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Commiserations to Matty Yglesias, the merry band of well funded centrists, and all the major politics desks behind them
January 14, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Commiserations to Matty Yglesias, the merry band of well funded centrists, and all the major politics desks behind them
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Good morning.
A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive.
That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power.
Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.
A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive.
That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power.
Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.
January 14, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Good morning.
A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive.
That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power.
Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.
A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive.
That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power.
Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.
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“‘I fell in love with him on the spot’: Alan Rickman remembered, 10 years after his death”
Y’know what was also amazing about Alan Rickman? He staged the play and edited the documentary ‘My Name Is Rachel Corrie’
#FreePalestine - like Alan would have wanted ❤️🇵🇸
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
Y’know what was also amazing about Alan Rickman? He staged the play and edited the documentary ‘My Name Is Rachel Corrie’
#FreePalestine - like Alan would have wanted ❤️🇵🇸
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
‘I fell in love with him on the spot’: Alan Rickman remembered, 10 years after his death
On the anniversary of his death aged 69, stars from Sigourney Weaver to Sharleen Spiteri, Tom Felton to Harriet Walter, remember the wit, charm and endless generosity of one of Britain’s best-loved ac...
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:18 AM
“‘I fell in love with him on the spot’: Alan Rickman remembered, 10 years after his death”
Y’know what was also amazing about Alan Rickman? He staged the play and edited the documentary ‘My Name Is Rachel Corrie’
#FreePalestine - like Alan would have wanted ❤️🇵🇸
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
Y’know what was also amazing about Alan Rickman? He staged the play and edited the documentary ‘My Name Is Rachel Corrie’
#FreePalestine - like Alan would have wanted ❤️🇵🇸
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
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What young people need is to be heard - not deplatformed by amoral careerists like Wes Streeting.
In news entirely unrelated to the fact that everyone on social media, and especially younger people who he seems to hate, loathe him...
Wes Streeting asks US expert Jonathan Haidt to address officials on social media ban for under-16s
Exclusive: Health secretary issues invitation in push for UK to consider copying landmark restrictions in Australia
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:34 AM
What young people need is to be heard - not deplatformed by amoral careerists like Wes Streeting.
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A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
January 12, 2026 at 1:42 AM
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
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yt ppl really live in a whole different reality
Before Trump, law enforcement were trained to behave professionally. At a traffic stop they would start with words such as "Mam, may I see your drivers license and registration."
ICE evidently trains their goons to start a stop with screamed profanity, quickly followed by violence.
ICE evidently trains their goons to start a stop with screamed profanity, quickly followed by violence.
January 12, 2026 at 5:58 AM
yt ppl really live in a whole different reality
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It's not all bad
January 11, 2026 at 12:29 PM
It's not all bad
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What I should have added in this piece is that even if all of this stopped right now, that doesn't pardon any past offences already committed. Criminal prohibitions of sexual abuse and expolitation are partly aimed at deterrence - and this only works if they are enforced.
I write in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social about the laws that are broken when online AI platforms facilitate the production of child sex abuse material. No new laws are needed. Companies (and their executives) are accountable as well as users.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Ireland could prosecute Twitter/X for AI 'child porn' deepfakes
The horrific child sex abuse material produced every day by Grok is already banned under Irish law. The real test is if we are ready to enforce that law against large tech companies
www.irishexaminer.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:39 AM
What I should have added in this piece is that even if all of this stopped right now, that doesn't pardon any past offences already committed. Criminal prohibitions of sexual abuse and expolitation are partly aimed at deterrence - and this only works if they are enforced.
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Market reaction to the onslaught of Trump admin news this weekend has been modest, but notable that stocks, bonds, and the dollar are all dropping at the same time. That is where things get really bad if selling is large and persistent (which again, this isn’t, yet).
January 12, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Market reaction to the onslaught of Trump admin news this weekend has been modest, but notable that stocks, bonds, and the dollar are all dropping at the same time. That is where things get really bad if selling is large and persistent (which again, this isn’t, yet).
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We are pleased to see this from Ofcom www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet.... However, it appears to have a main or exclusive focus on CSAM and there is a wide variety of other illegal content which X, in breach of its duties under the Online Safety Act, has failed to remove.
Ofcom launches investigation into X over Grok sexualised imagery
Ofcom has today opened a formal investigation into X under the UK’s Online Safety Act, to determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the UK from content that is illegal in ...
www.ofcom.org.uk
January 12, 2026 at 11:24 AM
We are pleased to see this from Ofcom www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet.... However, it appears to have a main or exclusive focus on CSAM and there is a wide variety of other illegal content which X, in breach of its duties under the Online Safety Act, has failed to remove.
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apparently there's a GC protest in Southwark today, right now. i wonder if the five GCs and their dog will get national news coverage again, while the protest of like a hundred thousand for trans rights was completely ignored lol
January 10, 2026 at 1:27 PM
apparently there's a GC protest in Southwark today, right now. i wonder if the five GCs and their dog will get national news coverage again, while the protest of like a hundred thousand for trans rights was completely ignored lol
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Justin Webb wrote in The Times about how Trump was "making America normal again."
Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
January 10, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Justin Webb wrote in The Times about how Trump was "making America normal again."
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I would like to play poker with this person.
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
If women quit X because of Grok’s deepfake nudes, the predators win – so I’m staying
www.independent.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 2:43 PM
I would like to play poker with this person.
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Yep, The Times is going with 'The murder of Renee Nicole Good is the fault of immigrants'.
January 10, 2026 at 6:34 AM
Yep, The Times is going with 'The murder of Renee Nicole Good is the fault of immigrants'.
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the NIGHTMARE KART TOURNAMENT is live in 15 minutes!!
u can sign up here at the arcade commons booth!!
u can sign up here at the arcade commons booth!!
January 9, 2026 at 4:49 AM
the NIGHTMARE KART TOURNAMENT is live in 15 minutes!!
u can sign up here at the arcade commons booth!!
u can sign up here at the arcade commons booth!!
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Week 1. We invaded Venezuela. We killed the ACA subsidies. We destroyed the Kennedy Center. We murdered a woman in cold blood over deportations. We threatened Greenland, now we are offering them $100,000 per person to allow us to take over their country.
First 7 days. Can we survive a year of this?
First 7 days. Can we survive a year of this?
January 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Week 1. We invaded Venezuela. We killed the ACA subsidies. We destroyed the Kennedy Center. We murdered a woman in cold blood over deportations. We threatened Greenland, now we are offering them $100,000 per person to allow us to take over their country.
First 7 days. Can we survive a year of this?
First 7 days. Can we survive a year of this?
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The world’s ocean absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any other year on record
Ocean Temperatures Just Hit a Dire New Record
The world’s ocean absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any other year on record
www.scientificamerican.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:50 PM
The world’s ocean absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any other year on record
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This one is arguably a worse look than the CECOT segment
At Status_ @oliverdarcy.bsky.social has learned that Bari Weiss, CBS News' Trump-approved minder, has held up another “60 Minutes” report:
An Anderson Cooper investigation of Trump’s acceptance of white S. African refugees, which is “guaranteed to provoke Trump and inflame his MAGA base.”
An Anderson Cooper investigation of Trump’s acceptance of white S. African refugees, which is “guaranteed to provoke Trump and inflame his MAGA base.”
The Shadow Over ‘60’
As Sharyn Alfonsi's “60 Minutes” report remains shelved, Status has learned that an Anderson Cooper piece is also caught in a prolonged editorial review process, frustrating the veteran producer attac...
www.status.news
January 9, 2026 at 8:36 PM
This one is arguably a worse look than the CECOT segment
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What Elon Musk is doing to women protesting his humiliation of them = what TERFs do to trans people protesting their humiliation of them = what the pro-Genocide media does to those protesting against Israel's actions in Gaza.
'You Hate Free Speech' is the go-to Far Right smear every time a targeted group pushes back.
Would be great if headlines like this helped people understand that ugly tactic.
Would be great if headlines like this helped people understand that ugly tactic.
Musk says X outcry is 'excuse for censorship'
The government is urging Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X.
www.bbc.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:26 AM
What Elon Musk is doing to women protesting his humiliation of them = what TERFs do to trans people protesting their humiliation of them = what the pro-Genocide media does to those protesting against Israel's actions in Gaza.
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(3/3) @jamesbowes01.bsky.social analysis, on which the Times article is based, explains the numbers and why the government's "earned settlement" proposals are a disaster economically as well as morally. [end]
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
The coming collapse in immigration to the United Kingdom - UK in a changing Europe
James Bowes analyses the fall in net migration to the UK as a result of government policies and explores some of the political and economic consequences.
ukandeu.ac.uk
January 10, 2026 at 3:57 AM
(3/3) @jamesbowes01.bsky.social analysis, on which the Times article is based, explains the numbers and why the government's "earned settlement" proposals are a disaster economically as well as morally. [end]
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
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Entirely predictable/predicted: I wrote this almost two years ago
"If this government – or the next – does indeed succeed in reducing migration very substantially below projected levels, it will have a large fiscal cost, with consequent impacts for tax and spending."
ukandeu.ac.uk/has-higher-i...
"If this government – or the next – does indeed succeed in reducing migration very substantially below projected levels, it will have a large fiscal cost, with consequent impacts for tax and spending."
ukandeu.ac.uk/has-higher-i...
Has higher immigration saved the Chancellor again? - UK in a changing Europe
Jonathan Portes explores the impact of immigration on the UK economy in light of the Budget and the OBR's analysis.
ukandeu.ac.uk
January 10, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Entirely predictable/predicted: I wrote this almost two years ago
"If this government – or the next – does indeed succeed in reducing migration very substantially below projected levels, it will have a large fiscal cost, with consequent impacts for tax and spending."
ukandeu.ac.uk/has-higher-i...
"If this government – or the next – does indeed succeed in reducing migration very substantially below projected levels, it will have a large fiscal cost, with consequent impacts for tax and spending."
ukandeu.ac.uk/has-higher-i...