More poor people than rich people were killed by the guillotine btw

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

I am told that internal Ukrainian army information shows that more than 26,000 Russian soldiers were killed or critically wounded in the month of November. Confirmed by videos. No wonder Putin wants to get Trump to give him territory for free

It’s in the Kremlin’s interest to keep the masquerade called “peace negotiations” going. The intent is to keep Ukraine’s supporters on the back foot while continuing the war on 🇺🇦. Trump is a witting asset waiting to pursue trillion dollar deals, Dimitriev has waved under his nose for months!

a lot of the urge to doom comes from the admin’s success at projecting confidence even when its delusional

Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.

Well do government intervention in the economy and seizing some means of production like socialists, but for right-wing nationalist and corrupt ends. A “social nationalism,” if you will. We can workshop the name later.

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

Ok this is a sign

Something something illegal orders

Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.

Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.

New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

maybe if people don't want Jewish people to consider emigrating to Israel, they should try not making Jewish people feel unsafe in the US by protesting outside their synagogues and if you're gonna protest at a religious institution, start with the churches exporting homophobia to the global south

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

it's quite telling that they have to hopscotch around the country doing pop-up Gestapo because they don't actually have the numbers to hit more than one place at the same time.

Watching right-wingers suddenly discover that Trump is a bad person is wild

The BBC is funded from mandatory license fees paid by the British public to watch and stream. I can’t even begin to imagine the reaction of people if their money was used to bribe Mangolini.

Ok, now I think the thing everyone is talking about is true.

When Mangolini trying to tie Bill Clinton to the release of the Epstein files has backfired spectacularly.

Nah, people are still gonna talk about Mangolini and what the Epstein files say he did. And also, I think this will shore up support for the BBC. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Make the son of a bitch deny it.

Someone had to pay the tariffs, and it wasn’t Brazil.

For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.

Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.

something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.

What you have to understand is that during the preparation, interviewing, writing and editing of this story: everyone involved knew that Epstein was a sex pest. No way the extent or enough to credibly report on it, but they wrote about him as a Bon Vivant anyways. They all knew and always did

BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) just signed the discharge petition to force a vote on making the DOJ release all of its Jeffrey Epstein files. She was the 218th signature, which means the petition is now frozen and no member can remove their name.

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

The fact that Trump and his lackeys are using the Situation Room to figure out how not to release the Epstein files should be THE headline in tomorrow's NYT.

Here’s what is interesting about this answer: It is not a “no.” bsky.app/profile/just...

“In one of the messages, Mr. Epstein flatly asserted that Mr. Trump “knew about the girls,” many of whom were later found by investigators to have been underage.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

i advise everyone to consider that it is possible to be wrong about things i increasingly get the impression that a substantial amount of posters here sincerely do not ever expect to possibly be wrong

I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly. A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here. U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.

There are two reasons people do this: 1. Hating Dems is "cool" and "hip" and the way to show that you're totally savvy and part of the in-group; and 2. It's just kind of assumed that the torches and pitchforks are already out for Republicans, so why actually bother to take them out? Both are dumb

“Democrats inarguably got at least one very important win: They have placed a glaring spotlight on Republicans’ refusal to renew the Obamacare healthcare subsidies, hanging the blame for spiking healthcare costs around their necks as the midterms draw near.” www.thebulwark.com/p/dems-rewar...

"The problem isn’t that we have a deliberately biased BBC, it’s that we have a BBC that has been consciously reduced in its scope and bullied into dumbing down and retreating." @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter today

So make no mistake, this is a coordinated assault on one of the cornerstones of British civic life from people who want to weaken our democracy. Sadly, the BBC is so cowed it will actively abet them in its own destruction.

The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks. No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

I wrote about how American politicians love to blame foreigners and external actors for domestic problems, and how this often prevents us from understanding the real causes of those problems and solving them. Gift link:

Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen. Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.

Among Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, it was Hungary that exited Moscow's grip in 1990 with the highest GDP per capita. The Russian-backed Orban regime has since looted the country to the point that it's now the lowest.

How long can the GOP keep from swearing in Adelita Grijalva?

huh. this could be interesting.

The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something? Wrote this on it earlier this week: inews.co.uk/news/world/b...