Noam Chomsky loves the taste of boot, as long as it's edgy and contrarian enough.

Slides from a Home Office presentation for employers on “earned settlement” — note the case studies: they explicitly play the “good migrant” versus “bad migrant” narrative. Guess which category Sarah, the American, is placed in?

John Rentoul is like if you made a political pundit LLM that stopped absorbing any new information after 2003.

In a halfway functional republic this would also be grossly illegal, but John Roberts, like all of his compatriots on the SCOTUS, hates democracy and the rule of law.

One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

Imagine paying £500,000 to be a founder-member of a private members club fronted by Liz Truss.

I agree. I understand the urge to keep trying to stop Trump doing more harm to UK interests, but Starmer & other European leaders need an honest conversation with voters about the effect of US abandonment on our security, & what we now need to do to protect ourselves.

I wonder if at some point a leader of sufficient importance is going to crack and say, outright, that Trump is a deranged barely coherent bigot and that we have nothing to learn from the society that elected him twice, and if that might break a dam.

Wondering what the longest period between Keir Starmer making a statement about race and Reform that it is not immediately undermined by something done by his ministers or aides has been. Three days?

A serious centre left party would undertake serious efforts to understand what the Corbyn moment and the current Green surge tell it about its voter base. An unserious party would retreat into a comfort zone wherein everyone to their left is a "Trot" and success always lies in pandering rightwards

This would, of course, be grossly inappropriate even if Trump wasn't obviously and openly corrupt and it's a testament to the supine nature of the US news media that they won't even pretend to question this.

Liz Truss is an obvious moron and grifter, to the extent that I'm actually mildly surprised Matt Goodwin doesn't consider her too down-market.

"I'm an ignorant bigoted moron, just like I think most of the gormless yokels I represent are."

Right - so as the relatively rare Irishman who is also a Russia/FSU geek I guess I have to have Thoughts and Opinions after yesterday's revelations. First off - I don't think that this was an attempted assassination or other "kinetic" mission. The goal here seems to have been purely psychological /1

See my previous thread.

Christmas "sounds like fun", says plump, succulent turkey

Right - so as the relatively rare Irishman who is also a Russia/FSU geek I guess I have to have Thoughts and Opinions after yesterday's revelations. First off - I don't think that this was an attempted assassination or other "kinetic" mission. The goal here seems to have been purely psychological /1

This is either really good news (Paramount is out on WBD) or really bad news (previewing government intimidation into taking a bad deal to appease the president).

There will be blood, Zodiac and Mad Max are all bangers. TS3 also a guide one. Can see a case being made for Dunkirk as a theatrical experience.

Why yes, I am that insufferable, thank you very much.

Fondly remembering the five day freak out about Biden possibly implying racists were garbage people.

The official policy of the Trump Administration is ignorant bigotry. We’re asked, under principles including charity, to assume that people support the administration despite that policy, not specifically because of it. I am increasingly unwilling to extend that charity.

she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked

"Obsessive losers to engage in bitter fight with precisely zero real world impact."

For all that has happened since, my Joker moment on UK politics media remains Boris taking office and immediately breaking every single red line he had laid down on Northern Ireland to accept a deal that had been on the table for years, then being hailed as a visionary who proved the doubters wrong

It would be nice if "willing to accept Jonathan Gullis" was the kind of attack against reform that would resonate.

Everyone who attended the Your Party conference fits into one of these four simple categories:

Replies really missing the point of this one - at the moment we have right wing newspapers that fawn uncritically on right wing parties and hate the centre/left, and centre/left newspapers that report broadly fairly on everyone and unsurprisingly, correctly critique centre/left governments a lot

Personally I'd wait to make a decision until after the split sometime next week.

yeah AI Ben Garrison is incredible

10/10 no notes.

Seems like a bit of an important development that the editorial staff of racist moron weekly is starting to abandon Trump on this.

We've reached the "even the baseball racist is getting off the boat" stage of Trump ETA lets depravity

This rules. More factions! More incoherence! More inexplicable policy pronouncements from otherwise unemployable elected simply because they have too much time on their hands!

New frontiers in sodcasting - gentleman playing YouTube videos at full volume with no headphones in the library. Await @alanbeattie.bsky.social 's suggestions for punishment.

Do hope that Hegseth establishes a precedent for officers being recalled to duty specifically to be court martialed. It would be incredibly funny if nothing else to see him hoist by this petard.

Hamas ✅ Hezbollah ✅ Zarah Sultana ❌

Alright @profanity.accountant

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

Uncomfortable feelings here as my belief the PA ban is draconian and counterproductive clashes with my belief that Sally Rooney's politics are utterly ridiculous and performative.

This is very very good.

This is bad, but it should also put paid to the usual horseshit from the French left about Macron being president by default. Melenchon is clearly unacceptable to the vast majority of French voters and yet his fanboys keep insisting on him.

This is extremely unfortunate to say the least. Not sure how I would have reacted to having my Reith lectures censored - the world has changed in an ill way in the two years since.

This is literally just unashamedly promoting a policy so racist certain people are afraid to walk the streets.

That Abrams's involvement with Iran-Contra isn't regularly mentioned whenever he pops up is an indictment in itself of DC policy journalism

I'm going to chalk this up as an early victory for my "going under Trump" theory.

It will be extremely funny if between this and MTG retiring the Republicans end up losing control of the House before the mid terms

AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

okay so here’s the actual bad part of the article “oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions ghouls, the lot of them