Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
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Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
This is the most charitable explanation possible for the leader of the Conservative Party apparently telling people for years that Stanford University sought her out aged only 16 and offered her a place on a pre-med course it didn’t run.
trying to recall what came after the pre-depression peak
One of the victories of the "AI" industry is that the use of the word "intelligence" for their product has led to people conflating a massive appropriation of intellectual property for an database sorted and outputted with algorithms, with what actually happens in human brain, one artwork at a time.
Untest it now. Would just be another piece of meaningless technocratic bilge that nobody will relate to and government is unlikely to be able to deliver. Two major problems. What can a nation state government achieve? How can it speak human?
Forget Orwell’s ‘Two Minute Hate’ – the immigration debate shows real loathing | John Crace
I'm seeing a lot of people on LinkedIn and local Facebook who are feeling really distressed and upset because they feel like the flag graffiti is aimed at intimidating them (despite in many cases being proud British citizens with normal fondness for the flag). This isn't just Discourse.
Feral since the 19th century, apparently. aussieanimals.com/introduced-s...
Both Starmer and Cooper posed as supporters of asylum and human rights in opposition. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
[Sky News, which has spent years inciting hatred against migrants] Wow, how could this possibly happen?
Important reminder for anyone who thinks you can feed photos of Trump through AI filters and believe you’re getting a more accurate picture of reality.
Someone please kill me right now.
This is precisely what this decision will do. It will absolutely render women and children radically unsafe, and closes YET ANOTHER safe and legal route. All so that a far-right mob are appeased and a far right discourse is fully entertained, in all sense of that word.
You can’t put a minimum income threshold for refugees if you have banned asylum seeking people from working. You can’t expect kids fleeing a warzone to have school level English. And none of this will “stop the boats.” You need safe routes. Honestly, they can’t find anyway to defend this.
You use ChatGPT? Wow. Crazy that I am your moral and intellectual superior.
Prima facie, Elon Musk appears to be manipulating X platform for specific political voices he supports (as well as using his own account to amplify the far right & furthest right). In particular the platform dynamic has shifted & is helping Tommy Robinson to be amplified more than Nigel Farage.
Look, lots of people in American history had slaves
"And then Woody Allen went on Bill Maher's podcast to praise Donald Trump," I mumble to myself as they toss me into the padded room
"Many people" are saying he looks like a giant bug devoured his insides and is wearing his flesh suit as a disguise.
One small point on ‘pull factors’. Knowing that the U.K. has a fast, efficient and fair system for assessing asylum applications would only be a pull factor for good and genuine asylum seekers. It would be a deterrent for others.
"National security," but not the national security of Latin American countries...
Historian Jefferson Cowie's book, Freedom's Dominion, is an extended meditation on the deeply rooted American anti-democratic tradition he's called "racialized anti-statism." White people have long decried "federal tyranny" while promoting racist systems of state power. bsky.app/profile/seth...
They were never going to stop at what was "legal" or not. They didnt to begin with! All art/media is on the chopping block. You have to fight this NOW. keep calling, contact your reps. Make some noise!
You’d think that Democrats would have learned this after the rise of the astroturfed Tea Party in Obama’s first term But unfortunately, you’d be wrong
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
A lot of smart commentary types went real quiet with that horseshoe theory bullshit, didn’t they
Morning: No. 10 recognises it's operation was malfunctioning, and that it had ceded narrative control to Reform; childcare policy launches. By late afternoon: Assisted by racist BBC questioning, the PM proves incapable of articulating a positive multicultural patriotism. Very depressing.
Remember when Naomi Wolf published a whole book premised on her failing to look up the definition of a Victorian legal term? And then she retrenched in her argument & sailed away to cray-cray-ville rather than admit she might be wrong? Humility gets harder the smarter you think you are.
One of the most shocking things to most non-Americans is reading that the parents of the wounded children from the Minnesota school shooting are resorting to ‘gofundme’ to pay for medical treatment (presumably because they aren’t allowed to sue gunmakers/gunsellers).
