Kieran Hannon
@kieranhannon.bsky.social
Board Director/Advisor | Forbes top 50 global CMOs | #Irish ☘️ | My own brain burps...Santa Monica, CA
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In case you missed it: *of course* the guy who wrote the BBC memo was a paid lobbyist.
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
In case you missed it: *of course* the guy who wrote the BBC memo was a paid lobbyist.
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The guy who picks fist fights with other government officials is CORRUPT:
The I.R.S. Tried to Stop This Tax Dodge. Scott Bessent Used It Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
The I.R.S. Tried to Stop This Tax Dodge. Scott Bessent Used It Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
The I.R.S. Tried to Stop This Tax Dodge. Scott Bessent Used It Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The guy who picks fist fights with other government officials is CORRUPT:
The I.R.S. Tried to Stop This Tax Dodge. Scott Bessent Used It Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
The I.R.S. Tried to Stop This Tax Dodge. Scott Bessent Used It Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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"Thank you for your attention to this matter" FTW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"Thank you for your attention to this matter" FTW
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“Are you still talking about Epstein?” Trump keeps asking. Epstein is a “dead issue”, he says. The man stays dead but his issue is very much alive. That is because the system that protected Epstein has still not been held to account." My column. on.ft.com/43p8IhQ
Epstein is not going away
[FREE TO READ] The issue is Trump’s Achilles heel — and the US president knows it
on.ft.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
“Are you still talking about Epstein?” Trump keeps asking. Epstein is a “dead issue”, he says. The man stays dead but his issue is very much alive. That is because the system that protected Epstein has still not been held to account." My column. on.ft.com/43p8IhQ
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Hey MAGA, if you’re upset about Mamdani, wait until I tell you about the al-Qaeda commander Donald Trump just welcomed into the White House.
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Hey MAGA, if you’re upset about Mamdani, wait until I tell you about the al-Qaeda commander Donald Trump just welcomed into the White House.
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as an aside, lax T-Mobile privacy standards have resulted in the company being hacked literally eight times in the last five years
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
as an aside, lax T-Mobile privacy standards have resulted in the company being hacked literally eight times in the last five years
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Meet Nairobi Nursery's most unlikely dining companions – Tytan the rhino and Notty the zebra! Rescued just a week apart, these two orphans are now inseparable. Where one goes, the other follows: during milk feeds, the two stand shoulder to shoulder, draining every last drop of their bottles.💙☺️💙☺️💙
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Meet Nairobi Nursery's most unlikely dining companions – Tytan the rhino and Notty the zebra! Rescued just a week apart, these two orphans are now inseparable. Where one goes, the other follows: during milk feeds, the two stand shoulder to shoulder, draining every last drop of their bottles.💙☺️💙☺️💙
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Language buried in this shutdown “deal” allows 8 GOP Senators who tried to throw a coup, sue to get millions in taxpayer money—because Jack Smith got their phone records. THEY TRIED TO THROW A COUP. There is no excuse for any Dem supporting this. This is absolutely wrong. Full stop—Period.
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Language buried in this shutdown “deal” allows 8 GOP Senators who tried to throw a coup, sue to get millions in taxpayer money—because Jack Smith got their phone records. THEY TRIED TO THROW A COUP. There is no excuse for any Dem supporting this. This is absolutely wrong. Full stop—Period.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
They are so effective across the board. And their employees are outstanding.
i find every story about costco's brand strategy and overall approach completely fascinating.
Why Costco Went All in on Kirkland — and How It Paid Off | WSJ Case Study
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
They are so effective across the board. And their employees are outstanding.
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Every time you capitulate to a bully, they'll come back at you twice as brutally.
If you didn't learn this life lesson in third grade, GTFO of the US Senate.
If you didn't learn this life lesson in third grade, GTFO of the US Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Every time you capitulate to a bully, they'll come back at you twice as brutally.
If you didn't learn this life lesson in third grade, GTFO of the US Senate.
