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I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)

I really cannot understand why so many people to the left of center are so weak like this.

It was in the Reform UK 2024 "our contract with you"/policy document (Thereafter = after the first 100 days). Seems to be absent from the policies section of their party website now.

Ross Barkan's plagiarism mini scandal has barely been discussed on Bluesky. We should be taking note of it. Especially since, now that he has responded on Twitter, his explanations are ridiculous.

Oh my.

Discovered something very strange. An influencer in India has spent £12K running political ads in the run up to local elections that are deliberitely obfuscated, linking to Amazon shopping but a variant with that links to a now-offline website cc: @niamhmcintyre.bsky.social @tbij.bsky.social

Senator Bill Cassidy compromised all his values to confirm RFK Jr and he still lost his senate seat in a primary.

In the months before the Hungarian election, the Danube Institute, a government-funded think-tank, distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars in an attempt to build an international echo chamber and amplify Orban. @atlatszo.hu has some of the contracts english.atlatszo.hu/2026/05/14/j...

This is an Admin that hunts down leakers of classified information and launches investigations including subpoenas to media companies who print the info to discover their sources. But they seem completely disinterested in leakers to Axios.

The people who sided with Democrats to force Trump DOJ’s Pedo Protection Racket to start releasing the files get the most vicious treatment from Trump. I wonder why?

This, a thousand times this

Thomas Massie pushed for the release of the Epstein files, and the response has been tens of millions in outside spending, smear campaigns, and coordinated attacks. If this is what they do to a sitting member of Congress, imagine what Epstein survivors face when considering whether to come forward.

“Thiel-Backed [Erebor] Bank Offers Venezuela a US Banking Lifeline” 5/15/26 … 1/ share.google/2xO5EcPVZIuw...

"Account based in Thailand" As is the source of Farage's £5m "reward for Brexit". How patriotic. #ReformUK #Harborne #Farage #Reform

🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 Taiwan's Foreign Ministry responded to Trump's statement that Taipei should "cool down" on the issue of independence: "Taiwan is a sovereign democratic state. Beijing has no right to claim jurisdiction over Taiwan. Taiwan will continue to deepen cooperation with the US,..."

I’m always amazed at how people don’t know their own history The history of American talk radio is fascinating The history of Mexican AM radio is equally fascinating and intertwined with the US

Trump is cutting Taiwan loose, just like Ukraine.

Using a Mac…

Honestly, when I was young I was prepared to believe a lot of things about the future, but I never expected it to be so stupid.

Apparently, one of the benefits of flying on Air Force One is that no one checks your carry-on for drugs.

Yes it is. It is a spy network that connects the dots between businesses and government so they can run our lives and decide for us what we can and cannot have, do,be and think #OurABCForTheBillionaires #PalantirIsEvil #FuckYouFuckPalantirFuckTheil #auspol #Propaganda www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

We are not perfect, but Canada remains one of the kindest, safest, most compassionate, and most stable countries in the world. We believe in democracy, pluralism, public healthcare, the rule of law, and looking out for one another. We are Canada. 🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦 #CanadaStrong #CanadaUnited #CanadaProud

Farage has shared an image of an NUJ card belonging to a photographer that has presumably been dropped nea (one of)r his properties. For someone so concerned about his own security, he seems perfectly willing to whip up his followers against someone who presumably has none.

which horseman of the apocalypse is this one

⚡ Russian occupation forces are reportedly grinding down destroyed homes in Mariupol to use as highway material, likely mixed with civilian human remains. united24media.com/latest-news/...

naturally

President Donald Trump has presented himself as a lifelong teetotaler, bringing scrutiny to moments like this.

truth

If you totted up the sums for every financial scandal in British politics (£2k per parliamentary question for cash-for-questions, £200k for Johnson’s No 10 renovation, the cost of that very nice campervan) even with second tier stuff like Rayner and Polanski, would you get close to £5mn *in total*?

A virulent form of misogyny has drawn together an unlikely constellation of pastors, posters, podcasters, and senators, @helenlewis.bsky.social writes. She spoke to some of the most prominent voices in "masculinism": theatln.tc/aECnZzN7 🎨: Liz Hart

Trump didn't just break his promises. He broke the movement that elected him. America's new counterterrorism strategy: no Proud Boys, no militias. "Violent transgender anarchists" made the cut. @radiofreetom.bsky.social of the Atlantic on what's really unraveling. youtu.be/wDOVJ087KxU

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

CALL TO ACTION!!! Please support the decent journalists actually holding Farage to account. Please share far and wide! 👊💥👍

Hannity really missing his Fox studio lighting.

Free speech culture means shut up with your criticisms or disagreements with other people’s speech. Free speech culture means students should accept, passively, without dissent, whoever the school chooses to honor with a speaker gig.

weird thing to wake up to - my account on the other place which I haven’t used in 2 years has been reported and suspended for “inauthentic behaviour“ I think Elon is purging NAFO accounts or dormant accounts

But did the house come with a ballroom

This is the way

Presumably, all Farage has to do is provide the receipts for his security bill and apologise to us all for not declaring the £5 million. Shouldn't be a problem and as leader of a major party I'm sure he'll be absolutely delighted to clear up any misunderstanding.

Ok. The rate is now 1 every 30 hours

Dominion and Smartmatic may have a new lawsuit to file

I feel like we are living in the “Thiel and Andreessen Show”, and too many people have no idea. 1/

Has the hospital ship made it to Greenland yet?

The man building a ballroom with foreign steel probably shouldn’t call himself the champion of American steel. But as you learned from the Epstein files, I’m open to working across the aisle. So how about signing my steel bill to actually rebuild the American steel industry?

NEW: Despite a long-standing court order, the NYPD didn’t audit thousands of stops made by its Community Response Team, which has a history of unconstitutional policing and has drawn hundreds of civilian complaints.

Ketamine

"If the Strait of Hormuz doesn’t reopen soon, countries across Europe and Asia may simply not have enough oil to keep the lights on, or cars on the road – prices could get much higher, and some countries just won’t have enough fuel at any price." inews.co.uk/news/world/t...