Here is Elon Musk bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts (DOGE never fully restored the canceled contracts)

he does this all the time because his diarrhoea schedule is insane but we're also allowed to dream that it happened

Trump Requests $1.2 Trillion To Have https://bit.ly/3RjdlH1

Simply one of the most destructive things human beings get up to on the planet.

"Nisi decree you, decree you... NISI"

Really appreciate Reuters coming in once more to reinforce the point I was making this week about Trump voters: They were happy to say they voted for a better economy, but it was never true. What they voted for was the racism, and they got that, so they’re satisfied.

This is deeply uncomfortable & hard to stomach. If it were comfortable & easy to take, it wouldn’t be much worth saying. The still widespread unwillingness to believe it can be explained by the gut-wrenching truth of it & an easily understandable, but no longer tolerable, complacent naivety. /2.

Many fail to accept politics has fundamentally changed. The choice now isn’t between which policies you most like compared to others. It’s between a one way trip into authoritarianism & dictatorship, or not. If you split the vote, anywhere, you’re voting for dictatorship. Get used to it. A 🧵/1.

The six genders

Trump brought the NVIDIA CEO on his trip to China to lobby Xi Jinping to buy advanced AI chips, even though it would create a U.S. national security threat. It turns out Trump also bought millions in NVIDIA's stock. The President's corruption is a national security disaster.

I’m sure being booed must have been a real surprise. Israel's Eurovision entry 'shocked' by protests during semi-final show www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you see this, post a STAR TREK

Reform UK claimed to have the “best vetting in the country”. Their candidates told a different story. Here are some with records of racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, conspiracy theories and links to far-right groups. They are now in office and must be held to account. 🧵

Understanding Confabulation in Dementia www.nccdp.org/understandin...

I think Andy Burnham should lobby the General Synod to pass a Measure appointing him as Archbishop of Canterbury and then become PM from the Lords Spiritual.

Well, they do say that you can pander to the anti-immigration crowd but you can never satisfy them

Mahmood calling for Starmer's resignation? LoL. Starmer hasn't allowed her to be hard enough on asylum seekers? She is the expression of what's wrong with Labour.

he lost the racists to Reform, the progressives to the Greens and the middles who just want us all to get along to the Lib Dems. When you stand for nothing you get no one innit

Thoughts from a Labour MP: “We have to face up to the fact every single one of them is fucking useless. Andy’s strategy has been a disaster. Angela has bottled it. Ed clearly a hiding to nothing. Wes is AWOL. God knows what Catherine West is doing. I am not quite sure how we ended up here.”

"I cannot afford to have continual arson about in my school"

The UK is about to have its 6th prime minister in 7 years because after 47 years of Thatcherism, nothing works any more. We're going to be stuck in an endless cycle of prime ministerial resignations until the failed neoliberal model is overturned.

Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.

Whatever the question is, Wes Streeting is not the answer.

Instability in politics isn't new. PMs making it a full term is more of a rarity than a standard. Pretty clear Starmer is toast. The longer he remains the worse it gets for Labour, and more likely Farage is next PM. The truly depressing thing is the genuine lack of realistic and decent alternatives.

I fully support the Scottish Government in not engaging with Reform. Fuck them. They should be hounded and sacked at the earliest opportunity. All they were doing is scraping the leftovers of the ballot paper.

Disgusting bigotry

Those candidates for the next Labour leader

Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t a known antisemite because she criticizes Israel, she’s a known antisemite because of all the talk about secret cabals, Jewish space lasers, Great Replacement theory, and Jews killing Jesus. Hope this helps some leftists who are mad at AOC for being right about her today

Almost a third of Tory candidates lost their deposits

this really does make me despair. this is a woman who has just got elected as a Reform councillor. she works for the NHS and wants to know “where the money is going”. it’s going on social care, babe

Kathleen stock isn't a feminist, has never been a feminist, has surrounded herself with fellow travellers who think feminism is when you're deeply conservative about sex, most of whom are are also racist and validate her idea that feminism is about being conservative not liberation.

Our political class gave away or sold their power and capacity to improve lives for the average punter, because they don’t see that as being their job. The market will provide! As far as they’re concerned, their role is to get out of the way and focus on crackdowns and racism.

I see Allison Pearson is spending her weekend giving handjobs to racist pensioners again.

In the same election the ranks of MSPs who voted against GRR were turfed out of office - among their replacements were two new trans MSPs. The politics of hate took a kicking today. The politics of trans liberation brought two of their own into the seats of power in Scotland! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Sky News projecting a national vote share for Reform of 27%, based on results so far. That’s four points down on what they achieved in local elections last year. Somewhat of a counter to the prevailing narrative. More evidence that Reform appears to have peaked.

Meanwhile, on the flight deck…

Sarwar: “My party is hurting today and it’s my job to hold it together. We will continue to fight for the change we believe Scotland so desperately needs." Maybe consider helping actual homeless people instead of AI slop that only rescues a digital dog in front of a building you clearly don't know?

One of the major planks in the Democratic platform that they should be loudly running on is “The Republicans are racist pieces of shit.“

Sad thing is, I expect most Americans to not know about this.

The Russian government is charging and convicting LGBTQ people of "extremism" solely for advocating for their right to exist in Russia. This is a preview of what the right wants to do here in the US. www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/under-new-...

When Trump continues to show that he has no intention of leaving office despite the constraints of the Constitution, take this very seriously, especially given that the Supreme Court isn’t just enabling, but actively empowering Republicans (including Trump) to decimate our democracy.

I prefer “disbarred insurrectionist” to “former New York City mayor.”

Scotland needs clunge?

The fact that Polanski, apparently, thinks it isn't and Starmer thinks it is appropriate for a police officer repeatedly to kick in the head someone who is incapacitated tells you everything you need to know about their respective values.

I am quite certain @zackpolanski.bsky.social is a better guardian of my Jewish values than Keir Starmer who said it was appropriate to cut off water from a people subject to genocide.

The guy whose undergrad professor at Penn remembered him as the dumbest student he ever had, thinks that a Columbia and Harvard Law grad could not match his skills in Identifying Animals 101

The Policy Exchange culture warriors that captured the Office for Students always had a clear agenda - to destroy free speech/academic freedom in order to "save" it. Wrote this in 2020. Sadly accurate, although let's hope yesterday's judgment is a turning point. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Increasingly, these pressers seem like an opportunity for Trump to get information from the media about what is happening outside of his bubble, not the opposite.

I think it says a lot about Cloris Leachman's total lack of vanity and devotion to character that I'm always surprised to see glamour shots of her, even though she literally came to Hollywood as a beauty contest winner.

This fool doesn’t understand that most U.S. forces stationed in Europe are not about defending Europe and instead vital to supporting U.S. operations elsewhere, including the Middle East.