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Jimmy Kimmel mocks a geriatric Donald Trump as he wanders around aimlessly with the Prime Minister of Japan 🤣
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Jimmy Kimmel mocks a geriatric Donald Trump as he wanders around aimlessly with the Prime Minister of Japan 🤣
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Grim Fandango (LucasArts) was released 27 years ago today.
What a masterpiece.
What a masterpiece.
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Grim Fandango (LucasArts) was released 27 years ago today.
What a masterpiece.
What a masterpiece.
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TOTTIE - THE STORY OF A DOLL'S HOUSE (1984): Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms, home to Bagpuss and The Clangers, gave us this charming series about the inhabitants of a doll's house. Young viewers weren't prepared for a favourite character's death by immolation...
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
TOTTIE - THE STORY OF A DOLL'S HOUSE (1984): Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms, home to Bagpuss and The Clangers, gave us this charming series about the inhabitants of a doll's house. Young viewers weren't prepared for a favourite character's death by immolation...
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Tom Nichols: “This whole notion of deploying riot control troops to every city — for what? What kind of disorder are they expecting? Perhaps millions of people voting, going to the streets to express their choice in an election?”
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Tom Nichols: “This whole notion of deploying riot control troops to every city — for what? What kind of disorder are they expecting? Perhaps millions of people voting, going to the streets to express their choice in an election?”
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
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The problem is that MAGA world thinks it's awesome that people in lab coats with advanced degrees are freaked out.
Opposition to RFKJr is ramping up.
Joint statement from Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and 21 other organizations 👇
Joint statement from Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and 21 other organizations 👇
September 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The problem is that MAGA world thinks it's awesome that people in lab coats with advanced degrees are freaked out.
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The Irish comedian Graham Linehan was just arrested by British police for rude X posts—which is “totalitarian, absurd, and a waste of police time,” @helenlewis.bsky.social argues.
The Arrest That Demonstrates Europe’s Free-Speech Problem
The absurd detention of the comedy writer Graham Linehan underscores a deeper issue.
bit.ly
September 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The Irish comedian Graham Linehan was just arrested by British police for rude X posts—which is “totalitarian, absurd, and a waste of police time,” @helenlewis.bsky.social argues.
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The way Tice keeps going on about this, you'd almost think he'd received £2.3m from people with links to fossil fuels and climate change denial. Oh, hang on...
August 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The way Tice keeps going on about this, you'd almost think he'd received £2.3m from people with links to fossil fuels and climate change denial. Oh, hang on...
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Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor, uprooted her family, and moved to teach military ethics at the Naval War College. Now she's leaving in protest of policies she can't support and that make her job impossible.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Military Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest
Over the course of several months, Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded she no longer had the academic freedom necessary for doing her job.
www.theatlantic.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor, uprooted her family, and moved to teach military ethics at the Naval War College. Now she's leaving in protest of policies she can't support and that make her job impossible.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Byrds release “Mr. Tambourine Man” today in 1965.
“If you’re someone who grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, the song is like a little telegraph, said David Byrne. “Hearing that, I realised: I have to get out of here because .. there’s a whole world out there that I don’t know anything about.”
“If you’re someone who grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, the song is like a little telegraph, said David Byrne. “Hearing that, I realised: I have to get out of here because .. there’s a whole world out there that I don’t know anything about.”
April 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Byrds release “Mr. Tambourine Man” today in 1965.
“If you’re someone who grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, the song is like a little telegraph, said David Byrne. “Hearing that, I realised: I have to get out of here because .. there’s a whole world out there that I don’t know anything about.”
“If you’re someone who grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, the song is like a little telegraph, said David Byrne. “Hearing that, I realised: I have to get out of here because .. there’s a whole world out there that I don’t know anything about.”
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Googling Stuff: Then v Now.
December 11, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Googling Stuff: Then v Now.
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"analysis of Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out."
Was there ever ‘shareholder support’ for Thames Water?
New writer Stanley Root’s analysis of Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out
westenglandbylines.co.uk
December 10, 2024 at 9:59 AM
"analysis of Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out."
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Joel Grey goes hard: "The democratic election of an authoritarian figure, the normalization of bigotry, the complicity of the frightened masses — none of these are new themes. We have indeed seen this show before, and I fear we do know how it ends." www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/o...
Opinion | Joel Grey: ‘Cabaret’ Was a Warning. It’s Time to Heed It. (Gift Article)
Much has changed since the show debuted on Broadway in 1966, but it’s what hasn’t changed that should worry us.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Joel Grey goes hard: "The democratic election of an authoritarian figure, the normalization of bigotry, the complicity of the frightened masses — none of these are new themes. We have indeed seen this show before, and I fear we do know how it ends." www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/o...
