BYE KKKristi But I hope enjoy your demotion to “Special Envoy” & being stuck with Alina Habba’s Ivanka Face forever while trying to find a new place to cuck your husband with Corey the Wonderschlong 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

your new DHS secretary, everyone:

Two things. I’ve heard this from many, many upper class white liberals. And I renew my conspiracy theory that science could (has??) absolutely engineer a skunk-free weed but the CIA or somebody won’t allow it because it’s such a useful pretense for locking up Black people and poor people.

Markwayne is actually a noble title, and is the Oklahoma equivalent to "Marquis," and may be passed on at the same time your father gives you his car dealership

Sunder is correct here - the headline figure is quite misleading Here are the profiles *over time* Both care workers *and* dependents are fiscally positive for their first *20 years*. Dependents are ultimately negative but only when old/sick/retired.

The other myth that needs busting is idea of this vote as ‘PMC Lanyard class’ or Muslim vote. They're mostly frustrated lower middle class Millennial graduates. Recent homeowners or renters w/ housing costs they can’t afford. IT support, social workers, teachers. White. Normie!

Always worth reading research from @persuasionuk.bsky.social

How have I only just realised the French are using ‘liker’ as a verb for to like Instagram posts. (I accept this is not the MOST end of days thing to happen lately but still))

Honestly, they could swap and nobody would notice

It’s World Book Day. Reading aloud to her and being read to by my mom are anchor memories of my childhood. At ten, I scotch taped hand written (made up) Dewey decimal numbers to the spines of my books and made borrowing cards for my parents and siblings. May you find a book to love today. 📚 #books

Reform UK and the Greens are hoovering up financially insecure voters. My piece this week looks at the return of Britain's class politics (with a twist) www.economist.com/britain/2026...

After the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Atlantic writer Tyler Austin Harper has a big question for American liberals: If you really believe we’re sliding toward authoritarianism, how can you argue that the public should disarm?

In the same way that if you own a spare drawer in a kitchen it will automatically fill up with broken or incomprehensible cooking gadgets within three months, if you start a rightwing group chat it will fill up with Nazis.

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

In 1966 the New Jersey Young Republicans gleefully sang racist and antisemitic songs at their gatherings. The lyrics to one went “Riding the Reich in my Mercedes Benz, shooting every kike, saving all my friends." Hartford Courant, 13 February 1966.

well, today in floridly depressing news: the French helpline for female victims of male violence is facing "coordinated" attacks from men's rights activists, who keep calling up in the hope of making it harder for women to reach their services

I'm so old, this has got to be the sixth or seventh wave of catastrophic defunding of language-learning that I've lived through...

As an ex-HO civil servant (of 30 years) I can’t emphasise how destructive these types of policies are and just how impractical they are to employ, especially as another ill-thought through idea is usually in the pipeline to supersede this one. Labour is just aping the Tories now and it’s grim.

The Home Secretary here is not 'BSing'. She is deliberately publishing a racist lie about how 'easy' our system is. And the fucking Guardian is letting her do it.

This is a hot mess of outright lies and misinformation from the Home Secretary, designed to try and persuade people that a government which is implementing some of the most hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies, in practice, for decades is progressive. 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"would otherwise receive immediate access to welfare and social housing" is BS. Correct: "after 5 years working in a care home, would be eligible to apply for welfare and social housing on the same basis as the rest of us." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Deliberately misleading/disingenous.

Love me some Rock of Chickamauga.

There were a lot of twists and turns along the way to the creation of Bride of Frankenstein. Check out my latest for @bloody-disgusting.com for the whole sordid story. bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3...

"Where’s the soul searching about why voters might have defected to a challenger from the left? Why, in God’s name, did anyone think it was a good idea to imply a large chunk of Labour’s coalition is, in fact, stupid?" Newsletter out. Bit angry.

‘British expats, he claimed, were refusing to fill out evacuation forms provided by the British government “just in case it somehow turns into a tax form instead”.’ No notes. as.ft.com/r/65cf2b43-6...

I've never observed a wider gap between self-confidence and lack of any actual understanding than in Badenoch. On other topics it can be comical, but when it extends to undermining gov't on matters of national security, in breach of established conventions, it is profoundly dangerous. #PMQs

This is jaw-droppingly stupid of Badenoch. As James says, the Type 45 is literally built from the ground up for air defence - its entire role is to protect a naval task group from air threats, whether that's aircraft, anti-ship missiles, or ballistic missiles.

Before ANY MAN comments that they do not like skinny women--this is not about your personal preference as a man. It is about the patriarchal narrative of women's value. The pressure women feel to exist and work in a male-dominated industry, dictating the rules, is the problem. End.

This new trend of women looking like skeletons is very concerning. As a slender but big-boned, 6ft tall woman who was pursuing an acting career in the 90s when size 0 was the new way to be, I know all about body hatred. What we see now is a whole new level of danger, & the patriarchy drives it. 1/

White leftists refuse to listen to anyone but themselves.

Lol, well why don't you tell the Greens Luke, since your strategy so far has been so DEVASTATINGLY effective?

An aside, but I’ve been marinating an idea for an article about how computer programs don’t work the same way as they used to and people still aren’t used to the new regime. Computers used to be like calculators where when the computer gave you an answer you would know that the answer was right.

On the latest episode of the podcast, @erinmaglaque.bsky.social joins Thomas Jones (@moonjets.bsky.social) to discuss the ways that Caravaggio represented his models’ bodies on canvas and what makes his paintings so unnerving. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

I hate war but I love this

It is true that he has absolutely no real views whatsoever but that's actually really helpful in this situation, because you should take it as a clear sign and a win if someone with no beliefs feels the wind is blowing in your direction.

Rob Grant obituary

The “shield” is intolerable here as well. “Parents tried to shield their children from water. Instead they died of dehydration.” That’s what the @nytimes.com headline here says. Both “shield” and “instead” appallingly reinforce anti-vax attitudes and frames.

I have a new piece in The Argument. We haven't (yet?) seen AI affect the labor market by increasing number of people who are unemployed - but there's reason to believe it's contributing to a stagnant labor market by making firms less willing to hire. www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-tinder...

"... to compel people to return home voluntarily..."

This was my favorite class in college.

Hang it in the The Louvre! * Hugh Grant is right - the privatisation of water is a scam, and it's a Very English Scandal that no-one has been brought to justice for the destruction of our rivers and seas. We need public ownership, and oversight, now. * (with extra security)

The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.

This perfectly illustrates my point that the British tabloids are aiming at a US audience. There like 5 people in the UK who think about this. But it is huge among US evangelicals. British politicians need to ignore UK tabloids, as UK tabloids are talking to an audience in the US for clicks.

yeah the damage a single bad billionaire can do wildly outstrips any positive impact even a theoretically ideal billionaire can have more, I think that the kind of person you need to be to become a billionaire tends to select for the worst outcomes in all but the rarest of cases

"Politcs? Hah! You couldn't get into politics!" My all-time Jean Harlow moment in DINNER AT EIGHT isn't her closing exchange with Marie Dressler; it's the knock-down-drag-out marital scrap where she wipes the floor with Wallace Beery. The great Harlow was #BornThisDay in 1911 in Kansas City, Mo.

"The team also consulted family members, who confirmed that while they love you deeply, they have quietly stopped defending you to relatives."

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Let's arm the Kurds, encourage them to fight our wars for us and certainly not betray them as soon as Iran gets a friendly strongman or abandon them after a month, right?