Quite Wrightly
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Armchair politics and economics. Memes where appropriate.
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EXCLUSIVE: Federal tax prosecutions fell to their lowest level in decades this year, declining more than 27% from the year before as the Trump administration cut the ranks of attorneys and agents who pursue those cases, a Reuters examination has found.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
EXCLUSIVE: Federal tax prosecutions fell to their lowest level in decades this year, declining more than 27% from the year before as the Trump administration cut the ranks of attorneys and agents who pursue those cases, a Reuters examination has found.
www.reuters.com/world/tax-pr...
www.reuters.com/world/tax-pr...
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"Over and over this year, DHS has assaulted opponents of ICE and then charged them for it. And these Signal texts sure seem to support that they knowingly did the same thing with Congresswoman McIver.
And then buried it in a discovery violation."
And then buried it in a discovery violation."
DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/d...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/d...
DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her - emptywheel
DOJ withheld Signal texts showing that before DHS started claiming that LaMonica McIver had assaulted two DHS guys, they had circulated video observing that their own actions look "bad."
www.emptywheel.net
December 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
"Over and over this year, DHS has assaulted opponents of ICE and then charged them for it. And these Signal texts sure seem to support that they knowingly did the same thing with Congresswoman McIver.
And then buried it in a discovery violation."
And then buried it in a discovery violation."
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we suspect that some people are 'reporting' it to virus checkers to get it blacklisted.
There really isn't anything to the site that could be malicious! we don't even collect any cookies!
There really isn't anything to the site that could be malicious! we don't even collect any cookies!
December 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
we suspect that some people are 'reporting' it to virus checkers to get it blacklisted.
There really isn't anything to the site that could be malicious! we don't even collect any cookies!
There really isn't anything to the site that could be malicious! we don't even collect any cookies!
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"As far as Donald Trump is concerned, global security is a protection racket and everyone is going to have to pay more."
Stunning interview with Europe security expert, formerly at the State Dept and NATO, Dr Terra.
Clearest explanation of Trump's (very confused) new global manifesto.
Stunning interview with Europe security expert, formerly at the State Dept and NATO, Dr Terra.
Clearest explanation of Trump's (very confused) new global manifesto.
🚨🚨New episode 🚨🚨
Trump’s National Security Strategy: Make Europe Whiter Again? With Jonathan Terra
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Trump’s National Security Strategy: Make Europe Whiter Again? With Jonathan Terra
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America First: A New Era in Foreign Policy with Jonathan Terra
Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 09/12/2025 · 1h 3m
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December 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
"As far as Donald Trump is concerned, global security is a protection racket and everyone is going to have to pay more."
Stunning interview with Europe security expert, formerly at the State Dept and NATO, Dr Terra.
Clearest explanation of Trump's (very confused) new global manifesto.
Stunning interview with Europe security expert, formerly at the State Dept and NATO, Dr Terra.
Clearest explanation of Trump's (very confused) new global manifesto.
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And it made front page
December 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
And it made front page
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I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
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December 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Three weeks ago:
Trump give his “Complete and Total Endorsement” to Emilio Gonzalez in the Miami mayoral race. (Trump also misspells his name.)
Tonight:
Gonzalez loses by 20 points.
Trump give his “Complete and Total Endorsement” to Emilio Gonzalez in the Miami mayoral race. (Trump also misspells his name.)
Tonight:
Gonzalez loses by 20 points.
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Three weeks ago:
Trump give his “Complete and Total Endorsement” to Emilio Gonzalez in the Miami mayoral race. (Trump also misspells his name.)
Tonight:
Gonzalez loses by 20 points.
Trump give his “Complete and Total Endorsement” to Emilio Gonzalez in the Miami mayoral race. (Trump also misspells his name.)
Tonight:
Gonzalez loses by 20 points.
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You’re not really supposed to say this bit out loud.
Trump: Would make support for immediately slashing interest rates a litmus test in the choice of a new Fed chair - Politico
December 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
You’re not really supposed to say this bit out loud.
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It’s time to chainsaw the Brexit red tape and end the cost of living crisis. Labour MPs should back our plan for a new customs union.
December 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
It’s time to chainsaw the Brexit red tape and end the cost of living crisis. Labour MPs should back our plan for a new customs union.
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32 Russian divisions. Gone. This year alone.
Russia keeps throwing people and armor into Ukraine — and keeps losing them at a scale no modern army can sustain.
Since January, the Kremlin has burned through the equivalent of 32 full divisions of personnel. That’s not strategy — 👇
Russia keeps throwing people and armor into Ukraine — and keeps losing them at a scale no modern army can sustain.
Since January, the Kremlin has burned through the equivalent of 32 full divisions of personnel. That’s not strategy — 👇
December 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
32 Russian divisions. Gone. This year alone.
Russia keeps throwing people and armor into Ukraine — and keeps losing them at a scale no modern army can sustain.
Since January, the Kremlin has burned through the equivalent of 32 full divisions of personnel. That’s not strategy — 👇
Russia keeps throwing people and armor into Ukraine — and keeps losing them at a scale no modern army can sustain.
Since January, the Kremlin has burned through the equivalent of 32 full divisions of personnel. That’s not strategy — 👇
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A large earthquake, currently measured at magnitude 7.2, has just hit off Aomori Prefecture. A tsunami advisory is in effect for southern Hokkaido and northeastern Tohoku. The earthquake was strong enough to be faintly perceived all the way in Tokyo.
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A large earthquake, currently measured at magnitude 7.2, has just hit off Aomori Prefecture. A tsunami advisory is in effect for southern Hokkaido and northeastern Tohoku. The earthquake was strong enough to be faintly perceived all the way in Tokyo.
