Dept Q at 38 seems criminally low to me, but great list, albeit with the now customary bewildering number of platforms. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Now that Bari Weiss pulled a segment telling the truth about Trump's deportations to let Stephen Miller have his say (i.e. spread propaganda), it's a good time to check out our deep dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda, which doesn't pull any punches: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Is the dumbest administration the world has ever seen taking us all to WWIII? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

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Can we please have an Anthony Joshua-equivalent for all the other bullshit artists out there?!

I find it astounding that in 5 years of Trump, US media has not learnt yet how to manage him. They still report his every word as newsworthy. He is just aiming to capture the media cycle. And they let him. www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...

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I feel you Wilfred. It is just like me with research grants. Fourth rejection in a row. This time from Harry F. Guggenheim foundation. I’ll give up on getting a grant to study state-sponsored assassinations.

Three stories on rampant fascism in Trump’s America. @theintercept.com reports Gen. Gregory Guillot’s unprecedented openness to taking military action against targets within the US. Here: theintercept.com/2025/12/16/t...

Never a fun of the framing “something I know something about explains what is happening today” but at least this provides what looks like a good reading recommendation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Non è un caso…che Metreweli abbia richiamato l’eredità dello Special Operations Executive, attivo durante la Seconda guerra mondiale per attività di spionaggio, sabotaggio e ricognizione. Non come nostalgia, ma come metodo: audacia, iniziativa, rischio calcolato.’ open.substack.com/pub/gabriele...

They did warn you. You didn’t listen. ‘The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned.’ newrepublic.com/article/2042... via @newrepublic.com

Just so we are all on the same page, when Trump says that 11 months ago he inherited a ‘mess,’ this is the mess he inherited.

Also an excellent example of the bullshit production dilemma - fact-checking takes significantly longer than producing bullshit. This means that by the time fact-checking is finished (with little effect, usually), new bullshit will have already flooded the zone.

Mmm… How would we call this if it were any other country?! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

Trump's diplomacy going as well as you'd expect.

Can we please not start another cottage industry of publications by adding another label to war? We have not finished with the previous round yet (hybrid), can we now avoid starting a new one with cognitive? I know people make careers out of this…but still… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Dear American people, this what you voted for. This is the cruelty, idiocy, utter lack of humanity you voted for (twice).

‘El triunfo supone la llegada del primer dirigente que no ha tomado distancia de la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) a La Moneda.’ elpais.com/chile/2025-1...

‘The climbers scampered down the mountain after stashing the C.I.A. gear on a ledge of ice, abandoning a nuclear device that contained nearly a third of the total amount of plutonium used in the Nagasaki bomb. It hasn’t been seen since. And that was 1965.’ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Nice to see @tim-weiner.bsky.social on Italy’s news programme TG1.

Just a thought, maybe the media could stop framing Trump’s photo ops as peace plans, processes, or agreements. None is an actual thing. Thailand - Cambodia, DRC-Rwanda, Middle East, Russia-Ukraine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Once again, a reminder that @timeshighered.bsky.social is one of the worst thing to happen to Higher Ed.

I think you misspelled “Trump’s fuck-ups.”

The @historytoday.com archive is free for 7 days. You can read my article ‘Assassinating the Enemies of America.’ www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Important reminder from the streets of Milan.

While in Italy, I note that Russia’s investment in the 5 Star Movement is still paying dividends.

‘The whole section on Europe is steeped in decades of European far-right ideology and propaganda.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is what a moderately competent and not morally bankrupt @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government should do.

More vomit inducing, Reform-like, policy proposals by @teamlabouruk.bsky.social (more needless pieces on the opinion of celebrities as opposed to, you know, legal experts). www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Hence, why I am not planning to travel to the United States until tangerine Mussolini is out of the picture and so are his accomplices. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

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Once again, Trump to @politico.eu spouts pro-Russia talking points. Criticises Europe and does not have a single bad word for Putin. And we are all supposed to take him seriously.

The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent. It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.

‘Although he worked for an agency that was undoubtedly flawed, his superiors were willing to tolerate principled pushback.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/o...

Picked-up two short books on Russia at Heathrow, as I was travelling to Italy. Wrote a quick (and pessimistic) take on them here: open.substack.com/pub/thebrush...

‘But that justification appears to have been undermined by a briefing from the commander of that operation before lawmakers…who reportedly said the boat in question was heading to the coast of Suriname, where it was planning to transfer its drugs to a larger vessel.’ time.com/7339154/admi...

It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

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‘To counter the plotters, Syria’s new government is deploying another former Assad loyalist – a childhood friend of new President Ahmed al-Sharaa who became a paramilitary leader for Assad and then switched sides mid-war after the dictator turned against him.’ www.reuters.com/investigatio...

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

LSD, Nazi hunters, Reagan, the CIA, the Contras… I’m in. ‘A Stunning Novel Follows Nazi Hunters Over Decades and Continents’ Has anyone read this? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b...

Don’t get me wrong. This is good. But it’s a bit like Trump giving out subsidies to undo the tariffs he imposed. You know, there was this organization that allowed British people to move, work, and live freely in many countries. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

‘Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.’ www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

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Video of US military strike shows survivors in ‘clear distress,’ lawmaker says www.straitstimes.com/world/video-...

Did someone* try to assassinate Zelensky with drones targeting his flight to Dublin? Because flying four large drones into the expected flight path (the plane was early) looks like an assassination attempt. *Yes, obviously Russia is the likely suspect, but not literally the only possibility.