Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”. So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong

You can't cost assess your way out of fascism.

Making trans people into a “third” category is a human rights violation. Just so we’re clear. If your “compromise” position is a human rights violation, you’re a monster. If it’s also unworkable and impossible to implement safely then you’re also an incompetent minister.

Newborn Loses Faith In Humanity After Record 6 Days https://theonion.com/newborn-loses-faith-in-humanity-after-record-6-days-1819573929/

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

I worked as a lobbyist for Google and opposed schemes that promoted surveillance. I left 5 years ago, because once the company began pursuing defense contracts, it became clear that resistance to surveillance was no longer welcome.

I spent half of my life living under mandatory ID laws in several countries, and I can tell you from experience, you won’t like it. These laws are designed to give police arbitrary power to stop, question and search anyone they choose.

Yeah, it's not even 'the right'. What we're seeing is the class strength of white middle aged maleness: so that if even a large majority of them get angry it suddenly becomes the default. Because they are the ruling caste.

I don’t know what to say to autistic people across the pond that isn’t completely useless, except we will keep shouting & fighting

all this, for no fucking reason except a game show host is mad!

Speaking as an astrophysicist, I would not take scientific advice from a guy who stared directly at a Solar eclipse. YMMV.

“Sanders acknowledges Israel’s “right to defend itself”, which it actually does not have in this case. Under international law, a state cannot simultaneously exercise control over a territory and then attack it on the claim that it is “foreign” and poses a national security threat.”

At the risk of repeating myself: there’s no bargaining with these people. What they’re calling for now is mass expulsions of long-term residents deemed insufficiently economically productive. There’s no way these demands won’t get even more extreme by election time.

Anyone voting for this racist shit who’s confused or in denial about what it amounts to needs firmly setting straight. Everyone else, including the Labour Party: this is the “Which side are you on?” time which perhaps you hoped would never come

God, we love a “Couldn’t make that now” article. They’re so moreish.

Ironically, I remember him saying in an interview years ago, that he couldn't write Father Ted now because everyone involved, including the audience, now knows too much of the horrors that went on behind closed doors in Catholic institutions.

You might think the bizarre spectacle of this very clearly unwell man behaving like a deeply weird obsessive oddball, babbling about “sissy porn” on the witness stand, might have made him untouchable for media culture war bullshit purposes. You would be wrong.

1) Some of my speech got negative social reactions, which felt bad 2) That’s equivalent to state repression 3) Big name elite didn’t validate my feelings (ok, they did, but not enough) 4) This entitles—nay, requires—us to overthrow democracy and do state repression for real That really is the logic

Strange, the bully is kicking my ass even though I've been telling everyone how much I respect him. Maybe he hasn't heard

republicans even mock and denigrate liberals as a *type of person*, whereas dems try to suck up to conservative voters, which sends the implicit signal that it’s fine to be one of them. “R =weird loser identity” would be a smarter message to send if you could do it right.

Trump's people focused their efforts not on reaching out empathetically to Biden voters. They tried to make Biden voters feel like fools and chumps by humiliating and insulting Biden and it worked.

Did Trump win in November because he showed grace and empathy to people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020? Politics is not an Afterschool Special. You put out a strong message about what's wrong, propose a compelling policy agenda, hope the economy cooperates and that's it. None of this mush.

I mean, this was in fact how Tolkien and his wife conducted their romance.

I know you know this, but. It's to mock us. It's a dominance play. It's about rubbing it in our face that they are Nazis, daring us to accurately call them Nazis, then getting us fired & on lists for telling that truth. They can do whatever they want. We do what they say. That's the lesson.

“So if anyone out there has given their life to Jesus and is planning to abandon their earthly possessions come Tuesday, please consider this your sign to let me know about that air fryer situation.” — @elizaorlins.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/objectio...

This may be a first: A eulogy that includes comments about tariffs, the causes of autism and Jimmy Kimmel (who I believe is not dead).

also an excellent further way to police and blame pregnant women!

Even as Trump tries to destroy the NYT, their writers are still trying to help him with their "analysis"

OH, so Charlie Kirk was the surrogate son for a bunch of elderly conservative weirdos whose adult children have gone no-contact for whatever reason. This explains everything

i see elon took care of that nasty bot problem on the hellsite

And of course, despite Trump’s repugnant & mindlessly inappropriate speech, the audience cheers and Charlie Kirk’s widow embraces him like a god on stage. This is peak cult. Trump can insult and upstage a murdered man and his wife at the man’s own memorial, and still be hailed as a divine saviour.

it should be illegal to allow pundits to access social media for the same reason it is illegal to sell cigarettes to children

signal-noise-ratio can fall even as signal increases if noise increases at a faster rate and your ability to filter noise does not improve

It’s so insulting to be lectured in compassion by anyone, much less political figures who didn’t grow up in the middle of Asshole, USA. Hatred is their guiding principle. The language they understand and will respond to is retribution. Grant them grace and they will continue down this road.

Listen man. My whole extended family is MAGA. My hometown is 75-25 Trump. Everyone I grew up with lives in an epistemic hate bubble. But even before Fox & Facebook cooked their brains, they were vicious gutter bigots. There is no reconciling with these awful people. They want you dead. Fuck them!

Everything about this headline is hilarious. And the YouTube views are a reflection of how wildly the right has overblown the number of people paying attention.

Chris Doyle: "More & more states are recognising their country, their right to nationhood, their right to self determination, but a time when those same countries.. are utterly failing to stop the genocide & impose the sort of sanctions that are necessary to stop Israels atrocities"

It's time to furrow that brow further. We can do this 💪

The idea that if you make Dems a little more Republican, Republicans will vote Dem is what’s breaking us. And it doesn’t even work!

It’s incredibly obvious that the social settlement these people believe is fair (i.e. them at the top) can’t really be met by low immigration. It’s a caste system they want.

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I’m watching and it’s astounding. We all knew something like this was going on - but the extent of it! While so many were suffering, dying, sunk into loneliness - a few were absolutely RAKING IT IN. The COVID health crisis was a very, very lucrative opportunity for some.

It's that (tiresome) time of year again the National Trust comes under attack, as voting gets underway for the 2025 AGM. If you're a NT member, have you voted yet? Here's the link ⤵️ www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Protesters yell at one agent with an American flag mask and sleeves “Nazi” as they push demonstrators off the sidewalk in front of the driveway. “Proud of it,” the agent replied.

Guaranteed that colleagues of Reform's Chris Mason have this clipping somewhere in the office but keep it out of view because he gets very cross if he sees it, almost as agitated as when he starts frothing on about how Nigel will sort out the immigrants. (Alt text added)

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

My latest, on how concepts like the populist hype and reactionary centrism can help us understand how our media and political system normalises dangerous far right talking points and policies shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

i love giving entities that are more gullible than my grandma access to both my full home infrastructure and unfiltered external communication methods

Thing about this is that Charlie Kirk *was* a racist transphobic neonazi creep. Also misogynist and antisemitic. He was pure distilled hatred and evil. It's bad that he was shot, but that doesn't mean he was any less of a monster.