Seasoned expert meets clueless buffoon ordered by his clueless buffoon boss to just say yes to everything - while emphasizing that the boss just wants his fucking Nobel prize so anything's fine
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Seasoned expert meets clueless buffoon ordered by his clueless buffoon boss to just say yes to everything - while emphasizing that the boss just wants his fucking Nobel prize so anything's fine
Indeed I did, thanks. 👍 You may also have seen the Sky News item today on hotel protests, interviewing two of the fash, but promising to interview counter-protestors in a later piece. Why they couldn't do one of each so that each post in the series would be balanced is a mystery. Sort of.
Great piece on the fash asylum hotel protests, which are tiny but being covered as incipient civil war, even in the fairly-sane press, like they're some massive wave in popular opinion.
One wonders what would have happened if say 50 Congressmen had been killed on that day. That counterfactual was just seconds away.
She was fighting to overthrow the legitimately elected government of her own country. The insurrectionist mob was warned to back off, but she decided to bust through the door protected by armed officers into the space where congressmen were fleeing. Anybody else doing the same would have got shot.
If 'common law rights' were equivalent to ECHR rights, then the UK would never have lost a case in Strasbourg. But it has. 1/
‼️🇺🇦 We understand that today we cannot restore borders only with weapons, we lack the strength, but Russia will not be able to occupy us, — Zelensky
You’re not dropping a single, asshole. If you’re actually knew anything, it would be criminal not to reveal it now. But of course, this is a bullshit publicity stunt.
'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone. This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.
Peter Thiel, Musk, Stephen Miller, and Russell Vought realize their King is sick and dying. This is why they're ramping up towards a dictatorship. To ensure their groomed boy toy, JD Vance, has all the power to do their bidding.
Historian here…WW2 ended with that amazing negotiation called…”unconditional surrender.”
I honestly don't know what I did to deserve this incredible tribute. I can only say I'm honored, flattered, and humbled—and, of course, deeply grateful to everyone who made this accolade possible. I pledge to do my utmost to live up to it. 🙏🏼🤗
Dear @washingtonpost.com: these two paragraphs are absolute malpractice. Utterly disgraceful. You use total counts, not rates … for the THIRD BIGGEST CITY IN THE US. Of COURSE it has a high total. And rates “have come down” … with a link, but no number. Down FIFTY PERCENT IN FOUR YEARS.
Missed your previous post, obviously. Hope you're doing OK, or as well as can be expected.
Very sorry to hear that. My condolences. 😟
Wrote this analysis on the asylum hotels court ruling yesterday morning for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. It’s mostly held up but for one thing: the pressure on the councils has come even more quickly than I thought, and among those inflaming it is Kemi Badenoch, who’s urged Tory councils to act.
"Asylum seekers should not be allowed to work!" "Asylum workers should not be subsidised at the public expense!" - and loop.
I’d be interested in knowing the difference between this and actual martial law?
But well golly gosh, turns out they're both fans of concentration camps for asylum seekers!! Whodathunkit? What a stroke of bad luck! Looks awfully like an attempted ambush. You're well advised not to touch it with a bargepole. 2/2
So, ummmm, they invite two people, presumably to talk specifically about asylum / immigration (since they aren't asking you (Zoe) to also talk about tax thresholds or river pollution or whatever). So you'd think they might have some prior inkling as to their views on asylum / immigration. 1/2
It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.
Same story with post-Southport rioters / looters: many of those prosecuted for "expressing their legitimate concerns about immigration" had multiple previous convictions for violence.
More than two-thirds of the 60 people arrested after the 'Stop the Boats'/'Save Our Kids' protest turned violent in Bristol last August had previous reports, flags, convictions for domestic abuse &/or violence. Read the full story here: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
This fucking sentence
Explain to me how ICE agents decimating restaurants in the local Pittsburgh area is “good for this country.” What happened at Emiliano’s Mexican Restaurant & Bar this week was downright disgusting. 16 hard working individuals violently ripped from the restaurant during business hours.
Extraordinary resilience. Andry was thrown into a hellhole and subjected to physical and psychological abuse and sexual assault—and has come out on the other side optimistic and forward-looking.
We have concentration camps in America and it still has not truly hit public consciousness or the level of discussion we see around other subjects. This is how these things become normalized. We simply cannot let ourselves become desensitized, we *have* to keep pushing the discussion.
Lysenko rides again ☹️
"New executive order puts all grants under political control - All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants". Purpose? Make scientists and institutions conform to political narratives. Most will. History will remember. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
There’s a quiet revolution of British voters who have had enough of the over platforming of one party in a multi party democracy & want to see/hear ALL their parties covered in the broadcast media. Letters to broadcasters are increasing &so are signatures here petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
I would say this beggars belief, but there's nothing in this that remotely surprises me. This is fuel for the new left party.
Madam you are a superstar, and please keep doing what you're doing. ❤️ I for one am blocking all manner of dickheads as a result of your pointers.
