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BBC News on hour reporting straight that Trump has got rid of military chiefs because ‘they’re too mired in woke culture’ 🤯🤯🤯 Traditional liberal democratic media still hasn’t learned how to report on authoritarians, even now when it’s almost too late

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‘Leatherface is the only name the film gives to its iconic character, a lumbering incarnation of doom who doesn’t know what to do with this stream of young people turning up at his door except to turn them into meat. Maybe they were meat all along.’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/de...

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As I was saying just the other day.

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DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

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Successful second homes crackdown means homes are £30k cheaper for Cymry, who actually need them.

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they spent the last 13 years making sure nobody else threatened the succession structure of ancient congressional leaders starting with Hillary Clinton and slandered the only grassroots multigenerational enthusiasm as nefarious Bernie Bros

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www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/oc...

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In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

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This is by one of the booksellers in East Jerusalem whose shop was raided by Israeli forces last night, and is currently in Israeli detention. (Written in November 2023) www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/no...

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We’re alarmed and outraged that two of our key partners, Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna, have been arrested in Jerusalem for the crime of selling books.

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who or what is this dog shit labour government even for

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Wow. What an obscene system - Washington using taxpayer's cash to subsidise data centres, which in turn cause those taxpayer's electricity bills to go up. All so Microsoft can force-feed chatbot slop to its customers and charge them extra for the privilege. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Leaving aside the ethical (and economic) wrongheadedness, this is politically hopeless. However ‘tough’ Labour gets on immigration, Reform can always get tougher. There’s no way to outflank them on the right. It also lets Reform set the terms of the argument. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Welsh Labour took a lot of flak for this but they were right "The number of people hurt fell by 28% compared with the same period the year before, with ten fewer dead "The number of casualties was also the lowest for the three month-period since records began in 1979" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Hello new followers! Sorry I don’t post more (am I on/in a starter pack)?

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‘Not too long ago,’ Ronald Reagan said in 1964, ‘two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, “We don't know how lucky we are.” And the Cuban stopped and said, “How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to.”’ 1/3

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‘Quite a lot of this was playful … but Lynch’s now rather magnificent face was frequently suffused with melancholy. The last line spoken to him was: “See you at the curtain call.”’ Christopher Tayler on ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ in 2017 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

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A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season. These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels. We are in a climate emergency.

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Is it really a snack if it costs £25

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Or she went back in time to 17th century Venice

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It was an honour as well as a real treat to listen to Neal Ascherson telling some of his stories www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

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Can’t stop thinking about how totally crazy this line is from Labour ‘We promised new laws on money in politics in our manifesto but now we’re not going to do it because Nigel Farage could make political cap out of it (while Reform receives tens of millions in actual capital)’ 🤯🤯🤯

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#Novelty5Xmas ‘The Perry Christmas Dub’ by Lee Scratch Perry youtu.be/x1OX5KDvNfY

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#Novelty5Xmas ‘White Christmas at the White House’ by Coldcut and Juxta (from 2006, with George W. Bush on pre-deepfake vocals) youtu.be/ixQ54jTQfv4

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#Novelty5Xmas ‘Dan Bern’s Christmas Song’ by Dan Bern. youtu.be/xlde3876cVE

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#Novelty5Xmas ‘Merry Crassmas’ by Crass youtu.be/amI20uj3dE0

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#Novelty5Xmas ‘Christmas Number One’ by the Black Arts. The satire is fully on the nose, the guitar is more annoying than Slade, but it has its amusing moments amid the pervasive despair. youtu.be/avX_tM-2Tt8

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Tired: Write rubbish NYT piece about Bluesky after posting twice Wired: Write grebt LRB blog about it without giving your own deep-lore handle

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

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For everyone who’s relaxed about Baillie Gifford money … note that they fund the Chair in the Ethics of AI at Edinburgh Uni while investing in AI autonomous weapons systems👇

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Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

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Hi guys, my name is Jeff Techbro and I'm planning to DISRUPT the WATER INDUSTRY by shitting in your local reservoir

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"Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are really political parties in the 20th-century sense: they are more like shifting collections of performing entrepreneurs. The currency of the court at Mar-a-Lago, with its cronies, goons, sidekicks, clans and lumpen billionaires, is attention."

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Magazine editor: sorry we had a piece on cups last month

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