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President Zelensky has arrived in London.
Volodymyr Zelensky was welcomed in London today by British diplomats and Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UK, Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
He then began a high-level meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Germany’s Friedrich Merz, and France’s Emmanuel Macron👇
Volodymyr Zelensky was welcomed in London today by British diplomats and Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UK, Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
He then began a high-level meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Germany’s Friedrich Merz, and France’s Emmanuel Macron👇
December 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
President Zelensky has arrived in London.
Volodymyr Zelensky was welcomed in London today by British diplomats and Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UK, Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
He then began a high-level meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Germany’s Friedrich Merz, and France’s Emmanuel Macron👇
Volodymyr Zelensky was welcomed in London today by British diplomats and Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UK, Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
He then began a high-level meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Germany’s Friedrich Merz, and France’s Emmanuel Macron👇
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What an amazingly prescient episode of Origin Story with the brilliant @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social
I'd missed it but would urge everyone to listen. It actually ends on a hopeful note! 🙌🏻
open.spotify.com/episode/3XAW...
I'd missed it but would urge everyone to listen. It actually ends on a hopeful note! 🙌🏻
open.spotify.com/episode/3XAW...
Rivers of Blood – How Enoch Powell poisoned Britain
Spotify video
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December 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
What an amazingly prescient episode of Origin Story with the brilliant @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social
I'd missed it but would urge everyone to listen. It actually ends on a hopeful note! 🙌🏻
open.spotify.com/episode/3XAW...
I'd missed it but would urge everyone to listen. It actually ends on a hopeful note! 🙌🏻
open.spotify.com/episode/3XAW...
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Because of course Henry had got the full roll call from Dulwich College and of course Trevor Phillips couldn’t even be bothered to read the stories he’s writing about
On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
December 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Because of course Henry had got the full roll call from Dulwich College and of course Trevor Phillips couldn’t even be bothered to read the stories he’s writing about
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A magnitude 7.2 quake struck off the coast of Aomori and Hokkaido in Japan triggering Tsunami warning.
metro.co.uk/2025/12/08/t...
metro.co.uk/2025/12/08/t...
Three-metre high tsunami could hit Japan after 7.2-magnitude earthquake
Waves of up to three metres are expected.
metro.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
A magnitude 7.2 quake struck off the coast of Aomori and Hokkaido in Japan triggering Tsunami warning.
metro.co.uk/2025/12/08/t...
metro.co.uk/2025/12/08/t...
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I think this is the right policy, but I am perplexed as to why Rachel Reeves thinks it is the right policy for London, but 'why don't we have less investment in exchange for a freeze' is a *good* policy for the rest of England, where the railways need more investment to start with?
December 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I think this is the right policy, but I am perplexed as to why Rachel Reeves thinks it is the right policy for London, but 'why don't we have less investment in exchange for a freeze' is a *good* policy for the rest of England, where the railways need more investment to start with?
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So currencies. Much medium of exchange. Very store of value.
December 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
So currencies. Much medium of exchange. Very store of value.
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Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
Thank God for Bluesky
Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
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The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers.
Why the wheels could be about to fall off the Farage project
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
Why the wheels could be about to fall off the Farage project
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
The Wheels Are Falling off the Nigel Farage Project
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers.
Why the wheels could be about to fall off the Farage project
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
Why the wheels could be about to fall off the Farage project
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
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Can't stress enough how lax Grok's guardrails are here. We didn't use any deceptive prompting -- just fed it names and asked for addresses / where someone might live. The bot readily complied, often offering up whole lists of names and addresses.
Only *once* did it decline to provide an address.
Only *once* did it decline to provide an address.
![In response to prompts as simple as “[name] address,” we found Grok repeatedly offered up accurate, up-to-date home addresses of everyday people, while offering astonishingly scant pushback.
Out of 33 names of non-public figures we fed into Grok, a total of ten queries immediately returned correct and current residential addresses for the name provided. Seven prompts returned previously accurate but out-of-date addresses, while another four included accurate work addresses — perfect fodder for anybody looking to stalk a target at their workplace.
The bot is also likely to send a prowler after an unrelated person. In a dozen other instances, the chatbot returned addresses and other personal information, but not for the exact person we were searching for. Indeed, Grok often returned lists of people with similar names alongside their purported residential addresses, before then asking us to provide more information for a “more refined search.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fhnih5ovyd5w5pch254ordo2/bafkreihwj4d7n656vf3uxuqoorcbzew5lqzsbfiwlpw3rtirbb5kq4xudi@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Can't stress enough how lax Grok's guardrails are here. We didn't use any deceptive prompting -- just fed it names and asked for addresses / where someone might live. The bot readily complied, often offering up whole lists of names and addresses.
Only *once* did it decline to provide an address.
Only *once* did it decline to provide an address.
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NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
December 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
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Bloomberg: The US lobbied several countries in the European Union in an effort to block EU plans to use frozen Russian central bank assets to back a massive loan to Ukraine, according to European diplomats familiar with the matter.
December 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Bloomberg: The US lobbied several countries in the European Union in an effort to block EU plans to use frozen Russian central bank assets to back a massive loan to Ukraine, according to European diplomats familiar with the matter.
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Of course, even if all those things were actually true, it’s just insane that anyone would ever imagine a rational next sentence is “therefore we had to murder them with bombs.”
Rep. Crawford defends Hegseth's second strike on a demolished boat: "They were trying to right that ship. It was still laden with cargo. They were potentially signaling other vessels in the region."
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Of course, even if all those things were actually true, it’s just insane that anyone would ever imagine a rational next sentence is “therefore we had to murder them with bombs.”