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‘Literally state-run TV’: Trump launches YouTube channel amid boycott by US networks

White House press coverage row continues while anchor-less channel of the administration’s ‘latest and greatest’ streams propaganda for the Maga faithful

Donald Trump’s previous television career centred on his role on The Apprentice, but the US president’s latest media venture is a rather lower-budget affair: the launch of Trump TV in the wake of his ban on several outlets from covering the White House.

With major US networks agreeing to not cover the president while the dispute continues, on Monday the White House announced the new 24/7 YouTube live stream, which it promised would feature “top past moments, announcements, and the latest and greatest from the administration all in one place”.

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Davey says far right in Britain now better funded and supported than in the past – UK politics live

Lib Dem leader tells party conference that ‘something big and dangerous is happening in our country’

If Andy Burnham wanted to inject some edge into his meeting with Donald Trump later (which he doesn’t), he could bring along a copy of today’s Financial Times. This front page headline speaks for itself.

Mortgages ‘on the front line’ as Iran war deals £840 blow to homeowners

British homeowners are paying an average of £840 a year more when they refinance their mortgages, as the rising borrowing costs triggered by the Iran war start to impact consumers’ spending power.

Approximately 1m households have rolled off fixed-rate mortgage deals since February, according to Bank of England data.

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‘Looksmaxxing’ influencer Clavicular charged with rape and drug offenses

The Massachusetts case is the latest in a series of legal woes for the influencer whose real name is Braden Eric Peters

The online influencer known as Clavicular – who helped fuel the rise of the extreme male appearance-improvement trend of “looksmaxxing” – has been charged with rape and drug offenses in Massachusetts.

The 20-year-old, whose real name is Braden Eric Peters, has been scheduled for a 14 October arraignment on Cape Cod, according to legal documents seen by the Guardian.

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Kamer wil dat Van Weel zich in debat verantwoordt over aangiften

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Justitieminister David van Weel moet in de Tweede Kamer uitleg komen geven over aangiften en meldingen die niet zijn behandeld. Onder meer coalitiepartijen D66 en CDA steunen een verzoek voor een debat dat de Groep Markuszower daarover gaat indienen, bevestigen ze na berichtgeving door de NOS. Ook PRO, BBB en JA21 willen snel een debat.

De Rekenkamer meldde dinsdag dat VVD-minister Van Weel de Kamer "op het verkeerde been" heeft gezet. Hij zei dat het grotendeels gaat om meldingen die niet zijn behandeld, terwijl dat voor slechts 10 procent geldt.


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Ferrari’s aerodynamic edge that Mercedes tried to emulate

Mark Hughes and Giorgio Piola dissect Mercedes' new interpretation of Ferrari’s unique exhaust.

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TIL Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (aka The Hunchback...

TIL Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (aka The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) was written in part to help save the cathedral from demolition.

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Justitie eist twaalf jaar cel tegen ambtenaar in corruptiezaak die ‘zijn weerga niet kent’

Justitie eist 12 jaar cel tegen ambtenaar in corruptiezaak die ‘zijn weerga niet kent’

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Well-done hack flames 3.2M Burger King Russia users

Russian Burger King patrons have been left with a bad taste after cyber crooks flame-broiled 3.2 million customers in a whopper of a breach, serving up their personal data for anyone hungry enough to consume it. Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) slurped up all the data leaked after the August 2024 attack on Mindbox, Burger King Russia’s marketing platform, concluding that miscreants had grilled the platform and extracted tasty morsels of customers’ basic personal information. The attackers flipped names, dates of birth, email addresses, and phone numbers, with a side order of genders and approximate geographic locations. Burger King acknowledged the situation in October 2024, confirming no financial or passport data was affected. “The data of Burger King restaurant chain customers may also be among those affected by the attack,” the company told Russian news service TASS. “Burger King confirms that the personal data being verified does not include payment details: public transaction information is not transmitted or stored by third parties. “The Mindbox platform and other third parties do not have access to the personal passport or payment information of Burger King customers.” The information stolen in the breach was well-seasoned: it spanned more than six years, dating back to May 2018. News reports at the time suggested that the leaks contained more than 5.6 million lines of data, and included information about a customer’s favorite dish and previous order dates, although HIBP made no mention of these. Russian cybersecurity news outlet Xakep cited sources tying the breach at Mindbox to other break-ins, and claimed it was the work of a single intruder. Among the other stores allegedly affected was Detsky Mir, Russia’s largest retailer of children’s toys, with more than 1 million reportedly affected. ®

