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Alexander Butterfield, Who Revealed Nixon Tapes in Watergate Scandal, Dies at 99

Sometimes when people say, "That'll be the first line of his obituary," they're right. Alexander Butterfield told a single crucial truth, and there it is, in the first sentence, 53 years later. Will any Trumper be memorialized for even one honest moment? I doubt it. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Another huge disappointment. She looked quite promising for a while.
I helped the Lib Dems leaflet against Mike Freer a couple of elections ago but the members I met were such an absolute shower I vowed "never again".
We'll see who looks best placed to defeat her next time round.

UK-EU SPS Agreement - Information for Businesses Businesses urged to take simple steps for smoother trade with the EU

"..expected to align with those applied by EU to Rest of World imports"
🤪 I am a Cassandra.
Great for GB exports & removing GB/NI barriers to trade, but making *whole* UK a genuine EU vassal state Brexiters lied UK was when a member with *representation*
www.gov.uk/government/n...

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

This is magnificently contemptuous www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The answers to all the citizenship questions would be an obvious thing to brief a minister about.

Lovely gesture at a fabulous building, one that was fortunately enough my first workplace.

I may visit the neighbouring constituency to leaflet against this awful excuse for a human being at the next general election.
Another absolute dud. 😬

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell recounting how as 1 woman out of 50 physics undergrads at Glasgow Uni in 1960s, she learned not blush because male students wd whistle & catcall louder every time she entered lecture theatre. (A uni tradition to treat women this way at time. Teacher or student. Every time).

I'd rather he spent it on lobster tails than flattening most of the Middle East. 😬

Oh. I thought his boss had declared the war over. 🙄

Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paed...

We are just begin to get an inkling of how deeply embedded Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair were/are with the sinister rich. Every time you think you've seen the worst of it, something else emerges.
www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

Oh look. Tulip Siddiq hasn't signed this. There's a surprise. 🙄

How the ‘Galápagos of west Africa’ is plundered by floating fish factories A Guardian investigation with DeSmog reveals thousands of tonnes of fish are illegally turned into fishmeal and oil off the coast of Guinea-Bissau

"The Tian Yi He 6 has been operating as a fishmeal factory near Bijagós for more than five years, and has a history of infringing Guinea-Bissau’s laws."
What are we doing to our oceans!??!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Testing the waters: can pumping chemicals into the ocean help stop global heating? To some it was a reckless experiment but scientists hope the dispersal of 65,000 litres of sodium hydroxide into the Gulf of Maine could ease the climate crisis

Our idea that we can do whatever we want will not help us, as history has repeatedly shown.

Adaptation and refraining from environmentally harmful actions would be more helpful.

#ecocide for #greed

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Brilliant read by Andrew O’Hagan 🔥

Superb piece by Andrew O’Hagan on Andrew and Fergie. Simply eye watering.

The Anatomy Lesson, 1632: seven students watch as a man in a black hat dissects a body

The People of Bluesky Crowd Round to Appreciate Andrew O’Hagan Eviscerating Mr Windsor, 2026, Rembrandt van Rijn

Incidentally if you haven’t read Andrew Lownie’s book Entitled yet, please do. It’s jaw-dropping. It is exhaustive but also somewhat exhausting simply because of the sheer amount and regularity of the grift.

This piece makes a a very elegant and scathing introduction.

An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that." Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.

Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.

Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed Watergate tapes, dies at 99 The recordings exposed President Richard Nixon's role in the cover-up that followed the 1972 burglary at Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate building – and hastened his resignation.

We desperately need an Alexander Butterfield today to bring down *another* corrupt Republican president.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.

Just another Monday…

A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.

📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap

🏺 #MosaicMonday

Wor if your dislekyic thiw?

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Europe, you’re our only hope.

And Norway.

The most disturbing thing here is the laughter.

At his trial, Adolf Eichmann described how he found it easy to set aside any qualms about mass murder after seeing members of the Nazi elite "vying with each other for the honor of taking the lead in these 'bloody' matters."

Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed Watergate tapes, dies at 99 The White House aide who revealed that Richard Nixon had secretly recorded his conversations as president has died. Alexander Butterfield was 99.

Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed Watergate tapes, dies at 99.
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fxlr8's comment on "This note stuck to my new blood pressure monitor." Explore this conversation and more from the mildlyinteresting community

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"Don't be so careful in time of death" is the motto I live by right now.

Still legal for me to be here. Great stuff.