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‘“When we got into office Paul Marshall was a Lib Dem man,” a former Lib Dem MP told me. “By the time the coalition was over, he was a Gove man.”’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the businessman whose influence is reshaping British right-wing media: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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"Under weaknesses, you've put 'Accidentally stopped the fight against Ebola'?"

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Oh. Time to cancel my subs.

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" Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities, goes the saying“, and when the new Chief of the Joint Heads of Straff says "I love you sir. I think you’re great sir. I’ll kill for you sir,”, you better believe it.

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Wie schade.

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Err.....that's literally their job. To uphold the constitution. Just as it used to be the President's.

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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

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The Clown Show Presidency rolls on. . .

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Zelenskyy says Trump is living in a Russian "disinformation space", which is Ukrainian for being Putin's bitch. apnews.com/article/russ...

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European capitals are scrambling to fill the security gap should Donald Trump withdraw American military assets. Here’s what they should prioritise: www.ft.com/content/beb3...

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Donald Trump of living in a ‘disinformation bubble’ https://www.ft.com/content/dc981cd9-857d-4af0-a9f1-a01ce6242471

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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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Putin Agrees to Negotiate with Musk over Ownership of Trump open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

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on.ft.com/4gH4GoU

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New post, in which I get quite angry.

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It seems UK diplomats are not unused to dealing with uneducated colonials in Washington. "it is our unhappy lot to have to deal with, and tolerate, these extraordinary dolts"

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What a disgrace. Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them. This is how democracy dies.

submitted 9 days ago • 869 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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It even surprises me how these people fit so neatly into my model of information disorder, distrust that's radicalised by online communities that reinforce that sense of distrust.

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

This is wickedly smart

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Can't recommend these 2 articles enough. Oliphant shines out as a proper journalist at a paper lately spoilt by levels of ranting and false outrage which would shame a tabloid.

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One could use a variety of social science terms to describe what’s going on, but perhaps the simplest explanation is that the Trump White House is run by assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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"The problem isn’t that Trump doesn’t understand that he’s laying the groundwork for Ukraine to lose. He doesn’t care if Ukraine loses. The problem isn’t that Trump doesn’t understand he’s giving a massive victory to Putinl. He’s on Putin’s side." - Bill Kristol More: bit.ly/3X0TlJp #TraitorTrump

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NEW: A memo obtained by @wired.com shows that CISA is reviewing every position related to election security & countering mis- and disinformation and frozen the agency's election security work. @ericgeller.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/cisa-e...

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“there are Neville Chamberlain’s in every generation” George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt

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"What a world to live in. Never before has the danger of climate change been so evident and the response so cavalier"

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Just endured every excruciating minute of this. With Trump sitting there, the kid wandering around, Musk gives a crash course in his theory of democracy that would embarrass a semi-literate stoner. These are fools in charge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAuT...

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NEW: DOGE is behind the abrupt cancellation of $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, a Department of Education division responsible for much of what we know about the state of U.S. schools. By @jodiscohen.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

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Trump, Putin, Xi and the new age of empire | Opinion https://www.ft.com/content/8d1afb00-57ee-4b59-abe3-df0ff18084fb

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This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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