Staggeringly good piece on the nightmare in Sudan from Ms Applebaum in September's Atlantic. 👍👍👍
weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him
Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream. Macquarie controlled company loses 91m litres of water per day to leaks. No new reservoirs built since 1989. Dumped sewage for 300,000 hours into rivers. Customer bills up 47% this year. End fleecing. Nationalise water.
To my critics who say that my position urging Democratic governors to redrawing maps is simply a race to the bottom, I say this: The only thing Donald Trump understand is overwhelming force. We shouldn't bring knives to a gun fight, we should be missiles. Unilateral disarmament is not an option.
On left: ABC: Ghislaine Maxwell told "Blanche that Trump had never done anything in her presence that would have caused concern." On right: Maxwell said same about Epstein, under oath. DOJ 2022: "Simply put, the defendant lies when it suits her." Whatever is the truth, she's no source for it.
The family of Virginia Giuffre: "Missing from this group is, of course, any survivor of the vicious crimes of convicted perjurer and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Their voices must be heard, above all. We also call upon the House subcommittee to invite survivors to testify."
Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.
If you agree water should be public, add your name to the People's Plan for Water: actionnetwork.org/forms/water-...
Crypto is not a socially useful industry. The most innocent side of it is a form of gambling. UK could make money by hosting and facilitating it, but it does so at the expense of global society and should no more do this than it should help illicit arms sales.
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“The US President’s redeployment of strategic nuclear assets on the basis of Russian social media posts is outright alarming. No one would want to live in a world where Russia redeployed nuclear weapons based on the tweets of Liz Truss, after all.” inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...
Virtually zero legacy media coverage of this statement. A couple of stories, that’s about it. The lies and insane statements have become completely normalized and are largely ignored now by Big Media.
Not as confused as Douglas Carswell, though. Sidenote - seems his father was likely something of a notable humanitarian and eminent physician. What a disappointment that his entitled spawn turned out to be a mere two-bit fascist.
remaining in the Single Market or Customs Union, which might have mitigated the worst of the damage. He has also said nothing, as far as I'm aware, about how disastrous Brexit has been, nor has he called for closer EU ties. So it seems reasonable to guess that he's pretty much OK with it. (3/3)
Article 50, despite the fact that starting the clock yourself when negotiating from a position of weakness is insane. Likewise the insistence that any deal provide "the exact same benefits as EU membership" --- no such deal could ever exist, obviously. He also whipped MPs to vote against (2/3)
Yes he did all that as I'm well aware (little choice given the remain orientation of party members). I said he was pretending because he was never onboard with the EU before or since. Post-referendum he out-Brexiteered even the Tories, 3-line whipping Labour MPs to vote immediately to trigger (1/3)
The story of how Trump sells access to the White House - to benefit himself and his family financially and to benefit his political operation - is shocking and sordid. No President has ever monetized access like Trump has. 1/ It's a story you need to know.
Like “Oh, you think a $600 check is nice? Well, how about if you were given healthcare, childcare, UBI, and also no one was artificially increasing your cost for goods and services. And literally all it takes is to all agree to see billionaires as the leeches they are and treat them as such.”
#ProudBlue #DV1 No wonder the magat republicans are done with talking about the #TrumpEpsteinCoverup, they’re medicating themselves with #Ozempstein @thedailyshow.com
JC is a longtime Brexiter, pretended to support Remain in 2016 but got his result anyway. Disaster, but I don't hear him saying so. Mick Lynch is also a Brexiter, and unrepentant. Both are generally right but not about Brexit. Won't vote for either until they commit to rejoining.
Where can I bet literally everything that Helion will not deliver 50 megawatts of fusion-generated electricity to the grid in 2028.
Yes and yes apart from "until she pays". You don't escape a fraud or theft conviction by merely paying back what you stole.
If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT. If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
Virginia Giuffre's sister-in-law notes that the FBI already has any information Ghislaine could give up, bc the victims already risked it all to share it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqUE...
Russian state media has declared Russia's intent to exterminate Ukraine through genocide: "There is no other option: no one should remain alive in Ukraine"
In another episode of “we live in the stupidest timeline,” Jen Easterly, a woman I have (1) never met and (2) did not work for, had her appointment at West Point terminated because Laura Loomer lied about both of us in a tweet. cyberscoop.com/jen-easterly...
Govt's £100bn price for nationalising England water is bogus £100bn calculated by OFWAT: Value at privatisation X annual rate of inflation + investment; repeated each year. The answer does not represent any value. On this basis a car bought for £10k in 1989 would have £50k value. Utter nonsense
The High Court has granted permission for a judicial review to be brought against the Home Secretary's decision to proscribe Palestine Action. news.sky.com/story/palest...
