if these companies would just put out a statement saying “we told him to go fuck himself” they would instantly have the type of loyal and dedicated customer base corporations dream of and spend decades trying to cultivate

Opportunity here for a writer on a low income to get access to a nine week novel writing course taught by the great @silvanhistorian.bsky.social www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...

looking forward to the 6-3 supreme court decision that finds the first amendment was only ever meant to allow for criticism of king george specifically

I would ask you to consider that buying a book by trans creators about trans characters sends a more powerful message about what a publisher should care about and spend their money on than not buying one.

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

It is over for the genocide deniers. Even the BBC is now splashing on the UN commission of inquiry concluding that Israel has committed genocide. Those who supported Israel's onslaught: You backed a genocide. You will never scrub the shame away.

Seems like quite a moment. This morning, the UK was powered entirely by low-carbon energy, it seems. Yes it's windy and sunny. But it's still a milestone.

Great trolling from the Mayor to release this today, as Trump arrives in the UK www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It'll never stop being funny that a nazi billionaire in love with AI sets up his own AI and, AI being AI, it just reflects what it scrapes back at you, so sometimes, when it scrapes facts, it says stuff the nazi billionaire doesn't like, so he declares it wrong and has to ideologically reprogram it.

Some of y'all need to watch the movie Bob Roberts. I mean. It's probably a little late. But you should watch it anyway.

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

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26 Police Officers were injured in Londons fascist riots, but only 9 people were arrested. At last week's Palestine Action protest 0 Police Officers were injured, but nearly 900 people were arrested. The UK govt is chasing Reform votes & colluding with fascism, home & abroad. #fightfascism

I wonder if the Prime Minister might have anything to say today about how the world's richest man urged a huge fascist mob to effect a change in government and incited them to violence, because I feel like that's not something we should encourage

This, to me, really gets to the root of why we’re currently where we’re at—and why so many disengaged people think both sides are equally radical and bad.

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A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

it does seem weird to declare war on people and then demand they mourn your dead

This is one of the weaknesses of civility politics, it falls for the form. That humiliating content farming is debate-shaped, we have to treat it as legitimate! Fox News is news-shaped, we have to treat it as legitimate! The Free Press is newspaper-shaped. etc etc.

Dear Lord. Part of my job is to teach critical reading and thinking skills alongside knowledge and theory. Students being encouraged to outsource criticality is absolutely terrifying.

Hell of a film! Strong case for it being Lawrence’s best and definitely up there when it comes to King adaptations. The changes, I think will create richer convos, and feel right of the moment. Great cast. But man, David Jonsson is immaculate. That’s the future right there. #TheLongWalk

“But Charlie [Kirk] also advanced another really important idea. And that is that he loved the people on the other side of that table” Here’s Charlie Kirk questioning whether Kamala Harris was Black and calling for Joe Biden to be executed Some people have a very different idea of what love means

I just read @ericlarocca.bsky.social's Introduction to @kitgonzo.bsky.social's forthcoming book about me and my career, and it's the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me, and I'm tapping them both to eulogize me at my funeral one day. <3

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Back from The Long Walk. Like the novel, pretty much a hammer blow to the soul. A brilliant adaptation.

Solidarity to all members at @lancasterucu.bsky.social

Here are the _public_ email addresses for the reporters and the standards editor listed on the WSJ site. Standards editor: [email protected] Journalists who wrote the article: [email protected] [email protected] Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.

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Over 1,600 people have been arrested since Labour banned Palestine Action — the first time a non-violent direct action group has ever been proscribed in Britain. The UN has condemned it as “disproportionate” and “unnecessary”. Opposing genocide isn’t a crime, it’s a moral duty.

If you're wondering why people are going bonks about this, it's because they've never heard of Charlie Kirk the real person — only as the right-wing equivalent of Pod Save America or something

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

My take on what 12 MONKEYS (1995) teaches us: archive.is/0YE8K

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Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

Yeah, PSA, anyone calling this a 'watershed moment' in US political violence is not someone you should take remotely seriously, because only someone with the memory of a goldfish could make such a claim with a straight face. Unless, of course, they mean because someone on the Right got shot.

A sitting Minnesota politician was stalked to her own house by someone who killed her, her husband, and her golden retriever, then shot two other people, on JUNE 14TH

This is a reminder to authors: you can think you have been spamming people non stop about your book, but it's always worth one more spam cos you never know who it will remind!

It’s so surreal seeing prominent right-wing figures—an influential presidential advisor, the last campaign’s biggest donor, etc.—call for violence, the GOP president lie and stoke violence, every Dem officeholder condemn it, and mainstream media treat those as the same, or the Dem reaction as worse.

Awkward scenes: the lads explain that appointing the most implicated man in Britain as US ambassador has further incriminated the American President in secret noncing, while *not* talking about how they themselves made Peter figurehead of their own podcast, despite knowing all this shit at the time.

Keeping Mandelson would mean Number 10 thinks not following a recommendation to take specialist tax advice is a resigning matter, but believing the world’s most notorious paedophile over his victims and lying about your post-conviction contact with him isn’t. That’s…not a sustainable position.

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

It’s almost like it’s not only that people in high office turn out to be corrupt; it’s that the press will only endorse you and back your campaigning if you’re so absurdly corrupt that they can get rid of you on a whim, just by suddenly noticing all the ludicrous corruption they always knew about.