Fifty-three percent, an absolute majority, regard Nigel Farage "very unfavourably". He is the most disliked politician in the UK. And yet he dominates the media agenda.

HURRAH! Petitions are crap at making gov'ts do things they don't want to. But they are good for two things: First, making them explain why they won't do something, but second (and more important) nudging/giving them permission to do something they DO want, but that's been crowded out bandwidth-wise.

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

"why isn't anyone stopping this" is the inevitable result of trusting a system you don't understand. The problem is too many people who recognize the system is fundamentally designed to harm marginalized people end their analysis there, labeling all lawyers as cops and calling for boycotts.

What Prasad calls "groupthink," I call "expert consensus." The majority isn't always right, but in my field, it takes a lot of evidence to make all these opinionated, egotistical academics agree. Expertise isn't Orwellian. The erasure of expertise is. bsky.app/profile/save...

Pretty crazy that Musk willfully killed 100,000's of people *earlier this year* yet Corporate Media still regularly talks about him without mentioning that.

Yeah, so, why are you still not investigating Brexit?

Minister mislead MPs on 2B cuts to disability benifits and refuses to apologise. Labour still going after disabled 🙄.

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

They are going to lose. Don't forget that.

You know it’s bad when even Fox News is reporting it

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

The RFK, jr effect.

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.

Nice one, Spidey.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

i will probably keep saying some variation of this because its inevitably going to happen but dems campaigning on “reform ice” need to be met with the same reaction as a someone asking if they can kick your child in the head

I thought I'd never have to pay any attention to him when he left Real World Road Rules Challenge, but here we fucking are.

"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

BREAKING: The Eurovision Song Contest The EBU does not get to sing "Love Love, Peace Peace" while coddling a nation committing a genocide.

The Government sees it as a “moral duty” to cut disability benefits. I see it as a moral duty to call them ableist pieces of shit who want to kill disabled people. The real moral duty should be to end poverty and tax the rich

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

Using ChatGPT

Okay, now can we do Brexit was influenced by Russia and so was every advocate of it?

this man really decorated before his crush came over lmfao

Please god let him frame one of these and put it on the resolute desk

Made a Miss Universe edit of one of @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social's Robespierre shorts and oh my god I can't breathe 🤣 🇫🇷 🥯

Looks like their plan to boost productivity by ushering everyone back to the office in an ongoing pandemic didn't play out as expected ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics. He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist

Hard not to simply call Labour evil at this point honestly.

Speaking as a stroke survivor, it would be really cool if people stopped blaming his shift to the right on his stroke, brain damage, etc. After my CVT, I had to relearn how to read, write, and speak, but you know what I didn't have to relearn? How to not be a racist asshole.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

I sure hope it permanently takes down anyone who is implicated or ran cover for someone who is, and the sooner the better. When you clean out the stables you get clean stables.

Watching Frankenstein on Netflix, and screaming “the books would have all looked new“ at every library scene.

Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal". But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.

1/ Eleven Dutch parties across the political spectrum from socialist to conservative have issued a joint appeal to a provincial government to build a memorial to Black American soldiers who died in World War II, to replace one removed from the Netherlands American Cemetery. ⬇️

Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term. In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

Davie did everything he could to go after leftwing politics. He axed The Mash Report and censored the Gaza documentary among other things. But the fact that he is resigning due to Trumpist pressure is incredibly concerning. This country is being more and more captured by the American regime.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Rewatching Zohran's victory speech bit by bit and it's hard not to be emotional about it - it's an appeal to hope and courage but also to the fundamental idea of living in society, together. Feels like we've been starved, often deliberately, of that kind of thinking

When asked by Stephen Colbert why he was wearing a mask in public, Tom Hanks said.. “I’ve had Covid enough in my life I don’t need to do that again. I’m wearing this for health reasons” More celebrities need to speak out like this.

sorry