Trump take sweep

Anyway, I suppose it isn't surprising but it remains somewhat frustrating that all of our Greece- and Rome-themed popular culture is by and large produced by folks with at best an intro-world-history survey level understanding of either. Often feels like high school world history, tbh.

More than 7.1mn people passed through its gates in 2025. ft.trib.al/0ljCJh2

Dinosaur

reading about the May government for a thing and mad, mad, mad that a Conservative Prime Minister said this nine years ago, I hate how much we've lost since then! I hate it so much! www.theguardian.com/society/2017...

Because all of the ethical journalists are at Doctor Doom's soirees, writing thinkpieces called ENTERING MY LATVERIAN ERA? WHY ALL THE COOL KIDS LOVE TO DOOM--AND WHAT THAT SAYS ABOUT SOCIETY.

Tax cuts for middle earners *is* one of the fundamentals of austerity, and it's what makes the others so difficult to unpick

the emerging urbanist majority

Is there literally any reason for news outlets to cover the "ceasefire" as if it actually exists besides the fact it's become a load bearing part of Trump's fictional cope-averse and he would get mad at people who don't participate in it?

knicks in 4

By my count there have been at least three opportunities for Labour to properly blame Hunt for unaffordable tax cuts and reverse the decision in the interest of national and energy security: when they found the fiscal black hole; when Trump started threatening NATO; and when the Iran war started.

Lot of people to thank for Nithya Raman making it (inshallah) to the top two: Volunteers who knocked on doors, made phone calls, and threw out Pratt voter's ballots, the organizers who got endorsements, and the candidate herself for making a strong case.

Anyway, if your position is "some people like wife-beaters, so we just need to elect some wife-beaters ourselves" you have completely lost the plot & should consider taking actions that violate the TOS for me to describe.

not to make one of my hobbyhorses bigger than it is but one of the side reasons I want YIMBYism to succeed is to help blunt all of the stupid cultural ideas that are downstream of “new residents ruin a neighborhood”

discountenance schism

I know that we can get a little hyper-partisan here, but a lot of people did pour their heart and soul into Spencer Pratt's campaign. If you know any, please take a moment to reach out and be human: tell them politics will always feel this way and they should not participate in the future.

Also: think about stuff you got taught in PSHE. How much did the life lessons of a largely uninterested teacher across 35 minutes for four weeks stick with you? Additionally: once "teach it in schools" is your fix, you're giving up on everyone over 18, and with it, fixing the issue for *decades*

is it because all the republicans left

@samfr.bsky.social has a nice run down of evidence that points uniformly to Britain being one of the most successful at integrating migrants from different ethnic groups in various ways. It can sometimes feel like our press actively conspire to make things worse. samf.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

This is *such* a consistent feature of living in the UK - the actual day to day experience of people in this country is so much nicer than what the press or our leadership cadre would have you think - it is remarkable in a somewhat destabilising fashion just how stark the difference is.

Talarico is the kind of man we want on the left. We don't need Platner, and, if anything, Platner will make Talarico's work harder against Paxton

Ilhan is correct. Sanctions are ineffective and too slow, in conclusion, we begin bombing in 5 minutes.

NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.

credit where credit is due, getting your cult addicted to tallow before importing screwworms is a good bit

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

Goku…….. beautiful name for a baby girl

point is none of us should have to care this much about Maine or Iowa or Nebraska to have a functional democratic state that can provide basic services and competent governance. But because our constitutional firmware hasn’t changed in 150 years we do and it’s driving us insane

The media & political classes (left + right) tend to guess wrong about the public - who have a *much* stronger common sense consensus on civic "inclusive nativism" than most of the commentariat seem to realise

Several Platner scandals ago, a friend of a friend who is a veteran pointed out that, while he doesn’t like to “play the veteran card” when talking politics, in this case he felt compelled to point out that none of the guys in Platner’s unit ever stepped forward to vouch for his character.

Good evening, “Graham Platner” was a 24 month sociological study by Harvard university into the perils of running Just Some Guy for the United States senate. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

Kinda wild that Hunter is straight up actually existing Diamond Joe

Physically forcing your partner into a room and then physically preventing them from leaving for the night is a crime and intentional tort called false imprisonment, the article here includes a very classical description of an occurrence of domestic violence

Alex is the only one on my timeline who is mentioning the Iraqi angle to Graham Platner's story, and he is not American😭💔

And we love them both #pride #transgender

T’ruah means a shout, a battle cry for justice, a joyful noise that calls us toward collective liberation. I was honored to celebrate the work of Rabbi Jill Jacobs and T’ruah at their gala. This year’s honorees, including New York’s own Gili Getz, remind us that solidarity is a practice.

“No I don’t want to play as the conventionally attractive blonde trying to return to happy domestic life” These guys get handed premises that should be everything they could want and they melt down every time

Not to flog my own person dead horse but this is the consequence of the fact this country doesn't actually know how to talk about it's own very specific relationship with race and would therefore prefer to talk about MLK and George Floyd than Dr Moody, Notting Hill, Brixton and Stephen Lawrence

All press reporting on the Iran war operates as follows: Day 1: oil prices drop as Axios reports Trump says a magic faun has arrived to negotiate a deal where Iran surrenders Day 2: for reasons none can explain, there is no faun.

Opening my phone this morning to the devastating news of John Blanche's passing. His was some of the first Warhammer art my eyes ever beheld, the pieces that defined the 41st millennium for me and countless others. He was a visionary creative and his impact is fundamentally incalculable.

Tbh I feel like a lot of problems in nerd communities are a result of the problems society solves with sports (vulgar tribalism, etc) not being solved

It is! Among the old, Reform are doing best with pensioners who solely or largely rely on the state pension. Best way to understand public opinion is to see it as: 1) Do I feel under economic pressure? 2) Do I like Nigel Farage? If “Yes and Yes”, you vote Reform. “yes and no”, you vote Green.

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woof AFC north is trash outside of my team

Anyway, Romance of The Three Kingdoms is arguably a polyamorous narrative, so let's be careful about labeling the annoying magician a vegetarian icon.

Yes. The pattern is that when the real Trump starts to falter or do something that would result in lowering his popularity, they substitute a fake, imaginary Trump into their news stories who is acting rationally and normally, inventing rationales for his actions that he himself won't articulate

The role of the Governor is to protect Californians, and to stand between them and danger. That's a role I take very, very seriously, particularly when it comes to trans youth.