The split-screen here is unbelievable - first from yesterday, the others from 2017. Musk’s Twitter has truly driven us mad. People absorb far more of their beliefs from their social environment than they realize, and we’ve created an environment where being a gutter bigot is the baseline expectation

If someone could get Lisa Nandy or Liz Kendall to explain, on the record, why they’re not treating this as a major issue, that’d be much appreciated

The Ovenden piece is revealing, in that it highlights the absolute contempt a lot of the people in No.10 feel for anyone who doesn’t 100% agree with them There is, if nothing else, a profound disinterest in the notion of ‘public service’

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

To add to this, team Starmer's explicit decision to behave in a snake-like manner, from brazenly abandoning his leadership pledges to the contradictions between their election messaging and their governing style, would *of course* make anyone angry

Think @sundersays.bsky.social is accurate here. The UK has not suddenly become much more racist. However the (re)normalisation of open racism by "respectable" right-wing media and politicians has led to both increased visibility for open racists, & radicalisation of some "soft" racists/xenophobes

Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.

This sort of mirroring also explains things like that weird Tom Harwood ‘UK/Britain’ tweet – the British Right are constantly searching for a keyhole to ram American ultranationalism into, even when it clearly doesn’t fit (He’s also just an idiot)

There is no general principle in conservatism beyond, I get to do what I want, and you get to shut the fuck up.

I got asked *last week* if I worked for TfL and could help with tickets at Green Park station I was in a full suit…

*taps sign*

The GOP has really leaned in to singling out Somalis for very explicit racism. Ron Johnson and the rest of the party are just loathsome, un-American people.

It’s a discovery method; aka, glorified content marketing You’re chopping up clips for YouTube Shorts, specifically, as well as TikTok and Instagram to try and increase the chance of people discovering your content, and then going on to subscribe to the original audio feed

Farage has never been a particularly astute political operator; he's merely benefited from a lack of real scrutiny over the years That being said, he's definitely getting slopper. It's unclear whether that's due to the pressures of now being a major party player, or merely his media diet

This is British Facism if set against basic theoretical criteria and the nervousness at the BBC or other big UK media outlets over calling this out bodes ill for their willingness to robustly defend democracy

It remains amazing to me how much of a blind spot YouTube is for governments and the public when we talk about things like digital and social media The only people banging on about the influence of YouTube are traditional broadcasters

We see this methodology employed quite often in the US by federal agencies; most recently in the prosecution of Turtle Island Liberation Front members last week

I wrote about Yglesias' attack on critical race theory, and why framing Black intellectuals as aggressive sneaky infiltrators threatening to murder innocent liberalism is pretty racist. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/yglesias-a...

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

Control sequel where you become Federal Reserve Chairman and need to use a variety of supernatural abilities, rituals, and cutting edge tech to prevent the economy from breaching containment and annihilating the material plane.

The government's willingness to buckle under any amount of sustained pressure - even from relatively small interest groups - doesn't bode well for its long-term chances of survivial

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

This really highlights the general lack of political leadership in the UK. MPs seem led by the nose to remain on Twitter, rather than attempting to take a stand If you can't even take a principled and values-led position on your social media use, how can you be trusted to do it on major issues?

Weiss is a stain on the industry, as are all the journalists who’ve sought to defend and enable her over the years

Well if Labour MPs weren't going to be plotting over the holiday, they will be now

A long-time conspiracy of mine: a lot of the data Meta publicly releases is, at best, heavily manipulated, and at worse an outright fabrication I wouldn't be surprised to discover that whole organisation is just different variations of the 'pivot to video' ruse

matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong. at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

I've been quite dismissive of the 'Kemi's turning it around' narrative that's cropped up in the last month or so, for exactly this reason: Badenoch will continue to say and do incredibly stupid things - a few improved PMQs performances won't change that

If you're a dad who doesn't think these sorts of lessons are needed, you're not sufficiently plugged-in to your kids lives We can quibble about whether this is the *most effective* strategy, but these intentional polemics just make the writers seem like fools at best

Strong "Jeffrey Epstein, the New York financier" vibes from this sub-heading

The problem for the NYT here is that, because Brooks wasn’t honest about his initial contact with Epstein, there’s no reason readers will believe this defence that it was a one-off

"Devin Nunes unintentionally creates a singularity event" was not on my list of 2026 apocalypse scenarios

the failure to prosecute Trump for seeking to overturn the election is one of the greatest and most consequential bag fumbles in the history of American politics

Quite a remarkable piece Ideologically, the only 'principle' you can really glean from McSweeney is that he's working to serve some pre-war conception of the 'working class' which no longer exists That's totally insane

I've spoken to a few different people at the Telegraph over the last year who've noted that they're now being pushed, on desks as far adjacent from politics as Lifestyle, to pursue articles with a specific political framing - something that wasn't happening as recently as 2024

Kiss of death

Yglesias is a court jester masquerading as an intellectual. He sees himself as some kind of wise sage, but his real job is offering honeyed words of reassurance to the powerful

Wiles has, as the kids would say, fucked it

"Another @louisashworth.bsky.social food story has hit the feed" www.ft.com/content/9c8d...

I do think the polling backs this up. Looks more like 'natural Tories return to the fold following a few good headlines', rather than anything structural These things are self-reinforcing. Voters are told "she's turning it around", which prompts them towards support

No it won't It's taking teams 7-8 years to produce semi-linear action-adventure games. You're not pumping out a sprawling, choice-based RPG in 5 years

Why do I suspect this’ll translate into something like ‘posting more frequently on X’?

“The long term economic plan worked”

'Moral Maze: Do the Nazis have a point, actually?' We're in a bad place man

The Subway by Chappell Roan, but it’s about the Grinch

OH GOD WHO GAVE HIM THAT

Retinol in a daytime cream and *only* SPF15? Yeah this stuff sucks

The fact you have to say "any compassionate employer" is the point. Not every employer is compassionate!

The FT’s going to need to put a wellbeing plan in place for @stephenkb.bsky.social at this rate