Contrasts in social media platforms. Someone posted a nice "What is wrong with this picture?" puzzle from 1963. Here, everyone looking for the mistakes or making humorous comments (all dogs wore ties then). Facebook, third comment I saw was a knee-jerk flahshagger making a "joke": "no diversity".

"at least 12,000 people have been killed in Iran in the largest killing in the country's contemporary history"

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes. From Treasure magazine, 1963 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

Fascism is a politics of esthetics #294322799

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

Youth unemployment is down to imagined mental ill health apparently. Alternative thesis: it's largely down to what is happening in the labour market with entry level job openings massively falling. It's a demand rather than supply issue. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

“The agent, Tracee Mergen, left her job as a supervisor in the F.B.I.’s Minneapolis field office after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the immigration officer, Jonathan Ross…”

🚨"We wonder why people in the 1930s were quiet, we need to show we weren't quiet. History is gonna look back at all the people that didn't show up—their grandkids are gonna ask what were they doing! It's like -10 degrees and we're here!" -Minneapolis ICE protester. LIVE NOW⬇️

Starmer could not have made his outrage & call for Trump to apologise over his insulting words re the UK's contribution in Afghanistan, any clearer. He was very blunt. Yet BBC News spent 20 minutes trying in every possible way, to heap some blame on the PM! That is as disgusting as Trumps comments.

Trump pulled the US out of the World Health Organisation yesterday. In response California has become the first state to join the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network. If this is the start of a pattern Americans will only be safe in Blue states.

Classic Working towards the Fuhrer here, isn’t it

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

kelty comic this week about to make the onion store a zillion dollars

Dad sent me a 2 minute long video where Dennis Prager says that Hitler was "left wing" because Nazi is short for "National Socialist" and asked me for my opinion on this claim and so far I have written close to 2k words in a google doc, and am not nearing being finished

The biggest TV show in the country, record-breaking viewing figures… but, you know, The Telegraph gonna Telegraph

Nigel Farage is hellbent on stuffing his party with more and more failed Tories. You couldn’t trust them then, and you can’t trust them now. t.co/b8BMExlNm2

Don’t forget Trump said he’d end the Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours. Since then when asked he’s said we’re close, 2 weeks. Putin has no interest in stopping and wants Europe. Trump wants the western hemisphere. No one will fuck with Xi. His Bored of Peace is already known to be a scam.

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans beat Democrats over the head with the charge that Dems had turned the United States into a "pitiful helpless giant." Turns out they wanted that honor for themselves.

It's never good when the forecast looks like it belongs at a Grateful Dead show

Hey WH MORONS, it's called CLIMATE CHANGE for a reason. FFS

I heard Rutte speak in Hannover in 2014. He spoke in German, not in Dutch, and drew laughs from that dour crowd, mostly German, very self-important, about once a minute. The man used to bike to work as PM- says something about him and about the Netherlands. He’s miles ahead of any US politician.

i wonder how much of the ‘Burnham is going to challenge Starmer for the Labour leadership’ gossip is made up by bored journalists who thrive on chaos & who haven’t forgiven Starmer for winning the general?

*every fucking winter* yes, grandpa it still gets cold

What we’ve seen in Minnesota should make you furious, but it should also inspire you.

ICE just crashed a car at my intersection (due to their own shitty driving) and immediately got out and tear gassed observers.

If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing

Once again, these people aren't "patriots". They hate their own countries and have built an entire career out of attacking them, while cheering on any foreign leader who does the same

The phrase, "Go with God!" comes to mind... (Problem is: I think God stopped listening a long time ago... 🙄) But THESE clergy! ❤️ If you're a person of faith, THEIRS are the churches you want to attend--not the 'churches' who support what ICE and this administration are doing.

BTW, if anyone is wondering WWJD, he'd likely invite the ICE agents to dinner (likely at someone ELSE'S house...because the dude was never home, right?), feed them...and then literally shame the hell out of them by talking about their duty to care for foreigners, the poor, etc.

I know it’s been said before, indeed I’ve said it before, but if the Trump administration were setting out to do as much harm as it could, how would it’s action differ from those we now see?

This could be a big moment for Farage. His only comment so far has been insipid, saying that what Trump said was "not quite fair". I'm not sure that anything short of publicly repudiating his friendship with Trump will play well with many of his supporters. Meanwhile, Labour should press the bruise.

Ain't local Facebook grand? Loads of moans and speculation about some roadworks. Local councillor nips down to talk to the site manager, to find out what's really happening. Lets people know via Facebook, communicates clearly. Everyone whose pet idea isn't being done to the letter carries on moaning

I just saw a guy on the phone in Tesco. He said 'OK... OK. Thanks for telling me.' He then put back into the fridge two bottles of champagne which he'd been about to buy. I'll be thinking about it for a while probably.

Absolutely endless monster behavior from ICE & CBP. Detaining parents seeking urgent healthcare for their kids and who, in this case, had petitioned for asylum. All at the same hospital where they shot two people earlier this month. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Any Albertan or Canadian for that matter who “wants what the US has got” please emigrate. The border is right there. Here’s the info. Don’t waste a minute. www.dhs.gov/move-united-...

I don't buy into the "Just do it like the civil rights movement did it" discourse, as I think there's room for all kinds of methods. But seeing it done like the civil rights movement did it does confirm to me that there's still potency in that particular method. And I suspect it will resonate.

go right ahead, arrest the praying clergy, see how that plays for you

so many clergy coming to protest ICE that they're overflowing the airport sidewalk we are going to win

Back in 2007 Fox News did a segment on how Mr. Rogers, who died in 2003, was "evil" & was the source of many of America's problems. Fun fact: Fred Rogers was a lifelong REPUBLICAN, but he was the sort of old school liberal Republican that Fox News was designed to eliminate. youtu.be/29lmR_357rA?...

nine years old

I’ve been on holiday this week but I can see we’ve put up with some tremendous bullshit from the United States over the last six days. This, however takes the biscuit. Of COURSE it’s a word.

I think witnessing Brexit as both insider & outsider had a profound effect on Mark Carney. His resolve in the face of the next stage of the attempted destabilisation of the West might even be described as a ‘Brexit benefit’!

The confusing thing about Witkoff is that a negotiator needs to spend an equal amount of time with both parties to reach a deal. Witkoff seems to only spends time in Moscow so what deal is he hoping to reach?

Wasn't he a whiskey salesman before he became addled as Tory mp?

not even an MP! Never subjected himself to the voters despite multiple briefings that he might

If we did how long before we would have to pay a tariff for ‘protection’🤷‍♂️ I would rather put our hopes back with the EU.🙏

I admire that he feels confident saying it will take a decade or two for Europe (presumably including the UK) to get the power needed to be independent. Pity he helped us waste one of those decades

BREXITEER - a brain eating virus that has mutated to removing spines

Also doesn't deal with the fact that Brexit is part of the reason that Europe was weakened, which is why it was so enthusiastically supported by some of the vultures that Frost advocates hitching our fortunes to