'Yeah, let's make the whole of England look like Belfast's Shankill Road at the height of sectarian violence in the 1980s', said no one more than five minutes ago.

this was the worst thing about Trump 1.0, every week felt like a year I cannot fucking believe people wanted to go back to this

Probably the most important but neglected scandal about Mandelson. Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer. What a carousel of cronyism

This is both depressing and spot on - particularly in light of the Shattered Britain report that’s just come out from @moreincommonuk.bsky.social

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: Two tiny humans (1 & 2?) are sitting in a red cart pulled by Mum. One is dressed like a crocheted woolly bunny, the other like a dragon. Their expressions benevolent as they survey their subjects, accepting all appreciative looks and adoration. (1)

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

Starting to think these folks aren’t the “free thinkers” they think they are

The “millionaire exodus” to which the British press devoted at least 30 stories a day was a myth

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

This is exactly what I needed today.

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People treat health apps with the same trust as their diaries or their GP and that trust is willingly abused by authorities. This is chilling.

Are we absolutely certain he isn’t trying to raze the party to the ground? Trying to identify the strategy here.

So many questions 😬

Thanks to his tweet, today I learned about the bata scoir

you want to know one reason people are losing trust in the media? it’s the total inability to call things what they are some guy on YouTube: “wow this is the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen” the Times: “critics say it raises appearance of impropriety” who are people going to take seriously?

It appears that Big Fashion wants women to wear ties this season and I, for one, am not having it.

If you haven’t seen this smart small businesswoman take a moment - she’s awesome in her clarity #econsky

I’ve said many times that I am a better person for having read Discworld, and it’s true if you’re going to base your morality off a book you could hardly do better than Pratchett

Zuckerberg deserves to burn in the deepest circle of hell.

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” - Thomas Pynchon I think about that a lot these days.

Schism now

A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????

3) Moving right on immigration normalizes the radical right, their positions and rhetoric. Normalization is a key precondition for electoral expansion of the radical right. Programmatic accommodation and collaboration normalize the radical right and open new segments of the electorate for it.

This is true for mainstream right and left parties. The move happens strategically to win back voters of the radical right and not just in response to public opinion. 2) This does not work. These strategies do not win back voters from the radical right. If anything, the radical is the net winner.

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

Well either r/TemuThings is a surprisingly blue Dem echo chamber or a lot of red voters are finding out … and they are not happy www.reddit.com/r/TemuThings...

Started my uni degree in 1990. Cheaper fees but better staff-student ratios than now. Got better feedback on assignments. Also had a better uni campus social life. Uni students now are getting hosed.

To state the obvious: It is hard to conduct effective foreign policy when being seen as too aligned with you represents a potential 25+ point electoral liability for prospective partners.

Australia has a media where a Nazi protest leads to multiple articles wondering if they are making a good point. FFS.

If you think fertilized eggs have rights but 2-year-old US citizens with cancer don’t, stop pretending your concerns are “the children.”

Wild that just a few years ago pronouns and Latinx were hills that people wanted to die on, but today we're deporting US citizen children and people are kinda like oh well what's new on Netflix about it.

Never, not once, in 50 years, in hundreds of hours spent in loo queues, have I EVER seen a woman who I felt uncomfortable about because she might have a different biological past. The utter venal nonsense of trans exclusion is built on addressing the most foolish, flimsy straw man.

So the "Association of Women who believe Trans Women are Women" would be forbidden to admit trans women?

so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.

This Anzac Day, I’m remembering that when Commonwealth Allies are threatened, we stand at their side. When fascism grows like cancer, we have opposed it. When despots turn on their people, we have defended citizens over tyrants. Our errors as a nation are legion, but these principles should hold.

This Anzac Day, I’m remembering that when Commonwealth Allies are threatened, we stand at their side. When fascism grows like cancer, we have opposed it. When despots turn on their people, we have defended citizens over tyrants. Our errors as a nation are legion, but these principles should hold.

these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism

The Vietnamese word for a ladybird, bọ rùa, means “turtle bug.” The Ukrainian word, сонечко (sonechko), means “little sun.” And the Norwegian word, marihøne, means “Mary’s chicken.” But my favourite word for a ladybird will always be the Welsh buwch goch gota, which I’d translate as “stubby red cow”

Pope Francis chose that name after Saint Francis of Assisi, the barefoot radical who gave up his wealth to live among lepers, animals, & the poor. A man who didn’t see nature as a resource, but as “a mirror of God.” In a world where profit trumps life, that name was a provocation.

Sign of the day…

incredible scenes when you have a president who hasn't achieved object permanence

I have no more patience for people who can't see how inhumane transphobia is

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

The Nuremberg Trials would’ve been a lot easier if Nazis had taken selfies at their camps

On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies. Solidarity 💜 goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...