Guess how many times this Spiked piece - which blames Orban’s loss on ‘identity politics’ and ‘therapy culture’ - mentions that Furedi is literally working for Orban? democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

In terms of Europe answering Trump's pleas: for me, it's clear the more countries he can implicate in this the more he can blame for the economic/political fallout which is already occurring. The only 'off-ramp' he's willing to take is maximum scapegoating (regardless whether it works) 1/

The authoritarian nature of the Republican party has rarely been more explicit--long in evidence, but rarely so explicit.

“legally evacuated to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul”

The unnamed woman alleges that Epstein introduced her to Trump in the 1980s, around the time she was 13 to 15 years old. During that meeting, the woman says, Trump attempted to force her to perform oral sex, after which she bit him, resulting in Trump hitting her.

The Courts and Tribunals Bill will remove your right to a jury trial for serious criminal offences. Toff magistrates/judges will decide your fate. Chances of miscarriage of justice will increase. Working class, poor, minorities will be the biggest losers.

Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security. A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2074...

FFS

"...language models are more likely to suggest that speakers of AAE be assigned less-prestigious jobs, be convicted of crimes and be sentenced to death." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔊Podcast: Tim G. Jones, @pbergsen.bsky.social, Bill Farren-Price and @simontaylor71.bsky.social discuss 🇺🇦🇷🇴 energy dispute, Péter Magyar’s increasing poll advantage, fears of election delay, Viktor Orbán’s miscalculations around “Peak Trump”, and the EU’s wilful inertia. bit.ly/46ywz0f

"Just set up a Zoom call without Viktor on it and get this done" open.substack.com/pub/twentyfo... I had a great discussion with Tim Jones and @pbergsen.bsky.social of Medley Global Advisors and Bill Farren-Price about the Hungarian elections in April.

maybe the former weekend morning talk show host and the wrestlemania ceo and the podcasters running everything will be able to pull off regime change in one of the most politically complicated areas of the world

Something that's being overlooked: The Saudi government—yes, the same gov't that butchered a Washington Post journalist a few years ago—is set to be a part owner of CNN. Watch the full episode of Power Lines on YouTube: youtu.be/nWEG5jUrP2Q?...

Once again, video evidence confirms that DHS lied about Nurul Shah Alam, the refugee who died after being abandoned in the cold by Border Patrol. They always lie. They blame the victim. They say their agents did everything right. They left a disabled blind man for dead.

The regime has killed three US citizens that we know of. They’ve killed countless immigrants in the camps. Now they’ve killed a refugee named Nurul Amin Shah Alam. He was blind, disabled and didn’t speak English. They abandoned him outside and he froze to death.

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture and was known for her self portraits and depictions of the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working classes #womensart

More abuse of disabled immigrants by Border Partrol. They seem intent on targeting those who they perceive as weak or unable to fight back. This man was blind and didn’t speak English… they left him out in the cold. He died. Make noise for Shah Alam.

"I have given this a lot of thought, and: I really, really need Matt Goodwin to lose tomorrow’s Denton & Gorton by-election. For the good of us all, that man needs to be repudiated, and his ideas stomped into the dust." On one of the worst people in British politics.

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

This is bigotry, pure and simple. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

A whistleblower just disclosed that FBI experts were delayed by AT LEAST A DAY in deploying to investigate Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Why? There was an FBI plane and pilot shortage… because Kash Patel was using them for personal flights.

This is today's World Wide explosive news. The evidence has surfaced.

I see Reform are suffering from the Danny-Kruger Effect.

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

Make a stupid comment, get a couple of smart answers.

I know this kind of realization is getting old but I can't help myself.. These two are obviously Fox News watchers where they are told daily how Trump is deporting rapists and murderers. "We wanted you to ruin brown peoples lives not ours!" Yeah and now you know. You fucked us all.

EXCELLENT ground.news/article/fran...

First of many. #$FDX

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

ICYMI — “If Donald Trump’s administration really wants to find evidence of foreign interference in Georgia’s elections, then they need look no further than the president’s old friend Elon Musk and his shady super PAC.” newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

Removing Andrew from line of succession opens up a paradox at the heart of our constitution. We supposedly have a hereditary monarchy. But if it were a genuine hereditary monarchy, this chap would now be reigning: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_v... In fact, parliament controls succession.

Just when you begin to think Trump cannot get any dumber, Trump gets dumber.

Political people love to debate who the worst modern PM in modern times was but it's unquestionably Cameron. 10 years ago this week he gambled the prosperity and fragile unity of the UK on a referendum on an issue that most people didn't even understand to placate back benchers and fucked us all.

I saw @davidbyrne101.bsky.social perform this last Wednesday in Brussels.

I can't say how much I hope Jasmine Crockett defeats James talirico in the election. I think she is the real deal, a very genuine defender of democracy. People like her offer the greatest hope that the US will not slide further into fascism.

Put this one in the lack of self-awareness hall of fame

Angie Craig: "They removed everyone from the ICE facility 30 minutes before we arrived — this is not the intent of the law. DHS is violating the law" Ilhan Omar: "What happened today is a blatant attempt to obstruct members of Congress from doing their oversight duties"

Add another 🇺🇸 citizen to ICE’s kill list. Ruben Ray Martinez (23) www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-fa...

Trump promised his tariffs would revive U.S. manufacturing, but we lost 88,000 manufacturing jobs last year. Plus U.S. imports continued to grow and the trade deficit in goods hit a record high. All of the chaos amounted to nothing but higher costs for you. So much for the "Golden Age."

Reflecting once again on how John Cale’s piano playing on Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky” is at once one of the most transcendent things I’ve ever experienced, and also probably the thirtiest most important thing to occur during his astonishing 60 year's in music. There is truly nobody else comparable.

“A federal agent fired shots through the driver’s side window”. Sound familiar? That’s exactly how Renee Nicole Good was killed. This 23 year old lost his life and ICE’s involvement was covered up for a year. They’re killing people and hiding the evidence.

⚡️UPDATE: Under Trump the Tennessee Valley Authority is sticking with coal rather than clean energy — and letting Elon DOUBLE xAI’s power draw… with no public input. The oligarchy is straight-up looting our state, and our country. grist.org/energy/the-n...

Shameful—but in a way useful. No one should any longer pretend we have a “Department of Justice.” We have a Department of Trump.

The FBI interviewed one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims four times over her allegation that Donald Trump assaulted her when she was underage—but most accusations against the president appear to have been removed from the government’s documents. trib.al/t8cm1D1

“Gaza’s coastline alone - $50 Billion of value” At Trump’s Board of Piece circus, Billionaire Marc Rowan (business partner of Leon Black who is all up in the Epstein files) grotesquely discusses Gaza as a real estate deal they all plan to make obscene amounts of money from