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Rand Paul: "The reason we have trials & we don't automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator? ... off our coast it isn't our policy just to blow people up ... even the worst people in our country, they still get a trial."
"The Tory Party is dead" says Nadine Dorries, as she defects to Reform
Twitter is owned by a neo-Nazi, the LA Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are owned by pro-Trump billionaires, and CBS News will soon be run by a far-right Likud extremist. American media still has a liberal bias problem.
It's everywhere all of a sudden. The cat's out of the bag. Our politicians and our media have helped to legitimise the very worst impulses of the very worst people.
I’m still banking on the Liz Truss kiss of death for Farage.
Daniel Levy was always steadfast in his position: "As long as Giorgio Armani has breath in his lungs, I will remain chairman of Tottenham Hotspur". And he stuck to that. Which was odd, really
Sadly Gavin Williamson is still a thing and is now sitting on the board of Rupert Lowe's group supporting the mass deportation of legal citizens.
It seems unlikely that the richest men in the world are so worried about footing the bill for decent regulation of the online space that they’ve signed up pliant politicians to invent a non-existent ‘free speech crisis’. Until you remember just how greedy you have to be to become that rich…
very cool mr president. you used a $1000000 missile to blow up some guys in a little boat
Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year We are getting dumber as a society
Opinion: The Nigel Farage-ing of Britain is causing a terrible ripple effect - and families like mine are feeling it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?
Minister LOVES flags!
Donald Trump is unpopular. Why is it so hard to stand up to him? econ.st/4nl1Utj
MAKE MCCARTHY GREAT AGAIN’ Laura Loomer has become the Joseph McCarthy of the Trump era. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
There was outrage in Conservative circles at the revelation that Angela Rayner has a property empire extending to two actual residences. From the new Private Eye, out now.
I see all the media organisations endlessly parroting the "free speech under threat" rhetoric of the right are now staying completely silent as Reform and the Conservatives openly ban news outlets that criticise them from covering their events bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
Still doing Internet Art.
Outstanding news that should be shared.
“With biotechnology you can live to 150”.
Toby Young and Nigel Farage to the rescue. Any second now…
So Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives, who have repeatedly pledged to fight for "free speech" and a free press have just banned me and Byline Times from attending their conference. Has never happened before under any previous leader bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
'The Conservative party, whose leader Kemi Badenoch has repeatedly pledged to fight for “free speech”, has banned Byline Times from attending her party’s annual conference' bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
We should stop griping about Labour's apparent belief that if they do enough flag nonceing they'll win over Reform fans and just take the piss out of the desperate needy vibes coming off of their insistence that they have bunting everywhere at home.
Caption?
🫥🫥🫥 Fecking FB Private Eye
GB News owner Paul Marshall to the MAGA crowd at the US launch party last night, via Politico:
Farage dodged parliament, went to the US, slagged off the UK, lied to Congress, grifted for donations and hoped to persuade the US to punish us for the Online Safety Act. And got his arse handed back to him. You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.
They died so that Epstein could be forgotten for another 24 hours.
Nigel Farage Is Promoting Free Speech In America – While Reform Bans Journalists In The UK www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/ni...
Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different. Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.
Seems increasingly like the answer to the question “is every person in charge at any American institution an eager quisling” is a barely-qualified “yes”
If she wants to energise the economy, Rachel Reeves should become their sworn enemy.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi holding hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping seemed to confirm the U.S. is failing to draw India into its diplomatic orbit.
‘Wasted time, effort and money’: Britain’s £800M Brexit border debacle adds even more to the huge costs of Brexit www.politico.eu/article/brex...
New #Substack essay.... open.substack.com/pub/theantho...
Spain and Portugal wildfire weather made 40 times more likely by climate crisis, study finds #Climate
Trump did www.huffpost.com/entry/rubio-...
So Hegseth’s missiles were fired at a boat: ✅ they had no idea where it was going ✅ they had no idea who was on it ✅ they had no established authority to act ✅ but definitely wanted to murder whoever was on it Everyone involved should rot in prison forever
"Bluesky shows higher level of content originality in scholarly discourse, perhaps due to a higher proportion of academic users. X tends to favor simple retweets. This positions Bluesky as a richer environment for substantive science communication."🧪 True for our study www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just watched pictures of a Japanese train Going 310mph tmrw we are headed to ny on the amtrack train 310 miles will take 7.5 hrs… 41mph..
More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.” (Published July)
On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision
Timeline cleanse
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
I really don't think it should be tenable for Labour government ministers to have still remained mute about such a visible, vocal rise of racist abuse in our country by this rally on 13th September, being held by Tommy Robinson, with the proactive support of Elon Musk, the radicalised X owner
They're not hiding it any more.
'Lift the curtain on these files!' Epstein survivor shakes in fear demanding transparency www.rawstory.com/epstein-file...
Crazy that Xi doesn't even feel the need to manipulate Trump anymore. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-reac...
Verizon expects to pay $2 BILLION less in taxes next year. Lumen Tech has requested a $400 MILLION tax refund. Diamondback Energy is projecting its cash tax rate to drop by 4%. That's billions less for America. And their CEOs and shareholders will keep it all. Great.
"Hi. I made extremely poor choices throughout my life and now I'm going to use my power to do the same to you."
Labourites seem to have gone from "ha ha hypnotits" to "oh fuck Polanski will make Farage PM, is that what you want???" very quickly. But lads, if you want people's votes, win them. You're the government ffs.
