🚨HOLY SHIT: Joe Rogan slams Trump’s ICE raids: “You don't want militarized people in the streets snatching up people…U.S. citizens (without) papers on them. Are we really gonna be the Gestapo? 'Where's your papers?’ Is that what we've come to?”

If you aren't angry, you aren't paying attention. A woman was murdered by ICE in Minneapolis today. This should outrage us all. ICE out of our cities now. youtube.com/shorts/ecsmn...

Sublime shithousery from the @financialtimes.com 🤌🏽 Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter: shorturl.at/QkJ5A

FT always takes bylines to the next level

Lol, we have reached peak protein, I'm calling the top

‘It is a particularly disorienting aspect of modern life that we construct so much of our identities around our personal brands… with the aim of pleasing not ourselves, not even our loved ones, but the unknowable “general peer”.’ @jemima.bsky.social on bucket lists www.ft.com/content/edb1...

🔮✨🪄🦄 PART 5 of my quarterly Adventures in Woo Woo is out in this week’s HTSI and on @ftweekend.com and it’s my favourite yet… 🧞‍♀️ www.ft.com/content/6a83... Why I fell for transcendental meditation

Marvellous, moving and wise column by @martinsandbu.ft.com:

For this week’s Betwixtmas column, I wrote about the joy and importance of service to others as.ft.com/r/8c5dbbc4-3... ‘Wellness’ culture is empty without service to others (Gift link! 🎁🎄)

Gift or curse, you can decide 🤗

Out today - 16% of public feel a profound sense of awe or wonder at the universe or nature DAILY, 12% say they NEVER feel that, with an even spread across range between. One of my favourite qs of year - don't often get sense of how different our mental models are www.kcl.ac.uk/news/one-in-...

Boiling live lobsters to be banned under animal rights reforms www.thetimes.com/article/c994...

lovely

This is a thoughtful and welcome counterpoint to the prevailing discourse problematising masculinity From @jemima.bsky.social | In praise of male courage - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

“If we hide in our separate silos, opposing only certain kinds of bigotry, or supporting liberty only for certain kinds of people, we will all lose.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

My column this week as.ft.com/r/587705d4-e... (gift link! 🎁🎄)

National news, UK.

Very fun Q&A happening right now with @jayrayner1.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social and Bee Wilson. Including an unwelcome answers to my question about whether it is ok to leave your Christmas ham out on the side all Christmas. www.ft.com/content/13dd...

Incredible, intensely moving piece. Astonishing courage from one man, and a very sad ending for another as.ft.com/r/74c0df5a-4...

please don't do this haringey

Wow, Trump is really losing it

1/ @jemima.bsky.social of @financialtimes.com is back from safari, and doing what she does best... Today, a look at Marjorie Taylor Greene.

This week's column, on the chutzpah of MTG as.ft.com/r/c628b275-6... (gift link!🎄🎁)

Amazing courage

This really is a delightful column indeed

Jamie Lee Curtis wraps her Christmas presents in pages of the FT tied with tartan ribbon. Why does she make this superb style choice? Why because Martha Stewart told her to of course! Find a more iconic sentence in a newspaper today. I DARE YOU. as.ft.com/r/8f38ca55-1...

As you look outside at 11.36am and wonder if it's already getting dark, let me provide you all with my annual reminder that after tomorrow the evenings start getting lighter again (the mornings get darker until the end of the year) and by the end of January sunset will be a whole HOUR later

Oh dear, due to technical issues the vibe shift will not be televised today. Apologies! Tune in tomorrow at 2pm instead (and you can submit questions in advance here anyway)

I will be going LIVE on ft.com at 1pm London time today to chat (via the means of text) about the vIbE sHiFt and if there actually has been one after all AMA here! as.ft.com/r/6cdfc618-c...

Useful www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-...

What the actual fuck is this shit (sorry I do try not to swear usually but come the fuck on) Trump removing MLK day and Juneteeth (both national holidays) from the days access to national parks is free but adding his birthday (not a national holiday, yet) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...

Seeing as I am today feeling both alcoholically hungover and vulnerability-hungover following the publication of my column (and also following quite a lot of sharing during the events that caused aforementioned booze hangover), I thought I would share my latest... as.ft.com/r/1b7474f8-3...

The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.

GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament

‘Was Musk just doing it for the lulz? It wasn’t entirely clear. It was all just too good — almost too good to be true, and the funniest thing of all was that it was true.’ @jemima.bsky.social captures the magical realism of Doge on.ft.com/4olBkjP

For this week's column, the quiet abandonment of Doge, the crypto crash, and the beginning of the end of the era of lol on.ft.com/487FW8i (gift link ! 🎁)

Thrilled to be in this beautiful issue with my Christmas present guide

Went to Uganda, got properly charged at by a herd of forest elephants (terrifying), got inspected by a gorilla, had a lioness named after me (pictured below 😍), slept on the banks of the Nile, and wrote about it all for @ftweekend.com In print today/online below on.ft.com/3M4TLM9 (gift link!)

Something very sweet and also cognitively dissonant about this

Oh dear. Very bad call from the BBC

If y'all are stuck for Christmas presents this year, consider @ianleslie.bsky.social's "John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs". Such a brilliant and wonderful read, even if you're not a Beatles fan (and you probably will be by the end anyway) - my pick for the year... on.ft.com/4ofz1yK

While you all talk (for good reason, admittedly) about the bromance between Trump and Mamdani (or Trump and MbS, or Trump and Elon), might I draw your attention to a truly beautiful friendship that I suspect might last a little longer... the Ariana Grande / Cynthia Erivo WOMANCE on.ft.com/3XRpD9r

This is an excellent and important, shocking and sickening piece of journalism

V interesting column on wobbles in the "American exceptionalism trade" and the k-shaped economy by er, k-shaped markets authority @katie0martin.ft.com on.ft.com/4ibznoz [gift link]

It continues to be funny to me just how much Keir Starmer's social media team do not have his voice down *at all*. I mean, at all, at all.

Wowowowowowow

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This week's column, on Mamdani and... Martha Stewart on.ft.com/43keph9 (gift link)