David Brady

Why evangelicals couldn't care less about Trump's Epstein scandal They have a long history of falling for narcissists posing as Saviors.

"When you see the United States as a 'Christian country,' as the MAGA religious do and are convinced that white people of European descent are best suited to rule it, you might think we’d be better off without the Constitution or even democracy in any form."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Fire breaks out at Córdoba’s ancient mosque-turned-cathedral La Mezquita-Catedral Heritage site was built as a mosque in the 8th century before Spanish royalty turned it into a Christian church

Oh no! I visited this June - it's an amazing place www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Tell me you don't understand immunology without telling me you don't understand immunology.

just so people understand this, there are *twenty-two* (currently identified) different phyla of viruses.

(also viruses are non-cellular life so the taxonomic system is different. RFK does not know any of this.)

What a dickhead! Rupert Lowe on brain cells

🔴 Se declara un incendio en la Mezquita de Córdoba. El fuego está localizado en estos momentos a la altura de la Puerta de San José, junto a la calle del Magistral González Francés, que han desalojado los servicios de emergencias social.elpais.com/eolw28

And they said we can’t agree on anything these days!

The Women Epstein Tried to Silence Could Be the Ones Who Finally Bring Trump Down The women they tried to silence aren’t just speaking...they’re armed with the truth that could end Trump’s political life.

The Women Epstein Tried to Silence Could Be the Ones Who Finally Bring Trump Down
www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/the-women-...

Poster advertising the event on 19 September at 2pm.

So excited to launch Selling Beauty: Historical Perspectives on the Marketing of Cosmetics and Makeup with this online event.

If you want to attend please do email me via my website www.lucyjanesantos.com (I haven’t set up age verification on this so no DMs)

I am horrified. If you use US material, download all old reports you use. The record will be erased. Even that might not save you: every report sourced from the US will now have to be suspected of politicised manipulation and will in the future the same credibility as Iran’s human rights reports

Robert Elms - 08/08/2025 - BBC Sounds Everything you need to know about London from architecture to accents and great music.

If anyone wants to hear me talk about borders in London and elsewhere (what? They MIGHT), I was on BBC London earlier. Starts at 36.40:

A reminder yet again that the people who position themselves as the "defenders of women's sports" when attacking trans people actually hate women's sports and women athletes... especially Black women athletes...

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I'm only 15 pages in, and I'm hooked! Eagle Days goes way deeper than just dogfights and aircraft. It presents the struggle in a whole new light. Get yourself a copy, because you can't borrow mine! 😊 Thanks @spitfirefilly.bsky.social

Do the Brits genuinely not realise how utterly deranged this comes across to normal people. It’s like your country has been gripped with some kind of hysteria like out of an M Night Shyamalan film.

UK passport database images used in facial recognition scans : Campaigners brand Home Office’s lack of transparency as ‘astonishing’ and ‘dangerous’

www.theregister.com/2025/08/08/u...

The Onion goes too far sometimes

You're once, twice, three times a facist

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

Is there any precedent for the current American administration’s hostility to scientific inquiry? Other than Phnom Penh in 1975?

www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

The generation who were not taught spelling is now in charge

I saw the electronic scales and lots of packaging in the shop and asked the lady at the till if they shipped things all over the world: she made a face and said they used to, but #Brexit has stopped them as the massive increase in bureaucracy and consequent paperwork is too difficult to deal with

I had to be frog-marched out of the Bernard Leach Museum shop before I bought this vase, which was giving me African and Gaudier-Brezeska vibes... and it's reduced to half price!

I am v ignorant about Leach's output over his long career, but I don't think much of it was in porcelain, although this rabbit plate is
Perhaps he found the raw materials too expensive?

A footed ironware bowl with leaf decoration by the Japanese master Shoji Hamada, who was brought to St Ives by Leach in 1922
One wonders what the Cornish villagers made of him, and he of Cornwall?

We have never visited the Bernard Leach Museum in St Ives before, although we have seen his pots all over the world
A celadon glazed bowl from 1935

A short walk from Jubilee House in Penzance is this jolly building, the Yacht Inn, also designed by Colin Drewitt

"He's prob'ly drownded dearie, but don't you worry, you can just go on the game, that's what I done when my Daniel drownded hisself..."

Jubilee House, Penzance, designed by Colin Drewitt, 1935
"The best Cornish building of the decade", according to the revised Pevsner BoE [!]
I wonder if that is an original Pevsnerian opinion? Again, I must check the first edition

#ArtBrut at the Tinners Arms in Zennor