My department at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social is advertising 3 Tenure-Track AP positions in Political Science and 2 Teaching positions. The department is nice, non-toxic, and in good financial shape (which is not a given these days, in the UK or elsewhere): warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

If the Supreme Court wants to exert its powers politically and lawlessly, then there's nothing to stop the Executive Branch from doing the same. The next Democratic president could simply have them arrested and imprisoned. Then see if they still want to play this "Constitution doesn't exist" game.

I think it's conceivable Jenrick is vain and stupid enough not to process that if he were leading Reform they would be lost.

The ambitious former Tory says it is legitimate to ask about Nigel Farage's £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire. That's not the party line ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

machine learning techniques improve facial recognition accuracy, but mass surveillance decreases it, this is rarely acknowledged

Just do it @andyburnham.bsky.social, for the love of sweet Jesus.

The judgments of the US supreme court continue to be exercises in partisanship cosplaying as pieces of judicial reasoning. Two judgments today, for example, Slaughter and Cook, deal with near identical situations, but have very different reasoning for no good objective reason. Sheer politics.

Gross.

Matt Goodwin has published “a reply to my feminist critics” on his Substack. Guess, what? He has a mother and a daughter so…

Meta taking creepy to a whole other level - using your profile picture to target adverts (for the perv glasses) to your partner without your consent. One for the @katie0martin.ft.com archive...

Watch @joshuareynoldssl6.bsky.social GRILL eBay bosses. If Joshua can find banned, unsafe products on eBay with 30 seconds of Googling, why can't eBay identify them and stop them being sold?

This is literally how the English Civil War started.

We appear to have developed a strange new model of armed conflict where things mostly happen only on the weekends, when the stock markets are closed.

Still posting on X, the site recently used to stoke civil war in the UK, the spread of CSAM, and great replacement theory racism. Maybe time to stop? Your material is keeping followers there and lending credence to the place as a normal platform.

Good to see Andy Burnham place the stagnant living standards of the last twenty years at the heart of his economic agenda today. But what are the chances of growth in every postcode, and what would it take to get there? A thread…

Far from being "content neutral," as he proclaims, Mark Zuckerberg is following Elon Musk's lead in using the large social media platform for his own political purposes. Critics are shadow banned or kicked off the platform entirely, while right-wing conspiracy theorists have full run of the place.

Roses are red Sweet is their scent

Instead of saying the U.S. official “spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss negotiations,” the NY Times should say the official “spoke on condition of anonymity to keep the markets from tanking (who knows whether it’s true or not).”

Ed Milliband is acting like Nigerian military dictators? Badenoch says the most stupid things of all.

They didn’t include my brain in this study which I guarantee will look jaded and dumb after 18 years parenting.

It’s the lack of a Bluesky drinks evening obvs which is holding Birmingham back. Unlike London which is hosting its next on July 16, 7pm. DM me for the venue.

The comic pivot after supporting the war aside… I can’t recall Labour being so pointed in criticizing Trump.

If this goes ahead, which I don't think it will, it absolutely ends with the government losing a case in the ECHR.

The man behind a West London branch of Reform was shocked to find the heatwave had closed a recycling centre - so took to social media ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

One thing I'll never understand is the perception of Trump as a "successful businessman." His reputation has *always* been "cheap shit," from the vodka to the steaks to the airlines and, of course, the casinos that lost money despite being run as cheaply as possible and never paying subcontractors.

Bitcoin under $60k

reminder to get yourself, your organizations, and your businesses off of the fascist site for fascists

“Things are so bad that Republicans will never win an election again if they can’t figure out how to prevent millions and millions of Americans from voting.” trib.al/o7w96Pu

For shame: the @economist.com gives a platform to Alex Bruesewitz, promoter of the racist conspiracy that Haitians eat cats and dogs, one of Ali Alexander's Stop the Steal crew who tried to overturn US democracy. Media outlets that try to rehab propagandists instead sink to their level. 1/

Putin says Russia faces fuel shortages as Ukrainian drones strike refineries ft.trib.al/3HyOTy8

“Tens of thousands of people gathered in soaring temperatures in Hungary's capital on Saturday to celebrate the 31st annual Budapest Pride, the first such LGBTQ+ march since Viktor Orbán, who had sought to ban the event, was ousted in an April election.” www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

You can’t say ‘Scotland are not gonna win the World Cup’ and then put yourself forward for the manager’s job. People need to believe.

this is not why i call musk a fascist

The microcosm has even more details. He broke the pool by corruptly awarding the contract to an ex criminal friend of his.

Just perfect

When fascists talk about "freedom of speech," they mean the freedom to repeat the Dear Leader's slogan of the day.

How amazing it is to feel slightly chilly

Anyway what I was doing was trying to answer @gilesyb.bsky.social question which was roughly 'what are Putin fans like Cummings saying about the war now?' and the answer might be 'find an anecdote that shows the Russians doing something winning and amplify it'.

What a nasty mind Cummings has. Translates as 'Immigrants are rapists and they are brought here deliberately to rape people.' I really hope he has no influence on anything ever again. Maybe it's realising that he won't that has made him perpetually angry.

Oh has Dom defected - sorry, I mean changed his direct debit - ?

Too late. Your legacy is constituting an existential threat to the Party by engaging in an immoral and futile chase for Reform votes.

GOP Gov. Mike DeWine: "It is not in the United States' interest, certainly not in Ohio's interest, to have people who are working every single day, who are supporting a family, buying houses, and really are contributing, and yank them out."

X discourse on AirCon in Europe is mad. Out of all proportion to the issue and how it's come about. Feels a little like displacement activity. To distract themselves from how awful things are politically in the US they want to invent a Stalinist plot to cook people here that they escaped.

I wonder what 'the next thing' is

Not that I don't trust Mr Banker but I had to check this was true and.... Christ on a bike, the brass neck on this fella share.google/UGToAwIdibgp...

Sure, these journalists should write books. But <these> books, based primarily on withholding information from their reporting in real time, again their day jobs? I don’t get it.

Freedom of Speech Absolutists™️

Also really not helpful to use the term ‘overdraft’ which makes the govt=household analogy by subterfuge.

You have to wonder whether Blue Labour types really believe this appeasement of racism works or whether advocating it is just a cover for their personally felt antipathy to immigration .

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