Brad Lander is now a guaranteed future Congressman

I think of Cuba and Malaysia as essentially opposite poles of this. In strict political terms, Malaysia is without doubt the more democratic country. But Cuba is also without doubt the more socially progressive country in terms of the rights of women, LGBT people, and ethnic minorities.

Banning Popehat was a profoundly stupid move by Bluesky. Moderation is a very difficult job at this kind of scale, and I tend to grant lots of leeway for that reason. But this move was simply indefensible.

If Popehat is permanently banned because of this post, I’m genuinely concerned about the viability of this platform. Hopefully, someone like @masnick.com knows more about what’s happening and whether this is just a temporary suspension

See, this is why I hate the best 3rd-place format. Despite the middling performance, a 0-0 draw here will functionally put England through to the knockout stages. Just so much less jeopardy at the group stage.

Still find it wild that the "Boston Stadium" can be 22 miles away from Boston.

Other trains on Sodor moaning about the favouritism given to the express engines:

Well that was a deeply uncomfortable segue, Gabby Logan 😬

US policy towards Cuba for the past 200 years, summarised in a sentence:

OK, well can they release some of that frost to the rest of us please, it's boiling out here?

Reminder that Arron Banks' whole origin story is that he was a Tory donor who was infuriated that despite this William Hague still didn't know who he was.

Repeatedly I feel further reinforced in feeling that so much of how schools try to socialise kids to behave and act justified on as being Just So or "that's just how the real world is" phenomena are really just either ingrained prejudices or huge institutional failures.

Any kind of humiliation punishment is always done for the sadistic pleasure of the humiliator (and their audience if there is one), and the idea that it's some sort of deterrent is just a lie that they tell themselves to justify it.

By this logic it should be at least sometimes possible to win every single voter but one, since every single hypothetical grouping of three voters has a median voter.

Again the "fractal racism" - racism towards migrants and refugees themselves is taken as a given, that we should not be required to take them - but other countries should be, because *our* anti-immigrant racism is more important than theirs.

So many of the people who defend the Occupation out of an anti-anti-Israel worldview don't believe that there are dead Palestinian children with Israeli bullets in their heads. They think there are things that their opponents on Twitter say that they have to counter.

This is pure speculation on my part, but I do wonder if it encourages thinking about this kind of thing in a very particularly individualised way.

Though, "I have been the most physically attacked politician in Britain for now well over a decade" I understand Nugent was pushing on the donations issue, but an appropriate response might've been "Really, have you tried telling David Amess that?"

"No-one cares, apart from the media" - Man who chose to give media interview about it

The article takes great effort to mention that the trans woman prisoner in question committed sexual assault and that her partner in prison killed a child, but you'll search in vain for any mention of the fact that Sutherley was in prison for stabbing a man to death with a pair of scissors.

So, despite the headline, reading between the lines the "divide" is actually between Ronaldo's personal relatives and associates lying and bullying anyone who criticises him, and the majority of 🇵🇹 players, pundits and fans trying to diplomatically persuade him to step back for the good of the team.

It's utterly incoherent and I suspect they know it, because the current state of UK judicial interpretation on LGBT rights is incoherent.

Not quite medication, but my school had an absurd total ban on makeup for students but not teachers. In practice most teachers would turn a blind eye to subtle makeup and give a quite private warning to anyone overdoing it, but there was one teacher who'd make girls wipe off makeup in front of her.

Tangent but there is definitely an ageist pattern whereby older people taking regular medication is considered perfectly normal and standard while younger people doing so (even the exact same medications!) is treated as unnatural, shameful, and to be avoided if at all possible.

Also, in all but one case, the new World Cup goal recordholder has simply played more games than the person they replaced. Stabile 1930 - 8 (4 games) Ademir 1950 - 9 (6) Kocsis 1954 - 11 (5) - the one exception Fontaine 1958 - 13 (6) Muller 1974 - 14 (13) Ronaldo 2006 - 15 (19) Klose 2014 - 16 (24)

Being barefacedly explicit about the fact that: - She and her cohort consider transition to be a negative outcome in and of itself - They conceptualise the purpose of "talk therapy" as discouraging patients from transitioning - Transness is considered as both 'disabling' and 'unnatural'

The right to be cool strikes again — the issue isn't that an idea is really marginalized but implicitly that it's challenged by a group whose respect is coveted. Readers of The Cut are thinking differently about heterosexuality, yes. But queer feminism isn't culturally dominant. It's under attack.

He can and should be mocked as a crazy weirdo, but worth remembering Uri Geller's track record of "close personal friends" - if Trump is indeed the latest, he certainly has a type...

Messi clearly has aged a bit more gracefully than Ronaldo, and the rest of Argentina's team is better than Portugal's, but it's noticeable that they're still overly centring the team around a guy who is visibly getting too old to keep up with guys 15-20 years younger than him.

Worth recalling that the main political strategists who advocated this were Matt Goodwin (who we can safely say at this point wasn't a disinterested actor) and Morgan McSweeney (who managed not to notice at any point that Labour didn't even win this bloc in 2024)

Every detail that has come out about Donaldson's crimes has been worse than the one before.

Those poor girls :( www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/cour…

Japanese Army, Shenyang, 4 June 1928:

Some dude among the cheering Petrograd crowds, 16 April 1917:

Would be pretty funny if Burnham just stepped off the train and said "Actually mate, I've changed my mind, I'm not gonna do it, I'm off home" and then got right back on the same train.

Keir Starmer will return in Avengers: Doomsday.

When you definitely have a very functional and united party.

I hate to break it to the European diplomat quoted in @politico.eu this morning, but increasing the return rate will make no difference to the far right. They will just move on to demanding forced remigration. It’s not like there aren’t hundreds of examples of this already.

Openly, yes, though Britain has certainly had gay monarchs before. I think it's now pretty broadly accepted by historians that James VI & I was probably gay, and certainly either gay or bi.

First gay party leader depends on how you count it. It's the Liberals if you mean the first leader known to be gay, Scottish Greens if you mean first openly gay leader of any party holding elected office, Plaid Cymru if you mean first openly gay leader of a party holding Westminster seats.

I can't wait to see if the phenomenon of continuity online Starmerites develops after his resignation, will be so funny.

NiP being homophobic shits, nothing new Mr Dučić says he's very concerned about the "desecration" of the RBiH flag being used as a "fashion detail" - despite anyone who walks through Sarajevo will see it constantly used as a fashion detail on t-shirts, hats, fridge magnets, coffee cups, beers, etc

There is a strain in Labour, not so much the party right as such but the "anti-left", which essentially wants to tell all current Labour members and supporters that they are all idiots for supporting the party, because Labour is in fact terrible and no-one in their right mind would ever for them.

The idea that Ron Atkinson "never worked again" after saying the n-word is just objectively nonsense and shows basic research laziness. He got his own show on Sky within just 2 years. He's a pundit on MUTV to this day!

I know racism doesn't make any coherent sense, but the concept of "destroying Europe" is so ridiculously meaningless. Like, I assume he just means "making Black and Brown people go there", but like, Rome brought more Black and Brown people to Europe than anyone before the Early Modern Era.

COTE D'IVOIRE!

King Tvrtko came to cheer on the gays

My heart is full, I feel like crying. Never loved this city as much as I do now. I'm so glad I came. SVE NAM BOJE DOBRO STOJE