What?

like the Sarkozy trial, symbolic and all, but it really really really matters that your system is shown to be able to put *anyone* in jail {obvious conclusions of the above left as exercise to the reader}

Is this the kind of nostalgia that Dan is after?

Incredible interview and what timing on this (yes, she is doing a publicity round for her book but..) in the context of the other sexual abuse and rape we see going unpunished - elle est forte, une eveilleuse. www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

The man casually admits to bombing Iran 14 times with no Congressional or UN approval and the headlines in European media is “at least he still likes us”. What are we doing here?

‘We almost lost you in the night’ - the life-threatening rise of measles in the UK

Helluva review Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Never Plumbs the Depths www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…

The Epstein files “illuminate, in indelible detail, the ways in which Epstein’s money and connections appeared to count for more than his well-earned reputation as a sexual predator and procurer,” John Cassidy writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/MPMVz8

BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines? DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines BASH: Oh, come on

Summers in private: endlessly scheming with the world's most famous pervert to get a young female colleague whom he calls by a racist nickname to fuck him at conferences. Summers in public: "I don't see that many women in my field, it must be because they're bad at math"

The Washington Post was consistently doing some of the best climate reporting out there in recent years. This is a huge loss (h/t @sammyroth.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/climatec...

Inter generational harm from the outset of the Trump administration www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

Absolutely this. The lies are the biggest story, one which the BBC is wholly omitting/denying. So I ask again, what is going on at the Corporation?

Every insane thing they even suggest , they do. It is completely unhinged and without recourse, playing out live. www.ft.com/content/b6ad... Jared Kushner sets out $30bn vision for ‘New Gaza’

Greenland/Iceland; Belarus/Belgium; who is the next lucky couple?

We are still waiting on the PM and the BBC…. @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Devant Vladimir Poutine, Donald Trump ou Benyamin Netanyahou, la présidente Samia Suluhu Hassan a été désignée « tyran de l’année » par l’ONG britannique Index on Censorship…cette nomination a pour objectif de dénoncer les atteintes à la liberté d’expression et les dérives autoritaires.” 🤯

It would be funny if a financial crisis featuring novation issues was followed almost 2 decades later by a financial crisis involving renovation issues.

Powell, showing more guts than almost any GOP legislators: "The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President." www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

What’s the soundtrack to this coup d’état?

Old enough to remember the Knowing Commentator position that taking the constant verbiage about Greenland or Canada at least a little bit seriously was a sign of terminal online neuroticism

Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.

Not enough conversation about the Mali jerseys IMO.

shit like this is the core of the damage the social internet has done to us we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same

Notable too how many US thinkers even outside of the Trump milieu have become detached from global economic and political reality. Don't want to see that the world has changed fundamentally and not necessarily to their advantage.

And why wouldn't Moscow celebrate another successful influence operation? When the time comes for the US and Russia to tell Europe to hand back Russia's assets in full, without Russia taking any responsibility for its crimes, will we have the strength to stand firm? It now looks less likely

Flu’s link to cardiovascular disease shows why vaccination is essential www.nature.com/articles/d41... @ashishkjha.bsky.social "...we now have clear evidence that flu vaccination significantly reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke, and death owing to cardiovascular disease..." #VaccinesWork

Donald Trump is a gutter racist and we to start reporting on him as such.

So now we know

Truly a battle of wits

‘I have actually become a star’: Louvre heist mystery ‘fedora man’ uncovered – video

Was this enough time to finish the Count of Montecristo and the biography of Christ, we need to know. www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The grift

The reality of what USAID cuts are doing to people. 1% of the Federal Budget. nation.africa/kenya/health...

He said “hepatitas” again

this is exactly what's happening

Make it fuking stop

how can this be turned into a die

It's genuinely crackers that in the UK, a social media company can *take advertising money from a fraudster*, the bank has to repay the victim out of its pocket, and the social media company doesn't even have to give the advertising cash to the bank! They make money on the transaction!

To be absolutely clear, it is impossible to vote for a party that cannot bring itself to unequivocally defend the rights of people living and working legally in this country. Because arbitrary removal of legal rights, or sudden varying of terms, for some is ultimately a threat to everyone.

Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero apnews.com/article/myan...

The Trump/Musk/Rubio gutting of USAID is the defining moral atrocity of this regime (so far)

Trump Says He Likes The Dollar

I'm loving this Pope.

New PM, the old PM, wait what?