“A wave of”? Come on now AFP

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 4h ago

⚽ FIFA president Gianni Infantino held emergency talks Wednesday with directors of world football's governing body in Morocco, a source tells AFP, amid a wave of criticism over his now shelved plan to open the World Cup to private investment ➡️ u.afp.com/SHqK

Sadly no explicit killshot here of “you’ve used exactly the same words in each case. So in your own exact words, Biden won the 2020 election in exactly the same manner as Trump did in 2016 and 2024, with no difference between them. They are by your exact words the same. They both won. Correct?”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h ago

holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!

Trump's support for coal is showing results.

Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick

Rates are now the highest they've been in nearly 50 years among veteran coal miners. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.

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‘Tice said, however, that it was “not surprising no one reads the FT”, adding: “it’s so boring”.’ www.ft.com/content/4abf...

Reform repaid Tice loan on same day £1mn donated by mother of Farage aide Cottrell

Transactions fuel criticism of the party’s lack of transparency over its financing

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This degenerate bureaucrat provides further reassurance to businesses by saying if they make existing toilets gender neutral they could be exposed to a lawsuit. And pines for a sex-ID card that people could be challenged to produce. Utterly mental

Gregk Foley@gregk.co.uk · 5h ago

I personally find it reassuring and not at all an indication that I'm listening to a dipshit crank when an interview begins with the regular line, "It wouldn't usually be proportionate to have somebody on the door of every single toilet or changing room asking people their sex before they went in."

Oh, that's Bill from Guess Who

Yo Gabapentin@yogabapentin.bsky.social · 6h ago

Who could it be?

"Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, recently appointed to the role by the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, meets Secretary of State Rubio in Washington" is one of those lines that would sound perfectly plausible to anyone in 2015, but explaining the intervening period would give them an aneurysm.

I mean this sincerely: I think pro Israel people really need to begin internalizing that this is not a fringe opinion anymore and in fact is very statistically likely to be the average view of any brown Democratic candidate for office or any candidate under the age of 50

Exclusive: Iran warned Gulf states that any new US attack on its territory would trigger retaliation against critical energy infrastructure across the region, five sources told Reuters reut.rs/4w53aEF

Who knew ridiculously long deployments and demanding op tempos run a ship and crew into the ground!

Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 9h ago

Keeping people constantly deployed has a mounting cost. www.ms.now/news/conditi...

NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

wired.com

“The Houthis said Wednesday that they had struck a Saudi oil tanker in the northern Red Sea, and they threatened to intensify attacks there in an effort to close “all access routes” to Saudi oil shipments.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/w...

Houthis Threaten to Expand Red Sea Attacks, and Claim Strike on Saudi Tanker (Gift Article)

Saudi Arabia has not commented on the claim by the Houthis, who are backed by Iran and have vowed to close “all access routes” to Saudi oil shipments.

nytimes.com

New @bloomberglaw.com article by Olivia Carville - TikTok experimented on users, putting 10% (about 15M people) in a "filter bubble" exposing them to repetitive content that the algorithm thought they wanted, but was toxic. If you want to know why these cases are going to be massive...

Sure this patronising line will also go down well with the 4,000 Tory councillors, who are quite important when canvassing for elections

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 17h ago

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

Once again, I come back to the fact these guys have created a situation where one of the UK's leading, cis female athletes is scared to go to the loo alone, and the fact that they are celebrating this as a step forward for women's rights.

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 17h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

please, my government, stop trying to do this. Regulate big tech companies, yes; ensure fairness and competition. Don't ask for back doors; they make everyone less safe, you can't be trusted, future governments can't either, and it makes it harder to regulate Google and Apple when they are wrong.

Liberty@libertyhq.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW 🚨 Apple are challenging the UK Government's secret data access that could create a 'backdoor' to our encrypted information. Liberty and Privacy International are also challenging these secret orders, known as 'Technical Capability Notices' (TCNs). www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...

I regularly think back to @okwonga.bsky.social's posts which (to paraphrase) highlighted one of Germany's biggest political challenges being an older middle-class which is well off, comfortable as a result, and in turn bored; so they ended up essentially radicalising themselves at dinner parties.

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 18h ago

A writer goes in search of her most vicious online troll and finds a middle-class 74-year-old woman who has made more than 120,000 trolling comments on the Daily Mail alone, but sure, it's teenagers who need their online experiences surveilled and censored. Archive link. archive.ph/pPrha

Rather absurd framing when you consider the results up and down the ballot, and where expectations were before just the last few weeks.

Politico@politico.com · 17h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

President Donald Trump’s administration has detained more than 50 spouses and parents of U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families, an AP investigation has found.

AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents

An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.

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The total amount a UK political party can spend in a General election year across 650 candidates is half that - and this was a single candidate in a single primary.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 19h ago

No matter the margin the story is that Haley Stevens got $70M of support, more than $30M of it from a single organization, and still lost.

This is like putting John Yoo in charge of representing Guantanamo detainees

Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · yesterday

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

The truth about the migrant “invasion” of Ceuta, in which eighty people died, either by drowning or by being crushed. 70,000 out of the 72,000 people who entered Ceuta have already returned to Morocco Reform UK’s Suella Braverman comes out of the video looking very silly indeed.

The truth behind the Ceuta migrant crisis

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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"Earlier on Tuesday, Palestinians gathered for a mass funeral of more than 100 bodies finally recovered from a deadly Israeli strike in Gaza in 2023." "Over the weekend, first responders dug through the destroyed buildings and recovered remains of 112 victims, including 40 children"

The Associated Press@apnews.com · yesterday

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not withdraw from Gaza until Hamas has been completely disarmed.

it does not speak well of the American press corps that they have stood by and let their colleagues - especially women - be publicly abused by this man for a decade.

Pretty great juxtaposition against CBS owner David Ellison’s NYT op-ed today about why he’s actually the perfect guy to run CNN and how everybody is wrong to suspect he has political allegiances

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

In all seriousness, the detail here is totally shocking

New report by Sen. Ron Wyden confirms the new MAGA-fied '60 Minutes' Quietly Killed Story About Epstein’s Shady Banking Tactics newrepublic.com/post/213927/...

60 Minutes Quietly Killed Story About Epstein’s Shady Banking Tactics

Senator Ron Wyden sat for an interview with correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi about Jeffrey Epstein’s bank transactions. Alfonsi was fired for other reasons shortly after, and the story never aired.

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Unfortunately for David Ellison this is transparently laughable after what Bari Weiss has already done at CBS and it will be very funny if her genius moves fuck up a $100 billion merger www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

The UAE received more than $100 million worth of gold bullion that was stolen by paramilitary forces from the Sudanese central bank and its state refinery. www.semafor.com/article/08/0...

UAE procured $100M in stolen gold from Sudan, investigation finds

Sudan’s civil war has fuelled the flow of gold — both legal and illegal — between the two countries.

semafor.com

Ex-PM Starmer said, in response to Raise the Colours terrorising people, ‘I am supporter of flags’, ‘I’m very encouraging of flags. I think they’re patriotic and I think they’re a great symbol of our nation’ and his family had ‘got St George’s flag in our flat’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Cllr Dr Alex Powell@apowelllaw.bsky.social · yesterday

The campaign of harassment and intimidation Raise the Colours have undertaken against council staff, contractors, and members of the public as reported by the Clarion today is shocking if not surprising. Excellent reporting. oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...