He is a Jew whose preferred american immigration policy is one famous for helping make the holocaust worse www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

feels like the met should raid x: the everything app’s office, shut them down, confiscate their hard drives and, if they find any csam, prosecute the ceo and put them on the sex offenders’ register this is what i like to call “the moderate position”

This galaxy brain lost her parliamentary seat to Jonathan Gullis. Just saying.

Really weird that they are so muddled on its scale: bsky.app/profile/robb...

it’s not actually complicated is it. Posting and drama and likes are fun little buzzes! It’s so dumb that we pretend it’s anything other than that, and if you’re a backbench MP or junior journalist then giving up Twitter means slipping into the irrelevance your predecessors used to have.

The government appears to be mistaken about the priority given to X by "families" in the UK

if you want to really make them squirm, link it to everyone cringe thing they said about their online id laws "you said using a vpn endangers women & girls*, does posting on a site with csam not do the same?"

Labour still doesn’t have an official Bluesky account but can’t stop posting at Elon Musk’s Digital Sex Crime Emporium.

There are always trade offs, often uncomfortable ones, to be made with freedoms vs protections. I do not think that banning kids from accessing sex ed but keeping the automatic revenge porn factory open is the right place for that line to be drawn.

Whenever people spoke about the harms and chilling effect on speech caused by the OSA, these guys were right in with "so you love child porn huh?" Once again: there are no rules, there are no principles, there are no standards. There is just whatever these people want, forever.

Embodies the underlying weirdness of this government - the minister in question hasn't tweeted for *OVER A YEAR* because the site is a cesspit.

MLK Jr's moderates who prefer the absence of conflict to the presence of justice

a lot of people in entrenched positions of power (and law school profs qualify) are more worried about the left than about fascism, because they see fascism as upholding established hierarchies. 1

In later years some of them will pretend they were duped but the reality, per @mtsw.bsky.social , is simply that they like Trump and they want to help him.

the story here imo is how the gop works to push gop friendly content creators and most democrats seem to be unaware we can even post video on the internet

Thinking about how the Taliban hates running Afghanistan because they have to actually show up to work every day instead of shooting guns with their friends.

Tryhard Heydrich

Ottoman Empire ends right as jazz age begins. Coincidence? Pshaw!

Updated rules. You can walk into a store and take anything you want if you say "I support a two state solution" *AND* "I believe everyone must abide by international law." As long as you say those two things (and it has to be both) you are above reproach. They simply can't touch you.

These judges have rebuffed the policy in more than 1,600 cases - ordering the release or bond hearings for people locked up. Just 14 judges — 11 appointed by Trump — have sided with the administration. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

For those who already forgot, this is the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children.

"The cult of the individual acquired such monstrous size chiefly because Stalin himself, using all conceivable methods, supported the glorification of his own person." Khrushchev, On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences

Under my benevolent dictatorship, all recipes which don’t use precise measurements - I’m looking at you, “a glug of wine” - will lead to the writer being sent to the gulag for a “bunch of” years.

I would like to point out that the trump White House is so fucking stupid that during term 1, they included in their email blasts of Look-how-create-trump-is an Alexandra Petri column about how awesome he was and how good a job he was doing

For everybody's benefit, that's *this* Jack Straw having a pop at Zack Polanski for people 'losing faith in politicians'...

These monsters will strip you of every last right & claim it's ok cos god told them to

magical

Who brought up social media

New rule: no man babies as leaders of countries, yeah?

Not sure how bad the deepfake problem is? Read Stella's farewell thread. This is an extreme form of remote sexual harassment that can now be used to target anyone, regardless of platform, in seconds. Despite news stories focusing mostly on CSAM it's still unchecked and rampant on Twitter.

second degree murder, and specifically depraved heart murder, wherein the accused doesn't actively plan to kill a specific person or people but acts with callous disregard for human life - like firing a gun into a crowd or driving drunk - should apply to decisions made by CEOs and heads of industry

Govt minister Mike Tapp refuses to say that the US should not attack Denmark and Greenland. Moments later he declares that sticking to international law is what we stand for as a country.

This is an argument that reduces Britain to complete vassel status. Is there *any* US action, no matter how deplorable or contrary to British interests, that he would opposed? This kind of cravenness only encourages Trump to go further and faster, confirming (accurately) in his mind his methods.

Sometimes I think the most fundamental political difference might be between those who identify with power, who admire power and enjoy others living in fear of it, and those who identify with the powerless and long for a world in which nobody has to fear power

Seems like every day Labour ministers go on TV and say they don't know or understand anything. I'm curious how they think the public takes that information and will use it when Labour demand they should remain in charge in 2029.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Stage direction: To be repeated for at least 10 years.

Just a reminder that listening to BBC World Service in the mornings is far superior to listening to the Today programme. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Are these guys just on Christmas vacation or what?

Either it was a limited operation merely to arrest Maduro and move on, or, it is an ongoing major regime change committment that will open up a transition including international and private sector partners. It really can't be both

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

not to be all ‘so much for the FIFA peace prize’ but the US is co-hosting the world’s biggest sporting event with Mexico in a few months

Just remembered this particularly baffling front page

"In her statement, posted on the Danish government website, [Danish Prime Minister Mette] Frederiksen said she was addressing the US 'very directly'. She said Denmark - 'and thus Greenland' - was a NATO member and covered by the alliance's security guarantee"

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."