The Sussexes are returning to the UK with significantly reduced media deals in an industry where fame alone can no longer guarantee success
Is this the end of Harry and Meghan’s American dream?
theguardian.com
Gamer Shanksi
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Professional clickerer and presser of buttons. I count stuff in London. Things that make me ick: Trump, Putin, Brexit, Elon, Farage, the Tories, cults and above all, liars. The truth matters.
The Trump administration fired the editor of Stars & Stripes. The military newspaper's publisher, who announced he would retire earlier this week, was also fired. The paper had revealed the deplorable conditions on the USS Lincoln, embarrassing Hegseth and Trump.
Scott Nover@scottnover.bsky.social · 14h agoScoop with @liamjscott.bsky.social: The Pentagon fired Stars and Stripes's publisher, editor-in-chief, and a reporter today following criticism of DOD interference. The EIC and reporter were fired for "insubordination" for doing a CBS interview. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
No one can do any "deal" with the US. It is run by crooks and liars. They will get shafted. It is about time the British government realised this and moved to rejoin the EU, which has enough economic heft to stand up to American hegemony.
Every country should do this and start trading with each other instead of the US. Given most of their food produce is now full of screw worms, diarrhoea inducing bacteria and salmonella why would we want to by owt from 'em anyway! 🤣
If I were a puppet installed by a foreign adversary to destroy a superpower, I would be doing the very same things Trump is currently doing…
Great job from the president yesterday, basically telling Iran "yes, you should get a nuke ASAP, so you can get the same treatment I give my friends in North Korea." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Donald Trump Just Explained Why Iran Should Have a Nuclear Weapon
He may also have blurted out classified information about North Korea.
theatlantic.com
Good and rare interview with Italy’s Meloni. Has she transformed from a 19-year-old neo-Fascist to a 49-year-old democratic moderate as she claims?
Giorgia Meloni Cuts the Hard Right a Path to Power (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, the onetime political outcast reflects on her route from “the uncomfortable side of history” to the threshold of leading Italy’s most durable postwar government.
nytimes.com
I'm sorry but it's clearly newsworthy that the President's decisions are being unduly influenced by a mentally unstable obsessive no one voted for who has attached themselves to him in an effort to live out weird fantasies they've had for decades. Something has to be done about Stephen Miller.
1/ Your kid or grandkid could be one click from a neo-Nazi recruiter tonight. A teen group called the Blueshirts uses Roblox, the game 40% of its players are under 13, to recruit kids and spread propaganda. It is happening right now. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
ROSIE: “.. I'm back in the spotlight all thanks to President Ompa J. Loompa, who is watching us this evening from inside a catering cart. You know, I couldn't have done it without you, sweetie. You brought me back just like you did with fascism and the measles." $DIS
Part of petrichor, the delish earthy smell released when rain hits parched ground, is geosmin,a compound from soil bacteria-human👃s can detect it in lower concentrations than sharks can detect blood in water. Seeking out water on dry plains was essential for our ancestors. Here’s a geosmin molecule:
This watching someone very, very, very deep in a cult. bsky.app/profile/deco...
Decoding Fox News@decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is Natalie Harp, the close aide to President Trump. These clips are from 2021 when she worked at OAN. She ended her program with a daily Bible quote. Sometimes she swapped out the Bible for a quote from Trump leading with "And remember what Trump said..."
Untrue. Totally false. A fantasy, unconnected with reality and unchecked by anyone at Reform (no-one asked) - who does that? bylinetimes.com/2026/08/17/r...
They didn’t have one before the war started. Weren’t in any position to have one for many years when Trump tore up the Obama deal. But Netanyahu wanted us to go to war with Iran, as he has for decades, & claimed Iran was “weeks away”, just as he has for decades. So here we are.
Trump yells at reporter: Quiet. Quiet. QUIET! You're very disrespectful. Quiet. You're fake news. You're a loud, boisterous person. Be quiet. Be quiet. Be quiet. You're a fake reporter and you report fake news.
Thereby confirming that the conditions on US ships are even worse than reported.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 5d agoTrump calls concerns about the conditions on the USS Lincoln a “CNN fake news report”
British people should “enjoy” multiple heatwaves and shrug off warnings of dangerous climate change while enjoying more English fizzy wine, the deputy leader of Reform UK has said. www.ft.com/content/49ea...
Reform UK’s deputy leader tells Britons to ‘enjoy’ heat amid record drought
Richard Tice’s call for people to ‘celebrate’ hotter weather comes as farmers warn of one of the worst harvests on record
ft.com
Good lord. That’s “Bond villain” level! 💔
404 Media@404media.co · 5d agoSCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
So Billionaire`s white wife MIT Professor Oxman accused of plagiarism but the media left her alone. A Black professor accused of the same thing & the media hounds him to death🤔 www.businessinsider.com/neri-oxman-p...
Academic celebrity Neri Oxman plagiarized from Wikipedia, scholars, a textbook, and other sources without any attribution
A review of Neri Oxman's work found many instances of outright plagiarism — including directly from Wikipedia.
businessinsider.com
Trump is suddenly retreating from cameras as secret war plans from Iran and Russia emerge. What’s happening behind the scenes is even more alarming.
Trump Retreats as Secret War Plans Leak
Podcast Episode · The MeidasTouch Podcast · August 17 · 20m
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Seriously, what is going on with Trump’s rear end here? It looks like he has some sort of contraption back there
(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Wannabe Dictator Trump Switches American Allyship From South Korea to North Korea Via Tweet; America's New Bestie Kills Dissidents with Wild Dogs and Anti-Aircraft Guns While Starving Its Entire Population Daily, America's Former Ally Gave Us K-Pop
Kim Jong Un's executed uncle was eaten alive by 120 hungry dogs: report
BEIJING -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful uncle was stripped naked, thrown into a cage, and eaten alive by a pack of ravenous dogs, according to a newspaper with close ties to China's ruli...
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The first forensic account of how the Post Office, the British government and a global IT company ruined the lives of thousands of innocent people. Post Mortem by Richard Brooks ➡️ www.private-eye.co.uk/books/post-m...