@gronk954.bsky.social
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In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
December 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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How the BBC & ITV give disproportionate coverage to Farage & Reform: hard evidence from a serious study. BBC & ITV now give Reform more coverage than the Conservatives, more than the Lib Dems & nine times the Greens. Superb research from Stephen Cushion.
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
December 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
How the BBC & ITV give disproportionate coverage to Farage & Reform: hard evidence from a serious study. BBC & ITV now give Reform more coverage than the Conservatives, more than the Lib Dems & nine times the Greens. Superb research from Stephen Cushion.
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
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December 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Always good to meet Minister Andrii Sybiha & discuss how 🇪🇺 can further assist 🇺🇦.
I always regret that our assistance is still not enough to bring peace & remain deeply grateful for everything 🇺🇦 does for the defence of Europe.
I feel confused when Ukraine thanks us!
Slava Ukraini!
I always regret that our assistance is still not enough to bring peace & remain deeply grateful for everything 🇺🇦 does for the defence of Europe.
I feel confused when Ukraine thanks us!
Slava Ukraini!
December 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Always good to meet Minister Andrii Sybiha & discuss how 🇪🇺 can further assist 🇺🇦.
I always regret that our assistance is still not enough to bring peace & remain deeply grateful for everything 🇺🇦 does for the defence of Europe.
I feel confused when Ukraine thanks us!
Slava Ukraini!
I always regret that our assistance is still not enough to bring peace & remain deeply grateful for everything 🇺🇦 does for the defence of Europe.
I feel confused when Ukraine thanks us!
Slava Ukraini!
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thoroughly enjoyed this piece from @bryceelder.bsky.social. audiophile obsessives on a quest are some of the purest out there, and also the least likely to do any damage to anyone else in pursuing their goals:
www.ft.com/content/680a...
www.ft.com/content/680a...
The hi-fi that costs as much as a house
Behind the high prices and higher decibels is the quest to hear music as vividly as youth once allowed
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
thoroughly enjoyed this piece from @bryceelder.bsky.social. audiophile obsessives on a quest are some of the purest out there, and also the least likely to do any damage to anyone else in pursuing their goals:
www.ft.com/content/680a...
www.ft.com/content/680a...
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I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
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I like that I don't have to pay £30 to go to the Transport Museum to get to see a museum piece of a train!
November 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I like that I don't have to pay £30 to go to the Transport Museum to get to see a museum piece of a train!
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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The BBC removed a line about Trump being the most openly corrupt president in American history...from a lecture about the cowardice of today's elites.
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The BBC removed a line about Trump being the most openly corrupt president in American history...from a lecture about the cowardice of today's elites.
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
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Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
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UK trade figures. Not a happy picture.
The immediate post-Brexit policy was a failure. Despite protests otherwise it seems this year's trade strategy will be only half-heartedly implemented.
The immediate post-Brexit policy was a failure. Despite protests otherwise it seems this year's trade strategy will be only half-heartedly implemented.
Quarterly trade data out this morning. Goods exports were down 0.7% compared to Q2, with weak USA exports certainly contributing. In addition, services trade growth seems to have slowed, with growth of just 0.2%.
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
UK trade figures. Not a happy picture.
The immediate post-Brexit policy was a failure. Despite protests otherwise it seems this year's trade strategy will be only half-heartedly implemented.
The immediate post-Brexit policy was a failure. Despite protests otherwise it seems this year's trade strategy will be only half-heartedly implemented.
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All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny
All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI—In what they described as a collaborative effort to share resources and information in defense of U.S. territory, Pentagon officials confirmed Monday that all six branches of the ...
theonion.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny
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Here's a post about spacecraft economics that probably applies to lots of other things too.
on.ft.com/4gTUz1M
on.ft.com/4gTUz1M
In space, nobody can hear you budget
SpaceX and Blue Origin are no more efficient at building spacecraft than NASA. But that’s not the point of them
on.ft.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Here's a post about spacecraft economics that probably applies to lots of other things too.
on.ft.com/4gTUz1M
on.ft.com/4gTUz1M
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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September 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Torres: "Republicans are beginning to realize there is nobody in DC that has closer & longer ties to Epstein than Trump ... the most damning fact: Trump made Acosta, who gave a sweetheart plea deal to Epstein & to all co-conspirators, his sec of labor, which has jurisdiction over human trafficking"
July 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Torres: "Republicans are beginning to realize there is nobody in DC that has closer & longer ties to Epstein than Trump ... the most damning fact: Trump made Acosta, who gave a sweetheart plea deal to Epstein & to all co-conspirators, his sec of labor, which has jurisdiction over human trafficking"
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Another Paul Baxendale-Walker tax avoidance scheme fails, this time at the Court of Appeal.
Baxendale-Walker's own lawyers were acting for the poor taxpayer, and even they admitted the scheme failed. The only question was how badly it failed. The answer turned out to be: very badly.
Baxendale-Walker's own lawyers were acting for the poor taxpayer, and even they admitted the scheme failed. The only question was how badly it failed. The answer turned out to be: very badly.
June 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Another Paul Baxendale-Walker tax avoidance scheme fails, this time at the Court of Appeal.
Baxendale-Walker's own lawyers were acting for the poor taxpayer, and even they admitted the scheme failed. The only question was how badly it failed. The answer turned out to be: very badly.
Baxendale-Walker's own lawyers were acting for the poor taxpayer, and even they admitted the scheme failed. The only question was how badly it failed. The answer turned out to be: very badly.
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How did Kristi Noem, a cabinet official with Secret Service protection, get her purse snatched, losing her DHS badge, passport, and maybe her phone? That's now a security risk. If she'd asked the SS to stand down to give her privacy, then the public needs to know who was she having dinner with. 1/
I have security questions, not to mention why she carries $3,000 in cash: www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/p...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s bag, including $3,000 in cash, is stolen from DC restaurant | CNN Politics
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fell victim to a thief while eating dinner at a downtown Washington, DC, restaurant Sunday night, two sources familiar with the incident, includin...
www.cnn.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
How did Kristi Noem, a cabinet official with Secret Service protection, get her purse snatched, losing her DHS badge, passport, and maybe her phone? That's now a security risk. If she'd asked the SS to stand down to give her privacy, then the public needs to know who was she having dinner with. 1/
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Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
April 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
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On the worst people in the world having the best time of their lives, and the small, sacred mercy that Liz Truss just doesn't know how to do so.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Seamus O'Reilly: 'We’ve watched as the worst people on Earth have had the best days of their lives'
We may not wish for so many outrages to be heaped upon us, but we must continue to consider them outrageous
www.irishexaminer.com
April 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
On the worst people in the world having the best time of their lives, and the small, sacred mercy that Liz Truss just doesn't know how to do so.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...