I just can’t believe we’re doing this.

Hungarian taxpayers were forced to bankroll CPAC. An actual foreign government was secretly funding American right-wing politics and the Trump admin was cheering Orbán on the whole time. Magyar just won in a landslide and called it what it is a CRIME. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/A_4sUN1ksSD6...

Thread. The Labour Government is too gutless to axe "Gender Reassignment" as a protected characteristic in the Equality Act 2010. Instead, they're using bureaucracy and ambiguity to revoke trans people's human rights and legal protections. Despicable. Perhaps they aim to take up Orban's mantle. 🤬

Sadly we’ll never know why the strait of Hormuz was closed in the first place.

This is *excruciating* and heartbreaking. Her moments to catch her breath speak volumes. Do not watch if you're a survivor and this will be triggering - but this shows that man is an AWFUL SERIAL RAPIST. Drugging & choking here...

I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason? just a wild country

Smart political move. Takes it to the Rs. Everyone is seeing Trump fall apart in real time. Make his party vote, or at least refuse to vote on this measure, and keep the issue live for the election. Hungary seems to be inspiring people here too.

I for one am shocked, shocked to discover that assholes refuse to accept facts that are inconvenient to them.

If anyone’s surprised by this, they don’t know who or what they’re talking about.

the hot 60 minutes australia interviewer showed everybody how it's done, and I think we can all move on from this now

Doesn't matter. Their emotional support empire is dying

Our Friends And Allies In The Region…

This is how fascism and extralegal rule is normalized. We're not even hearing about it anymore.

This is absolutely pathetic. A cultural sector colluding in state censorship because it can’t afford to do its printing in a democratic country.

Is it bad when we already didn’t really have any growth?

Notice Yglesias's sleight-of-hand here as he focuses on profit-vs-non-profit, thereby treating all for-profit work as ethically and morally equivalent. Sorry, no. Getting big bucks as a lobbyist for socially-destructive companies like Kalshi is bad and deserving of shame.

Clicked over to a Threads post of mine at a fortuitous time

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self: the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

Something truly ineffable about this batch of feeble half-measures being put forward as a bold agenda-setting initiative by the Fabians, a group committed to the idea that we have all the time in the world…

Amazing

Historian here 💯some of the unhinged attacks on Mary Todd Lincoln by historians like Michael Burlingame border on misogyny and completely misrepresent the historical record. She was a favorite among radicals like Charles Sumner and black abolitionists. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/o...

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

This may be the stupidest climate denial talking point of all time

I'm sorry, but I affirmatively expect better from democracy than what Douthat does.

"It’s not the rate of price change that’s bothering people. It’s the level. When you fill the grocery cart…you’re paying today’s sticker—not today’s sticker minus last year’s.…people don’t forget the original price shock just because the rate of change stopped rising."

And it's a bit concerning that he is a major investor in Substack. Marc Andreesen is shaping media into his vision and some of y'all are just letting him. You are letting SS use your left leaning journalism to launder right wing extremism. It's making me nuts.

This page confirms that LGBT+ Labour Scotland remains an official affiliate of Scottish Labour. But its website has been shut down, it appears to have no currently serving officers, and it hasn't made any public statements for nearly three years. So that's shit. scottishlabour.org.uk/about/affili...

David Kurtz makes a perhaps obvious, but nevertheless very important point: Trump isn’t a normal president getting upended by business cycles and trends outside his control. All the challenges/crises facing the US economy today are unequivocally the results of Trumps actions. This is all on him.

Ed Miliband The Pope 🤝 Making the president of America wake up angry just by doing their jobs that don't affect the daft nonce in any way

are we college freshmen?

Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, a long-term study shows. The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80. The results contradict RFK Jr. statements.

Don't buy a used EV from Bjorn:

This, all the livelong day⬇️

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

Everything about Farage and Reform is corrupt. Everything. The saps that allow themselves to be used as “ordinary voter” bullshit artists are pitifully gullible or very dishonest themselves. Anyway… here’s Farage and his Tory mate, Kwarteng, dealing in Bitcoin millions and laughing at everyone.

I cop a lot of flack because this is an informal platform and my typing is terrible. I am actually a solicitor. These details matter. It looks more likely than not that the EHRC have already broken the law with the new Code of Practice:

Just pathetic.

These are people who think an Operation game is a accurate anatomical diagram

Fact check: LOL NO

"For Vance, the press is running the inoculation campaign. They’re laundering the anonymous quotes into news and printing the framing his comms team is handing them. They know what they’re doing. They’re doing it anyway." @parkermolloy.com Always more lax with GOP politicians than with democrats.

THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS. ASK A SIXTH GRADER IF YOU NEED HELP.

it's probably worth restating that if the outcome of the 1918-1947 civil conflict in palestine had been up to the brits, we would now be living in a world where the middle east is dominated by the united kingdom of israel, palestine and transjordan, ruled by HM Abdullah-Avdiel of the banu Hashim

The NYTimes editorial board—"elite" by any definition—writes this drivel about "elite cultural progressivism" after a hand-picked Trump supporter flown in from Arkansas for a photo-op was asked by Trump about trans athletes and said "I really don’t have an opinion on that."

This week is the first at the Daily News since Heath Freeman's Alden Capital laid off our entire print production staff. It's embarrassing to open the paper we work so hard for each day and find mistakes like this. Is this the level of editing New Yorkers can count on going forward?

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I was too busy yesterday to pay attention to The Discourse, but I got the sense it was about how Gen X is too conservative and Tr*mpy, right? But today we're the bulk of No Kings. 🤷‍♀️

Guess how many times this Spiked piece - which blames Orban’s loss on ‘identity politics’ and ‘therapy culture’ - mentions that Furedi is literally working for Orban? democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits