I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

YOU DID IT, FOLKS! Disney loses $4 billion in days, and Jimmy is back. Collective action works. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...

[insert dril "sorry. Im sorry. Im trying to remove it" tweet] www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Navaratri mubarak to all who celebrate, may the light ever overcome the darkness & may you always be blessed.

L'shana tovah tikatev v’tichatem/tikatevee v’tichatemee to my Jewish peops and to the Jewish people everywhere. May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year - one filled with love, joy, and many blessings. #RoshHashanah

In spite of everything we've seen happen over the last decade, there is still this astonishing naivety in some quarters about the capacity of norms of decency to somehow restrain the serially indecent.

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

And if the CPS - a Tufton Street unthink tank - withdraws its numbers, you know they had to be bad, because they're always fixing data to suit their chosen conclusion.

My analysis here not only explains why the CPS numbers are wrong - but estimates that if they'd got their own arithmetic right, they would have concluded that migrants are a large long-term fiscal *benefit*. (3/3) docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

Correct. This is why everyone who criticizes endorsing a popular Dem candidate for NYC Mayor or subpoenaing an admin incompetent, or doing anything more than writing a bloody letter, is wrong. You fight back everywhere, showing all you are fighting. Which brings you more fighters and some successes

A year late and millions of pounds short.

I'm surprised that no reviews have picked up on how annoying, whiny, and just plain stupid Anais is in #ARemarkablePlaceToDie. Her behaviour as a police officer in immature, impulsive, and unconscionable - and she really isn't that good at what she does. And her mother is even worse.

Deo gratias and decades overdue. I note the timing because I can't help it - the year is ending and a new one is about to begin. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

AOC responds to the Tom Homan story.

Basically me now

Colbert nailed Brendan Carr right between the eyes.

Labour is at its best when we are clear about whose side we are on, and in whose interests we serve, when our values shine through. I want us to be clear that our objective is to lift children out of poverty and that will mean we need to lift the 2 child benefit cap www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

A friend of mine said that middle school boys are now using "Kirked" as a euphemism for someone badly losing at a game, if that particular bit of linguistic joy hasn't made its way to you yet.

this exists it is called thinking

I saw a reference to Watergate and almost laughed out loud. Watergate wouldn’t break the top 10 scandals this month, let alone ending a presidency.

When Tr*mp mistreats a journalist at a press conference, all the other journalists should just get up and leave. And they should not need to be told this.

Conor Lamb was definitely the better choice here.

I'd talk to their children or people with melanin before making that call, especially if they're attending an evangelical church in Greg Abbott's state. And plenty of KKK members were charming & 'generous' to other ⚪️ people. What do they call brown or Black people? Mexicans?

I once had a South Asian woman tell me, like she was trying to be my therapist, about how I got on w/ men more than women. B/c men will fight me from the front, not stab me in the back. *Women are the flying buttresses of oppression* In desi culture, the MiL is often more abusive than the groom.

At this rate, you'll be lucky to *have* elections in 2028. My G-d, it's his first year, and the buckling of institutions and the press show America's foundation for the rot it is. Be here now and change it, Dems, or nobody's running in 2028. You'll be lucky to get 2026. MOVE.

"Deteriorating head of St Thomas More should be exhumed and conserved, PCC agrees" was not on my headline bingo card.

Shame that many expats in places like Spain, don’t follow what Theodore did and learn the local tongue. 🤷‍♀️

Timothy Dolan should remember that you don't mess with a Chicago boy, especially if he's your Pope.

Today the Church of England remembers Theodore of Tarsus, second Archbishop of Canterbury, who had never set foot in these isles before being appointed, and who had to learn the local tongue on the journey here. There would be no British Christianity without immigrants.

This right here.

Further:

I don't find blanket denunciations of religion helpful, but I think we can discuss the unique form and function of American Evangelical Christianity and its resonance with both neoliberal capitalism and far-right fascist politics that has only exacerbated since this book was published (2008).

I was trying to write a 1200 word essay and instead, wrote a 1900 word Substack post. Procrastination works in weird ways. irimsarwar127895.substack.com/p/the-first-...

Five cops were shot in Pennsylvania yesterday. Three died. Haven't heard a thing about if from the "back the blue" team that was so upset about last week's school shooting. Maybe it's because the shooter looked like this.

🧵 Gentleman in DC on the suspension of @jimmykimmel.com: “But you know who the real villains in this whole thing are? The 60-some percent of American voters who didn’t [vote].” LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 1/

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

Great thread, with great advice. This website has some very loud white men who are really invested in not taking direction from anybody who's neither. Black women are not advising caution for clout! They *actually know things white dudes don't.*

Fuck the hair-splitting. It's a facially racist statement, and saying it about four famous black women instead of all black women doesn't change what it means. Conservatives outright lie ALL THE TIME and then play quote-cop. It's a stupid game we don't have to play.

Hey everyone, in the heat of things, I originally saw this quote in a piece in the Nation, and their quote has since been updated to specify that it was specific to Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, etc. But Kirk’s clearly anti-black statements speak for themselves: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Don’t let them tell you Jimmy Kimmel’s show was yanked because of his comments about the Charlie Kirk assassination. Two months ago, after Colbert’s show was cancelled, Trump posted: “I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.” The Kirk thing is just a pretext. This is all part of their plan.

Pre-Civil War Ezra would be preaching to the slaves to learn to love their chains.

I feel like this what someone rich enough and wealthy enough to avoid the worst of the persecution from this administration says. You are leaving the most vulnerable behind for your own gains.

Brendan, the internet is forever. So remind me why you're praising Disney for censoring Jimmy Kimmel? And if you, like I, didn't believe that Brendan actually posted that, here's the link: x.com/BrendanCarrF...