btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

Ah man I felt this in my bones

it's just so much easier to fit all my eggs in this one basket

nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted myself as a squared-up Ilhan Omar and you as a collapsing sewer ogre

one kind of weird aspect of this is that a relatively diverse federal agency has been sent to a very white city by white nationalists to do ethnic cleansing, where they're executing white people in the street

Australians nod approvingly

If I am allowed to indulge in wishful thinking: You do have to wonder how Reform will fare in the UK if the next election occurs as the US government is embarking on a massive purge and suppression of MAGA

The whole world is watching Minneapolis

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

It would be kinda funny if they had to go to Philadelphia to get the violence they are clearly craving, but then get no swing behind them because most of America will go "well, what did they expect going *there*"

Among all the risks of immigration politics today, this one is true across borders: The actual things that have to be done to achieve the ends that people say they want are not, in fact, popular.

Because prior episodes of American chaos pre-date the nationalisation of American politics lots of Americans fairly enough assume that the splits and conflict this time will once again be horizontal, of a federal government facing off against state government(s)

My NEC/ My back/ Burnham project goes off track

Please share. 💔

The past few days have confirmed for me something I’ve long believed: the American political system is terminally fucked, but the American people are not. Most Americans want to live in a democracy in which everyone has a decent life—the fascists in this regime represent a dying minority.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

i’m not particularly attached to “abolish ICE” as a slogan but as a policy it’s mandatory

if that woman's video never gets published the assumption should be that the federal government destroyed evidence to protect their agents from accountability for murder

The United States will not be morally redeemed by the Newsoms but by the suburban moms and uncles who stand up to evil knowing the price they might pay.

Oh my God, there is video. They had the man down on the ground, with half a dozen agents holding him down, beating him, when they shot him, multiple times. They were *holding him down and beating him.* All the charges. Everyone of those agents should be in prison. www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

Went on a rant against the idea that the state pension will be abolished in future using UK examples. If anything, the opposite is much more likely to be the case.

If Europe found a way for him to save face and move on, great. But Carney's speech was still spoken and was still true. The bell has rung.

The windmills are starting to turn all over Europe. We will not see them still again in our lifetimes.

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

I think part of the reason everyone is so blown away by this Carney speech is it's so long since we heard an actual grown-up articulate serious thoughts about the world. Empty vessels have been making a lot of noise

One reason I am gloomy about Britain’s ability to rise to this geopolitical moment is the sheer parochialism and unseriousness of much of its media. The Times, which used to be a serious paper, does not have a single comment piece today on the gravest international crisis in 80 years

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

hard to believe that the Charlie Kirk firings / pearl clutchings happened mere months ago but here we are

I keep re-reading Carney's speech - it's like downing a glass of orange juice when you're Vitamin C deficient. Actual clarity of principle, thought and expression, what an excellent thing it is, and how rare these days.

"It’s up to the rest of us non-Davosians to rise to the occasion. Ordinary citizens in the streets of Minneapolis have a better grasp of what the moment requires than elites hobnobbing in the Alps. Our salvation won’t be found in Davos. It will be found, if it is to be found, in ourselves."

We just visibly are not a country where either the public or the political class has clocked that every couple of months a member of the defence establishment goes 'there is a war going on and we are, at present, losing'.

Think there's also a question of what do we want more of, and something I would be very keen to see is that any re-armament push does something at least to get itself in front of the public in a real and popular way.

I just don't get who this is for. I support a customs union and regulatory alignment on goods, and I've been an Outer all my life. Where are the Labour voters desperate to stay out of the Customs Union?

It might sound silly, but I mean it: The easiest and most potent way for Europe to hurt Trump this year is to once again use its cultural soft power and to threaten a boycott of the World Cup. It would become a completely meaningless event and would hurt him where he is most vulnerable - his vanity.

Everything else aside if starting a war with a NATO state doesn't prompt some sort of coup then there are no extra-constitutional brakes in the US apart from street politics.

Think it would be easier than people think to get the public to accept real lower consumption if politicians were more forthright about the case for it. People did so for COVID. "Russia is invading eastern Europe and America is run by a mad king, we need an army" doesn't seem that hard a sell.

Navalny and co wriggling around the consequences of Putin's annexation of Crimea in 2014 didn't exactly help the Russian opposition much either

Most conscious American:

To elaborate on this point: We need Democrats and American liberals to win, and really should do whatever we can to help that, but we should also entirely expect that come their day of victory the parts of the Trump order that offend and hurt us will not be overturned.

Today's newsletter: the one silver lining in a very dark cloud is that we should move away from our input target of 'we will spend 3.5 per cent of GDP by 2035' to a capability target for defence:

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

This isn't a left-right ideological issue. But it blows me away that anyone who is actually anti-Trump would think running back Joe Biden/Merrick Garland 2.0 will work the second time. No political party can tolerate a very large, armed secret police force committed to murdering its voters.

Nationalist, but not for your nation is usually a position that ends in interesting ways for those expressing it.

Its just so funny that this is the position of basically every European "nationalist". We'd rather be ruled by insane RW Americans than by the people of our nation. Fascism Internationale is so fucking weird.

There's also going to be a lot of cognitive dissonance for some folks in British politics when they discover that France is the UK's closest ally now.

UK not in the room where it happens

Are we honestly doing the World Cup over there? For real?

Like Minnesotans protesting and generally annoying the shit out of ICE is a highly effective form of resistance! Just look at the polling! Taking random potshots at Feds would probably have the opposite effect