It's a real shame that the one area Trump's presidency isn't similar to how the mafia operates is what happens to lieutenants who've let him down.

We also encourage all library lovers and supporters to keep pushing their council members towards 0.5%. The council is moving in the right direction, with more council members committing to our funding benchmark every week. We can make this happen!

"We at NYC PLAN are glad to see the City Council acknowledge how urgent it is to end the budget dance on crucial library services, and the additional money they propose is a step in the right direction, but if they're giving libraries a lower percentage than Mayor Adams’ final adopted budget,+

"We're going to do good sanctions to stop Iran's bad sanctions". www.bbc.com/news/article...

I can't tell you my favourite tweet but I can tell you my favourite thread.

You can quibble about whether the USA "deserved" 9/11 but it absolutely was an outcome of decades of monstrous US foreign policy. And the targets, the offices of the executive, the military HQ and the nexus of finance for overseas attrocities would be seen as legitimate targets if hit by the US.

Iran engaging in what can only be described as a charm offensive.

I don't think liberals would've allowed Sanders to win in 2016/2020 but if he had managed to win the primaries we'd at least be able to throw "You voted for Bloomberg" at libs complaining about people not voting for genocide.

For the first time ever, Arab states use the term apartheid in a joint statement condemning Israel for its passage of a new and openly racist death penalty law.

Amazon: "Iran used special time travelling bombs so old the really old bodies found stuffed in the walls were also killed by them."

Power is still off. Please help us get it back on?

Liberals say shit like this and what they mean by ride to battle is vote

This is NOT what I signed up for

Today's discourse about LLM boosters' hurt feelings is another clear example of this. People who gleefully and publicly anticipated millions, if not billions of people being made destitute complaining someone was mean to *them*.

The obvious, morally consistent stance is to oppose Kanye performing at the Wireless festival and Israel performing at Eurovision.

Interesting which bit of “suspicion of causing racially and religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress” decided to cut for the headline, isn’t it?

Dramatic scenes at BBC Breakfast.

Without fail every person who supports ~tough decisions~ to kill disabled people/Palestinians/refugees etc etc will default to "you're hurting my feelings and that's not on" as soon as they get pushback.

As noted among the replies, there’s every chance this was done to make my video look melodramatic, like it isn’t a real problem. One reinstated video does not solve a single thing about the underlying system. Had my video not touched a nerve, nothing would have been done. This fixes nothing.

“Two hundred Dalit workers, members of the [oppressed] caste in India’s rigid social hierarchy, came rom Rajasthan to New Jersey to work on the temple... Dalit workers are also purportedly not allowed to worship in these temples because of their caste ranking” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The way american mainstream Christianity (and I'm sorry but US evangelism and conservative Catholicism are mainstream) treats theology and scripture is indistinguishable from how the mafia does.

Well, I think that says it more succinctly and eloquently than I ever could

Labour is collectively punishing all NHS users in an attempt to turn the public against the doctors. It's absolutely grotesque, yet merely the latest thing on a very long list of things for which the party must never, ever be forgiven.

I... uh... am not sure framing the result of Iran somewhat successfully resisting American/Israeli attack, as a result of spending decades planning and preparing for it, as "they do not submit because they think differently than us in the West" is a good thing to do.

The people currently in charge of NASA and the US government threw a tantrum about the movie First Man framing landing on the moon as an achievement for all of humanity and not just America. Similarly they were unhappy Ryan Gosling is Canadian. So it's hard to be inspired by the launch yesterday.

Today is international children's book day. A specific group of adults, mostly now middle aged, should take the opportunity to find a new children's book to obsess over.

Matthew Holehouse a professional ‘journalist’ at The Economist doesn’t like it when he’s asked to use Alt text

And this is the watered down welfare cuts that Labour backbenchers fought Starmer very hard to get. He's going to use the looming economic catastrophe to austerity waaaay more disabled people to death. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Everything is fine and good. HAHA April FOOLED motherfuckers!

Kinda disappointed Robbie Collin gave Super Mario Galaxy a two star review. It's always entertaining when he really doesn't like a film.

A lot of otherwise smart people around who apparently don’t know how to properly articulate the simple sentence “I have completely fucked it in the worst possible way, sorry about that”.

"Notoriously transphobic Labour MP whose husband is accused if spying for China has affair with Royal Navy submarine captain" is quite a story

Good stuff from the creator of Claude Code at the end of December

I dunno, people have said some very nasty things to me online and I keep posting this trash. So if I can keep going someone who is paid to post stuff of national importance should be able to keep going through very (rightly) upset people criticising a very badly worded post.

Israel Katz is basically saying that Israel are going to demolish a load of homes in southern Lebanon so people won’t be able to go home; and will stay there after the war has ended, sad that more people who got upset over Russia invading Ukraine have very little to say on this

Yeah it's really looking like the White House briefing they don't care about the Strait of Hormuz is as truthful as their talk about diplomacy prior to 28th February.

Hahahahaha 😂 IT’S YOUR WAR TOO, YA’KNOW

Liberals very strongly believe you have to be polite to them or you don't deserve any support from them. Vice versa, not so much.

This has literally resulted in more of a target being put on trans people. bsky.app/profile/rvbd...

At the end of the day, the inability of those of us who are cis to decentre ourselves and put the safety of trans people above our own need for comfort will continue to put trans people in jeopardy.

I don't know why I own Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai on DVD. It's a good film and I'm glad I do but I got it a veeeery long time ago and I'm surprised me at that age had heard of it and was interested in buying it.

This is true but also perhaps the 180k follower journalists should be able to deal with a few mean comments that get less than 10 likes each. Trans people are a liiiiiiiiitle on edge right now so theres gonna be bad reactions to even the most charitable reporting of news about us Happy tdov right?

Alleged paedophile replaced by open xenophobe (Rylan Clarke) as host of the genocide celebration show. Britain is very sick. www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/scot...

Trump, repeatedly: "If NATO won't throw away huge amounts of troops and material away re-openning the Strait of Hormuz I caused to cloase then they're completely on their own." British liberals: "Why would Zack Polanski personally and unilaterally end American support for NATO!??"

In context to this, 5th attack in 1 year, described as a "ransacking", even kids equipment got destroyed, at Stockport mosque. "We are scared to host the prayers now." Cops only said: "Police confirmed an investigation into the incident was ongoing." Uhhu. Sure. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It said that you could not be a legitimate therapist who offered that service. If the argument is that the state is unable to regulate the speech of therapists, we are in a very strange and weird space, since we do in fact regulate the speech of therapists in a number of ways already.

Vicious authoritarians only say "Après moi, le déluge" when they're very stressed. Quoting for alt text:

Organizations such as ILGA-Europe recently reclassified the UK as having "no functioning legal or administrative process for legal gender recognition." This places the UK alongside countries like Hungary and Russia in European rights rankings. rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/categories/l...

It's actually worse with lenacapavir, because Truvada was determined to be noninferior to Descovy and remained first-line, whereas Gilead will push like hell to ensure that doesn't happen again with Sunlenca, so their $$brand name$$ drug becomes the (only) first-line PrEP drug