Nobody Cares: PRS

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At least he acknowledges that Earth orbits around the sun, and not the other way around. That's progress, I guess.

Puts him only about 600 years behind the *rest* of us.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Sun publisher pays Sir Simon Hughes phone-hacking damages

Former Lib Dem MP claimed he had been ‘victim of unlawful information gathering’ after tabloid outed him

www.theguardian.com

There's a particular historical irony here, going all the way back to the way back to 1983 and the infamous way in which Rupert Murdoch's Sun covered the Bermondsey by-election, and the way in which Simon Hughes, then the Lib-Dem candidate, running against Peter Tatchell, colluded with them.

Bermondsey by-election 1983: homophobia, hatred, smears and xenophobia

The poll held 30 years ago today was said to be the nastiest in 100 years. Here the main candidates recall the fight that changed politics, and Britain, for good

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Prince Philip funeral: Woman fined for topless protest

Marissa Scott is fined for exposing herself during Prince Philip's funeral in Windsor in April.

www.bbc.co.uk

During a police interview, Ms Flannery added Scott said "she wanted to show solidarity with the World Wildlife Foundation and save the planet" and "she didn't think it would cause any distress".

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

MLB lolsuit going well.

 

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MLB lolsuit going well.

Calling Dr. Who to the stand.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Paramilitary Wannabes Feeding Mike Flynn’s Conspiracy Machine

The 1st Amendment Praetorian group has become an on-call security and intelligence team for the most extreme and esoteric of Trumpists.

www.thedailybeast.com

In the groups’ telling, the United States has been targeted by a “North American Insurgency Syndicate” that includes both liberal groups, antifa, and organizations described in another group’s document promoted by 1A Praetorians as “pro-choice extremists” and “Canadian extremists.”

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

“Canadian extremists.”

Waiting on that Canschluss.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

“Canadian extremists.”

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Wow! British media really has changed -- it's astonishing when you consider what the tabloids were like 30 years ago, and The Sun was a runaway success

Rupert Murdoch writes down value of Sun newspapers to zero

Move follows £200m loss caused by Covid-19 pandemic and one-off charges related to phone hacking

www.theguardian.com

ETA -- and whose great friend was editor of The Sun at the time of the phone-hacking scandal?

Cameron accused of misleading Leveson on Brooks friendship

New book casts doubt over David Cameron's account to press inquiry over his personal ties with Rebekah Brooks

www.theguardian.com

Cameron and Johnson and their whole circle seem to have a way of bringing disaster to everything they touch, because they simply don't realise that some rules really do apply to them, too.

 

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Rupert Murdoch writes down value of Sun newspapers to zero

Move follows £200m loss caused by Covid-19 pandemic and one-off charges related to phone hacking

www.theguardian.com

Anything that hurts Murdoch is a win for the rest if us.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Anything that hurts Murdoch is a win for the rest if us.

Though The Sun has long been no more than part of Murdoch's history, I think -- he lost interest in it as a long-term project when he moved to the US and devoted his energies to Fox.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Major neo-nazi figure convicted.

Andrew Dymock: Neo-Nazi guilty of terrorism charges

Police say that Andrew Dymock's conviction is a “key step in protecting the UK”.

www.bbc.co.uk

Andrew Dymock: The neo-Nazi exposed by the BBC

Raised in a privileged academic background, Andrew Dymock led two banned neo-Nazi terror groups.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Buzzfeed, the textbook example of ad riddled clickbait orgasm trash like "Take this quiz and we'll reveal if you are more like Elton John or Billy Joel", has won a Pulitzer price for a series of innovative articles that used satellite images, 3D models and interviews to expose China's infrastructure of detaining the Uygurs to the world.

BuzzFeed News Has Won Its First Pulitzer Prize For Exposing China’s System For Detaining Muslims

BuzzFeed News won for its innovative series exposing China’s mass detention of Muslims and was named a finalist for its colossal FinCEN Files investigation into the global banking industry.

www.buzzfeednews.com

 

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EDIT: Almost forgot what seems to be the big drama of the UK G7 trip.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

So, Marj T. Greene went on the rightwing "Real America's Voice" and announced that she "doesn't believe in evolution". The reaction from the internet is hilarious.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Four headlines from CNN this morning.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

How Carrie Johnson’s eco clique took control of No 10

Stop the slaughter in the water! Stop killing whales!” the young woman shouted. Marching down Regent Street in central London en route to a demonstration at the

www.thetimes.co.uk

Evernote link because why not

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]