WARNOCK: Trump said 'we're going to have a manufacturing boom.' Yes or no, have we had one? BESSENT: There's the beginnings of a manufacturing boom. We have intentions -- factory groundbreakings WARNOCK: Do you know how many manufacturing jobs have been lost since 'liberation day'? 72,000

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Just published front page of Thursday's FT: will the Epstein files take down the government of Keir Starmer while having no reverberations in the US whatsoever?

Oh my god, this is one hell of a scoop. Jim and the FT have been absolutely all over this and the hits just keep coming.

Amazing (From @atrupar.com )

Cheers to that >

Or perhaps someone else can buy this paper from Bezos—since he seems to view it as an albatross—and donate it to a foundation established to run it as a nonprofit. Bezos gets a capital loss, the buyer/donor is a hero, the rest of us get a world class newspaper. The Knight Institute is ready to help.

The chair of the first law firm that bent the knee to Trump’s extortion and agreed to do pro bono work for him is featured in the Epstein Files, you say? Huh.

That Jeff Bezos's Amazon gave Brett Ratner, someone photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and in the Epstein Files, $75 million to make a doc about Melania Trump, while he chooses to destroy The Washington Post, says about all you need to know.

(Bloomberg) -- US companies announced the largest number of job cuts for any January since the depths of the Great Recession in 2009, according to data from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.

Irish MEP Aodhán Ó Ríordáin warns the EU that America’s descent into authoritarianism cannot be ignored, and calls for an end to St. Patrick’s Day symbolism that masks democratic collapse. “The only thing a bully understands is strength.” #Democracy #EU @europarl.europa.eu @democrats.senate.gov

here’s our 2,000 word report from June 2023: www.ft.com/content/0723...

He cannot be clearer. There is no difference to him between bombing random fishermen on boats and shooting Americans protesters in the face

The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand. Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Gabriel Sherman’s new rollercoaster account exposes the ruthless building of a ‘Succession’-like dynasty and media empire. Tap here to read Henry Mance's book review: ft.trib.al/jaT03OL

They have built their brand on a mountain of unmitigated and unfounded lies. It doesn't take much to destroy their arguments. All you need is facts. Period.

"Why do people keep calling for a 'European X' or a 'European Instagram' when instead, by sharing infrastructure as we're doing with @eurosky.social, we could have 20 or 30 social networks?" — @seabass.bsky.social

Great comment!

Lewisham council plans rubber crumb football pitch at Whitefoot Lane, Downham. Rubber crumb pitches will be banned in the EU and NI, due to dangers to young players. But in England, it's all good. Wonder where EU's unwanted rubber crumb will end up? www.salamandernews.org/council-igno...

Fingers point at Morgan McSweeney, the chief of staff who championed Mandelson, but the final blind eye was Starmer’s. www.ft.com/content/1a29...

At Davos - Steve Wiktoff & Mark Rutter from NATO convinced everyone they were about to strike peace with Putin. Kyiv has just been plunged into more bitter cold and missile attacks. That’s what you get when you pursue ‘peace’ with a war criminal. Shameless

Vive la France!

@keithbohanna.bsky.social did an offsite at Clontarf Castle, great location…

Epstein was issued with 9 separate Russian 🇷🇺 visas covering more than 9 years and they were sponsored by MOO that was “linked to veterans of Russia’s FSB special forces unit “Vympel” (known for anti-terror operations).[efa-vimpel] Led by FSB veteran and KGB colonel Sergey Shestov”

Epstein: you well? Richard Merkin: Fair ..and you? Epstein: all good with trump lots of opportunity January 8, 2017

Should be fired and disbarred 👇👇 #epstein

If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

The GOP’s new Voter Suppression bill, the so-called “SAVE Act,” would disenfranchise many of the 69 million women who took their husbands’ last names, as explained in my summary. It proposes *no penalties* for erroneous voter purges but potential *prison time* for erroneous registrations. WTF?! 1/

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Latest @edwardluce.bsky.social column "The Epstein rot goes deep" 👇👇👇 Nails it: "American's deeper question is whether it can restore a culture of shame" #Epstein #media

The Paris public prosecutor’s office said its yearlong probe was recently expanded because the Grok chatbot was disseminating Holocaust-denial claims and sexually explicit deepfakes.

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the U.S.

‘We made a lot of money working together’: Epstein’s in-house trader revealed ft.trib.al/5ijxIcK

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

I hope y'all are watching Lawrence O'Donnell's segment on the pedophile führer's murderous ICE Nazis, In Cold Blood. Make no mistake, it's Trump who is MURDERING American citizens. O'Donnell's replaying damaging testimony against Trump's Nazis, including teacher Marimar Martinez.

Well, my fellow Maine voters. Here is Susan Collins today paying tribute to her boss while holding her MAGA hat.

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Stop me, oh-o-ho, stop me Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before

Trump is demanding $10 billion because a contractor (not an IRS employee) leaked some of his data. OK, then. It seems only fair that each of the 300,000,000+ Americans whose personal tax and Social Security data was leaked by DOGE receive the same renumeration. That's $300,000,000,000,000+.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.

I hope people understand what happened here. Yesterday in the late afternoon, Trump said that Putin had promised not to attack Ukraine in such a way that it would damage their heating. Then a few hours later, that is exactly what the Russians did in a massive attack.

Therein lies the problem. ICE is terrorizing Los Angeles, and local police are choosing not to enforce the law banning masked federal agents. This is how trust collapses.

It’s not so much an IMDB score as it is a warning label.