After the Pentagon forced a mass exit of journalists who understood military finance, tactics and technology, their replacements have arrived: cranks, conspiracy theorists and both foreign and domestic propagandists www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

Bessent stammers as Welker presses him on why Trump won't negotiate with Democrats to end the shutdown

Back on August 25, hours after Trump issued an EO demanding flag-burning be prosecuted, Jay Carey did just that in Lafayette Park. Now he's trying to get his charges dismissed, partly on statutory grounds, partly on vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is madness - how can they justify yearly flu vaccination for all staff (and seriously encourage staff to have it with various deals) but then ignore the other infection that is hitting staff on regular basis? I hoped this madness would change with new government - sadly it has not.

Of course, that’s not what he was saying. He was pointing out what was obviously true to anyone alive then - there was a big backlash against Muslim-Americans and anyone with an Arab-sounding name right after 9/11. But Vance has to be an asshole 24/7 for his MAGA troll fans.

They didn’t “drive her mad” If they have this effect on her she was quite mad already.

Reagan was like Joe Free Trade. He and Thatcher are the avatars of the neoclassical economics resurgence, trade liberalization, etc. good or bad this is pure reality. The idea that this conversation is even happening shows how much we’re in the mad king 2+2=7 world.

Already voted. As Otto says, the NT makes it easy to identify and avoid the opaquely funded wreckers. Foreign right wing money keeps trying to subvert our institutions.

Poor Tommy Robinson fans must be scratching their heads…

Global Uncertainty Index F*** everyone who voted for all the shit.

I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime. While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-...

Commercial opportunism to hang in, well, the Louvre. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

ground.news/article/trum... This just might be the tipping point in our existence

🤖 From fake news to fake data: The Kremlin’s disinformation machine now targets the AI systems and seeks to shape how chatbots “think”. Read how LLM grooming works 👇 #DontBeDeceived #DisinfoReview euvsdisinfo.eu/large-langua...

A rare moment of honesty (about the GOP's scheme to raise prices on working Americans to enrich wealthy agricultural firms) from one of the most mendacious characters in the Senate.

Wow! So it's now 5 who recognise the experience and commitment of Jess Phillips, verses 5 who wants her out - a group which includes at least 1 which is working with Reform. This is now nothing more than Reform trying to destroy the inquiry and undermine the Labour government.

I think a good mark of if someone actually cares about grooming gangs or simply wants to use an tragedy to attack the government/flame racial tensions is how they speak about Jess Phillips. Done acres more for the victims of violence against women and girls than all her critics combined.

The Tories - We let a million people in but it was a mistake. @lewisgoodall.com - A mistake is leaving your car keys at home. 😂😂😂😂

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

One reason why the government is in a mess is that “is that true tho?” doesn’t get anywhere near enough weight against “what do the public think?”

“Saudi Arabia has one of the worst human rights records in the world,” thundered the Daily Mail in September, slamming comedians like Jimmy Carr and Jack Whitehall for performing there. 🧵1/4

There’s no solidarity quite like that between client journalists, the government and their billionaire backers. It’s all one big club. This so-called “journalist” called for me — a British MP — to be deported because I’m Muslim. Yet somehow he’s the victim. Cry me a river.

Submarine cables are Europe's digital lifelines. The recent attacks on Baltic Sea cables demand action to secure them. Today in Riga, we presented new EU funding worth €20 million to strengthen the security and resilience of Europe’s undersea cable infrastructure ↓ link.europa.eu/3NpWvn

"Governing" is a niche journal that focuses on government. It is impossible to do their job without covering topics that will criticize incumbent officials. The editor was told not to run articles that would set off alarm bells with the Trump administration. So he quit.

FFS I can’t believe I find myself agreeing with - check notes - Rand Paul Tells you nothing about me, everything about how fascisty far right the bar got

It is not “broadly in line”. It is *exactly in line* because it is literally the policy as set out in a “draft bill” presented to parliament as the law a Badenoch government would enact.

"Trump as president would in effect decide whether Trump as claimant receives taxpayer money for investigations into Trump as defendant." Bloody hell. And of course there's no meaningful opposition.

You may be old enough to remember how Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse lampooned 'old style' Radio 1 DJs, eventually leading to a big clearout. We need a big clearout of all 'big name' journalists like Peston, Kuenssberg, Mason, Trevor Phillips (where did that one come from?) Ridge (and that?)

Q: We've heard things like Dems want money for civic engagement in Zimbabwe, millions for LGBTQ grants in Balkans. You say this is about healthcare but how do these pet projects fit in? JEFFRIES: We have no idea what you're talking about or what Republican extremist fed you those talking points

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

Mass deporting millions of people legally living here in order to make the UK "culturally coherent" is "broadly in line" with Conservative party policy, says Kemi Badenoch's spokesman

I feel like people missed this. On the $230 million shakedown, when Trump said, "I'm the one that makes the decision," he accidentally confirmed that he is appropriating for himself the power to order Todd Blanche to approve it: newrepublic.com/article/2021...

I hope Kemi has her passport ready.

It’s a little known clause of the Labour party rulebook (Ch.5,sect.xii). “When the party is in office, no clear statement can be made until half a dozen people on Bluesky have embarrassed themselves by claiming that the silence is actually part of a grand strategy“.

New in PN: Lindsey Halligan's humiliation continues apace "After discovering — too late! — that you have to tell reporters beforehand if you want conversations to be off the record, Halligan now finds herself attempting to prosecute 2 high profile cases on the 'rocket docket.' It’s not going well."

Who knew $MELANIA is worthless?

Draft Tory legislation on removing indefinite leave to remain is insane. Would chuck out those not earning over £38K - including many pensioners! + social protections seems to include child benefit, so load of people with (British!) kids! They'd remove my sis & mum who've been here 50 years.

Ed Davey, "I know members opposite are relieved, they're finally allowed to say the Conservative's Brexit deal is a disaster" "Will the Prime Minister act now to repair the Brexit damage by negotiating a new UK-EU Customs Union to boost Britain's trade and grow our economy?" Keir Starmer, "No"

Super interesting analysis about why Trump has withdrawn a record number of his nominations. It's not all GOP opposition (and some of that opposition is not public). It's also Trump deciding they would not be sufficiently loyal. www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/trump-has-...

Enron was a scheme where it spun off a broadband internet company and dealt to itself to declare an imaginary profit. Nothing like that happening now. No, not at all

Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."

This case stems from the systemic failure & subsequent cover-up revealed by 2020 Russia Report. Boris Johnson refused to investigate but what is UK govt's excuse now?? Read about this 5-year campaign & why it's even more necessary than ever now. substack.com/home/post/p-... 4/

A new series of 'The West Wing' could just be called 'The Wing'.

If he goes out one more time and then shakes it all about, he'll pass the citizenship test due to advanced knowledge of the U.Ks national dance, the 'Hokey Cokey'.

I think the photo of the White House demolition is going to matter in a way that words could not. Some images--Napalm Girl, Kent State--really crystalize the state of things.

Complainants about Russian interference in UK politics ask Grand Chamber of European Court of Human Rights to hear their case www.thenational.scot/news/2556145... Nb a chamber of the court already ruled against them; they are asking for a review; the Grand Chamber will decide if the case proceeds

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

This is an *incredibly* good idea.

This calamitous performative cruelty scheme was always going to fall apart on contact with reality. Labour deserve all that's coming to them for so ferociously aping Reform. No sympathy. Another unprompted own goal. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...