As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN And they are all Trump supporters "Liberal media" indeed

Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

AI peas peas with AI www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Sir Mixalot, the man who put “Baby Got Back” into the lexicon, now admits: his baby never actually got back to him.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Edgar Wright's THE RUNNING MAN is … OK? Lots of lively action and fun but not all that smart or satisfying beyond broad dystopian vibes. And very blokey - v few female characters of substance, and devolves into guys punching and shooting each other - like it could have been made 38 yrs ago. Oh wait…

THIS IS SO GOOD

In case there was any doubt. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

I think I can answer exactly how many times this has happened in Britain …

I spoke to ANTHONY HOPKINS about his eventful life - also starring O'Toole, Olivier, Hepburn, Foster and Kardashian. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.

Civil war is inevitable, was inevitable, and is already happening

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

So Google have decided to make the app for my Nest thermostat stop working after 10 years and suggest I buy a new one from them. Thanks! Great product!

"People often ask me what journalism I trust. So today I’m handing out letter grades to some major players." —Mark Jacob. www.stopthepresses.news/p/im-handing...

I was on Front Row talking about the enduring appeal of TRON - the 1982 one not the new one (last 5 mins). www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I became a subscribing member because of Ben Meislas’s genuineness and commitment to relay current events without whitewashing.

Must read article about the growing influence of The #MeidasTouch speaking truth to power and stepping in to say what legacy media is petrified to say. “People are waking up every day feeling, and rightfully so, that this is really life or death for them.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I spoke to the hardest working man in podcasting: BEN MEISELAS of Meidas Touch, who's taking the fight to Maga (and beating Joe Rogan in the ratings), and doesn't mince his words about the state of US media, and its failure to meet the current moment. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

While we’re on the subject of TRON, here’s my deep dive from a few years back on how it was made, how it changed everything, and how Steve Lisberger and Steve Jobs almost crossed paths. “We were the bridge from analogue to digital.” www.theguardian.com/film/2022/ju...

Netflix has 12 pre-1980 films in October. They had as many as 21 in July. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) is now their oldest American film. List in alt text. #FilmSky #Streaming

This is remarkable. The world added more solar and wind capacity in 2024 than we added demand. 100% of demand growth PLUS 9% to retire dirtier sources. Cheap energy keeps winning. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

I’m no comprehensive expert, but I don’t think I’ve heard a Taylor Swift song that doesn’t go “verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, chorus with a bit of extra warbling”. Once you hear it…

I have had a very positive message from the in-laws in Billericay about this Guardian interview today: "you managed to give a view from every angle" says Kathy. (There may be some pro-me bias there in its potential to bridge!) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

So action will be needed to bring X back within the rule of law in our country. Tolerating such an egregious failure of social media platforms to even try to uphold their legal duties has led to 3 years of de facto impunity for unlawful racist abuse in this country. bsky.app/profile/sund...

I spoke to The Guardian's Steve Rose for this wide-ranging interview about identity issues: flags & patriotism, the far right & racism online + offline, control & compassion on asylum, and still looking for the common ground in polarised times www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I spoke to British Future's Sunder Katwala, who was a refreshing antidote to all the far right rhetoric on immigration, flags, etc. Britain is not nearly as divided as extremists suggest, he says, and we're "a generation ahead" when it comes to multiculturalism. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Cunk poetry :) From: www.facebook.com/PhilomenaCun...

I spent some time with OpenAI's new AI video app Sora. Not just slop but ragebait, fake crimes and women splattered with white goo. The implications of all of this are horrifying.

American Eagle was dragged into an online outrage cycle after conservative media figures claimed that liberals were offended by the clothing company's ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and a denim-themed pun about her "great jeans." We checked the data. That wasn't true. openmeasures.io/american-eag...

They say never meet your heroes but Jane Goodall was one of mine and I’m very grateful I did meet her. And was so starstruck I asked for a selfie.

RIP. Truly one of the greatest people of our age —  pioneering scientist, tireless conservationist and all-round admirable, curious, generous person. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Only in the UK would it be a totally normal piece of urbanism to place a bin right opposite a pair of benches. Eat your sandwiches and look at the overflowing rubbish.

Israeli quadcopters shooting children. And our government continues to materially supporting Israel every day. Even as Israel rejects a two state solution, votes to fully annex the West Bank, and murders more doctors, nurses, journalists, children. And our government continues to assist it.

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

Needs saying. My other complaint in this vein is that OBAA is fuelled by black women’s revolutionary energy, but they’re largely written out of the picture in favour of the white guys’ hang ups. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

Too right - but why should it be up to young activists to push back against US's idiotic, disastrous, utterly indefensible climate policies? The whole country should be up in arms about it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A very big Onion announcement: The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece. It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd. Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

When did The Onion decide to make a Jeffrey Epstein mockumentary? Once Trump started acting “dodgy” fielding questions about Epstein. “There's this big gap where information should be," @bencollins.bsky.social said. They thought "it would be very funny to fill it with complete fucking nonsense."

I spoke to CHRIS SARANDON, about Dog Day Afternoon, The Princess Bride, going bankrupt, his marriage to Susan, working with Michael Winner and many other things. Such a nice man! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

STUDENTS! You can subscribe to the Guardian for just £9 a year: theguardian.com/studentoffer. Spread the word.

RIP CLAUDIA CARDINALE - legend of postwar Italian cinema and much else - who was nothing like her sultry sex symbol screen image when I interviewed her in 2013, but warm, chatty, funny and full of energy. www.theguardian.com/film/2013/se...

I spoke to Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder about the case for reparations for transatlantic slavery. They put forward a compelling case. To those who say "we can't afford it", consider that UK was paying back debts for compensating slave OWNERS up until 2015. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Remember when Disney fought fascism?

bond girls but they’re also muppets: thread