Uh, some 2,000 generations of humans managed to figure it out without being so lazy assed.

Nothing wrong with having help for childcare, I wish everyone could. Definitely something wrong with being a billionaire snake oil salesman and pretending that the human help you rely on for childcare is actually done by your snake oil

Nuzzi is the type of journalist who treats politics as offering entertaining characters, and zero stakes or substance. She has had a remarkably successful career within that particular genre. Her self-immolation, along with this vacuous memoir, illustrates the genre’s limits.

This thread is like one of those sci-fi movies where they stumble upon a destroyed spaceship and find the log reports of the captain slowly going insane.

Reform UK councillor Andrew Harrison's business was fined £40,000 for hiring an "illegal immigrant." Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it www.bbc.com/news/article...

Wel, wor'tiwedh ny wra hi glaw, ha kosekka yw an gwyns. Duw genes, Bram.

Every movie I don't like is Hitler

Perfectly explicable behaviour: any legislation that ameliorates the conditions of the proletariat postpones their realisation of class consciousness and hence delays the inevitable revolution: it is a bourgeois revisionist conceit to vote for the bill

This is good solid analysis from the comrade

Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy. Enough to power 23 million homes! U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.

In years to come, claims to have strong relationships to Trump may not be something to be proud of.

Will they deport Kemi for her cybercrime she committed?

Going to be fun watching them try to figure out a way to say "oh we didn't mean dual citizenship with a white country" without sounding like massive racists.

THEY JUST FUCKING LIE

Tom Cotton is an embarrassment to Arkansas—and given that the state’s governor is Sarah Huckabee Sanders, that’s saying something. www.borowitzreport.com/p/profile-in...

Refusing citizenship to people who have done everything right and want to become Americans belies the idea that the MAGA immigration policy is anything other than white supremacy. These people were turned away simply because they were from the Global South.

Young Republicans are looking for Trump to “be their Franco” but don’t you dare call them fascists.

Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.

Come on you are just making this up now

I can’t believe how much of the Trump era is about solving problems that *don’t* exist while making all the problems that *do* exist, worse. There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.

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Reminder that nationality may exist whether or not you’ve applied for or renewed a passport. A passport is merely evidence of nationality, it does not confer it. There are millions of dual citizens in the UK, many of whom will never have held a passport for their other nationality/ies.

In the suit or dress he wants everyone to wear at the airport?

Delighted this piece is now live on @theverge.com: I've spent months investigating how a supposed war against the "censorship-industrial complex" has been used by the US right to wage war against misinformation research – and free speech itself – across the world. Please do give it a read.

One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse. “It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

bring back shame, combat vice signaling

President Zelenskyy has rejected the Trump peace plan, submitted to him in its original Russian.

When will all Americans ever concede that they elected MBS’s business partners, Putin’s political pal and one of Epstein’s longest and best buddies. Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are.

A reminder that when Kemi Badenoch hacked Harriet Harman's website it was an offence carrying a sentence of up to five years in prison

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

“The Matthew Effect applied to kebab shops”

Anyone who uses the term “narcoterrorist” seriously in this debate should not be taken seriously.

Vibes.

Watching the contemptible 'Deal or No Deal' again. They're going through the usual motions of pretending it's a game with skill, and that believing harder works.

When we had a chance, Alito and Thomas should have been indicted for aiding and abetting a violent insurrection. Also fraud, corruption and bribery. Kravanaugh for lying to Congress and Gorsuch for generally being a POS when not recusing when he had major conflicts of interest. The list is endless

The United States gives far too much power, money, and influence to silly people with heads full of nonsense.

Saw a movie post about a film that I am a detractor for. But I did not comment. Rage posting is the tool of the enemy. We do not use it. We do not *need* it.

Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits

Yma tewedh nowydh omma. Ev re veu henwys "Bram" gans Met Eireann. *Ha'n skrifer ow hwerthin kepar ha skolvaw yn Kernewek*

So, yes, there are benefits - a G7 economy, re-widening the Single Market and re-integrating key markets like energy and others, potentially a fuck you to Putin and a show of unity, FoM, etc, but there are very deep risks for the EU and MSs too. It’s nowhere near a slam dunk, at all IMV.

It routinely laughed at references to Solidarity or multi-lingualism and routinely objected to any to deepening integration, collective decision making, and moving beyond inter-governmentalism. A referendum win for join of, say, 65%, or even 70%, would not disprove this.

5. The UK is Atlanticist and things are getting nasty with the US. In the past this was a net benefit as a bridge. However, the UK is much more integrated with the US in e.g. security and intel and is likely to want to keep balancing its relationship with DC while the EU will need to…

3. The UK is historically a budget disciplinarian at a point when increasing EU spending and pushing the financial risk it can collectively take is an existential necessity. The last thing the EU, and at least half the MSs, need now is a big new MS throwing spanner’s in the budget.

…their own political success on selling UK accession to their own populations who still well-remember how appallingly their Union, country and their fellow citizens in the UK, were treated by the UK. Some may even require referendums the government could lose.

It’s an absolutely gigantic risk for the EU and its Member States: 1. Brexit cost the EU & EU businesses fortunes in uncertainty & adjustments, and sucked up near endless political capacity and attention. It cost the UK much more, but still cost the EU. 2. It would require MS leaders to stake…

Reposting this thread as to why I think, unfortunately, from the perspective of the EU and its Member States, UK EU membership or even encouraging the UK as it stands towards an application would be a gamble with big risks for them, in case of interest as it was buried in replies.