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A fun project for finance/data nerds. Can anyone *reliably and robustly* decode this messy bank statement export in the Epstein files? Would show how much Epstein transferred to Lord Mandelson's then-partner

The Jack in the Green at #WyrdWycombe

PS. My thread concludes with a tribute to today’s bday celebrant, America’s greatest poet Langston Hughes, my 2025 @satevepost.bsky.social Considering History column on his vital critical patriotism! #BHM www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/02/cons...

Another complainant - a separate one, as far as I can tell - claiming Trump regularly paid her to perform sex acts with him when she was younger than 14.

This did a decent job bsky.app/profile/jame...

Breaking on MS NOW: Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in charging Don Lemon and the other journalists who covered the Minneapolis church protests. The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges, per @carolleonnig.bsky.social.

The revelation raises serious questions about suspected Russian links to the incidents at RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk in November last year. 🔗https://inews.co.uk/news/russian-links-drone-sightings-uk-air-base-3542584

New post out: "How MI6 works" We interviewed Richard Moore the man who was "C" - Chief of MI6 - until September. In part one we talked about MI6 operates - how does C work with the Prime Minister? Does he think there's a "deep state" etc... (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/h...

Alastair Carns now in waffle mode about our #AirDefence in response to a question about what would the RAF do if a Russian surface vessel launched a drone attack on the UK.

In a Minneapolis federal court where 16 people were charged on Wednesday with assaulting immigration agents, Judge Dulce J. Foster said she was “deeply disturbed” that Attorney General Pam Bondi had published photographs of some of the defendant... TAT: [Suppressing Dissent | Undermining Democracy]

Brilliant new report from @gilesyb.bsky.social on how a stronger more economically capable No.10 could help government sharpen up its strategy for raising the rate of growth www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

“Zebra crossings… rely on a subtle eye contact-based interaction between driver and pedestrian about who has right of way...” Er, nope @theguardian.com Maybe get someone who at least knows the basics of the Highway Code to write these pieces. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

🧵Think a Tory message of 'we don't want centrists' is a real risk and a imo a misanalysis of choices. The evidence shows parties rarely succeed when they've told certain groups of voters they don't want them and the danger is the Tories are now doing that in both directions.

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once..."

"There's no point increasing training places for dental students if there are no NHS practices left for them to train in after graduating” warned @drlaurenharrhy.bsky.social We can’t have NHS dentistry without NHS dentists. Practices need decent contracts to retain and recruit staff.

For those of us who covered the role of Stephen Miller in Trump 1, what's happening now w DHS head Kristi Noem is a striking reprise of the WH response to the family separation tragedy in 2018. On Monday, Noem had a 2 hour meeting w Trump where she tried to defend herself. 1/

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

CNN: Are you okay? Omar :I've survived war. And I'm definitely going to survive intimidation and whatever these people think they can throw at me because I'm built that way.

On the Starmer doctrine: pretend there is a way to avoid the hard choice, find out the hard way there isn’t. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Occasional family plug alert... and this one is for the 18yo's band Cassidy, who are playing 7 Feb at the Beehive, Empson St, London... couple of their tracks are up here: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUT...

"I remember a terrible, frozen day when I went to an old people’s home near a frontline and counted dead body after dead body, all frozen in their sleep."-- @janinedigi.bsky.social

The sun is setting on our democracy. There’s not much daylight left. This is the moment to be bold—or there will be nothing left but the darkness. Removing the Trump regime is not just possible; it's a moral imperative. #Removal #Section3

There was design in the removal of wedding rings by the Nazis. First, it dehumanised people, just as the shaving off of their hair and the tatooing of numbers on their skin dehumanised them. Secondly, it provided profit. People were resources to be exploited. Even their hair was made into clothes.

By Til Mette.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

You live long enough; someone, somewhere does the literal meme

"Up to 380 people may have drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean last week". The West's normalisation of the mass death of black Africans (because that is predominantly who these people are) will never be less than devastating.

The overfunding of AI hurts us all, in very real ways

Remembering those happy days when the term "big beast" was reserved for substantial figures like Ken Clarke, Michael Heseltine, John Smith, Paddy Ashdown, etc. Now...Suella Braverman.

Found a YouTube channel that makes entirely ambient videos of Skyrim with accompanying music from the game. Like, 2 hour long videos. Amazing stuff if you have a decent projector youtube.com/@tranquilwor...

Ella Baron in @theguardian.com

In anniversary news which I can’t quite verify, it may be 39 years (possibly more) since the Indian Air Force dressed their helicopters up as elephants for Republic Day

Excellent piece today in @theguardian.com by @josephdeweck.bsky.social

It boils down to this: They want the founding without the violence that made it possible.

“It took the UK, 7 years to leave the EU, it’ll take 7 years to regret it & 7 years to get back in”. Finnish President Alexander Stubb answering questions on Ukraine & defence & values at the WEF in Davos. youtu.be/1UXY-Y0nJjk?...

Sadly suppressing such a devastating report doesn’t make the risks go away - it just makes them even harder to deal with. Facing up to the truth is the first step to coping with it - it’s beyond scandalous that ministers tried to prevent this. They need to act - and fast

Yo, that pop up about the new terms of service, god damn. They are getting straight to business. Fascists are really good at ruining every little good or widely used thing and twisting it into a tool to push their vile agenda. I loved TikTok, but I recommend getting rid of it ASAP.

Shootings will continue until morale improves.

If confirmed, this really is a new low, where a state agency is altering image of real events with an intent to deceive the public.

She will literally lie about anything.

I'm excited to announce I'm doing a new Bloomberg column about the business of fashion. The first column is about how we can re-shore US garment manufacturing. Instead of mass deportations and raising tariffs, I argue the government should move the industry upstream: tinyurl.com/reshoringapparel

The BBC has gone beyond both-sidesism, and frequently now presents only Trump's account of events (This isn't the only recent example)

Trump as US Commander in Chief means there's a legitimate possibility that the US Military may accidentally invade the wrong country.

Iceland at Davos

Supremely underrated 1980 cult classic black-comedy thriller THE STUNT MAN arrives at the PCC for the UK premiere of it's brand new 4K restoration from @filmsradiance.bsky.social genre imprint, Transmission. 🎟️: buff.ly/0UZg5uj