Sir Keith’s travails have finally made the American news. @richmountbasket.bsky.social youtu.be/5IVsnQVKXMg

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis for Natural Born Killers (1994)

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

George A. Romero directing and filming Night of the Living Dead (1968)

This kind man stopped his car to rescue a wild coyote that had been stuck in a fence for several days. 🙏🙏

Rescued from the South American torture prison.

@amutepiggy.bsky.social @brooklynmarie.bsky.social @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network

Was hoping for more of a meltdown but this will have to do.

Ukrainian MP putting our aid dollars to work. Does this count as humanitarian assistance?

Saying Wes Streeting is a rival for Starmer is like saying Jeffrey Dahmer is a rival to Gordon Ramsay.

Fugitive financier! How big a bribe is he offering? “Since he has been on the run, Low has never stood trial or served a sentence.”

Fugitive financier! How big a bribe is he offering? “Since he has been on the run, Low has never stood trial or served a sentence.”

“[Disobedience] is not primarily an attitude directed *against* something, but *for* something: for man’s capacity to see, to say what he sees, and to refuse to say what he does not see.” - Erich Fromm

It's been 16 months since I left X, and I feel so much better for it. I hadn't realised just how big an impact the daily tsunami of hate, trolling, sealioning and strategic incomprehension was having on my state of mind. I cannot understand why anyone who values their mental health is still there.

The JP Morgan analyst did it! He did the joke!

🗳️POLL | Reform surges to 11pt lead ➡️ Ref: 28% (+3) 🔵 Con: 17% (-) 🟢 Grn: 16% (+1) 🔴 Lab: 16% (-2) 🟠 Lib: 13% (-1) { Seats } ➡️ Ref: 333 🟠 Lib: 85 🟢 Grn: 73 🔵 Con: 53 🟡 SNP: 46 🔴 Lab: 20 🟩 Plaid: 11 Poll: @YouGov, 10-11 May (+/- vs 5 May) x.com/LeftieStats/...

Miatta Fahnbulleh - the minister for devolution, faith and communities - has resigned from govt this morning, calling on the PM to set a timetable for an orderly transition of leadership. Our ministerial resignation tracker has the latest info... docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Uhhh as a matter of fact the policy in the fourth paragraph sounds insane, unworkable, and has all the hallmarks of moral panic slopulism. Starmer looking dimly on it actually makes me like Starmer better.

There's only one man for the job.

If you’d like to sob along with the billionaire who owns a $238 million second home on Billionaires row in Manhattan removepaywalls.com/https://www....

Breaking: Jess Phillips resigns as safeguarding minister just ahead of the 1pm news bulletins

Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

one reason is liberals’ focus on their imagination of the white poor rather than the new york-based media professionals who relentlessly promote transphobia or the billionaire owners of phobic media. the woman profiled in the article this replies to lives in Seattle!

It's been obvious to everyone for a long time that Starmer has to go. By dragging it out and refusing to go gracefully he's just making it worse for himself. Resigning straight after the disastrous election would've looked honourable and statesmanlike. He continues to demonstrate his incompetence.

Howard Schultz: I don’t live in Washington state anymore but that won’t stop me from lecturing you ignorant plebs on how you fail to bow down and kiss the backsides of rich people like me.

San Francisco

Rod Stewart to King Charles on his visit with Trump: “Hello, sir. May I say well done in the Americas. You were superb. Absolutely superb. You put that little rat bag in his place.”

Great Newsnight. Alibhe Rea did well. @anooshc.bsky.social

“We can’t pretend that Keir Starmer was popular or an asset on the doorstep. I mean, we can’t pretend, right? Because if we do so, we can’t address the issue, the importance of change, the importance of a North Star, the importance of sunny uplands, the importance of a vision.”

I wrote about some creepy far-right AI propaganda which is ... surprisingly catchy. open.substack.com/pub/keppler/...

New! @tommctague.bsky.social, @pronouncedalva.bsky.social, Ethan Croft and I chat on the latest @newstatesman1913.bsky.social pod about the mayhem within Labour since the local election results:

It's not "Labour" that makes it difficult. It was Starmer who doubled the leadership nomination threshold from 10% to 20% to protect himself from challenges.

New PR work from Putin: he personally drove to a Moscow hotel to pick up his former first-grade teacher, Vera Gurevich, in his limo and took her to dinner at his residence. She had traveled to the city for the Victory Day parade. t.me/dimsmirnov17...

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

For those outside the Seattle area, the current area drama is that wealthy residents of a mansion neighborhood are complaining to the city that helicopters that carry children to the Children's Hospital are too noisy. I cannot say my thoughts publicly :)

You know what fixes the potholes? Gas taxes.

Cartoon by @jesseduquette.bsky.social

Leadership contest in @greenparty.org.uk as Boat-sleep-tax-gate scandal erupts. He can’t survive this. Everyone knows about the boat sleeping tax.

James Ball on Kara Swisher

Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.

The legendary Tropicana Motel was owned by Sandy Koufax in the 60's. #TheMoreYouKnow

Oz to Rollins: "Get the smelling salts"

Oho. Ukraine's anti-corruption prosecutors have formally charged Andriy Yermak — Zelensky's ex-chief of staff — with laundering nearly half a billion hryvnias (about $10.5 million) linked to elite real estate development near Kyiv. t.me/stranaua/235...