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While Trump described his call for the U.S. military to reestablish a position in Afghanistan as “breaking news,” he has previously raised the idea.
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about whether it or the Pentagon has done any planning around returning to the sprawling [Bagram] air base, which was central to America’s longest war.

Trump says US working to take back Bagram Air Base from Taliban
President Donald Trump has suggested he's working to reestablish a U.S. presence at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

Oh dear, they really need to sort themselves out and pronto.
Corbyn and Sultana clash over new party membership
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkn3v1e7g3o

Corbyn and Sultana clash over new party membership
MP Zarah Sultana says she is a victim of a "sexist boys' club" in row over setting up new left wing party.

Online Anti-sexist Speech: Identifying Resistance to Gender Bias in Political Discourse
Aditi Dutta, Susan Banducci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11434 https://

Online Anti-sexist Speech: Identifying Resistance to Gender Bias in Political Discourse
Anti-sexist speech, i.e., public expressions that challenge or resist gendered abuse and sexism, plays a vital role in shaping democratic debate online. Yet automated content moderation systems, increasingly powered by large language models (LLMs), may struggle to distinguish such resistance from the sexism it opposes. This study examines how five LLMs classify sexist, anti-sexist, and neutral political tweets from the UK, focusing on high-salience trigger events involving female Members of Par…

Barbour ABI: the UK's data center count, currently 477, is set to jump by ~100 over the next five years, with more than half in London and neighboring counties (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyr9nx0jrzo

Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount
The number of data centres is set to jump by a fifth in the coming years, figures seen by the BBC suggest.

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
JENNA: About twenty-four hours. If you're expecting a last-minute reprieve you'd better forget it. Once they get you this far there's no going back. You'd better get used to the idea. Nobody out there gives a damn about you.
[Scene: VARON's apartment. He walks towards the bed where MAJA is sleeping and stops. She awak…

@… another bug report/suggestion, two actually.
#1: comma separated tags/categories in RSS feeds aren't interpreted as separate tags, but as one big long tag
#2: possibly add hashtag search to bridgy web. you can retrieve a list of posts matching a searched hashtag from most instances (iirc), it might be nice to set this up for …

Pete Buttigieg hits back at Kamala Harris’s suggestion she could not risk him as VP pick | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kamala-harris-memoir-pete-buttigieg-b2829512.html

After FCC Chairman Brendan Carr went on MAGA influencer Benny Johnson’s podcast and suggested that Jimmy Kimmel should be taken off the air, ABC suspended his show indefinitely.
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Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
“Goebbels Ends Careers of Five ‘Aryan’ Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime”

D-party congress critters ought to begin drafting bills to dismantle DHS.
DHS, including its highly nazi-flavored name, was constructed by a Congress and president (bush) who were terrified after 9/11.
It is time to pull the pieces of DHS apart, retaining some parts, deleting other parts (such as ICE), and reshaping the rest.
There is a rule of thumb that suggests that if one wants to re-form an entity to change its internal culture that no more than 10% of the staff should…

It takes a village to write a book: Mapping anonymous contributions in Stephen Langton's Quaestiones Theologiae
Jan Maliszewski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12830 https://

It takes a village to write a book: Mapping anonymous contributions in Stephen Langton's Quaestiones Theologiae
While the indirect evidence suggests that already in the early scholastic period the literary production based on records of oral teaching (so-called reportationes) was not uncommon, there are very few sources commenting on the practice. This paper details the design of a study applying stylometric techniques of authorship attribution to a collection developed from reportationes -- Stephen Langton's Quaestiones Theologiae -- aiming to uncover layers of editorial work and thus validate some hypo…