Michael B. Jordan as seat filler at The Oscars

president pulls out of NATO because no one attends his emotional support naval mission, coming to you a month from now

One of the many daft things about Labour's admiration of the Danish social democrats "red-brown turn" is that it requires an electoral system that Labour refuses to consider for it to work

Oh no! That means that JD Vance, being a committed Catholic, will have to condemn Peter Thiel! Because he's a sincere believer in a religion and not just LARPing, right?

This is why Tom McTague was astonished to hear Sir Keir say he thought nothing in Britain was fundamentally broken, implying that all that is needed is tweaks. The Old Testament of 1979 set out the laws and made the promise, and the New Testament in 1997 delivered fulfillment everlasting.

Not surprising but still kinda shocking

By labeling Brazilian gangs as "terrorists", many fear that Trump will be able to deport Brazilian immigrants more easily. More than 2,000 Brazilians were deported in 2025. Trump is interfering in a BIG way in Brazilian Presidential eleciton paydayreport.com/trump-interf...

Can this be a solution?

🗳️POLL | Greens lead with gay/bisexual* voters: 🟢 Grn: 26% (+7) ➡️ Ref: 20% (+11) 🔴 Lab: 19% (-21) 🔵 Con: 14% (+4) 🟠 Lib: 13% (-3) Source: @Moreincommon_, 24 Nov-16 Dec (+/- vs GE2024 as reported in BES) *Pollster did not include trans people

Says a lot about him that he's still on twitter :/

The protests worked. They won the right to rape.

This sounds about right: there’s one living former Labour leader with a fragile eggshell brain who is deeply susceptible to portentous spiritual woo and bullshit, and it’s not the one you’d assume it is.

a newly unearthed interview? from 2013? on the day the mandelson files were made public? what a coincidence

Leftism enjoys and welcomes a broad base centered on common ideals & goals, regardless of religious or ethnic background… & I find that abjectly terrifying. - by Noah Smith

PUT STACEY SOLOMON ON THE BANKNOTES YOU COWARDS, YOU FUCKING WEAKLINGS

this is the kind of thing i’d expect Ed Davey to post to subtly signal he’s been kidnapped

Big news from Unite union which has voted to cut its Labour affiliation by 40% (£580k a year) Sharon Graham not mincing her words "Unite members are coming to the end of the line as far Labour is concerned… whose side are Labour on, who do they really represent, because it certainly isn’t workers"

a world rid of trans people is the goal

I actually think it’s cool @mikeblack114.bsky.social has a better sense of what’s going on than the chairman of the joint chiefs, this site has the juice

being earnest, what libs miss is we have "held our nose" and "voted for the lesser evil" our whole lives and look where it got us we're done running full speed down that dead end- run a good candidate, or piss off "there are only two choices" wrong, there is always a third so get it together

All I want to say is this makes a mockery of me being a “scientist-practitioner,” because there is no science in these decisions to withhold life affirming care to a minority group.

there's a push from conservative institutionalists at the Wall Street Journal editorial page today to....... extend the war even at the risk of a crisis in the energy markets www.wsj.com/opinion/iran...

A useful reminder that capitalism pretends to be an efficient system of market information but is just a bunch of courtiers chasing after imperial power.

The concept of Joanna Cherry's memoir having an impact on the Scottish election.........her deluluism is unparalleled. www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottis...

There was always going to come the moment when the opinions of the Jewish community would have to be misrepresented because they are not in line anymore with the community institutions which claim to represent them.

It isn't a betrayal of one's progressive values to witness members of a country's diaspora dancing in the street and rejoicing at news of their home nation being bombed or the slaughter of hundreds of their compatriots, and question the goodness of their intentions or clarity of their moral compass.

To this day the only MP aside from the PM where I know what their house looks like is Jeremy Corbyn

This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food

This is why I say jailing Harvey Weinstein sent all of these guys crazy. It set an unacceptable precedent that very rich guys can get sent to jail, because they’re accused by people who don’t matter.

These guys actually looked at *Winsome Earle-Sears* and said “yeah, I would like to run that campaign, too”

the median case - which most macro economists will give you, including me - is about +0.25%pt PCE, -0.25%pt GDP growth. (hey, I do macro, we like round numbers) so, a $60/bbl increase is +1.5%pt to inflation, -1.5%pt to real GDP growth. at last print, PCE is currently 4.7% YoY, real GDP is 2.2% YoY

so there's a rough [set of] rule of thumb in Economics on the relation between oil and inflation/growth. for every $10 increase in the price of WTI: -the fed [optimists] generally assumes +0.1%pt CPI, -0.1%pt real GDP growth -most of the oil industry [pessimists] are +0.4%pt CPI, -0.33%pt [GDP]

"...these arguments have become implausibly detached from the legal & factual context in which [I/Goodwin] were decided. They fail to take seriously the increasingly serious incursions on the privacy rights of trans people that are likely to occur if the trans-exclusionary interpretation prevails"

WE STILL DON'T HAVE A CLEAR ANSWER ON THE MOST BASIC QUESTION ABOUT THE IRAN WAR WHY did the U.S. go to war? A Popular Information review of public statements over the last 9 days found 17 DIFFERENT EXPLAINATIONS. Many of which contradict each other. 🧵

"For the next phase of my career, I look forward to some independence and finding new spaces to share my work in line with my personal goals." Another CBS News journalist leaving and talking about independence. Bit of a not-so-subtle hint at what's happening over there.

A trans person drawing on a statue with chalk got comment from the Home Secretary and coverage on TV and in all the main papers. A female Green MP being harassed and abused in the street by transphobes gets nothing... #JustProtectingWomen

I’m briefly in India. This is a facile observation, but Americans have barely scratched the surface in understanding how the rest of the world is reacting to this war. It’s already an Iraq War-style disaster in the global imagination, underscored by the thuggishness and caprice of the Trump approach

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

Israel and the US appear to want to do to Tehran what they have done to Gaza: reduce a busy and complex society to a toxic wasteland.

Energy price spikes can be catastrophic because they limit the amount the global economy is able to produce. They make the whole planet poorer. And the default response from central banks – raise interest rates – only makes the situation worse. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

"It's a vocation!" They say as they push you into the meat grinder and turn you into sausages

Very possible.

I'm told some Labour MPs are unhappy with this latest act of hostility towards trans people being blamed on Streeting. That feels silly or naïve. It's happening because Wesley kept in place in the NHS, indeed encouraged, the ideologues that Kemi Badenoch *told us* she introduced to key positions.