Massive UK media scoop - Germany's Axel Springer is poised to agree a shock £500mn deal for the Telegraph in a move that will scupper the acquisition of the UK newspaper group by the Daily Mail. W/ the FT's finest @JFK_America @ArashMassoudi
www.ft.com/content/e5cb...
Tate was trying to get to Dubai on a bus.
When they got to the Saudi border everyone was told to get off for passport and baggage checks and Tate decided to stay on - presumably because the bus was air conditioned and he didn't want to stand in a queue.
He then got detained by Saudi guards.
CSPAN @cspan . @SpeakerJohnson after House blocked War Powers Resolution: "We're not at war, we have no intention at being at war. The president and the Department of Defense have made it very clear, this is a limited operation."
Darkly funny he had enough self-awareness to revert to "Department of Defense" here.
It was quite a culture shock when I first arrived here as I recall
Four arrested on suspicion of helping Iran spy on Jews in London
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
He literally did the Farquaad line
Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Headline from both the 16th Century and tonight's Spurs game:
Questions For Tudor Following Palace Catastrophe
NYT investigation suggests that the Minab school was hit by the US during American strikes on IRCG naval buildings around it.
I mean after they booted us out the USAID HQ was just kind of left open with doors to SCIFs and other secured rooms propped open. If you could get into the building (relatively low bar of entry with human engineering) you could get access to TS/SCI level systems.
Bad news: I just saw an obviously AI-generated post in a group (stylistically I think it's Claude) and the poster had clearly gone through and swapped out the em-dashes for -- manually!
Wake up honey, New Envoy to the Prime Minister for the Nations and Regions just dropped
So the man who thought that Khomeini and Khamenei were the same person is now in charge of Homeland Security.
your new DHS secretary, everyone:
Today in "Boy, am I relieved I came to this conclusion in the piece I filed less than 12 hours ago":
I'm sure Lewandowski, committed to the department, will remain as a close adviser to Mullin.
There it is: Noem out, Mullin in
I'd heard "jewish step-brother" but never even considered it might be someone I know until today too.
Also note that Platner's wife is not Jewish. She just has a German surname.
The War Powers Resolution sets a 60-day clock for the end of hostilities that runs out on May 1
I've done this on a few platforms already. Not joking.
Donald Trump is once again demanding an immediate Israeli presidential pardon for Benjamin Netanyahu *today*, calling @barakravid.bsky.social and saying Herzog is a "disgrace" for not pardoning him already and that Trump will "expose" him and is boycotting meeting him.
Bloody hell they've done an unbelievable job wtih the make... oh no that's martin clunes
Again, Farage, Badenoch and their fellow travellers on X are wildly out of touch with the public on Iran.
Even the majority of Reform supporters oppose their position.
Weird how this keeps happening! www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
it's a nominally left-wing channel that uses Pepe/Wojak memes to reach a different audience. Unsurprisingly, that audience does include a lot of antisemites.
I think GDF is something else, something Ghaddafi related. Not GDL.
This could go one of two ways: either SpaceX/xAI goes public and becomes another massively overvalued empty meme stock like Tesla now is, or it fails and pops Tesla and crashes tech stocks across the board.
SpaceX probably has revenues of less than $20bn and loses money after the merger with xAI, but is targeting a $1.75 TRILLION IPO.
So Alphaville got two experts to go through how Musk will probably try to pull off what could be the biggest bagholder operation in history. www.ft.com/content/5bf1...
