you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked

Something that Trump’s hapless crew seem completely unable to understand.

I truly need "AI Won't Stand in Authentic Wonder" swag sold in the Vatican gift shop. Also, I will need it on a tote and shirt.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who is increasingly likely to be regarded as an unworldly weirdo for objecting to casual use of AI

Every single person in Britain: "the chippy" or, if we're being fancy, "the chip shop" The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"

Bolsonaro behind bars is a reminder: democracies survive when they stop letting criminals play government.

Before Witkoff meets with Putin again, I wish he'd stop in Kyiv and meet some mothers who lost their sons & daughters fighting against Putin's invading army on the frontline, or talk with some kids who lost their grandmas in Putin's drone attacks, or meet some warriors without limbs...

On tonight’s episode: Pam Bondi lunges at Lindsey Halligan: "You ruined my James Comey revenge!" Halligan yells, “You were the idiot who let the statute of limitations run!” A drunk Jeanine Pirro pushes them apart. Pam snarls at Pirro: “I’m not through with you, Miss Can’t Get a Fucken Indictment!”

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Juries are not perfect. Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials. But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having. They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.

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If this is true, every halfway decent foreign intelligence service on the planet already has the receipts ….

SEN. KELLY : “They informed me of this in a tweet because this is not about the law. This is about the media cycle, and intimidation… We basically repeated the uniform code of military justice, and they're saying that's in violation of it. It's absurd. Comical.”

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HOW? That doesn’t even make sense chronologically! Kenneth Clark was born in 1903 and old enough to be Ken Clarke’s father (and in fact one of his children was a Tory MP, and senior to Ken Clarke by twelve years).

Here's the transcript. When I say ‘we had a convicted reality star’, you can add ‘who now rules as the most openly corrupt president in American history’ in your head. downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...

Yes, but it is also a fact now that there is a pattern to it. As the saying goes, fool me once, shame on you, fool my twice, shame on me. The Europeans should no longer dellude themselves that a Trump/Vance US can be a reliable ally.

Someone really needs to explain the Striesand Effect to the BBC. And also tell them to stop being so pathetic.

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch. We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'. It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game

Kahanism in a wig and coral necklace.

Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.

Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.

Rereading this over my morning coffee.

What would you put in your emergency bag in case you had to flee, known in Ukrainian as a tryvozhna valizka? @okhromeychuk.bsky.social writes movingly of preparing for war.

Just the good, friendly, morale-boosting kind of racism.

Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”. He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics

dude said I've been in war, I've been in SPACE, and I'm supposed to be afraid of yeeeewww???

We are not yet a year into Trump’s second term and already DOGE has been mothballed, MTG has bailed from Congress, the administration tried and failed to present a Russian plan to end the war, and the ‘Secretary of War’ is trying to court-martial a US Senator. Time for a reminder of this I think…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.

I think I love them all.

One possible conclusion from the way US support for Israel has far outweighed US support for Ukraine in its unconditionality is that a country looking for US support should maximise human rights violations rather than minimise them.

US and Ukraine didn’t make any progress, come on. US told Ukraine to bow down to Putin in various ways, Ukraine went point by point explaining why they won’t do that, and the US president berated them more. The whole thing remains a farce, since the US keeps pretending Russia isn’t the problem.

This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’. It’s Russian.

🇺🇦 Zelensky: The crux of the entire diplomatic situation is that it was Russia, and only Russia, that started this war, and it is Russia, and only Russia, that has been refusing to end it throughout the full-scale invasion.

Another older watercolour drawing showing St Edward's Passage in Cambridge next to the Arts Theatre and David's Bookshop when it had a shop on that side of the church (now it only has one on the other side) #watercolour #fineart #cambridge

Let’s talk about “Move fast and break things.” First of all, Facebook itself changed its motto to “Move fast with stable infrastructure” in 2014. So much for breaking things, at least if you’re a soulless corporate behemoth. 1/12

‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States. Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.

It is good to see that that some people a) actually have values/principles and b) do not abandon those when entering Parliament

“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?” “Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?” You can have those for nothing, lads.

The Economist on the British government's proposal that the country with the comparatively best record on integration in one generation could emulate Denmark, which struggles in integration, and where the tough line on asylum presents further barriers

Real questions in the puberty blocker study: How happy are you with your nose? Would like like to change it by surgery? How happy are you with your shoulders? Would like to change them by surgery? How happy are you with your hips? Would like to change them by surgery? Continued...

The thing is that it's also ahistorical. Unless something has gone really really wrong, birthing people have always been accompanied by someone who understood how birth happens. Because death. Death is a thing.

Good. Universities take note please. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of the worst atrocities and one of the least discussed.

Trump v the BBC cont'd: an odd and desperate letter from the US media regulator Or: why you should have your evidence in place before you threaten a law suit A new post by me: emptycity.substack.com/p/trump-v-th...