Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."

It's a good time to make plans for expanding your metro system if you are a European city. Because we are committed to reducing the carbon footprint, the E.U is more willing to give money to cities to expand metro lines. Brussels, Budapest, Amsterdam, with their far too small metros, should jump on.

If you’re an Islamophobe you don’t get to complain about antisemitism And if you’re an antisemite you don’t get to complain about Islamophobia. It’s really that simple. (So many shameless hypocrites around.)

Do I have a terrified hatred in my heart for a specific group of people who are doing me no harm whatsoever and are just trying to live there lives? OF COURSE I DO DARLINGS. But you’ll never know which group it is until I can buy my first castle without having to deny myself a yacht

I hate when Russia does these massive missile attacks. You know 4 hours in advance that death is about to rain down on a Ukrainian city, and all you can do is watch. 21st century horror.

To be quite frank, as someone from a country that has ID cards, I'm still against this nonsense from UKG because the very point of an actually useful ID card is that it is physical and you can keep it in your wallet.

Many Christians and cultural Christians should try taking some of their enthusiasm for "reclaiming the West" and "crusading for Christ" into going to Mass weekly and giving to the poor

If you support revoking the settled status of people who, even on your own contentious definitions, came to the country “legally” and are “fully integrated”, what, other than xenophobia, is your rationale?

I guess I’m just old fashioned, but i just can’t get behind anyone who has ever said they admire Putin.

Reform UK's own "one in, one out" policy. ~AA July 2024: 4 MPs July 2024: 5 MPs March 2025: 4 MPs May 2025: 5 MPs July 2025: 4 MPs Sept 2025: 5 MPs

A country where even mundane political disagreements, whether over universal healthcare or a political meme online, escalate into accusations of treason and calls for capital punishment is surely on the path to a bright future

The 1970s are when we screwed ourselves. All of Europe tried to find different sources of energy after the Arabs cut it during the Yom Kippur war. Germany pushed for the pipelines to the Soviet Union. Britain doubled down on coal. And France bet everything on nuclear energy. Only one was vindicated.

It will never cease to amaze me how so many espousing far-right views are ashamed to be called out for it If you don't want to be called far right, don't do things that are far right by definition. No one is forcing to have horrible politics which you too agree are horrible It's really simple

“bouie is engaged in ritual progressive denunciation,” nah dude i just don’t like you

We should condemn political violence, even against people we find abominable, unless we are prepared to trust the judgement of every violent individual as to who the villains are. We can believe this and express sympathy for the victim's families without retroactively lionizing their politics.

This is basically the story of how I stopped equivocating on Palestine

Don't dance around it, don't make jokes about it, don't hedge as if it's merely suggestive of the possibility or we need more evidence to confirm. This is a literal signed confession that the president is a pedophile. He is guilty of that most monstrous of crimes. Say it plainly and directly.

This episode of MAGA trying to rile up a racist frenzy using one out of many murdered Ukrainians who they all mocked before, just because this is the one murder in which the murderer is black, has to be one of the most disgusting things in this entire war.

That’s not how grown men who are attracted to grown women draw boobies.

I've concluded that Starmer is the perfect lawyer. He rigorously stuck to the rules, independently of his own personal views. Given the rules, he will keep them. But when it comes to making the rules, he's absolutely bloody clueless and lacks independent thought or imagination or principle.

Rayner was careless about her stamp duty liability in Brighton and paid the political price for lack of due diligence. Farage - as is now on the public record - lied about his stamp duty situation in Clacton yet carries on regardless.

I think it’s a huge flaw that liberalism attracts the kind of people who think the reason it lost is that it didn’t “make the case” when the real reason seems to be that it didn’t “crush dissent” or even like put the guy who tried to do a coup against it in jail

The political problems of <party> are caused by listening too much to <people who annoy me>, getting distracted by <any issue I don't care about> and not focusing enough on <my pet peeve>.

