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We are entering a second day of U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran. Esmaeil Baghaei, Spokesman for Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs joins me on @ms.now to discuss the latest developments at 10 a.m. EST. #Velshi

Is this Jason Cowley, ex editor of the centre left magazine The New Statesman, making a "the liberal case for xenophobia" in Great Replacement Theory Daily, is it? Well well well.

I think the chaos is the problem no? All those AP world news pieces edited with a propagandistic bent for months and months and no one noticed, and that is only one example. Not to mention the very obvious bias of one or two of the producers. And the bland as fuck stuff produced by everyone else.

A classic of our time

A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

The most "progressive" cable TV news channel America has (MSNow) spent a large chunk of the morning platforming John Bolton

Jacinda Ardern remains most popular politician as Luxon slumps in new poll June 2025

Ardern is a national asset & remains extremely popular in #NZ. Unfortunately death threats & vitriol fanned by right wing accounts & media as far as Fox News meant her family isn't safe

Australia's gain is NZ's loss. NZ has also lost ~3% of its citizens since the right took over #nzpol #auspol

Peaches lives in Berlin.

Watch this.

Keir Starmer's attempt to paint the Greens as extremists yet again reveals his intolerance of political difference. His instincts are illiberal and authoritarian.

Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democratic information conglomerates. All of them.

A group of people pose around a statue of Henrietta Lacks. The individuals wear formal clothing and stand in front of a building with a lamp post. Below the image, a headline reads, "Henrietta Lacks' estate settles with pharmaceutical giant that benefited from her cells," with a subtext about the estate's claim against Novartis and the use of HeLa cells.

Lacks’ family previously settled with another company in 2023 called Thermo Fisher, which they claimed also profited from the use of HeLa cells. https://bit.ly/4rKkUE6

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Labour's swing toward racism is perhaps the biggest unforced error in British political history; burnt their base to ashes and won them not a single vote on the right.

Well at least Keir Starmer is popular enough to weather this storm unscathed

Wow: the President of Columbia University is *directly refuting* the Department of Homeland Security’s claims.

DHS told us that agents “verbally identified themselves” & wore badges.

“They did NOT and would not identify themselves as NYPD.”

Shipman here says agents pretended to be police:

Starmer knifed Burnham to come in third, saving only himself. He shouldn’t survive this.

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

How cool is this?

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library of Congress: not "seen by anyone in likely more than a century"
He pioneered jump cuts, double exposure, black screens, forced perspective

Watch it here:

Gorton and Denton by-election: Votes being counted A Green Party source says they are

If you're the kind of pervert I am, here's the BBC live feed for the announcement of the Gorton and Denton by-election result, expected imminently.

Ordinary working class people now have a voice, regardless of race, religion, gender, whatever differences we may have, there is more that unites us. Let’s come together and transform this country the puts people and the planet first

Photo of Lucy Powell MP and flanked by a a group of 7 people in red rosettes and holding clipboards. None of them are smiling, some have pursed lips. All are mostly wearing black or dark grey. They're standing behind a table which has signs reading "MANCHESTER ELECTORAL SERVICES" on it.

BBC posted this EPA photo of Labour Deputy leader Lucy Powell at the Gorton and Denton count.

I know it's (literally) only a snapshot, but neither she nor anyone else on the Labour Team is looking happy

Oh the party who went full Enoch Powell has decided the brown politician is to blame for voters thinking they're a pack of racists.

Pay equity law changes 'flagrant and significant abuse of power', former MPs say But the workplace relations minister is backing the new system, saying it's made the law simpler and more robust.

#NAFCoalition slammed by Select Committee chaired by former National MP Marilyn Waring for pay equity law changes that are a 'flagrant and significant abuse of power'. Not to mention breaches of international law & UN conventions NZ are signatory to #DumpNAFCoalition

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

It is so true, many people will be feeling their bedrock sense of reality twisting. Perhaps watching Adam Curtis's HyperNormalisation would be of service to them?

It bums me out when people get on here and minimize the terrible things that are going on, which are clearly going to have terrible consequences for so many. And yet I can imagine all of this is breaking brains, even smart ones, and the stress of facing reality straight on is a lot.

'Who can ever be lonely (or stupid) when a library is your friend?'
Vasanti Unka shares a love letter to Auckland Central Library:
www.thesapling.co.nz/love-letter-...

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A range of cool enamel pins from Poco Moto.

Thanks so much Silke!

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My book A Heart That Works just became profitable (meaning it's made more $ than the advance I was paid, & most books don't!). I'm telling you this because I gave 100% of that advance to kids' hospices & now, again, when ppl buy it, I can give more $ to kids' hospices: bookshop.org/p/books/a-he...

Brian is always really good.