Chris Gannon
@kennyevil.bsky.social
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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This piece is important. It is also a great (annoyingly great) example of what a properly resourced team of journalists can do. There are five bylines and almost 20 additional reporting credits on this piece. I've wanted to write this story for months but... do not have that many colleagues
The cost of Trump's immigration surge: Stalled investigations into child sexual abuse, Iranian oil smuggling and human trafficking, among others. My latest piece is a big team effort on how DHS has been transformed into the Department of Deportation.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This piece is important. It is also a great (annoyingly great) example of what a properly resourced team of journalists can do. There are five bylines and almost 20 additional reporting credits on this piece. I've wanted to write this story for months but... do not have that many colleagues
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Asylum seekers with the right to work account for less than 8pc of those in accommodation, unless I’ve misunderstood something (8,500 currently have work visas, according to the Home Office)
The government plans to remove technical statutory basis for asylum seeker support.
Govt says it want asylum seekers to work if they are allowed to. Their policy is asylum seekers can't work (but some can after 12 months).
Govt don't plan to let asylum seekers work once case is 6 months old
Govt says it want asylum seekers to work if they are allowed to. Their policy is asylum seekers can't work (but some can after 12 months).
Govt don't plan to let asylum seekers work once case is 6 months old
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Asylum seekers with the right to work account for less than 8pc of those in accommodation, unless I’ve misunderstood something (8,500 currently have work visas, according to the Home Office)
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Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
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Has a government with a large majority ever *tried* less to impose itself and change the terms of debate?
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Has a government with a large majority ever *tried* less to impose itself and change the terms of debate?
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in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
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“Households hit by the two child limit” and “households who will be disproportionately hit by taxing salary sacrifice” are both “Labour 2024” voters. Keir Starmer managed to get “the dream electoral coalition for Blairism” but he is too embarrassed by success to govern for and with it.
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“Households hit by the two child limit” and “households who will be disproportionately hit by taxing salary sacrifice” are both “Labour 2024” voters. Keir Starmer managed to get “the dream electoral coalition for Blairism” but he is too embarrassed by success to govern for and with it.
EVE: Elite Encounters photo thread
Banger of a show, sub to their YouTube channel to watch it all
Banger of a show, sub to their YouTube channel to watch it all
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
EVE: Elite Encounters photo thread
Banger of a show, sub to their YouTube channel to watch it all
Banger of a show, sub to their YouTube channel to watch it all
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Nyla Rose Fun Fact!
This was to be my original All In wembley gear. inspired by and paying homage to one of my favorite bands. The Electric Punks @theprodigy.music-social.com Even my hair was a nod to Keith Flints iconic bi-hawk
📸 stolen from @kennyevil.bsky.social and @hernameischelsearose (IG)
This was to be my original All In wembley gear. inspired by and paying homage to one of my favorite bands. The Electric Punks @theprodigy.music-social.com Even my hair was a nod to Keith Flints iconic bi-hawk
📸 stolen from @kennyevil.bsky.social and @hernameischelsearose (IG)
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Nyla Rose Fun Fact!
This was to be my original All In wembley gear. inspired by and paying homage to one of my favorite bands. The Electric Punks @theprodigy.music-social.com Even my hair was a nod to Keith Flints iconic bi-hawk
📸 stolen from @kennyevil.bsky.social and @hernameischelsearose (IG)
This was to be my original All In wembley gear. inspired by and paying homage to one of my favorite bands. The Electric Punks @theprodigy.music-social.com Even my hair was a nod to Keith Flints iconic bi-hawk
📸 stolen from @kennyevil.bsky.social and @hernameischelsearose (IG)
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Loevy plays a video of a woman's arrest. Hewson says the woman was "assaultive" because she kicked a can of tear gas that had been deployed.
Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody … and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?"
Hewson: "Yes."
Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody … and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?"
Hewson: "Yes."
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Loevy plays a video of a woman's arrest. Hewson says the woman was "assaultive" because she kicked a can of tear gas that had been deployed.
Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody … and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?"
Hewson: "Yes."
Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody … and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?"
Hewson: "Yes."
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This thread is a must-read if you're traveling right now.
You should always be nice to TSA staff, but especially right now.
Shoutout to all my buds at checkpoint 5 at SEA who are still working with smiles on their faces and making travelers laugh despite what's going on in the world.
You should always be nice to TSA staff, but especially right now.
Shoutout to all my buds at checkpoint 5 at SEA who are still working with smiles on their faces and making travelers laugh despite what's going on in the world.
Be nice to your TSA agents. They’re still working without pay while shuffling thousands of people a day so they can get to their destination.
Unless you’re this one rude lady in Houston that’s really (understandably, tho) grumpy & snaps at people for asking questions about security lines because
Unless you’re this one rude lady in Houston that’s really (understandably, tho) grumpy & snaps at people for asking questions about security lines because
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This thread is a must-read if you're traveling right now.
You should always be nice to TSA staff, but especially right now.
Shoutout to all my buds at checkpoint 5 at SEA who are still working with smiles on their faces and making travelers laugh despite what's going on in the world.
You should always be nice to TSA staff, but especially right now.
Shoutout to all my buds at checkpoint 5 at SEA who are still working with smiles on their faces and making travelers laugh despite what's going on in the world.
Great night at @riotcabaret.bsky.social on Tuesday. Can’t wait for the Christmas show.
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Great night at @riotcabaret.bsky.social on Tuesday. Can’t wait for the Christmas show.
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It’s particularly baffling given its role in removing the border that enabled the end of the civil war in our own country.
