"it's too much liquid" going into the baby, instantly up there with the injecting bleach moment.

never a better time to get checks and balances-pilled

It's obviously not important from a results standpoint but I do sometimes wonder if the conservative justices go home at night thinking "I did good law today" or if they are fully aware it's just "I did good Trump today," like is there delusion involved or nah

BREAKING: SCOTUS will hear a case over whether it should overrule Humphrey's Executor — in a shadow docket order that also allows Trump's firing of Rebecca Slaughter as an FTC commissioner to take effect while the appeal is considered, which should not be allowed under Humphrey's Executor.

When I moved to the UK, it was the coalition government, and Labour was absolutely never treated by the press as a government in waiting despite leading the opinion polls for almost that entire Parliament. The attitude was, "eh, the election's a ways off, gotta see what happens" until months before.

Genuinely pains me to say so, but at great cost to my personal brand I will admit that I agree that most English people have not gone insane over the past decade, but that English media and political parties absolutely have. A great number of English people remain decent and, crucially, normal!

It’s quite do-able from a legal perspective. I don’t think dismissing Reform in this way is wise. Voters need to understand that this stuff can happen if they vote for it - and that it would be morally, socially, culturally, economically disastrous. So they shouldn’t vote for it.

On this note, those who want to oppose an authoritarian tide should also be pushing the current government to reform the UK's statutes on citizenship deprivation, which under current law can happen on vague "public interest" grounds i.e. is a near-unchecked discretionary power of the Home Secretary.

it's also time to hear criticism as the UK immigration discourse has moved alarmingly to the extreme right in 2025, thanks in large part to Labour deciding that its strategy to deal with Reform UK's poll rise is to further enable that poll rise by telling voters they are mostly right on immigration

I agree. Also, it was probably intensely stupid to have spent a decade portraying Britain’s anti-racism campaigners as terrifying, treasonous, totalitarian extremists while at the same time saying racist views about migration are what everyone thinks, and disagreeing is shitting on the working man.

When I interviewed older South Asian British people about their retirement decisions over a decade ago, a large number said they had kept a passport and land in India and Pakistan 'just in case' When I asked 'in case what?' they responded 'in case we are told to leave Britain'

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

Nigel Farage and Reform UK advancing truly fascistic policies now, nightmares on the scale of the Windrush Scandal here www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

the skeleton key to understanding these people is that they genuinely think you are a drone who will do what you’re told if the TV says it

The notion that a media outlet has to be nice to One Special Boy in order to exist is so fundamentally un-American it is almost beyond belief. The fact that ABC/Disney backed down is evidence that the corporate consolidation of the media is a huge problem.

yeah this isn't really about charlie kirk is it

One of the natural consequences of blurring the line between state censorship and “cancel culture” was making it easier to engage in state censorship. I leave it to your imagination whether the people who did that intended that result or were merely recklessly indifferent to it.

Universities effectively have to allow almost anyone on their campus to speak. It’s why Kirk was able to do what he did. Places where conservatives dominate—like churches for example—do not.

How does this all square with all their years of insisting on the importance of free speech? That's very simple, they were lying

not sure what exactly Jimmy Kimmel actually said but 100% sure that the FCC intervention is going to negatively polarize me into supporting it

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.

the UK's new anti-trans rules are indefensible & will make global fascism stronger my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Lol at "this is a stark departure for the Republican Party." It was obvious the "free speech" thing was not about freedom, it was about mandatory respect for right-wing views. The media apparently simply bought this very gullibly and is just now getting it www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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this seems like a very important paper

As others have noted, Reid was active on isses like climate change and LGBT rights. The only time I met Reid was at a solar energy conference in Las Vegas that he was host of! The effort to recall him as some conservative popularist Dem is just incorrect, no surprise it's happening after his death.

Morning. ☕️ ICYMI: Republicans in Congress are simultaneously condemning and fueling violent political rhetoric in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's killing. They're just using different social media accounts to send different messages. www.huffpost.com/entry/republ...

Poll of college students after Kirk's killing reveals a different picture of what is happening. The vast majority don't like him and only a tiny minority would indicate that his shooting was in anyway "justified" puck.news/wp-content/u...

This is a very powerful read - if you want to hear what it feels like to live on our UK streets right now. As Alex @sturdyalex.bsky.social says, we hear daily about the 'legitimate concerns' of people against less represented groups, but rarely hear this bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...

What the Trump administration is doing is shameful in so many ways.

This is a very good round up of some very powerful people in the media and government blaming higher education for Kirk’s death. They don’t need evidence because they are lairs with a pre-existing agenda of destroying dissent in America.

The highest spikes here are due largely to Trump's tantrum that Bolsonaro got prosecuted.

Waiting to hear more details but this seems pretty bad

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

American institutions and businesses are acting like the polls are upside-down. Truly incredible how much they have sold out to an administration people don't even like

This, from The Londoner yesterday, also features people on the march who claim not to be racists. Though the things they say prove otherwise

A very serious form of U.S. military action. Put aside U.S. and int'l law. Someone should ask: "How would you react if another government accused Americans of being violent drug smugglers and just chose to kill them, in int'l waters? Is the difference solely that we can (perhaps) get away with it?"

Racist views were something agreed to be shameful. For the people pushing racist views today, the reluctance to call them out is a tremendous boon. Even as social media brings them together, it demonstrates to them that they can be bolder without consequence. That’s why they’re now more explicit /4

it's been weird watching the Internet/real life collision here; factions of the right call for civil war, congresspeople call for him to lie at the Capitol, and the entire WH is going to the funeral, and yet I've had a few people ask me hey who was this Kirk guy, and I'm like "mostly a podcaster?"

Glad the vice president of the United States, whose salary my taxes fund, is using his position to *checks notes* attack me on the Charlie Kirk show.

in my reading there are some sectoral reasons for increasing Republican voting/identification among Latino voters (of particular national origins especially), which likely are real, but of course in addition to that there are thermostatic effects for a president with really unpopular policies

By allowing the right to conflate criticizing Charlie Kirk with celebrating his murder, our elite media is inflaming the situation enormously.

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Online trads going to church for the first time and finding out it's not an IRL version of their personal Based internet club always cracks me up

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

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party