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My piece on Tulsi Gabbard and the storm that is headed the way of America's Intelligence Community. The FBI will be first in line, but the whole alphabet soup—ODNI, CIA, NSA, CISA—will feel the shock.
www.economist.com/united-state...
www.economist.com/united-state...
Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard are coming for the spooks
The president-elect’s intelligence picks suggest a radical agenda
www.economist.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:11 AM
My piece on Tulsi Gabbard and the storm that is headed the way of America's Intelligence Community. The FBI will be first in line, but the whole alphabet soup—ODNI, CIA, NSA, CISA—will feel the shock.
www.economist.com/united-state...
www.economist.com/united-state...
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And THAT is exactly how people with a huge sense of entitlement regularly behave when they get caught out.
#JeremyClarkson
#JeremyClarkson
November 19, 2024 at 4:51 PM
And THAT is exactly how people with a huge sense of entitlement regularly behave when they get caught out.
#JeremyClarkson
#JeremyClarkson
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Thinking of my homeboy Edward Jenner tonight...
The father of vaccination, he had his statue removed from Trafalgar Square after pressure from anti-vaxxers.
We should return it to let the world know the UK isn't following the US back to polio, diptheria and measles.
The father of vaccination, he had his statue removed from Trafalgar Square after pressure from anti-vaxxers.
We should return it to let the world know the UK isn't following the US back to polio, diptheria and measles.
November 14, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Thinking of my homeboy Edward Jenner tonight...
The father of vaccination, he had his statue removed from Trafalgar Square after pressure from anti-vaxxers.
We should return it to let the world know the UK isn't following the US back to polio, diptheria and measles.
The father of vaccination, he had his statue removed from Trafalgar Square after pressure from anti-vaxxers.
We should return it to let the world know the UK isn't following the US back to polio, diptheria and measles.
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Trump cabinet live updates: House speaker pushes to keep Matt Gaetz ethics report secret
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump cabinet live: Speaker Mike Johnson pushes to keep Gaetz ethics report secret
Other administration nominees including Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Robert F Kennedy Jr attended Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago celebration on Thursday night
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Trump cabinet live updates: House speaker pushes to keep Matt Gaetz ethics report secret
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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The party that is obsessed with child sex offenders, & is close to a cult that claims child sex offenders run the government, just nominated a guy once investigated for allegedly sex-trafficking a 17 year old girl to be in charge of the country’s legal system.
Beyond parody.
Beyond parody.
November 14, 2024 at 5:41 AM
The party that is obsessed with child sex offenders, & is close to a cult that claims child sex offenders run the government, just nominated a guy once investigated for allegedly sex-trafficking a 17 year old girl to be in charge of the country’s legal system.
Beyond parody.
Beyond parody.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vax fakery was tied to a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa. And he lied about it. As head of HHS, he could do much worse here.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How RFK Jr. Falsely Denied His Connection to a Deadly Measles Outbreak in Samoa
He also championed a Samoan anti-vaxxer tied to the 2019 lethal eruption that killed scores of children.
www.motherjones.com
November 14, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vax fakery was tied to a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa. And he lied about it. As head of HHS, he could do much worse here.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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To state the very obvious, this would put an avowed anti-vaxxer in charge of vaccines, allowing him to thwart the development and approval of life-saving shots. It's almost too horrific to fathom—a potential death sentence for our families and children. It's lethal. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Trump expected to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS
The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.
www.politico.com
November 14, 2024 at 8:37 PM
To state the very obvious, this would put an avowed anti-vaxxer in charge of vaccines, allowing him to thwart the development and approval of life-saving shots. It's almost too horrific to fathom—a potential death sentence for our families and children. It's lethal. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
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"In 2006, a Gallup poll found that Britain and America had the highest levels of confidence in their respective governments among G7 countries; by 2022, they had the lowest"- on.ft.com/47hXiwe
Via @jemima.bsky.social
Via @jemima.bsky.social
Politician or celebrity? Who knows any more?
Britain and America do personality politics differently but neither path is a sign of health
on.ft.com
November 21, 2023 at 9:24 AM
"In 2006, a Gallup poll found that Britain and America had the highest levels of confidence in their respective governments among G7 countries; by 2022, they had the lowest"- on.ft.com/47hXiwe
Via @jemima.bsky.social
Via @jemima.bsky.social