Did he just say the quiet part out loud?

This is so disgusting.

There is hope.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Samir Zitouni: a British hero

The poor is any of us, but for accidental fortune.

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

It’s the extraordinary mix of people and ideas, that has evolved not just over centuries but over millennia, that has created our British culture today. It’s what has stopped a tiny island on the periphery of Europe stagnating. It has created its energy, its vitality, its greatness.

They had a full day to craft this statement and they still couldn’t bring themselves to say “this is unconscionable and we would never change the rules on people in this way” without adding the rider “as long as they deserve it”. Who is this even for?

The serious point here is that Britain is in desperate need of migrants, and any attempt to actively dissuade them from coming directly harms both society and the economy.

It is a cliché of fictional psychopaths that they wildly and fatally misinterpret the Bible and other literary texts. And then there's Peter Thiel ...

Russians seized Donetsk doctor Ihor Kirianenko in 2018. He was 57. They tied him to a table like a cross, wired his feet and fingers, and electrocuted him until he screamed. Then they tore out his teeth with pliers and broke his ribs and fingers, writes Hromadske. 1/

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

"We want people to be living in mixed communities, don't we?" Robert Jenrick's home is in Eye, Herefordshire, where 165 out of 166 residents were white at the time of the last census.

These cases of extreme, far-right racist violence targeting Muslims and people seeking asylum are being blithely ignored by most media and politicians because they see no political capital in addressing them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The fundamental contradiction at the heart of Western exceptionalism is the seething, spitting hatred of the racialized Other whose exploitation Western society is built on. It's what leads to absurdities like asking the people whose labor powers your society to prove they're not burdens.

79. American citizen.

"We have a debt crisis so I've joined the party that was in power for 14 years and under whom debt massively grew." "Commentator of the Year"

This is really, really important: jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

In a sane media culture, this would be the end of him.

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

Bloody love this. Rory has a great way of putting things upside down.

When a Trump supporter assassinated the Speaker of the Minnesota House, Charlie Kirk blamed the left.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.

I don't think many people think carefully about what it means to "have a baby" and, in spite of that, choose to do so for selfish reasons above all else. My sense is that, as a society, we collectively and intentionally neglect the many orphaned, abandoned, mistreated children already born.

Details matter.

Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.

I cannot agree more.

The House of Lords just released a major report on media literacy. Its core message is that the UK is falling behind, and it’s putting democracy at risk. committees.parliament.uk/work/9030/me...

This is excellent and powerfully speaks to the importance of considering public health in the context of entire communities; an extraordinary example of how a compassionate, probably unpopular, approach to dealing with a painful issue can lead to very positive outcomes. popular.info/p/the-secret...

Massacre after massacre, day after day - the deliberate annihilation of an entire civilian population. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1/8: Here is my immediate response to the UK's "modern Industrial Strategy" [1], released yesterday, as it pertains to global talent and immigration:

Like clockwork.

Those peaceful protests could have destroyed everything.

Humans have been “crossing borders” for ~2 million years; we dishonour and reject our own heritage when we criminalise the very impulse that built civilisation itself.

This also applies, to an extent, to the “employability” agenda in higher education.

For hundreds of years, most history-changing breakthroughs in science have been the result of international collaboration. Without international students, there are far fewer cures, treatments, inventions, and technological advances. Banning international students harms everyone.

@emmakennedy.bsky.social I really appreciated what you had to say in today's @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social episode – you and @rafaelbehr.bsky.social articulated things many of us feel so eloquently and powerfully. Thank you.

Is this what "incalculable damage" looks like, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social?

This thread is exactly right.

Schiff voted to confirm Brooke Rollins as head of USDA, the agency that runs SNAP.

Take note.

It was one of the few cinematic experiences I doubt I’ll ever forget.

Buyers’ remorse