Labour's balanced budget politics is based on a false understanding of how the governments fits into the economic mosaic. Me and Ganga Shreedhar on the LSE blog: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Trump is filling his government with Nazis, consolidating authoritarian power, and eroding democracy at every chance. And yet these 86 House Democrats voted for a right-wing messaging amendment to say that the real authoritarians are the socialists. Pathetic.

consolidated, billionaire-owned mainstream U.S. media presents a simulacrum of real, useful journalism. A Ken Doll with the genitals sanded off to a smooth hump to avoid offending wealth and power.

"The hiring of a former opinion journalist with strong views on Israel and diversity, equity and inclusion" get out of journalism, you're all fucking useless

at no point does this article get close to pointing out she's a weird billionaire-allied troll with no actual experience in journalism who was hired to blow smoke up the ass of power most of the media journalism I read is so uninformative and feckless you'd be better off watching the muppet show

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

NEW: Cryptocurrencies have lost >$1 TRILLION in market value since Oct. 6. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This means that NVIDIA has agreed to invest "up to" $10bn in Anthropic, but has not agreed to invest a single dollar in OpenAI. Good thing everybody wrote that NVIDIA had "invested $100bn" as if it happened

The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either

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Oh I forgot another part : they kept editing me to say “the horrendous attacks of 9/11” when I’m not talking about 9-11 I’m talking about the post 9-11 United States. Like anytime a Muslim says 9-11 they have to immediately apologize.

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Part of the joke here is that Warren, of course, for many years heeded Summer's advice!

bringing back shame and consequences would not by any means be the ballgame, but it would certainly be something

Waingros all the way down

A big indicator of this fascist moment, for me, was exposing Hanania’s past as pseudonymous white supremacist blogger, him issuing a non-apology apology then writing gutter racist shit under real name, & nevertheless enjoying mainstream success reminder of who he is www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...

'What Kang wants, rather than "cheap whataboutism" or the more luxuriously upholstered whataboutism he serves elsewhere in his story, is simply for everybody to switch off their brains altogether' Excellent by @albertburneko.bsky.social defector.com/everybody-st...?

when we talk about efforts to "erase DEI" can we be more precise and say "efforts to re-segregate workplaces and schools"

"But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

"Do you think the plebs should get a jury trial" is such a thrilling line from Labour, truly great to see this

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This is awesome. Would love to do something similar for the US Army Have a friend who liked to take people on tours of Arlington and bring them to a highly decorated WWII soldier’s grave, then watch their astonishment on finding out the soldier fought *gasp* with the communists in the 1930s

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Toby Buckle talking about why appeasement not only doesn’t work but can’t is worth a listen, IMO. Impossible to argue otherwise at this point podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

IMO the most authentically British bit in it is that even though the world is absolutely wrecked and miserable, the King’s cavalry are still fannying about on horseback in the street wearing plumed golden helmets.

Again, when the Mexican director of Children of Men was asked how he created such an authentically grounded British dystopia, he said he just looked at the trends they observed around them and imagined what would happen if they continued to get steadily worse and nastier for twenty years. And

I recall an Express or Mail front page 20 years ago about prisoners being lavished with brand new mattresses, beds and sheets worth (large sum of money). Hundreds of words of squawking MPs and Taxpayer’s Alliance spokescreatures later, the prison said: “We have to buy new beds every decade or so”.

You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution. That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk. Wow.

I regret, much as Sapper does, that Burns' work has become sufficiently revised to the point where we fans of history dread the announcement that "Ken Burns is making a new documentary on..."

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

Oh, and having spent the last few years knee-deep in the world of RevWar historians, I am secretly dreading some of the people Burns could drag into this and put on screen Y’all don’t know how much worse it can get than Shelby Foote, both for the ACW and the RevWar - so tremendously much worse.

Having spent the last 3 years working on prep for RevWar250, to include researching, writing, publishing, digital history, event planning, etc etc…I am sad to say that I am somewhat dreading Ken Burns’ treatment of that era and conflict One, I’m simply tired of the RevWar. And maybe disillusioned.

"The future is triage on an uninsurable earth" - Read @katemac.bsky.social & I @thepolycrisis.bsky.social : www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

Glad that this talk about the problems of ebooks for libraries is finally out. Really good, would *strongly* recommended for anyone interested. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PygU...

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Video from nickdelacanal on Instagram of CBP trespassing on private property and giving up after a few attempts to entrap landscapers.

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

The clubby rich pedophile world they're so sad to see gone isn't even "lost" or "gone," it's alive and well in the White House. Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.

Latest Army general to be jammed up over alleged wokeness is Pat Work, who led the Ranger company that fast-roped into the Korengal to recover the bodies during Operation Red Wings and was the 82nd brigade commander who dug ISIS out of Mosul

Good blog, here. Also I have learned exclusively that I am in fact the one unnamed "cool" employee in Deadspin's history, as mentioned by Megan in here.

genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other

if everything is going to be this bleak and sad it's nice to see the news peppered with little slices of life like jeffrey epstein emailing himself a file called "genuiis_____ideas (3).txt" that just says stuff like "microchup. = brain ? "

i used to think the lyric was ‘i wanna rock and roll all night / and part of every day’ and i remember thinking, honestly that sounds reasonable

oh hey look at that

Food stamps are back, but millions will soon lose benefits permanently

"Iran is facing its worst water crisis in decades. With no end in sight and authorities warning they may even have to evacuate the capital of 10 million people, residents like Ensani are scrambling to respond." www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...

““They are so racialised. They should never even let those be published because it’s like the worst stereotypes about Africa, or India, or you name it,” said Alenichev.”

We really need to release all the Epstein files. A powerful disinfectant that would hold a broad swathe of elites accountable.