Quite. We have lost more than 1% GDP in fuel duty over last 20 years. Every chancellor for 15 years has promised at least to maintain real value of duty. Not one has done so. And now this govt backs down at first sign of trouble. Expensive & poorly targeted

Is it morally defensible? No. But is it a coherent response to a difficult situation? No. Ah, but is it effective in bringing down fuel prices? Ha, you're not going to believe this...

Republicans are trying to make it illegal for Democrats to win federal elections. Democrats really, really shouldn’t play along.

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

The FDA’s decision comes as Gen Z and followers of Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement increasingly embrace the idea of building a “solar callus” through gradual sun exposure while ditching sunscreen. Dermatologists I spoke to broke down all that's wrong with that belief.

The new Trump administration counterterrorism strategy document is not getting nearly enough attention. The document explicitly lists “left-wing extremists,” people with “radically pro-transgender” ideologies, and “anti-fascists” alongside ISIS and cartels as top national security threats. 1/

Guys. Heads up. Let’s talk about Hantavirus. There have been SEVERAL bad takes and BLATANT misinformation circulating regarding this outbreak so I figured it was a good idea to make a thread about it. Stay calm. Stay vigilant. Know your facts. Here’s ALL you need to know. 🧪🧵⬇️

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

An absolutely wonderful read, not just for quality of their films but also as myself a recently married person an inspiration for all creative couples that art is a marathon, not a sprint!

TRUE!!! "The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history." -- V-Dem 2026 Annual Report. The USA has fallen back to the same level as in 1965--a 24% drop in its Liberal Democracy Index. www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

sound up for hungry beaver noises

Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly

So reciprocal tariffs and boycotts on all US goods until he stops threatening to colonise a peaceful European-owned country

Grok is so much worse than you think.

“It's gotten worse in the last week or two before he was doing tawdry, petty, nasty personal recrimination,” said former federal prosecutor Harry Litman on MS Now.

this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.

Excessive force by officers is not new. What is novel for the United States is the use of federal power afterward to stifle investigation and shield wrongdoing. That path is unprecedented and indefensible. trib.al/SRjZES5

You can't have all the benefits of equality without the equality, but she could stop working. Others will serve Elon Musk and do racist podcasts. She's right that her work isn't helping anyone!

Amazing how anyone made anything before 2023!

His wife says they were refusing to properly treat his diabetes. The facility where he died is a private prison.

Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

I've been thinking lately about how when Trump won last time many of the building that bore his name weren't actually owned by him - they licensed the name - and they removed the names from his buildings. He's trying to create a legacy for himself.

Trump is a physical rapist. But he's a spiritual rapist, too:

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

A promised vote on the ACA? See, they can’t include the ACA without having to bring the House back into session - and they’d have to swear in Grijalva. That’s what this is all about. Protecting the Epstein files.

one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!

Hasan: Let me say to every Republican and conservative watching. Aren't you the ones that said no more big government? No tyranny in America? If you believe that, what are you doing defending masked federal agents in unmarked cars bundling people off the streets

Also, being scared to go to #NoKings in your big blue city or nice blue suburb feels extra dumb when you see these people doing it.

A viral video shared with claims it shows “anti-fascists” being attacked is not real, and was made using an image from September 2024. Clues such as the text on a flag changing halfway through are evidence the clip was made using artificial intelligence.

I was talking to a 22 year-old who is doing the same sort of work I am right now and through a weird twist in the conversation Gamergate was brought up and he looked honestly confused and said "wait, that was real?" and I've been thinking about it ever since. I don't know what to do with that.

Quick reminder that we don’t actually have to live like this, there are several men who have simply decided to allow it. For profit.

With awful news about Conor Gearty’s death, it’s apt to listen to & reflect on this searching & v recent discussion about the threats to human rights in Britain & what on Earth to do about it … In his gentle tones he forcefully convey the answer is NOT just to lie down & accept that decency is over

But the libs were so triggered

What a stat.

“Donald Trump’s response makes explicit what was previously just below the surface in America. There is now a double standard for political violence, where violence against Republicans simply matters more to the President than attacks against anyone else.” inews.co.uk/opinion/char...

BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage

What always makes me raise an eyebrow about scepticism towards phasing out fossil fuels is that it's inevitable. They're going to run out. Much of that oil needs to used for vital stuff like medical supplies anyway. This is just something we will have to do. Why even question it?

I don’t think the gulf between the heavily online & the rest of us has ever felt wider than this morning. And the nature of the former experience has changed beyond recognition since Musk gifted Twitter to the far right. So those of us who have left the platform don’t fully grasp what’s going on.

During his first term, Donald was surrounded by people (the theory went) who acted as guardrails—the widely touted “adults in the room” who watched over America’s first toddler president. The adults haven't just left the room. They've left the building. trib.al/zYC2SsK

i'm not sure this is shocking but it is astounding. as he says, we have a dea and an atf for a reason. we seem to have gotten out of those businesses altogether.

Don't forget: Trump 2.0 is largely John Roberts' fault.

Poverty is a governance issue not a personal one, it's the fault of a government that there is homelessness crisis and it's a fucking travesty that we allowed these ghouls to make people believe otherwise.

April of this year: Matt Yglesias Tweets his support for a national ID system that allows the government to demand you prove your citizenship at any given time. Yesterday: Matt Yglesias finally realizes the downside of this fascist policy when he realizes this could apply to him too

From American Eagle to Cracker Barrel, Americans are now creating wild conspiracy theories about minor company decisions.

We told you. Every. Fucking. Time. We told them. Crypto. NFTs. The metaverse. We told them *every time.* And still, they did not believe us. Techbros pretended to throw a ball, and they run off like a loyal dog believing their master would never betray their trust. They'll do it again, too.

this is extremely important. trump gets more and more fascist by the hour, and the courts + civil society are enabling, rather than checking him. this is a ‘break glass in case of emergency’ moment and democrats need to shut it down until checks and balances are restored