First Donald Trump, then Joe Biden using the terms of the Trump ‘deal’, sold out Afghanistan to the Taliban. Most European govts think Trump is now selling out Ukraine in the same way — trading major concessions for a belief in Putin’s promises, and not caring very much anyway.

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

Tusk slips the knife in right at the end.

Excellent summary of where we find ourselves in Europe.

New advert on Netflix, in which it suggests using Gemini to tell you what episodes of Stranger Things you 'actually' need to watch before the fifth season returns. Something bleakly on the nose about a streamer merrily running 'some of this is disposable!' ads about itself.

Keeping Score: How ‘The Great Escape’ theme sparks hope

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

Remember how we kept getting told that a European Army was a REALLY BAD idea?

Imagine if you could actually be arrested in England for sarcasm. Literally the entire population would be in jail.

Cat Burns is such a talent youtu.be/qNrd6SEc6EM?...

An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers. Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”

We will struggle to explain to future generations how something so transparent and stupid was able to take place youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

The James Earl Jones scenes rightly get the limelight but the Burt Lancaster Moonlight Graham scenes are equally the soul of Field of Dreams "Son, if I'd only gotten to be a Doctor for five minutes THAT would have been a tragedy" #FieldOfDreams youtu.be/VCNp_jl5m6c?...

The three men who, more than any others, shaped English Contemporary History are enigmas onto which everyone paints their own political positions Discuss #Orwell #Attlee #Churchill

The 1980s were genuinely fucking mad A Polish girl from Hackbridge became the biggest TV star/singer for a brief period Made it in the US And launched The Simpsons You couldn't make it up #TraceyUllman youtu.be/FiwopPbHGts?...

It's like they asked AI to 'design a stadium that patronises English working class folk and that looks like it could be in a Wallace & Gromit film based on football.' So they probably did do that.

The end of another illustrious tenure by a @thedonstrust.bsky.social Board Member He'll always have his speaking side gig to fall back on youtu.be/v4mMI0wd0OE?... #AFCW

Yeah, I'll just leave this text from 2020 here.... #CovidInquiry

The report into Boris Johnson’s record during the Covid epidemic blames a ‘toxic, sexist and chaotic culture’ in Downing Street. Who’d have thought it?

Musk has apparently manipulated Grok so much that it says he's a better athlete than LeBron James and a funnier comedian than Jerry Seinfeld. Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.

God damn he's so stupid.

Elon Musk can't get humans to love him so he made a robot to love him instead and now all the humans are making fun of the robot. This is the smartest man in the world, a once-in-a-generation genius and clear member of the natural aristocracy

This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.

“But I have to enable Holocaust denialism because my favorite sports reporters are there”

Yeah, I think Ulez is a useful analogy for so many things, which is that ultimately 'is that true?' does really matter - people who could vote in the London mayoral election who sincerely believed their 2019 era car was gonna get hit by Ulez did not still believe that after Ulez had been introduced.

Over 50 percent of US Consumer Spending was (was) being done by only the top 10% (by net worth) This jobs report is likely to show an absolute catastrophy for the US economy Trump has driven the US economy off a cliff

I think this frontpage is an example of why Labour is facing the wrong way and fighting the last war. The new right isn't doing the old "legitimate concerns" thing that can be bargained with, reassured. Fundamentally the racism comes first and feeds the anti-immigrant stuff, not the other way round.

Dignity by Deacon Blue is a fine song and it sounds positively lush here youtu.be/Duo5NGY3noA?...

Nice one you Scots youtu.be/NucJ5XC5OpI?...

Two explosions targeted a railway line that connects Poland and Ukraine. Prime Minister Tusk is calling these attacks “an unprecedented act of sabotage aimed at the security of the Polish state and its citizens.” www.reuters.com/world/explos...

There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million In New York - population 8.5 million - there were 391. London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago. And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing

Won't happen. But at some point a UK government is going to have to make a big decision to scrap the triple lock, and I suspect when they do it will prove to be far more popular than expected. Leadership rather than government by polling.

Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

Samir Zitouni a Muslim Immigrant from Algeria left hospital today, 2 weeks after being the first person to try stop the attack in Huntingdon train attack. They won't want to talk about this immigrant.

At some point we have to ask why British politics keeps producing leaders who struggle to do the job. That's partly about the pressures of the role itself, but it's also about the "pipeline": how likely are our procedures to generate leaders with the skill-set to manage those pressures? [THREAD] 🧵

It's real, and it's mind-blowing. A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.

Every single person involved with this app in any way. No matter how small. Should be jailed. It's beyond gross

Comedy gold watching a CNN roundtable where the increasingly desperate host has to jump in every two minutes with “there is no evidence” to cover their backs every time someone says “The President might be a paedophile”.

BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.

Megyn Kelly doesn't see Epstein as a pedophile, just a diet pedophile

Rotten apples don’t fall far from the tree.

When they’re treating multi-billion dollar sports teams like collectibles, it’s time to tax the rich. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/c...

It’s more split than party at this point

Not sure if the Republican Party was wise to stake everything on a senile paedophile

David Aaronovitch shreds this case against the BBC observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Farage has dropped out of BBC film following BBC row. Good. Access journalism is client journalism. The BBC should make a film about Reform whether or not Farage chooses to ‘sit down’ with Laura Kuensberg. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...