Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
Obama on Jesse Jackson: "The message he sent to a 22 year old child of a single mother with a funny name, an outsider, was that maybe there wasn't any place, any room, where we didn't belong"
I’d forgotten this existed. I want to forget again now
What time of year are you thinking of?
@neilkbrand.bsky.social Great to hear you with Cerys this morning and very much looking forward to Laurel and Hardy and yourself in Swansea.
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
Can we not refer to him by his first name alone please. That kind of confers a status upon him that he does not warrant.
So many countries reminding the USA of all the things the USA is supposed to be…
This Beagle’s dramatic 'play dead' on command is the funniest thing I’ve seen today
Trump gets the Monroe doctrine wrong. He should take a page from Bad Bunny | Ted Widmer
Newspaper ad board: EVERY FRIDAY GUN FOUND IN MAN’S BUM.
That’s EVERY Friday.
Anyone who enjoys a splenetic review will appreciate Mark Kermode in full sail.
I always believed the purpose of Brexit was to destroy the ability of nation states to take on spiv capitalism. I never expected to see actual evidence of it.
Times report: Allies of Rayner said they believed that Wes Streeting, the health secretary, would be “ruined” by the mass disclosure of all communications with Mandelson in coming months. Streeting and Mandelson were close allies for years.
In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.
The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking Show Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen Prue Leith
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
Is the music from the Opening Ceremony sounding dreadful everywhere?
Every American needs to watch this:
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
For those keeping score at home:
CNN is reporting the real reason Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre for two years is not for renovation: “the Kennedy Center does not have a 2026/2027 season. There would not have been any programming to announce."
The director of Melania movie
Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible
Don Lemon and Georgia Fort have been released.
But the procedural history now emerging is unusual. Before the arrests, a federal magistrate judge found no probable cause to arrest them. The government appealed anyway.
Here’s why that matters—and what it signals more broadly.
This border czar guy is woefully unimpressive. He can barely get a sentence out coherently.
Another performer withdraws from the Kennedy Center.
Every statement is a lie. Every accusation is a confession.
