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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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CHICAGO: “My uncle was on his way home from getting groceries on his bike — they grabbed him and choked him and punched him… he’s a kind hardworking man. They’re racially profiling people.”
Trump’s ICE goons put an elderly man in the hospital and nearly choked him to death.
Trump’s ICE goons put an elderly man in the hospital and nearly choked him to death.
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
CHICAGO: “My uncle was on his way home from getting groceries on his bike — they grabbed him and choked him and punched him… he’s a kind hardworking man. They’re racially profiling people.”
Trump’s ICE goons put an elderly man in the hospital and nearly choked him to death.
Trump’s ICE goons put an elderly man in the hospital and nearly choked him to death.
That’s it, right there.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
That’s it, right there.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
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SoundGas – An Exploration in Dub and Delay
YouTube video by Dan Rothman
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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will kim is still in ICE detention
will taeheung kim, a korean american scientist and doctoral candidate with a green card, is still being detained by ICE. he's been in detention since July 21, first at SFO for over a week and then in various ICE facilities all over the country.
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
will kim is still in ICE detention
Good review of important new book, I wonder what @nafeez.bsky.social thinks about it and how it effects ‘energy superabundance’ calculus? (I understand you est. only 10% stationary storage is li-on, but the focus here is transport..)
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
There Is No Green Transition Without Consequences
A new book argues that simply replacing fossil-fuel extraction with critical-mineral mining is no way out of the climate crisis.
www.theatlantic.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Good review of important new book, I wonder what @nafeez.bsky.social thinks about it and how it effects ‘energy superabundance’ calculus? (I understand you est. only 10% stationary storage is li-on, but the focus here is transport..)
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
i’ve read many ecological economics and climate books and papers over the last twenty years, this is one of the very best.
focusing on lithium, a tremendous achievement in weaving an excruciatingly complex topic - the green transition - into a coherent illuminating narrative.
tinyurl.com/3xatdvby
focusing on lithium, a tremendous achievement in weaving an excruciatingly complex topic - the green transition - into a coherent illuminating narrative.
tinyurl.com/3xatdvby
Extraction
'Dazzling in the bold questions it asks.…An immense contribution.' —Naomi Klein<br /><br />An in-depth investigation into the growing industry of green technologies and the environmental,...
wwnorton.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
i’ve read many ecological economics and climate books and papers over the last twenty years, this is one of the very best.
focusing on lithium, a tremendous achievement in weaving an excruciatingly complex topic - the green transition - into a coherent illuminating narrative.
tinyurl.com/3xatdvby
focusing on lithium, a tremendous achievement in weaving an excruciatingly complex topic - the green transition - into a coherent illuminating narrative.
tinyurl.com/3xatdvby
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Methodical demolition of Bari Weiss’s journalistic credibility by John Oliver m.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
m.youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Methodical demolition of Bari Weiss’s journalistic credibility by John Oliver m.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
Listened to Weiss/Ferguson pod it struck me she is similar to Edward Bernays, deeply manipulative. Ferguson is just run of the mill prig powerpoint historian.
Bari Weiss and JD Vance are very similar figures with very similar skills.
October 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Listened to Weiss/Ferguson pod it struck me she is similar to Edward Bernays, deeply manipulative. Ferguson is just run of the mill prig powerpoint historian.
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If you're watching this and not rooting for the fellow on the bicycle, you're fascist trash.
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
If you're watching this and not rooting for the fellow on the bicycle, you're fascist trash.
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stone. cold. and we love to see it.
September 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
stone. cold. and we love to see it.
Caterpillar at sunset
September 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Caterpillar at sunset
Perhaps one of the best movies made on motorcycle racing.
Farewell, Robert, and thank you.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=zwZL...
Farewell, Robert, and thank you.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=zwZL...
Official Trailer LITTLE FAUSS AND BIG HALSEY (1970, Robert Redford, Michael J. Pollard)
YouTube video by Trailer World
m.youtube.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Perhaps one of the best movies made on motorcycle racing.
Farewell, Robert, and thank you.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=zwZL...
Farewell, Robert, and thank you.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=zwZL...
Last night listened to David Frum/Amanpour make some coherent points about the gravity of the situation and the likely incoherence of Robinson’s politics. Then just watched this, from where West walks off, at 40’, thru the next mad segment with ‘Destiny’ et al. JFC.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=uyzX...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=uyzX...
“They’ll Do It Again and AGAIN!” Charlie Kirk Debate Causes Guest Storm-Out
YouTube video by Piers Morgan Uncensored
m.youtube.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Last night listened to David Frum/Amanpour make some coherent points about the gravity of the situation and the likely incoherence of Robinson’s politics. Then just watched this, from where West walks off, at 40’, thru the next mad segment with ‘Destiny’ et al. JFC.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=uyzX...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=uyzX...
September 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
just to say bari weiss/fp pod talked plenty about political violence w/out mentioning hortman, shapiro floated a trans shooter trial balloon, no mention for groyper w2, some rando guest was banging on about ‘martyrdom’, a la Horst Wessel, that Bluesky is awash with jubilation, etc.
September 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
just to say bari weiss/fp pod talked plenty about political violence w/out mentioning hortman, shapiro floated a trans shooter trial balloon, no mention for groyper w2, some rando guest was banging on about ‘martyrdom’, a la Horst Wessel, that Bluesky is awash with jubilation, etc.
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Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
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Found by Giuseppe Paoliello www.today.it/politica/gio... @casmudde.bsky.social
Meloni goleador dribbla Schlein e Conte ed esulta per i risultati dell'Italia: "Record di occupazione"
Il profilo social di Fratelli d'Italia ha pubblicato un carosello di foto che ritraggono la premier come una calciatrice della Nazionale
www.today.it
September 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Found by Giuseppe Paoliello www.today.it/politica/gio... @casmudde.bsky.social
On the cusp of change, the leaves are turning, hummingbirds still here but can sense their flight.
September 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
On the cusp of change, the leaves are turning, hummingbirds still here but can sense their flight.
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Written about YouTube, YouTube Man, and the tremendous cultural significance of an episode of Question Time from June 2007: www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
Who’s afraid of YouTube Man?
Screen culture isn’t dystopia – it’s revelation.
www.newstatesman.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Written about YouTube, YouTube Man, and the tremendous cultural significance of an episode of Question Time from June 2007: www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
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Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
August 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Some thoughts stirred by return to the internet after a couple of weeks of digital detox. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We’re being deafened by digital noise. Pause it and you hear the sound of democracy in crisis | Rafael Behr
Step offline for just a moment and you see how democratic politics is struggling to cope with the pace of technological change, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Some thoughts stirred by return to the internet after a couple of weeks of digital detox. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Like many I’m intrigued by Mandani’s proposals, & irritated by this shabby NYT article where the author makes fatuous comparisons with the corporate supermarket system, quotes billionaire UES delicatessen purveyor, and fails to examine what we can learn from existing alternatives e.g. NY food coops,
July 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Like many I’m intrigued by Mandani’s proposals, & irritated by this shabby NYT article where the author makes fatuous comparisons with the corporate supermarket system, quotes billionaire UES delicatessen purveyor, and fails to examine what we can learn from existing alternatives e.g. NY food coops,
“In the US in particular, rightwing conservatives and Christian fundamentalists created a mini-industry in taking self-evidently preposterous metal lyrics at face value and detecting inferences that were clearly completely unintentional.”
the paranoid style.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
the paranoid style.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Ozzy Osbourne, the people’s Prince of Darkness, took heavy metal into the light | Alexis Petridis
Having escaped a life of drudgery in Birmingham, Ozzy became the rare rock frontman you could relate to – and then, against the odds, a national treasure
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“In the US in particular, rightwing conservatives and Christian fundamentalists created a mini-industry in taking self-evidently preposterous metal lyrics at face value and detecting inferences that were clearly completely unintentional.”
the paranoid style.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
the paranoid style.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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“I’m not political / Im just doing my job”
July 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
“I’m not political / Im just doing my job”