'racism is moral, white men are emasculated, violence is necessary' concise statement of core fascist values

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

You can learn a lot about these people by always looking at what they consider to be insanely extreme, to be resisted to the death, and then by looking at what they agree is just fine and maybe even very good.

It remains true that the most edgelord "Amerikkka Bad" 15 year-old has a better track record on this stuff than academics with CVs as long as your arm, and I think that both needs to be explored, and can't be.

Fair chance that he should be being prosecuted right now but probably just keep treating him like a bit of a rogue in Eastenders; nice one.

I reckon over the past decade I have been sexually harassed ten times more often inside the Palace of Westminster than I have on London streets

Growing crowd here at 34th and Portland in south Minneapolis, where witnesses tell me an ICE agent shot an observer in her car. Witnesses said she was not responsive and was taken away. Bovino is on scene along with dozens of federal agents.

Always fun when the bullshit gets so embarrassing it can’t be kept up, so we go from “How dare you say the US Government are rapacious imperialist murderers sir, have you no shame”, to “Of course everyone always knew about the rapacious imperial murder, what are you guys, like five years old?”

Chevron CEO Sure In Good Mood This Week https://theonion.com/chevron-ceo-sure-in-good-mood-this-week/

To be clear, what’s happened here is: our horrible newspapers and a few fucknut MPs instructed the police to unban these fash football hooligans quick-smart, or else. This is “or else”: they are making it clear that anyone who defies them will get the full treatment, at maximum shenanigans.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.

Another example of the fact that there are very few technically difficult questions of economics; "difficult questions" are just difficult because you don't like the obvious answer

For many of those seeking asylum a mobile phone isn't just a lifeline to keep in contact with loved ones, it's an essential resource in accessing information and resources. State mandated theft is another example of Labour's dehumanisation of people seeking safety www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver. This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.

I don’t know lads, it’s hilariously amoral but it is entirely in tune with the last 25 years of “everyone who opposes America is scum who must be crushed”, and it is fundamentally not so different to the average Guardian editorial, because this is the full range of acceptable politics in Britain.

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

Why does nobody point out that the UK has been dealing with the issue of illegal US invasions since at least the 1950s? Offhand I don't recall any were condemned, and some were actively supported.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Next stop on the War Tour: Trump to Fox: “Claudia Sheinbaum is a good woman, but the cartels are running Mexico. “She’s not running Mexico — the cartels are running Mexico. “Something’s going to have to be done with Mexico.”

What would we usually call the type of person who would invite a fascist foreign power to attack their own country, install them in power and facilitate sales of national assets to the aggressor? Because that is what this is.

me thinking about global heating accelerating faster than most predictions, as a dying economic system murders its way into oblivion and builds warehouses dedicated to increasing emissions

Keeping my death certificate stored conveniently on my phone for when I need it

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

The biggest pressure must be applied to the Governor. She's already publicly opposed Mayor Mamdani's free bus plan, instead favoring subsidies. She's an establishment Democrat (status quo) and moderates like her must be voted out.

“This is not utopia, this is not some pie-in-the-sky idea. This is something the American people want.” @sanders.senate.gov speaks with @premthakker.bsky.social after swearing in Zohran Mamdani as New York City Mayor.

This is why all those awful Labour MPs who suicide bombed their own careers were given peerages. It’s the reason why Ashcroft and Debonnaire were given a month-long tour of news sofas to roar abuse at the people who voted them out of office. You can never be rid of them, and the law is: Fuck you.

Ask: why did all those new ministers go on TV, look interviewers in the eye and then say - Fuck you, I deserve as many free Taylor Swift tickets as I want? Answer: Because they have only ever been hugely rewarded for screaming “Fuck you, that’s dumb student politics!” at anyone questions them.

I’m old enough to remember Sir Keir bounding across the House to shake old Nige’s hand and do a big show of matey civility politics. I watched his Enoch Powell speech, saw the billowing sixty foot flags, listened to Mahmood’s migration crackdown announcement. But sure, the Greens

If you keep telling social liberals to fuck off to impress the Times, don't act all surprised when they actually fuck off.

Imagine getting paid to write about politics and not understanding why people dislike a level of dishonesty that has rarely been seen in British politics. Telling a lie to his base, and reform curious voters, that both think is obviously insulting garbage.

Fascinating thread but I don't feel it's that complicated? This is what happens when you go out of your way to performatively kick your own coalition in the hope of impressing voters who never liked you to start with.

I advise Democrats to get on board with Bernie on this now instead of waiting a half a decade and some huge losses before they do anyway, per tradition.

Agree 100% with this.

It was painfully obvious Crick was right about this at the time. Do we think these questions are not being asked now because a) nobody knows the answers, or because b) everyone knows the answers very well?

You’ll recall all the lads agreed this is the shit-hot awesome politics the public wants, and that these are the Sensible adults whom are now back in charge. If that now looks comically wrong - farcically incorrect! - then it must be because there’s something wrong with the public.

Let's choose kindness in 2026. youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

Looks wildly over-generous now: the press are only clueless and uninterested rather than actively pushing malice; the politicians and tech geniuses are mostly just dumb and grasping rather than malignant fascists, and the space drones do at least make it to the asteroid rather than going nowhere.

We have long departed the realms of actual pragmatism where you appeal to both your base and the swing vote. We are now in the realms of reactionary pathology where you hold your base vote and their values in sincere contempt while chasing a concept of a swing voter that is 100% illusory.

After spending nearly 18 months deliberately aping Nigel Farage and legitimising Reform’s politics, Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney are sending out their Torgos to lecture the public about how the real Farage clone is the one person in politics who meaningfully opposes him. Let’s see how it works.

Wall Street traders have sharply increased how much they’re spending on credit default swaps tied to artificial intelligence. That means more and more investors are managing their risk by putting their money on the AI market’s eventual crash.

In France they do infrastructure for fun, every decent mid size town has a tram, Paris converts roads to cycle lanes from motor vehicle gridlock "pas de problém" Netherlands takes national pride in infrastructure. Dams, cyclepath. Roads in tiptop condition UK: nah, sorry Bruv maybe in 20 years

So many nuggets here could be their own article with simple follow up questions such as “what do you mean?” and “and how did that work exactly?”