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Defector @defector.com · 1h

How could the Free Press be worth a reported $150 million, and why is its oafish founder about to oversee a huge press operation? Respectively: It isn't, and she shouldn't. defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor…

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 6h

The BBC is slowly but surely destroying Radio 4 as well. It’s the last bastion of intelligent debate in Britain, yet it’s increasingly becoming a vehicle for culture wars. When the history of the UK in this period is written, the BBC will have a lot to answer for when it comes to stirring division

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 3h

The same lack of quality as Trump's cabinet - expect televised meetings of Farage having smoke blown up his arse by his Reform stooges if he ever gets in.

Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 3h

...even if it takes another 80 years.

Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 6h

"Go back to your constituencies and prepare for mass deportations", didnt cut through?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 7h

It's not just Badenoch or Jenrick. The entire British conservative project is dying iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 6h

This country's media is suffering from premature Farageification.

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 8h

The “Eye of Seymour” 🤣 (Deputy PM) here is the #AtlasNetwork connection to #NZpol
The list of atrocious decisions logged are classic Atlas partner efforts to take from the public to fatten the mega rich’s (offshore) bank accounts.

Don’t vote LNP, Australia. The worst neoliberals are back. #auspol

the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 12h

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 7h

Trump could just claim to have won a peace prize that no one had ever heard of before. It worked for Corbyn.

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 8h

At some point, Jenrick is going to start appearing in a military uniform.

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 8h

Plus, always moving forward is a fundamental tenet of Fascism.

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 8h

It's always Groundhog Day for those interviews - the Farage slate gets wiped and everything is new again.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22h

Is there a better indication of how superficial and unhelpful mainstream media has become than that they are cutely musing about whether the domestic terrorist who changed "The Department of Defense" to "The Department of War" will get a Nobel Peace Prize—instead of reporting the fascism/terrorism.

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 8h

If she owns a yacht, the US "Department of War" blasting Venezuelan boats out of the water begins to fit into place.

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 8h

Let's hope she doesnt own a fishing boat.

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 9h

I expect she's still worshipping Millei even though his slash and burn economics has already crashed and burnt.

Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 10h

There's some variation in the polling, too, but the ones that have Reform in the mid-30s gets more attention than the recent one where the gap to Labour is only 2 points.

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 10h

Tbf; the BBC was way behind on the post office scandal - Private Eye was reporting it for years. On that timescale, the BBC should be right on top of the hacking scandal some time in the 2030s. #r4today

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 10h

Somewhere in the US is going to get renamed "Trumpmania" at some point.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Noem claims Portland hid their war zone from her.

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 10h

The leader of Blue Robbo's party was publicly boasting about them delivering Brexit less than 48 hours ago. #r4today

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 10h

The growth in numbers of polling companies and a lack of transparency about who owns them is a big part of the problem, as is looking at the results but not the sampling or methodology.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Angela Vince @angieeagle.bsky.social · 11h

Simon Calder interviewed on new border controls leaves no listener in doubt about his feelings on our disastrous Brexit making us a third party country on our own continent.
#r4today

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