🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

I call them traitors.

Nothing makes you look guiltier than forcing the Justice Department to promise never to investigate your taxes or prosecute you for anything they might find.

~> The Fourteenth Amendment… written in the Blood of the Civil War, Says in Section 4; that This is blatantly illegal; ~> N.EITHER the United States Nor ANY State; shall assume or pay ANY debt Or ‘ obligation ‘ incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States… <~

Shapiro: Somehow, he can’t find the money to pay for healthcare, but he can steal from you to pay off the criminals who stormed the Capitol.

He Should Be Arrested Immediately For a Lot of Reasons….

This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.

6 years ago, I started asking a question that political science had largely ignored: how & why do women get involved in PRR parties as grassroots members? Today, my 1st book proposes an answer. Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right is now out online with OUP: academic.oup.com/book/62754

Let’s put it in simple terms. Men and women who attacked our Capitol, injured over 140 police officers and attempted to overthrow the results of a presidential election are going to be paid by Trump’s lackeys for their services on J6 with our tax dollars.

I'm told this is an actual still life that they posed for.

The Civil War ended 161 years ago. The South lost, slavery was abolished and Black voices soon had the right to be heard as citizens and voters. This Supreme Court and numerous southern states may still try to change that--as if their Lost Cause remains righteous--but we can stop their immoral wish.

A massive bee attack at the White House, which means the locusts are on their way.

Watch how legacy media whitewash Tommy Robinson as an "anti-Islam activist", and fail to acknowledge his white nationalist, anti-black racism. At @bylinetimes.bsky.social we trawled through his own posts: Please share to help folks see what he's really about bylinetimes.com/2026/05/15/h...

Tommy Robinson is marching through London again today. He presents himself as a patriot, a journalist, and a victim of the establishment. But in reality he is a serial criminal with a rap sheet two decades long. Here’s the record he’d rather you didn’t read. 🧵

Thanks, Supreme Court. You're waking up the majority and radicalizing us. You're becoming more illegitimate by the day. Bring it.

Hedge fund proposes £1bn buyout of Spire Healthcare, UK’s biggest private hospital operator. Your taxes boost value of Spire, make shareholders richer. Third of Spire’s revenues comes from NHS contracts - hip, knee, cataract surgery. Average profit margin estimated, up to 32%.

The “great compression” in the United States after WWII, was not marked by “eating the rich” but it was characterized by high marginal tax rates, low levels of inequality, high levels of unionization, and public investments in infrastructure and education.

Naz Shah, Labour MP for Bradford’s speech in the HOC yesterday. Bought tears and laughter to my eyes. The people of Bradford are lucky to have her. Politicians are not all the same.

UK General Practice, as it was then.

Some Tory MP says unchallenged on the BBC that "the welfare bill is spiralling out of control" Here's that 'spiralling' in full - steady for the last 20 years

I wish someone would corner these chuds on "only when the sun shines or the wind blows." It's spectacularly embarrassing that the ENERGY secretary doesn't know how storage batteries work.

I was not prepared for what we just heard in parts of Naz Shah MP's speech as she launched the debate today. Absolutely fantastic!

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan: "People and companies [are] profiting from poison and division. I recognise I'm clickbait. I recognise that I'm being monetised." Watch full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Gn...

Please join us in wishing a very happy 80th birthday to our lovely co-patron, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Have a great day!

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Is impatience killing the government? Some data and some thoughts. @karlpike.bsky.social @philipjcowley.bsky.social and I found a year ago that people expected noticeable improvements in the NHS, schools, housing well within Labour's first parliament. www.politicshome.com/news/article... 1/7

In one of the most delicious ironies of recent years, the government has "taken back control of our borders" and banned 7 far right extremists from entering Britain on Saturday, and they are all losing their tiny minds....

"I think you are a good man fundamentally... I know you care deeply but deeds, not words, are what matter." It is how just a matter of time before Keir Starmer quits. But the problem of Labour goes well beyond its leader. The party also needs a clear change in ideology and strategy.

Can we agree that anyone who runs for president ought to have stepped inside a grocery store and bought gas so they have an actual idea what rising prices actually mean? Can we also agree no more sociopaths who lack the capacity for empathy and shame?

Unclear why Boris Johnson would need to be paid £1m in order for Farage to rig an election in his favour.

🔴 Nigel Farage is facing questions about why he did not declare his use of a donor’s helicopter to travel around Britain for multiple Reform UK rallies over the past year. New on Democracy for Sale and @theguardian.com democracyforsale.substack.com/p/farage-fac...

Once again, the people most likely to hide a zombie bite are guiding our infectious disease response

Out like a light

This is what Trump means when he says "we're the hottest country around!"

Here’s the investigation we should have: Who decided to hit 15,000 targets and have so little to show for it except the tragic loss of 13 American servicemembers, higher gas prices for American families, and a depleted stockpile of critical munitions? https://to.pbs.org/4wsy4sc

Starmer appears to be doing exactly the same (false) equivalence between Reform and the Green Party that has previously utterly enraged people who have switched their vote from Labour to Green. Spectacularly counterproductive.

The definitive headline of this election cycle. What a vile place we have become.

As you read this quote, it starts bad and quickly gets worse as you realize Kennedy has filled this man's empty head with every anti-vaxxer conspiracy theory possible. Like a freshly brainwashed granola-bot, Trump has been programmed, fully weaponized and is now prepared to act.

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Daniel Trilling’s new book is well worth a read 👏

A Reform government is not inevitable. But more of the same will only make it more likely. Great to speak to the brilliant @trillingual.bsky.social about the rise of the British radical right - and what comes next, for Reform, Farage and all of us democracyforsale.substack.com/p/a-reform-g...

Oh, the absolute devastation in the air today. I hope you’re all doing okay. I personally haven’t been able to stop sobbing into my triple-shot oat milk latte since the news broke. My rainbow flag is currently soaking wet, not from the British rain, obviously, but from the sheer

A wall of crypto money is powering Nigel Farage, both politically and personally. And much of the British media just shrugs app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73421/...

There are lots of questions I want to ask Reform people, mostly starting "about that five million quid", but it would be a shame to let this moment from Robert Jenrick slip past unnoticed. thecritic.co.uk/toda...

The final results are in. It's a pro-independence majority of 73. That's the largest number of pro-independence MSPs ever elected to the Scottish Parliament.

"It's grifters like you and your colleagues who are the problem" #BBCQT Gent slams Reform UK and Conservatives for attacking migrants

My latest for @BylineTimes in the UK is a warning for both Labour and the Tories. bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/r...

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