You-know-who had the Enabling Act. Trump has the Supreme Court.

The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something? Wrote this on it earlier this week: inews.co.uk/news/world/b...

Well worth reading as always.

Long before we knew that we'd move to Glasgow, this poster was on our wall in Istanbul. I always wanted to see Citizens Theatre but it was closed for a long time. Finally, last night we went to see a play for the first time. The play 'So Young' was great but I was in awe of the building itself.

The side note is that they may NEED the filibuster when they lose both Houses of Congress next year...if they eliminate access to healthcare.

Hmn...did we have to invent Pop Culture before we invented Instantaneous Bollocks?

One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

Isn't it? Got some great bits in it though, depending on the translation.

In which the quintessentially British, quintessentially 20th Century Labour Party, having already given on Scotland, and losing Wales rapidly, gives up on England outside London. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The brute irony is that Trump's failure may save Europe from his avatars.

One reading of the First World War poets is that they were the last of their civilisation, all failing to understand the world shattering magnitude of what was happening to them, trying vainly to contain the experience in suddenly antique iambic pentameter.

Nothing he accuses anyone of is not something he's planning on doing. So we know he's already planning to rig the next elections, and that he'll justify it by claiming to believe that the other guys did it first. Schoolyard analysis is necessary for would be dictators.

If he was directly employed by the Communist Party of China, he couldn't do better than he's doing.

Which adults? All we have is obsessed toddlers shouting out ‘I can be nastier to immigrants than you’ in the loudest voices they can find. If you want to be considered the adults in the room, you need to behave like adults.

If the UK falls apart politically, and electing Reform might be the last thing British democracy ever does, then Scotland will need somewhere to go. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Fake Noozzzz....zzzzz....zzzzz...zzzzz."

Layoffs are reaching their highest levels since the pandemic, but America's corporate elite have never been doing better. Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Once they leave the womb, children cease to be important, apparently.

If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So worth a trillion a year...

When I was first elected, evidence showed it would take 193 years to bring London's air pollution within legal limits. Due to our policies, we've done it in 9. In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.

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I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.

It's rather more useful, and less comforting, to wonder about how someone so smart came to believe something so dumb. That is, to hold two contradictory ideas about someone (or some cultures) at the same time seems much more worthwhile.

It seems pretty risky to tell people they won't see the change they want if they vote Green, given that they already voted Labour and didn't see the change they wanted.

That WW2 veteran who says that winning the war "wasn't worth it" for the state we are now in is just plain wrong. Naziism was an evil that caused the deaths of millions and the systematic murder of millions more. Defeating it was necessary. We need to stop treating every old person as a holy sage.

How can a civilised country go completely insane? How much is pretence? How much is demographic panic? How much is bull goose lunacy?

Good grief. This administration is so soft on crime.

Trump accuses people of doing what he is already planning to do. He will claim he is responding to vote rigging because he intends to rig the vote in the midterms...and when the Dems protest, he can declare an emergency and become president for life. Is he that crazy? What do you think?

As we knew. And as the idiotic politicians should have realised.

I think the list of arguments for extinction is longer than THAT!

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

Who's the boss, punk-ass?

The overwhelmng economic fact is the market for cheap labour without which the weekly shop (for Reform voters as well as everyone else) would be twice as much.

Also, organised crime steps in where the legal market can't go. Immigration, cheap labour, untaxed booze and fags, drugs. If you want to build the mafia, introduce prohibition. Otherwise regulate and licence the marketplace.

Just go mad. And the world will go mad with you. (How good a breakfast can one man eat? How many houses can one man live in?) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s so normal and so many people are so weird about him. And it becomes really hard to miss the fact it’s mostly because he’s Muslim

Now THAT is going to have a shelf life...

Do they still own ASDA?

Are they planning to sell it or eat it?

looking forward to more hard-hitting journalism from the times like "Does the Negro Belong in the Modern Office?" and "Do Homosexuals Have a Place in Schools?"

A major protest has been held outside the offices of Grand Theft Auto developers Rockstar Games in Edinburgh, after more than 30 staff were allegedly sacked for trade union activity.

I'm enough of a Presbyterian to find that observation vaguely worrying.

Now THERE'S a sentence I wasn't expecting.

👀 WOW — “Speaker Johnson is stalling Grijalva until Van Epps gets there to cancel out her vote?” TN-7 nominee @aftynbehn.bsky.social tells us Johnson plans for Van Epps to help him cover up the Epstein files. (His weak answer to NC5 is another clue🕵️ )

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

If anyone was looking for solid evidence that a crash is imminent, here it is: