The networks could say, "He tells lies that he has been told are lies, so we're not going to air his speeches live." By any journalistic standard that would be reasonable and easy to defend. The fact that they don't tells us where we are.

You are here. ⤵️

So, did he just forget to mention war with Venezuela or is that not a thing anymore?

What the Trump Regime did, through “DOGE” to USAID is an act of monstrous inhumanity.

This is an excellent and timely essay that is well worth your time

Dear Oluseyi at Comcast. Your AI highlights thing is a giant piece of shit.

BBC should respond in one of two ways to this:

Of course, normal handshakes don't involve the back of your hand in any way, shape, or form, so this is an obvious lie even by Trumpian standards. What health issue does Trump have that the White House is so desperate to cover up?

Please do read this. The Farage Tax: What The UK Pays For One Man's Ego open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...

The super-rich rightwing are pouring money into Reform. Do ordinary voters really think their aim is to even out social inequality and make their lives better? Do they think they’re doing it so Farage invests in infrastructure and public services? Ffs. Democracy being beaten to death in plain sight.

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

This is a pretty heartbreaking story of greed and criminality and likely regulatory failures at the Charity Commission coming close to wrecking what had been a hugely heartening example of community led regeneration. Tony McGann would be heartbroken and surely furious

Anyway, congrats on your Thanksgiving dinner, America. In Britain we have that every weekend but crack on.

New substack; how talk of "the country" often serves a right-wing purpose: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-country

Obvious follow up question for a competent WH reporter: Mr President, it seems like every time you get a difficult question, especially from a our female colleagues or reporters of color you last out with unfounded personal insults rather than answering the Fucking question, so let me ask again …….

There's a weird collective self-justification among reporters on this beat that their job is not to push back but to be stoic in order to observe an endlessly fascinating natural phenomenon. It's all nonsense. He is a public servant. Demand decency, and slap back hard and fast when you don't get it.

By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.

This just taxied past at Dulles. Good to see Starsky and Hutch are moving up

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

Tell me, when you're engaging in PR and rebranding to improve the image of something, does it help to be very explicit about what you're doing and why, on camera, and to have the messenger be a person noted for his extreme ignorance and dishonesty?

I'm not minimizing any of the countless other reasons he should be drafting his resignation. It's that he said this to a woman. In her workplace. In front of her colleagues. While she does her job. It's a disgrace. He owes her an apology, and so do all of his voters, frankly.

Our entire political conversation - under a labour government - has taken a huge shift to the right. We can't let this be normalised. leftfootforward.org/2025/11/excl...

@kaine.senate.gov there is going to be a lot of rightful anger directed at you and other Democratic senators for this

Not a movie from this decade, but the ending of 2006’s The Guardian is pretty great and full of heart, segueing into a great credits song from Bryan Adams youtu.be/s5k6t3W4N6s?...

A very clear message from American voters this evening

@stevebenen.com Not sure if you wrote the headline, but Nigeria is in West Africa www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Britain is not in the grip of mass violence. The Cambridgeshire train stabbings were horrific - and incredibly rare. Your odds of being attacked by a stranger are much lower than they were. Here's the facts! 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/britain-is...

Obi wan: And what of the boy? Yoda: To tattooine, to his family send him. Obi Wan: That’s a stupid idea master, that’s the first place they will look

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families

This is like Duterte in the Philippines. Everyone involved in this needs to go to prison

This week's post: What the call for fiscal headroom reveals mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/what... Exaggerated claims about market reactions to debt and deficits infantilize fiscal policy, and that can be dangerous. The call for more fiscal headroom is just a small example of that danger.

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings. These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate. Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

@wmata.com hey there, there’s something wrong with the track westbound between East and West Falls Church, ride quality is very poor and the trains are shuddering a bit. Worth checking.

British.

What OTHER secrets has Michael been hiding from you @soozuk.bsky.social?

@davidcameronwalker.bsky.social just listened to the latest England pod and just wanted to say how well and respectfully you guys handled the Alzheimer’s interviews was really great. Pass it on to Ali and George. Also, Come on England!!!

Interested to check the claim on the Ag trade deficit -this is on an AFBF website and sure enough, this is broadly true (but she exaggerated the size of the 2024 deficit - but theres lots to dig into there www.fb.org/market-intel...

Rollins: "Trump has been the most pro-farmer POTUS perhaps in history, but this moment of uncertainty in the farm economy is real. There are many reasons for that. Obviously, the ongoing trade discussions w/China. It is going to be gangbusters, but right now the farm economy is not in a good place"

This is a fascinating and scary little video. And what South Korea is experiencing is only slightly ahead of where the UK and many advanced economies are. Without immigration, we are FUCKED. I mean TOTALLY FUCKED. Yet all parties compete to stop migration. It's madness. youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk?...

Remember that we’re being lied to whenever we’re told that we can’t afford something that benefits families. Just a couple of weeks ago Congressional Republicans voted to make ICE richer than most of world’s militaries.

Obviously follow up questions to nonsense statements that go unasked “where has this happened?” “How often?” Don’t other types of industrial facilities have these types of problems too such as…..”

The follow up here should have been “Sorry, my point was, even if you think this might be true, is it a good idea for someone who is WIDELY seen as dishonest, and whose most famous public health interaction was to suggest injecting bleach, to provide important health advice?”

FOX: Is it in the interests of public health to have the president being the public face of these kinds of announcements? MAKARY: The president has a right to agree with the dean of the Harvard school of public health ... there may be many causes of autism. That's the exciting part of our analyses.

The minimum Brennan should have done here is just ask, in increasingly incredulous and mocking tones “literally a war zone?” until he retracted that. Repeatedly, and said things like “you mean it’s like Eastern Ukraine?” Or “what, a war zone like South Sudan??”

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

It would be extraordinarily helpful if @nytimes would headline that most of his tariffs have been found illegal by the DC District Court and the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Court of International Trade.

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

Spokesperson for Mayor of #London (@london.gov.uk) says: "We are not going to dignify his [Trump's] appalling comments with a response." Sent a picture, though. #trump @schiff.senate.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @adamjschwarz.bsky.social @sundersays.bsky.social

Trump's UN speech was his most embarrassing showing since the "DON'T TAKE TYLENOL" one