American netizens are devising ingenious puns to avoid the country's pervasive online censorship.

50% of the UK media is variations on the Drunk Driving Dril tweet. The other 50% is the Racism Dial Dril tweet.

New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance. Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...

This is an extraordinary human failure from a supposedly progressive government. Jaw dropping www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nothing says decisive leadership like "we're going to hand this incredibly straightforward moral choice off to the country's famously ineffectual media watchdog"

Every media figure and politician could do exactly this right now. @garygannon signs off from X, the deepfake child sexual abuse material generation app.

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

This is a profoundly stupid thing for a UK government minister to say. This is objectively dumber than saying "I'm going to keep eating McDonalds because I'm Lovin' It!"

"Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter." In an age of cowards, it's great to see the FT simply bodying these clowns.

It's entirely unsurprising that fossil fuel lobbyists work within government on climate policy. Such is the state of our politics. abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/revealed-o...

Royce with a judicious dissection of Ezra Klein's reactionary treatise, Abundance.

The battle between petrostates and electrostates, by @climatemorgan.bsky.social

The justifications for the invasion of Venezuela from both US govt figures and pundits are a reminder that the US political establishment regards *all the world's resources* as belonging to America by divine right.

This explains so much. People with psychopathic traits and low cognitive ability are over-represented in online political activity. If someone is being cruel, obnoxious and ridiculous, don't try to reason with them. Chances are you won't get anywhere. Just block. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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it’s about oil and yet from an energy markets perspective that doesn’t make much sense, unless we assume USG all but seizes control of US oil companies. Karthik Sankaran outlines the doesn’t-make-sense reasons here: responsiblestatecraft.org/venezuela-oil/

How Silicon Valley embraced authoritarianism. My interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Aka almost no one on Earth, except for @garethdennis.uk, spends enough time talking about trains.

The US has captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and has flown him out of the country.

The United States is bombing Venezuela

A crucial point. Elon Musk and several other tech executives are right now producing and distributing child pornography, and that is how the media should be covering this.

I am old enough to remember when Apple and Google told the social media giants that they'd remove their apps from their app stores if they broke their terms of service. Weird!

New research: Being car-dependent is so awful that some people who drive everywhere still support restricting cars in urban areas. "Dissatisfaction with car-based mobility can foster openness to change – even among those most dependent on cars." doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

The US government is openly touting the deportation of 100 million people for not being white. British people should note that the majority of UK print and broadcast media are in lockstep with precisely this form of industrial-level racism.

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

This year has been brutal for the #climate movement. Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven. Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025. Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️

Story from two weeks ago, but Merriam-Webster naming Slop as the word of the year felt like a soupçon of justice.

Watch this. Adam sums up how a lot of us are feeling, and how we might deal with it, with help from @guiltyenviro.bsky.social

Peter Thiel’s Christmas party had an odd theme this year: “all things Britain.” (per NYT) As Trump sunsets and backlash builds, expect a focus shift to the UK—where some see brighter possibilities for fascism,network states, and monarchies.

Again,

This feels like a crisis, given YouTube's consistent propensity to shoehorn racist, far-right propaganda into feeds.

Mods are asleep, post blobby Qing dynasty cats

I see reactionary pundit Matthew Yglesias is back in the discourse once again. As ever, the old adage holds true: If you think you saw Matthew Yglesias make a great point, you didn't.

More anti-renewables astroturfing from the BBC, quoting exactly three (3) villagers opposed to a solar farm, and zero data.

The Trump administration has said it is immediately pausing all leases for offshore wind farms already under construction, in the heaviest blow yet to an industry that the administration has relentlessly targeted throughout the year.

We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero theconversation.com/we-analysed-...

MERRY CHIPMAS: I have a new @crikey.com.au piece about how a HUGE solar farm planned in north Aus planned to send power via cable to Singapore - but is now PIvoting To Data Centre As hydrogen projects collapse all over the place, the green export dream is dying... www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/23/d...

Question: Is it true to say that many people are more interested in their own opinion of a subject than they are in that subject? If so, what problems does this cause, and how do we address the root? Is this a sociological question? A psychological one?

“…so what was normal 10 years ago, 20 years ago, will become cool in the future…”. 2025 likely to be UK's hottest on record, says Met Office: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Snuck out just before Christmas, the Government has confirmed that one of the conditions of the UK rejoining the EU's internal market for electricity will be the UK once again being signed up to the Renewable Energy Directive, or obligations tantamount to it. /1 www.gov.uk/government/p...

This is where the "polarisation narrative" mixed with anti-populist discourse has led us: the centre left and the far right being painted as equal threats, meaning the failing status quo must be propped up, regardless of its reactionary nature link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Astonishing revelation: attempting to appease a dictatorial power simply causes that power to demand more concessions | EU Faces Renewed US Ire After ESG Cutbacks Fail to Calm Tensions

[Finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist] C̶a̶t̶s̶ Humanity can have a little s̶a̶l̶a̶m̶i̶ brutal beating of Jake Paul and Andrew Tate, as a treat

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

According to this article by a Labour MP, Zack Polanski is as divisive as Nigel Farage because he criticises corporate power.

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

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A truly poisonous, Both Sides framing that paints calls for a more equitable, inclusive politics as being every bit as divisive and extreme as white supremacist fascism.

Please share, and chip in if you can. www.crowdjustice.com/case/6-clima...