It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

NEW Jane Austen as a writer about law Some notes on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, by me (And also why there is only one good adaptation of her works.) emptycity.substack.com/p/jane-auste...

December 25th. The day the Fellowship departs Rivendell to destroy the One Ring. Whatever you celebrate, may you have the courage to take the first steps to defy and endure against the dark, and rekindle light into the world.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

And people say Labour are ineffective 😂

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

Noam Chomsky has spent about 60 years telling us that billionaires control the world through corporate propaganda.

One should always be suspicious when the state resists disclosure of documents. And one should be more suspicious when the state suddenly purports to agree to the disclosure of documents.

Definitely one for Bluesky

Contributor CJ Shearwood examines how the UK wargaming landscape has transformed in recent decades, and the clear connections to austerity politics.

Can someone please buy Simon Jenkins a dictionary as he appears to not understand what the word "right" means. Literally anyone can be a columnist, you just make shit up. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#Leeds These women are wanted over a racially motivated attack - verbal and physical - on a man at Leeds Train Station. Do you recognise them? British Transport Police: tel 0700405040 or text 61016. Quote ref 2500140234. Or Crimestoppers (anonymous) tel 0800 555 111.

HAHAHAHAHA YEHA I'M SURE IT DOES JIM TRINCA REPORT REVEALS JIM TRINCA VIDEOS MAKE YOU FEEL 6X SEXIER THAN GAV MURPHY ONES

A white British father and son BOTH raped the same child and pled guilty to multiple counts of Sexual assault. This has been in the press for 2 days. The Mirror is the only National newspaper to report on it… And THAT’s why people have such a skewed perception of the links between race and SA🤷🏼‍♀️

So the Tories get a terf, a racist, and a fucking lunatic.

Hi @bsky.app , when you suspend people for posts that apparently break the rules, it'd really help if you tell us what posts are actually at fault so we can maybe learn what you have issue with?

It's not shocking that an organization formed by an asshole and staffed by assholes to try and make more assholes has an asshole problem.

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.

"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."

Éimear Murphy can, and I cannot emphasize this enough, go fuck herself

Yes Sultana, it was definitely you that did that

So they'll be completely ineffectual, put their cause back by a decade, become self proclaimed terrorists, then when other people actually do the work and make change happen, they'll get all the credit? Great. I hate it here www.bbc.com/news/article...

And it is courage that Americans have repeatedly refused to demonstrate Biden told Zelenskyy to cut and run specifically because he could see the Russians’ attack plan, and faced with it reasoned that cutting and running is what he would personally do in those circumstances and Zelenskyy should too

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

Hey @bsky.app can we get the account base country info on here too?

evergreen

Honestly low key becoming the best PM we never had. Also basically the only MP of any party with an actual serious and coherent industrial policy

NEWS! President Trump urges journalists not to embarrass his guests by mentioning the murders they have committed

@danneidle.bsky.social What's your view on replacing (either in full or in part) income tax with a land value tax?

The comparisons between McSweeney and Campbell are missing the point. We hated Campbell because his job was to be hated. He took the flak for all the bad shit of New Labour so Blair could take the credit for the good stuff. He had a job and he did it. We hate McSweeney because he's incompetent.

in this week's newsletter! I offer to you the Superhero Movie Theory of why both Labour and the Tories have become unable to govern: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/all-my-hob...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

The corruption never ends

They should do one called Thatcher's Hero and the can's got a photo of General Pinochet

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

I have been screaming this to the heavens for years and it’s lovely to see more people noticing: BEING safe is a right, FEELING safe is between you and your therapist. And the demand to FEEL safe is constantly weaponized to deprive other people of their real, actual safety.

Believing in astrology is such an underrated red flag and litmus test of a person.

If this means we're going to start getting to the loopy end of Skunk works again then I will take a sliver of happiness from this

Zohran is the guy we all thought and hoped Obama was

I think the last era of GTA we could have had a London revisit was the San Andreas era. They abandoned the stylised parody in favour of trying to be serious, and with it the ability of having someone walk across Shepherds Bush (I assume now called Milkmaid's Bush) with an RPG over their shoulder.

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

Hot take: Analytic philosophy is *not* obsessed with word meaning. Correct word meaning is crucial to any discussion! 90% of pointless argument is because nobody defined the meaning of a word or the purpose of an endeavor. It's like claiming mathematicians are obsessed with symbol meaning. Fah!

If I sound bitter, it is because of the sheer lack of seriousness of Trump and his cronies over both Gaza and Ukraine. A whole diplomacy based on stupidity, delivered by unexperienced and partial wannabes like Kushner and Witkoff.

The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)