This is excellent & draws out something the rest of the media is ignoring: among other things, the Epstein files have made it super, super clear that the entire "anti-woke" cultural hysteria was engineered by powerful men averse to accountability.

The lovely @matthew-wright.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk just now laying out precisely how screwed over 18-35s are. I am actively advising my kids to NOT go to university (unless they become adamant they’re going to be a doctor/lawyer). Do it & move abroad. It is simply not worth the servitude.

New on FT website: Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract. www.ft.com/content/5bba...

And we must ensure such bullshit does not protect them from the housecleaning that's coming down the pike

i now feel compelled to look at Fraser's back catalogue to see what he was saying about Cameron and Johnson www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

This is what JS Mill meant by the 'Tyranny of Conformity'. Capitalism creates an environment where you are continually pursuing the next thing rather than looking around to see what's going on. #EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Trump has now deleted the post, with the White House now claiming, "A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down." Karoline Leavitt a few hours ago: "Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”

“I graduated with £42,000 of debt and even though I’m paying it off, it’s now £72,000.” It's truly an abomination: On a normal job you keep paying forever. 40 years! “Why would I trust a government that mis-sold me a loan when I was a child?” is a very good question. www.ft.com/content/7bf5...

Overall social media use has declined, with the youngest and oldest Americans increasingly abstaining from social media altogether.

The only reason Westminster will take up to £40bn and 61 years to renovate is because they are using the same garbage contractors that were behind HS2. Stop paying private thieves vast sums to not do things.

For those keeping score at home:

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

> @governor.ny.gov

I want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

One of the most disgusting, brutal and unpunished child‑abuse networks in the world… And the usual voices who claim to care about ‘women and girls’ have nothing to say. We see you.

New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor. Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time. A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.

You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.

England's water companies don't pay fines. Thames Water, with nearly 200 criminal convictions, fined £122.4m in Aug/Dec 2024 for sewage dumping, paying illegal dividends. Secretly agreed - Paid only £24.5m (20%) in Sept 2025. Remaining 80% may be paid by 2030 or never. Why are companies indulged?

outfit has the same colors as the crying emoji 😭

Trump will attempt to corrupt the midterm elections anyway possible, to avoid the inevitable articles of impeachment waiting for him, should the GOP lose. Which they would in a free and fair election.

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

NEW ANALYSIS: UK household electricity bills have risen over the last 5 years. BUT: Despite frequent claims that net zero is to blame: 2/3 of the increase is because of high gas prices shows new @ukerc.bsky.social report. Arguably without renewable energy the UK would see even higher bills today.

Badenoch's strategic genius on full display here, telling centrist voters to fuck off, including in the 60+ seats the party lost to the Lib Dems, so she can focus on competing with an extreme right party ahead of her in the polls.

Irony curled up and finally died when ICE started rounding up native Americans. The very people from whom the current inhabitants forcibly stole the country. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

To be clear, this is not a point about Burnham or even Labour specifically. But is it healthy for democracy to have an insider-outsider form of parliamentarism where even the mayor of a major city struggles to get "inside"? It's difficult to look at today's Parliament and see "abundant leadership"

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

Hey NRA, are you good with this? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

If you're trying to figure out how to talk to your kids about ICE and what every family should know about their rights, I've put together some resources that might help. www.altrightdelete.news/p/how-to-tal...

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

Superb - and alarming - piece on the torrent of falsehood and disinformation pouring into people's phones, designed to stir up racial hatred. If you don't subscribe to @londoncentric.media, its investigative journalism is outstanding. @jim.londoncentric.media www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

Settings > Content and media > Autoplay videos and GIFs > Toggle off I really don’t need to see it.

"I have no big fears because I have faith in my heart" vs. "I bought an apocalypse-escape vessel" 🙄 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Internal documents show how Google viewed its work in schools as a way to hook children on its products, @tktk.bsky.social reports. One slide said “You get that loyalty early, and potentially for life.” Another imagined a world where parents ask their kids “Why aren’t you watching more YouTube?”

Exactly. The core of the problem, more than anything, is algorithms and systems in general that are set up to prioritise engagement and activity over everything else. Because, well, doomscrolling and harassment are far more reliable sources of engagement than most other things, quite bluntly.

Liam Conejo Ramos is 5 years old - a preschool student at Valley View Elementary in Columbia Heights - transported by Trump and Miller’s secret police to Texas with his father per @startribune.com 5 YEARS OLD. How can any human with a heartbeat - a conscience- be ok with this?

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

If true, this would be worth a fortune.

This is a definition of "need" that I am not familiar with.

Mark Carney is a fantastic demonstration of why having a coherent political and economic worldview is so important for a politician. When you encounter something out of the scope of what you’ve previously experienced, you can derive your approach from first principles. Labour: take notes.

WTAF

Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls" www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Should things escalate further and today goes down in history as the end of American hegemony future UK historians may be surprised to find the papers focusing on the Beckhams falling out.