the antebellum south is as close to hell on earth as this country has ever gotten evil baked into every square inch of the place

And let’s not forget the writers, producers and crew who also made the Late Show what it was and who have lost their jobs because our president is a thin-skinned thug who deeply fears the ridicule he so richly deserves.

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🇬🇧 British Political Spectrum Quiz My result: Social Democrat Economic: collectivist Social: progressive Sovereignty: cosmopolitan Military: leaning anti-interventionist Authority: centrist Constitutional: reformist Take the quiz: quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

Hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels park just outside Peru's maritime boundary, switch off their tracking systems, then cross into Peruvian waters at night to fish illegally. The target: Humboldt squid. Over 525 Chinese vessels were recorded operating near Peru's EEZ in 2024.

Immigration make Britain brilliant

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The president’s mental health is a global crisis.

politicians & press alike insist we can never tell anti-immigrant voters they're wrong—but they are, & we should! my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

Slightly increase a band: 3.5t truck Halen (U-haul truck Halen in ‘Merican)

If you now have a Reform Councillor Find out how good a job they'll be doing Be polite, and only notify them of a genuine problem I'm sure there's a backlog of a host of local issues that need addressing ... ps do remember that stopping the boats is not within their power! meme via Angel Stroyan

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Not me, laughing at this for 10 minutes straight.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Moscow's parade lasted just 45 minutes and showed videos of equipment instead of the real thing.

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

War going so well, they had to withdraw from theatre…

According to the FT, the Pentagon has halted approvals for about 165 onshore wind projects on private lands, citing national security concerns. The affected projects ⁠include wind farms that were awaiting final sign-off, others ​in the middle of negotiations and some tha... TAT: [Attacking science]

On April 12, Bala of Taiwan won the 2026 World Latte Art Championship☕. But now all mentions of Taiwan have been removed and replaced from the official World Coffee Championships website, which today credits Bala's win to Chinese Taipei, thanks to China's insecurities and attempts to isolate Taiwan.

Holy smokes

I wrote up the Comey indictment. www.popehat.com/p/the-comey-...

a ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”

Trump administration continues destruction of the nation.

The fact that people are Team Staged vs Team Not Staged means the propaganda planting machine has accomplished it’s mission in the US We now live in a nation where it’s impossible to believe official statements from our leaders because they lie so often and so blatantly

Sorry I couldn't get this in one screenshot. It certainly sounds right to me, though. The Trump Formula for (not really) answering questions.

In the Mississippi Delta, a crucial agricultural region, farmers say their patience is wearing thin. Reeling from the effects of tariffs, they must now also navigate rising fertilizer and fuel costs. n.pr/4u9Cpyr

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

everything in american politics boils down to this

Is Housing truly the big problem of the anglosphere? And if it is solved it would solve a lot of other problems - wealth inequality, racism, social mobility, unstable banking and financial system, climate and car-dependency? www.ft.com/content/dca3...

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NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

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1/ NYT out with a huge piece on the decision to go to war. It's much as we thought: Bibi sold Trump a rosy scenario that he heard over the mild to moderate warnings that it was BS but the details are so...appalling/demoralizing. Vance clearly a source: GIFT LINK 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

I think not enough people understand that the pushback against renewables and EV's is money. Without getting too in the weeds: renewables cannot ever be as profitable as oil and gas. EV's don't make as much money as gas guzzlers. That's it. That's all you really need to know.

🍂 Hong Kong's 'hero trees' lose their glory as climate warms The bright red flowers of Hong Kong's kapok trees should have been shed during winter but now persist into spring -- a sign, conservationists say, that nature is falling out of sync as the climate warms.

More than a little scary this: big energy shock incoming, and even if the war stopped now, everything will take months to years to get back to normal.

“11 sperm whales huddled together at the surface, strangely still and taking occasional shallow dives. After about an hour, the animals seemed to start thrashing, and a plume of blood reddened the water. The researchers feared trouble, maybe a shark attack. But it was something else.” WHALE DOULAS!

I am getting a VERY strong late-February 2020 vibe about the omnicrisis bearing down on us right now, to be honest. Fuck Trump!

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Solid evidence Trump sexually assaulted a 13 year old girl. Yet the Republican Party still supports him, like the cult it is.

I’d posit that he can’t stand women, period. psychcentral.com/blog/recover...

Madness, insanity. 25th amendment now.

Windows 11 has an updated Minesweeper game

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Now there’s a name I haven’t heard for a long time. Ras Tanura is on the Persian gulf coast, used to have lots of expats working for Aramco.