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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 6h
This audio is a bang-to-rights indictment of CBS News in its new pro-Trump guise, and means questions have to be mounting over the BBC's continued association with the network, its official U.S. media partner. You can hear the full audio on the Power Lines podcast. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Power Lines with Oliver Darcy and Jon Passantino - YouTube
Power Lines is the official podcast of Status, where veteran journalists Oliver Darcy and Jon Passantino break down their reporting and deliver analysis on h...
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Peter Ricketts @lordrickettsp.bsky.social · 9h
UK must protect against Russian 'hybrid attacks', ex-national security adviser says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK must protect against Russian 'hybrid attacks', ex-national security adviser says
Lord Ricketts says more should be spent on improving the resilience of energy, transport, air traffic control and defence sites.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
New course record, as Zacharia is poised to exit the White House less than a week after her appointment was announced. A total train wreck that anyone who has ever had any dealings with her could have seen from space.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
My somewhat prescient "American Week" for @tomswarbrick.bsky.social's programme on the UK's @lbc.co.uk. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it on-demand here afterwards, and in video at the LBC Official YouTube channel. 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/896579...
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October 16, 2026 - "American Week": Republicans expect midterm defeat, Trump betrays Zelensky and Katie Zacharia implodes
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Good night, Irene.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Spoilers: Yes. Yes.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
"Evolved". Another NYTimes classic.
A New York Times headline that describes the collapse in US support for Ukraine without defining the collapse in US support for Ukraine. Instead, the reader is told the article looks at "How U.S. Support to Ukraine Has Evolved".  "Evolved".
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Live at 5.50pm UK time and here on-demand afterwards.
My "American Week" will air on LBC tonight at 5.50pm UK time, and will be available here on-demand afterwards.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
America, 2026 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US officials considering ad campaign to urge South African Afrikaners to emigrate
Exclusive: Trump has falsely claimed Afrikaners are facing ‘white genocide’, but very few have applied to live in US
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Trump ditches the plan for a public execution of former Maj Nidal Hasan. My live update next on @lbc.co.uk
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Trump breaks completely with Zelensky and Zelensky calls it betrayal. All while Trump conspires to ease sanctions on Russia to America's financial benefit while the war on Ukraine continues. Plus a Zacharia update. Mine with @mrjamesob.bsky.social earlier @lbc.co.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=whc5...
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Trump’s press secretary lies about passing the bar exam
YouTube video by LBC
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Trump stabbing Ukraine in the face will stand as one of the defining acts of perfidy and self destruction his relentless transformation of the US into a pariah state.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Lettuce cam time. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Watchdog files complaint against Zacharia with California bar
The Campaign for Accountability has filed a complaint with the California State Bar Association asking for an investigation into White House press secretary Katie Zacharia over her claims that she …
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Lawsuit launched by CREW ('Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington') in an effort to get Jared Kushner barred from serving as Trump's special envoy. www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/u...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
this video is incredible
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Many Starlink terminals in Ukraine are financed by Poland. Its Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has put Elon Musk on notice regarding the evolving situation.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The real question here is: are basic hiring standards going to be honoured and will Trump be forced to ditch her (obviously he should never have hired her in the first place because she lacks any qualifications for the role). Or, is another norm about to be shattered?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
oops
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
New Fox poll has Trump's approval on inflation at 22-77. Dems lead in generic ballot by 9 points, 54-45: www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
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Fox News Poll: Cost of living concerns weigh on GOP in midterms
Inflation disapproval hits a record 77% as Trump's overall job approval drops to 36%, his lowest ever. Democrats lead the generic House ballot 54%-45%.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
So, Zacharia never passed the bar, but has claimed regularly to be a lawyer. The White House in a statement to the Wall Street Journal says she wasn’t hired by the president to work on legal matters. Indeed not. But she has been hired as press secretary, and now lacks any credibility on any issue...
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Happily, other versions of the story are available. inews.co.uk/news/world/t...
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Trump's sycophantic new Maga star's disturbing embrace of dark-web conspiracies
Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary, was on a PR blitz during her first briefing
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“Awkward”.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“Bumpy Ride”
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump's QAnon press secretary's catastrophic debut at the White House podium. My live report for Nick Ferrari At Breakfast on the UK's @lbc.co.uk 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/896411...
