you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

I enjoyed this - and great to hear @dorianlynskey.bsky.social praising David Torrance's excellent new history of the General Strike, "Edge of Revolution: The General Strike that Shook Britain". And if you want to know more about the General Strike, do we have an event coming up for you...

1. This will definitely go over great with Catholic voters in the US. Bold play. 2. I'm not a Catholic but I will ponder converting if the Church excommunicates Vance and every other so-called Catholic associated with this Antichrist administration.

If in among all the antisemitism he had just once said “Free Palestine” the Free Press would hold the opposite opinion

The biggest challenge for Dr Lecter will be putting aside his divisive commitment to sociopathy and cannibalism. If he can do that, he can become a force for good in the fields of psychiatry and philanthropy

I think comparing AI to the atomic bomb (in terms of science & ethics) is flawed because once the bomb existed that was that, no way back, whereas AI companies could in fact make better decisions at every stage. They don't have to keep releasing new models regardless of the consequences

How Varoufakis still has any credibility I do not know. A terrible self-admiring fraud

You know I do think it's important to note that — if it is indeed over — this meaningless war killed: -Iranians: ~3,500 -Lebanese: ~1,500 -Iraqis: ~100 -Israelis: 39 -GCC residents: 31 -Americans: 15 -Palestinians: 14 -Syrians: 1 -French: 1

I think this is true, and part of the Everything is Gender theory. We are governed by that section of the populace that believes that Father having violent tantrums until everyone else cowers, even as his life falls apart around him, was an aspirational display of power and mastery.

something powerfully depressing about "seeing your friends" and "cooking food" apparently being seen as "making life harder" I hate it here!

It's almost the centenary of the General Strike so it's a good excuse to tell the story of an event that keeps popping up in other episodes. Nine days of national drama with an all-star cast. Featuring Bad Churchill, the BBC in crisis, fascists, communists, workers and toffs

Checked out reactions to the Kanye story on X and Facebook comments. Yikes. Bluesky has many problems but at least you’re not swimming in foul multidirectional racism every day.

We didn't deserve this day.

A reminder that this is the same "unhinged" war and President the Daily Mail has spent weeks berating Keir Starmer for not joining and following

this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!

I just don't know what to do with the fact that there are a great many people for whom deranged threats to do war crimes, to slaughter people en masse, are actively a good thing; what they want from a leader. This is their idea of strength, their valourised masculinity. I think I hate them.

Stand Up For Racism

"If Kamala gets 4 more years, the Middle East will spend the next 4 decades going up in flames + your kids will be going off to War, maybe even a Third World War, something that will never happen with President Donald J. Trump in charge. For our Country's sake + for your kids, Vote Trump for PEACE!"

I totally believe that sponsors etc were cool with this booking until it blew up. My hope is that everyone involved is forced to relocate the notion of morality

Let me also note that the Germans had a generation traumatized by war and the Great Depression. The Americans had… a Black president and #metoo

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

Not the ideal solution in my book but the cynicism and cowardice of Festival Republic made this the only option. What a fiasco www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

“a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” is textbook genocide shit. it’s like you were given a prompt - say something that is genocidal and subject to laws against genocide - and came back with an A+ answer.

Remember, Trump didn't just campaign on "no new wars." He also framed his antiwar routine as an attack on the entire warmongering foreign policy establishment. Yet he's enriching it in a major way. People who bought the Donald the Dove line are suckers and chumps.

Probably going to have to flesh out the traditional dismissal of Great Man Theory in first-year historiography lectures now it turns out that two to three deranged geriatrics actually can slingshot the entire planet into the sun

New Iran peace proposal: 1. In spirit of forgiveness, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to headline Wireless Festival 2027

God, I love her so much. Just banger after bager. She's in it purely for the love of the game and I respect that.

Daniel makes a lot of great points in his thread but want to talk about this one specifically: ultimately “I think he’s a mad racist but his music is still good, so I listen to it”, is not the same as “invited him to perform”. My cousin is not failing a duty of care by listening to Ye’s latest work!

Inspired by another viewing of The Nest (one of the best films of the last decade imo, just perfect) tell me an overlooked five-star movie from the 21C. By overlooked I mean wasn't a hit, wasn't Oscar-nominated, hasn't yet been reassessed as a neglected classic.

My response to Melvin Benn would be (1) nobody thinks you booked Kanye West for three nights because you believe so much in forgiveness and (2) it’s not just the Jewish community that’s offended by celebrating the Nazis. He has a history of promoting anti-Black racism as well

One of the very best from Clickhole

This is a good read

Point: “I can’t pay no doctor bills but whitey’s on the moon” Counterpoint:

Everything Must Go is currently on a Kindle deal for 99p - a snip! But only until midnight www.amazon.co.uk/Everything-M...

That’s half their sponsors gone (Diageo owns two of them). Remaining: Budweiser, Paypal, Drip, Beatbox and Big Green Coach

this feels like time for one of my periodic rants about how Judaism gets some stuff wrong - like all religions - but one of the things we are REALLY GOOD ON is the nature of forgiveness. which is to say: first, unless they have come to you with sincere repentance, you don't have to forgive anyone!

Listening to @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social's Origin Story episode on Stephen Miller and howling with laughter. It's a grim fucking tale, very amusingly told.

The world building here is dark imo. In this world a cop doing that test at that moment is pretty blatant racial discrimination. So the "uh oh" isn't about the test, but about what the Knight has just learned re the dispositions of the cop who pulled him over. The body cam will be off.

I can’t believe there are really people like this

I literally learned only yesterday that Hepburn’s parents were fascists. Big fact not to have known

A big part of Donald Trump's appeal among his ~30%, ride-or-die core is that he's the first president to be sincerely, authentically stupid and incurious in the exact same way as the fabled Median Voter. *Nothing* about his unintelligence is a gimmick or a put-on.

rats, sinking ship

Has anyone studied the psychic toll of years spent waking up to the unhinged rantings of a vicious madman who could kill us all — and then going about one’s day per usual?

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

It’s not hard to hack the US media. You just threaten war crimes with language they deem too uncivil to print

You can claim that America is the same no matter who is president and that we’re an evil empire that deserves what’s coming to it, but I sure don’t like living in a country that’s run by a guy who wakes up on Easter and threatens to do war crimes. I don’t think that a Democrat would be doing that.

Watched Neil Jordan’s Mona Lisa last night. Would make a great Grotty London double bill with Naked. Soho and Kings Cross look proper nasty

Honestly I hope Wireless is cancelled this year. The whole organisation needs replacing

So there we go - Pepsi have pulled sponsorship of Wireless. There has still been no word from those in charge of the festival, by the way. They appear to have had zero anticipation of any backlash, which would be funny if it wasn't so deeply sad and pathetic. www.jewishnews.co.uk/pepsi-withdr...

Portes is right. I have definitely come to see the value in political education, because "emotionally cathartic slopulism" has already taken over the Right and I think it could easily do so on the left too if we don't hold the line on, like, actually insisting that it matters you get things right.