open.substack.com/pub/christin... Super flu season? Maybe not!

You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned. archive.ph/Tmthz

Consumer Reports ranks Teslas as the least reliable used cars. "The best of the worst [ten] was Chevrolet at a score of 40. But Tesla makes that failing grade seem respectable with its absolute rock bottom rating of 31, trailing Jeep by just one point.” futurism.com/advanced-tra...

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Really good thread, highly recommended. Many thanks to @kameronhurley.com for sharing.

This is actually spot on. There’s no point putting more money and junior staff into the NHS if it‘s terminally short on physical capacity (no beds), senior staff, and management. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/how-...

Over on Whatever, I'm doing a series on movies I consider "Comfort Watches" - not the greatest movies of all time, necessarily, but some of the most rewatchable. I'm starting the series with easily the most rewatchable movie of 2025: K-Pop Demon Hunters! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/01/t...

Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...

This is absolutely terrifying, honestly.

Btw guys the transcript of the Witkoff phone call really is much worse than you think and I do think you should share it with literally everyone you know

Question to Americans about Thanksgiving - isn’t it when it is (November) because it’s celebrating the end of the Civil War? If so, isn’t it better to associate it with that than with the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag (which probably happened in October)? Less colonial, more unifying?

Spot on.

🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 55,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Wake Up Dead Man is excellent and a very well executed homage to Agatha Christie village mysteries in particular. No notes.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...

And MAGA is still convinced that Twitter proves that their shitty movement is widely supported in the US 🙄

The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde

And now a word from AOC.

The thing about Trump saying it’s fine for Mamdani to call him a fascist is that he genuinely thinks all of this is kayfabe, just as he could insult Rubio or Cruz but still work with them. It’s not possible for him to imagine other people being sincere about anything.

you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong

We should probably be talking more about this - 270k people left the UK last year seeking a better life elsewhere. It’s probably not the taxes but more the quality of life and general sense of decline.

The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law. This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.

This is shocking. Up to 50,000 nurses could quit the UK over the government’s immigration proposals, plunging the NHS into its biggest ever workforce crisis, research suggests www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)

Give this a look if you agree. Does need a U.K. postcode, sadly. goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...

Strange that there is a Ukraine scheme which gives those who need it safe passage, a National Insurance number, access to Universal Credit, and the option to work. But those fleeing Congo, Yemen, Sudan, Gaza, Myanmar under the same war conditions? Nope. Wrong skin colour? You have to wonder.

Inspired by @originstorypodcast.bsky.social to share some quotes from the greatest Labour PM of all time, Clement Attlee: “The evils that capitalism brings… the cause is the private ownership of the means of life. The remedy is public ownership.”

Matt Walsh will have a coronary after seeing this. www.them.us/story/pope-l...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

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I've been dog piled just for pointing out that: 1) Most people who commit CSA AREN'T pedophiles. 2) Not all pedophiles commit CSA. 3) The best way to prevent pedophiles from offending is intense THERAPY, not calling for violence against them.

More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.

Why is McSweeney still there. What greater proof would you need that he is incapable of doing the job. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

From an article in today's Financial Times. Such an obvious statement of fact. It's hard to understand why direct public investment in social rent housing - so successful for decades - is now unthinkable.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

I can't believe I have to post this, but in these uncertain times, it's better to be prepared.

To Understand Hegseth, Vance, and the MAGA bros culture you have meet the “TheoBros.”

1. Obviously, she is hot 2. Also, yes, her audience is not primarily straight men 3. Consider that driving this type of discourse is a smart move if you want to be very much discussed 4. One of the unfortunate effects of the patriarchy is that “who a man is attracted to” is a status marker for men

Parks and Rec isn't a hill to die on, but one thing it gets right is this whole government thing rests on the shoulders of people you will never know, caring a lot about jobs you've never heard of, fighting challenges thrown at them from every angle just to make life a little better for everyone.

Honestly, one of the great American poems. Arguably the great American poem.

Watching A Writer’s Odyssey on Tubi and it’s pretty good but weirdly feels as if it has more lavish cinematography and CGI than is appropriate for the story (a low-key fantasy novel)? Like the team just really wanted to show off what they could do. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Write...

Online censorship is one of the many levers of state power right-wingers have been pulling to try and snuff out queer and trans existence. But instead of fighting back, some Democrats are helping them at the controls. Read the full #OpEd from @fightforthefuture.org

I know a lot of people are already spreading this info, but hoping to spread it a little further: donating to a food bank, food pantry, or food distribution mutual aid group is really important right now, as TFG and the fucking GOP are shutting down snap benefits on November 1. I'll link to a few