NEW: New Hampshire firmly rejected the DOJ’s demand for its full statewide voter roll, citing state law, cybersecurity and voter privacy. New Hampshire joins Minnesota and Wisconsin in resisting the DOJ’s push to obtain state voter rolls. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social
Texas GOP Rep. Giovanni Capriglione...the same man who rammed through a six‑week abortion ban...has been exposed: a 17‑year affair and allegedly paid for multiple abortions. These aren't leaders...they're hypocrites in power. If that doesn’t make you furious, you’re not awake.
Mmmm, "personal liberties and free markets" was his declaration about the direction of the WaPo editorial stance. Removing all regulation from a transformational and power-concentrating technology seems like personal liberty for a few oligarchs, and free markets for nobody.
Or to paraphrase, "I'm on the list too, usually alongside Trump, SHIT"
“After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence.” (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Mike Johnson is proof God wants us to punch people.
When Alex Jones’ attorney says this, that means you are in bad shape.
This is the bold leadership that our party, and our county, desperately needs. I will be backing Zack because he is the only one directly addressing the far-right and offering a clear alternative. In this moment, we need explicitly anti-fascist leadership with a clear narrative, just like this.
Oops: On Joe Rogan’s podcast in September 2018, Tulsi Gabbard acknowledged that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Rogan called it “amazing” that it took until 2016 for foreign election influence to become a major issue in the U.S.
Planning reform utterly fails to address the elephant in the room, which is growing wealth inequality.
Renationalise Water. Spread the message!
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
😡 Shame on this government. This is dangerously negligent. “The £265m Fleming Fund supports the surveillance of [Antimicrobial Resistance] in 25 countries across Africa and Asia. However, it emerged last week that the fund has been quietly shelved.”
Call me an idealist. I want to live in a world were everyone works collaboratively for the benefit of life, education,health & the planet. Where empathy and caring dominates. Not in a world where the majority of resources are used for wealth, death & destruction!
“this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined”
HBO should highly consider firing their current disgrace Bill Maher and replacing him with the fantastic Stephen Colbert.
Yep. We're in the fight of our lives here. I have more confidence about the next election than most but the stakes could not be higher.
I see the misinformation machine is kicking up to support Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Israel amendment. Advocates have a responsibility to be clear about what legislation does and doesn’t do. Her amendment did NOT cut off offensive aid to Israel. We shouldn’t pretend it does. My statement on it:
ICYMI: Florida’s Supreme Court upheld DeSantis’ congressional map, despite acknowledging it dismantles Black voters’ ability to elect their candidates of choice. The court ruled that a federal law supersedes Florida’s voter-approved protections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Could be Colbert vs. Tucker Carlson 🤣
NEW ANGLE Watch and decide, but I was never fully convinced he was shot in the first place. Never mind that his ear should’ve been blown off—now completely healed. Or that the Secret Service took their time getting him offstage. But from this angle: you see the photographers guided into place…
Some of the most pro-Trump coverage NYTimes has ever done. On Epstein, they chose to adopt Trump's transparently disingenuous framing, treating a "grand jury records" stalling tactic as openness—he's trying to hide the rest—and presenting an obvious lie of "prepared to defer to the courts" as real.
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS BY EXPERTS REVEALING VITAL DATA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW9C...
If the Senate confirms the wildly unqualified Emil Bove, it will be responsible for the even Trumpier and more lawless Supreme Court for which the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is potentially but a Bovean stepping stone. He is an antijudge extraordinaire www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/o...
Medical debt shouldn’t ever be a thing in a developed country. No other Western industrialized nation has it.
Trump calls the Epstein scandal “bullshit” and says he no longer wants the support of “weaklings” who care about it
Has Trump truly reversed his policy in Ukraine? Lyndsey Hilsum and I think not. Also with Matt Frei @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/rXONbhgrIo8?...
This relates strongly to the whole vibes politics of MAGA. Like how crime in the U.S. is at historical lows but voters FEEL like it's not (encouraged in this by propagandists like Stephen Miller), which paves the way for them to send the military into cities. Absurdities atrocities etc.
Just crying with laughter. Don't miss the last second.
This New York Times piece by a holocaust scholar would be a terrorism offense in the UK.
And they'll neglect to delete the Excel or Word metadata that says the original creator was Kash Patel (Kash's "enemies list" that he published a year or two back), latest reformatting and update by Pam Bondi in July 2025. Ooooops.
When the FT says "Trump reaps $50bn tariff haul" it strangely omits the fact that this "haul" is reaped from his fellow Americans, not from other countries as he keeps insisting to a bizarre near-omerta in the media. Are they letting the lie go unchallenged for fear of frivolous lawsuits?
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Quick question. There are still almost as many troops in LA right now as there were at the end of Afghanistan. Why exactly? Also where are the mass deportations of white illegals, like from Russia?
They are destroying science. And that will destroy lives.
Welp.
Another ICE "assault" case unravels. Border Patrol and ICE are arresting US citizens and then after they find out that they are US citizens, they are charging them with "assault" to justify their actions. This is clearly DHS policy at this point. We've seen it repeatedly now.
Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 