Rootless Cosmopolitan
@brennick.bsky.social
books, films, music, politics, history. "this is a stupid conversation, and I'm not going to continue it".
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It really is the perfect culmination of every bit of batshit gaslighting, Orwellian manipulation and presumed public stupidity by Trump, the GOP and right wing media that their position now is “you know, what Epstein did wasn’t really all THAT bad…” #EpsteinFiles
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 AM
It really is the perfect culmination of every bit of batshit gaslighting, Orwellian manipulation and presumed public stupidity by Trump, the GOP and right wing media that their position now is “you know, what Epstein did wasn’t really all THAT bad…” #EpsteinFiles
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Actress Virginie Ledoyen shows a fondness for big fenders in a scene from the 1991 film The Children Thief (Le Voleur d'enfants)
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Virginie!
Born November 15, 1976
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Virginie!
Born November 15, 1976
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Actress Virginie Ledoyen shows a fondness for big fenders in a scene from the 1991 film The Children Thief (Le Voleur d'enfants)
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Virginie!
Born November 15, 1976
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Virginie!
Born November 15, 1976
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I bought a remaindered copy of All the Devils Are Here ('local interest') in 2005, recommended it to my editor at Penguin, who in turn recommended it to Rachel Cooke, who wrote about it and made a podcast with us, which led to it being republished, which led to this. open.spotify.com/episode/6ZlW...
All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook part 2
open.spotify.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I bought a remaindered copy of All the Devils Are Here ('local interest') in 2005, recommended it to my editor at Penguin, who in turn recommended it to Rachel Cooke, who wrote about it and made a podcast with us, which led to it being republished, which led to this. open.spotify.com/episode/6ZlW...
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This is a very dangerous moment for the country and the world. A cornered rat will do anything to escape.
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is a very dangerous moment for the country and the world. A cornered rat will do anything to escape.
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Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
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Trump just told reporters on Air Force One that he hasn’t ruled out a pardon for Ghislane Maxwell
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Trump just told reporters on Air Force One that he hasn’t ruled out a pardon for Ghislane Maxwell
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Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him
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Although many people are saying it, I do not believe our current president sucked off former president Bill Clinton on camera. I have not seen sufficient evidence that our current president gave the former president a blowie in a way that was memorialized in a photo. That's not something I believe.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Although many people are saying it, I do not believe our current president sucked off former president Bill Clinton on camera. I have not seen sufficient evidence that our current president gave the former president a blowie in a way that was memorialized in a photo. That's not something I believe.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene on Trump: “It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level.”
November 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene on Trump: “It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level.”
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They’re calling her Megyn. R Kelly now.
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
They’re calling her Megyn. R Kelly now.
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The gift that keeps on giving.
Epstein’s brother Mark asking Steve Bannon if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba” - or Bill Clinton to the rest of us.
Epstein’s brother Mark asking Steve Bannon if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba” - or Bill Clinton to the rest of us.
![Mark L. Epstein
3/21/20182:54:13 PM
jeffreyE. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
RE: hey
Importance: High
I'd rather be in Donni Dee's shoes.
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 10:43 AM
To: Mark L. Epstein
Subject: Re: hey
you mean DONNI TEE
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Mark L. Epstein
You and your boy Donnie can make a remake of the movie Get Hard.
Sent via tin can and string.
On Mar 21, 2018, at 09:37, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
and i thought- I had tsuris
wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:32 AM, Mark L. Epstein
Ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba?
wrote:
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 2:15 PM
To:
Subject: Re: hey
All good. Bannon with me
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 1:49 PM Mark L. Epstein
How are you doing?
wrote:
A while back you mentioned that you were prediabetic. Has anything changed with that?
What is your boy Donald up to now?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:movn6xzezospl7lnkhy7nzpt/bafkreig2xevke2levnhnq2boozm6o6pcawf4ysup5vff5iv47f3m76lkwm@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The gift that keeps on giving.
Epstein’s brother Mark asking Steve Bannon if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba” - or Bill Clinton to the rest of us.
Epstein’s brother Mark asking Steve Bannon if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba” - or Bill Clinton to the rest of us.
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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More voters rebelling against looming tax increases by swinging behind a party loudly calling for much larger tax increases
Long Ashton (North Somerset) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 55.7% (+25.1)
🌳 CON: 17.7% (-7.2)
➡️ RFM: 15.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 5.7% (-28.8)
🌹 LAB: 5.4% (-4.5)
Green HOLD.
Changes w/ 2023.
🌍 GRN: 55.7% (+25.1)
🌳 CON: 17.7% (-7.2)
➡️ RFM: 15.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 5.7% (-28.8)
🌹 LAB: 5.4% (-4.5)
Green HOLD.
Changes w/ 2023.
November 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
More voters rebelling against looming tax increases by swinging behind a party loudly calling for much larger tax increases
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As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
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Ken Clarke humiliates Danny Kruger's new party, Reform UK on #BBCQT
"I live in a county with a Reform UK council"
"Most of them had no idea what the country council did"
"They fought on the promise of reducing waste and council tax"
"And they just put up the council tax by the max"
"I live in a county with a Reform UK council"
"Most of them had no idea what the country council did"
"They fought on the promise of reducing waste and council tax"
"And they just put up the council tax by the max"
November 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Ken Clarke humiliates Danny Kruger's new party, Reform UK on #BBCQT
"I live in a county with a Reform UK council"
"Most of them had no idea what the country council did"
"They fought on the promise of reducing waste and council tax"
"And they just put up the council tax by the max"
"I live in a county with a Reform UK council"
"Most of them had no idea what the country council did"
"They fought on the promise of reducing waste and council tax"
"And they just put up the council tax by the max"
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Imagine a 100+ seat majority in the hands of even Wilson and Callaghan, never mind Attlee, Blair or Brown.
Every one of those Labour Prime Ministers did something or would have done something far more transformative than Starmer's strategic timidity.
Every one of those Labour Prime Ministers did something or would have done something far more transformative than Starmer's strategic timidity.
Starmer isn't Britain's worst ever prime minister, but he is Labour's worst ever prime minister and it's not even close
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Imagine a 100+ seat majority in the hands of even Wilson and Callaghan, never mind Attlee, Blair or Brown.
Every one of those Labour Prime Ministers did something or would have done something far more transformative than Starmer's strategic timidity.
Every one of those Labour Prime Ministers did something or would have done something far more transformative than Starmer's strategic timidity.
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“Policies that favour the interests of the working class are disregarded as a fantasy, whereas those that push wealth and power towards the rich are seen as a realistic status quo.”
My col. on a politics and media that normalises Reform and dismisses the Greens. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My col. on a politics and media that normalises Reform and dismisses the Greens. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s rebuttal to the Green party this week sums up the double standard that dogs our politics | Frances Ryan
Why is it that the politics of hope offered up by the left is dismissed as naive, while the policies of the centre and right are portrayed as all that is possible? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
“Policies that favour the interests of the working class are disregarded as a fantasy, whereas those that push wealth and power towards the rich are seen as a realistic status quo.”
My col. on a politics and media that normalises Reform and dismisses the Greens. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My col. on a politics and media that normalises Reform and dismisses the Greens. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This is the story HMT is telling about the change of heart on busting manifesto pledge (which RR was always sceptical about). Problem is, the OBR's underlying forecast came on 31 Oct, by which time stronger wage growth/revenues were already well known factors (1/3) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reeves to Drop Tax-Rise Plans Because of Better UK Forecasts
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has been able to drop a plan to raise income taxes because she received an improved fiscal forecast from the UK’s budget watchdog, people familiar with the ma...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This is the story HMT is telling about the change of heart on busting manifesto pledge (which RR was always sceptical about). Problem is, the OBR's underlying forecast came on 31 Oct, by which time stronger wage growth/revenues were already well known factors (1/3) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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If the FT story is correct and they're walking back from Income Tax rises then I genuinely give up.
Every government of my adult life has been a cowardly shuffle of dishonesty on taxes, spending, and immigration, hurtling towards ever worse outcomes and praying something turns up.
Every government of my adult life has been a cowardly shuffle of dishonesty on taxes, spending, and immigration, hurtling towards ever worse outcomes and praying something turns up.
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
If the FT story is correct and they're walking back from Income Tax rises then I genuinely give up.
Every government of my adult life has been a cowardly shuffle of dishonesty on taxes, spending, and immigration, hurtling towards ever worse outcomes and praying something turns up.
Every government of my adult life has been a cowardly shuffle of dishonesty on taxes, spending, and immigration, hurtling towards ever worse outcomes and praying something turns up.
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Aaaaaand gilt market hates it
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Aaaaaand gilt market hates it
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The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...