Peter Beaumont
@petersbeaumont1.bsky.social
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Senior international correspondent at The Guardian. Author of the Secret Life of War. Orwell Prize winner.
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hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like
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Trump said he wasn’t’ bothered’ about the extrajudicial executions so unless he has spoken since the linkage of the killings to disarmament is misleading here
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bencollins.bsky.social
Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.
atrupar.com
Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"
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emilyctamkin.bsky.social
The thing that’s so funny ha ha ha is that Vance contrasted it with calls for political violence. Sorry …what do you think musings about sending foes to the gas chambers constitutes?
radleybalko.bsky.social
Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.
‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones
Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.
www.mediaite.com
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philipoconnor.bsky.social
Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
www.aftonbladet.se
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dollemore.com
Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.
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thedailybeast.bsky.social
Candace Owens has followed Kanye West in being refused entry to Australia after a court upheld a decision that her record failed a “character test” under local laws.
Candace Owens Loses Legal Fight to Enter Foreign Country Over Her ‘Extremist’ Views
Owens failed to overturn a visa denial imposed for fears she would “incite discord.”
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tessbridgeman.bsky.social
The President is announcing more extrajudicial killings today.

A reminder that the administration has provided no limiting principles and these killings are completely untethered from the law (there was no "armed attack," there's no "armed conflict," and these aren't "unlawful combatants").
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ianfraser.bsky.social
Council of Europe commissioner for human rights urges UK home secretary Shabana Mahmood to review protest laws after Palestine Action placard mass arrests.

Michael O’Flaherty says the current legal framework allows UK authorities to impose “excessive limits on freedom of assembly and expression”.
Human rights official urges UK to review laws after Palestine Action placard arrests
Counter-terror laws must not place unnecessary limits on ‘fundamental rights’, Michael O’Flaherty tells Shabana Mahmood
www.theguardian.com
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sundersays.bsky.social
To be more specific, media and politicians aren't aware of the scale of continuing reductions

The public mostly don't know it fell at all. Both boats + political/broadcast skew to mainly covering boats contributes significantly to net migration falling by half to two-thirds without being noticed
petersbeaumont1.bsky.social
Trump on Hamas executions: “That didn’t bother me much, to be honest with you. That’s okay. It’s a couple of very bad gangs. It’s no different than other countries like Venezuela [that have] sent their gangs [into the US],” he added.
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jamesdaustin.bsky.social
The whiplash from 'we are going to build responsible AI' and 'were worried about the addictive nature of these tools'

To:

'Were going to build a porn bot', 'were building a additctive, endless scroll social media app' and 'were bringing back the addictive model'

Is pretty big
petersbeaumont1.bsky.social
A couple in their 30s on a joint salary of 130,000 whinging about rising rent and travel costs. Totally relatable.
paullewismoney.bsky.social
It is may be 3x average pay but 62% tax rate on earnings over £100,000 and cliff edge removal of childcare subsidies limit aspirations of upper middle classes bit.ly/49arr4e misleading to call it ‘working hard’ not ‘being lucky and clever’. Many work very hard on £12.21/hour 48 hours a week or more
This tax trap is killing youthful aspiration
Little wonder the under-40s laud Margaret Thatcher: she valued hard work, unlike the rules that penalise them today
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atrupar.com
Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people
Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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joelhs.bsky.social
This is not really about Hamas violating the terms of the ceasefire. This is just collective punishment of the people of Gaza. And the fact that Israel is still doing this is a big part of why people are not celebrating the ceasefire just yet.
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jamesrball.com
Several years of Republican investigations over Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Burisma never once turned up anything as clear as this.

I would guess that not a single Republican makes even the mildest criticism of Trump over it.
stevebenen.com
Trump was caught on a hot mic arranging a meeting between a foreign head of state and Eric Trump, who runs the Republican's family business.

Isn’t this exactly the sort of thing GOP members of Congress used to care about? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
‘Hot mic’ catches Indonesian president asking Trump for a meeting with son Eric
The American president was overheard arranging a meeting between Prabowo Subianto and Eric Trump, who runs the Republican's family business.
www.msnbc.com
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jamellebouie.net
one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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thedailybeast.bsky.social
Author Kurt Andersen reveals his bizarre experience of buying drugs from RFK Jr., sharing how the “Kennedy brat” accused him of stealing "his special cocaine straw."
What I Learned After RFK Jr. Sold Me Drugs: Author
Kurt Andersen tells The Daily Beast Podcast about buying cocaine from Kennedy at Harvard in the early 1970s.
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