As a matter of interest the founder of Politico was the Pinochet family banker

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I wonder whether there’s any notable overlap between very rich men being enraged at being publicly and truthfully accused of committing sex offences, and TV and newspapers suddenly filling up with terrifying, screaming horseshit about The Left destroying freedom? Somebody should look into that IMO

Christian 1: well, we did it. No more pagan gods. A universal faith Christian 2: sure is buddy. The holy gospel. God's truth. Just the father, the son, and the holy spirit. Who of course proceeds from the father and from the son Christian 1: the fuck did you just say

Today is the day! Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination is now widely available. I will be giving my first book talk at the University of Pittsburgh, with a specific focus on domestic violence. press.edu/books/gender-violence-in-late-antiquity/hardcover

Cosmic Thing is a perfect album and you should vote for it!

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has drawn up plans to win over Reform voters by changing its news and drama output. BBC Director General Tim Davie and other execs discussed altering "story selection" in order to win the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

"lol sorry your life & workplace was utterly ruined by the tech being pushed by billionaire fascists explicitly for the purpose of attacking creative labor & the collective stores of human knowledge! i'm built different, perhaps better, i like the things destroying society & harming you personally"

Okay, look, I want to explain a bit about this mystery of why Italians (and other Southern Europeans) are so much more up for rioting than people in the UK. The UK has over 7 million CCTV cameras. That's more than 1 camera per 10 people. London is the 3rd most surveilled city in the world. 1/

worth noting that three of these men are also just straight up republicans who happen to dislike trump for purely aesthetic and personal reasons but who get a pass fully from liberals despite opposing everything liberals claim to believe in and fight for.

what's funny to me about the british heritage sector, right, is how left-leaning most of the sector workforce is, because of global standards of best practice, and then how incredibly right-leaning the money- and I don't mean grant bodies, I mean donors and top brass- is. outstanding disconnect

"Let us consider some complete nonsense. Now, imagine we are at a Renaissance Fayre or whatever idk,"

transphobes arguing against trans rights: yes, but have you considered that women are objects?

Also the value of money IS a social construct?! Like the most social construct to ever social construct

It is hardly the point but a) trans people existed in Medieval Europe, b) lots of currencies were used in Medieval Europe, not just gold, which was in fact uncommon, c) alchemy was a lot more common in early modern Europe, d) women are not a commodity you absolute weapons????

Can’t explain it but of course they want to take away one of the only painkillers that’s safe for pregnancy, a condition that causes weird and unusual pains. these people WANT pregnancy to be a punishment and handicap. they want to control.

It's instructive that a sizeable proportion of the ruling class in the UK appear to be looking at America and saying, "Ohh I'll have some of that."

Left-wing parties need to tell us what they’re actually going to do -for example, commit boldly and loudly to reverse NHS privatisation and invest to save lives. I’d happily explain to them what needs to happen. We need the actual policies-policies that win over public opinion.

I’m guessing the collapse of the NHS is just a bonus to him. Brits have no idea how bad things might get if this happens. People over here complain about parking costs at hospitals. What will happen when they have to pay for their heart surgery or appendectomy?

I would simply have asked the KC which part of “violence is coming, you either fight or die” is a metaphor, what the metaphor refers to, whether you need to tell people to “go out immediately” when they are already out on the streets; questions of that nature

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

"The high-water mark of America’s influence over the world has come and gone. All empires are transitory, right? If you rise, you’re inevitably going to stagnate and fall," says American political history author and podcaster @mikeduncan.bsky.social. Interview: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

When Reform come out with especially abhorrent immigration policies that most people would consider too far, the government can’t take a principled stance that this is racist because it goes against their logic that immigration is a problem, and so they can only say their plans are unworkable.

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

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The reason Reform gets so much coverage compared to other parties, parties with more representation, is because the media is full of people who support far-right politics. It actually is that simple.

"You couldn't make The Birth of a Nation nowadays," laments D. W. Griffith, "because it's three hours long, very racist, and I am dead."

Incredible line from the Reform fascist love in earlier as Yusuf says, "The reality is that we think the [immigration] numbers are much higher." Soooooo it's not a reality then, is it? Like, by definition. It's just some vibes.

I feel like a madman pointing this out but the plausible, real world explanation for the marked uptick in work visas after 2019 is quite simply that in the previous year, the UK blew up its entire labour market by getting rid of FOM, on which it was intrinsically and inherently dependent.

If we serious as a country about tackling violence against women and girls we would be tackling the causes of abuse by partners or former partners and not 100% focus on asylum seekers. According to 2011 census analysis, 96% of white British women have a white British partner.

What was the role of short tales in late antiquity & early Byzantium? A new, open access book 📖 looks at how little stories say a lot brill.com/display/titl... I love that the short stories of Galen are included here & hagiographical stories alongside paradoxographical compendia (wonders & marvels).

This is peak relationship performance.

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Probably just racism if I'm being honest with you

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

Sex and drugs and monster munch.

Lil guy mentioned.

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I really liked this.

Signs and wonders

Independence is not an abstract sensation of regained control. It is a specific political and legal status that polities either have or do not have. Britain had it before Brexit just fine. It fucking had it. Literally nothing about EU law was so onerous it compares to absence of national sovereignty

Since at least the 1960s, the British & Irish governments have funded hours of education on the evils of the Nazis. Generations have grown up learning of the fascist death cult. Why was all that effort made if the establishment & the Neo-Nazi mob is allowed destroy it? Never forget, has not only…

The sheer mendacity of these far right funded nihilists is revealed when you consider how the British state is cracking down on legitimate protest, whether in support of Palestinian solidarity or LGBTQ rights. The excuses being ‘violence’. Yet when some 100,000 far right extremists…

We are listening to a live album and my BF is being pleasingly English about it. "Why can't Americans behave themselves at concerts? Why all the yelling? Just listen to the song and clap when it finishes. No?"

People who are pro-EU but essentially anti-immigration make me murderously angry because if you won't defend the literally best thing about the EU what is it you actually like about it. The vibes?

The vast majority of people are suffering the consequences of a handful of overprivileged idiots not being able to deal with reality.

A lot of people ask me how I stay level headed with everything that’s happening like I didn’t grow up when Bush stole an election, failed to stop 9/11, launched two bullshit wars and Homeland Security, got caught doing straight up torture, and Katrina where Black people were abandoned & then hunted.

I’m not kink shaming I’m just kink asking what the fuck