@mairejed
Retired Media academic, former journalist. Author of Television is Good for Your Kids; Star Trek and American Television. I block people who make death threats. Also those who can’t make a point without swearing or ad hominem abuse. Go back to X.
You can view all the clips from the DOGE raid on USIP that I uploaded—which were obtained via my FOIA lawsuit against DC Metropolitan Police—here: www.youtube.com/@marisa_kabas
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
Right-wing press seem very concerned that the UK is not "unquestionably subservient to a mad American president".
Strange - thought they were all for us 'taking back control'.
That's patriotism for you.
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"...killing dozens of seven to 12-year-old girls."
"mass casualty event"
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Reassuring to know that professional journalism in the UK is still expected not to just make stuff up. Or at least, not to be obvious about it.
I see the ‘patriotic’ parts of the press are delighting in a US President having a go at the PM.
I’m struck by how every day the admin is like “whoever could have foreseen these consequences?!” when the consequences thus far — evacuations, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, rise in gas prices, etc. — are all the literal most obvious consequences.
Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
Agreed, it feels astonishingly wrong-footed and seems mostly fuelled by the endless editorial need to batter Starmer rather than a correctly assessed desire to launch a Christianity-tinged warband on Iran.
Also, haven't we learned yet that being praised or condemned by Trump means less than nothing? He says the opposite three days later. It's of no consequence.
Bernie's new billionaire wealth tax would raise $4.4T from the super-rich over the next decade.
That's more than enough to reverse Trump's Medicaid cuts, raise teacher pay, make childcare affordable, and build millions of affordable homes.
And guess what? The super-rich will still be super rich.
I was on BBC last night, following a clip with voices from Iran. All the selected voices welcomed war, saying they cheered every time they heard an explosion.
Those views exist. But when you ONLY air those voices, you are doing war propaganda.
And I told BBC that live on air.
Few people read my 2nd novel A Touch of Love, perhaps put off by the Mills & Boony title. Written 40 years ago, the backdrop is a British PM (Thatcher) allowing a US president (Reagan) to use UK bases for airstrikes launched to effect regime change in a Middle East country (Libya). We're on a loop.
Britain's 'patriotic' press cheering on the latest attacks on us by a hostile foreign leader
"From Gaza to Iran, Children Have Always Been Sacrificed by Western Imperial Aims"
A US-Israeli strike on an elementary school in Minab reportedly killed at least 165 – mostly young girls who were only trying to learn, writes Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo:
Imagine an Iranian bomb had slaughtered 165 Israeli school kids.
Imagine the response of the Western media and politicians.
And note the lack of outrage and disgust here.
Announcements from our Labour Government - most unreported by BBC, radio and the media.
The big one is the crack down on public sector fraud saving taxpayers £7.5bn.
Share far and wide we need to do the job of our media.
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In 2020 Nigel Farage said of MPs who defect & refuse a by-election “it’s not right, it’s dishonorable”
Giving voters the right to have a say on an MPs defection is vital to restoring trust in our politics - and isn’t that exactly what the government has pledged to do?
The American people deserved to get a clear explanation of why servicemembers lives are at risk and why their gas prices are about to skyrocket. Instead, they got this.
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
#ShakespeareSunday
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We are the ones who trained AI. Our data was fed to it. Our public dollars also funded the R&D. Universal basic income NOW, not only to create a floor that the displaced can't fall below, but also to universally share what we all made possible. UBI is a dividend. It's just. It's rightful. It's ours.
Over 300,000 workers went on strike in 2025 — a 13% increase from the previous year.
Why?
Perhaps it's because CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.
Workers have every right to be fed up. Solidarity.
The DoD (sorry "DoW") response to Anthropic is that govt should be able to deploy AI for "any lawful use"
Which isn't credible from a regime that regularly breaks the law, pretends the law says something it doesn't, and claims to have changed the law without following the legal procedures to do so.
I've just filled this in. Pls dear followers, take time to do so before 10th March. Future of #BBC+ #publicservicebroadcasting depends on proper, stable funds+placing guardrails to prevent populist right-wing attacks on BBC. Pls say BBC needs a permanent Charter,so it can't be easily dismantled. 1/
Something I will never forget! Disgraceful.
The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
