Who do you think was more humiliated last week: Putin or Starmer?

Dear Keir Starmer! The door is open and you can leave! The voters

Oh dear! It looks like Keir Starmer’s door was open a bit too wide.

All the “kompromat” unleashed on Zack Polanski over the last couple of weeks makes me even more excited to support Greens. If that’s the worst they could find then our boy seems to be quite clean.

Vote Green on Thursday even if for no other reason than because "they" don't want you to. Come on Britain, if there's one thing we are good at, it's doing stuff just to be pigheaded. 🤣

Today in the Commons, Zarah Sultana was ejected after calling the PM a liar, and while the rules clearly had to be enforced, it is remarkable how differently tone can be applied in those moments. Minutes earlier, Lee Anderson used similar language, but Lindsay Hoyle responded in different tone.

Am I the only one who thinks that Starmer, a prominent lawyer, has asked his team not to tell him anything sensitive so that he could maintain plausible deniability or does no one else watch American legal dramas?

“All the world is like body and Iran is the heart, And the narrator is not ashamed to say that, As Iran is the heart of the earth, The heart is (more regenative) than the flesh, surely.” Nizami (1141-1209)

Hassan Piker interviewed on LBC by Sheilagh Fogarty… Israel is truly over.

“Do you not know that Iran is my dwelling place? The world from head to foot is under my command. Art belongs to the Iranians, and that is enough; They did not yield the lion’s share to anyone. All are of one heart, God-fearing, Doing good deeds, having no fear of evil.

I guess the silver lining in this situation is that it will be easier to defend against the brain dead right wing take of “when was the last time a Christian nation committed acts of terrorism?”

"I can not believe America has becom--" bitch, we have Andrew Jackson on our money. our default money. the only money the bank robot knows how to hand out.

andrew jackson owned 2 branches minimum of my family for several generations— I truly don’t want to hear shit about what America has “become” or how evil of a president donald is and especially not from white people.

"Human beings are members of a whole In creation of one essence and soul If one member is afflicted with pain Other members uneasy will remain If you have no sympathy for human pain The name of human you cannot retain." - Saadi Shirazi (1210-1291), a Persian poet

This!

I think blaming the current situation on a mental illness is too charitable. Trump may or may not be all there but what about Vance, Hegseth and the rest? The issue is not a mental illness, the issue is profound lack of morality. The whole lot needs to go, the 25th will not do that.

Thinking of unarmed citizens of undemocratic countries standing up to their dictators on issues much smaller than genocide and threat of nuclear war. And looking at you, Americans, gun-toting stars-and-stripe patriots, lovers of democracy, raised on Hollywood ideals of heroism and moral clarity

I will remember this day not only for all the crazy of DJT, but also as the crazy day when I had to side with MTG and Iran. And when a white American lady calling me, a POC raised by Jews, a racist and an antisemite.

Israeli-American atrocities in Gaza walked so that American-Israeli atrocities in Iran could run.

I know EXACTLY who the establishment is and they are 100% a part of the problem. They helped lead us here. They propped up trump as a pied pipper, they passed his budgets, they built up ICE in the obama and biden years, they funded Israel. Go have a long look at yourself and your party. Please.

To people posting pictures of cats and dogs as the world is at a precipice…. thank you! Keep posting. Special thanks for German shepherds. I really needed that today.

Keir Starmer making a statement on banning Kanye West from entering the UK is exactly the leadership we need at this moment. Statesmanship, moral clarity and a profound sense of perspective. How does impeachment work in the UK? Asking for a friend…

Bombing of fishing boats led us to this moment. Genocide in Gaza led us to this moment. Crimea, Georgia, Ichkeria, Iraq, Bosnia. Nakba and ongoing US support of Israel. Golden escalator. Biden’s dementia. Epstein and Clinton. Democrats and Republicans. American impunity led us to this moment.

And yet what can be more American? Trump Is merely an amplifying mirror to American cruelty, crassness, racism, bigotry and imperial greed.

I am sorry but I just can’t get excited about Artemis right now. I’m distracted by the existence of the rogue state behind it.

Do you remember how back in 2022 the progressive side of humanity demanded that Russians overthrow Putin’s regime with their bare hands? Why are we not asking the same of Americans right now?

Israel commits genocide, starts war of choice in several countries, perpetuates war crimes on a daily basis. Sarah Longwell is “wrestling” with her idea of Israel. How does this woman have any moral authority whatsoever to speak about anything?

The World Cup in the USA is going to be far more unsafe for visitors than the 1936 Olympics were.

A white man gets an award for following the basic sporting etiquette instead of declaring himself a winner, claiming that the judging was rigged, refusing to concede, organising an insurrection, storming the podium and filing multiple legal challenges. This is the world we live in now.

Given how bad Starmer is at playing politics, there’s a strong chance that he will be the first PM to be brought to justice over war crimes. Thoughts?

Americans, who haven’t been able to force their democratic government to release the Epstein files, are demanding that Iranians overthrow their brutal dictatorship.

My girl Hannah is an MP! And just like that hope is restored. Go Greens!

BREAKING - WE HAVE WON! Following a successful Judicial Review brought by Huda Ammori, and a sustained campaign of defiance by defend our juries leading to almost 3,000 ‘terror’ arrests, the ban on Palestine Action has been ruled unlawful in the courts.

This and also the fact that she continues to mock Melania’s accent, contributing to dehumanising of Eastern European women, who were explicitly targeted by Epstein. bsky.app/profile/cont...

Can’t get all those poor children, who have been taken or watched their parents being taken by ICE, out of my head. This is how future “terrorists” get radicalised.

Well, the speed of moving from 6 to 7 on the Dictator Delusion scale has picked up. • officials repeating obvious falsehoods as policy • institutions acting on personal grievance • diplomacy, law, or force justified by invented narratives • dissent treated as reality-violation, not disagreement

I find it interesting how many in the West are perplexed by Megyn Kelly’s logic here. If you, like me, had the misfortune of hanging around Russians when they speak their language, you’d know that it’s a very common way to frame things in their culture. Coincidence?

Dark humor as a coping mechanism, because pattern recognition can be depressing.

Only days ago, when I first shared the Dictator Delusion Scale, I (conservatively) thought Donald Trump was at Level 5, pushing toward Level 6. What’s striking is how quickly that assessment has changed.

In the Dictator Delusion Scale I sketched earlier, Levels 7–9 are where power stops managing reality and starts replacing it. This is where authoritarianism becomes ontological.

I’ve been following dictators for a while, and I like to rate them not by how consequential their actions were, but by how unhinged they get over time.

100% this!👇

A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins. DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?

Can we talk about Joanna Coles at The Daily Beast? While criticising Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, she regularly mocks accents and cultures — especially with a bit called “be beast.”