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This is the video.
January 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Update: someone dug into the wallets connected the the wallet used here and found that it was connected to an ENS domain called Stevencharles.sol

Steve Witkoff's middle name is Charles

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_W...
January 5, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Days like this are a stark reminder that the UK undertook Brexit at historically the worst possible moment. Bloc politics is here to stay and fiddlearsing about with 2mm advances towards smoother customs arrangements with the EU is not the leadership Britain needs.
January 3, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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December 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
December 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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1. BREAKING

Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.
December 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
‘“They don’t have to pay — but we will make them pay for it [politically],” said a senior European official.’ - What does this mean?
December 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Thanks for this, great read. What should/can the African nations do about it? Turn on Infantino? Or does it just not matter what they do because everything <waves hands> is corruption
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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The Africa Cup of Nations starts in two weeks – and the fact it’s been shunted into this Christmas slot is a disgrace.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Africa Cup of Nations shunted into margins as greedy game finds no room at top table | Jonathan Wilson
So long as the Premier League invests in its players and Fifa pays it lip service, the continent’s flagship tournament will always struggle to fit in
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.”

The latest from George F. Will:
Opinion | This moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
wapo.st
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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I can't tell you how many of my (wonderful, driven, caring, genuinely outstanding) students are Somali. I'd take each and every one of them over a thousand of that orange pissbag. I'd take a single one of them over every last dollar he has.

My students are an inspiration. Trump's an embarrassment.
Trump on Minnesota's Somali community: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you."
December 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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fucking incredible
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.
All this budget news, claims, counter claims is confusing, but two things of consequence.

1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.

2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
December 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Fundamentally not a serious policymaking community or media. Sure, briefing was a problem. But we have problems both chronic and acute: we can and should be debating those. We won't. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
Minister insists Rachel Reeves did not mislead public in Budget build-up
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been accused of over-stating the UK's financial problems in the build-up to the Budget - Darren Jones insists she did not lie.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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So how exactly are they meant to get to them? Many are placed in areas without accessible transport links. They can't afford to pay for journeys themselves because of how little support they get.
Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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If they ever get around to building this thing, it should be bulldozed on Day 1 of a new administration. No messing around, no hemming and hawing about procedure or costs. Order heavy equipment in and start knocking it down immediately, as surely as an overthrown tyrant's statues would be torn down.
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?

White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%

Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Hmmm - so tacking hard right on immigration led the Danish equivalent of Labour to lose the capital city for the first time in a century to a “Green-Left” party?

And all the seats on London’s borough councils are up next May? Including the progressive packed ones held by Labour for generations?
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Again, what is the point of the Labour party?

What is the point of a massive fucking landslide victory, only to continue the policies of the party we voted out?

FFS.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Too much bureaucracy,' Chancellor Rachel Reeves tells regulators
The chancellor wants to cut red tape to boost growth, but critics say there is no plan.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.

He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Ultimately the vision of britain that starmer has is profoundly cynical, nasty and just not true. He thinks that abidicating his responsibility in showing that another option is maturity and doing the difficult thing, but he's literally just creating the hateful country he is so afraid of
November 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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There's the constituency of 'I just don't like visible and audible difference' which Labour can't appeal to. And there's the 'I don't like that this has measurably made my area worse by introducing an insecure, economically detached class of people', which this policy makes worse.
November 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Mo Farah, trafficked to UK aged 9 in 1992. Teacher Alan Watkinson secures citizenship after 8 years here, 2000 (aged 17) so he could travel abroad as GB athlete

Under future rules

Renew status? 1995, 98 x6

Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012)

Citizenship 2013

news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...
Sir Mo Farah reveals 'the truth' about how he came to the UK
The Olympic star was warned speaking out could put his British citizenship at "real risk" - but it is understood the Home Office is taking no action against him.
news.sky.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM