Reposted by Katie Hamilton
youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA?...
Just a reminder whilst Farage is blowing a lot of hot air.
Just a reminder whilst Farage is blowing a lot of hot air.
Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?
YouTube video by The Guardian
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA?...
Just a reminder whilst Farage is blowing a lot of hot air.
Just a reminder whilst Farage is blowing a lot of hot air.
Reposted by Katie Hamilton
So much analysis of the content of Kimmel's monologues, but virtually no acknowledgement of that guy on Fox suggesting homeless people should receive lethal injections.
September 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
So much analysis of the content of Kimmel's monologues, but virtually no acknowledgement of that guy on Fox suggesting homeless people should receive lethal injections.
@rharris334.bsky.socialGreat article about the lasting influence of your teacher MaryAnne Needham (SMH 9 May)
May 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
@rharris334.bsky.socialGreat article about the lasting influence of your teacher MaryAnne Needham (SMH 9 May)
Reposted by Katie Hamilton
New voter just dropped: Dead Man www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Britain’s parties cater to a voter who is, often literally, dead
To understand British politics, one must understand Dead Man
www.economist.com
April 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
New voter just dropped: Dead Man www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Reposted by Katie Hamilton
“It’s wildly destructive stupidity, and the generations of American, and particularly Republican politicians, who allowed things to slide to this point are collectively to blame.” Flawless column by @alanbeattie.bsky.social:
A US tariff pathology is unleashed upon the world
The Republicans have allowed a destructive economic nationalist to lead America into chaos
www.ft.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“It’s wildly destructive stupidity, and the generations of American, and particularly Republican politicians, who allowed things to slide to this point are collectively to blame.” Flawless column by @alanbeattie.bsky.social:
Reposted by Katie Hamilton
I owe an apology to all James Bond movies. I mocked them for having completely unrealistic, cartoonish villains that simply weren't believable.
2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.
2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.
March 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I owe an apology to all James Bond movies. I mocked them for having completely unrealistic, cartoonish villains that simply weren't believable.
2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.
2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.
About time.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Dutton gets less scrutiny than Albanese but complains more. Time to toughen up
Already, the election campaign is a daily, personal brawl over character. No wonder politics is getting so personal.
www.smh.com.au
February 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
About time.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Reposted by Katie Hamilton
An overpaid HM Revenue & Customs worker is found drowned at the local swimming baths. Suspicion falls on Acock Green’s Blue Peter fan club, worried that interference by the House of Lords might threaten the lighthouse collage exhibition.
February 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
An overpaid HM Revenue & Customs worker is found drowned at the local swimming baths. Suspicion falls on Acock Green’s Blue Peter fan club, worried that interference by the House of Lords might threaten the lighthouse collage exhibition.
Reposted by Katie Hamilton
The next things that go wrong in aviation will be because of Musk, Trump, and Doge.
By me:
fallows.substack.com/p/they-were-...
By me:
fallows.substack.com/p/they-were-...
‘They Were Careless People’: Taking Moments to Tear Down What Has Taken Lifetimes to Create.
The zealots of Doge and Project 2025 are out to ‘cut waste.’ They will certainly cost lives: An example from aviation.
fallows.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The next things that go wrong in aviation will be because of Musk, Trump, and Doge.
By me:
fallows.substack.com/p/they-were-...
By me:
fallows.substack.com/p/they-were-...
Reposted by Katie Hamilton
Reposted by Katie Hamilton
Give the UK growth agenda a chance – Opinion News
https://www.europesays.com/1845504/
By Mohamed A El-Erian Pity Rachel Reeves, the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. Before she had even…
https://www.europesays.com/1845504/
By Mohamed A El-Erian Pity Rachel Reeves, the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. Before she had even…
Give the UK growth agenda a chance – Opinion News
By Mohamed A El-Erian Pity Rachel Reeves, the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. Before she had even
www.europesays.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Give the UK growth agenda a chance – Opinion News
https://www.europesays.com/1845504/
By Mohamed A El-Erian Pity Rachel Reeves, the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. Before she had even…
https://www.europesays.com/1845504/
By Mohamed A El-Erian Pity Rachel Reeves, the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. Before she had even…
Andrew Chakoyan is on the money in this article: ‘…what Russia needs now is a defeat. Germany’s and Japan’s became their salvation. So it could be with Russia. God knows it needs not more territory but a moment of reckoning.’
nypost.com/2025/02/07/o...
This is why Russia would settle for a short term halt to the hostilities.
If a peace deal is to come, it must have the correct conditions to be able to stop Russia from doing this again, again and then again.
This is why Russia would settle for a short term halt to the hostilities.
If a peace deal is to come, it must have the correct conditions to be able to stop Russia from doing this again, again and then again.
Russia’s war with Ukraine is taking a heavy toll on its economy
When a supposed global superpower like Russia begs Iran for drones, turns to North Korea for artillery shells and watches its Black Sea fleet dismantled by a country without a navy, you know someth…
nypost.com
February 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Andrew Chakoyan is on the money in this article: ‘…what Russia needs now is a defeat. Germany’s and Japan’s became their salvation. So it could be with Russia. God knows it needs not more territory but a moment of reckoning.’
Amidst the chaos, a good news story
www.australianphilanthropicservices.com.au/impact-inves...
www.australianphilanthropicservices.com.au/impact-inves...
Impact investment advances the treatment of river blindness — Australian Philanthropic Services
Impact investment helps Medicines Development for Global Health develop Moxidectin to treat river blindness
www.australianphilanthropicservices.com.au
February 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Amidst the chaos, a good news story
www.australianphilanthropicservices.com.au/impact-inves...
www.australianphilanthropicservices.com.au/impact-inves...
Reposted by Katie Hamilton
Social media has its place, and is a useful supplement to (and corrective of) mainstream media, but the post's point about it suiting illiberals "to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll" is sound.
February 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Social media has its place, and is a useful supplement to (and corrective of) mainstream media, but the post's point about it suiting illiberals "to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll" is sound.
Reposted by Katie Hamilton
Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.
February 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.
Reposted by Katie Hamilton
Ouch! #Trump
‘If Trump 1.0’s America was like a mischievous child causing global trouble, Trump 2.0’s America may resemble a menopausal patient ‒ unable to influence much beyond his previous allies in the US’
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Why China may be thanking Trump, for 'making China great again'
Why Donald Trump has earned the popular nickname “Chuan Jianguo,” which means “Make China Great,” and what to expect from Trump 2.0.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
January 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Ouch! #Trump
‘If Trump 1.0’s America was like a mischievous child causing global trouble, Trump 2.0’s America may resemble a menopausal patient ‒ unable to influence much beyond his previous allies in the US’
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Musk & Co are “flooding the zone with shit,” intentionally contaminating the UK info ecosystem with misinformation with the express goal of sowing confusion & distrust among the audience as to what is real and what is not (term was popularized by Steve Bannon)
mediamanipulation.org/definitions/...
mediamanipulation.org/definitions/...
Distributed amplification
Distributed amplification is a tactic whereby a campaign operator explicitly or implicitly directs participants to rapidly and widely disseminate campaign materials, which may include propaganda and m...
mediamanipulation.org
January 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Musk & Co are “flooding the zone with shit,” intentionally contaminating the UK info ecosystem with misinformation with the express goal of sowing confusion & distrust among the audience as to what is real and what is not (term was popularized by Steve Bannon)
mediamanipulation.org/definitions/...
mediamanipulation.org/definitions/...
Reposted by Katie Hamilton
Disasters have always have incredible political salience. At one point, they could be used to motivate positive public sector responses. But in the age of Trump's GOP and Musk's X they have become vehicles of misinformation that undermine lesson-drawing.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-hurrican...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-hurrican...
A Hurricane of Lies
Public servants have a second job now: countering conspiracy theories
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Disasters have always have incredible political salience. At one point, they could be used to motivate positive public sector responses. But in the age of Trump's GOP and Musk's X they have become vehicles of misinformation that undermine lesson-drawing.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-hurrican...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-hurrican...
Reposted by Katie Hamilton
My interview last night with Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC. Please watch until the end, because I said something just for the Altadena community.
www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/wa...
www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/wa...
'Looking for a cartoon villain': Trump, Musk fuel online conspiracies about California wildfires
Author Mike Rothschild, who lost his home in the Eaton wildfire, discusses the rapid spread of conspiracies related to the historic tragedy – thanks to conservatives like Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
www.msnbc.com
January 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My interview last night with Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC. Please watch until the end, because I said something just for the Altadena community.
www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/wa...
www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/wa...
Reposted by Katie Hamilton
We lost our house in the Eaton Fire. We're safe, but the level of devastation is impossible to convey. I won't be able to work for a while, so if you want to support us, I'd appreciate a Patreon subscription or buying one of my books. It will help.
www.patreon.com/MikeRothschild
www.patreon.com/MikeRothschild
www.patreon.com
January 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We lost our house in the Eaton Fire. We're safe, but the level of devastation is impossible to convey. I won't be able to work for a while, so if you want to support us, I'd appreciate a Patreon subscription or buying one of my books. It will help.
www.patreon.com/MikeRothschild
www.patreon.com/MikeRothschild
Reposted by Katie Hamilton
Since the start of this year, Elon Musk has repeatedly posted about UK politics and grooming gangs at a significant rate.
BBC Verify has examined a 24-hour snapshot of his X timeline and found a wave of misinformation amplified in the posts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
BBC Verify has examined a 24-hour snapshot of his X timeline and found a wave of misinformation amplified in the posts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Ros Atkins on...24 hours on Elon Musk's X timeline
The BBC's Analysis editor, Ros Atkins, investigates Elon Musk's recent posts on X about grooming gangs - and looks at how one day unfolded on his timeline.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Since the start of this year, Elon Musk has repeatedly posted about UK politics and grooming gangs at a significant rate.
BBC Verify has examined a 24-hour snapshot of his X timeline and found a wave of misinformation amplified in the posts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
BBC Verify has examined a 24-hour snapshot of his X timeline and found a wave of misinformation amplified in the posts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...