Labour had 9.7 million voters in July 2024. 2 million (20%) now don't know, but haven't chosen a rival. These prefer Lab & centre-left to right 2.6 million to centre/left (27%) 900k Labour to LD (9%) 800k Labour to Green (8%) 900k across others (9%) 800k Lab 2024 to Reform (8%) A sliver to Cons
How many times are they going to release the pages of the Epstein Files we already have?
Epstein survivor Anouska de Georgiou: "I am no longer weak. I am no longer powerless. And I am no longer alone. And with your vote, neither will the next generation be. President Trump, you have so much influence and power in this situation. Please use that influence and power to help us."
Why does he sound like that?
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
The data was key evidence in the death of a pedestrian in 2019.
For the second year in a row, Reform has banned me from attending its annual conference. So much for “free speech” etc. etc.
Hmm
The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them. Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
Labour's weirdness over flags is deranged, not patriotic. It's like witnessing a nervous breakdown inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...
This is phenomenal. And it’s not even difficult - it’s just laying out the extensive evidence we have about Farage and his hypocrisies. The fact that he’s faced barely an ounce of this in the UK over the last year is why he’s leading in the polls.
These people are going to kill kids, and they held a press conference to announce it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
On X, economist Heather Long says, "The U.S. now has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021." @byheatherlong.bsky.social source URL: x.com/byHeatherLon...
![Heather Long @byHeatherLong It's official: The US now has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021. In July, the US had: 7.18 million job openings 7.24 million unemployed people This is yet another crack in the labor market that illustrates how much harder it is to get a new job right now than what we've seen in a long time. [Note: The July data could be revised, but the trend is pretty straightforward to see] [title of graph] The U.S. has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021. subtitle: In July the U.S. had 7.18 million job openings and 7.24 million unemployed workers. red = Job openings blue = unemployed graph shows 2016 to 2025 the blue and red lines crossover Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (via FRED) 10:09 AM · Sep 3, 2025 · 239.9K View](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2wyqv44lm72vasmddeqjgy72/bafkreih7iguz55fp6at6c2ybiu5zp6fk5cff3dhbdcy7wogvltctv3h2je@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Today’s news confirms it: Cuomo is Trump’s choice for Mayor. The White House is considering jobs for Adams and Sliwa to clear the field. New Yorkers are sick of corrupt politics and backroom deals. No matter who’s running, we will deliver a better future on November 4.
Democrats doing the UK media's job. Farage looks very vulnerable and amateurish.
Farage showing how to protect women and girls from sexual violence by prevaricating on the release of files relating to the crimes of a serial paedophile. Farage the fraud.
We generally describe him as “a bit of a cunt”.
Moskowitz: Do you think the Epstein list should come out? Farage: I have no opinion on it. Raskin: It’s been reported that he’s called for it to be released Moskowitz: I have it here. Do you agree with yourself?
The problem is about 80% of the English media either give him a free ride or outright support his racist agenda. When you add that to a poorly educated and xenophobic chunk of the population, we’ve got trouble.
Similar to what went on in a lot of German heads in 1933-45.
FOX: Are you for any green energy personally? ZELDIN: Uh, well, I am for whatever President Trump is advocating for.
Sadly over here the media treat Farage like royalty.
you’re literally boycotting the Nottingham Post because it asked challenging questions
Idiocracy.
Brilliant take-down of Farage that is so sorely missing from the British media and the Labour Party. Instantly it's clear to see how the British media panders to Farage and sees him as entertaining and good copy rather than a toxic, fascist pile of shit
Jamie Raskin's full speech roasting Farage and free speech imposters like him/Trump is now online here..... Watch it all. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Just as an observation, Kemi Badenoch has called for Keir to sack Angela Rayner for tax shenanigans. Meanwhile, Keir has not called for Kemi to sack Jenrick for hanging around with Combat 18.
Guess which network is ignoring the survivors? Fox isn’t news.
Farage is apparently speaking to Congress in his capacity as a spokesman for GB News.
He’s on the list!
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
Raskin: "The dictators of the world have got nothing to fear from this hearing. Republicans called it to attack our democratic allies in Europe. The star witness is not a human rights leader like Navalny, but a far-right pro-Putin politician who leads the UK Reform Party."
Nigel Farage just repeatedly denied – under oath! – to @raskin.house.gov ever banning journalists he doesn’t like from his party’s conventions. This happened to me *literally today*.
British journalists are either a) too scared or unprepared to question him properly (apart from you!); or b) completely supportive of his agenda.
He’s always so shit in the face of decent questioning. Absolutely amazing how rarely it happens.
Nigel Farage is claiming to Congress that the UK gov deliberately withheld details of the Southport attacker from the public. This is dangerous and it’s false. The attacker was under 18, and so a court had to give express permission to release his name in exceptional circumstances, which it did.
Nigel Farage’s Reform party let me know *today* that I was banned from attending its conference. I’m an accredited UK journalist who sent my media registration over in May. And now he’s told Congress he doesn’t do that. Full story: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
Farage is lying to Congress. He has banned journalists from his events. @bylinetimes.bsky.social, @desmog.com, @thenewworldmag.bsky.social and others were banned from Reform UK’s conference in Sept 2024 - even after buying tickets. @femi-oluwole.bsky.social was also removed from a Reform UK event.
military flyovers disrupt the Epstein victim press conference
BREAKING: Florida will work to eliminate all child vaccine mandates in the state, officials say.
Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".
This level of corruption is not normal or acceptable. Even if we are exhausted by each report of it going further and further, we can never grow numb to it.
Epstein survivors reveal they’re compiling their own client list. “Us survivors know”