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Julia LeeThorp

@julialt.bsky.social

Wandering SAffer, retired professor of archaeological science interested in all things human, animal, vegetable and mineral

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Julia LeeThorp@julialt.bsky.social · last wk.

Heather Cox-Richardson’s @hcrichardson.bsky.social pithy summary of Trump’s threat to destroy the Kennedy Center unless he gets to “renovate” it and add his name in gold as a metaphor for his attitude to the USA: “Nice country you got there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.””

Julia LeeThorp@julialt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Timely by Greenhaigh and colleagues wrt Hanta virus transmission, specifically urgent need to adopt precautions based on airborne transmission. It’s hard to believe that we having this debate again, ~6 years after same arguments with COVID open.substack.com/pub/trishgre...

Respiratory protection and the precautionary principle in the current Andes virus outbreak

An open letter to the World Health Organization on 11th May 2026 by Don Milton, Trisha Greenhalgh, David Fisman, Amanda Kvalsvig, Lidia Morawska, Joe Vipond and Jonathan Samet

open.substack.com

Julia LeeThorp@julialt.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Off the scale bizarre, repetitive, resentful, ignorant, malevolent, boring, stream-of-consciousness nonsense. Amazed that the audience did not get up & leave. Guess who? A world of contrast to Mark Carney at the WEF yesterday

Julia LeeThorp@julialt.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What if the MSM wrote about the goings-on in Trump’s USA in the same way as they report on events in African or Middle Eastern countries? This article provides a flavour that is spot-on and disturbing open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

US Authoritarian Regime Executes Unarmed Civilian as Ruler Grows More Erratic, Isolated

What if we wrote about events in Trump’s America in the way that Western media describe African and Middle Eastern countries?

open.substack.com

Rusudan Djakeli@rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Georgian protesters have now reached the Government Administration building, demanding an international investigation into Georgian Dream’s use of chemical agents during last year’s crackdowns — as revealed by the BBC. Day 374 of nonstop protests in Georgia. #theCamiteCase

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Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 10mo ago

What Zohran Mamdani means for the future of progressive politics You don’t fight hate with hate. You don’t win over their voters by being a watered-down version of the real deal. You have to forge your own identity and do your own thing northeastbylines.co.uk/news/opinion...

What Zohran Mamdani means for the future of progressive politics

You don’t fight hate with hate. You don’t win over their voters by being a watered-down version of the real deal. You have to forge your own identity and do your own thing

northeastbylines.co.uk

Julia LeeThorp@julialt.bsky.social · 12mo ago

It’s pretty obvious that they did esp since the tide of denial on ongoing genocide is turning & authoritative UN report is now out. Beeg question is why they over-reached like that, they will have a hard time living it down

The Empty City@davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12mo ago

NEW Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action? A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

The New York Times has now published a document which sets out the government’s basis for the proscription. This is the “open” version of the MI5 assessment that has been placed before the courts in litigation challenging the proscription. The judges would also see a “closed” version with material not to be placed in the public domain. One hopes the “closed” version is a far more impressive document than the one published, which is a flimsy and unconvincing piece of work. The assessment even admits—twice—that most of the activity of Palestine Action cannot be called terrorism. The document overall reads as if it has been compiled backwards, intending to justify a conclusion that needed to be reached. If so, it will not be the first intelligence document to have been created in such a way. The assessment relies on the group having caused “serious” property damage, which is the relevant statutory test. The problem here is that the spraying of paint and graffiti by the group does not meet the threshold of seriousness. The document also relies on “open source” estimates of the cost of damage which, if one looks at the cited sources, trace back to a claim which the police themselves put to arrested protesters in interview. As such there is a certain circularity: the state is relying on the state claiming the damage is serious.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last yr.

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?