For those us on the metric system, that's just over a tenth of a Truss. ( 1 Truss = 4.2 Scarmuccis)

It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.

Inspired, I am replacing my 6'3" lie on dating apps with 7'4".

One more thing to add to all this, implicit in the thread: The Mamdani race is becoming a litmus test precisely because Schumer, Jeffries, and Gillibrand spent chunks of the summer undermining the candidacy of the guy who won a high-profile home-state primary election.

And the timing of the Mamdani race is really significant here—he's running in an off-off-year election. In next year's midterms, there will be hundreds of big elections, and dozens—many dozens—of would-be Mamdanis. This year, there's far fewer races, and Mamdani has no real analogues.

Whilst I, your beloved Bretwald, am intimately acquainted with human anatomy, I have never claimed any medical expertise. Nonetheless, I hesitate to take medical advice from someone who thought injecting yourself with bleach was sovereign for the late pestilence.

Our countries are not going to hell, Mr. President.

Millions spent on Trump visit. Red carpets, Royals in coronets and golden dining services too. And all he offers in return are petulant racist insults about our capital city and our mayor. What a singular lack of decorum, grace, and courtesy. Fuck him and his damp hands and his nicotine yellow wig

#Pinks #ProudBlue As they have shown us time and time again. 🎯 🎯 🎯

I’m not sure it reflects all that well on Mason that the most aggressive interview he’s managed with a politician in quite some time is in defence of his own journalism. It’s also a fairly extraordinary attack to make in response to a fairly mild critique. Not sure his judgment on the money here.

As is already clear from reactions to the UN speech, one of the most fundamentally critical divides in the US is that only one side remains capable of experiencing shame

European parliament committee refuses to lift immunity for Hungarian opposition leader, preventing Orban government from prosecuting him

CNN has identified at least 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents after ICE deported them - including newborns. As a parent I cannot imagine the horror of being separated from my child, but that trauma is even more acute for the innocent children left behind.

I wrote about the British media’s soft soap approach to ‘Fergie’ four years ago when she launched a book with Mills & Boon brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/no-sweat-t...

Now dropped by five charities - including the Teenage Cancer Trust

BREAKING FOX NEWS: #JimmyKimmel announces that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social will be tomorrow nights return to the air guest.

It’s an alarming question to examine, but what actually is our societal process for holding Chris Mason (and other BBC figures) to account for their commentary on Farage ILR proposals?

I'm not seeing the funny side at all. The actual American president undermining early years vaccination is nothing else but pure evil. Vaccinations work. Please don't listen to this man. Your children are too precious.

Good. All European countries need to move away from America now that they've become the enemy.

Imagine claiming with a straight face that someone being shot by their employer is not forced labour

America sought to be classless. And in Donald J Trump they have absolutely fucking nailed it.

This is going to be in my head all day. IYKYK

BREAKING: In place of Jimmy Kimmel’s return, Sinclair and Nexstar will broadcast 90 minutes of Ezra Klein criticizing you for not reading “The Bell Curve”

Love it...

Even if diplomacy limits governing parties, if non-governing UK and European pro-democracy parties had any cojones, they’d be running attack ads of Trump’s UN speech saying “This is who [domestic far-right party or party leader] is supported by and wants to be like here.”

One European federal government One European border One European foreign policy One European defence supplied with European weapons, made by European workers and engineers, financed by European tax money. Independent from the DSA. And, ruzzia must be destroyed.

$10,000 fine for Californian lawyer with 20+ fake citations in their work, as a result of using ChatGPT for legal research. 21 of the 23 quotations in the opening brief were false. Always double check any AI outputs!! calmatters.org/economy/tech...

ah, and there it is. He's back, but with a reduced audience. It'd be a shame if all their advertisers found out how unpopular this decision is.

"It's time to stop your pathetic attempts at cancellation" says Liz Truss... on the same day she called for the BBC to be defunded and a journalist's press pass revoked.

Oh @theguardian.com don’t go the way of the NYT. This headline is so bad and irresponsible. It’s not ‘contentious’ it is a lie. And don’t simply repeat the lie as the first part of the headline. Should be: “Trump makes false claims about paracetamol, amplifying health disinformation again”

Racist property developer allows Muslim man to live rent-free

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Authoritarian personality cult watch

The possibility that the UN will have to relocate out of New York before 2028 needs to be taken more seriously

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So Trump designated Antifa as a "domestic terrorist organization" - a weird move for many reasons, including both that the US doesn't have a framework for designating domestic terrorist organizations, and that Antifa lacks the organizational structure to be called an organization at all.

So many coverups. Release the Epstein files. Release the Homan tapes. Release the Venezuelan fishing boats evidence.

We've literally been waiting since 2016

This "review" sounds kind of like a commercial, but if somebody's going to make a commercial for my book for free, I'll take it: "Universal Basic Income Audiobook Review." By Ruth The Narrator, YouTube, Sep. 19, 2025

🇭🇺🇸🇰 Hungary and Slovakia have not been invited to a high-level video conference on the proposed "drone wall" along the EU’s eastern border, European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier told Suspilne on Sept. 22. kyivindependent.com/slovakia-hun... #Europe

Hours after we sent a letter signed by over 450 artists and 40K others defending free speech, ABC announced Jimmy Kimmel will return to air. Other companies should heed this warning: We the people are watching.

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

After breakfast, c.1900 by Finnish painter Elin Danielson-Gambogi #WomensArt #Tuesday

Kastrup, the largest airport in the Nordics, was shut down last night due to 2-3 large "capable" drones flying around in the area...the Danes seem to be asking, "Who can it be?" Meanwhile, Zelenskyy is having meetings about Russian invasions of NATO airspace...

honestly I wish outlets like Wired would feature people who AREN'T surprised by this and DIDN'T spend years covering this ecosystem without recognizing the fundamental dynamics of power I can tell you exactly why it was missed:

UK medicine regulator confirms there is no evidence paracetamol causes autism in children www.gov.uk/government/n...

🇵🇱 Poland and 🇸🇪Sweden launch first-ever joint military drill to ‘defend Baltic Sea’ #Russia #Poland #Sweden tvpworld.com/89057394/pol...

"Luke...on balance it's in my financial interest to reinstate being your father"

I'm glad Kimmel is coming back. However, "free speech" where you can reverse government-coerced corporate censorship but only if your supporters make stock price influencing noise would be like a healthcare system in which you need a GoFundMe to go viral to afford treatment. ... wait.