Whoever called the faction of the press who still want to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner the ‘Access of Evil’ I salute you

Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

Texas tech now bans students from writing about LGBTQ issues in any form. Mentions of gender identity, orientation etc in textbooks must be skipped. Deafening silence so far from all the brave heterodox free speech absolutists www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

The best guide (in terms of recent historical accuracy) is probably @electionmaps.uk electionmaps.uk/nowcast Unfortunately this is still indicating that Reform are heading for a win, and also that an agreement with the Tories would put paid to any potential anti-Reform coalition.

The addled president fired the secretary of the Navy for failing to deliver an impossible supership he made up in three years

UK barreling towards Temu Trumpism.

“Children and adults were laid on makeshift gurneys …These human caravans walked for hours in up to 104-degree heat in an attempt to reach medical treatment” Musk and Doge have so much blood on their hands www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

“unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction.” That’s still a crime, is it? Interesting www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

Sounds like Jeremy Lewin of DOGE should be more famous than he is: a malicious fool who has helped kill hundreds of thousands of people www.wired.com/story/usaid-...

Katie and I were just discussing the worryingly high number of bad desis in Trumpworld (Patel, Dhillon, Ramaswamy etc) v a relatively small number of AZNs and I would feel good about this guy trying to even the score were it not so fucking abject and shameful.

The ‘top envoy’ in this story is Paolo Zampolli, the sleazy former model agent who intro’d T to Melania and recently got the Trump admin to deport his ex wife www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Go after the Klan and we’ll go after you

I never thought they could ruin weed

Amazing that damage to a crucifix is forcing Israel to do PR damage control while the systematic rape of prisoners *as policy* is not. [c/w details in this piece are *extremely* upsetting] www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...

You know that Texas used to be part of Mexico because its senate race looks like something out of one of the northern states in the 1990s. You've got Cornyn (Corrupto Institucional), Paxton (Ultracorrupto Ultraderechista), and Talarico (Progresista).

"If only Habermas hadn't been rude to Alex Karp" is the new "If only Obama hadn't mocked Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner"

One for the Christian Zionist in your life

Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

Starmer has a sliding scale that usually goes from irritation all the way to disappointment. “Complete anger” has never before been achieved.

One problem with this is that the people who think a SCIF is a curtained off area near the pool are the ones building this super secure facility. If he does build it, it will probably have to be destroyed and rebuilt by someone who cares to secure the construction site

It’s just DEI for right wingers. Until Harvard has a faculty quota for Posadaists, true viewpoint diversity will not have been achieved www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

For long time observers of the internet far right: Thiel (via Jeff Giesea) backing Weev. Money to Stormfront, R Spencer Charles C Johnson to develop infrastructure to use against the left. Clearview, Palantir, Epstein. Bonus: Alan Dershowitz helping Nazis bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/t...

Blue Ruin product placement in The Drama. Zendaya certainly looks like another satisfied reader

Odds of Vance being a Baptist by 2027?

Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) just filed six articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of repeatedly violating his oath to the Constitution. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Everything is so stupid. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/a...

While the US is floundering under this incoherent oil-obsessed old man, the rest of the world is scrambling to reduce its dollar dependency and transition to a Chinese green energy stack. Trump’s most lasting damage to the US may be making the Rmb the new global reserve currency

Going through 90's promos from my days reviewing for magazines - I just found a Jeff Mills Liquid Room set and I'm glad I'm on my own because there's been some Hungarian politician style desk dancing

I'm fairly gobsmacked by the number of people who profess surprise that Orbán was funding CPAC. Did you know of his ties to Heritage and Project 2025? One of the most telling, tho, was he funded Rufo and the racist Trump tried to install at State, Jeremy Carl. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

So many of the old British punks (from Lydon on down) ended up as Brexiteers. There’s a GenX cynicism that - paradoxically - leads a lot of us to become marks for vice signalers

Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?

Tanker going to China forced to reverse course under the US blockade - ship tracking data

Joke’s on you if you sincerely thought Trump was a Christian.

Peter Magyar has offered a template which can be used, without too much alteration, in defeating populists worldwide open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

A lot of 60ish former ravers out there now. Expect more of this

The antisemites hate the Christian zionists. America first hate foreign wars. Trump’s alienating the Catholics by beefing with the woke Marxist pope. Now the golden calf blasphemy is pissing off all the other Christians. Who’s left? Crypto bros, UFC fans and Kid Rock ? That’s not a majority

Nick Land getting the Musk retweet for an almost classically Nazi slice of ‘race realism’

The NYU contract faculty union spent 15 months negotiating our contract with the university, culminating in a week of intensive all day talks and a final 30 hour bargaining session. Vance left Pakistan after less than a day.

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

I hope more people focus on the import of this turnout last year. Not least bc standing up to bigotry can itself be a rallying cry.

Magyar calls on the figurehead head of state Tamás Sulyok, as well as all high justice officials and other high officials appointed by Fidesz to resign immediately or they will be removed by the new government. He also announces a constitutional reform and that Hungary is joining EPPO.

went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted

You’re not blocking the strait, *I’m* blocking the strait. Checkmate mullahs.

The NYU contract faculty union spent 15 months negotiating our contract with the university, culminating in a week of intensive all day talks and a final 30 hour bargaining session. Vance left Pakistan after less than a day.

Chances are Vance asked them why they hadn’t said thank you

Whil we’re waiting to see what happens in the Hungarian election, here’s something I wrote in 2013 about Orbán attacking cultural dissenters and handing control of arts institutions to loyalists. Remarkable how much of this has now been replicated in the US www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

Depressing but hugely informative thread detailing how Orbán built his "illiberal democracy" in Hungary (and how hard it will be to dismantle it)

Why is Eric Adams Albanian? I googled extradition and they have a treaty so it’s not that

Amazing. MAGA relitigates the Reformation We’re months away from a repeat of this youtu.be/JlbmIMbKZa4