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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

They looked for “Don T” in the Epstein files and redacted all instances, which means they also redacted a lot of “don’t”

They are in one of the best places in the world to eat food but can't go out either because Italian food is too exotic, or because they know they would be booed. Not just the VP, not just abroad. Key members of the Trump cabinet live on military bases (Hegseth, Noem, Rubio, Miller).

Alexei said he wants people to write in to the BBC and ask if Stuff can be added to iPlayer. You know what to do.

Fans of complete gibberish need to tune in to the commentary for the Men's Big Air competition on BBC2 Winter Olympics right now.

"The libertarian fan token" @secondmentions.bsky.social

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

go off jack white

Winter Olympics should just be all the Olympics events but on ice. Weightlifting on ice. Judo on ice. 110m hurdles on ice.

If George Clinton wrote Star Trek

The Global Counsel "Our People" page is like a relic of Stalin's purges.

Trump job approval rating by news platform 🟢 Twitter/X: +9 🔴 Facebook: -7 🔴 Cable TV: -10 🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14 🔴 Local TV: -17 🔴 Instagram: -21 🔴 Broadcast TV: -28 🔴 TikTok: -28 🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33 🔴 Reddit: -40 www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...

Counterpoint: tulips on sale at a care/deli around the corner from my house in London for £2 a bunch.

this is very funny www.foxnews.com/media/jd-van...

There's no reason to accept this as normal, though. Much of Starmer and Labour's unpopularity is not misfortune but his own doing. Mandelson was a choice. Consistently pursuing policy positions designed to appeal to people who will not vote for you - and alienating core supporters - is a choice.

Is this good chat

Starmer's protection of McSweeney recalls nothing as much as Rupert Murdoch casting an arm around Rebekah Brooks and saying "this one" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

excerpt from the keynote speech at the annual Rape Traffickers Convention

If you want to read Peter Mandelson's full pitch for a job to the billionaire CEO of Glencore, Ivan Glasenberg, it's here. It'll make you feel better about all the cover letters you've written over the years for jobs you didn't get.

let us pray

Misread this pretty catastrophically

Angrily playing the pianoforte while your mother tries to marry you off to a rude plantation owner who has twelve thousand a year, although it appears he is much taken with your sister who does not care for society.

Inventing a contraption so whimsical in its appearance and preposterous in its design that the fellows at the club wager that you cannot fly it from Dover to Calais and back before Saint Swithin's Day ends.

Doesn't seem like the best day for Starmer to reheat "you lefties [on the backbenches/in the Labour membership/in the Labour electorate] just don't get it" Blue Labour type arguments?

What does that even mean? Which core British values (other than chauvinism)?

Episode 5 of Traitors Ireland is CHAOS, and I am here for it. It's like UK Traitors but with an unlimited free bar.

"Let's move on to how shit everything is"

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Why are the names of those who sent these emails to Epstein redacted?

this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway

The hometown newspaper that I read as a teenager through Watergate and Vietnam and made me crave the life of a reporter is now being butchered by a billionaire who had $75 million to bribe and flatter a president and his wife but nothing to save journalism, an bulwark of the republic itself. Got it.

Worst bus journey ever

Are they having a Special Congressional Inquiry on divorce?

Ooh, Andrew O'Hagan on Murdoch.

"In retrospect Prime Minister, was his nickname of The Prince of Darkness not a tiny bit of a red flag?"

Can America go back to bed please, we cannot deal with your shit as well today.

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

Vibes very much suggest that this will finish Starmer. Anything before May elections would be difficult, because if you kill him now, how can you kill him then?

losing my mind at this photo, it's literally the 'my t-shirt' meme

Let's not question Starmer's political judgement, he didn't want Mandelson to be US ambassador, he wanted SORRY WHAT?

Sounds like a bad person for his then shadow cabinet colleague George Osborne to join on a yacht holiday.

I’m not sure ‘our national security developed vetting technique can be beaten if a candidate is prepared to lie’ is an especially helpful line to push.

"How did he think he'd get away with it", we ask, about a man who got away with it for decades until a series of incredibly unlikely events.

PMQs or, as it is now known, Peter Mandelson Questions.

What a story www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Life (imprisonment) comes at you fast

Is the NY Times suddenly feeling righteous anger?