We have thrown massive amounts of money at expanding a goon squad no decent person would want to be part of. Unsurprisingly, it is now full of poorly-trained, psychologically unfit, violence-prone amoral thugs

In many ways, dropping deep early to defend a lead and undermining your overall performance is the perfect end to Keir Starmer's premiership

no big deal, the person using "full self-driving" just passed out and pressed the accelerator to 100%, clearly there are no safety issues here

Thiel sees tech entrepreneurialism and kingship as intimately bound together: acting outside the rules to build the future that no-one else has the long term vision to grasp. “There have to be CEOs and founders. Those people are expected to wear the crown.” www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-politi...

I actually studied this. Net zero got lumped in with BLM, trans rights, feminism etc., as a luxury belief of middle class elites that disadvantages white working class people. The basic argument is that working class people will have to pay for net zero, which is basically an elite fad

Tuchel and his tactics were specifically endorsed by Maurice Glasman ... yet another outcome for which we can blame Blue Labour

"End net zero," is the latest iteration of "keep out foreign muck", "fire HR to let men be men again in the workplace", and "stop funding liberal arts degrees" that all purport to be 'common sense' solutions that would deliver the (imagined) 1950's again if only our leaders had the courage.

Here's my theory: A certain type of politician across the Western world is constantly promising a return to a glory age of mass non-college-educated white male manufacturing employment, and lurching from ONE SIMPLE TRICK ECONOMISTS HATE HIM to the next as their magical solution to delivering it.

part of the reason it feels so bad to live in the US these days is that the trump guys have basically made the whole country into a red state. this is what that lack of governance feels like: diarrhea outbreak

Hubo un primer vecino que vio, oyó, intuyó...algo extraño y fue a avisar a los demás en vez de salir por patas solo💝

Good morning. Protests are breaking out all over Ukraine today, to oppose the dismissal of Mykhailo Fedorov from the post of defense minister. He was appointed six months ago, and had been to have rapidly introduced wide-ranging reforms to the ministry and the military.

Or much of a drop in public support. Fascinating example of elite consensus switching despite popular opinion.

solomon in 1 Kings 3

Science has already answered this question!

The State Department has just put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions" - presumably the EU - and governments who seek to regulate the internet and end Western Civilization. www.state.gov/drl-nofo-dev...

Labour's days of being unserious about power are definitely coming to a middle.

Hey man maybe handing dod to a guy whose main skill set is “masculinity influencer for dumb guys having a midlife crisis” was a bad idea bsky.app/profile/mjga...

Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.

I love online payment monopolies. ECB please speed up the digital euro

i had no idea this would become so literal

It genuinely sucks that the Orange Man has cratered the government, but the government will still be cratered and the more bonkers shit you promise voters the more they're going to be disappointed when you govern. Sure is great and cool that we're also full steam ahead into an anti-tax revolt.

they all remember the fate of people who deal with him, but they all somehow believe they will be different

"Ireland's Enterprise Minister Peter Burke attended a private dinner with tech giant Meta at the US ambassador’s residence in February to discuss the “digital agenda for Ireland’s EU presidency,” amid a US drive to soften Europe’s policing of big tech." www.independent.ie/business/min...

China has passed a law to hold people criminally liable for statements that "harm ethnic unity" even when made outside China, and even by foreign nationals. You could be arrested when entering China for your past statements about Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang, etc. youtu.be/4rmURlVFA9I?...

more like Castile Day, right

The United States is turning into a kind of reverse Omelas: everyone is miserable except for a single child, Donald Trump, who inexplicably must be kept happy.

Need a sedevacantist movement to declare the 2026 World Cup final forever unplayed

Key point with this piece is that Mandami is pushing back against the McKinsey approach to governing. Alondra Nelson actually put this best: "How a City interacts with its people shouldn’t be outsourced. It should be local and accountable."

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

Musk handpicking this post to appear in everyone’s timeline is pretty funny

I wrote this less than a week ago and they already killed another person.

In some ways, the harshest thing you could say about Lindsay Graham is that he once seemed to be a person of integrity and conviction.

Bluesky during England-Argentina

anglosphere voters yearn for peronism

big decisions ahead for the GOP; attempt to transfer McConnell to a Dreadnought or preserve his geneseed for the chapter?

Sorry but the crudest parody of a Woke 1 feminist was basically just correct about powerful men and their insecurities and how disastrous that was. Everyday Feminism 101 article on Toxic Masculinity basically the book of Nostradamus.

🇷🇺 @economist.com gives voice to the poor people who suffer, such as a sanctioned Russian oligarch who parrots the usual Kremlin talking points: Russia is inevitable, a wealthy Russia is a wealthy West, a stable (imperial) Russia is better for everyone, etc. etc.

I know this guy has a Bluesky account.

By now it’s a certainty that any company or piece of tech named after something in Tolkien is going to be some awful large-scale technological offense against either nature or human dignity. Surely a fitting legacy for a man who hated technology and its offenses against nature and human dignity.

Unprecedented.

The US is pausing strikes on Iran for “diplomacy”, CNN reports.

insecure cosmopolitanism is one of the defining pathologies of our political elite, we are in a ten fucking year crash out from a specific set of urban cosmopolitans very insecure about the fact that they are urban cosmopolitans and I'm so sick of it.

ICE is reportedly pressuring the three witnesses to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's murder—his brother and workers—to self-deport. In other words, get the only people who could contradict ICE's version of events out of the country.

bluesky is being fucky but for those too lazy to click the link here is the meat of it: Salgado is driving, unmarked ICE vehicle follows, swerves, and tries to cut him off, and Salgado drives away. No indication that it's an ICE vehicle. Why would he pull over?

Being assured by three witches that you'll be king hereafter is heady stuff if you've never read the rest of the damn play.