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RIP Patrick Stewart.
He had many great Shakespeare performances, but his John of Gaunt in Richard II is perhaps my favorite.
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This was an article in the New York Times two years ago.
He’s done all of it.
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"That is absolute cobblers and you know it."
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is pressed on 'egregious' comments made by former party councillors and vetting processes uncovered in a documentary made by ITV.
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Car crash alert 🚨
Sally Nugent asks Nigel Farage about Raheem Kassam's “Nigerian scammer” comments on Kemi Badenoch and his response is painful to watch.
#bbcbreakfast
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Gawain Towler (Who is the only person not wearing a poppy) is asked by Helena Dollimore why one of Reform’s newly elected councillors is now an independent.
Towler doesn’t answer so she asks ‘did you not vet him properly like many of your candidates?’
🤣
#politicslive
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Christian Crusaders March to Dearborn to end Sharia Law, and found something crazy 😱😱😱
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Woody Harrelson has done an ad for Exxon.
New Exxon El Nino Commercial
Written by Adam McKay @mr.ghostpanther
Voiced by Woody Harrelson @woodyharrelson
Produced by Yellow Dot Studios
Edited by Max Koepke of @lostplanetpost
Stock Footage licensing by Stalkr
Music licensing APM
corrupt and traitorous - DJT
US executives quit $25bn gas venture over claims of secret Russian control ft.trib.al/viVXumy
Clem Fandango ␛ retweeted
So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?
Elon Musk has cemented his record as the largest individual political donor in modern American history.
Musk poured $446 million of his own money into this year’s midterm elections, mostly aimed at preserving the Republican Party’s control of Congress. wapo.st/4igb5Kq
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This is the last morning of Jonestown, filmed by an NBC crew on November 18, 1978. Within 24 hours almost everyone you see here was dead, including the man behind the camera.
The night before, a man named Vernon Gosney had walked up to an NBC reporter and slipped him a note: “Please help us get out of Jonestown.” Gosney had mistaken reporter Don Harris for the congressman. Congressman Leo Ryan had flown into the jungle of Guyana with the crew to find out whether Jim Jones was holding Americans there against their will. Around 900 members of Jones’s Peoples Temple lived in that settlement.
In the video below Harris sits down with Jones, shows him the note, and asks about people who want to leave. Jones says they’re lying and want to destroy Jonestown.
That afternoon about 15 people left with Ryan’s group and drove to the Port Kaituma airstrip. Temple members pulled up on a tractor and opened fire. NBC cameraman Bob Brown kept filming the shooters until they shot him. Ryan, Harris, Brown, a newspaper photographer and one of the defectors died on that airstrip. Gosney was shot too and survived.
The same evening Jones ordered his followers to drink cyanide mixed into a fruit drink, and some were forced. 909 people died in Jonestown, more than 270 of them children. Jones was found with a gunshot wound to the head.
Did showing Jones that note on camera help those people get out, or did it set off everything that happened next?
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A Russian operation made AI deepfakes of a real former student accusing James Talarico of sexual assault. The real student says "it's not me" and that Talarico "never messed with me." The video still passed 850,000 views on X in its first 24 hours.
Here's how it worked.
On October 20, an account that X lists as signed up from Romania posted the video, claiming abuse when Talarico taught middle school in San Antonio. Lead Stories reached the real Zyon Lewis, and he called it "very bad AI." Detection tools rated the videos more than 99% likely to be AI-generated.
Three research teams attribute it to Storm-1516, the same Russian operation that ran fake scandals against Tim Walz in 2024. Fifteen bot accounts shared it right away. About 12 hours later, big verified accounts reposted it, including a pro-GOP account with 185,000 followers, and it exploded. NBC calls it the most prominent example yet of foreign meddling in these midterms.
It's not the only operation. Bloomberg reviewed 130 fake videos and doctored front pages from a second Russian network, called Matryoshka, including fake ABC and CBS clips, AI videos of De Niro and Cher attacking Democrats, and a made-up claim about Jon Ossoff's properties.
On October 21, the top Democrats on both intelligence committees said a classified briefing showed Russia targeting Democrats right now.
Nobody is saying Russia changed votes. It doesn't have to. It makes the lie, and Americans spread it for free.