I think the problem is that liberals think liberalism is a structure and not an ideology. They're playing Monopoly and think their role is to be The Bank and not a player

When Yeltsin was too ill/drunk to be seen in public, the official explanation was: "The president is working with documents." Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I'm a single issue voter since 2022. I vote for what ever party is the most anti-Russian. And I encourage other Europeans to do the same until the war is over.

Here's a fact for you all. Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK. Not ONE. This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit. But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.

I hope the Ukrainians use the two weeks before the summit with Putin to blow up as much of the Russian oil industry as possible with their new ballistic missiles. Besides ensuring we don't buy Russian oil again, it would be an appropriate final fuck you to Orbán.

"Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to argue to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic. And yet even in the Trump era, when the bad faith is so thinly veiled, liberals remain reluctant to treat it as disqualifying." Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.

One thing I always enjoy about Tolkien is that you can see the man was legitimately horrified by the very concept of sexual assault by only ever depicting it as something The Actual Dark Lord even contemplates.

Maybe it’s just me, but I will say that I find the normal, Washington D.C. reportorial voice and attitude—worldly, knowing, ironic—off-putting when writing about a child rapist.

Nobody in Europe "despises" AC. There is simply a large community of people who have not psychologically adapted to the knowledge that we might have to start installing it. It's not that dramatic. Stop being so dramatic.

I don't know how many different ways can I say this to Westerners: if you cannot advocate for a better world without the regalia of a totalitarian regime of yesteryear, that existed in living memory by a lot of us, then all I can recommend is that you fuck off.

I suspect if you are starting a new political party, the best course of action is to actively reject anyone who comes to you wanting to be an MP/candidate and headhunt mostly apolitical, decent people.

Musk sort of ended the ‘should billionaires exist?’ debate for me imo, the tail risk of someone with that much unaccountable power going nuts is clearly too great.

I'd also add: no willingness to do hybrid warfare on offense. If we have mysterious fires at an ammunition plant in Germany and there's probative SIGINT, one should burn in Russia too.

An illustration to put russian smugness in perspective. Somewhere around 2018, during my time as 🇺🇦ambassador in Austria, I was informed of contacts between Catholic Church & 🇷🇺 Orthodoxy. Catholics were doing the Christian thing: reaching out a friendly hand, trying to smooth out existing problems. ⬇️

I will say you don't run on expanding the court because even now the general public doesn't know or care. You run on crushing corruption and lowering grocery prices and whatever else and then just fucking do it when you have power.

I've come to really value Australians, Canadians, Taiwanese, and Argentinians over the last 3 years. Residing in completely different hemispheres, often with their own problems in their neighbourhood, yet here they are, coming to Europe to help in a time of need. We will not forget.

Lots more military targets need to be destroyed in Iran.

i remember a lot of people saying Biden was foolishly risking nuclear war by helping Ukraine defend itself? Their boy Trump is out here now just threatening the nuke Russia for no reason. Enjoy!

Can't believe we waited 2 and a half years for the oil price to crash to a level that it would start hurting the Russian economy. Sanctions, busting sanctions busters, diplomacy, years of work. And now trump just blasts all that effort for fucking what?!

The US bombs a regime that *threatens* to make a nuclear bomb, but the regime that threatens to USE actual nuclear bombs is not bombed.

Europe is under a near constant threat of Russian attack, while repeatedly being targeted in a campaign of Russian Hybrid warfare. Frankly, any Palestine activist who sabotages any military equipment used in defending Europe, should be charged as a Russian intelligence asset.

US is getting its next forever-war, Russia is strengthened, and the world economy takes a dive. It is also raising the cost for EU to help Ukraine win the war against Russia. All of it because an Alzheimer's patient wanted to show that he has big hands. 5/5

I think this was unnecessary and there is a high chance we will regret this if the regime doesn't fall. There was a diplomatic path out of this. Iran is where Poland was in the 1980s. It would have been smarter to play the long game and trust the Iranian people to overthrow the regime.

The Conclave really chose an American in 2025 for the same reason they chose a Pole in 1978

Good point - Al Capone had more capacity to kill these men than any immigrant or even cartel and yet here they are, showing their faces because they aren’t ashamed of their work