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Dan McCrum
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Do investigations for the FT, into dubious accounting and dodgy characters mainly. Wrote a book called Money Men about a spectacular fraud
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"What would EU’s €93bn retaliatory tariffs against US cover?" (FT)

"American planes ... cars, bourbon and soyabeans are other big-ticket items ... iconic US products such as Harley-Davidson motorcycles, Levi jeans and Lucky Strike cigarettes"

#$RTX #$BF.B #$BATS
What would EU’s €93bn retaliatory tariffs against US cover?
Boeing aircraft, bourbon, motorcycles and soyabeans among targeted products if Donald Trump makes good on his threats
www.ft.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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I'm a red-blooded American MAN! I like my beer COLD, my wings HOT, and my Broadway musical which reimagines the six wives of Henry VIII as a modern girl group CAST BY CISGENDER WOMEN ONLY!
So apparently Dylan Mulvaney got cast in a Broadway musical... which resulted in transphobes losing their minds and threatening to "Bud Light" the show... and now the show's Twitter page is locked down. Cool cool.
January 19, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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How will the EU hit back against Trump for his Greenland tariffs?

€93bn of tit-for-tat tariffs are not only already agreed by the bloc, they will come into force in 20 days unless member states explicitly stop them.

@andybounds.bsky.social explains how they will work

as.ft.com/r/5b61666a-b...
What would EU’s €93bn retaliatory tariffs against US cover?
[FREE TO READ] Boeing aircraft, bourbon, motorcycles and soyabeans among targeted products if Donald Trump makes good on his threats
as.ft.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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European NATO members have $12.6tn of assets. Does this even matter?

www.ft.com/content/beea...
Could Europe really leverage its $12.6tn pile of US assets?
NIIPing an outlandish idea in the bud
www.ft.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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#$RCO picture looks worse based on Cost of Sales, because of each € sales needing less inventory volume

FY19: 1,125.9 sales, 415.1 COS, 1,245.5 inventories
FY25: 984.6 sales, 289.8 COS, 2,105.6 inventories

Inventories/Sales is up 1.9x but Inventories/COS 2.4x
January 19, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Famously, 79-year old men get more sane with every passing month
January 19, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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So, if you ever wondered why people who understand surveillance are salty about video cameras on doorbells...

It's only a matter of time before they get co-opted into mass surveillance. And if the regime you live under changes that's you spying on your neighbours.
January 19, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Kavanaugh raid
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Remy Cointreau has stockpiled enough hard booze for about six year’s worth of sales - €1.8bn of inventory
Drinks makers left with lake of unsold spirits as demand drops
Alcohol producers halt production and cut prices to shift bottles piling up in warehouses
www.ft.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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January 19, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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January 19, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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Are we honestly doing the World Cup over there? For real?
January 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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If you don’t read @privateeyenews.bsky.social you might not realise how hollowed out UK newspapers are becoming. The Mirror, Express and the Star are all owned by Reach. They carry literally the same articles. Look at tomorrow’s back pages - the only things that differ are the headlines.
January 16, 2026 at 9:30 PM
What is the end of SEO content? Which channel is SEO on? When was SEO born? How do I make SEO pudding?
January 16, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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Google traffic to publishers dropped by ONE THIRD in 2025 pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
Global publisher Google traffic dropped by a third in 2025
Google search traffic was down globally by a third in the year to November, according to new Chartbeat data.
pressgazette.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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"The first thing I noticed when I got to Minneapolis last weekend was the new language: The work C was doing has a name—“commuting”—a deliberately mundane term for pursuing, tailing, and deliberately irritating ICE agents moving through the city in unmarked cars." slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump and ICE Thought They Knew How to Handle Minneapolis. I Saw Up Close What’s Happening Instead.
ICE declared war on Minneapolis. The city had its own ideas.
slate.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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A small number of senior barristers are enabling large-scale tax fraud.

They issue opinions saying tax schemes will work. They know they won't.

The point of the opinion isn't to be right. It's to protect the shadowy individuals running the schemes from prosecution.

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January 16, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer
January 16, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Legal question - if Amazon sells something on its site while taking responsibility for the shipping and the customer service, how does it claim a third party is the retailer?
January 16, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Vox pop of an American at his first protest
This dude is intense and correct
January 15, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
January 6, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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Reproducing here one of the most important and damning works of media criticism I've ever come across, as I, in another window, demonstrate that it's true it's all true your honor
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
December 10, 2023 at 7:54 PM
AI generated SEO what shall I watch lists?

(Good films tho :)
16 Best Cybercrime and Hacker Movies and Shows on Netflix (January 2026)
Cyberspace has driven some of the most significant advancements in human civilization over the last two decades. In a world dominated by rapid growth in internet-related businesses, economies have bee...
thecinemaholic.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:46 PM