Starmer isn’t just boring and steady. He is also indecisive and refuses to engage in politics, has subcontracted policy to people who only think about strategy, and consequently is the world leader in the politics of needlessly pissing absolutely everybody off. Hence the full-throated AlPal chorus.

“we will bring Elon back into the Dem fold” no break him

lmao bondi getting stunted on and steamrolled by every single grifter scumbag shithead in the entire DOJ is exactly what she deserves (and much more)

the service unions and the teacher unions are the strongest soldiers and i am super tired of them being taken for granted in favor of machinists with trump hats

Many of you already know this is my view, but I essentially think the only way to deliver enough homes in the right places (mainly cities) is for councils to finance their construction in the same way that they did in the mid-20th century

swing voters are real, here to stay, and gigantic morons

Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute

Increasingly it's clearer to a lot of people what i have been saying for a while: people use "inflation" and "prices" to talk about their own difficulty making ends meet or affording big ticket items once "inflation" became a big media news story. It's not actually about CPI or even increases.

75% is such a low estimate

Since Reagan left office, virtually every notable orator in American politics has been a Democrat. It's an interesting trend that the Trump era has worsened by incentivizing stupidity, vice-signaling, and sycophancy.

Randy Fine: worst house rep of all time?

With what possible legal authority?

It is a stinging indictment of the congressional GOP that they were willing to confirm such obvious bad actors as Hegseth, Gabbard, and RFK Jr., but they know they can't spin the collapse of the US economy. This is something they can't lie and equivocate their way around.

"the excesses of wokeness" as a broad social phenomenon is one of the most made-up things that ever happened and every single time a progressive person did something obnoxious or mean or stupid it got blown up into evidence of cultural rot, down to individual college students and Goodreads bloggers

if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”

BREAKING: Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a “transformational” donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group. This large gift comes just months after the Trump administration shut down counseling services for queer youth. My latest for @wired.com:

lots of this website needs to fill this out

We should combine the pope and Jerome Powell like a megazord

here's an interesting fact: Japan never approved the iodization of salt because the Japanese diet is already so high in iodine from seaweed and fish there's no point.

reminder that bovino is a *CIVIL SERVANT* sephiroth posting at Senators like he's the VP

The Conservative party's existential issue is that no-one in my work network (30-40 something professionals working in law, finance and corporates) want to vote for them, and their current Reform strategy only alienates that demographic further.

Nadhim Zahawi and family fled to the UK from Saddam Hussein's Iraq as a child refugee in 1978. Unable to speak English when he arrived, he became a hugely successful businessman and an MP before serving as Chancellor of the Exchequor. His origin story is the very antithesis of the Reform narrative.

Very glad they did this, but honestly forgot Greenspan was still alive

once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...

I will die with hatred in my heart for the elites of this era and how much their cravenness has damaged the world

I expected some insanely dumb shit, even a lot of insanely dumb shit. I did not expect ALL DUMB SHIT ALL THE TIME.

pam bondi's job is to take marching orders from some of the dumbest, most corrupt flunkies in the admin, only to eat shit the first time DOJ lawyers make contact with the courts, i love this for her, she's going to have the single worst conviction rate in the history of the DOJ

Kemi, this is just a population density map

really can’t be any clearer that there is no plan, just a series of chaotic and increasingly destructive impulses that are in the process of collapsing any semblance of world order

My crank opinion is that like 85% of the bad shit going on now would have been avoided if elites had held the line that it's the Gulf of Mexico.

So we're maybe bombing Iran as a distraction from Greenland which we're taking because of Russia and China after we got control over Venezuela and hey Cuba you better watch out

The chair of the fed ripping off his shirt and yelling "you know where to find me, bitch" while very clearly signaling to The Money that Trump is breaking The Money can I have a precedented time again? I've been good

It is so funny how Jerome Powell was entirely a fluke because so many of the smart money guys are spineless worms who still, to this very minute, cannot comprehend the threat of the wolf snarling in their face

It’s also so cool that nothing any conservative does in office is crime but in any way impeding an ICE agents totally legal work is a crime deserving of immediate execution

the wistful nostalgia towards Bill Clinton centrist pundits have is funny because their equivalents in the 90's definitely thought he was some sort of Maoist

once trump’s corporate backers actually are *afraid* of massive foreign retaliation they will start clogging up the group chats demanding trump back down. and he will listen, because ultimately this stupid game has only gone on because of elite complicity

Very funny that the guy who turned the east wing of the White House into a pile of rubble one Friday is criminally investigating the federal reserve chairman about a building renovation

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

the last year has been one long exercise in finding out who has principles and who is a spineless worm fit only to wriggle in the dirt.

americans love steep inflation, idk what the problem is, it's not like we freak out and hit the panic button any time the price on something goes up $1

people will say the framers never could have predicted this, but that's not true at all, they absolutely *did* expect someone like trump, they thought congress would *stop* him, and they thought they made that clear

I cannot stress how distrubing it is to find out just how many peoples’ perfect partner is anything that can never disagree with them

"Winning elections forever is not a strategy!" is correct. But the implication of this is that at some point in the future we need to have a reason that losing them isn't existential

JPOW literally said

This is the kind of shit we need to see. The notion that being professional and nominally apolitical puts you in opposition to Trump as much as being a member of the opposing political party does.

It's so cool how they made King Charles I 2, the exact nightmare of the founding generation real

To be wholly cynical, it's because Bluesky is heavily tilted towards privileged liberal who think of themselves as "political" but are also couch potatoes. In the face of a moment where real change is possible, there's incentive to demoralize — to justify not getting off the couch.