“My guy wants to put a data center in your backyard either to give himself gender-affirming care and make a muscle video, or to portray me as a…hero?" Abdul El-Sayed reacts to Republican Mike Rogers' AI ad showing him, Mamdani, AOC, and Bernie as communists inside a Trojan Horse:

incredible discovery here: the 1762 original of the ha ha ha yes sicko cartoon courtesy of thomas waters new book “Magic”

Kevin Keegan: he hated fascists

Actual faculty getting silenced and fired for their work from the right, and the big issue for a whole bunch of the commentariat is whether there is political discrimination against imagined faculty.

Exceptional investigation and report. Thank you. And an epic accompanying Bluesky thread from your co-author Dr Nafeez Ahmed‬.

Dr Nafeez Ahmed@nafeez.bsky.social · 4w ago

1/🧵EXCLUSIVE: @bylinetimes.bsky.social's six-month investigation into Reform UK's policy chief: a secret donation from Peter Thiel, Thiel's life-changing offers to Cambridge scholars, and a far-right, theocratic student recruitment drive in breach of safeguarding bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...

One of the lessons of the last two years is that Labour urgently needs to stop being afraid of its own shadow. Burnham should appoint whoever he thinks would be the best Chancellor and throw his authority behind them. The Daily Mail will try to kill them anyway. So just govern.

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · last mo.

Hard not to regard this as a classic example of a pre-emptive campaign by certain sectors, along with their media sympathisers, to discourage a new prime minister from appointing someone who might damage their interests in the long and short term. And it will almost certainly work.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

This is counter-productive, authoritarian and chilling. The British state should not be in the business of banning commentators and journalists from entering the country, without compelling reason. Finding their views objectionable is nowhere near enough. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Two US political commentators banned from entering UK

Home Office says presence of Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker in UK ‘may not be conducive to the public good’

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Why not use the term ‘ethnic cleansing’ in the headline - ‘large-scale Palestinian migration’ - this framing should horrify us all.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Israel’s defence minister says large-scale Palestinian migration from Gaza will go ahead

📣 Book launch & exhibition! 📖 Information at War: A Communication History of the Ministry of Information 1939–1946, ed by Simon Eliot & Henry Irving 🕰️ 17:45, 22 June 📍 Senate House As the indexer, happily I was one of this essay collection's first readers, & I couldn't recommend it more highly!

Information at War: A Communication History of the Ministry of Information 1939–1946

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This is on brand for Farage and Reform. Whether it’s taking Russian bribes, soliciting murky crypto donations or associating with convicted money launderers, and now banking millions from someone who a US court found was helping criminals clean their dirty money. They should hand back every penny.

But the Telegraph handed him a column where he presents himself as a plucky truth-teller who "cannot cope with lying politicians". This is the same man who admitted in court to falsifying records and looking the other way while criminals used his platform. You couldn't make it up.

So when Reform accepts £4 million from this man, are they sure of where this money actually coming from? A man convicted of running a platform deliberately designed to hide the origins of money is now pouring cash into British politics. Red flag, red flag, red flag.

It gets worse. Delo personally doctored his own company's records to hide the fact that a customer was breaking the rules. He also kept serving customers in Iran - a country under international sanctions. He was fined $10 million and could have gone to prison for five years.

His platform was officially described in court as "in effect a money laundering platform". When Delo was told it was being used to launder the proceeds of a hack, he did nothing. No reports filed. No action taken. In six years, his company never once flagged suspicious activity to authorities.

Ben Delo isn't just a "billionaire expat" with a soft spot for Farage. In 2022 he was found guilty of serious criminal charges in the United States. American prosecutors said he deliberately built a dodgy crypto platform designed to help people hide dirty money. He admitted as much in court.

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

A very good thread about journalists and AI, much of which also applies to writers of nonfiction books. We are being told, with increasing frequency and stridency, that we "just don't get" how AI can help us, by people who are manifestly not interested in helping us. Know your enemy. Hold the line.

Michael Schulman@michaelschulman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

David Simon said it best

"all writers use AI" nope, get the entire fuck out of here with that

Is it any wonder our media ecosystem is such a mess? The guy in charge of the supposedly impartial watchdog is slagging off the BBC to the right wing Telegraph - which is hostile to the BBC - & defending the fact his organisation has let GB News act share misinformation and constantly promote Reform

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Two weeks ago, Peter Mandelson told us he had no recollection of planning to buy a £2m apartment in Rio via a Panama holding company and a Brazilian company. Yesterday we found notarised incorporation documents for the Brazilian company, with Mr Mandelson's signature.

the most on-brand quote a meta staffer may have ever uttered

#OtD 9 Feb 2007 Alejandro Finisterre, anarchist poet and inventor of the Spanish table football (foosball) died in Zamora, Spain. He invented the game following injury during the Spanish Civil War so injured children could still play football workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/s...

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

Le Monde@lemonde.fr · 6mo ago

Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin

That’s Brett Ratner there on the right.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 6mo ago

Doocy: "The new face of RealFood .gov is Mike Tyson. How did you settle on someone who was most famous for eating Evander Holyfield's ear?" RFK Jr.: "Brett Ratner who helped produce the ad had a lifelong friendship with him."