Excellent and surely unarguable letter in @thetimes.com on the case for making student loan debt tax deductible. One only has to think about this for one minute to wonder why on earth this doesn’t happen already…

shotgun not me but think there's scope here for a proper, lengthy, meaty feature looking at every single policy area in Britain that's currently fucked specifically because of a decision George Osborne took, reckon you could make it an actual mag cover, his fingerprints are everywhere

I don't usually do this, but here are some posts by the State Dept official pictured, Joe Rittenhouse. This is the government we're dealing with. (Note the Spanish acute accent.)

Being put on payroll by Sarah Rogers

Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish · 1h Israel has killed at least 618 Palestinians and injured at least 1,663 since the “ceasefire” took effect at noon on October 10, in nearly daily attacks across Gaza.

The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being “good stewards” of the money. In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it. Taxation without representation.

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

IDF intentionally killed the most famous Arab American journalist in the world

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up." If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2070...

🎥 BIG MONEY IS CORRUPTING OUR POLITICS 🎥 UK politics has a big money problem 💷 The super-rich use money to buy honours, influence and access to power. It erodes trust in our politics and undermines our democracy. The UK needs a cap on donations to end big money in our politics. More below ⤵️

Kyle is such an ass.

🧵 of 🧵s. My views on this are clear, longstanding, & tiresome to many I'm sure. But I'll never stop being deeply angry that Larry Summers dominated the entire National Conversation™️ on the economy during Joe Biden's presidency & was lauded for being so epically wrong & repeatedly ignoring the data.

Ah cool another massive company no one has ever heard of that for some reason had, but failed to protect, millions of people’s most sensitive information and will suffer zero consequences as a result

Harvard has finally booted Larry Summers, and hasn't even done him the courtesy of pretending that the decision was his. "His resignation comes 'in connection with the ongoing review by the University of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that were recently released,' [a] spokesman said."

How Matt Goodwin's definition of "the Elite" focuses on university workers and civil servants, while excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/r...

The UK university sector is world-leading but it’s also tangentially connected to immigration so i guess we’d better kill it

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

it really is astonishing; this was the first men’s hockey gold since the literal miracle on ice and they couldn’t manage six hours before they turned themselves into the dipshit brigade for 60% of the country

In the past 2 days senior(ish) Reform politicians have called for: - opponents to be murdered - to undo the sexual revolution and a regulated sexual market - mass purges of the civil service - to undo renters and workers rights - mass deportations This is a party that is entirely spinning out

How Deutsche Bank rolled out the red carpet for Jeffrey Epstein ft.trib.al/T0kF5oM

Trump says the top U.S. general predicts an easy military victory over Iran; the general -- the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- says otherwise in private www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

Threatening the globe with the best time

Dozens of FBI witness interviews from the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein appear to be missing from the files released by the Department of Justice last month, according to a CNN review – including interviews related to a woman who accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago.

Counterpoint: the very clear insider trading that is eroding public trust in every institution is one of the goals of Kalshi and its ilk

The Iranian FM earlier today

Remarkably, as far as I can see, the media has allowed Reform's leadership to avoid having to make *any* official comment about whether Goodwin's campaign manager's holocaust-minimising & racist posts, were acceptable to them. We only know Mitula was suspended because *he* has confirmed it.

Also this wouldn't have been a problem if Schumer had recruited literally any of the like 12 normal liberal Dems who are running for Governor and aren't anti-union cryptkeepers.

It's up to you to decide whether or not Platner himself is personally bigoted but there's a lot more evidence of a problem with him than there's ever been with Rashida Tlaib and yet who gets talked about more?

Jeffrey Epstein stayed well connected to JPMorgan until his death in 2019, long after the bank dropped him as a client in 2013

Progressives aren’t so progressive now that I made up a thing they’re all saying

A whistleblower just disclosed that FBI experts were delayed by AT LEAST A DAY in deploying to investigate Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Why? There was an FBI plane and pilot shortage… because Kash Patel was using them for personal flights.

Largely fears over cancel culture among elites are likely motivated by the fact that they truly believe that their status and wealth should shield them from certain moral or ethical standards. Pretending it is anything else is delusional at this point.

This is where we are, currently, in the British press’s uncompromising stance against the scourge of antisemitism in British politics, in case anyone was wondering.

I have been hearing for months about exceedingly long, unexplained delays on Omni’s ICE flights. From immigration attorneys, former Omni flight attendants, and from the migrants themselves, who have ended up being shackled for 50, 75, even 82 hours.

This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is “feared.”

UN General Assembly resolution in support of Ukraine adopted today. Out of all EU member states, only Hungary abstained... as did the US.

The UK has been talking about "concrete steps to counter" Israeli settlement activity for years, but where are these steps? A trade ban on all settler goods and services A two-ways arms embargo on all weapons usable the oPT A comprehensive sanctions regimen on settler leadership and gov officials

Pervert specs alert system

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Former Norwegian prime minister hospitalized after suicide attempt in midst of Epstein probe: www.thestatesman.com/world/former...

There is value in having presentationally saner people like Kruger make their crank reactionary views plain. But come on, this stuff is deeply rote and tedious, not fascinating. You can find the type anywhere, demanding a keyhole peeper’s charter

Incredible how much they selectively ignore their standards and practices when it’s time to pick on trans people. And as much as Singal sucks, it’s the mid- and senior-level editors at the Times who keep platforming anti-trans voices.

Teeing up larceny

the free press has an entire Epstein Files vertical with the following articles: - Will We Regret the Release of the Epstein Files? - Is the Epstein Fallout Spiraling Out of Control? Plus. . . - Separating Fact from Moral Panic in the Epstein Case - Here's What I Know About Jeffrey Epstein

Uh, what if USPS intentionally, under the orders of Donald Trump, fail to deliver mail ballots in the upcoming midterms elections