Donald Trump is a Kremlin stooge who wants to sell out Ukraine and the rest of Europe to Putin. We can't let that happen. Starmer should seize frozen Russian assets in this country - today - and convince Merz and Macron to do the same.

the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

You must read @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on the latest “too big to fail” stock market shattering statements of the Tech Bros. Alex Karp and Sam Altman in full head wagging denial mode should tell you all you need to know about the reckoning to come broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie...

I really cannot overstate how much you should read this book, might be the best bit of non fiction I've read this year

🚨 BREAKING: Tesla shareholders just voted to make Elon Musk the world's first TRILLIONAIRE. Only the world’s biggest loser would would have the ability to end world hunger several times over and choose not to. Just tax billionaires. Duh. 📍 Tottenham, near Tesla's flagship London dealership

For more on Nadia Sass/Borodi's role at the heart of a pan-European Russian influence machine, read more here desk-russie.eu/2024/09/08/n...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

"We are not looking at asylum at all ... it is not in our budget"

The Kent Reform group have been surprised to find that their intuitions & messages about profligate and pointless spending which could be painlessly cut were an imaginary projection bsky.app/profile/jame...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Farage wanting to kick people out of the country because they migrated here made me angry and made me think about which best of British people and things wouldn't have happened were it not for the brilliance of immigration to the UK.

From Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free" I first read it in November and I'm rereading it now. It crushing feeling the exact same things as this academic did. It's the same process.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference

Good advice!

It’s an especially silly thing for him to say when the only reason the movie got made was because George Harrison put his hand in his own pocket to pay for it… because… the studios weren’t interested!

PSA: Don’t forget to “ask yourselves this question daily”

"Buildings cover less of Britain than the land revealed when the tide goes out." www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-4190...

“Food, clothing, housing and heat are even more important than my hot takes (imagine!) and none of those are supplied for free, either. While we’re still in a capitalist society, writing is going to need a business model, just like everything else.” I wrote about why writers share paywalled links.

Incredible that this is all the same article. How utterly pathetic

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

1/6 🚨 WARNING THREAD: Europe is sleepwalking into a drone disaster. Unmanned systems are reshaping warfare — and we still treat them like a niche. The wake-up call is coming fast, and it won’t be gentle

Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...) Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21. Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...

This is incredible. Meanwhile some American commentators, largely based on a crude translation of ubermensch, thought Superman was a fascist

yeah, this sounds panicked.

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Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

Andor Characters and Their Counterparts in ‘Allo ‘Allo 1. Dedra Meero and Private Helga Geerhart.

"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...

What radicalized you?

🚨 Musk’s racist AI has been spitting out lies about white genocide and denying the holocaust. Don’t f*cking use it. If there was any doubt, everyone still hates Elon. 📍A short journey from Twitter/Grok’s London HQ

You can lawfully call for “closing our borders”. You can petition and protest outside your local hotel being used to house asylum seekers - that is your free speech. You just can’t incite a crowd to commit arson and murder. /2

Just ten years ago the UK was top of the list - the best place in Europe for LGBT rights. We are now 22nd The only country to drop faster in one year than us is Hungary The government needs to act in a major way before this becomes their entire legacy

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

This is Labour's core problem here. The right will never allow Starmer a win on immigration because the issue is central to their appeal and therey' daren't lose it. So whatever he does will never be enough.

The grift is next-level, and it’s happening right under our noses in broad daylight. @pivotpod.bsky.social @karaswisher.bsky.social l loop

MORNING SNARK FANS... So, I thought i'd check in on Reform's actual plans for running councils and they're every bit as laughably <SHIT> as you'd imagine Let's take a look... 🧵👇🏻

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

We know Reform are winning lots of seats, but look at this under the bonnet - they dominate 2nd places too - in wards Labour, Tories, Lib Dems & Greens won Reform was most likely to have come 2nd in all of them. Thinking today *must* be a high water mark for Reform is a mistake as more ground to go

They want you to believe protest doesn't work. 71% drop in profits says otherwise. Keep it up.

Elon Musk will HATE the 71% drop in Tesla profits just revealed. It’s SO big we literally COULDN’T FIT it on this ad - down the road from Tesla's flagshop London showroom. Ordinary people CAN hit billionaires. Right where it hurts. So let’s keep at it. #elonmusk #tesla #trump

An oldie, back by popular demand. (One person.)

‘You can let go now’: inside the hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain

If you can send afford to send Katy Perry to space you can afford to pay more taxes. Activists at @everyonehateselon.bsky.social make their feelings known about Jeff Bezos.

Why pay tax when you can send Katy Perry to space for 11 minutes? 📍 Amazon store, London