Hang on! Didn't FCC Chairman Brendan Carr say it's not OK for people to share false information on television? When's he going after this guy? 🤔

The superb @drdemetre.bsky.social (fellow Greek, I presume) who quit the CDC over RFK Jr's crankery explains correlation vs causation: "It's like saying people who develop lung cancer carry matches in their pocket. It's not the matches that cause cancer. It's the likelihood they smoke." #Newsnight

At least BBC did not carry it live. Just summed it up, with a doctor present, to say "do not listen to this". Sky News are currently still showing live this melted-Mr-Potatohead-rescued-from-a-house-fire giving health advice. Live and unedited.

JFC the President of the USA, repeating debunked conspiracy nonsense from behind the seal, that even his crank conspirasist health advisors are not claiming, relayed live all around the world. People will fkn die, because this shitstain needs the stories about Homan and Epstein to go away.

"We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy." Translation: "We have spent the last days watching millions of customers cancel their subscription and our stock price plummet." BOOM. ~AA

I once met a relatively well-known gay adult film actor/escort who told me that he used to follow GOP events around the US in the late 90s, because they were always the best paid gigs, but grew tired of always being a dom top. 😂

Poland's statement to Russia at the UN. "If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or 'by mistake', and gets shot down, please don't come here to whine about it. You have been warned." ~AA

Totally normal Reform supporter on totally normal X in totally normal 2025.

Exactly which bit of this does our former Cameo-PM find controversial? ~AA

just heard someone call stephen miller peewee german

Well, what do you expect them to do, when they are away from home and without the dog that they have to give very, very long walks to every couple of days?

I have defended the BBC again and again. No more.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

Complain! Ask for a reply. The BBC are obliged to supply one!

Appalling editorial judgement

Having mispronounced Azerbaijan & mistaken Armenia for Albania last time he mentioned this conflict, Trump has now settled on a formulation of words he is much happier with. And after all, what’s 4000 miles between friends? As the expression goes…

I am certain there are many solutions that fall squarely between "ignore" and "carry every brain-fart that occurs to Reform, live and uninterrupted, from their own studio, however long it takes". ~AA

@pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of B4B: “Reform’s Trump-style plan to deport thousands of people from the UK who have the legal right to be here, and who even may have been here for decades, would not only be economically devastating but unconscionably cruel.” 🚨 https://bit.ly/4mquyIo

Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package. Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage? Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

A celebration of journalists' outsourcing critical thinking to whatever presentation politicians serve up. It's NOT inevitable, Sam. You COULD apply some judgment, instead of pretending you are an infant looking at different things dangling from a mobile above your crib. Or is that too much work?

What an interesting "case study" Sam Coates provides. Apparently, protecting children is boring, especially since most people agree with it. Xenophobia, on the other hand, is eye-catching and creates division. What a depressing state our media is in. ~AA

"Badenoch has zap and zing," apparently. 👀

Vickers on rumours that Badenoch will be removed as leader: "I'm behind Kemi Badenoch. Boris is behind Kemi Badenoch. Jenrick is behind Kemi Badenoch." Was this supposed to sound *comforting*? 😬 ~AA

Good morning, excellent fellow travellers. This is @sturdyalex.bsky.social, reporting for duty, with your weekly news round. I am here to help you distill the noteworthy from the clickbaity. So stay tuned for breaking stories, analysis, opinion, and video. ~AA

"More than a century and a half ago, this country ignored the explicit words of men who sought to raise an empire of slavery, transformed them into gallant knights who sought only to preserve their beloved Camelot. Words are not violence, nor are they powerless." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Shrewd political comment, good humoured and open. These guys care, and they are inclusive. And heck, they work so hard to lever a bit of hope into the end of the week.

The podcast's ads are on a "carousel". They differ by time, app, and region. Disney+ OBVIOUSLY flooding market bc they're hemorrhaging subs. We have limited category-wide levers. We blocked eg. all gambling ads at huge cost. We still need to pay guests and studio. Not gonna block "Entertainment". x

Trump posted this, demanding that the US AG goes after his enemies more actively (obviously meant as a DM to Bondi). Then deleted it and reposted it with some changes trying to style it out as a public post. Then he deleted that and posted what a great job Bondi is doing. 😂😂😂

So, they made their "brave" business decision and now I have made mine. Shame, as I enjoyed their content. But if Trump is hacking the US Constitution by targetting profit, profit is what we must all target to save it. It is the only language these boards will understand.

“We’ve just got to stop taking the right wing at its word on free speech. What they actually want is to be insulated from any criticism. This is a fundamentally political story that echoes what we’ve seen from Meta, X, Amazon, Tesla, etc. whose fortunes are tied up in their relationship with Trump.”

One of the things I find vexing about Kimmel's sacking is how it reveals Disney to be precisely the disingenuous "virtue signaller" the right accused them of being. "BRAVELY" casting The Little Mermaid, so it made them $250m, but voluntarily kissing dictator sphincter, if they stand to lose a cent.

Now go and listen to the full episode and bung us a few quid on ko-fi.com/quietriotpod

Agreed!

Your regular reminder that a NATO country shot down a Russian jet after it violated NATO airspace for *17 seconds*. What results? Russia didn’t start WW3 Russia didn’t carry on violating Turkish airspace. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Ru...

PM Keir Starmer's commentary on patriotism vs racism and populism can be read here www.thesun.co.uk/news/3678572...

THIS is why I get annoyed. We are three people, working out of a basement, while holding down full time jobs. It took us UNDER TWO MINUTES to sum up the framework within which the Jimmy Kimmel suspension sits, and begin the conversation *with what he actually said*. How can it be beyond BBC News?

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Funny thing going around American FB.

Well, nobody got it exactly right, but given how brilliant the responses were, it seems cruel to withhold my love. So, I chose @anandamide.bsky.social for "Expected Drama in Blagging Area" (DM me with an address).

“The King’s Speech was superb: holding the line on disagreements without being argumentative, flattering without being unctuous. Then Trump gets up to respond and essentially reads out what I think might have been the Wikipedia page for the UK.”

He could list every "unfair" joke any comedian made about him on network television in the last hour, but apparently he knows nothing about his Border Czar filmed taking brown paper bags of cash bribes all over every news channel.

There are times when I don’t have the energy to follow affairs even here on BlueSky BUT your positivity is remarkable. Thank you 🙏

“Jimmy Kimmel could have the top podcast tomorrow. Maybe it is a huge strategic error [for MAGA] to kick these big names out of legacy media and into spaces, with 50 times the potential audience, that the right wing has dominated and progressives have ignored, armed with a legitimate grievance...”

🆕 Sunday School: Unidentified Party in Begging Area 🛒 * Whose party is Your Party & why it matters * Should UK welcome tech-bro money? * Why do so many hate it when Starmer does well? * Has Trump Jimmied the US Constitution? 🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/1rEH... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

Cambodia and Armenia woke up not knowing they’ve been fighting each other According to the president, Armenia has also been fighting Albania and Aberbaijan - not to confuse with Azerbaijan

Should I start a substack? Reaction to the piece I wrote for BfB this week was really lovely.

This asshole needs to go straight to jail.

So satisfying to be reminded by a friend of a piece I wrote twelve years ago and find that, pretty much, every word holds true and every sentence is a prophecy. "The extreme left is more prone to mitosis, while the extreme right to mutation."

An excellent swap!