Prioritising balance over objectivity is the most cowardly exercise that a news outlet or journalist can engage in.

'The evidence shows X, but the regime says Y - so it's impossible to know the truth.'

Lies should not be afforded the same respect and credibility as the evidence that exposes them.

My brother fought in the infantry and lost soldiers in Afghanistan. The press used to report deaths before families had been told and I would check my phone over and over, scared it would ring.

I went to the inquest of one of his killed men. I saw his red-eyed parents, girlfriend and baby daughter.

Trump:

"NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything."

Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.

Trump’s Greenland speech at the WEF except it’s the voice of Pingu

These so-called "patriotic" 🇬🇧newspapers who brought you Brexit were never really patriotic at all.

They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America.

They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people are grooming them to be Nazis.

I'm sure that, as the old saying goes, the rest of the barrel is full of very fresh apples!

Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.

If Joe Biden had randomly walked the roof of the White House, CNN would spend a week saying he can’t even navigate the building and is old/lost/confused.

Instead we have Trump doing it and saying he wants to install misiles up there and the media is pretending it’s all normal.

Hey British media,
It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning.
Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

Ten years of Trump going on TV and just fucking saying whatever, and still nothing like an industry set of best practices to deal with it. Put someone on the set with a laptop to look stuff up, pause the interview, whatever. He'd walk off but so what. Amazing to still be at "agree to disagree."

Oh I think there was a message in there somewhere

This is art.

“Contrarian thinkers” will be the death of us. Serious action on the biggest challenges of our time delayed for years because people with huge media platforms were “just asking questions”:

“Is that trans person really human?”
“Is that right arm really that salute?”
“Is that iceberg really melting?”

"say what you like about nigel farage, but he has a habit of grabbing people's attention!!" squeal reporters. no; he has a habit of grabbing YOUR attention because you are lazy and stupid and bad at your jobs

Just had someone text me trying to pretend to be my Dad and scam me out of money. Might be worth reminding people you know that this is a common scam, especially at this time of year, and not to fall for the 'new number' stuff.

One of the best parts of Bluesky is that it’s not owned and operated by a fascist psychopath.