Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...

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I remember at the time all the Clever Pundits with sinecures at ancient and august institutions were saying this stuff, people with cartoon avatars on here were pointing out that it was all obviously going to end up exactly as it has done now. That's very bad. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

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Shabana Mahmood here, and the vibes are not getting better.

Again, you will find out a lot about what these people find unacceptable by looking at the things they are absolutely fine with.

NEW | KEIR STARMER’S CHAMBERLAIN COSPLAY While the Prime Minister sticks with appeasement, even Britain's most unhinged newspapers are saying it's time to stand up to Trump. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/keir-starm...

The very stable geniuses of British politics should not be allowed to forget their sycophancy towards Trump.

WTF is Mandelson doing on WATO?

thank you Kier Starmer for sharing behind the scenes footage of your absolute blinders

He’s named after a vampire ffs

“Since you didn’t give me a peace prize I declare war on you” is the ultimate “you called me racist too many times, now I am racist”

Somehow people like this are still listened to.

Starmer either hasn't got a clue what is coming or he is happy for what is coming. In either situation he needs to resign.

An absolute mark. An unserious man unfit for this moment.

Starmer is such a worm it's actually incredible. Running to trump and throwing EU states under the bus in one graceful motion.

what happens when "it's important to work with the US so requires us to have a good relationship with the United States" and "Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark alone" are mutually exclusive, Keir

Not a serious person

#TheTenx5 Here's the same graph but for Month 2 (the top 25) only. By country: USA 16 UK 6 (oof) Belgium 1 (forgot him before) Barbados 1 NZ 1 Sweden 1 NKC 0/25 Poppy 1/25 Four duplicate artists in the top 25 (3 USA, 1 UK). Two of whom have three songs (both USA). One has 3 + 1 feature.

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This is utterly deranged.

Fucking wild that our society is so attuned to accepting bigotry now that a national newspaper like the Daily Express can somehow get away with publishing blatant libel with absolutely zero pushback or consequence.

guys we need to pump out more opinions to contextualise this

This, Piece of Me, Don't Stop The Music - one of the best #TheN0ughtie5 shows for a while... (if you ignore the Toploader turd)

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Riddle me this, Batman: was it difficult to predict Trump’s idiocy, cruelty and corruption would be so extreme that any attempt to suck his arse would eventually wind up being extremely embarrassing? I would say: no.

Keir Starmer did everything he could to be US poodle and his strategy has ended in total humiliation. Both him and Farage are puppets of a hostile foreign nation. It's obvious that if someone is a bully - you don't just keep appeasing them. Disastrous strategy by Labour.

Wake the fuck up, America. 😳👇

About the ICE agent who fatally shot a man on New Year’s Eve while off-duty: A court document "says the ICE agent allegedly whipped his sons with a belt, made homophobic slurs and racist remarks about Black and Latino people and brought a gun to a youth sports game."

At Victoria Hall Sheffield to hear @zackpolanski.bsky.social speak.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

I read the blurb, and the juxtaposition of 'Taylor', 'David', The Rolling Stones and an imminent anniversary suggests this one might be a chopping onions job.

FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"

Just seen this re: Hans Zimmer. If anyone's going to work for Rowling, I'm glad it's one of her fellow wretched horrors and not another formerly decent person to be disappointed with 🤷‍♂️

I just voted in this and gave lots of points to... well, I don't really need to say who, do I.

I don't care what anyone says, I'm picking it (and one of the advance lists has it too). #TheTenx5

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The eternal uselessness of the Official Charts website, in a nutshell.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

“I was fine with the transphobia, Nazism, electoral manipulation, AI revenge porn & CSAM - but I drew the line at having fewer followers there than here. That just wasn’t on. And I’ve decided to announce it here for some reason, like I’m rewarding you all for good behaviour.”

Murder. And not just the one who pulled the trigger.

Simón Bolívar fought to liberate huge parts of South America from the rule of a far away empire. Machado evokes his memory as she tries to justify her own vassalage to the United States. I can imagine how this goes down with people in Venezuela.

This but for centrists as well.

Maybe think of this next time, before you give the peace prize to a very obviously bent fash crank baying for America to invade her country, depose its government and put her in charge

If someone is willing to toss away her Nobel Peace Prize to get closer to her real goal of doing a mafia bust-out against her own country on behalf of international finance capital, I think that's revealing of how much they actually value 'peace' and the values these prizes actually exist to reward.

the European mission to Greenland was fourth in the BBC news running order this morning, which feels a bit like doing a light "and finally..." item about the archduke's motorcade taking a wrong turn in Sarajevo