He spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he's marching to undo it. Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.

I really understand very little about the current version of reality.

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

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"In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen." Hannah Arendt

So Starmer says he has held off signing up to the 'Board of Peace' because of concerns over the invitation to Putin. From that are we to infer that he is cool with the idea of Netanyahu, Orban, Milei and all the other assorted despots, extremists and autocrats who have signed up?

It's taken him 25 years, but Tony Blair has finally found a way to make people even more disgusted with him than they already were for his starting of an illegal war that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Quite an achievement

Loving the Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Davos

At a time when the country needs a Churchill, Starmer gives us Chamberlain.

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

the European mission to Greenland was fourth in the BBC news running order this morning, which feels a bit like doing a light "and finally..." item about the archduke's motorcade taking a wrong turn in Sarajevo

This immediately makes me wonder what Rory was like as a teenager…

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

Take the wedding rings? Gold fillings? Does this remind anyone of anything?

At this time, absolutely nothing is known about the perpetrator of the dreadful attack in Manchester or their motives. This doesn’t stop Sheila Fogarty @lbc.co.uk immediately pinning the blame on people protesting about a genocide rather than those actually perpetrating it. Filthy gutter journalism.

I love ChatGPT. I fed it a 56 word para that I needed shortened and made more concise and it not only proudly fed me back one that was 53 words long, but also needed 3 words added back in to make it grammatically correct! 😂

OLIVER: "Gaza is starving is a sentence that's objectively true, but it's also slightly misleading because it's too passive — Gaza is being starved by Israel."

No one has ever LinkedIn this hard. I am CRINE.

Someone has finally been held accountable for the war in Gaza, and it's Gary Lineker www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A brilliant piece of poetry from Michael Rosen, clearly directed at Starmer and the current Labour Government.

this internet was a mistake, but sometimes it’s the best thing ever created

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

“A liberal has to tell a hundred stories, or a thousand. A communist has one story, which might not turn out to be true. A fascist just has to be a storyteller.” Exceptional analysis, as ever, from Timothy Snyder.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth

Brilliant column by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social, which everyone in the UK should read. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gotta love Samuel! ❤️✨

In a world that seems to be doing everything it can to forget the pandemic ever happened, I would just like to urge people not to forget that, for millions of peple, it was never over. They still live with the consequences each and every day. #longcovid #internationallongcovidawarenessday

This year International Long Covid Awareness Day falls on a day when I find my self struggling to recover from 2 relatively easy days filming in London. Ever since having flu/covid again before Xmas, any progress I've made in the last 3 years seems to have slipped away like sand through my fingers.

Five of the billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have lost a combined $210 billion in wealth since then, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index Oh dear www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

That speech translated and transcribed. Very much worth reading again (and again). www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

“The United States has not just abandoned Ukraine, the United States is now actively helping Vladimir Putin and the Russian state kill Ukrainians to try and force Ukraine to accept a bad peace deal that very well might spell the end of their country.”

Dutch TV's take on Trump, Vance and Zelensky

Let this sink in.

Rip USA. Established 1776 from a British colony. Ended 2025 as a Russian colony.

Not sure of source but this is 🤣

Protesters in Georgia, who have been opposing the pro-Russian policies of the ruling party and the unfair elections results for over 3 months, recorded a video of support for Ukrainians. We always stand together 🇬🇪🇺🇦 Thank you for your support, people of Georgia!

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

Freedom and democracy are always worth fighting for. Slava Ukraini.

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

Both Putin’s bitch and his couch-fucking minion are traitorous bastards who aren’t good enough to kiss President Zelenskyy’s feet. 👣

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

It's been obvious since January 6 that he was an enemy of the USA, the UK & the whole of the free world. Everybody still in his camp understands this as completely as everybody against it. They just prioritise personal interest over the national & international. And they know it. They all know it.

A doctor’s comment on the article: “People infected with Covid, particularly numerous times, are at risk for degenerative problems of the nervous system, cardiorespiratory disorders, and immune system pathology. No one knows what the long-term outcome will be.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/o...

There are many countries where predators thrive - but USA is rarer now in how openly declaring themselves a safe and welcoming haven for them - another marvellous victory for all those journalists and comedians who have made a killing moaning about “the woke” www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...