Labour once again pander to the far right. Will it bring them a single vote from the Reform/Tory rump? No. Will it lose them more from the centre and left? In huge numbers. Madess. Do these thick fuckwits ever learn? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
being Prime Minister seems quite stressful, so it must be a relief for Nigel Farage that he gets to run the country without bothering
A pattern here in white people countries: - Financial crisis 2008 destroys existing economic model - Sensible politicians cycle through different guises, like the T-1000 in the molten steel getting more and more melted - All slowly realise the only form that might survive is “Authoritarian Fascist”
Good morning with good news: Japan, world's 4th largest economy, cut its fossil fuel generated electricity from 73.1% in June 2018 to 54.8% in June 2025. That's 18.3 points drop or 2.6 points/year! It could be near zero FF by 2045. Gas fell from 38.1% to 27.4% Coal fell from 30% to 20% #energysky
I feel like saying again that the sign that a grift is collapsing is that the lies become ever more outrageous to try to counterbalance the bleak reality.
What's the most amount of red flags you can fit in a paragraph?
Impressive to have the stench of both moral foulness and insincerity coming off you, and what the fuck is the BBC doing?
What a low, despicable person Starmer has shown himself to be, and for nothing.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
Oh no mate, this would be fucking weird if it’d come from any Tory leader before Johnson. From Labour it’s mindbending.
Ahahahahahaha 🫣
genitally-obsessed bigots are a safeguarding risk to children and other human beings and a huge problem for a humane society.
At least force people to inhabit the contradiction that, as a matter of plain fact, Britain both sent millions of its own people to live as immigrants elsewhere, and welcomed millions of other people, over centuries, to live here. A closed society is a delusion.
It speaks volumes that this government feels it needs someone as comms director who previously carried out "reputation management" for the likes of Russia, Kazakstan and Sex Matters. I'm all for judging people by the company they keep...
societies aren't just /far more commonly multicultural than people think,/ they are /multicultural by definition/, in that not a single society has ever achieved, or even could achieve, true ethnic homogeneity of a meaningful sense. even north korea has non-koreans
I remember seeing an incident at some shopping centre toilets a while back where an older lady, apparently with some mobility issues, was getting quite visibly upset at the staff not wanting her to bring her husband into the ladies' with her.
this is very much one of those xkcd geology comic things but it in general is always surprising for me to remember that at core most people don't remember that odds are an overwhelming majority of their ancestors did affirmatively not consider each other part of the same ethnic group
1/ The elimination of de minimis is emblematic of the worst kind of reactionary, knee-jerk policymaking that's sadly not confined to the US. For those who don't know: The US has largely eliminated a rule that let packages of lower value (<$800) to skip most customs formalities and tariff duties.
Transition, abortion, contraception, divorce, education, employment... they'll come for it all eventually...
How much substantive distance is there between this and Farage's widely-condemned 2014 "concern" about Romanians next door? Sivanandan's aphorism, sadly, remains pertinent but probably needs an update tbh. "What Enoch Powell says today, the Tories says tomorrow & Labour legislates the day after."
I'm sorry but this is insane www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Today, along with over 80 partner organisations, we are writing to MPs across the UK calling for robust Parliamentary scrutiny of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) forthcoming Code of Practice. Read the full statement on our website: www.scottishtrans.org/scottish-tra...
I remember thinking "wow it's good he's in charge, he's an intelligent, competent and basically decent person" so I'd just like to apologise to anyone who has ever listened to me and advise you never to do so again.
Something that constantly irritates me along these lines is the widespread assertion that sex-segregated facilities are a matter of "privacy". Communal changing rooms are definitionally *not* private! You might feel more comfortable in a segregated than unisex one, but that doesn't make it "private"
On that trade off, my 2 cents: the UK faces a genuine fiscal dilemma, and that this requires tax increases, incl. one of the 'big three' + some on property and wealth. Politically dangerous and will have short-term econ costs. But if govt remains trapped in headroom drama, it can't do anything else.
Patriarchy, a fixed hierarchical order of exploitation maintained via ubiquitous sexualized & gendered violence requires genitals at birth to be one's destiny. If we can change our 'nature-cum-destiny,' it reveals the arbitrary foundations of the whole thing.
A tale as old as time.
We're *this close* to a Labour Prime Minister agreeing that there are too many brown faces on our streets...
