Carrie Fisher roasting George Lucas. Quality work. youtu.be/lZ97s396kb0?...

TIL that Strangler On The Shore and Telstar both hit #1 in the US in the same year. Two instrumentals that couldn’t be further apart, stylistically. Mr. Acker Bilk’s classically informed cool jazz, and Joe Meek’s pioneering half-producer-half-musician, using the studio itself as an instrument.

This is an absolute masterpiece. youtu.be/dwaxWoJPUC0?...

Ah yes, the 2008 financial crisis. Which was caused by loosening the rules put in place after the Great Depression. And we need to lift them now because it’s getting really hard to find retail buyers of magic beans. #FuckCrypto

I want to go back to a time when Britain was great, there were no small boats, nobody was obsessing over trans people, there was no sense of impending doom as oiligarchs destroyed progress towards clean energy, and we hadn’t ceded control over everything to a handful of mad tech bros. Say, 2016.

If only there could have been some way to know in advance of the 2020 election that Trump is petty, narcissistic, a bully, unable to listen to good advice, and doubles down every time he is wrong about something. If only.

Journalists, please learn the difference between refute, reject and repudiate.

Just a grand jury in Aileen Cannon's Florida court, in a Federal prosecution of everyone who played any part in the intelligence community's conclusion that Putin interfered in 2016 against Hillary Clinton and on behalf of Trump. Totally normal. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This was in the charts when I was at school. It feels like half a century of progress has been wiped out in a single year by mad tyrants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH-_...

Yeah, I'm glad Afroman won. Lemon Pound Cake is terrible music, but world-class snark. Nobody could take /it/ seriously. Some other songs, though, are a lot nastier, and not cool. But it takes a true asshole to kick someone's door in and then complain about invasion of *your* privacy.

I'm beginning to wonder if giving the nuclear codes to a senile sociopathic narcissist was entirely wise.

Anyone else think Republicans would be demanding certified copies of marriage certificates in order to qualify to vote, if the tradition was matronymic instead of patronymic?

Yeah baby!

The idea that Republicans are fiscally conservative is a stunning propaganda victory for the right. They are not. Clinton took Reagan's deficit and turned it into a surplus. Dubya's deregulation of the banks caused the deficit to spiral. Obama paid it down. Republicans are all about the rich.

Nick Timothy behaves like someone who was bullied at school because of his name.

(Meghan) Kelly v. Disciplinary Counsel Patricia B. Swartz is approaching 800 docket entries and over 4,000 exhibits. Which is weird because it was dismissed in November 2021, at #16. Exhibits include Robin de Ruiter’s The Legacy of the 13 Satanic Bloodlines. Full text.

They want the 50s back. Only without a corporate culture that recognizes workers as partners in the enterprise. And without meaningful taxes on the rich. Oh, and without the recognition that Nazis are bad.

Still my favourite opening of any movie. Lamborghini Miura. Quincy Jones. We’re done here. youtu.be/kruC2s5xtcQ?...

Bloody hilarious! Trevor Noah on the British - a nation that colonised a big chunk of the world and never learned a single foreign language - complaining about immigrants. youtu.be/F6JzBLpMPwk?...

Trump is such a piece of shit that he can, purely by attacking him, make Keir Starmer more popular. If only there were some way to harness that power for the benefit of humanity.

I went to a superb talk yesterday with an, as it happens, US-based Iranian professor. His (pre current war) research includes a list of all the places in history where dropping bombs on people has led to democracy, peace & security. It is very short. You'd think we would've all learned that by now.

Louis Rossmann is doing the lord's work here. Fighting back against the abuse of AI in towns across the US. youtu.be/r7S8NXJ_Sa8?...

Turns out that reading propaganda from a teleprompter and looking good on TV are not, in fact, suitable qualifications to run the US Department of Defense.

Footle: *Stupids in Scouse* youtu.be/KBS6NC8EvFo

What you already knew, in a series of charts. The first year of the second Trump regime has seen a destruction of democracy and the rule of law that is unprecedented in US history. Other sources identify backsliding in rights to around 1960 levels. www.pbump.net/o/visualizin...

Not everything is shit. Here are some lovely people helping some other lovely people. youtube.com/watch?v=F4VD...

One of the better metaphors.

I hope they win bigly.

#LawSky: Does this now replace the umbrella as the standard explanatory image for circumstantial evidence?

Rebuttal closing in the Kouri Richens case. This, right here, is a master at work. "Let me put it to you a different way. Does everyone know what happened here?"

If you're going to be a dick to someone with a huge YouTube presence, please don't follow it up with legal threats over their exposure of you being a dick. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkNm...

Pretty sure you don’t.

Very wise not to litigate it. Because Team Trump lost every single one of its 60+ lawsuits last time it tried.

Trump definitely has no learning disabilities. It is pretty clear that learning is simply not a thing he does. He is, however, a senile bully.

Accurate observation is accurate.

He didn't resign because Trump lied. If Trump lying were a problem then he would have left on day 1. The clear implication is that he was pressured to back Trump's lie, and refused to do so.

Sure, why not, a bit of light extortion on the side, as you withhold congressionally appropriate funds to benefit your buddies. It's not like HIV has ever crossed the continents to the USA, after all.

The US usually sees around 50 cases of Hib meningitis per year, of which 5% are fatal. In 6 months, two children have been seen in just one hospital in Florida, one of whom died, the other suffered life-altering effects. Ladapo wants to remove the Hib vaccine mandate. www.wusf.org/health-news-...

Evergreen question.

It's almost as if root and branch reform of government spending is actually quite difficult, and can't be done by a clueless teenager.

97% of Britons work jobs which force them to pay all the tax they should. 3% of Britons who get 50% of the money can choose to dodge almost all the tax if they want. That 3% of tax dodging wankers is who Reform work for.

In case you needed to know just how complete is the fossil fuel lobby's regulatory capture of the US. They will pay a billion dollars to hold back transition to clean energy at a time when petrostates are driving hot wars in Iran and Ukraine.

They realize that their naked voter suppression is too obviously corrupt to keep senators onside, so they decide to appeal to their worse nature to get it passed.

Oh no! Anyway... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The far-white are so completely captured by billionaire oligarchs that they cannot imagine any alternative. George Soros is the only left-leaning billionaire they can think of. The obvious antisemitism is just icing on the cake.

Less than four years separate the birth dates of four of the five living US presidents. Clinton, Dubya and TFG were born within two months of each other. Obama is 15 years younger. Trump is the oldest president in US history.

This is the right sidebar in YouTube. The things it thinks I would like to watch. See the problem? Four of the five, I have already watched. The other I have already said “not interested” (sorry, Jim).

Useful. Filed for future reference.

Every voter roll purge system has overwhelmingly disenfranchised eligible voters. Because the statistics show, convincingly and repeatedly, that fraudulent registration is negligible. By a really weird coincidence, those disenfranchised are overwhelmingly Democratic supporters. Go figure.

Oh look, Lyin' Leavitt has been having gender-affirming care again. Freshly plumped and botoxed, ready for Faux News.