I hope USians take this as a warning that they can't just wait and hope that the results of the midterms will fix their situation.

Might be a small thing, but why is "Charlie Kirk" spelled correctly on the cup? Wouldn't writing "Chartreuse Kink" be more in keeping with Starbucks policy?

It's good that these European nations have remembered that they have navies.

Remember when asked about trans rights during the campaign she replied that she would "follow the law"? Some tried to spin that into a full-throated defense of trans rights. Albeit most doing that were only using it to cudgel actual trans people with. Unsurprising — but depressing — development.

Brits glazing Starmer for his obsequiousness towards Trump is disheartening at best. It just reminds me that they are conditioned to be servile towards their "social betters."

The album version was great. The live version at the Roseland Ballroom was perfection. This is haunting. "I got nobody on my side // And surely that ain't right"

Fucking cry-bully.

Trump will never ban the Democratic Party because authoritarians know it is useful to have an almost comically weak foil to give the semblance of democracy.

Someone briefed Trump (or, more likely, his speechwriters) that the phrase "special relationship" is like catnip to the ears of the much of the British political class. In particular, Starmer will be on cloud nine for weeks because of this. (Even if his poll numbers sink even further.)

This makes absolutely no sense. You can't oppose political violence whilst carrying water for someone who had absolutely no qualms about selectively supporting it. Kirk reveled in the attack on Paul Pelosi. He helped make Jan 6 happen. He'd laugh on your grave if a bullet ripped through your neck.

One name is conspicuously missing from this list. I wonder which side nixed his involvement.

Surely it would have been more appropriate for Prince Andrew to greet Jeffrey Epstein's friend.

Consultant-class fuckery of the highest order.

Congrats to whoever was able to project these images of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his very close friend who had "certain things in common" on the walls of Windsor Castle!

Sorry, what pardon now?

I hope the Democratic opposition will stand firmly against this. I hope the news media will choose to value the truth over "politeness." I hope the populace will fight for their freedoms and their democracy. Scary times are coming. Faster than you think. And it's accelerating.

No non-USian should be traveling to the United States, exhibit n+1.

I still cannot believe @royalsociety.org hasn't expelled him yet. His personal contributions to knowledge are (at the very most) infinitesimal, and his goal vis-à-vis the UK appears to be to undermine every democratic institution within it. His continued membership is the blackest of stains!

In the midst of the Nigel Farage Race Riots of 2024 Elon Musk tweeted that "civil war is inevitable." His prediction not having come to pass, I think he now wants to be its catalyst. No rational person should continue to use any of his products.

Her "I got bullied off BlueSky" article is coming soon to The Atlantic.

Canadian CPC MP Andrew Scheer (former leader of the CPC and still a USian) has been the catalyst for making Rachel Gilmore one of the unhinged right's top targets for hate and abuse. All because she pondered whether they would use Kirk's murder as an opportunity to dump hate and abuse onto others.

Ezra Klein's rendition of the attack on Paul Pelosi omits Charlie Kirk "practicing politics to right way" in the aftermath: "If some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out."

The best way to "honor" Charlie Kirk's memory is to be honest that he was a hateful bigot against a plethora of minority groups and to recall that he supported and cheered political violence against his political opponents. The worst way is to whitewash his life, as Gavin and others, are doing.

Chucky K is going to be getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom now, isn't he? ugh

Apparently VP JD can only muster prayers for CK, no thoughts. Seems about right.

I'm sort of curious what the purpose of intentionally demeaning the integrity of the White House is. Is there something in the fascist handbook that explains this?

One transphobe trying to help out another.

Apparently, the only people who will have no say in the "post-war" plan for the Gaza are the people currently living in Gaza. It's almost as if they expect a whole new group of people to be residing the area.

Kevin O'Leary's "politics" in a nutshell

Before Trump's second inauguration, there were plentiful posts quoting the first of Timothy Snyder's 20 lessons on fascism: do not comply in advance. Being indifferent to Trump's weaponization of the DOJ against Bolton *is* complying in advance, as he seeks to normalize and widen this process.

Israel trying to take the famine in Gaza they intentionally caused out of the news in the only way they know how.

I would not be surprised at all to see this guy one day showing up at the White House with a golden gift for the Dear-Leader-In-Chief.

Just a billionaire looking for rationalizations for complimenting Trump.

»“Each day the clinic [a children’s malnutrition clinic in the Tahrir hospital for children and maternity at the Nasser medical complex in Khan Younis] is open, no fewer than 52 new cases are diagnosed,” he said.« ≥52 new cases of malnutrition - just in children - at just one hospital - every day.

A reminder that the UN definition of "genocide" includes the following among the acts which constitute the crime against humanity: "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"

Sounds more like AI is the pushee, not the pusher.

Pathological liar says what?

Please let this letter refer to Melania as "ho" at least once! 🤞

Terrence Tao, perhaps the most famous active mathematician, saw his federal funding cut. Here he makes a full-throated defence of basic research in response to the Trump regime's attempts to dismantle it.

Pete Hoekstra, the current US ambassador to Canada, is a weak, pathetic cry-bully. Much like the rest of Trump's administration.

And why shouldn't the same fate have befell everyone involved in Watergate and the Saturday Night Massacre?

Can't defenestrate the guy for bad data if he doesn't produce any data!

Just a reminder: Andrew Cuomo (son of Mario and grandson of Andrea) said this guy was "tired." 🤣

TIL Hamas has been blockading Israel and preventing food from getting to Israelis. Fuck Bono.

"Human rights lawyer" Keir Starmer has quashed political speech in the UK to such a degree that Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman must be jealous.

Harris *was* the lesser of two evils. She would have continued Biden's trajectory vis-a-vis Gaza. This was clear from how her campaign treated Pro-Palestinian activists and Muslims generally. It would be a slower genocide, which might have remained more palatable to the "developed" world.

"The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."

At the very least, there should be ZERO qualms about using the term "ethnic clensing" to describe Israel's goals, which, according to the report commissioned during the war in the former Yugoslavia in which the term was coined, is a crime against humanity.

BREAKING: Convicted sex offender says longtime friend and adjudicated sex offender who has the power to pardon her did nothing wrong.

This guy deserves to be voted out at the earliest possible opportunity. Otherwise, soon all democratic "representatives" will be "accessible" only via chat-bots.