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
It’s particularly baffling given its role in removing the border that enabled the end of the civil war in our own country.
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I have spent my entire professional life understanding the British point of view on foreign policy. I get certain historic and cultural differences. But the wilder the world gets the more infuriated I become by the dismissive attitude many Brits have towards the EU as a peace project./
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I have spent my entire professional life understanding the British point of view on foreign policy. I get certain historic and cultural differences. But the wilder the world gets the more infuriated I become by the dismissive attitude many Brits have towards the EU as a peace project./
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Of course we can talk about rules that do not work properly, but the concept behind European integration must be clear. It is a legal framework in which individual member can resolve their many differences with peaceful means.
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Of course we can talk about rules that do not work properly, but the concept behind European integration must be clear. It is a legal framework in which individual member can resolve their many differences with peaceful means.
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Excellent piece from @colinyeo.bsky.social
"That Dubai-like future is one that Reform and the modern Conservative Party positively embrace and pursue. They want to exclude migrants from society, not integrate them. Labour should not follow their lead."
wewantedworkers.substack.com/p/you-cant-p...
"That Dubai-like future is one that Reform and the modern Conservative Party positively embrace and pursue. They want to exclude migrants from society, not integrate them. Labour should not follow their lead."
wewantedworkers.substack.com/p/you-cant-p...
You can't promote immigrant integration by making it harder
You might want workers but you get people
wewantedworkers.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Excellent piece from @colinyeo.bsky.social
"That Dubai-like future is one that Reform and the modern Conservative Party positively embrace and pursue. They want to exclude migrants from society, not integrate them. Labour should not follow their lead."
wewantedworkers.substack.com/p/you-cant-p...
"That Dubai-like future is one that Reform and the modern Conservative Party positively embrace and pursue. They want to exclude migrants from society, not integrate them. Labour should not follow their lead."
wewantedworkers.substack.com/p/you-cant-p...
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trying to understand Reform arguments again, and as far as I can tell, it's that Muslims refuse to integrate or take part in British civic or public life, and also that there's too many of them involved in British politics, on British television, and generally in, erm, British civic & public life.
just to make sure I'm getting my Reform arguments in line - the country is currently over-run by non-white immigrants, there are huge swathes of the country that are no-go areas if you're white, and yet featuring non-white faces in an advert isn't representative of the demographics of that country?
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
trying to understand Reform arguments again, and as far as I can tell, it's that Muslims refuse to integrate or take part in British civic or public life, and also that there's too many of them involved in British politics, on British television, and generally in, erm, British civic & public life.
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Really don’t think it can be emphasized enough what an INSANELY promising technology mRNA vaccination has proved itself to be and it’s beyond infuriating that it is under active and sustained attack by the most powerful people on earth
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.
November 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Really don’t think it can be emphasized enough what an INSANELY promising technology mRNA vaccination has proved itself to be and it’s beyond infuriating that it is under active and sustained attack by the most powerful people on earth
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It's not a grassroots working class movement.
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
It's not a grassroots working class movement.
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
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I think a big problem in British public policy is the inability to accept things like 'Manchester is really well run and also its council leaders have worked *really hard* to work together' or 'London is really large' and just to go 'all cities are the same!'
Oh is this the stupid board that they want to have set up? It’s ridiculous especially when the London council as a group already can’t come to a collective decision on anything beyond ‘we want more money’ and ‘fix housing and social care’
October 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I think a big problem in British public policy is the inability to accept things like 'Manchester is really well run and also its council leaders have worked *really hard* to work together' or 'London is really large' and just to go 'all cities are the same!'
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the way they all close in on the faux Ross when he's babbling word salad is super sinister
October 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
the way they all close in on the faux Ross when he's babbling word salad is super sinister
Honestly, I can't stop watching this. Every time I see a new weird thing, like the woman in green duplicating herself or the hand opening the door with a ghost hand.
AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.
October 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Honestly, I can't stop watching this. Every time I see a new weird thing, like the woman in green duplicating herself or the hand opening the door with a ghost hand.
Anyone else completely forgot that ChangeUK was a thing?
Like ChangeUK, once the initial fuss dies down many 'Your Party' supporters may prefer to back the established and dominant party in the same niche rather than roll the dice on an unknown. If Corbyn and/or Sultana do likewise though it could further boost Green momentum.
October 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Anyone else completely forgot that ChangeUK was a thing?
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"We would all be better off if child poverty was reduced. And the most efficient, the quickest, the easiest, and the most politically, morally and socially justified way of doing that would be to lift the cap. We would all be better off as a consequence of that."
www.lbc.co.uk/article/grou...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/grou...
Group of 40 economists & academics tell Chancellor ending two-child benefit cap will help grow economy | LBC
With less than a month to go before the Budget, the group have written to Rachel Reeves to warn that more than half of larger families could fall into poverty as a direct result of the cap.
www.lbc.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
"We would all be better off if child poverty was reduced. And the most efficient, the quickest, the easiest, and the most politically, morally and socially justified way of doing that would be to lift the cap. We would all be better off as a consequence of that."
www.lbc.co.uk/article/grou...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/grou...
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In the last few days, the Times has had to delete two stories. One because someone pretended to be former Mayor Bill de Blasio to a reporter and one because they wrote up nonsense about Torsten Bell's expenses.
Needs a new editor badly.
Needs a new editor badly.
October 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
In the last few days, the Times has had to delete two stories. One because someone pretended to be former Mayor Bill de Blasio to a reporter and one because they wrote up nonsense about Torsten Bell's expenses.
Needs a new editor badly.
Needs a new editor badly.