Paul Holmes
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Founder & CEO at PRovokeMedia, I have been writing, speaking and thinking about public relations, and the intersection of business and society, for 40 years. I believe ESG, DEI and stakeholder engagement in general are mission critical for all oganizations
If Joe Biden had sent drones to blow up the entire Sackler family we would never hear the end of it.
December 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
If Joe Biden had sent drones to blow up the entire Sackler family we would never hear the end of it.
It's a phrase he heard playing Call of Duty. He doesn't understand what it means but he thought it would sound cool.
If Pete Hegseth is going to use the "fog of war" as an excuse for potential war crimes, he should at least use the term correctly. But he'd still be guilty of potential war crimes. ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4ptOmNe
The ‘Fog of War’ Is No Excuse
Mistakes are one thing; failures of moral judgment are another.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
It's a phrase he heard playing Call of Duty. He doesn't understand what it means but he thought it would sound cool.
Venezuela!!!!
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Venezuela!!!!
FIFA now has two choices: (1) make this a one time thing and forget about it or (3) hand it out to the world's worst despots every four years.
Because no one with even a passing interest in peace would accept it after this.
Because no one with even a passing interest in peace would accept it after this.
There he is folks. Proud recipient of the new FIFA Peace Prize. He couldn’t put that gold medal around his neck fast enough.
December 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
FIFA now has two choices: (1) make this a one time thing and forget about it or (3) hand it out to the world's worst despots every four years.
Because no one with even a passing interest in peace would accept it after this.
Because no one with even a passing interest in peace would accept it after this.
No but if a robust antitrust regime, “none of the above” would have been the default
I think the Netflix deal is ultimately better for movies and for WB than a Paramount deal (which I 100% believe would end WB) or a Comcast deal (which would take the two best-functioning studios in Hollywood and reduce them to one). I'm open to arguments, but "None of the above" isn't one.
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
No but if a robust antitrust regime, “none of the above” would have been the default
We have been living in Reform's world for a decade.
Brexit was a Reform priotiry.
Immigration policies of both parties are plagiarized from Reform.
People who say they will vote Reform because things need to change are delusional.
Reform will be literally more of the same.
Brexit was a Reform priotiry.
Immigration policies of both parties are plagiarized from Reform.
People who say they will vote Reform because things need to change are delusional.
Reform will be literally more of the same.
Next time Reform claim to be something different, remember this.
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
We have been living in Reform's world for a decade.
Brexit was a Reform priotiry.
Immigration policies of both parties are plagiarized from Reform.
People who say they will vote Reform because things need to change are delusional.
Reform will be literally more of the same.
Brexit was a Reform priotiry.
Immigration policies of both parties are plagiarized from Reform.
People who say they will vote Reform because things need to change are delusional.
Reform will be literally more of the same.
Helpful to understand that this is Trump's pro-oligarch policy working entirely as intended.
🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Helpful to understand that this is Trump's pro-oligarch policy working entirely as intended.
"How was I to know that this slippery slope, which I have been greasing with every word I have written since Nixon left office, would carry us all the way down here?"
GEORGE WILL: “.. The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself.”
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December 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"How was I to know that this slippery slope, which I have been greasing with every word I have written since Nixon left office, would carry us all the way down here?"
Does she root for Sauron?
Oh my god for the first time in so long, my mom is watching Lord of the Rings of her own free will on her new television and not Fox News.
I was legit ready to cry when I heard the music start upstairs and it wasn’t the wretched voices of Fox News fuckheads who spew shit for a profit.
I was legit ready to cry when I heard the music start upstairs and it wasn’t the wretched voices of Fox News fuckheads who spew shit for a profit.
December 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Does she root for Sauron?
True story: I was thrown out of a movie theater for laughing too loudly and too long at Phoebe Cates' story about why she hates Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
True story: I was thrown out of a movie theater for laughing too loudly and too long at Phoebe Cates' story about why she hates Christmas.
"Now Admiral if you could stand right there... I think I see a bus coming."
If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
"Now Admiral if you could stand right there... I think I see a bus coming."
If we had a serious media in this country, tomorrows headlines woud read: "Trump says pharma companies will PAY YOU thousands of dollars to use their prodicts."
How can the price of anything fall by more than 100%?
America, your President is an embarrassment.
America, your President is an embarrassment.
December 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
If we had a serious media in this country, tomorrows headlines woud read: "Trump says pharma companies will PAY YOU thousands of dollars to use their prodicts."
"Strong floors, no ceiling" is a message designed to win back the billionaire vote and make sure working men and women know their place.
December 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"Strong floors, no ceiling" is a message designed to win back the billionaire vote and make sure working men and women know their place.
If they don't enjoy it, maybe one of them should say something to him about it. There's no law against telling the president he's a giant dick.
