Same for CBS News and ABC News -- two richly resourced media companies that caved for their own, narrow purposes and made things immeasurably harder for smaller news organizations with thinner margins.

Great that personal bribery has become the default way to get deals with the world's richest and most powerful country. Really positive development.

The longest running metaphor for the state of the UK government remains undefeated.

I have thought about this a lot. If you can find community based on the most repulsive part of yourself and also face exile from that community if you fix it, that’s what many psychologists would call “not good “

Dude laid out the greatest hardware store sales pitch of all time imo

I will say it again; the Democrats need openly create a list of civil servants called the Dirty Dozen that will be subject to impeachment in 2026, The Constitution provides that “… all civil Officers of the United States” are subject to removal from office upon impeachment.”

could i make it any more obvious

8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"

I really thought we'd emerge from covid with an appreciation of the frailty of life. But Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan... the causal dehumanization of refugees... it's hard not to feel like we're all just bodies for the elite meat grinder.

I'd guess that 85-90% of American scientists would be ineligible for future funding under this law, maybe close to 100% in the R1 universities. So much for funding proposals based on scientific merit. Apart from being sinophobes, the people pushing this have no clue how science or higher ed works.

Everything’s coming up Mulhouse

🇧🇷 In #Brazil, - Solar grew from 0.01% in 2015 to 12% in 2025 - Met its 2030 renewable target 8 years early - Installed 60 GW of solar by Sept 2025 4/7

👇on public services, defence, schools and higher education funding, healthcare, industrial strategy, EU market access, green transition, utilities regulation, tech oversight/investment etc etc etc

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

If we accept someone is a genuine refugee and they build a life here, perhaps have children born here, what is the advantage to us of expelling them once we’ve persuaded ourselves that their country of origin is safe?

"Thank Heavens Reeves froze the thresholds," says the median voter in 2029 as they walk past the derelict sports centre and down the empty high street to cast their vote.

Well that's an interesting way to cover the story, NYT.

For some reason, nobody mentions this, but Trump himself extended TPS to Venezuelan refugees in his first term, which continued under Biden; only to now villainize them, portray them as gangsters and killers, enemy number 1 to be mass deported, today. Really sick stuff.

Marco Rubio appears to be convincing Hegseth and DoD to join in his insane campaign to set off an unwinnable and pointless ground war in South America still don't think it will happen but it's so fucking stupid this keeps going

Guess what's for dinner.

very proud of myself, thanks for asking

At least nine people in southern Ethiopia have been infected with the deadly Marburg virus, a clinically similar cousin to Ebola, according to the WHO. There are no vaccines or antiviral treatments approved to treat the virus.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

One of the things that bothers me about transphobia as a word - see also islamophobia etc. - is that, no, no it's not a *phobia* it's not arachnophobia or pyrophobia or things that actually relate to someone being scared, it's hatred and bigotry that is often finessed into a grift.

Hold up

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is to announce Saturday that “the era of permanent protection for refugees” is over in the UK. She’s also going to say the UK’s borders are “out of control”. Apart from sounding like a trailer for a Reform government, it’s already causing anger within Labour.

I always love images like this because it suggests, on their days off, Mapi and Aitana rove about the streets of Barcelona, in full kit and boots

A bounty? Very slave catcher of them. This league is gonna have to take a stand at some point. There's no "both sides" to this. At some point, racism and transphobia have to be a deal breaker.

The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.

if we take it to be true that the tariffs are aimed at getting americans to buy US-made products, then what's the point of rolling them back when they become painful? the entire point is to cause financial pain to change consumer behavior. what's the strategy here?

Thriller where three women stumble onto a sinister conspiracy in Washington DC but it’s Nancy Mace, Boebert and MTG

Incredibly smart PR tactic from ICE to continue assaulting very handsome priests

A Washington resident has been hospitalized with bird flu, according to the Washington State Health Department, and they’re infected with a strain of the virus that hasn’t been seen in humans before. https://cnn.it/4oIRswI

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Trump rolls back tariffs on dozens of food products

In Opinion “Acting just like a corrupt king, Trump is transforming the American system of justice into his personal plaything,” David French writes. “Friends of the crown break the law with impunity. Enemies of the crown experience the sharp end of the law, whether they deserve it or not.”

President Trump said he no longer supports Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is pushing for the release of the Epstein files.

It just feels like everything is being flattened. Rape, genocide, wildfires, etc etc is all just fodder for internet discourse rather than turning points that lead to… something, anything better or different.

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

RedBird Capital withdrew its £500 million bid for the Telegraph Media Group on Friday, leaving the fate of the major British publisher unclear.

every time they’re backed into a corner their way out is a to pluck an assault on some tenet of basic decency from a fetid message board

This is rape culture. This is why so many people don’t come forward. A young girl was being bullied at school by a boy who made AI generated nudes of her. She told the principal. She told the guidance counsellor. They didn’t stop it. Finally she hit the boy responsible, and SHE got expelled:

I mean, they can't and it doesn't. don't print lies in the newspaper.

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

If you don't help me commit extra judicial killings of South American fishermen then we can't be friends anymore.

Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

On the subject of "illegal" immigration: I had this email from my cousin today. I also cannot imagine just casually going out the night before doing something so terrifying. It was their second attempt.

I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.