13 h. ago ‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle

His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?Ben Meiselas is a very busy man. So busy, he has to break off halfway through our interview to conduct an interview of his own, for his next broadcast. It’s 7am Los Angeles time when we meet via video call, and Meiselas is already well into another 18-hour day of podcasting, planning, interviewing, meetings and more besides. His “pro-democracy” channel MeidasTouch, which he runs with his younger brothers Jordan and Brett, puts out 15 or more videos a day, most of them presented by Meiselas himself. “I was doing another video before this,” he says, “and so by now I’ve already released one video I did last night, which was my 4am, and now I just worked on my 7am – it’ll get released any minute now. And then I’ll have an 8.30, a 10, an 11.30 ”The prolific output is part of the reason The Meidas...

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30 h. ago MAGA heavyweights take to cable news and social media to applaud Letitia James charges

New York attorney general, who prosecuted Trump Organization in 2022, accused of mortgage fraud

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44 h. ago Dominion, the voting firm baselessly attacked by Trump after 2020 election, sold to ex

As part of its deal with Liberty Vote, Dominion was asked to settle its remaining lawsuits against Trump allies and MAGA media outlets, which it had done in recent weeks.

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4 d. ago Our favourite dehumidifier is on offer in the Amazon Prime Day sale

Tackle winter damp for less, thanks to this deal on a top-rated dehumidifier

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5 d. ago Newsboy's horse racing selections for Tuesday's four meetings, including Southwell Nap

Newsboy reckons his nap, Shamardal Star, will shine brightly at Southwell and score a second win on the bounce in the 8.00, and he also rates Warrant Holder a good thing at Leicester in the 5.02.

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5 d. ago Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds driving US media rightward

US media giants have bowed before Maga after Trump’s many lawsuits and the Jimmy Kimmel firestormParamount Skydance, the newly merged conglomerate which owns CBS News, has hired the journalist Bari Weiss as the network’s editor-in-chief – and acquired the Free Press, the publication Weiss co-founded in 2021 as a challenger to the establishment media, for a reported $150m.Weiss has made her career as a center-right critic of progressivism, and the Free Press is a contrarian, loosely conservative and ardently Zionist publication that views itself as a speaker of hard truths and protector of free discourse. Tellingly, Weiss will answer directly to Paramount’s chief executive, David Ellison, rather than to the president of CBS News, or the head of CBS. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Tories to ditch business rates for pubs and shops if they win election

Sir Mel Stride made the commitment as he addressed the Conservative Party conference

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1 week ago Australian film producers and experts call Trump tariff proposal ‘bizarre’ and impossible to enforce

US president threatens levy on all foreign-made films, but experts point out that the industry is global and Australia is intertwined with HollywoodFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government has vowed to fight a proposed 100% tariff on Australian-made films after the US president, Donald Trump, posted on his social media platform that he planned to go ahead with the huge levy “on any and all movies made outside the United States”.Industry experts have described the proposal as bizarre and virtually impossible to enforce, given the global nature of film, with production, financing and post-production often spread across several countries. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Swansea City ratings as star shows signs of getting back to his best and subs make impact

Here's how the players rated during Swansea's win over Blackburn

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2 w. ago Cardiff City ratings as defender flawless, winger electric and star man comes into his own

Here is how the Bluebirds players rated in 2-0 win over the Latics

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3 w. ago Trump says 'lots of people' under investigation over Charlie Kirk murder bomb plot

Two men have been arrested for allegedly placing bombs underneath a media vehicle near to the Utah Valley university where MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk was assassinated

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4 w. ago ‘I’ve seen so many people go down rabbit holes’: Patricia Lockwood on losing touch with reality

The Priestdaddy author on quitting social media, Maga conspiracies and how her second novel grew out of a period of post-Covid maniaThere is a thing Patricia Lockwood does whenever she spots a priest while walking through an airport. The 43-year-old grew up as one of five children of a Catholic priest in the American midwest, an eccentric upbringing documented, famously, in Priestdaddy, her hit memoir of 2017, and a wellspring of comic material that just keeps giving. Priests in the wild amuse and comfort her, a reminder of home and the superiority that comes with niche expertise. “I was recently at St Louis airport and saw a priest,” she says, “high church, not Catholic, because of the width of the collar; that’s the thing they never get right in TV shows. And I gave him a look that was a little bit too intimate. A little bit like: I know.” Sometimes, as she’s passing, she’ll whisper, “encyclical”.This is Lockwood: elfin, fast-talking, determinedly idiosyncratic, with the uniform i...

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