Countdown until the administration also smears its latest victim as a “terrorist”…

these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw

The last wave of purges have hit Xi loyalists he put in place after a previois round of purges. Permanent institutional instability is not a pathway to effective military action

It's obvious that Trump II are deeply unserious people. But starting at the top, they are also people who have contempt for institutional constraints on power. That makes institution-building, already hard enough, impossible, esp for the international arena.

When a Canadian Prime Minister has to implicitly remind Europeans of why the EU exists: „Middle powers must act together because if you are not at the table, you are on the menu.“ #WEF

Well, there's a first time for everything. Daniel Hannan has finally written something that I agree with.

We are all going to die of natural causes before Trump stops ranting today. This is incredible.

Trump doing his best to make Brexit not the worst foreign policy decision of the past 10 years

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

If you want to be fit at 70, you need to get fit earlier in life. Ageing brings decline regardless of how fit you are. Start from a higher base, fall from higher up. Fitness compounds, just like money. Go lift some weights, go for a swim, walk around the block!

So … over 8,000 acts of ppl invoking their 1A rights to mouth off to law enforcement? Cops have no rights to their feelings. We do, however, have the 1A right—attested to by SCOTUS—to insult the guys w guns. This is quintessential police-as-baronial class whining: “how dare you not kneel to us?”

All of these people - Mogg, Farage, Carswell, Jenrick, Hannan and the rest need to be forever reminded of what they backed and supported

I think the verdict is in. Many of us are divine, but enough of us are evil, and firmly committed to being evil, that . . . the dust blows forward, the dust blows back.

So will Ireland be the 53rd State, and then Britain the 54th? Or will the US divide Britain up into separate states of Scotland, Wales, and England? Hell, it's all one island, just make it one single state, and that way the commies only get 2 senators.

That section only applies to people who “FORCIBLY assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in section 1114 of this title while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties.” It does not apply to filming them from a distance.

It's coming. On February 8. Everywhere. For the 25th Anniversary. Hard Country Rockgrass, y'all. This is my favorite album cover we've ever done, probably because we didn't do it! My wife had the idea for it, one of her old uni friends set the still-life up and photographed it.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

There we go. That there’s a headline.

Hayseed Dixie are taking their good times music on the road again: "If loving the banjo is wrong, then we don't want to be right! If it offends you, then it's about you." www.herecomestheflood.com/2026/01/hays... @hayseed-dixie.com #inconcert

So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British? Interesting www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The Epstein files on the DOJ website allow you to highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it into another document, which reveals what was hidden. You can also press Ctrl+F and search for “Trump ” (with a space) to see his name appear more than 600 times. #OpDeathEaters

Tapping the sign

The last line of this is *chef kiss* If you want to understand Putin's mental model, read Seva's last line over, and over, and over.

Das wäre eigentlich ein interessantes ganzes Buch über Fehllektüren und toxische Rezeption.

One of our finest annual traditions

I always thought Plato was pretty pollyannaish on this point, but this is decent evidence for the view that a man of bad character will therefore be unhappy even with every external trapping of success and good fortune.

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

It's noticeable that the people who are now angriest with Keir Starmer's Labour government are those who voted for it. And they are right to be. This has been his primary achievement. So where on earth does he think Labour voters will come from, next time round?

It’s obviously true that the “if only Czar Gallagher knew!” fiction on legal resales is just that, a pure fiction, and that banning legal resales above face value will drive up face value. Ending that fiction is a good in of itself, I think.

Thoughts ahead of Downing Street meeting with President Zelensky today. youtu.be/1DYrGcF2NsE?...

Is there a trade expert out there arguing for a UK-EU customs union? I think it’s fair to say that @davidheniguk.bsky.social @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social and myself are hardly Euroskeptics, and while we emphasise different things in talking about a CU the conclusion is unanimous.

Great piece on the failure of centrist governments in the UK, France, and Germany to give voters anything to actually vote for and their fueling of the far-right by elevating its message, and the contrast that Spain offers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...

Balcony, 1945 #surrealism #escher

It’s the universities encouraging students to use AI that really gets me. All this “we need to accept it’s here and teach them to use it” does not help students learn to think. Writing is for thinking and communicating, not just producing words.

Don't do any of this.

This is an excellent BTS image from ALIEN 1979 - it really shows the scale of the jockey and the detail of not only the pilot but the floor and the wall. This is why physical sets are awesome. As viewers it's tangible and real, and as actors they have something physical to properly react to.

Taking Back Control of Remembrance - why war memorial selfies, Nigel Farage's moody wreath vignettes and giant plastic poppies risk obfuscating what we were told to never forget. My Letter from London for @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/taking-back-...

ICE/BP’s next targets are reportedly Charlotte and New Orleans. Two things: 1) If they had the capacity to hit many cities at once, rather than pick on one or two at a time, they would. 2) Moving south seems to confirm speculation that they’re leaving Chicago because it got cold.

She doesn’t even say his name.

SPOILER ALERT: Social Democracy is not Communism. Franklin D. Roosevelt was to all intents and purposes a Social Democrat. His "New Deal" was a Social Democratic policy that turned out to be the most popular policy in American history.

Took my daughter for a tour of the International Criminal Court in the Hague today. I hate that this court needs to exist, but I'm beyond glad that it does. There are a couple of folks with outstanding arrest warrants who I deeply hope are soon sitting inside being referred to as "defendant."

I'm thinking this through further and there is no difference between deporting people to form a "culturally coherent group of people" and Hitler saying jews could not be aryan. Caution around Godwin's Law should be dropped. Katie Lam has openly supported nazi ideology.

🇵🇱⚖️🇩🇪🇺🇦 Quite incredible passages in the opinion of ("old") judge Dariusz Łubowski in the case: "The destruction of critical infrastructure of any country (...) in a just, defensive war (...) are not sabotage, but military actions of a diversionary nature, which can in no way be considered crimes."

TIL that there isn’t a library in every primary school in England 😳

Wanted to post some 🔥 from John Quincy Adams on the Declaration of Independence: "It was the first solemn declaration by a nation of the only legitimate foundation of civil government. It was the corner stone of a new fabric, destined to cover the surface of the globe. It demolished at a stroke/

If AfD did get power they'd need a 2/3rd majority to change the constitution. They are such a long way off getting near there, even in places like Thuringia where they are the strongest. Under FPTP you can get such a majority on minority vote shares.

I was sent this map by a follower. When was the capital city of South American nations founded?

He's right, and not only that, American civil wars were largely unique in that they were fought "formally" (like OP means). That's unusual even accounting for wider history. It's because when you get right down to it, both were nation vs nation.