www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... engaging my brain for a fraction of a second do we think perhaps this might actually have been the flag of Israel what with it being projected on the leader of Israel? I Wonder

They’ll argue all day we need to hear from Nazis because freedom of speech must protect the worst speech but will go “nah forget the rule of law” if it looks like it’ll benefit someone they don’t like for even One Second

www.economist.com/leaders/2025... I’m actually sympathetic to politicians having to tread lightly to avoid alienating voters but I’d be more convinced if the Economist put the boot into these freaks a bit more while giving this advice

www.economist.com/the-americas... I bitch A LOT about the economist bug here they say the strikes in the Caribbean are “almost certainly illegal” which is the strongest stance I’ve seen from a prominent publication

all the “biden age coverup” guys presumably writing their articles on Trump threatening people over reporting on his health

Continues to repulse me that Niall Ferguson, married to a Somalian lady, rooted for this guy over Harris

apparently these people just get a pass as they constantly do the 'conflating all Jews with Israel' actual antisemitic canard, by the clever trick of pretending they think this is a thing their opponents believe

literally every normal person noticed all the macho bullshit about war and lethality and rules of engagement saw murder coming, it does make you think what they're up to at the washington post op ed page

www.spectator.co.uk/article/an-a... the spectator saw a guy trying to expose literal British fascists and decided to try to get him in trouble with the law. Pretty funny to try to do the whole 'let justice be done though the heavens fall' when they've e.g. ignored a genocide for two years

This isn’t even a participation trophy this is like giving a gold medal for running to a landmine maker

How is this not overt gutter racism and if it is, why is it not front page news across the world, why are those with a platform protecting this man

he's south african, you say?

@economist.com hey the president of the United States is an depraved gutter racist perhaps Lexington could get a column out of this

One of the more frustrating things is how obviously beatable Trump is - ask him about his sex crimes, ask him to name the capital of South Africa, ask him a basic maths problem - and he’d fall apart. I could do it and I’m not that smart. yet powerful people refuse to do this

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

@vanessabusch.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... interesting article but Trump ruefully talking about how close the US came to getting Venezuelan oil seems like pretty good supporting evidence for Maduro's claim, no?

@kfj-fp.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/02/t... I found this interesting and I'm not being faction but why should we believe Trump understands the nature of Venezuelan oil production beyond 'oil is valuable and it would be good if I had it'?

I know I know hypocrisy doesn’t matter but it is very funny the party of private property rights Is constantly grabbing other people’s property and immediately being told to fuck off

Maybe I’m wrong but “confirmed” feels like the BBC going “yeah this is true”, compared to a word like “stated” or “alleged” - why should we trust this serial liar? Especially when her statement coincidentally exonerates her colleague of one of the most serious charges?

my formulation “the president, lying or incompetent, said today…” remains free to any media types who want it btw

If nothing else running to The Government and The Law when you get a bad grade is insanely entitled, they have other stuff to be doing (ideally anyway)

freaks like hegseth praise The West then turn around and go “it’s funny to mock allegations made under concepts of Western justice” perhaps we might learn something about taking these people seriously when they say they have principles

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... the BBC has done a bunch of articles including their often embarrassing 'Verify' series on the Caribbean boat bombings but have nothing to say on this, presumably because it's getting harder not to go 'yeah this is obviously murder'

“AI is good also I want to hide if it’s in my games”

like many other trump articles what he says he will do is blatantly illegal but for some reason it's considered editorialising to say so. Like Trump declares a plan to do a crime and we all have to pretend there's some secret plan to make it fine actually

good work WaPo journalists, obviously shit work WaPo opinion guys, embarrassing, pathetic, worm-like

“we have intelligence proving PA is a terrorist group, now to tank the political damage of arresting a hundred grannies a week rather than share it“

Hey is “we’re just gonna kill people” part of the Judeo-Christian tradition and Western Values? feels like it shouldn’t be

www.economist.com/united-state... once again Lexington encounters obviously repulsive, exploitative, scammy corrupt bullshit and treats it all with eye-rolling detachment rather than as a serious problem. The president plainly hates and lies to his voters! say it clearly, it’s important!

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn... sure looks like the president sicced his freak brownshirt murderers on a political opponent, this seems a thousand times more important from the Kirk assassination, let’s see if it’s covered like that

I personally wouldn’t sacrifice a reputation for impartiality for a guy who literally every sentient person knows is a violent sex freak who palled around with the world’s most notorious paedophile, seems weird the bbc isn’t as smart as me

is it Alpha to whinge

Thinking fondly of the mendacious cretins who pretended for even one moment violent rhetoric was a both sides problem

Very funny to pretend you think people only lose positions if they break the law, real craven courtier abasement stuff

Patriot Trump Berates American For Questioning Prominent Foreign Murderer

So the rule is you can break the law if being punished for the law would crash the world econom, idk about the incentives that seems to lead to

Free speech warriors saying it's ok to murder a journalist if he is extremely controversial

Thinking about how the BBC published Trump‘s obviously bullshit free ivf promise and didn’t mention the ample evidence trump hates and attacks women and holds them in contempt

A known sex attacker hanging out with the world’s most notorious paedophile implies wrongdoing to me but I guess I should be beautifully naive and pure like my friends at the BBC

I know republicans are hypocritical freaks who shouldn’t be allowed to handle forks but pretty funny we had a month of “violent words lead to assassinaction” and now Trump is calling MTG a traitor and she’s getting death threats and no one cares

Good news everyone we’re 3/52 of the way to there being no crime in normal neighbourhoods

I suppose one concise way to criticise this thread is to point out the poem doesn’t go “first they came for no one then they came for everyone at once”

People are correctly dunking on this for being ahistorical in a bunch of ways but one weird thing with it is “authoritarianism can be beaten but fascism is basically impossible to defeat without a civil war or invasion” is way more defeatist than ”yeah they’re loser fascists let’s kick their asses”

If I were a news org heading into battle with a guy and that week evidence dropped that he helped the world’s most notorious paedophile hide his crimes I might mention that a few more times on my front page, weird the BBC isn’t

Abolish countries

and obviously the Spectator is an asylum of freaks but the epstein email got one basically procedural article about 'how will this play' again after ten million articles declaring Kirk's death meant the end of the Republican Experiment so do american things matter or not guys

Not that it’s either/or but “bogan war and peace” feels like the article you run after maybe another couple on damning evidence the president of the United States is part of a billionaire paedophile cabal

www.economist.com/united-state... another deranged lexington article where we learn a Dem congressman is retiring because of fear his family will be killed and Vance has been defending literal nazis, and lexington still manages to make this about dems in disarray

More broadly it feels instructice to compare the wall-to-wall coverage of the Kirk assassination by uk media, a story where basically no one could be blamed and you could appear “fair“ by sort of defending the American right, to this latest Epstein news

The BBC has covered bits of the Epstein story over the years but it’s weird this recent “development” seems to have got fewer articles than the whole Claudine Gay “scandal”. 20,000 emails! Nothing else newsworthy there?