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2026-09-03 11:01:00 UTC

‘When a small number of people with the most serious mental illnesses aren’t receiving adequate treatment, tragedy can ensue.’
[@carolyngorman_](https://bird.makeup/users/carolyngorman_ ) on this week’s Times Square attack 👇 https://buff.ly/khoNQ6h

2026-09-01 12:13:42 UTC

"The debate between socialism and free-market capitalism was over by 1945, if not by 1900. And the winner was . . . neither. The mixed economy won."
✍️ Michael Lind
https://unherd.com/2026/09/americas-brain-rotting-socialism-debate/?edition=us

2026-08-30 17:00:52 UTC

Should feminists pity Lindsay Clancy?, by Victoria Smith (@glosswitch)
Postpartum psychosis is rare, and postpartum psychosis leading to the murder of one’s own children is rarer still.
However, intrusive thoughts of harming one’s baby are common. More than half of new mothers experience them and they are not related to any greater incidence of actual harm.
When my own sons were tiny, I lived in terror of “mad moments” in which I might throw them down the stairs or drop them out of a window. The feeling was akin to the thoughts you might have standing on a high ledge, terrified that you might suddenly decide to step off, even though that is the last thing you want to do.
The comforting explanation for these thoughts is that they are linked to a desire not to harm but to protect your child. We run through a film reel of the most terrible things that could happen to our children: harm coming through our own hands being the most terrible of all.
When we look at Lindsay Clancy, we see the most horrific malfunction of maternal love and feel immense relief that this never happened to us. That is why we feel sorry for her.
Read more:
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2026-08-30 07:15:04 UTC

Comté's latest exemption shows that even France’s most hallowed culinary traditions have limits.
@npub1jeu…ju3s on why France may be losing the cheese war 👇
https://buff.ly/Wvi9AYK

2026-07-22 08:00:36 UTC

Burnham’s potemkin radicalism, by Jonny Ball (@DespoticInroad)
If Andy Burnham came of age in the physical space between Liverpool and Manchester, he also finds himself torn by their different civic responses to this supposedly neoliberal age.
Where Liverpool “dared to fight”, railing against budget cuts and the harsh medicine of monetarism, Manchester would become a model pupil of civic governance: sensible, moderate, business-friendly, and co-operative (the divergent fates of the two cities since is instructive).
And Burnham the politician wavers between the two poles, the consummate wool: unsure of whether he is more a radical Scouse shop steward, raging against the dying of the light, or an industrious, pragmatic Mancunian.
Read more below ⬇️
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2026-06-05 13:59:05 UTC

“I get emotional about it, because I could have spoke up sooner”
@npub1xfq…5f45, transsexual man and former pornographic film actor, joins feminist campaigner @npub1jh3…hv3n and UnHerd’s Flo Read to discuss his experience as a trans man during the rise of gender ideology.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2062895890071982081/vid/avc1/1080x1920/_TwR_5bdDyju1PF1.mp4

2025-09-19 05:30:05 UTC

As arguments rage about the precise variety of Tyler Robinson’s psychopathic politics, one thing is clear.
Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer is intensely puerile. @npub1y74…ct8t 👇
https://buff.ly/ZqJNspr

2025-03-25 19:30:02 UTC

World Athletics will introduce cheek swabs or dry blood tests to verify an athlete’s biological sex.
Why did no one think of this before? @npub1ecm…keew 👇
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