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October 14, 2026 - New White House press secretary has catastrophic debut at the podium
Simon's live report for Nick Ferrari at Breakfast on the UK's LBC.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Katie Zacharia sat on the advisory board of an organization that calls for women who have abortions to be executed “in the public square,” and for pro-choice Americans to lose their right to hold public office.
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Trump’s New Press Secretary Supports the Death Penalty for Abortion Patients
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Trump has tonight posted video of the incident at Yorkshire Wildlife Park last weekend where a man climbed into a tiger pen, advising people never to "mess with nature". There is absolutely no floor, no self control, no maturity, no decency, no responsibility and increasingly limited sanity.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Even odds Zacharia doesn’t last a full Scaramucci.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 13/10/2026
"She sounded very uncertain of the few facts she was putting across..." @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social asks: How long will Katie Zacharia last as White House Press Secretary?
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Not satire, apparently.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
At least 60 soldiers want to recuse themselves as potential members of a firing squad after Pete Hegseth ordered that Nidal Hasan’s execution be livestreamed.
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Pentagon Pete’s Soldiers Revolt Over Live Execution
Soldiers are objecting to Pete Hegseth’s death broadcast.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Pete Hegseth wasn't lying about us getting to see someone die on live TV.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Hot off the press, my dispatch on today's catastrophic debut by the new White House press secretary. For @theipaper.com 📰: inews.co.uk/news/world/t...
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Trump's sycophantic new Maga star's disturbing embrace of dark-web conspiracies
Katie Zacharia, White House Press Secretary, was on a PR blitz during her first briefing
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 13/10/2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle resigned as U.S. ambassador to Greece, after The Wall Street Journal reported that she had solicited $100,000 from a Trump donor. 🔗: on.wsj.com/4i1TzcT
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
"When Trump plucked Katie Zacharia from obscurity & appointed her as his new press sec, he called her 'an attorney.' This is also how Zacharia describes herself. But Popular Information searched for evidence in all 50 states, plus DC, that she was admitted to practice law anywhere — & found none."
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Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, claims she’s a lawyer. Is she?
There is no evidence Zacharia has ever been licensed to practice law — and the White House did not provide any
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Slow motion train wreck. And you could have seen it coming from space.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Probably all down to a bloke called Claude.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Umm….
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary, has already breached the Hatch Act multiple times in the first 3 minutes of her first briefing. If you'll pardon the misnomer.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/10/2026
There is, writes @davidfrum.bsky.social, an "implicit quid pro quo in these lucrative deals offered to Trump’s family and friends: If you compel Ukraine to surrender, we will enrich you beyond reckoning" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin
The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And here we go....
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is flatly untrue. As of July 11th more than 70% of people detained had no criminal record. The data is here: tracreports.org/immigration/...
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My latest: Trump Has Shamelessly Abandoned Ukrainians michaelmcfaul.substack.com/p/trump-has-...
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Trump Has Shamelessly Abandoned Ukrainians
Doing so does not advance American interests or values.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
More savagery.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
From personal experience, I can tell you that nothing is more frustrating than DC tree laws. The idea that a President can just chop down 500 trees and incur only a shouting from a judge is sure to fuel a run on chain saws.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
America, 2026
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My dispatch today for @theipaper.com 📰: inews.co.uk/news/world/t...
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Thin-skinned Trump still desperately wants our attention
The US President has unleashed his Department of Justice on the five leading US news networks
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Christa Pike Discharged From Hospital After Surviving Execution Attempt www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/u...
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Christa Pike Discharged From Hospital After Surviving Execution Attempt
Ms. Pike, 50 and convicted of the 1995 murder of a classmate, survived two doses of the drug pentobarbital late last month.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Mark Rutte tonight is urgently packing a suitcase and filling it with extra kneepads.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Having pulled the rug out from under the Ukrainians with his surprise diesel deal with Putin, Trump is now calling for Zelensky to go. A huge challenge for NATO’s European leaders, including our very own Prime Minister.
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