week, when the US joined North Korea and Russia in voting against extending Volker Turk's term as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. After the vote on Friday, France's UN mission criticised the US and compared it to North Korea and Russia.
Death of Mary de Rachewitz, daughtr of Ezra Pound: www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...
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#Impeach #Convict #Remove #ImpeachConvictRemove #Rule9 #RuleNine #RuleIX #Trump #Vance #Johnson @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats-judiciary.house.gov @democrats.senate.gov @removalcoalition.bsky.social @citizensimpeachment.com @fsfp.bsky.social #DOOR #Blues It's mad.
Larry Colvin@larrycolvin.bsky.social · last wk.Ossoff: Only one man attempted 2020 election fraud in GA. Trump demanded the precise number of votes he needed to win in a state he'd lost. His failed scheme has enraged him ever since. Now, he spirals in fear of the accountability to come in Nov. Because accountability is coming. #Blues
😆 🤣 to misquote the phrase Heart of stone Knob of butter Morning popetato x
ASH TRAY The First, Popetato of Wülferhampton 📎@thomasashman64.bsky.social · last wk.Good morning Wülferhampton have a tremendous Tuesday you Turkey twanglers I dont know who made this but its hilarious
The White House report is a nakedly political document, seeking to prove that “the museum profession has catechized and codified the ideological dogma of DEI to…an astonishing degree.” It builds on Trump’s belief that the Smithsonian has an “improper ideology” that Trump
July 27, 2026
On July 22, Sam Fortier of NOTUS reported that the Trump-appointed judges of the Presidential 1776 Award competition, emceed by Education Secretary Linda McMahon, apparently rigged the competition to ...
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'Jerome Steffe, the mayor of Cestas, a town south of Bordeaux, says this "will be the fire of the century". 'Speaking to BBC News, he describes how 17,000 residents were evacuated from his town during the night when the fire swelled two days ago.'
🔴 Seven Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn Saturday, according to Shehab News. Two of them died from wounds sustained in earlier attacks. Journalist Tareq Abu Azzoum filmed the aftermath of a strike near a media tent in central Gaza.
“If the Administration believes the semiquincentennial warrants a permanent commemorative work in the capital,” they wrote, “the path is open and well worn; it runs through Congress, as it has for every memorial since the Continental Congress approved the first,
July 26, 2026
From the time he took office in January 2025, Trump and his cronies have not simply challenged laws or constitutional provisions.
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Congressman Ted Lieu presses Marco Rubio about Trump’s health. As usual, we get the classic Republican response. Bullshit.1
Trumpipumpipiddlipoo is keeping all options on the table:
Analaysis of NHS data by the Lib Dems reveals it would cost £263,000 to ensure children in Clacton who have not had a dental check-up get one - around the same as the cost of Farage's by-election 'circus' But, for Farage “It’s all about ME. ME. ME” apple.news/AHPpi_2gBQki...
Nigel Farage's costly stunt could have paid for thousands of kids to see dentist — The Mirror
EXCLUSIVE: Analaysis of NHS data by the Lib Dems reveals it would cost £263,000 to ensure children in Clacton who have not had a dental check-up get one - around the same as the cost of Farage's by-el...
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