The Democratic Party's approval rating is in the toilet, and the main reason is voters see Dem leaders and prominent members acting like things are basically okay instead of fighting like there's an emergency. Slot "my friend Lindsey Graham, so funny, how great to work with him" comments into that.

i don't think it's good to be friendly with fascists. i think it speaks poorly of the character of every dem senator trotting out this trite bullshit. graham defended the ICE agent who murdered your fellow citizen on camera. graham was subhuman garbage, and the world is better off with him dead.

Despite a paper trail proving otherwise, Unbound’s administrators claimed they still owned the rights to Effin’ Birds and threatened to sue Penguin Random House if PRH paid me any royalties for my ongoing book sales. Wasn’t resolved until two months ago. They tried to bankrupt me out of spite.

I would probably have stayed up to watch the end of the match last night, and maybe paid more attention to the World Cup in general, had I known beforehand that England's head coach was Werner Herzog.

Not the use of the word "detained" here to make it appear as though the settlers have some legal capacity to be doing this. If i ran up on a US Rep with a rifle and prevented them from leaving it would be, correctly, described as kidnapping; and doing so with political ends would be terrorism.

You spend your whole life hating on minorities on the instructions of your God, then you're done in by your image of what He looks like.

I'm a serious journalist off to do some fully representative vox pops on whether feminism has gone too far. Going to start at a Magic: The Gathering tournament, hit up a UFC cage fight, then its off to the replies to an Elon Musk tweet about how the girl in Stellar Blade "totally looks over age".

I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.

Kind of odd that US commenters are all like "You've got a perennial candidate who puts a bin on his head, hahaha" and not focusing on "You resign as an MP by applying to become the steward and bailiff of the Manor of Northstead? Are...are you Ok? Were you dropped on your head as a baby country?"

Our media will of course learn no lessons from this, but the initial ICE narrative about the two murders it committed here in Minneapolis was 100% false, slanderously depicting the victims as aggressors attempting to kill federal agents. Literally zero reason to believe ICE here. Zilch. None.

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Oh, I see. It's a stunt. "If rather less than half the people in Clacton vote for me again, then I never have to answer questions about my bribes or fraudster buddies, because reasons."

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

Nothing that's come out so far has really dented Farage. If he's going, it's either because he's had it easy for so long that he's found himself wholly unprepared for the level of scrutiny any other political leader would have had years ago, or there's something really, really big about to break.

To put it in terms we can all understand, it's like if Belgium deployed a series of googlies and chinamen that confounded the US top order who's attempts at hooks and late cuts to cover point became a parade of agricultural shots edging sitters to the slips and silly mid-off.

If this was cricket, it would result in several minutes of amiable speculation as to who the person might be and why the camera was pointed at them, before they got distracted by some cake or a particularly interesting pigeon.

dear keanu reeves three weeks ago i sent you a list of people that annoy me today i saw one of them in iceland are you going to kill them or not

Werner Herzog's Commando

Good old Nige. Nice bloke down the pub Nige. Friendly, likes a laugh and a pint Nige. Open, honest, man of the people Nige. Eh? Eh? (His aggression & fragility when faced with the slightest of scrutiny just highlights how infrequently the press have bothered to do it for the last couple of decades)

6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."

Fascinating to see how many Americans who've tut-tutted over Trumpist corruption are now apparently in favour of it now it's working towards something they want (specifically, America winning the kick-the-ball game which exists as an ancillary feature to a global bribery factory)

If the England FA were cunning they would write to FIFA today asking whether Quansah can play in the next game or does the exception only apply to American players. And publish the letter.

Programme aired on 20 December 2025, but the initial legal letter was sent first to ITV, then inexplicably rerouted via Channel 4 before finally being dumped in the Costa outside BBC Broadcasting House.

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

Albarn's a twat and his band are shit.

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

it's not really important in the grand scheme of things, but finding out the 250th anniversary of the country was going to be a nation-wide party with infinite food and concerts in major venues and Trump canceled all of it so he could hire shady contractors and pocket the rest infuriates me so much.

It's a retrofitted Boeing 747, so the US did, in fact, build it

The way this is clearly freaking him out even though he's basically legally untouchable is very "the wicked flee when none pursueth"

It would appear that if you now look in the Urban Dictionary, 'former refugee' is shorthand for a very different word popular amongst the NF community in the 1970s. In much the same way 'Matt Goodwin' has replaced the word 'cunt'.

Matt Godwin is a failure who needs to leave my city the fuck alone. Failed candidate. Failed academic. Failed commentator. Failed intellectual. A massive ego wrapped around a shrivelled and scared intellect, poisoned by bile and subconcious awareness of his own inadequacy.

Labour can threaten a £10k charge on migrants and still it’s never enough for the hard right. Perhaps there’s a lesson here? 🤔

Everyone is rightly focused on his "low wage foreigners" comment but I'm infuriated by the "we're going to restore dignity to the working class by bringing back manufacturing." NO YOU WON'T. MASS HIGH WAGE FACTORY EMPLOYMENT FOR NON-COLLEGE EDUCATED WORKERS IS NOT COMING BACK. YOU KNOW THIS.

put another way, 'ofgem has decided to scale back the headline figures for average use so the govt can get away w not doing anything & their real bosses & retirement plans at the companies its meant to regulate dont see their profits cut or extra taxes on extraordinary profits levied'

'Just stop doing anything, proles' Also, those little things just don't add up to anything substantial. This is bollocks. This is just this year's 'You have no money because you had avocado toast once'

Rogan: marmalade…that’s like jelly? Paddington: marmalade typica- Rogan: that’s what fucks me up, people and dogs having different words for things Paddington: no sir I’m a bear Rogan: we had a Dr on that said bears evolved from dogs finding mushrooms, it’s one of those things that blows my mind

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

Just testing something. Might be taking a break from here in a bit.

It would be deeply wrong and irresponsible to call for the targeted assassination of supreme Court justices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . before January

Does my extensive study of precisely how the Treasury fucked over Britain's first, highly successful, space programme count?

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

If Shabana Mahmood was my colleague I would simply resign, after shitting in her desk

I think that the worst thing about the "refugee tax" is that the high accommodation costs are caused by the Home Office, and in particular their inability to make fast AND accurate decisions, leaving people rotting in those grim places. Refugees are effectively being fined for HO incompetence.

Humans should not be forced off pavements by delivery robots, but that's exactly what's happening. The people who pay the price are those with the least room to give it up.

JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights