Rootless Cosmopolitan
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books, films, music, politics, history. "this is a stupid conversation, and I'm not going to continue it".
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White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
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I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
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FED: ECONOMY GROWING AT A MODERATE PACE; JOB GAINS SLOWING, UNEMPLOYMENT EDGING UP. INFLATION HAS RISEN FROM EARLIER THIS YEAR AND REMAINS ELEVATED.
December 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
FED: ECONOMY GROWING AT A MODERATE PACE; JOB GAINS SLOWING, UNEMPLOYMENT EDGING UP. INFLATION HAS RISEN FROM EARLIER THIS YEAR AND REMAINS ELEVATED.
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Trump calls NYT health reporting "treasonous," says paper should "cease publication" boingboing.net/2025/12/10/t...
Trump calls NYT health reporting "treasonous," says paper should "cease publication"
Trump calls NY Times health coverage 'treasonous' and suggests action after reports of reduced appearances and fatigue
boingboing.net
December 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Trump calls NYT health reporting "treasonous," says paper should "cease publication" boingboing.net/2025/12/10/t...
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Listen buddy I didn't speak to my grandmother when she was alive
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Listen buddy I didn't speak to my grandmother when she was alive
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⚠️ Danish military intelligence report raises concerns about U.S. for the first time:
“The United States uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will, and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies.”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...
“The United States uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will, and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies.”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...
Danish Intelligence Report Raises Concerns About U.S.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
⚠️ Danish military intelligence report raises concerns about U.S. for the first time:
“The United States uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will, and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies.”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...
“The United States uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will, and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies.”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...
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for those who can't read it: the key idea is that Europe needs "a civic revolution to persuade young Europeans" to protect our alleged "Christian civilization" from unassimilated migrants and enviromental policies.
the Nazi Youth Times strikes again i guess!
the Nazi Youth Times strikes again i guess!
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
for those who can't read it: the key idea is that Europe needs "a civic revolution to persuade young Europeans" to protect our alleged "Christian civilization" from unassimilated migrants and enviromental policies.
the Nazi Youth Times strikes again i guess!
the Nazi Youth Times strikes again i guess!
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One admission of personal interest he neglects to mention is that he's a failed UKIP parliamentary candidate, so may have more than the passing acquaintance with Farage suggested here.
December 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
One admission of personal interest he neglects to mention is that he's a failed UKIP parliamentary candidate, so may have more than the passing acquaintance with Farage suggested here.
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Britain’s top Europe minister Nick Thomas-Symonds today defended a decision to keep the U.K. out of the EU's customs union, saying that Tuesday's non-binding British parliamentary vote on rejoining risked reviving bitter arguments about Brexit.
Britain’s Brexit point man says no to rejoining EU customs union
But speaking to POLITICO, U.K. Minister for European Relations Nick Thomas-Symonds sounds bullish on a wider reset of ties with the bloc in the new year.
www.politico.eu
December 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Britain’s top Europe minister Nick Thomas-Symonds today defended a decision to keep the U.K. out of the EU's customs union, saying that Tuesday's non-binding British parliamentary vote on rejoining risked reviving bitter arguments about Brexit.
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I’m sure Free Speech Warrior Nigel Farage will be having a word about this?
December 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I’m sure Free Speech Warrior Nigel Farage will be having a word about this?
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Elon Musk is upset at Ilhan Omar and Zohran Momdani were voted in "by a majority of people who were not born in America"
Adding, "We don't want to turn into a communist hellhole"
Adding, "We don't want to turn into a communist hellhole"
December 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Elon Musk is upset at Ilhan Omar and Zohran Momdani were voted in "by a majority of people who were not born in America"
Adding, "We don't want to turn into a communist hellhole"
Adding, "We don't want to turn into a communist hellhole"
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If you're keen to dedicate your time and volunteer at a soup kitchen this winter, here's how to get started.
Volunteering at a soup kitchen: how to volunteer and what to expect
www.bigissue.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If you're keen to dedicate your time and volunteer at a soup kitchen this winter, here's how to get started.
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none of these people (inclusive of UK labour) seem to understand that voters want their leaders to *lead* them, not reflect their own ill thought preferences back at them
December 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
none of these people (inclusive of UK labour) seem to understand that voters want their leaders to *lead* them, not reflect their own ill thought preferences back at them
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Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Nearly every Take relating to this has been done except one, which is - why would the European leaders take advice from Starmer on how to beat the far right? Who among them envies his popularity or admires the sagacity of his advisors?
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Nearly every Take relating to this has been done except one, which is - why would the European leaders take advice from Starmer on how to beat the far right? Who among them envies his popularity or admires the sagacity of his advisors?
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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FUN FACT: Democrats have won or overperformed in 226 out of 254 key and special elections this year — nearly 90%.
December 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
FUN FACT: Democrats have won or overperformed in 226 out of 254 key and special elections this year — nearly 90%.
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I understand why Starmer has to be measured in what he says about the US. But every time he says something which suggests nothing has changed in geo-politics, he adds to that feeling he always gives me - he makes me feel unsafe.
December 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I understand why Starmer has to be measured in what he says about the US. But every time he says something which suggests nothing has changed in geo-politics, he adds to that feeling he always gives me - he makes me feel unsafe.
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NEW | It’s time for a festive ‘treat’…
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part One: Advent Calendars, Monarchist Fan Fiction, and Dead Twitter
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The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part One: Advent Calendars, Monarchist Fan Fiction, and Dead Twitter
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The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part One: Advent Calendars, Monarchist Fan Fiction, and Dead Twitter
Let's celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with a bonfire of bad takes...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
NEW | It’s time for a festive ‘treat’…
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part One: Advent Calendars, Monarchist Fan Fiction, and Dead Twitter
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part One: Advent Calendars, Monarchist Fan Fiction, and Dead Twitter
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
In a Glasgow cafe listening to a Scots couple of pensioner age saying how much they admire Trump because “at least he’s doing something”. They’re now complaining about Starmer disrupting a classroom by doing 6/7. We are fucked.
December 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
In a Glasgow cafe listening to a Scots couple of pensioner age saying how much they admire Trump because “at least he’s doing something”. They’re now complaining about Starmer disrupting a classroom by doing 6/7. We are fucked.
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I grew up in the 70s and 80s.
If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece.
Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis.
Hope that helps.
If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece.
Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis.
Hope that helps.
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I grew up in the 70s and 80s.
If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece.
Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis.
Hope that helps.
If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece.
Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis.
Hope that helps.
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'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
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"And tonight in 'Cutting off your nose to spite your face'...."
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn
Home Office assessment shows impact of latest changes to immigration regime over next five years
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
"And tonight in 'Cutting off your nose to spite your face'...."
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This Border Patrol agent raped sex workers and robbed them and almosr certainly threatened them with deportation.
O'Hare-based Border Protection officer sexually abused, robbed women at gunpoint, indictment claims
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
O'Hare-based Border Protection officer sexually abused, robbed women at gunpoint, indictment claims
The 11-count indictment handed up against Luis Uribe alleges violent sexual assaults against four victims between Feb. 5, 2022, and Oct. 9, 2022, in Schaumburg and Naperville.
chicago.suntimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
This Border Patrol agent raped sex workers and robbed them and almosr certainly threatened them with deportation.
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NEW | The countdown of this year’s most contemptible columns continues…
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
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The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
Our annual look at the commentariat's most contemptuous content continues.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM
NEW | The countdown of this year’s most contemptible columns continues…
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...