The Economist on 19 Oct 2024 "The Envy of the World - America's economy: A Special Report" Cover with an image of a roll of US dollars in the shape of a rocket taking off

The Economist on 26 Apr 2025 Cover with an image of a broken eagle, bandaged up, feathers on the ground "Only 1,361 days to go"

"The Envy of the World - America's economy: A Special Report"

The Economist one year ago - 19 Oct 2024 - Under Biden

"Only 1,361 days to go"

The Economist 6 months later - 26 Apr 2025 - Under Trump

A BIG WIN ON THE ROAD! 🙌

You called it

You’d have thought that they would have had someone focusing on this for a few years now.

#NUFC U21 goalkeeper, scores from over 70 yards

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

THE SPECIAL - Spurs Away Tottenham Hotspur v Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, 10/Feb/26, KO: 19:30, Premier League.

This could be the finest piece of fanzine writing I've ever read. A balanced, thoughtful look on where we are and what's going wrong, fueled by just the right amount of simmering rage.
If you read anything pre-match, make it this. Excellent work. 👏👏👏
#nufc

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Minnesotans are built different.

CNN said there's unrest in Minneapolis and there's just not. There's very orderly, organized determination. This is not 2020.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):

-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.

You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

As clergy pray, arrests begin

“Complete Control” by The Clash #nowplaying #6music

My favourite midfield 3 are BACK

Err Here’s one for every year kind of in chronological order.
Goodbye Jumbo - Achtung Baby - Screamadelica - Seven - Spilt Milk - Different Class - Egyptology - Attack of the Grey Lantern - Moon Safari - Play - Sophtware Slump

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The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

No notes

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

Not always - I remember the Newcastle United Comedy Club stuff in the Fiver it was actually quite good.
Nowadays, If I see the article is about Newcastle I try not to read it. I feel as if I’m made to feel like a bad person just for supporting a team
I’ve watched for 50 years.

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

Fan led, fan funded.

Thank you for your continued assistance in supporting the lads on the pitch, and thank you to every volunteer who brings it to life. Every single bit of last nights display was paid for by our brilliant support.

On we go.

Sinclair Broadcast Group: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

John Oliver on Sinclair. Eight years ago:
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People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Never forget whose side the Media is on.

1m+ marched to stop the Genocide in Palestine. They barely covered it.

2m marched to stop Brexit. They barely covered it.

Less than a 1/10th show up for a Far Right Riot, nonstop coverage.

The Far Right thugs are their voters.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.