Read a couple of Vim Diesel interviews. Dude thinks he's Fellini.

"The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies and democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency."

This "Contains adult themes". I don't think they mean mortgages and bad backs.

Looks to me like one citizen heroically intervened and saved a load of other citizens from getting shot - at very great risk to himself. He stopped someone who had opened fire near a children's playground full of people, a terrorist act regardless of target or cause.

Chancellor Merz is right: Europe can no longer depend on America. But he's wrong to say that America is pursuing its own interests. Trump is pursuing his deranged and corrupt interests, not ours.

🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Not sure I see the libtards recovering from this one tbh

I once calculated my total format replacement costs for Aliens all the way from VHS to streaming. I'm too embarrassed to put it here. (the upscaled 4K print is bloody great tho)

Venezuela has been a corrupt, exploitative petro-state almost since they struck oil. Democracies, dictatorships, liberal and conservative governments have all paid the piper. Sending the most openly corrupt US administration in history to invade and straighten the place out isn't even grimly funny.

All these controversies come down to one point: the executive branch believes it alone and beyond legal review, makes or has final say on all federal activity. That’s a theory of the Constitution. It’s not one I like, but it’s a theory nonetheless. Isn’t this the real dividing line in US politics?

Antifa isn’t an ideology. It’s not a slogan. It’s barely even a word. It’s the absolute minimum. The starting point. I assume every person I ever meet is against fascism without even thinking about it. Because: why wouldn’t they be?

Even reduced to 120 odd MPs I still find it astonishing that Kemi Badenoch could look across the Tory benches and tell herself that the person she wants to cover the huge and super sensitive Home Affairs portfolio is Chris Philps.

Fact-check: true

Actually, money alone WILL fix the NHS. Specifically, money to recruit/retain a full workforce and money to build/maintain buildings and equipment. Expecting productivity gains without enough workers and/or adequate capital investment is idiotic.

America is currently doubling down on internal combustion engine vehicle production - a move that will probably cost that country its auto-manufacturing base in the longer run. So, of course, the most imaginative thing the Tories can do is try to ape this blunder. Absolutely clueless.

True fact: Die Hard was Alan Hickman's first movie. Of any kind. Imagine that. Hi, I'm Alan Rickman. I've never done a movie before - boom! Here's one of the best movie villains of the 1980s. What a calling card. What a way to announce one's entry into motion pictures. Absolute legend.

Another Russian myth military exposed. The 76th Guards Air Assault Division is - or was - Russia's Screaming Eagles. I don't know how any military that allows nearly 1,000 elite soldiers to be killed by drones in a single, failed assault can enjoy any confidence among its troops.

Mike Johnson is proof God wants us to punch people.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social needs to start selling these

I'm watching Bernard Hill's all-too-brief appearance in "Valkyrie". I'm pretty sure his screen direction was "Théoden of Rohan with a German accent".

Just think: somewhere in the normal world multiverse the disclosure that the White House Press Secretary told lies about an estranged family member facing deportation would have dominated the news all week, would bring down Karoline Leavitt and would be seen as a gross abuse of office.

Steve Bannon ripped off his own followers with his ‘build the wall’ scam. Trump pardons him. Then photos come out showing him hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein AFTER he was charged with child trafficking, and yet he somehow has an audience because really MAGA stands for nothing.

Oh, and of course those liberal elites have to keep on successfully making the persuasive case to citizens anyway - to stay in power and control immigration. 🤷

When you think about it, the Great Replacement Theory is premised on a group of liberal elites consciously deciding that making a persuasive case to citizens is too hard and it is in fact be much easier to spend decades recruiting tens of millions of foreigners to come here. Absolutely insane.

"I mean, they tried. Nothing there."

The worst thing is that historians of the year 3025 will rightly look upon this as weird but will assume It wasn't weird to TV viewers of the time. They'll think we approve, or find normal, this very odd and very needy man.

A+ trolling from Zelenskyy

There are so many manifestly unfit and improper members of this administration that one hesitates to suggest that the very last thing peace talks need now is Kash Patel and Dan Bongino But the very last thing peace talks need now is Kash Patel and Dan Bongino.

Maybe she can use the federal "pardon" as additional toilet paper. In her state prison.

Earnest Borgnine spent more time in my parents' living room in the 1970s than some other members of my immediate family.

900+ agents paid $000s on top of their basic to run up 14k overtime hours combing through the Epstein files. It's a good thing it's the FBI or you'd begin to suspect some sort of, oh I don't know, criminal cover-up, heh?

I'm glad the Epstein files are coming out next week because then everyone will know exactly what is in the Epstein files and nobody will argue about whether they are real or complete or what they mean because we will all be able to see for ourselves. Aren't you?

OUT ON A LEDGE?

The repression of Palestine solidarity activism, violent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids on immigrant communities, and censorship of the press in the US mean the country's civic freedom ranking has been downgraded to "obstructed" status, the Johannesburg-based Civicus Monitor said.

"The administration genuinely seems to believe it can pull back from the world stage yet somehow still tell the rest of the world what to do. And it has a very firm idea of what it wants Europe to do, which is 'be as racist and xenophobic as Donald Trump.'" — @snipy.bsky.social

In just about every way possible, the fine manual dexterity of a robot that can create a packed lunch from scratch is a genuine modern marvel. And yet...I dare you to watch the footage and *not* experience a powerful urge to just snatch the bread off the f@%#ing thing and do it yourself.

Dunno what they think Lindsey Halligan's job is but it ain't a US Attorney.

It's amazing how many line graphs of this Golden Age look like these.

I say again that the right-wing media, Tory leadership and Farage would all be queueing up to have embolisms live on air if this was coming from the EU and not Trumpistan.

Someone on the radio is telling an anecdote of an American woman who decided not to visit London because she'd heard she would have to wear a Burkha. Honestly, I recommend anyone as credulous as this story implies not to travel abroad at all. Or, indeed, beyond the care of a responsible adult.

I give it six months tops before one of Trump, Hassett, Lutnick or Bessent appear on Fox and try to claim - in earnest - that they are withholding the stats because they are, in fact, *too* positive for public consumption. And the interviewer will just accept it.

There were 19,800 murders in the US last year. In the UK, it was 640. The US homicide rate is 5.9 per 100k The UK homicide rate is 0.95 per 100k Commissioner Rowley is absolutely correct: there isn’t a city in America (or many in Europe) that wouldn’t happily swap their crime rate for London’s.

I have volunteered to cook Xmas dinner this year. Despite the fact that I can burn water, members of my immediate family have accepted. The fools. Google Gemini will by my sous chef on this adventure, so if this is one of my last posts here, that's why.

The tragic irony of disease being spread as a result of mass delusion among congregants of the "Way of Truth" church...

No beta cuck soy boy carpenters, neither.

OTD in 1994 the First Chechen War began. After incompetent initial assault that failed, Russian army turned to barbarism & crimes against humanity. It stopped when we signed a peace deal we would later violate. None of this should sound familiar to you

From “I cannot tell a lie” to “I cannot tell the truth” in 250 easy years.

It's the federal government as Monty Python's Black Knight.

Even Google didn't know what Google was for several years. So you'd probably need some sort of review mechanism.

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.