You may have seen the recent fury over @Motability: how ‘sickfluencers’ are helping ‘bedwetting boy racers’ get ‘50-grand Mercs’ for free. This is basically a myth, and its laundering into the mainstream is an object lesson in How Things Work Now. Thread follows.
Wrote a piece about the misreading of where the political middle is that left Gary Lineker with a great big opening to become the martyr of the moment, somehow. And also about the BBC being crap about it.
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RIP Eater London - a groundbreaking outlet for food journalism that launched lots of great writers and made everyone else think harder about their work, even the many people it wound up https://t.co/sbzcLJEpIP
Ok, you should subscribe and read everyday blah blah but I especially recommend today’s First Edition. In which @archiebland really commits to all the things that should die a death with 2022. Contains big ‘revenge of the whatsapp group chat’ energy https://t.co/hUNR9pmmwp
Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who took more campaign cash from the oil and gas industry than any other senator, blew up the Democratic Party’s plan to fight climate change.
Here’s a look at how the plan unraveled as the Earth continues to warm. https://t.co/js6zCTQvg9
Today is wretched and plain. And it is not the bottom. It will get worse; we will go lower. As the Court’s dissent insists, correctly, “Closing our eyes to the suffering today’s decision will impose will not make that suffering disappear.” https://t.co/f0cePYG9F0
"The point of the leak, then, may have been to lock in the five-justice conservative majority."
By @adamliptak, who doesn't say things lightly
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Today's First Edition is about the breaking news of a leak which appears to show the US Supreme Court is on the brink of overturning Roe v Wade. Sign up here to get it in your inbox at 7am each day. https://t.co/gf08A2EqLN
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Exclusive investigation by me and @aamnamohdin and the BBC >> DJ Tim Westwood accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women https://t.co/GkMXkNeVUc
If there is a solution to the subway’s woes that pretty much everyone agrees on, it’s this: The more people start taking the train, the less crime there will be. @reeveswiedeman writes after riding every line in the days after the Brooklyn subway shooting https://t.co/7zjlLFv4k7
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