This seems right - Bari Weiss works for the Ellisons, not for Trump. In general, I think a weakness of a lot of analysis of this political movement is that it treats Trump and MAGA (and their equivalents elsewhere) as principals rather than agents. theintercept.com/2025/12/22/b...

I think the people who make a technology that makes nudes of children should be put in jail. this should not be in any way controversial

I don't think Trump should get access to standard medical care, he should have to let RFK Jr treat him

Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->

banger from @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

So all this celebrity boxing malarkey does have an upside

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Hurray, no more David Walliams books. Every Xmas well meaning rellies would gift them to my book-loving kids and every year they'd go straight to the charity shop unread.

When I was just about of drinking age one of the less salubrious nightclubs in town was called "Quids Inn". It cost a quid to get in. They had actual turnstiles with a coin slot at the entrance. Them were the days.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

This was very good: an actually disturbing ghost audio story. I did *not* want to head off in the dark to the compost bin when I was listening to this while prepping dinner.

I show my kids what is a real man by going straight for the pink toothbrush from the family pack.

Because they don't know what they're talking about?

Republican congressman 👇🏽

this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted

When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet. Just want that to sink in, there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Teenage daughter: No! Don't wash my bedding now! Me: Why not? Daughter: Cuz I'll just have to do it again in 2 weeks so it's clean for Christmas!

No. Next.

"We live in hell, and the rapacious need for growth in every industry, unrelenting, forever and ever, is decimating all of our institutions and our way of life." Amanda Dobbins, on fire

“Nothing we can do about this perverse court ruling” says the people who literally write the laws that tell the courts what to do.

In spirit, content and intent, this was really no different to a Klan rally. The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media. This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.

Intensely funny because it seems like the vast majority of people at that event were convinced it was fully autonomous and Musk has repeatedly recently claimed they're not tele-operated www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...

A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings. “It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale. This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading: www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

Johannes: The people will finally be able to read the Bible for themselves and be closer to God. The People: I did my own research.

This will always and forever be the most on point and prescient thing that Fukuyama ever wrote.

More like a South African saying the US should be abolished etc etc

I think #FIFA really missed a trick by not having an envelope-opening scene and Trump feigning surprise. Who, me?!

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

Tell Dublin it is no longer a suitable venue for international shindigs. Publicly state why. If Ireland wants to sit at the big boy table it needs to pay a big boy ante. Will this work. Frankly I'm doubtful. But it would at least strip away some of the hypocrisy about Irish neutrality. /Fin

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

Now imagine Stephen Pollard and the Jewish Chronicle's reaction if the revelations about historic antisemitism had concerned Jeremy Corbyn or Keir Starmer or indeed anyone on the centre/left. It's a level of grotesque, cynical hypocrisy that I genuinely find quite hard to process.

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Everyone should boycott Eurovision. Make it a one-person show. Israel in an empty room

Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.

The WI has been trans inclusive since the 70s, before I was born. Do you see who in this scenario was innocently minding their own business, coming to their own arrangements locally? Do you see who is forcefully imposing themselves and their demands upon others, via threats.

LEAVITT: TRUMP BONE SPURS STILL ABOVE SPUR-THRESHOLD

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

This, but Black Friday deals.

Almost forgot I wrote this piece with the tail end of my bubble plots. But if you want to know how many Reform voters think white people face worse discrimination than ethnic minorities, I’ve got the goods.

Finally got round to giving @benansell.bsky.social's latest. It's also one of his very best - especially if you want to understand the extent to which Reform voters (often talked of as 'the people' and, apparently therefore, representative of all UK voters) are real outliers, culturally-speaking.

We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate. Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

The right wing press will not cover allegations about Farage's anti-Semitism in the way they covered Corbyn's because they were never interested in the actual racism. It was all about politics. But broadcasters have obligations under impartiality rules. They have no excuses.

The world's most successful man interviewed by the world's most popular podcaster. What a time to be alive.

This is the kind of thing you would do if you had no idea how to achieve economic growth. It's a stunningly stupid move but only one of many that the government has been making over the last 10 months or so. All those years in opposition and they have no idea what to do while in office. Shameful

17 strikes and you’re out. 💀

Talking with my daughter about things we did as a family when I was young, like... Go for a drive.

The obvious best reply is to have the Nobel committee have a quiet word in Trump's ear about what kind of settlement they'd need to see to grant him the peace prize next year.