i think it is important to parse through the linguistic decisions of "call for peace" The imagery suggest that two sides equal in force and idea are locked in dispute ... when that is not at all what happened nor happening

To paraphrase Orwell, this was bad and was not any less bad because the Daily Telegraph has suddenly found out about it when it is 10 years too late www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...

Any excuse to bollock on about this again... Snub TV is available, nearly entirely, on YouTube here, complete with VHS glitches and BBC2 idents... youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

I've said for a while now that if Jenrick had been in politics 50 years ago, he'd have been one of the National Front's rising stars and no-one outside of their membership would even know his name apart from the readers of Searchlight. He's precisely where he belongs.

Linda Tirado got shot in the head in Minneapolis in 2020. She lived to tell the tale and is permanently disabled as a result. No one should be talking about the murder of Renee Good as if it's anomalous. No one.

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He wanted to be a war president with war powers, and now look. All he needs now is a war.

Osita is usually much smarter than this, and the ratio is wholly deserved. In the parlance of our time. this ain't it, bro.

Apropos of nothing in particular, I watched "Starship Troopers" again last night and I swear to God you could put it out as a docudrama right now and call it "ICE: A Warning From History". Rasczak's classroom speech could have been written by Stephen Miller.

No, they've declared war on the entire state.

1. "These women are insufficiently worried that federal agents may hurt them," is a revealing complaint. 2. Every woman I know is like a fucking deep space probe with senses ceaselessly attuned to detecting potential male violence. 3. Your lads stormed Congress confident no one would hurt them.

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

babybel implies the existence of scarybel, sportybel, gingerbel and poshbel

Now Trump EPA head, Lee Zeldin, enters the scene with rank dishonesty & theatrical indignation to dispute the NY Times' correct, accurate reporting. But I've read the EPA smoking gun document, I'm a 30+-year clean air lawyer, I understand its meaning better than Zeldin, & I have the receipts. 1/

Quite outrageous Shockabilly erasure here.

Hugeaux #LFC

Fleaux #LFC

Frimpong iddle-i-po #LFC

Szeauxbeaux #LFC

Ben Shapiro said the Christmas Adventurer plot line in One Battle After Another was ridiculous

❤️‍🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.

There are few politicians who better exemplify the opportunistic "spiv government" mentality of the Tories during the last 25 years than Zahawi. It shouldn't surprise anyone that he's now fled to Reform.

With the caveat that there may be some confabulation involved on my part, this scenario reminds me a little of the stories I heard/read following the miner's strike of '84/85, when many of those who'd scabbed during the dispute were ostracised by their communities once it was over.

Skater girls of Ethiopia

Jean-Luc Godard could jamais

I know its a long shot but to rub salt into the wounds of yesterday my youngest left his scarf somewhere at the match yesterday. Got a load of badges on from this seasons Home games. Hes gutted. Any reposts appreciated in the hope it might be recovered.

Keith Porter's daughter talks about how her father was murdered by an off-duty ICE agent in Los Angeles

This evening I will rollerskate around my kitchen and pretend to turn down "Superstition" in his honour.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

LOL Bluenoses #MagicOfTheCup

YES THE MACC LADS #MagicOfTheCup

Christ, Palace are fucking dogshit. Glad they're getting their arses handed to them by a *checks notes* sixth-tier team.

The Telegraph is an insane asylum masquerading as a broadsheet newspaper.

Slightly diminish a band: New Mids On The Block

Slightly diminish a band: The Medium Ryders

David Bowie died ten years ago today so here is a photo of him in Japan looking cool as the current Berlin winter.

Utterly contemptible.

Ryan Reynolds completely losing his shit right now. #magicofthecup

I hereby promise that if the Pope excommunicates JD Vance, I will return to the Catholic Church and attend mass every Sunday for the rest of my life.

Graham's all about 'protecting women'

I am having an out of body moment reading all this fake and real outrage. The police killed more people every year since we began tracking the numbers in 2015. Including the Biden years. I can’t deal with people who can’t acknowledge all the facts that got us where we are today.

ICYMI, this tremendous piece on Ashley Judd and her experience as part of the cast of Heat is worth a read for more than the obvious film-nerd reasons.

old country music fans: I’m crying in my dusty old truck because my wife left with the dog and Johnny Law won’t leave me alone new country music fans: I’m crying in my spotless new truck because I’m Johnny Law, I shoot dogs, and my wife left because I hit her

This is sad news. I owe a lot to Gerry Gable and his work, and I'm glad he lived a long life. I subscribed to Searchlight from my teens into my 30s, and in return I received an invaluable education on fascism and its history. May his memory be a blessing. searchlightmagazine.com/2026/01/obit...

I'd say they SHOULDN'T be "allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said," but that's not the reality of how police shootings are handled in the overwhelming number of jurisdictions, red or blue, throughout America.

Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station