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"57% of Dems want Biden officials in jail over Gaza"

According to Liberal Current's poll conducted together with the Center for Strategic Politics the question "Should the next Democratic administration pursue criminal prosecution of [M]embers of the Trump and Biden administrations for actions taken related to Israel's genocide in Gaza" has a 57% support among Democrats. (data source) That's good news, as we have some new stuff in the accountability department.

The Officials:
  • Drop the Genocide 20
    These are the top 20 officials most responsible for promoting, lying about, and covering up the Gaza genocide in the Biden White House. The purpose of the #DroptheGenocide20 pledge is to demand these officials be removed from future Democratic administrations, think tanks, and academic and liberal spaces.
  • Statement on Genocidal Incitement by Israel's Minister of National Security (Lemkin Institute)
    The Lemkin Institute strongly condemns the recent inhumane statements of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, in which he called for the deliberate killing of "30 to 40" Palestinians every night in Gaza, even if they pose no immediate danger, because, according to him, "[t]here are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn't live. They're not even people." We will be very clear: This statement, which has garnered some outrage in Europe, is an unambiguous declaration of genocidal intent and incitement to genocide.
  • Israel will 'finish the job' in Gaza and seek Palestinians' migration — defense minister (Jerusalem Post)
    Defense Minister Israel Katz says it is only a matter of time before the country resumes full-scale war in Gaza and moves to encourage the emigration of its two million Palestinians.
  • UK Lawyers for Israel calls to proscribe Doctors Without Borders as terror group
    UKLFI appears 128 times in the European Legal Support Centre's Britain Index of Repression database, which documents what it describes as the systematic repression of Palestine solidarity activism across Britain. The centre argued that UKLFI has helped to create a "chilling environment" in which individuals and organisations withdraw or modify lawful Palestine-related activity due to fears of legal escalation.
  • The Media
  • Adam H. Johnson: How to Sell a Genocide - The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza (Pluto Press)
    How to Sell a Genocide is a thorough indictment of US corporate media's role in enabling—and, at times, directly inciting—one of the most devastating campaigns of mass killing in modern memory. Johnson unpacks how major news outlets like The New York Times, CNN, and MSNBC systematically sanitized Israel's war crimes, hid the US's central role, and dehumanized the Palestinian people.
  • Radio War Nerd EP 621 — US Media Complicity in the Gaza Genocide, feat. Adam Johnson + Guest co-host Aamer
  • The passage of another death penalty law shows the one issue Israelis can unite behind: death for Palestinians
    After passing two death penalty laws in six weeks, Israel is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to try to execute Palestinians on live TV. Unanimous support for the laws shows that Israeli society can unite around "death to Palestinians."
  • The Sources
  • Gaza is Too Graphic For Community Standards
    On January 30, 2025, I uploaded a video to Instagram I filmed in Gaza showing a mother sitting beside the bodies of her children after an airstrike. She was not screaming. She was silent in a way that felt heavier than any sound. Within minutes, the post disappeared from both Instagram and Facebook. The notification read: "This content violates Community Standards on graphic violence." There was no context in the message, no acknowledgment of where the video came from, and no distinction between documentation and harm. Only erasure. And then, silence.
  • Archive Genocide — War Crimes Archive
    We archive what others erase. Permanently. We are a group of researchers dedicated to archiving war crimes footage from Gaza and the West Bank. Our team submits all evidence to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Hind Rajab Foundation, and the South African legal team at the ICJ. If you'd like to contribute or join the effort, connect with us on Twitter or Telegram. (Warning - Graphic footage! - the same data is available as a graph for exploring connections.)