A new game of find the moustache. Go!

Have that (Print run of this one now available in my shop at www.stephencollinsillustration.com)

The sheer weirdness of these people cannot be exaggerated. “There can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy, than sexually abusing innocent children.” That goes way beyond homophobia as we usually think of it. It’s passionately held and consciously nourished hatred.

You already see it in how people have clocked out. Universities used to be run on an inordinate amount of goodwill. Yes, the unhealthy kind that meant people bent over backwards in things they should be properly remunerated for, but also more broadly in collegiality and turning up. Eroded now.

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43C / 109F

Tropische nachten waarin de temperatuur niet beneden de 20 graden afkoelt komen steeds vaker voor in Nederland met warme uitschieters tot boven de 24 graden. Dat is een gevolg van de opwarming van de aarde door de verbranding van fossiele brandstoffen.

TikTok's latest illegal 'life hack' seems to be 'dispute credit card transactions for free stuff' and legality aside I am here to beg you: Do not do this to small businesses. It really fucks them over in ways you may not be aware of beyond stealing from them (which is, to be clear, what this is).🧵

It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5

It really is peak centrism punditry day. As if there wasn't tons of research that can explain why Starmer's strategic decisions had negative electoral effects. But centrist pundits simply seem to ignore research on why the centre-left is failing and misconstrue these arguments as normative leftism

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Can you see the anomaly 👇 ? On temperature forecasts for Tuesday France has same colour than the belt of deserts in Africa and Arabia. Not normal. We are in a #climate emergency. And our politics are denying or minimising the problem because "it's the economy, stupid", to enrich the rich ☠️

Until the left understands that "immigration" is a "concern" created in a top down manner to divert from other issues, it will continue to fight the (far)right on its turf This is what I explored here at length journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Good Boy

Today's the anniversary of the Nazis executing Marc Bloch. Or, someone who could sit with uncertainty, champion inquiry & trying to understand, and recognise plurality & perplexity. And, in that knowledge, made the choice not to remain passive. Bloch, Historian’s Craft (MUP, 1992), pp. 64, 119, 160.

The notebook has feedback from a nurse, cowboy, and plumber. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/proof-6 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

This is Sam Fahd Abu Haikal. A 7-month-old Palestinian baby killed by Israel. If this were an Israeli baby or a Western baby, his face would be splashed across front pages. Western leaders would condemn the perpetrator's evil. Here? Silence.

The New PJs (1/4)

House on the Highway (1/18)

I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

This truly makes me sick

Looking forward to Rowling slapping down her large gamete producing organs on a table outside a toilet when asked to produce evidence that she is a ‘woman’.

Satuday's @theguardian.com cartoon #transrights #EHRC #LGBTQ

One cartoon can't counteract all the targeted attacks over the past decade. Without a formal apology and reparations to trans people from The Guardian this is just insulting. No offence meant to the person who made the cartoon just the audacity of The Guardian publishing it

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Bea Cantillon stelt de fundamentele vraag: Hervormen we de welvaartsstaat om hem overeind te houden, of om alleen zekerheid te geven aan wie economisch mee kan terwijl voor de rest een fragiele, onzekere en disciplinerende bijstand overblijft? www.demorgen.be/meningen/wan...

The emboldening of the extreme right is terrifying The fact it is happening as the left is demonised, vilified and criminalised is not coincidental and it should terrify us even more as it is where resistance only exists The liberal bulwark was always a fantasy

Keep in mind that climate impacts for the average citizen of a low-income country at 1.5°C of global warming will not be felt by ~40% of people living in high-income countries until global warming exceeds 3°C.

Ik vreesde wat voor het stuk omwille van de titel maar het is om point. Het wordt tijd om het beestje bij zijn naam te noemen: de samenleving wordt homofober. Zijn we bereid om het tij te keren. www.demorgen.be/niet-te-miss...

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

🚨🚨 Breaking: EU leaders have for the first time ever agreed to formally sanction against #Israeli settlers over attacks on #Palestinians in the #westbank after #hungary dropped months of opposition due to change of government. www.politico.eu/article/eu-f...

Tearing up a bit at this, not just for Europe but for all the people I know in Hungary who fought so hard through so much disappointment to make it happen. Heros and heroines every one. Although Magyar will do less than we hope (doesn’t everyone?) Hungary is back as a full member of Europe.

Listen, the EU has many, many, many problems. But I won't deny being moved by what it inspires in people to whom some of its (proclaimed) ideals have been denied. May we live up to this hope.

The Seed Song

Kevin González is 18 years old and dying of cancer. He can’t say goodbye to his parents because ICE grabbed them. They did the same thing to Wael Tarabishi, a 30 year old disabled man. They took his father and full time caregiver away. Wael died 3 months later.

There is so much nonsense talked about votes for 16. Once you consider registration, turnout, that not everyone votes one way, it is perhaps likely to make a net 200-300 vote difference in seats where there is an age voting gap www.dailymail.com/news/article...

🚨🚨It is not often #EUlaw make the headlines but today's significant seminal ruling by the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social where the Court ruled that #hungarian laws breached the fundamental values of the EU in Art 2 TEU is a major political victory for #LGBTI+ rights. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

The Palentir statement on its desired “Technological Republic” is one of the scariest things I have seen in a while. It is a call for a world dominated by an authoritarian U.S., generated by AI (both the statement and the world), run by tech-surveillance companies. Technofascism pure!

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 15,1946

J. Dennison and H. Kriesi. “Explaining Europe's Transformed Electoral Landscape: Structure, Salience, and Agendas”. In: European Political Science Review (2023), p. online first. dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755773923000085.

X this evening vs Bsky this evening

Again there's simply no comparison between the scope, scale, & tone of the JOE BIDEN EPICALLY AND INCOMPETENTLY FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN coverage of August/September 2021 & the "just the facts, very measured" reporting of what's going on with Iran & Trump now.

Donald Trump Does Not Have a Plan He has dictatorial desires. But not everything is a brilliant distraction or part of a cunning masterplan. Let’s not turn incompetent agents of malice into omnipotent supervillains. My new piece:

With this poll, Orbán is laying the ground to refuse to recognise anything but a win by him as legitimate, eg. www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/cur.... Such an outcome would drive a further wedge between Europe and the US government.

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

In my article for @talkingpointsmemo.com, I tried to explain the prospects for de-Orbánisation after Sunday's election in Hungary to a U.S. audience, in fewer than 1000 words [by invitation] 🗳️🇭🇺⬇️