James Van Der Beek spent the last year of his life fundraising for cancer treatment. He auctioned off Dawson’s Creek memorabilia. Costars launched Cameos to raise money for his care. A serious diagnosis in the US can financially destroy you. Universal healthcare saves lives.

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

I went to a far right, anti-gender summit in Brussels so you didn't have to. Here's what went down: www.opendemocracy.net/en/far-right... @opendemocracy.net

My thoughts in the @heraldscotland.bsky.social on the enforced closure of Theatre 118, one of Glasgow’s most important grassroots arts spaces. www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2584...

People should leave X. It's like being on Stormfront. Before I left I saw an AI advert for Hitler & a "comedy" song taunting a journalist about his relatives dying in the Holocaust.

Misconceptions aren’t a rare occurrence for those at risk of homelessness. In 2023, YouGov found that 32% of people think that ‘most homeless people have themselves to blame’. Organisations such as @bigissuenorth.bsky.social and INSP are fighting back: www.insp.ngo/articles/liv...

A theatre in Glasgow has announced the devastating news that it has had to close after being given 'seven days' notice'

This is awful. I'd like there to be good jobs for Oldham & Glasgow.

Fascism cannot produce art that lives because living art relies on unqualified engagement with an other, a challenge to the self. Fascism can only ever conjure an ever more atrociously gilded mirror reflecting back faces that refuse even the realities of time.

So far I've had food poisoning from chips out of cafe and have had a tennis ball smashed into my face.

Theatre 118 is one of the best grassroots theatre initiatives in the country. Situated in an office block in the centre of Glasgow, over 6 months it put on a ton of work and provided a vital platform for writers, directors and actors. The company has just lost its space at 7 days notice.

"Brett Christophers argues, the problem is rooted in the absurdist nature of capitalist priorities: saving the planet on which our lives depend is not sufficiently profitable" - read William Thomson here bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/12/t...

RIP Garland Green. More sad news. Here’s a playlist to remember him by. What a voice ▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/3cQ...

After two weeks deep inside the Epstein files, I've come to view his operation as something close to an elder abuse scheme. Pitching old oligarchs on the collapse of the global order as a way to fund his sex trafficking operation. www.garbageday.email/p/a-singular...

I love 70s Bowie, but a relative thinks the "chug rock" didn't go with the flamboyant outfits. I'm considering it.

We’re told 'Britain is broken'. Whichever party is out of power blames the other for the ruin. It isn’t Britain that’s broken though. Britain is made up of the people who live on this island and we've broken nothing. It’s politics which is broken and the people who broke politics are the politicians

"is Goodwin really asking us to believe that the erosion of our “shared history, national identity, culture and symbols” is seriously under threat from immigration, much of it from the British Commonwealth, when the only actual example he gives is cricket?"

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

A reminder, following the conviction of Jimmy Lai, that two senior British lawyers—a former Law Lord and a former Supreme Court President—continue to lend respectability to the Hong Kong legal system by sitting as non-permanent judges on its highest court. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Jimmy Lai: Response from his children, Sebastien & Claire, & from the international legal team to this predictable but nonetheless disgraceful sentence. Press queries: see contact details here & please direct queries through them. Thank you.

🧵 A lot of interesting information in this thread.

On this day in 1964, The Beatles made their debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. The programme was watched by an estimated audience of 73.7 million.

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Watching the most recent Alan Partridge series, I idly wondered if all the news reported in The Day Today canonically occurred in the Partridgeverse, and if the events of Brass Eye are included, and if so did Noel Edmonds' career survive him shooting Clive Anderson, since he's still Alan's nemesis?

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

I've never seen the Super Bowl bit of the Super Bowl.

lol

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

During his historic performance at the Super Bowl LX, Bad Bunny shouts out all the countries in America.

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” MAGA wanted you to boycott this.

"It's OK to Be White" has been a slogan for literal Nazis for some time now, if you want to know where the Republican Party is at the moment

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

It's some comfort that blatant racists are still unpopular. They still have to exploit tragedies & pretend to care about women & children to work up a crowd & that means it won't last.

Really????????

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

Christina was a lovely woman, who really cared about her constituency. She got a lot of stick on social media & in the press, none of it deserved.

How can you eat that giant pizza without being covered in oil & cheese?!

Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV (8th February 1985). Just a quick rundown of what we can expect to see on Sunday, strikes permitting.

This series of articles by Peter Oborne is so spot on - withering about McSweeney - and his obsessive focus on party politics, scheming and tactics, at expense of policy conducive to the national interest - and in process ultimately ruining Starmer’s govt.

Paddington gently taking Morgan McSweeney by the hand, leading him to the afterlife McSweeney screaming, I’m not dead, trying to break free Paddington’s grip tightens further, the more McSweeney struggles Paddington does not make mistakes Once he has your hand, your time on Earth is up

the fake conspiracies are a distraction from the real conspiracies... this is what I found again and again while researching Doppelganger. And Bannon is doing it in overdrive these days.

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's vault in Mount Jerome, Dublin. I organised the restoration and plaque in co-operation with the Le Fanu family back in 2014 for the bicentenary of his birth. Here's what it looked like back then, all spiff and bedecked with flowers. JSLF passed away on 7 February 1873.

I love folklore, nostalgia & nature & it's besieged by racists so on Instagram I have to scrutinise all the accounts I follow to work out if they're dodgy. On Twitter (before Elon) I followed an Old London account for YEARS & then one day it just started spewing hate about Somalians.

Going to be bleak when we find his name in the files

Bloody hell

US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe - www.ft.com/content/f869... via @FT

Ok UK media - oh so scandalised by Mandelson - when are you going to be scandalised by US interference in our democracy? Epstein, Farage, Bannon, Vance, Thiel, Musk, Trump, Brexit, Heritage Foundation, the funding of far right populism to collapse our govts….?? After you’ve helped their collapse?

In honour of the woman who, more than anyone, is responsible for this moment of transparency with the #EpsteinFiles, we're removing the paywall from this profile 🟨‘Virginia Roberts Giuffre Was an American Hero’ subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/80/v...