I can't help thinking that if Starmer immediately sacked Mahmood he would greatly improve his popularity with most Labour MPs and voters.

To be fair Mahmood is all about telling people to get out. So this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Times: Starmer told by Mahmood and other senior cabinet ministers to depart.

Mahmood figured it out? Mahmood? Oh, this is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.

Gas is nearly $5 a gallon, groceries are through the roof, housing is unaffordable, and the "American dream" of home ownership is damn near no more Who would want to bring a child into this bullshit world and timeline? Fuck off Oz

Hey Doctor Oz, how many Americans are underpaid, underhoused, and underinsured?

Expect every 'guarantee' that a trump-backed project is a lie and things will be more expensive and shoddy than before.

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.

You know Pete Hegseth duct taped someone’s butt cheeks together in a high School right?

I was graduating from college the last time we had this kind of pull-up-the-ladder economy, and this is going to materially affect an entire generation in ways people are going to be so eager to ignore.

Secretary Rumpekstilskin is still trying to make gold out of straw. 1/ www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2026/05/empt...

NEW: Despite a long-standing court order, the NYPD didn’t audit thousands of stops made by its Community Response Team, which has a history of unconstitutional policing and has drawn hundreds of civilian complaints.

Right-wing SCOTUS justices will be all “I know a trick” and it’s just letting state legislatures disenfranchise black people like they’ve been doing for 160 years

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Dear NBC: STOP kissing up to the NFC East teams! JUST STOP IT. There's other conference divisions to show on Sunday nights!!!

Sean Duffy’s reality series is getting slammed for all of the obvious reasons, but don’t look past the fact that his show is being sponsored by companies his department oversees and regulates. In other words, it’s not just a political mess, it’s also an ethical one. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The American revolution is best understood by the American people as an uprising by the people against a wealthy elite who taxed the people and denied them equal representation. If this is the fight the right wants to have against AOC. Let’s. Fucking. Have. It. The tea is in the harbor.

"We do not really need more Democratic politicians chastising each other about the best way to massage slogans and flip maybe a handful of Trump voters. What we need, as messaging is absolutely unrelenting demands that Democratic elites use their power in office to crush fascism."

Ghoulish stuff, and deeply counterproductive. The message this sends to immigrant communities is “Do not call the police. If you saw a crime? No you didn’t. If you were a victim of a crime? No you weren’t. If you see a cop? Run.”

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...

These cases expose just how bizarre it is to have an immigration system that effectively falls outside of the criminal + civil legal systems. The criminal system has already dealt with these charges, yet our "non-punitive" immigration system can be weaponized to harm them years later.

What a powerful photo. Famous journalist @katiephang.bsky.social examines evidence and surfaces clues from the Epstein files released by the US government.

Fervo (advanced geothermal) seeing strong demand for their IPO. I haven't closely dug in to their financials but really hoping to see this one do well. *FERVO ENERGY NOW SEEKS UP TO $1.82B IN IPO, WAS UP TO $1.33B *FERVO ENERGY BOOSTS IPO RANGE TO $25-$26 FROM $21-$24

Slightly increase a band The Rolling Large Boulders the Size of Small Boulders

I visited Seoul in 1994 and returned a few years ago, and it’s really hard to understate how dramatically this daylighting project transformed the city. m.youtube.com/watch?v=-I5q...

I’m not sure about Central and Eastern Washington, but ICE abductions are anecdotally ramping up along the I-5 corridor, and I hope that people are planning accordingly. Take WAISN’s Rapid Response training and join their team. Find the folks in your neighborhood who are organizing mutual aid and RR

The odd thing about these Trump proposals, which I don’t think anyone in the White House understands, is that every time they declare victory and markets respond approvingly it actually extends the war. The buoyant financial economy is preventing Trump from accepting that the strategy failed.

If you're dopey enough to put down a deposit on something a Trump family member clearly states in black and white may not even be produced, well, buddy, you're on your own.

Kherson remains one of the most dangerous areas of Ukraine, with kamikaze drones targeting civilians daily (even during this weekend’s “ceasefire”). But that hasn’t stopped the Hachiko team bringing food to displaced dogs & cats who still live there. Here’s Denis working today:

Visited Las Vegas this weekend and the gas prices there are

Dean… this is the gas station in Washington DC and the building right next to it is the Heritage foundation

Nothing to see here, folx 🫠

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

@bodegacats.bsky.social Mama cat Ocean never worked in a bodega but she would have succeeded at it. Happy Mother's Day.

ICYMI: Leaked memos reveal just how much the Supreme Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has betrayed the constitution. | Esquire #legal www.esquire.com/news-politic...

the cookies and drinks are not what's causing airlines to lose money. the increasing costs of gasoline thanks to trump's war on Iran are.

@midnightpals.bsky.social Mary Wollstonecraft: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, I call this the tale of the daughter who DIDN'T have sex on her mother's tomb. Mary Shelley: Wollstonecraft: Shelley: Wollstonecraft: you're supposed to say "Happy Mother's Day," child Shelley:

Ukraine Drone Strikes Are Driving Vladimir Putin Into Bunker Hideaways www.forbes.com/sites/kevinh...

“After Britain abolished slavery on 1 August 1834, £20m was paid in compensation to enslavers for loss of their “property”. The enslaved people themselves received nothing.”

We are going to see a great deal of this over the next few weeks and months. Even Farage doesn't really know what he's done. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

we're facing the most expensive war in ages, led by a Republican government that refuses to raise taxes to pay for shit, meaning we're building up massive debts we might not pay. And we're not even winning it. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

Racism as an ideology depends on lies. So racists, especially those who consider themselves to be intellectuals, tend to be very accomplished liars.

The other guy realized he'd said the quiet part out loud and tried to clean it up. But the idea that the 14th Amendment wasn't legitimately ratified is something that's been bouncing around in far-right and neo-Confederate circles for a long time. Not a random gaffe, he's surely encountered that.

Why is no one talking about this?! This Administration dismantled USAID, and now they want YOU to pay the bill. www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/w...

Zelensky issued an official presidential decree authorizing Russia to hold its Victory Day parade in Moscow tomorrow. He included the exact coordinates of Red Square. That's it. A+ trolling.

Democrats suck in many ways, but if you think the two parties are the same, keep in mind that right-wing billionaires and the Supreme Court justices they own disagree with you.

Never get injured on vacation.

The White House ballroom lawsuit just escalated. The preservation group suing Trump says DOJ made multiple “false statements” in court and delivered this brutal line: “All of this may be standard fare for a social media post. But in a federal court filing, it is neither appropriate nor permitted.”

ICE Agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr was charged with two counts of second-degree aggravated assault on Thursday after he pointed a gun at people in a vehicle on a Minnesota highway. It's the first criminal case brought against a federal immigration officer. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...