If you didn't learn this life lesson in third grade, GTFO of the US Senate.
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The arrogance of a Senator who is not even running again to take the lead in undermining the Caucus and the voters.
Shaheen: So let me be clear. No one in the senate chamber wants to extend the ACA tax credits more than I do.
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The arrogance of a Senator who is not even running again to take the lead in undermining the Caucus and the voters.
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An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??
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What Republican healthcare solution? The one they’ll unveil in two weeks?
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
What Republican healthcare solution? The one they’ll unveil in two weeks?
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Gavin Newsom: “It sounds like some of my colleagues in the Senate just decided we’re playing by the old set of rules and may have rolled over. Right now we’ve got to hold the line because I think America will become unrecognizable in a year or two unless we fight back”
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Gavin Newsom: “It sounds like some of my colleagues in the Senate just decided we’re playing by the old set of rules and may have rolled over. Right now we’ve got to hold the line because I think America will become unrecognizable in a year or two unless we fight back”
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Here's how Jim Comey mocks Pam Bondi's attempt to retroactively make Lindsey Halligan a magical pony on Halloween.
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![On October 31, 2025—36 days after Ms. Halligan purported to secure the indictment, 31
days after the statute of limitations had expired, and 11 days after Mr. Comey had filed his motion
to dismiss—the Attorney General purported to “appoint Ms. Halligan to the additional position of
Special Attorney, as of September 22, 2025, and thereby ratify her employment as an attorney of
the Department of Justice from that date going forward.” ECF No. 137-1. But that action cannot
retroactively transform Ms. Halligan into an authorized government attorney on the day she
purported to secure the indictment. In Lucia, for instance, the Supreme Court found an
Appointments Clause violation and set aside an adjudication because the relevant official “heard
and decided [the petitioner’s] case without the kind of appointment the [Appointments] Clause
requires.” 585 U.S. at 251. It did not matter that the official’s “prior appointment[]” had been
“ratif[ied]” by a Head of Department after the adjudication had been completed and “[w]hile th[e]
case was on judicial review.” Id. at 252 n.6. If such a post hoc ratification of a prior invalid
appointment sufficed, then the government could moot every Appointments Clause challenge.
The government cites no authority suggesting that an invalid appointment can be excused
so long as the government allegedly “intended” to vest the relevant official “with the powers” of](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreif47wlavvtkcmm3xbwy76l2owgnsxuxqkm4uc6vmjlkupk2l66uwy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Here's how Jim Comey mocks Pam Bondi's attempt to retroactively make Lindsey Halligan a magical pony on Halloween.
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Am gagging. I'd rather eat cat food than watch this.
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Am gagging. I'd rather eat cat food than watch this.
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Notice how Trump has lots of friends like that.
While Trump murders people on boats for supposedly trafficking drugs, Jonathan Braun, a convicted drug trafficker serving a 10 year sentence he pardoned in 2021, will be sentenced in court today after he sexually assaulted a woman after Trump freed him from prison.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Notice how Trump has lots of friends like that.
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The GOP health care plan, folks. Any day now.
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The GOP health care plan, folks. Any day now.
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Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
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Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.
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Serious question: If the tax remains law, but Trump is gutting enforcement to give tacit permission to corporations to violate the law & hold money owed to the American people, aren’t they involved in a criminal conspiracy?
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Serious question: If the tax remains law, but Trump is gutting enforcement to give tacit permission to corporations to violate the law & hold money owed to the American people, aren’t they involved in a criminal conspiracy?
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At 4pm Magistrate Judge Fitzpatrick will hold a telephonic hearing on whether govt must turn over grand jury minutes to Comey’s team. Tech permitting, I’ll live-blog for @lawfaremedia.org .
For background, see
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tria...
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For background, see
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tria...
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Trial Dispatch: The Comey Hearing of Nov. 5, 2025
A judge ordered grand jury minutes turned over to James Comey, as well as information from five-year-old searches of Professor Dan Richman.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Ta-Nehisi Coates