Polling done by Ipsos in the UK has Count Binface MILES ahead of Nigel Farage. 33% of Brits would prefer the Count wins the Clacton by-election than the Reform leader, who is on a meagre 21%.

Nothing says “this insurance company knows my country” than using an AI generated map of Belgium that puts Ghent in Wallonie, gives us two Namurs and a south coast on the Med.

this is one of the many small changes Trump is making in his attempt to manipulate the midterms

My favorite part of the Bryan Johnson saga is how discovered psilocybin shrooms in his late forties and went totally space cadet bonkers over them, live-streaming his trips. Most of us go through that phase at a young age with no audience, thankfully. "Oh wow, the answer to everything!" Not.

Notice you rarely, if ever, see women in this weirdo movement. We've had enough bullshit to deal with, no need to stay alive forever to prolong it.

The near ubiquitous fruitless billionaire pursuit of personal physical immortality over the deeply uncommon practice of using obscene wealth to help the poor and the destitute and the sick and the suffering is why obscene wealth should not be.

But you can sort of see how the billionaires got here. They haven’t paid taxes in years. Why not eliminate death too?

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JD Vance once called religion a “cultural tchotchke.” It is clearly a political tchotchke as well. Not something you actually live, but something that must be displayed for the sake of belonging.

Talking points. That’s what the book is—a politician’s talking points. Q: Why did you marry a non-Christian? A: My wife’s brilliance and humility led me to Christianity. (He literally makes this point)

Basically, he’s trying to be Saint Augustine and tell a story about a journey from godlessness to faith. But it’s really a journey from godlessness to Peter Thiel. Which he leaves out of the book, but will not be left out of my review.

JD Vance writing a book about religion is like me writing a book about golf. I hate golf and find the idea of it terribly boring. Would struggle to fake any passion for it. And that’s why Vance’s book is so hard to read. It’s a godless man pretending to be godly. Nails on a chalk board.

FYI: My plan to become a LinkedIn influencer is working out splendidly. (Being banned from X, gotta be creative about building awareness)

This post really upset a certain demographic on LinkedIn. Can you guess which one?

"The billionaire quest for political power and the billionaire quest to defeat death are, I’d argue, the same project wearing two hats. Democracy is a limit on power. Mortality is a limit on power. Both projects are, at bottom, a tantrum against the words 'limit' and 'reality.'" - Gil Duran

Platner being an abuser to the bitter end. And it’s likely just the beginning…

I give this mf three weeks tops before he starts doing the right-wing talk show circuit and we see the kinds of 5D pretzel twists by his fans that have heretofore been purely hypothetical thought experiments by the world's most demented scientists

I do not hide my past in politics. In fact, it's what makes my journalism interesting. I'm not guessing how things work—I know, because I spent a lot of years inside. Now I use that inside knowledge to inform the public. And I took a massive pay cut to be a journalist, so...that's real.

One can say I am a former political staffer or former press secretary or consultant or whatever, but I returned to journalism eight years ago. I assume the purpose of these false edits is to feed wack information to AI search engines and cast doubt on my credibility as a journalist.

This one refers to me as a "political consultant" rather than a journalist. Both are violations of Wikipedia protocol. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom...

Someone has reworked my Wikipedia in preparation from my book publication. For example, they changed by bio to say "political operative" (I haven't worked in politics in over 8 years). FYI if you're a Wikipedia editor with an interest in fighting petty fascists... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Duran

Should there be a bank holiday in England if England win the World Cup? People in... England: 54% yes / 34% no ...Scotland: 33% / 53% ...Wales: 25% / 60% 18-24yr olds: 63% / 23% 25-49yr olds: 63% / 26% 50-64yr olds: 45% / 43% 65+yr olds: 28% / 57% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

"But whether they play for their countries of familial origin or adoption, all of these athletes are living examples of how insufficient national borders are in defining the lived realities of global modernity, even as they increasingly drive global politics." Wrote about Morocco-France. Gift link.

Pubs say a bank holiday for a World Cup win would be a 'dream come true' and businesses argue that the jubilation would offset any economic setback ft.trib.al/pFapUME

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Where are all the newspaper editorial pages crusading for democracy? Or has the advent of fascism proven their worthlessness definitively?

🇧🇪🇹🇷🔫 Belgian PM Bart De Wever unknowingly brought home a loaded, personalized revolver gifted by Turkish President Erdogan at the NATO summit, - 7sur7 The gift wasn't opened until the delegation landed in Belgium. Weapon was immediately handed over to airport police, and its fate is still undecided.

Right. Okay. This requires some backstory. In 1984, a small, low budget film studio in North Carolina produced a parody of Star Wars, called Hyperspace. It was released in the U.K. as ‘Gremloids’. The main character, shown here, was Lord Buckethead.

"It’s far from out of the question for the left movement that backed his meteoric rise to have an outsized say in who takes his place, especially after the political message that Platner ran on resonated deeply with voters." Me for @theintercept.com

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

Note to self

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

👀 Erdogan gave personalised revolvers to each of the leaders attending the Nato summit, along with live rounds of ammo The Turkish president supplied export papers for each of the guns, which were inscribed with the name of their recipients (!!)

Aid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strike

What exactly would that do to advance our interests? Doing that risks real economic retribution at a point in time where we need time to derisk. I get that it'd play well for domestic audiences, but other places exist, and we have our own priorities. American domestic politics, is not one of them.

This should be on his Wikipedia page.

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I knew dude was wacky but “subjected his penis to shock therapy” actually made me laugh out loud. Another great piece by @gilduran.com

There's no escaping death. There's no escaping Earth. We're all here together briefly, and should live accordingly. Let's be good and generous to each other, and then be missed and remembered fondly when we're gone. These are better, actually achievable goals.

Bucket list! “Bryan has: -Injected the blood plasma of his teenage son -Subjected his penis to shock therapy -Swallowed 100 pills a day -Baked in a 200 degree sauna while icing his testicles -Taken massive doses of psychedelics -Tweeted details about his girlfriend’s genitals”

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The ease with which he lies is the whole of his talent

This otherwise laughable propaganda about Trump matters more than you might thing. www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...

I just conducted an oversight visit at an ICE detention facility in Kentucky. The stories I heard are heartbreaking. They're tearing families apart and spending billions of taxpayer dollars to do it. This cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

When Biden did literally this exact thing the media organized Biden Is Unfit parades in every major city until he dropped out

I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?

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Platner camp defiant, this was sent to volunteers

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