Perhaps the most insidious achievement of the Isreal Lobby is weaponising any criticism of it at all into “long standing antisemitic conspiracy theory”. The notion that there CAN be and IS nuance should be vigorously defended

Would far rather a situation where Putin’s far mongering prompts a properly strong reaction from Europe that one in which the U.S meekly accepts his “peace plan”.

Money for youth clubs. Money for arts. Cheaper business rates for independent shops. All promote community, all discourage digital silos, all prevent higher costs for mental health services down the line. But how of these measures were actually in the budget? 🧐

“Marginalia” is my suggestion for the YP rebrand

The United States is poised to recognise Russia’s control over Crimea and other occupied Ukrainian territories to secure a deal to end the war?? This is like our worst nightmare. Actually it’s something we could never have even imagined 20 years ago?

The country wants a wealth tax on assets. They're panicking because "won't the rich just leave" has been utterly debunked. They've got no actual argument. Join.greenparty.org.uk

I’m old enough to remember when NO ONE said anything about what was in a budget until the chancellor stood outside n11 with a red briefcase then read out its contents shortly after. PLEASE can today be the nadir for pre budget leaks, FFS

"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts." www.wcvb.com/article/karo...

Keir Starmer has called for an investigation into Reform's ties with Russia. @mrjamesob.bsky.social is 'surprised' about who he’s called upon to lead it.

Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with: -No casus belli -No authorization from Congress -No allies or international support -No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela -No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout

Anyone who claims Ru seeks compromise when it pursues diplomacy is either uninformed/naive about Ru or simply pro-Russian. It's that stark.

Nigel Farage has always been racist and Reform supporters are either happy to overlook this, wilfully blind to it or racist themselves

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

WTF newrepublic.com/post/203517/... This is like a Maddow fever dream circa 2018

Russia killed 33 people, including six children, by a missile strike on Ternopil on November 19. 94 more people were injured, 18 of them children. Six people remain missing. Ukrainian rescuers worked for four days at two locations, managing to save 46 people, including seven children.

Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated. Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”

Whatever has infected Liverpool this season has clearly not gone away following the international break and I’m all here for it

Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families." Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.

Officially the worst year for deaths in music now since 2016, no question.

Okay, so, sure. NVIDIA sells $50bn of gpus. Where do they go? No, really, can anyone actually explain where all those GPUs went, and to whom they went to? Are they in data centers? Where? If we’re talking like, hundreds of thousands of b200s and gb200s, where on earth even has a data center built?

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

They could release them all tomorrow so clearly they will be redacted

Nathan Robinson, editor of Current Affairs, left-wing progressive mag. known for its long-form pol'l analysis, is urging readers to cancel their subscriptions to the NYT and The Atlantic, offering a free year of his magazine in exchange. In his latest post, Robinson says the campaign is “working.”

Swalwell: Kristi Noem and Tom Homan, you should familiarize yourselves with this room. Get to know that witness chair — you’re going to be parked in it for a long time. Accountability is coming.

Epstein survivors just dropped a powerful message for Congress, and it hits like a warning: no more waiting, the truth is coming, ready or not. Watch till the end @housedemocrats.bsky.social @houserepublicans.bsky.social

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Why didn't Pam Bondi investigate Jeffrey Epstein when she was Florida’s AG from 2011 to 2019?! As Florida's AG, Bondi made prosecuting sex traffickers who preyed on children a top priority. Yet for some reason she never investigated Epstein. My article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

NOT DISCUSSED NEARLY ENOUGH THIS WEEK: Trump’s all over the Epstein files so he’s having Venezuelans killed as a distraction. Because of these crimes against humanity, a 4-star Admiral resigned and the British, the Dutch, and the Colombians are no longer sharing intel with the USA.

Absolutely. An iron law of whether a statement about immigrants is true is that it should also apply if you just use the word “people”. (A test that many claims on the liberal side also fail!)

Why do powerful interests and institutions manoeuvre to protect the worst human Jeffrey Epstein had ever met (and coming from him..) Is the rot that deep? Is the fear of the cult still that pervasive?!They gut will be dead sooner rather than later, you’d think they’d want to future proof themselves

America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.

Your daily reminder that ALL the duplicitous cretins who own& edit the Torygraph have is misremembered nostalgia. And bigotry. But mostly it’s misremembered nostalgia.

Surely the reason that Government comms are so bad and that there’s no narrative through line about how it intends to make people’s lives better, is because it doesn’t have one. “Starmerism” is effectively a slightly fairer version of Tory managed decline. There is nothing at its centre.

Another cracking episode of @quietriotpod.bsky.social out today incl No.10’s latest exercise in rake stepping, the Orange one suing the BBC and whether The British Legion is now woke (!) with the ever excellent @pimlicat.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

Peter Thiel is in the Epstein emails, enjoying himself. Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi. Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data. Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation. You can't make it up.

Absofuckinglutely THIS

I find it highly ironic that the party that bemoaned the deep state and alleged the cover-up of pedophiles is now embroiled in defending the party that has the largest pedophile cover-up in American history.

McSweeney- ruthless election supremo, not at all the skill set for chief of staff. But his appointment is indicative of a sheer lack of imagination by the PM.

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Trump’s attempt to sue the BBC is based off a memo written by a lobbyist tied to pro Trump tech giants - who’s interests, we have to presume, align with others on the right /Murdoch etc who want to undermine an unbiased* public sector broadcaster *charter-mandated/theoretically

What are the chances that Gibb now becomes the story, a lightning rod for negativity and criticism, to the point he has to resign? You know a good timeline for a change - as opposed to the one in which he his coup has actually positioned him to become DG

The only thing the craven eight have actually achieved is being duped by Mike Johnson. Ineptitude on such a scale it can be seen from space

I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said

Notable that the supposedly “patriotic” wing of British politics wants to destroy / defund almost all of our national institutions

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

The corruption never ends

Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.