I get their emails for some reason and every single one of them is basically "X wants to do Y, here's how to object", infuriating

Proud to have voted for Julien as my local councillor

New York City is the media capital of the country. Delaney Hall is nine miles from Manhattan. There is zero reason to not have wall to wall coverage of the hunger strike, the horrific conditions and ICE violence. The indie journalists need strength in numbers, and not just during business hours.

literally the only "public toilets issue" that should exist in political discourse is that there fucking aren't any any more.

lmao

A clean, cogent argument can be made that while there are a great many accomplices involved, three men are predominantly responsible for the end of the American Century and the collapse of our republic: Newt Gingrich, Rubert Murdoch and Mark Burnett. I'm not here to argue, only to mourn.

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What matters more: 1. An old man, out of politics for 20 years, has opinions? 2. The party leading the polls and potentially set to form the next government is promising to deport hundreds of thousands of people settled in the UK entirely legally? That our broadcast media has chosen 1 is sickening.

Sorry, I actually think the sub sections are better?

No there will not be an early election. A man with 400 seats will not risk half of them three years early to satisfy columnists’ belief in mandate fairies.

More from me on the alleged Russian hack-and-leak operation against the Reform UK leader, including a link to an interview with The Guardian www.linkedin.com/posts/cyberc...

Wrote about the realities of WWE's pay cut ultimatums, what avenues talent have to fight back and what barriers stand in their way. If you want an in depth look at the subject in written form then this is for you.

Remember if you ever consider doing a fraud, don’t buy amusingly naff stuff with the money, it sticks in the memory. Embezzle £10m and shove it in crypto? Cheat HMRC out of a few million through phoenixing? People will soon forget! Buy an overpriced wine coaster and a gaming headset? You’re stuffed.

I barely go on Facebook any more, but when I do, I’m bombarded by ai slop “inspirational” behind the scenes stories from TV shows I watched as a teenager, and some of the most vile AI slop racist posts you will ever see.

As I’ve said many times before, if you think X is a vector for fascism you should also be worried about Facebook which, even with its recent troubles, still has an order of magnitude more users than Twitter ever did, and which is being pumped full of Restore and adjacent propaganda

I don’t know who @trishsp.bsky.social is quoting here, and I’m not going to ask, but I do know Trish doesn’t bullshit these things and it was a great perspective to capture

I want to shout out @trishsp.bsky.social for her excellent piece on the recent wwe cuts in the latest @socialsuplexnl.bsky.social. It’s an excellent read. www.socialsuplex.com/americas-15/

Over in Retro, Peter Edge takes us through Netflix's attempt at a Hulk Hogan documentary so you don't have to. www.socialsuplex.com/retro-15

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Tempting to write off the Restore polling as sample bias etc. But my feeling is its real Even in Bristol we're encountering them on the doorstep. People coming back from Makerfield think 7% may be a underestimate. They're all over Facebook in particular and showing up in national polls Its real.

bringing this one back because they just keep doing it

Brought my Brazilian friend to Glastonbury and she could not understand what 28 degrees in a field in Somerset could do to her that 33 degrees in São Paulo couldn't. It's real!

This is exactly the same bullshit trick Labour Together pulled – claiming a Russian hack without evidence to change the narrative on a negative story. The Mail was pretty furious about the whole thing, as I recall.

Little known: there is no strong link between deprived areas and immigration salience. Basically even: salience peaks in local areas in second most affluent quintile. Eg Epping (Political + cultural + demographic drivers of Reform/Cons support neutralises/slightly trumps socio-economic drivers)

By the way, I'm always suspicious of screenshot posts that cut off halfway through a paragraph, so I do encourage everybody to read the whole thing to see this isn't out of context. Beyond being a grim attack on trans people, what also comes across most strongly is that it's just an unworkable mess.

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

A child born on the Regent’s Park estate when the demolition started will be in their late 20s when they can get a HS2 train to Birmingham. What an avoidable mess.

As someone pointed out afterwards, he had switched in a heartbeat from “look how well Greater Manchester is doing” to “look how fucked we’ve been by the last 50 years”

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

This drive to rehabilitate the foul racist pig Enoch Powell has been going on literally my entire life. It's ironic because the 'rivers of blood' speech was clearly recognised as racist, and widely condemned as such, including by Tories, at the time. We're being asked to misremember clear history.

The version of the United Kingdom where 2010-15 austerity had been done with more of a plan than 'circle the bits of the state that are unsympathetic or used by Labour voters and go axe-crazy' would be a country with deep damage to the social fabric IMV but would be better placed to repair it.

crucial context: Peter Mandelson was sacked from the first New Labour government for having a £373,000 *loan* (not a gift) from a Labour colleague (Geoffrey Robinson) to buy a house

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*?

About the most 90s thing possible in this episode is leaving the baby in the car by themselves whilst she wanders around.

We all have occassion to say this a lot in this era, but seriously this is the craziest goddamn thing I've read in a very very long time abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

Something very striking in the fact the markets - and I know they're different markets - are freaking out about the idea of Andy Burnham as PM, but entirely blase about the situation in the Strait of Hormuz and the fact we're about to run out of oil.

“Psychodrama” has always obscured more than it resolved- right from the start it was the way that BBC Politics in that era babbled its way around the conviction that couldn’t cover Brexit in detail without being biased and that the public needed to be talked down to.

Wes' theory seems to be that if you wield the knife then you get seen as a traitor and can't win, but walk around waving a big knife with 'backstabbing knife' written all over it going "hey, I'm not using it YET" you'll be a contender. What??

I think one of the biggest failures of Kamala Harris' campaign was moving away from Tim Walz's habit of just calling the far-right "weird". Just making it clear that they're a bunch of little freaks. You'd think that would work even better here; fascists tend to be obsessive about one or two...

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

the iran war is a really fascinating lesson in global supply chains did you know a key component of (insert thing here) travels through the strait of hormuz? now you do!

The only reason they saw their son was because a judge ordered that they be deported back to Mexico after they were held in an ICE concentration camp for more than a month

Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Chris is absolutely right. They’re basically just horoscopes!

I really dont think there's much of a story here, ngl

One of the many curiosities of this decision is that Nigel Farage is the only serving UK political leader (to my knowledge) to have been criticised by the Board of Deputies for personally using rhetoric linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories, for which he has never apologised.

Almost all minority groups tend to be misimagined by the left + the right (not to exonerate the centre). Often through sweeping group-based generalisations (of different + contrasting kinds) that tends to crowd out the political, generational, class, gender differences