Chris Gooch

If Leonard Cohen had made comics

FBI ousts ex-acting director, other agents, in latest purge, people briefed say The FBI is firing another round of employees, including former Acting Director Brian Driscoll, in its latest moves against officials who worked on issues that drew President Donald Trump's ire, four people briefed on the matter said on Thursday.

FBI ousts ex-acting director, other agents, in latest purge, people briefed say reut.rs/4frYulJ

Notice how they don’t want data on student performance, assessments, or job prospects. This is pure racism as a policy—and they’ll probably cross-tab application name with preferred name to further single out trans, queer, and other minorities students for discrimination and abuse. It’s disgusting.

William Gibson wrote this decades ago @greatdismal.bsky.social

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Thieves Target Tennessee National Guard Facilities, Stealing Night Vision Googles and More A string of US armory break-ins, kept quiet by authorities for months, points to a growing security crisis—and signs of an inside job.

A string of US armory break-ins, kept quiet by authorities for months, points to a growing security crisis—and signs of an inside job. www.wired.com/story/myster...

Last season of Fargo vibes

BREAKING: Florida Judge Halts Construction of Alligator Alcatraz Florida judge halts construction of Alligator Alcatraz, Florida Republicans move to redistrict their state, FBI tasked with locating Texas Democrat, and Air Force denies Trans service members benefits

NPR obtained bodycam footage showing Jared Wise—now a senior adviser in Trump’s DOJ—beating police officers and shouting “kill ’em” during the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

#WEARETHEMEDIA
#GSUS4THEPEOPLE

That is such an above board, we are here legitimately way to break and enter

He has only just started. Wait till you all have to inherit the wind.

Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.

Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.

Straight out of the last season of Fargo

At some point, he really has to stop being so freaking confusing!

What do you mean the deadline you set for putin is now up to putin? How is that supposed to work?

Good grief. “It’s Ireland’s largest lingerie department Ted”

A ha ha ha

Times corrects Ozempic headline after Full Fact intervention – Full Fact The Times has amended a headline that incorrectly suggested doctors should monitor patients taking Ozempic injections in order to lose weight for a year following treatment, after the paper was …

A headline in @thetimes incorrectly suggested new guidelines say doctors should monitor patients taking Ozempic for weight loss for a year after treatment.

After contact from Full Fact the headline has been amended, as our blog explains 👇
fullfact.org/live/2025/au...

3. When this began, there were 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

There are now 1.8 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Imagine — really, truly imagine — everyone you know. Your friends, your family, strangers on the street, cashiers, wait staff.

Now imagine 1 out of 10 are dead.

From 2017 to 2022, a total of 400,181 Uber trips resulted in reports of sexual assault and sexual misconduct in the United States, court documents show. Previously, the company had disclosed 12,522 accounts of serious sexual assaults for that same time period, without indicating the total number of sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports it received. Uber has not released data for the years since then, though the court records indicate reports of incidents have increased.

Within Uber, employees have acknowledged that cases of sexual assault and sexual misconduct are probably underreported out of a fear of safety, intimidation, shame or because many drivers learn where passengers live. Uber has found that sexual assaults follow distinct patterns. Women most often are the victims, whether they are passengers or drivers. The attacks typically occur late at night and on the weekend, with pickups originating near a bar. In the vast majority of cases, the offenders are men - drivers or passengers — with records of sexual misconduct complaints and low ratings, the internal documents show. Intoxicated passengers are especially vulnerable.

Uber has also experimented with assigning female drivers to female passengers and found it made rides much safer for both. The company first introduced the option in Saudi Arabia in 2019, allowing women drivers to select women passengers. Internal documents show how several high-profile assaults had made it difficult to attract women drivers. "Safety has ranked as one of the top reasons for prospective female drivers to not join Uber, and for current female drivers to not drive during certain hours of the day," read one document titled "Women Driving Women."

Uber limited the incidents it disclosed in the reports to five of 21 categories of sexual misconduct it audited and tracked, including nonconsensual sexual penetration and forced kissing. The company did not disclose reports of other misconduct, including masturbation or threatening sexual violence. Executives also decided to exclude information about patterns that could lead to sexual assault. One presentation said that revealing day and time trends could have "serious business implications," including "less users in high peak times."

Uber disclosed only 12k cases of sexual assault/misconduct from 2017-2022 when there were actually over 400,000 reports in that period of time. Putting business interests ahead of safety, they decided not to reveal patterns of when these assaults were most likely to occur—

Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream Environment secretary urged to stop drought order that could damage the ecology of River Test in Hampshire

"The...UK population of wild salmon is now on the endangered list...This river has a flow limit and Southern Water wants to reduce that by a third. If you do this, you have now effectively banished an endangered species to oblivion" says Feargal Sharkey:

3/12
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Plum out of cherries here

Wonderful thank you

“Why so grumpy, owl on a lead?”

Incontrovertible

Enthusiastic erotic noises on a French campsite when I was a teenager. Someone bellowed “taisez” which brought a brief pause. Found out later my dad was the bellowed and he’d looked it up in his phrase book by torchlight

Amateur level profanity, don’t you agree @tuckerslaw.bsky.social ?

PS: You may have read this story already. The BBC ran a version of it yesterday

We shared our FOI docs with their reporter and press office.
Their response? To publish the story - our story - without even notifying us.

A £6bn public broadcaster selling out a tiny investigative newsletter. Nice. 😔

Are UK workers over-taxed? The answer in three infographics Explore OECD data on wage taxes: how UK workers rank internationally, how the tax wedge has shifted since 1979, and why many still feel over-taxed.

Programmes like Today should be careful about saying that "taxation is at record levels".

For most taxpayers, the level of taxation is not unusually high, by either historical or international standards.

The story & reality of UK taxes have got rather out of kilter
taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/06/27/u...

Computer ate my homework

This is why I predicted at the time that the would-be Trump assassin in Pennsylvania last year would turn out to be far-right: because murdering Trump is a great way to accelerate the coming race war. Knowing those forums, clubs and chat rooms, as I unfortunately do, this made total sense.

God help me, I immediately thought “body double”. But then he opened his mouth. There can be only one, right?