i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

37% of American Jews identify as Zionists, a new survey finds: www.jta.org/2026/02/05/u... 39% of American Jews think Israel is guilty of genocide: www.timesofisrael.com/poll-nearly-... Which views are represented in American Jewish community institutions?

"Craven Heifer (1807–1812) was a cow which lived in the early 19th century, and remains the largest cow ever shown in England." 4,370 lb. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craven_...

using claude to determine the likelihood of spending the rest of my life in a south american torture facility

The Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy is feuding with neo-Nazis online as to whether Jews are responsible for letting “barbarian rapist hordes” (her words) into Europe.

As somebody who worked on Gaza under both Biden and Trump and also personally had my career upended by Trump (USAID) I still hold more hate in my heart for Biden, and working on Gaza under him was genuinely worse.

honestly something i'm noticing is that whenever a midwit hack wants to make an empirical claim about "the way humanity is" without reading any social science they always just go to primatology

nice argument. unfortunately for you i have already portrayed you as the passed out and drooling sleeptime bear and me as the alert, confident and powerful throat cooler koala

weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

The UK Holocaust Memorial Day Trust fired its Scottish representative, because of her affiliation with Standing Together, the Israeli-Palestinian co-resistance movement which has accused the Israeli government of committing genocide. www.jewishnews.co.uk/hmdt-organis...

Look, not to pick on this lady in particular, but do people not have moral agency anymore?

Software enthusiasts when I drop an actual physical muntion on them in actual physical reality:

I understand what marginal tax rates and how they work, but (with apologies for naive point) the fact that someone on a median income only pays this much tax - given the general state of the discourse on this - is surprising to me

Just read the New Statesman’s profile about your boyfriend

the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry

A lot of the medical establishment is eugenics (this treatment works for good patients; You must have a mental illness that u WANT to be sick!) A lot of the anti-medical establishment is eugenics (if u have a “strong” immune system u dont need vaccines). Its all eugenics. Hope that clears it up!

this is whose reputation they're trying to whitewash www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

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extremely funny that Your Party is now making it to the Guardian's consumer rights column www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT) The price of aid cuts.

"but i was a based heterodox thinker" seems to be the rallying cry of the reactionary centre when encountering actual Schmittian politics

In his book Remaking One Nation, Timothy tried to argue that existing immigrants were full Brits but new ones weren’t. When I reviewed it, I said this position was implausible. He’s resolved the contradiction in the wrong way.

Every interview with a right-wing politician is like: "Mr. Hitler is adamant: If we sacrifice enough children, Santa Claus will come back and deliver 5% GDP growth. But I have to ask him: Do you ever worry that your relentless advocacy for working folks offends the rootless cosmopolitan parasites?"

Wanting the UK to reindustrialize is like Sultana wanting to nationalize everything: unless you've done *a ton* of careful thought, it's just a mindless whim.

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.

The decline of this guy, who has 360k followers on the other site, is interesting because his opinions reliably track talking points there - “Indians are the new Jews” is a major far right thing there at the moment

i wonder how many people are in my situation: cumulative inflation since 2021: 25% meanwhile my salary has only gotten 12% bigger since then

Some percentage of the population consistently reports that they are reincarnations of Jesus, that the CIA are monitoring us with subcutaneously injected spy drones, and that the moon landing is a hoax. Is it time to consider whether they’re onto something?

my understanding is that this substack is primarily authored by conservative party staffers in their 20s.. and as far as i can tell this entire article is basically a call for genocide

JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

saying "normal milk is fine" at the woke coffee shop

as always, transphobia consumes your entire personality until there is nothing left but deeply offputting garbage

This is just bizarre... the journalist talks about *Sarah Fucking Ditum* staging an intervention for Linehan because he's too transphobic. That's like Joseph Goebbels saying "OK, mate, you're going a bit too far with the antisemitism now, get a grip".

It’s underrated how of lot of countries in the global north are basically becoming heavily armed retirement homes.

Almost as if those people you keep trying to satisfy on immigration will never be satisfied, while the parties you are competing with won't react to the outcomes you deliver in good faith, and the unsatisfied voters listen to and trust them more than they trust you. Who could have predicted this?

It says everything that the CST, CAA, the JC, the board of deputies, Stop the Hate etc have said basically nothing about this clear antisemitism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

yep. instead they've hit growth and driven up inflation with minimum wage and employer ni hikes that low-margin businesses like supermarkets and hospitality have to pass through as price increases

Still think lowering the personal allowance (but compensating low income families by reintroducing tax credits), and letting thresholds rise with inflation for the rest of the parliament is what I would have gone for

the stagflationary 70s were the last time nativist politics gained popular appeal in the uk, and we had negative net migration for most of that period..

a really cheap and easy way for labour to regain good will on the left would be to stop punching trans people

hopefully we can start reversing this now