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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 1d

My BFI Classic on The Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night is available to preorder now. Here’s the story behind it. I love the cover - inspired by the film poster and a key theme in the book: the power of television in transmitting the Beatles to the world. samiraahmed.blog/why-i-wrote-...

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 1d

The #Broligarchs are doubling down - shameless.
Meta hires an utter nutjob to .. checks notes .. "advise on AI bias". Jeez.

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Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting to hear Ronnie Wood on Desert Island Discs talking about the need to be creative - @margaretheffernan.bsky.social argues something similar in her latest book, which I drew on for this piece:
The age of overwhelm share.google/4rCOTukSVetU...

The age of overwhelm

Facing up to an endless stream of awful news can be anxiety-inducing. Here’s what we can do

share.google

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 2d

My bold idea is to ban the manufacture and use/ownership of pitchforks, thus making tax reform more doable.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting to hear Ronnie Wood on Desert Island Discs talking about the need to be creative - @margaretheffernan.bsky.social argues something similar in her latest book, which I drew on for this piece:
The age of overwhelm share.google/4rCOTukSVetU...

The age of overwhelm

Facing up to an endless stream of awful news can be anxiety-inducing. Here’s what we can do

share.google

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Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 3d

"I have worked with Nathan Gill over a period of years and he's been terrific, he's never, ever, let me down. He's as honest as the day is long."
Nigel Farage
BBC News 2016

Welsh election: UKIP's Farage backs 'terrific' Gill

UKIP leader Nigel Farage backs the party's Welsh leader Nathan Gill as

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 3d

I remember Maureen Lipman saying her hairdresser would always ask: "Been to Dubai yet?"

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 3d

A friend described it as "Croydon with sunshine". I was similarly underwhelmed.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 3d

Am interviewing Heseltine at the Wimbledon book fest in 10 days time. I will put your thoughts to him.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 4d

Useful antidote to/reality check on the Bezos "disagree and commit" idea which he seems to believe in but I have my doubts.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 4d

daft banker war stories (with no moral, that might come later). backofmind.substack.com/p/secrets-of...

secrets of sydn

my great unpublished book

backofmind.substack.com

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 4d

Is it too pious/earnest to see a problem in a popular show that is essentially about lying? O tempora etc.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 4d

"It's the being so cheerful that keeps me going."

Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 4d

I have never watched and am holding out.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 4d

Carat in the wind.

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Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 5d

Susan Sarandon is transfixingly wonderful in Mary Page Marlowe — theatre review on.ft.com/42zSFxn

Susan Sarandon is transfixingly wonderful in Mary Page Marlowe — theatre review

She is one of five actors portraying the life of a woman in Tracy Letts’ gentle, elusive play at the Old Vic, London

on.ft.com

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 4d

Ok, a ban on A-ha and war with Norway too.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 4d

Breaking: Trump bans ABBA and declares war on Sweden.

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 5d

That's the one!

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 5d

Why is there a giant Jeremy Corbyn outside Said Business School in Oxford?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 7d

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Stefan Stern @stefanstern.bsky.social · 7d

I preferred Edwina Currie and the handcuffs to be honest.

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