Those of us who know what Critical Race Theory is were appalled when reactionaries glommed on to the phrase to ply their agenda. It never stopped being a useful school of thought, and its authors never stopped being a hundred times more brilliant than their latter-day critics.

It's not just the BBC and ITV News that's covering this attack in this way. Every news outlet that's reporting on this - which is most of them - are framing it as an attack on a former synagogue, not on a soon-to-be mosque. Hierarchy of racism, right there.

Can't help but notice that the percentage of people who do not recognise Keir Starmer's face is almost exactly the same as the percentage of people still intending to vote Labour.

Every sincere effort to engage with what normal right wing voters think reveals a completely unhinged racial grievance. Just a total non sequitur.

>young people >40

"just protecting women"

This idea of a scramble to get rich to avoid being consigned to an "underclass" seems to be keeping some AI people up at night but I fully don't understand: in this imagined scenario, how do the rich stay rich? Where is new wealth being produced?

Capitalist society genuinely is built on the principles of freedom and equality and Karl Marx agrees with me.

Starmer's inevitable fate drawing ever nearer.

I do think one of the things that debates about whether AI can generate art have missed is that the stated aim has always openly been to serve up undemanding dross for fatigued workers, not original or complex creative masterpieces.

Genuinely baffled by the fact that there are people who feel a sense of personal grievance that part of the White House got demolished. The more Trump does to permanently undermine the august grandeur of the presidency the better.

Isn't it funny how British journalists can do this kind of analysis of what time of day Zack Polanski likes tweets, but totally missed Peter Mandelson defrauding the public for years until the Americans accidentally dropped him in it.

The Gender-Conservative movement managed to push policy proposals worldwide based on the pretense that youth transition is common and easy to access, obscuring the extant reality of obstruction and hostility towards trans patients. They're doing it again because they got away with it.

I can't explain why but the shooter clarifying that Patel was the one administration official who was not a target is very funny to me. I think it's because I'm convinced that this will somehow be a source of lasting embarrassment and insecurity for Patel himself.

This is, tonally, one of the most bizarre and confounding documents I have ever read.

I actually do believe that MPs can successfully perform this part of their job while drunk. It's only the preservation of archaic traditionalism that means they even need to be awake.

This + once societal problemd the right promised solved by removing one group of undesirables.. aren't. Their logic demands it must not have been ruthless enough, or its the fault of another group they already have in their sights. They have to escalate/expand because their premise is wrong

Not only is the idea that immigration can be "fixed" wrong but so is the idea that once this has happened everyone will just calmly move on to other things. Anti-immigrant sentiment is not rationally linked to the actual realities of immigration.

the arc of American history is long but it bends, confusingly, towards Donald Trump getting shot and killed for being a pedophile by a guy who voted for him to stop the pedophiles and who is, himself, a pedophile

my main memory of Clara Jeffrey, a very highly paid editor of a political magazine, is that she thought the UK had a new electoral system in 2017 because she didn't know the phrase "first past the post" and thought it was "the first past-the-post election". and that she then doubled down on this

Farage is, once again, priming his core supporters to view an electoral loss as a vindication for their worldview.

"In recent years, trans healthcare in the UK has become more and more restricted. Between 2016 and 2025, the average wait time for a first appointment at an NHS gender clinic increased from around nine months to 25 years – an increase of more than 3,200%."

Sarah Lamble's book "Unsafe: The carceral roots of the anti-trans backlash" is released on August 11. For every copy of pre-ordered through The Common Press, the publisher will donate a book to prisoners (via Lavender Pages). thecommonpress.shop/products/aug...

Alarm clock Britain is back, baby! It's good again! dingdingdingdingding [alarm clock sound]

This is the most authentic passion I have ever seen Keir Starmer express about anything.

Unserious freaks.

Can we talk about how harassment and borderline stalking of trans women by gender critical activists has become entirely normalised? Why can’t a trans woman do a bloody Parkrun without having her privacy violated and her data amassed on a website?!

There can be no doubt that the biggest source of funding for UK academia is the unpaid labour of staff.

It should be noted that Bovino is actually describing mass ethnic cleansing, not mass deportations.

The end for Lammy & Reeves too & they know it

left-wing Labour members in 2020 trying to convince themselves to vote for him during the leadership election:

we are informing the press that the prime minister will shortly have a sincere & unscripted display of human emotion

I understand that this is a charming quirk of our Parliamentary system but doesn't the pre-prepared question "Mr. Speaker ... Does the Prime Minister agree ... that he was absolutely right ... ?" just feel a bit insulting to everyone's time and intelligence?

Many in Lebanon told me they don’t trust this ceasefire. Some went to check their homes but didn’t stay. Many expect a resumption of fighting at some point. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

This reads like just another babbling manifesto by a mass shooter which, of course, is exactly what it is.

for those who missed it, here's the reason behind Melania's batshit crazy "press conference." Surprise: Melania is a liar. apple.news/AsZ7RsmlqTB6...

Who's there, boy? Who's at the door? Is it Banquo? Is it Banquo, boy? [to guests] He thinks he sees Banquo

One of the most powerful people to ever live getting a round of applause for being able to write his own name.

This is lowkey one of the most important things happening in the Middle East rn and very few people are paying attention to it

*Starmer appoints a diplomat who failed his security checks* "This is because of Tory mismanagement of the economy"

Have you ever worried that young people have too much legal entitlement to education? Keir Starmer has. It keeps him up at night.

Preach!

In case you didn't happen to read the UK's most recent National Security Strategy document, @critisticuffs.org has a piece highlighting how much it promises to sacrifice for the security of the state. critisticuffs.org/texts/what-t...

Same people who want the Iranian people to do a violent coup also think that rude voicemails are a step too far?

I've hit a point in my life where when I hear about a twenty year old nazi overdosing I just think "man, society really failed that kid".

"I prescribe it even to teens in some circumstances"

The same is very much true in the UK. I have heard "everyone is already an abolitionist, we just have to give them the language to say it" and, friends, if that was true we wouldn't need to do anything.

fucking phenomenal