Darth Volodya remains a master strategist.

Good. Fingers crossed this is true.

Kind of amazing how UK news media still remains obsessed with the structurally limited impact in economic terms of small boats even as this potentially terminal havoc works its way through key UK industrial supply chains on.ft.com/3Ihb8YF

This should be a no brainer! EU is pushing for a rapid deal for UK to rejoin the Erasmus+ programme to allow student exchanges from January 2027 Negotiations are at a critical juncture and a deal is needed by the end of October if the UK is to join the scheme in a little over a year

All over the world, there are young men who just want to kill: they seek a permission structure wherever it's convenient; doesn't matter much whether they pretend the permission comes from Islam or 4Chan, since the shooters have no real commitment except to violence.

With a few honourable exceptions, UK TV journalists have got v. lazy (+ perhaps overworked) & seem grossly under-briefed these days. Why interview these clowns at all if you're *not* going to question them/ pin them down? You're just giving them a free mass-audience platform on which to spout lies.

Friends have explained that street harassment today is significantly worse than it was just after the riots a year ago, taking clear action to condemn does set a tone and direction!

In 2016, JD Vance mused that Trump might be "America's Hitler"

“Farage often says he lives rent-free in British politicians’ heads, but Trump lives rent-free in Nige’s. He’s The Donald’s emissary to the UK. An existence dedicated to sanitising Trump’s madness for a British audience” Crace nails the menacing idiocy of Farage. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is the real threat to free speech.

Social media needs to be regulated like broadcast media, at a minimum.

Left: Richard Tice tells ITV journalist that it's slander to say that Dr Aseem Malhotra is Reform UK's health adviser and smugly demands an apology Right: Dr Aseem Malhotra was introduced at Reform UK's conference as, "he worked with me to write Reform UK's health policy" #BBCQT

FFS. What a crock of shite. They're all following the Orange Fool and giving it the 'Merchants of Doubt' phony 'I'm *just asking questions*' schtick. The one so beloved of grifters everywhere.

You know, if I were, say, an ambitious Labour Culture Sec minister I'd be reading the riot act that certain news orgs have been soft soaping Tommeh supporters and haven't prominently reported any of the racist abuse I've seen documented.

This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

If Nigel was any farther up Donnie Dumpfo's backside he'd be able to swing his golf clubs for him.

Amid the daily insanity emerging from the US, I am working at retaining my sanity by catching up with old music, perhaps one of the few good things about t'Interwebz. Having never (ever) listened to the Grateful Dead before, just been listening to this, which is ace. youtu.be/-Xic-CHInek?...

These media outlets seem to be taking pride in Trump not being laughed at now, as if he’s their protégé in some way, instead of a vengeful ignorant monster that they helped create by not laughing at him themselves.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Trump is such a pathetic baby. Even though he's 79 years old. Even now, how anyone could vote for this pathetic a**hole -for ANY office - boggles my mind. I wouldn't elect him to be the town idiot.

Respect the Germans for not giving it to him (he still got a Belgian one later, though...) 🤷🏻‍♂️ Not a decent bone in the body of this total chopper. #FarageLies #FarageRiots

Unprecedented corruption & lawless authoritarianism happening right in front of us, every day.

Yuck. Why I am I not surprised that 'flag shaggers', and far-right groups well-known for harbouring domestic & child abusers, resort so readily to rape threats against women? Toxic men. Yet again.

This administration very literally favors Secret Police.

Yup. It's been a long slog, though - as with all new therapies. I worked in a gene therapy lab back in 1997-8. The kinds of viral gene delivery systems the Huntington's work used were in development back then. So this stuff has been decades (of basic research - hence why you need it!) in the making.

She's a race-baiting ignorant fascist moron. And no-one is going to want to put any kind of high tech or science-based industry in Lincolnshire, ever.

The utter paranoia and grandiose sense of self-importance is just stunning. abcnews.go.com/US/responds-...

If the PPE documentary doesn’t give people a huge clue about where our money has gone… Didn’t even include the Furlough Fraud which was quickly written off by Sunak. Plus the ongoing Brexit disaster which Labour should emphasise until everyone is clear about the huge losses.

What an impossibly ungracious man he is, really. It’s not news, of course, but he does somehow have the ability to be so uncouth, so impolite, that it really takes your breath away.

... which is the goal. As Gary Kasparov wisely said, 'The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.'

When you have an administration that so constantly, shamelessly, openly lies, pretty soon there’s no faith in any information streams coming from the administration, so there’s no way to convey true information in a way that lands right, which leads to more chaos.

Makes you think that perhaps DOGE didn’t really know what they were doing. Maybe the exercise was never really about government efficiency at all?

the switch from “I am online because my brain is broken” to “my brain is broken because I am online” explains a lot about the current state of the internet and society at large, none of it complimentary

"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details. You stamp it into a million pieces! You draw a f*cking line!" If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him?

This whole incident is revealing a real crisis of trust in the FBI, it's hard to imagine how the FBI restores any credibility in the Trump administration, but that's what happens when you turn the entire government and related institutions into forums for loyalty tests and persecution.

The current Secretary, like every other Trump appointee, is an idiot who doesn't even know he's an idiot. These people are like the braying fools you find in golf club bars in the UK - loud prejudice unencumbered by fact or thought. Except some other fools gave these idiots the keys to the kingdom.

New interpretation of Article 5 incoming

Absolutely not. Britain came up with the migrants-eating-beloved-animals meme ("Swan bake", The Sun, 2003). And which country pioneered irresponsible speculation about medicines and autism? America is a re-exporter.

Creepy history fact: Juan Peron's wives (his first and his second the famed Eva) both died of cervical cancer and some scientists think he was a carrier.

DJT: I am using the state to punish criticism and extort people WH: this business decision was driven by DJT: No I am using the state to punish criticism and extort people WH: Unitary executive theory implies that DJT: I SAID I AM USING THE STATE TO PUNISH CRITICISM AND EXTORT PEOPLE FOR MONEY

The fact that soi-disant libertarians had trouble deciding who to vote for in this election boggles the mind

As a child of the Reagan years, the fact that the *Republican Party* is expropriating shares in companies and shaking companies down while saying stuff like this is wild

I am not shy to say when I disagree with Sadiq Khan. But I also think it's important to say out loud when other politicians get it right. This is exactly what the leader of a diverse and vibrant city like London should say. Thank you Sadiq.

That the far-right work hard to move the Overton Window is nothing new. In his 1942 book "The World of Yesterday", Stefan Zweig described how the Nazis did it by feeding the world their far-right policies one dose at a time.

Tangentially-related point. There are plenty of viral infections that, if caught *during pregnancy*, are associated w an increase of c ⅓ in the likelihood of having a child w autism. If you catch such a virus, & feel shite, what might you take for pain relief? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This sort of stuff is extremely dangerous. People will die. Playing footsie with the lunatics running public health in America is extremely unwise.

If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life, as long as what you love to do is get up early and work and stay at work late and work on other people's problems and work on busywork and work on someone else's schedule and work to pay the bills and work to make it to retirement and wo

It might be better if people on here took this as a lesson about why how you frame arguments, particularly to people who aren't bathed in online debate, is really important rather than pointing and going 'Ha! People are dumb'.

Putting all this together, @lgilbert.co find the following. It's not that Farage is (just) exaggerating/overstating - he is simply lying about migrants, jobs, wages and benefits. Media should be very clear about this. www.laurenpolicy.com/p/are-recent...