Trump has become more and more nasty, hateful, and abusive to reporters with each passing day. They are just trying to do their jobs, asking questions Americans deserve to know. If he were an ordinary person, we could blame it on dementia.
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
If they don't enjoy it, maybe one of them should say something to him about it. There's no law against telling the president he's a giant dick.
Did you get to "A Boy and His Dog" yet?
And honestly, you should continue through to 1988 or you'll miss "Hell Comes to Frogtown," a true high-water mark for the genre.
And honestly, you should continue through to 1988 or you'll miss "Hell Comes to Frogtown," a true high-water mark for the genre.
I have four more movies to get through and I'll have watched every English-language, mainstream apocalyptic film released before 1980. I'm about half-way through the 260 films on my list and starting to wonder if I've made a horrible mistake.
December 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Did you get to "A Boy and His Dog" yet?
And honestly, you should continue through to 1988 or you'll miss "Hell Comes to Frogtown," a true high-water mark for the genre.
And honestly, you should continue through to 1988 or you'll miss "Hell Comes to Frogtown," a true high-water mark for the genre.
I have not felt so out of touch with popular taste since I found out there were people who enjoyed Avatar.
Wake Up Dead Man is a religious experience. Insightful, exciting, empathetic and hilarious. As much as Josh O’Connor’s film as it is Craig’s, though there’s something comforting about Craig in this role. The twinkle in the eyes maybe. @rianjohnson.bsky.social crafts another winner. #filmsky
December 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I have not felt so out of touch with popular taste since I found out there were people who enjoyed Avatar.
Yeah, but in the 70s it wasn't being led by the Labour Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Yeah, but in the 70s it wasn't being led by the Labour Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Palantir is like if Cyberdyne Systems was run by a real super-villain.
Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
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ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Palantir is like if Cyberdyne Systems was run by a real super-villain.
Appointing Hegseth was a calculated message of contempt for the US military (far from the first).
Now Trump and Hegseth are going to throw some second lieutenant somewhere under the bus for war crimes.
And our senior military officers will all just look the other way.
Now Trump and Hegseth are going to throw some second lieutenant somewhere under the bus for war crimes.
And our senior military officers will all just look the other way.
Looks like Trump is about to throw Hegseth under the garbage truck.
December 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Appointing Hegseth was a calculated message of contempt for the US military (far from the first).
Now Trump and Hegseth are going to throw some second lieutenant somewhere under the bus for war crimes.
And our senior military officers will all just look the other way.
Now Trump and Hegseth are going to throw some second lieutenant somewhere under the bus for war crimes.
And our senior military officers will all just look the other way.
It's not like we were using our critical thinking skills even before this tech came along.
ANALYSIS | ChatGPT may help you find information faster, but you learn less | CBC Radio
Bob McDonald’s Blog: Recent studies show that using chatbots like ChatGPT may get us information faster than ever before, but we’re not gaining much knowledge by using it.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It's not like we were using our critical thinking skills even before this tech came along.
Still haven't fully paid the price for that heinous Jon Gruden contract.
#Raiders are officially eliminated from playoff contention, marking the 23rd straight season they will fail to win a playoff game.
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Still haven't fully paid the price for that heinous Jon Gruden contract.
Scary if a lie.
Scarier if truth.
Scarier if truth.
talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Scary if a lie.
Scarier if truth.
Scarier if truth.
I'm more interested in rebuilding the lives and livelihoods destroyed than I am in rebuilding a bricks and mortar structure.
Sadly, I don't expect Democrats to make any serious effort to do either without a major change of leadership.
Sadly, I don't expect Democrats to make any serious effort to do either without a major change of leadership.
December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I'm more interested in rebuilding the lives and livelihoods destroyed than I am in rebuilding a bricks and mortar structure.
Sadly, I don't expect Democrats to make any serious effort to do either without a major change of leadership.
Sadly, I don't expect Democrats to make any serious effort to do either without a major change of leadership.
Not a West Ham fan at all, but respect to the voices of empathy and compassion that seem to have driven this decision. Hope it works out for all involved.
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West Ham to offer Lucas Paquetá support after red card and online comments
Lucas Paquetá, who was investigated by the FA over spot-fixing allegations but cleared this year, wrote: ‘It’s hard to live with everything caused in my life’
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December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Not a West Ham fan at all, but respect to the voices of empathy and compassion that seem to have driven this decision. Hope it works out for all involved.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
I am honest enough to admit that everything I hate about Schwarber as a Philly I would love about him as a Met.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Mets, please do not sign Kyle Schwarber on my birthday. I hate him.
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I am honest enough to admit that everything I hate about Schwarber as a Philly I would love about him as a Met.
Sorry.
Sorry.