Lesley McDowell

A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

After Mamadani wins tomorrow it'd be cool if some of his people made a successor political vehicle to Teen Vogue, for which there's clearly a market.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Nige is no longer laughing at himself as he ‘performs’ yet another big speech | John Crace Reform leader is trying to make it as a mainstream politician – which involves contradicting himself and gaslighting voters

Nige is no longer laughing at himself as he ‘performs’ yet another big speech | John Crace

In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times Librarians are on the front lines of history and current events, when news and change arrive at a furious clip that only quickens every day. And without libraries, my work would simply not exist. I…

Back in June, I gave the keynote address at the American Library Association's Carnegie Awards, and I'm very pleased that @literaryhub.bsky.social has republished the full text of my speech:

Paul Booth of Keele University spotted the name ‘Roger Fuckebythenavele’ in the Chester County Court Plea Rolls for November 3, 1310. He was part of a long list of people that were supposed to be arrested by authorities, but could not be found. Over the next year he would be named in the records six more times, and because he could not be found, the court declared him an outlaw that was to be arrested. The final mention of Roger appears on September 28, 1311, with the sheriff still looking for him.

And now for something completely different. 3rd November 1310 was the earliest use of the F-word.

#MedievalSky #Medieval

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YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics: Leading The Man to Blame For Brexit? | Michael Gove

It's very brief and you could miss it after 1.5 hours (maybe Alastair and Rory did miss it), but at 1:30:00, Michael Gove admits that he and Vote Leave did not spell out the trade-offs involved in leaving the EU.

You don't say.

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It’s not *going* to happen. It’s already happening: The mainstream media is becoming right-wing. trib.al/7imoDs5

Everyone, but especially liberals (and those of the multimillionaire and billionaire variety), needs to pay close attention to this phenomenon.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom: I will not raise my children to think Donald Trump is an acceptable American leader. He is a con artist, a predator, a malignant narcissist, and the worst president in our nation's history.

It’s fine, they’ve changed it to louvre1 now

Releasing a suspect’s nationality will do nothing to satisfy those who are not looking for the truth | Zoe Williams Grifters are always racing to a new low. Nothing can be done to appease them – they just want to find any way they can to denounce migrants, writes Zoe Williams

Releasing a suspect’s nationality will do nothing to satisfy those who are not looking for the truth | Zoe Williams

Libraries to host Book Week Scotland events - everything you need to know East Renfrewshire libraries are set to celebrate Book Week Scotland with a series of author events and workshops.

Delighted to be taking part in this! www.barrheadnews.com/news/2559161...

EU negotiators “summoned to the U.S. Embassy in London — intimidation, threats of cessation of business, threats of family members losing visas.”

There is something magnificent about Nigel Farage, who has lost two of the five MPs he was elected with *last year*, explaining that HR departments don't matter.

The sheer grifting determination of these ghouls knows no bounds. Even as we hear the man charged is a British national who lives in Peterborough with police suggesting no obvious terror link, they cling desperately to the idea this is somehow linked to immigration. Shameless stuff.

Scots' wellbeing has seen a 'notable increase' and is 'higher than the rest of the UK', according to a new study ⬇️

www.thenational.scot/news/2...

The UAE where hugging in public can get you arrested, where human rights barely exist, where foreign workers are routinely abused, where critics of the regime routinely disappear, where an Indian nanny was shot by firing squad in March & where marital rape is not a criminal offence but being gay is.

Several innocent people were stabbed by unknown attackers on a moving train in Cambridgeshire, UK Police arrested two suspects at the scene. The sad reality is, Britain is now less safe than many places people call "dangerous." Today, London feels more like Kabul than Uk

Musk's Grok was asked to verify if a tweet featuring a graphic image of the attack on the LNER train was real.

I'm not sharing the whole image but here is part of it and the text.

1/3

Have reposted your pinned post

The Sunday Times reported that the Government was drawing up plans for an exit tax.

If I was a Government thinking about introducing an exit tax, the *last* thing I'd do is give any hint that's what I was about to do. Or people will leave to pre-empt it.

‘Scotland’s place is in Europe’: Guy Verhofstadt on Brexit and the way back to the EU

EXCLUSIVE: Former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt on Scottish independence and the UK in Europe

a woman riding a stag in a forest small figures sance around them.

The Erl King's Daughter sending faery servants to their several tasks
Jessie Bayes, 1911

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Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.

Actual causes of death in the USA compared to populist media coverage ...

Reform Is Losing Councillors Elected In May At An 'Unusual' Rate Reform UK has lost more than 5 per cent of the councillors it had elected six months ago, an analysis by PoliticsHome has found.

One in twenty Reform councillors elected in May 2025 has left by the Autumn
- half expelled/suspended
- a quarter resigned from council
- some defected

An "unusual rate" of attrition in 6 months, says Tony Travers

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'From beyond the grave, Virginia Giuffre has proved not even princes are untouchable' Virginia Giuffre has proved that not even princes are untouchable. From beyond the grave, she is doing her best to ensure nobody else is ever…

"As for the monarchy, it will end not with a bang but a whimper. Giuffre’s book, with all its harrowing details, is one more wave battering against its cliff face, eroding the public’s faith." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

FBI Ousts Leader as Patel Fumes Over Attention to Agency Jet Use The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Kash Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician ...

Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections.
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