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Journalist: WIRED.com and Forbes.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 https://authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67 Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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Today’s war in Iran, started by America, can be traced to the 1953 war in Iran, also started by America. Back then America wanted oil. Mostly for their motorists. And with the Straits of Hormuz soon to be blocked, oil prices will rise and rise. Nativist imperialism is nothing if not stupid.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Pretty sure America just went to war because nobody liked Donald Trump's military parade.

submitted 17 hours ago • 61 comments

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

submitted 5 hours ago • 103 comments

This scary archive piece assumes that Russia will be the first to launch nuclear weapons. Given that Anti-war Trump is now Trigger Happy Trump is that a still a sound assumption?

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Trialling Pi Indigo, Adobe’s new (and free) computational photography app. Photo on left is 1x; on right is the 10x digital zoom. Location: Simonside, Northumberland.

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

I'm off to watch an early showing of Danny Boyle's "28 Years Later." I've been looking forward to this since September when I wrote this @wired.com scoop on the film's use of iPhone 15 as cameras. www.wired.com/story/28-yea...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Wait a minute...didn't we all learn from the Trump Mar-a-Lago case that doing this is totally OK, and that jailing any person for it would mean America haa a "two-tiered system of justice" that is biased against Donald Trump? Really confusing these days trying to navigate the American fascist state

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“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

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