Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social. Quiet piggy! 🐖

Is the decay accelerating

Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire. Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines. Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.

The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales. Tesla makes up less than 2%. The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.

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I'm reminded of how we're being told lately that the "majority of" Venezuelan people support regime change, and therefore want a US military intervention. They may certainly want a new government, but achieved by being bombed and killed by the US, which then seizes control of their oil?

Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.

One of the things organized crime groups like the mafia have always done is to make committing a heinous crime a rite of passage, something you must do to be accepted into the circle. It forces participants to cross a moral boundary, and creates a sense of shared jeopardy (of consequences).

Putin repeatedly emphasizes that he wants "peace" in Ukraine. We in the West have not yet understood that the word "peace" has a completely different meaning in the Russian language.

Everyone should read this. The outrageous criminality, the knowing and planned betrayal, the wool being carefully pulled over the eyes of citizens of the US and the world.

A Crime In Plain Sight: State Capture of Ukraine by Trump and Putin How intercepted calls reveal a $293 billion war profiteering conspiracy orchestrated by a real estate developer, Russian intelligence, and American megadonors thechrissampson.substack.com/p/a-crime-in...

Does Forbes just choose a group of venal self promoting psychopaths and hold then up as a model to emulate? I wonder why they would do that? www.cryptopolitan.com/majority-for...

Wow, when you find that bad actors that were clearly aligned were actually connected, it helps makes sense of things. These people can't be allowed to win. pdjukes.substack.com/p/bannon-com...

🤬🤬putin says “russia isn’t planning to fight European countries… but if Europe starts a war, russia is ready right now.” Classic Kremlin logic: threaten everyone - then pretend to be the victim. Nothing new. Nothing surprising. Just another day of russian “peace”

Seems relevant: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Le...

Bold prediction: the current AI boom will be net negative for science simply because many scientists won't be able to afford to buy new computers. "Mainstream DDR5 memory modules now cost at least twice what they did in mid-2025." www.xda-developers.com/dram-prices-...

What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

These boat strikes will be nothing compared to the war crimes they will commit after they initiate regime change to seize Venezuelan oil companies.

Today On Tap from me: Marco Rubio is selling a war of choice in Venezuela on falsehoods about narco-trafficking so he can get right-wing south Florida exiles who've been his political allies back into power. It's an incredibly parochial pretext for an imperial adventure. prospect.org/2025/12/01/m...

☢️#80. Idiocracy, 2006. Buried upon release to avoid upsetting the studio’s corporate interests, #MikeJudge still thankfully snuck this one past the goalie. As intelligent as it is sophomoric, sadly its wildest predictions continue to feel frighteningly accurate. 4/5 ☢️

Apparently the same people that told us "trade wars are good, and easy to win" are now telling us the Special Military Operation in Venezuela "won't be hard." That's reassuring.

According to BBC, defending yourself is an escalation.

Until tech gives more agency to citizens, smart cities are a dumb idea for democracy. "While cities may disclose how they collect data, they rarely offer ways to opt out." "Residents want agency" #privacy #AIEthics spectrum.ieee.org/smart-city-p...

"It used to be called bribery," he added. "Now it is just called business." When the Soviet Union collapsed, russia embraced what it call 'biznis' - capitalism as interpreted by mobsters and gangsters. Now the current US regime shares that exact interpretation. indem.ru/en/publicat/...

There needs to be a campaign to prevent the government purchasing closed source software. They are committing crimes against taxpayers. Using taxpayer money to buy bespoke platforms WHICH WE STILL DON'T OWN, is like paying a builder to build your house, and then the builder OWNS the house.

This reminds me of about eight years ago when everyone was saying, “We’re putting _____ on the blockchain,” and you were supposed to give them megamillions of dollars to do that.

I suggest that we start using the phrase "Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too." as shorthand to explain how little we want to be at any given terrible event.

Ah yes, a Libertarian city run by a Billionaire to escape the "shackles" of conventional morality and laws... I think we know how that goes. Splicers. Everywhere.

The UK's NHS seems to be backtracking on commitments to Open Source, which is disappointing to see. A sign of corporate capture by Palantir, Fujitsu, et al? Compare this to Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency, which is going from strength to strength. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQqF...

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

When are reporters going to stop standing for this verbal abuse? Trump calling anyone stupid is rich. The Trump admin are the ones who granted this man assylum.

We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate. Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Found it youtube.com/shorts/aPIkE...

Just to understand the concept of a trillion. 1 million minutes ago it was October 21, 2023. A billion minutes ago it was 114 CE. A trillion minutes ago it was 1,900,114 BCE

I have to say, this BBC article is REMARKABLY plain-spoken and devoid of the usual weasel-wordy "legitimate concerns" bothsideisms we often see. Good journalism work. www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he’d ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners” Just FFS investigate the whole dodgy traitorous lot of them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Then as now ...

When America Has Your Back . Cartoon by Kevin KAL Kallaugher

When Reform buys ads in the Telegraph, Mail etc, that's not really "spending", any more than when as a child I used to buy presents for my parents with their own money. There's a narrow circular right wing economy fueled by some opaque foreign sources.

Tim "eat your slop, consumer" Sweeney. Way back in the before times, Tim was known for being the *other* genius game engine developer, creator of the Unreal engine.

Witkoff is of Russian decent. Been turning real estate for decades with their monsters, arms dealers, and all the other scum from Russia. How come 60 minutes hasn’t done an expose on this miniature creep.

🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 65,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 70,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Summary of the Witkoff-Gate.

It is - by this point - obvious to even casual observers of media that WAY MORE than a couple of MPs or MEPs have been compromised. Newspaper Editors, Producers, C-Suite executives, Security Services; Gob-smacked if "russian interference" didnt explain such media disinterest.

American perfidy, that's the topic on the agenda these days. This is what things have come to.

"I don't like your suit! Have you even said thank you?" Trump assiduously putting the representatives of a terror regime in their place.

Comrade Vitkov is really earning his award as a hero of russia!