Paul Guinnessy

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Physicist, Journalist, Director of Digital Experience. All views are my own, not my employer. Fan of Film Festivals, Opera, and theater. Believer in buying two books for every one leaving the house. Doing my bit to reduce climate change impacts.

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What they are overlooking in this article is everywhere these expats are based, provide free or cheap healthcare and transportation because their voters (and unions!) encourage it instead of tax cuts like in the US. apple.news/AqMXhmo3nSBS...

Boomers are leaving America to retire abroad in droves because the U.S. is just too expensiveapple.news

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It's almost like citizens can ignore the media narrative and that voting matters.#VivelaFrance

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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This is incredible news out of France - the left really saved the center's bacon. It has always seemed that the true cordon sanitaire for the center and right in the amnesiac 21st century was not against the far right but the left.

Ironic that two of the best #StarTrek shows are cartoons. Plus the music for #StarTrekProdigy is pretty good. I enjoyed it more than the last two seasons of Discovery and Picard (Strange New Worlds is the best of the live shows). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Tr...

Star Trek: Prodigy - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

Pretty disturbing

Well this is grim

““Why aren’t we talking about Trump’s fascism?” demands the headline of Jeet Heer’s piece in the Nation, to which the answer might be a piece by the Nation’s own editor-in-chief titled “Biden’s patriotic duty” that proposes his duty is to get lost“ #media www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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If Biden said something like this it would spell the end of not only his campaign but his current tenure. It's just one of countless examples of insane gibberish from Trump that the press & Democrats are choosing to treat as an immutable part of the electoral landscape rather than a story or issue.

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I'm going to end up sharing this everywhere, but look how easily it *could* be done donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

Meanwhile, in the real world, a Taiwanese fishing boat was boarded and seized by the Chinese Coast Guard. #Taiwan officials sent three ships in an attempt to rescue the boat but were forced to abort the mission to avoid "escalating tensions”. #geopolitics focustaiwan.tw/cross-strait...

Taiwan fishing boat seized by China Coast Guard off Kinmen - Focus Taiwanfocustaiwan.tw A Taiwan-registered fishing vessel was seized by China Coast Guard on Tuesday while catching squid outside Taiwan-controlled waters off the outlying Kinmen County.

“The power of Monday’s dissents by Jackson and Sotomayor form quite the contrast with the speculative flights of fancy about a brokered convention in Chicago, which, it’s worth noting, have largely come from white male boomer types.” #USElection But her emails… www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Our democracy is much more frail than Biden | Will Bunch Newsletterwww.inquirer.com Plus, how billionaire corruption led to a shocking Supreme Court ruling.

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This is the way.

Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

Florida, leading the country once again. I often wonder what the life expectancy in FL is now?

This summer's COVID-19 surge isn't just out west, per new CDC figures out today COVID-19 emergency room visits in Florida have also climbed steeply in recent weeks, and are now near this past winter's peaks covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...

Larry the cat still has the best and most nuanced political feed on 'the other place' too.

excellent choice.

All change at Downing Street, except Larry the Catwww.reuters.com On a night of sweeping change across British politics, one thing at the heart of the government remained the same on Friday morning: Larry the Downing Street cat.

"we look around for all sorts of exotic explanations for what we observe happening—is it this new TikTok thing? That WhatsApp thing?—and instead the answer lies on push notifications, introduced by Apple to the iPhone in 2009, which is older than both." #socialmedia open.substack.com/pub/socialwa...

election night is callingopen.substack.com Plus AI video gets sporty with Wimbledon, gymnastics and cycling

This is a great line. " He may have campaigned in prose. But in his first hour in office he had governed in poetry." #UKElection2024 www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

Rishi Sunak departs with a brief nod to his achievements – mostly imagined | John Cracewww.theguardian.com As Larry the Cat sees off another PM, Sunak suffers the ultimate kick in the teeth as the sun comes out for Starmer

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Conservatives have the worst vote share since 1832 #UKGE2024

And here it is! #TunbridgeWells goes to the LibDems. First time it's not held by the Tories since something like 1903! I've pointed out before that TW was the only town to vote remain with #BrexitShambles, and 67% of voters voted (national average is 56% I think). #UKElection

Another potential PM kicked out. That’s the 16th cabinet minister gone! Still waiting for the Tunbridge Wells result. #ukelections

To quote Battlestar Galactica, all of this has happened before and will happen again. (although hopefully the convicted felon won't win this time).

FFS, this shit again...

How the cartoons report on the #SCOTUS power grab for the king. Part 1 www.gocomics.com/drewsheneman...

Drew Sheneman by Drew Sheneman for July 01, 2024 | GoComics.comwww.gocomics.com July 01, 2024

First result of the night. Not a surprise except for reform pushing the Tories into third place. #ukelection

Impressed by the Labour MP Wes Streeting, who practically does a sea shanty tongue twister on making the ship, ship shape describing Labour’s attempt to be electable on BBC #UKElection

I’m a great believer in #media and #newspapers. Up until today I subscribed to four of them. Today however it’s down to 2. I’ve canceled the #NYTimes for a daft piece on not voting without checking if the author voted (he did), then the Post publishes this. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | What if Biden spoke these words?www.washingtonpost.com A Fourth of July speech on kings, independence and American resilience.

Congratulations #WaPost, I’ve been a subscriber since I moved here in 2000, and this sickening piece on Independence Day, means you join the #NYTimes in being canceled. Honestly wonder what the point is supporting #media if they don’t stand for facts or democracy.

Cannot emphasize enough how pathetic these editorial boards are revealing themselves to be.

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"The president is above the law, and the trial court judges of the Fifth Circuit are above the president" is an odd constitutional structure. www.reuters.com/legal/us-jud...

US judge blocks Biden administration ban on worker noncompete agreementswww.reuters.com A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday partially blocked a U.S. Federal Trade Commission rule from taking effect that would ban agreements commonly signed by workers not to join their employers' rivals or launch competing businesses.

To quote Larry the Cat on the other place. “Think voting doesn't matter? The mayor who kept the beaches open in Jaws is STILL the mayor in Jaws 2. Don't make the same mistake as the people of Amity... #GeneralElection24”

Also interesting that in another #ProfilesInCourage the #NYTimes doesn’t allow comments on this editorial.

“…I’m particularly frustrated with the amount of personal fact-checking voters are expected to do if they want to stay informed. It would require a PhD in journalism to read news in a way that distinguishes the truth from misinformation” #media #USElection mutual.substack.com/p/an-insane-...

An Insane Amount is Expected of American Votersmutual.substack.com I’m stressed. I’m overloaded with information. I’m refreshing X every six minutes like democracy depends on it. And I’m not alone. If I were, there wouldn’t be new information every time I reloaded th...

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🧵 It’s election day here in the UK, so here is a coin from the first century BCE, depicting an election during the Roman Republic. On the back of the coin you can see a really clear image of a man dropping his voting tablet into a cista, or basket. Numismatists have identified