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Callum Jones

@callumj.bsky.social

🗞️ US news + politics @theguardian.com 📍 New York and Washington DC 👟 ✏️ 📚 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo ago

Trump hails ‘golden age of America’ in speech to commemorate nation’s 250th anniversary

Trump hails ‘golden age of America’ in speech to commemorate nation’s 250th anniversary

In late-night campaign-style speech in Washington, US president vows to take the US ‘to new levels’ Donald Trump has hailed the “unmatched achievement and unlimited potential” of the US in a triumphalist address marking the country’s 250th anniversary. In a late-night campaign-style speech in Washington DC on Saturday, the US president claimed his country was “just getting started” as he vowed to take it “to new levels”. Continue reading...

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Ella Brockway@ellabrockway.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This was such a good story idea beautifully done by Bryan and Lauren. Gems throughout but my favorite line may be: “This is why I roll with the Liberty. I like the little elephant they got.”

‘The whole of New York is stressed right now’: how Knicks finals fever reached Rikers Island

Inside New York’s notorious jail complex, nearly 2,000 incarcerated people watched Game 1 together, arguing calls, roasting celebrity fans and sharing in a rare citywide moment

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Callum Jones@callumj.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Donald Trump's wrath has kept congressional Republicans in line for much of his second term. But as November's midterms draw closer, the president’s allies in the Senate and House appear increasingly willing to defy him. Chris Stein reports www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @theguardian.com

More Republicans are breaking with Trump. Is it conscience or politics?

Congressional Democrats say GOP majority is unraveling, but moves may in fact be aimed at retaining power

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Callum Jones@callumj.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Where next for the Democrats? Nineteen months after Trump’s victory over Harris, and less than five before the next set of crucial US elections, @rachelleingang.bsky.social spoke to candidates, lawmakers and operatives across the party www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @theguardian.com

Bruised Democrats weigh how to win back voters, and regain power: ‘We’ve got to fight’

The party may reclaim the US House and even Senate, but primary candidates are far from united on how to move forward

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Alexander Abnos@anabnos.com · 11mo ago

David Smith, unsurprisingly, cooked with this scene piece. "To the surprise of no one, Donald Trump won the inaugural Fifa peace prize on Friday at a cheesy, gaudy and gauche World Cup draw expertly designed to flatter the world’s most precious ego." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump wins his peace prize from Fifa – any chance of a VAR review?

At a gaudy and gauche World Cup draw, Gianni Infantino went all out to flatter the world’s most precious ego

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Callum Jones@callumj.bsky.social · 11mo ago

My colleague @msainato.bsky.social has spent the past few years covering the union drive inside Starbucks stores. With thousands of baristas now on strike across the US, he filed this big read on how the world's largest coffee chain got here — and what might happen next. Read on @theguardian.com:

‘We’re not going anywhere’: how unionization ‘whirlwind’ set stage for historic Starbucks strike

Four years after workers at a Starbucks store in upstate New York became the first to unionize, hundreds of outlets followed – defying intense resistance from the coffee chain. What happened next?

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Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2y ago

"The Chiefs entered the game chasing history. They left with their heads spinning, having been outplayed, outcoached and, most surprising of all, outclassed at quarterback," writes Guardian sports writer Oliver Connolly.

Patrick Mahomes was chasing Super Bowl history. He left humbled and harassed

The Chiefs may well contend for the championship again next season. But Sunday’s loss to the Eagles exposed problems that had been there all year

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Heather Stewart@guardianheather.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just been at a Davos business lunch. Chatham House rules so can't reveal much, but one business speaker signalled agreement with the previous one by saying, "let me just double click that". Is this a thing?

Callum Jones@callumj.bsky.social · 2y ago

Noah Lyles on racing YouTuber IShowSpeed, and people who think it 'degrades the sport': “I just put track and field on the map – and I didn’t even have to try. If we’re always gonna keep this idea that everything is beneath us, then we’re not gonna get anywhere” 👀 interview by @bydrew.bsky.social:

Noah Lyles: ‘America has a winner’s mentality. That’s the good and the bad’

The Olympic 100m champion plays a starring role in the second season of Netflix documentary Sprint. And he is still as outspoken as ever

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