Patrick Smith
@psmithjournalist.bsky.social
Breaking news editor for nbcnews.com in London. SWFC and St Albans City fan. Mancunian. Likes memes.
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Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
There was no state? In 1st century BC? No empire or local governance?
November 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
There was no state? In 1st century BC? No empire or local governance?
In which Trump bans immigration from "third world countries" and suggests a mass deportation plan of people he considers "non-compatible with western civilization"
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Trump vows to 'permanently pause' migration from 'third world countries' after National Guard shooting
The president called for "reverse migration" in a lengthy social media post late on Thanksgiving and said that he wanted to deport anyone "non-compatible with Western Civilization."
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
In which Trump bans immigration from "third world countries" and suggests a mass deportation plan of people he considers "non-compatible with western civilization"
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Hello to new followers on here.
Especially people from the Old Place who I thought were probably already following me.
Especially people from the Old Place who I thought were probably already following me.
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Hello to new followers on here.
Especially people from the Old Place who I thought were probably already following me.
Especially people from the Old Place who I thought were probably already following me.
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A mansion tax is one of the most popular things that Labour has done - 67% in favour, 19% against.
November 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A mansion tax is one of the most popular things that Labour has done - 67% in favour, 19% against.
Pretty sure I just saw a CNN reporter on air dressed as a turkey and this is what I want to see more of, to be honest.
November 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Pretty sure I just saw a CNN reporter on air dressed as a turkey and this is what I want to see more of, to be honest.
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for a modest fee I will comment “ai slop” on your ex boyfriend’s selfie
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
for a modest fee I will comment “ai slop” on your ex boyfriend’s selfie
Raises the questions of whether you can respectfully tell someone to shut the fuck up
The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
November 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Raises the questions of whether you can respectfully tell someone to shut the fuck up
We've seen a domestic version of this for decades where towns and cities lose talented young people to big cities and the investment / urban renewal follows. Now going global.
also this @alicettimes.bsky.social col on yoof leaving Uk looks prescient given today's emigration stats - hear this more & more from parents of uni-aged kids, wondering if they'd have more prospects overseas (watch those figs if we do a proper youth mobility deal) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Youngsters are a bigger loss than non-doms
Billionaires come and go, but driving away ambitious doctors, nurses and scientists will do real long-term damage
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We've seen a domestic version of this for decades where towns and cities lose talented young people to big cities and the investment / urban renewal follows. Now going global.
We have lost all perspective of what the country actually spends money on.
e.g. working age benefits that go to families with children, vs triple-lock guaranteed pensions.
e.g. working age benefits that go to families with children, vs triple-lock guaranteed pensions.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We have lost all perspective of what the country actually spends money on.
e.g. working age benefits that go to families with children, vs triple-lock guaranteed pensions.
e.g. working age benefits that go to families with children, vs triple-lock guaranteed pensions.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I am now informed the Disney + versions are 10 minutes shorter and I'm not OK with this.
The Beatles Anthology docs are on Disney+ if you need an excuse to watch them.
If like me you had them on VHS and have since seen them on YouTube.... you will of course watch them again.
I'm also considering my third watch of Get Back and I don't think I have a problem you have a problem.
If like me you had them on VHS and have since seen them on YouTube.... you will of course watch them again.
I'm also considering my third watch of Get Back and I don't think I have a problem you have a problem.
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I am now informed the Disney + versions are 10 minutes shorter and I'm not OK with this.
Thanksgiving parade update: Foreigner are playing on a float featuring a caged Demagorgon.
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Thanksgiving parade update: Foreigner are playing on a float featuring a caged Demagorgon.
BSky's Popular With Friends feed, not updating for the last hour
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
BSky's Popular With Friends feed, not updating for the last hour
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£2 million is really a very expensive house
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
£2 million is really a very expensive house
This will be the line bsky.app/profile/paul...
Interested to see what the right-wing media / politics reaction to this will be, given they can't now say "Labour has lost control of immigration" or "the numbers are out of control."
NEW: Net migration to the UK fell significantly to 204,000 in the year to June.
That’s down from 649,000 in the year to June 2024 - a fall of around two-thirds.
That’s down from 649,000 in the year to June 2024 - a fall of around two-thirds.
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This will be the line bsky.app/profile/paul...
Interested to see what the right-wing media / politics reaction to this will be, given they can't now say "Labour has lost control of immigration" or "the numbers are out of control."
NEW: Net migration to the UK fell significantly to 204,000 in the year to June.
That’s down from 649,000 in the year to June 2024 - a fall of around two-thirds.
That’s down from 649,000 in the year to June 2024 - a fall of around two-thirds.
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Interested to see what the right-wing media / politics reaction to this will be, given they can't now say "Labour has lost control of immigration" or "the numbers are out of control."
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this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.
Just spouting economic takes into the morning air today. Shouting into a digital bin.
November 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Just spouting economic takes into the morning air today. Shouting into a digital bin.
"Benefits" is such a loaded political term in the UK. The biggest is pensions by miles, about £125 billion.
And the state pension will go up by 4.8% or £575 year, apparently whether the recipients need it or not.
The triple lock has become an untouchable consensus.
And the state pension will go up by 4.8% or £575 year, apparently whether the recipients need it or not.
The triple lock has become an untouchable consensus.
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
"Benefits" is such a loaded political term in the UK. The biggest is pensions by miles, about £125 billion.
And the state pension will go up by 4.8% or £575 year, apparently whether the recipients need it or not.
The triple lock has become an untouchable consensus.
And the state pension will go up by 4.8% or £575 year, apparently whether the recipients need it or not.
The triple lock has become an untouchable consensus.
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
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If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.