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Recent reports show that Peter Thiel Guru Curtis Yarvin met with Labour Peer Lord Glasman and boasted about using the N word. Why does this matter? Because Glasman claims to have a strong influence on the Prime Minister’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney

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Whoa! Hats off to ABC News reporter Matt Gutman for keeping his cool yesterday. This LAPD officer needs to be relieved of duty if he can’t handle an alleged “touch” without snapping.

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Private equity bidders trump rival to buy doctors' surgeries, hospitals and hospices with £1.7bn Assura bid. NHS estate privatised by Tories/Blair, now bought/sold for profit. NHS pays escalating rents, less money left for frontline services. All part of creeping privatisation

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Boston showed up for No Kings Day!

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Today will be a day remembered in history. 1/3rd of Americans will support freedom. 1/3rd of Americans will prop up a dictator. 1/3rd of Americans will do nothing at all. And my kids will read that history lesson and be proud

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 151. New wars breaking out at home & abroad under Trump, with massive protests across the country planned tomorrow as the autocrat rolls tanks through the capital for his birthday. Here is everything that happened today. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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Fiona Bruce, "We have a lot of Reform voters in the audience, I want to hear from some of them at least" If the #BBCQT audience is based on voter share at the election, how can there be so many Reform voters in the audience if Reform only got 14% of the vote share in the 2024 general election?

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A Florida sheriff warned protesters in a press conference on Thursday that "we will kill you, graveyard dead" if they throw weapons or point a gun at officers. Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey made the remark at an event with local law enforcement that declared Florida as "The Anti-Riot State."

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An advance look at “On Parade,” David Plunkert’s cover for next week's issue. #NewYorkerCovers

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BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

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Welcome to the archives.

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Water Follies In the 35 years before privatisation, 100 reservoirs built; no major English reservoir built since. Asset-stripping: Thames Water sold-off 25 reservoirs. Southern Water to decommission 43 of 93 by 2030. Companies paid £85bn in dividends, borrowed £70bn. People fleeced and abused.

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When the Greens said this, nothing. When the LibDems spoke up about how bad it was Labour were dropping this, nothing. Reform back it and its even a headline in the fucking Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Boris Johnson chose 8 out of the 12 board members at the BBC, and they make decisions on a simple majority of 7. That is why the BBC is such a complete bag of 💩 Fire them all, NOW.

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Trump keeps using the word insurrection, and he's not using it on accident. Please set your devices up sooner than later, if you have not already. Consider a trusted VPN for laptop/phone. Signal is our preferred messaging app. More info below 👇🏼

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I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

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she’s like 15 feet away. absolutely that man’s whole thought process was: “I’m gonna shoot that woman”

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I asked a BBC spokesperson to set out any examples of the corporation drawing up specific plans to secure the support of voters for other political parties in the UK, but they were unable to do so bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

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BBC's News & Current Affairs CEO gave "a presentation on plans to address low trust issues with Reform voters... Directors discussed how story selection & other types of output, such as drama, also had a role to play" The media is part of the story. Byline Times scoop by @adambienkov.bsky.social 👇

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