The world is increasingly becoming a marketplace of needs and offers, of sellers and buyers, of infrastructure for loyalty and standards for alignment, and no country understood this shift earlier, deeper or more strategically than China, Konstantinos Komaitis writes

a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually

Salah slams Liverpool for 'throwing him under the bus' reut.rs/4a1NpXU

The tech oligarchs are the most organised, determined anti democratic force we’ve seen this side of World War II For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time

National Pedophile Day has been added to the list of free entry days to our parks.

How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!! No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏

The CEO of Palantir.

🍺 Artist: monkeon https://b3ta.com/board/11423387 From the 'Movie Poster Recycling' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/movieposterrecycling/popular/ #MoviePosterRecycling

2018, Russia: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I'll just wait four years." 2022, Qatar: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I guess I'll wait another four years..." 2026: So I guess the joke is on me.

The NYT photo desk FTW. www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

Hollywood unions alarmed by Netflix's $72 billion Warner Bros deal reut.rs/3Ks2VSv

🎧: Peter Thiel’s company has worked with Trump’s ICE and the Israeli military. Now it’s embedded in the British state. @libertyhq.bsky.social investigative journalist Mark Wilding joins the Prospect Podcast to discuss.

Good round-up of current state of affairs on ICC, Microsoft and which EU state and sub-state entities have publicly abandoned US tech for open source solutions: "larger geopolitical trend of States and the UN embracing OSS as a critical tool for realising their digital autonomy and resilience."

One should be in no doubt that most of Britain's elites will simply make their peace with Farage and do a deal, so long as they get left alone or benefit. Tho there is resistance to Trump in the US, it's v much the exception.(1/2) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

🔴 The making of a modern bigot Everything from Farage’s cigarettes to his performative pint glass radiates the air of a man who never outgrew his rebellious, racist youth. 📝 My piece for the brilliant @afuahirsch.bsky.social’s Substack 👇

Pete Hagueseth. We should make it a thing.

This CBS story is just remarkable. It states that Trump insulted their reporter, and also notes the same thing happened to reporters from Bloomberg and NYT. Both of those organizations are quoted defending their journalists. But Bari Weiss and CBS don't lift a finger to defend their own reporter.

Your Black Friday reminder that Amazon... -Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine -Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

My hotel in Hong Kong, where people understand airborne transmission of respiratory viruses, has HEPA filters everywhere

Palantir has worst month in two years as AI stocks sell off www.cnbc.com/2025/11/28/p...

Trump-Connected Lobbying Firm Ballard Partners Repeatedly Helps Peter Thiel's Palantier Land Illegal No-bid ICE Contracts www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Good morning and welcome to your short thread of FT Weekend highlight giftlinks for this very cold morning. Why not stay in bed and enjoy some high quality journalism. Links are free 300x that's all I have and the actual paper with all the weekend journalism you need is in the shops now!

We have incredible choice these days, but you don't half have to fork out some cash to see it all. The Ashes cricket isn't on Sky, so it's another £30+ a month if you want to watch. I hate all these subscriptions bleeding us dry.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

If you know anyone who is still a staunch Trump supporter, even after all this, I would keep them away from any kids this Thanksgiving.

“Weaponizing the DOJ” takes on a whole new level when you order investigations in order to reopen it so it’s no longer closed and you can claim you can’t release information because it’s an “ongoing investigation”

We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.

Fesshole Live is hitting the road! See us in Leicester and Leeds – tickets out now. Then it’s the Sweden Tour (Malmö, Göteborg, Stockholm) and Anon Opin in London and Leicester. https://sites.google.com/view/fesshole

If Trump still sues the BBC, notwithstanding their apology, he is in a far less strong position than if the BBC had not apologised. The apology was tactically a sensible, prudent move by the BBC whether Trump sues or not.

Also, a question for Justin Webb: would you still say Donald Trump is "making America normal again"?

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."

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”

🔴We Need to Talk About Michael Gove and Crony Covid Contracts Gove claims he had no “active role” in the procurement of Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...

Byline Times is digging where the monopoly press fears to tread. Farage’s Kremlin links. Trump’s pull on Blue Labour. Thiel & Palantir’s reach into government. Our new investigations team is just getting started. Help us go even further: 👉 subscribe.bylinetimes.com/nostoneuntur...

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

Burry’s Palantir trade is roughly an order of magnitude bigger—and more interesting imo—than the Nvidia puts.

I know this won't surprise anyone here but Musk's reprogrammed artificial intelligence is spreading misinformation about yesterday's attack on a train

Yeah, we will do one this evening at some point! I meant to post that Friday, my apologies

Finally, someone talking about the fuel poverty that matters

@angrystaffer.bsky.social Is the AMA on this weekend?!🙏❤️

This builds on earlier @peterjukes.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social stories Whilst Manuel “I know nothing” Farage would have us believe he was stunned to hear of Gill’s Russian asset work it really is not remotely believable. See my 🧵 below outlining for how long Farage’s been a 🇷🇺 helper rôle

Stewart Lee joins @aiannucci.bsky.social to look at how much news is just speculation, and how politicians use speculation to further their arguments. And, is it exhausting to have to keep fact checking things ourselves? Is it preferable to the alternative? opiniontoday.substack.com/i/177641749/...

Farage is flagging. He’s losing councillors and by-elections, and his polling’s plateaued. But we all need to fight him harder. A month ago I wrote this blog about 10 things you can do to help defeat Farage - keep doing them, it’s working! - bsky.app/profile/guys...

Andrew in line for six-figure payout and annual stipend from king, sources say

I am just starting to see suggestions among MAGA influencers that the suspension of SNAP payments on Nov 1 will trigger looting and riots in Black urban neighborhoods; a predictable fear that I suspect will escalate to calls for preemptive measures (eg Guard deployments?)