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Breaking WaPo: Trump showed a classified map he retained from his first term in office to passengers on a 2022 private plane flight and retained another record so sensitive that only six high-ranking government officials had access to it, according to a prosecution memo released to Congress this week. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

A CERTAIN IDEA OF ED MILIBAND by @Will___lloyd The story of the post-Blair Labour party, if it can be contained in one individual, is the story of Ed Miliband. This is not a story about backstabbing brothers, back room deals with “union paymasters”, election promises printed on tomb stones, questionable slogans on mugs, bacon sandwiches, or double kitchens; nor anything as vulgar as retail policies aimed at marginal constituencies. Miliband’s story is really about the exhilaration of ideas: where they come from, why some of us fall in love with them, and what propels those ideas from the fringes of the debate to the fulcrum of an era. This is not an argument about whether those ideas and the policies they eventually become are right or wrong. It’s a story about the long-term political power that commanding those ideas allows an individual to wield. It is about the years of Edward Samuel Miliband - and Milibandism - which might be seen as the latest, or perhaps even the last, attempt to restore a social democratic political economy in Britain. Since July 2024, when Labour returned to government, it has been hard to work out precisely the point of this administration: to spend a bit more here and there, but leave an abject economic settlement largely intact; or to be much more than that, to fundamentally reshape Britain? For the last 20 months, Miliband has stood distinctly apart from those growing doubts. Even his enemies admit that the Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero knows what he is doing. That, in large part, is why he is so hated by his opponents. Miliband is getting social democratic things done at scale: during an era of uncontrollable global conflict, which began with the Ukraine war and is spiralling in Iran, when the direction of energy policy has become the most fiercely disputed issue in British politics. Miliband and his ideas have become a lightning rod for opponents of this government. (“Eco-zealot”; “madman”; “hysterical eco-obsessive”; “muddled climate zealot”; “demented fantasies”; these are Fleet Street editorials’ relentless tribute to his perceived threat.) And yet, as one of those critics, a source who had worked with Miliband during his leadership of the Labour Party between 2010 and 2015, grudgingly admitted: “There is something about Ed that is significant. He is a symbolic figure… the last flickering of social democracy.” Cover art by Mona Eing and Michael Meißner

Ed Miliband, my beloved…

Donald Trump: Don't call it a war. Also Donald Trump: War. War. War. War.

Kemi rage-baits me so bad every week. Like what even is her job at this point?

@ProgressiveEmma Kemi was being an idiot (as per usual) Can’t say I blame him 😭

This is what i was talking about

Keir Starmer embarrasses and evicerates Farage at #PMQs so the crybaby walks out....utterly pathetic. Reform are just immature juvenile jokers.

Traders who bet millions on oil futures before Donald Trump’s Iran talks post looks like “corruption of the very worst kind", Lib Dem leader Ed Davey says All of my decisions are made in the "best interests of our country", Keir Starmer says #PMQs bbc.in/47UF06x

Ed Davey weighs in on energy row between Badenoch and Starmer. "Can I make a judgement on this?’ The Prime Minister is exactly right."

Jesus loves. Christian Nationalism kills. You may pray for my death, Pastor, but I still love you. I love you more than you could ever hate me.

@Bloopie777 Steyer, for sure!

How are progressives feeling about Swalwell vs Steyer

@VEEPILF BASED

actually nothing has changed, I literally sleep under a NATO flag

@Iainite_Iain He was the king who brought back partying!

um..... i think we should let him rest tbh

@The_Real_Hello AOC

People on the left-wing of the Dem party, who do you like more?

What's happening in the Danish election?

@sprajaw Adlai!

1952 presidential election:

@leftwingpeony Noooo! Hope you feel better soon!

I have the stomach flu :(

@LXXXIVMJW @LPC_Hack Almost certainly. There’s also theme parks, undoubtedly there will be lots more merch, like you said, subscriptions, content licensing, etc… Warner Bros already makes hundreds of millions in annual revenue from the Wizarding World brand alone, no doubt that will skyrocket.

@SCProgDem @LPC_Hack How is it going to recoup its money exactly? Like, it’s a tv series - it has to increase subscriptions. Sure there’s merch, but is it going to increase current HP merch sales enough to justify 100m per episode. All while the new corporate masters are billions in debt?

is this not being made because a certain author is upset the entire main original cast hates her so she wants a redo???

@LPC_Hack I’m still conflicted about the show personally. I love the story. I abhor the person who wrote it. I’m happy the show is going to be (supposedly) a more faithful adaptation of the books. I’m disappointed that the author is as attached to the project as she is.

@LPC_Hack But, when you have an IP as big and as popular as Harry Potter, a studio will spend BILLIONS to make BILLIONS more. I doubt this show will flop.