To be clear, this is not just “your concerns are legitimate and need to be heard” but “you are completely right”
And telling people they need to join this party or that party or your party to ensure they don't become anti-trans assholes...do you even hear yourself?
Like I said earlier, their target audience mostly communicates in grunts.
"I'm very encouraging of flags. I think they're great" I love how every politician just /sounds/ like an idiot now.
Yes, that bad.
For months now, the vast majority of the UK print and broadcast media have engaged in a round-the-clock campaign of stochastic terrorism against immigrants. The results of that campaign are coming to fruition.
And yet again it is a fact of statute law that a trans woman wishing to obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate MUST live publicly as a woman for a period of years FIRST. That's how it WORKS. Claiming that's some kind of violation creates an obvious Catch-22 in which trans people are always wrong.
Chicken Delay Repay Masala I can get behind...
I am writing about this today. Transphobe logic is that trans people only have rights *until* they come into conflict with a cis person. And not just a cis person's legally defined rights, but a cis person's comfort or emotions (which are discretionary and not legally protected).
Starring MEEE! And some other folk.
*cough*
Sadly, I can't link to the story b/c of Globe & Mail paywalls. But I feel that I have to share big news from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. It has bought at auction the plaid shirt & the Mountie costumes used in the Monty Python skit in which all sing "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay." 👀
... and because this is very much the case, the result of the UK Supreme Court swallowing "gender critical" ideology whole and spitting it out in the form of a load of legalese bollocks is utter chaos. Because imposing ideological "biological reality" onto social situations is gonna do that. Obvs.
The thing is when people say "biologically male/female" in contexts like this, they don't really mean in the sense of observable, empirical biological features (b/c that would inevitably produce some results they don't want), they mean what you "should" be, what you're divinely "designed" to be.
That's nothing, last weekend my neighbours ALL had Pride flags in their windows, AND a cut-out of the late Queen www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/wha...
UK Politics for trans people: Labour - working with the trans genocide group Tories - Headed by trans genocide advocate Reform - You're kidding, right? Green - 50/50 between 'decent guy' and 'fuck the trannies' Lib Dem - supportive by comparison "YourPary" - Openly supporting a trans segregationist
You absolute loser
I understand (though I do not accept) the government's case for remaining on X. What is totally indefensible is the *exclusive* presence of many MPs & departments on that site. They are handing a monopoly of key government communications to a site that's increasingly run by & for the radical right
This is honestly fascinating - dissecting vibes into the incredibly concrete - and people should be using it as a discussion starter in writing classes
It's the classic Prohibition --> Al Capone pipeline.
Did everyone else miss the news that Trump's director of personnel failed a background check, was using a false name, was born in the Soviet Union despite claiming to be from Malta, and has now been made Ambassador to India? nypost.com/2025/06/17/u...
The President of the United States used his primary official communication channel, a private website he owns, to post about a public health issue. As an engaged citizen, I wanted to see it, but first I was presented this cheap pop-up ad for a scam. Real global superpower stuff going on here.
Throughout the last five years, if you ever want to check the truth of a situation- follow the money. The insurance companies haven’t glossed over either COVID or Climate change.
The trouble with this endlessly repeated idea of “fixing the foundations” is that people want to know what it is you’re going to build/rebuild on top of them…
A lesson for AI makers: The great lie of IT has been that it reduces makework labour. In fact, it has typically been the reverse is true. Bring in email to make memos efficient, they said, now everyone answers 200 emails a morning before they do a bit of actual work.
Badenoch's pledge to exhaust the fossil fuel reserves while there is still time should be categorised as extremism.
Unlike the Australian Labor Party, which for bizarre historical reasons spells its own name wrong... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral...
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
Developing a theory that Labour literally does not understand the implications of their own migration policy and think it's essentially just a little computer game where the object is to beat Reform, but nothing about their decisions actually affects people's lives.
That's the wonderful thing about Great Replacement Theory; you get the atavistic thrill of hitting your antisemitism button while claiming you're defending Israel from the looming threat of Eurabia...
People obsessed with this country's "heritage" are violently opposed to ever actually addressing its real heritage, so all they're left with are consumerism and symbols chosen for their plausible deniability. Imagine claiming the Cracker Barrel logo as your birthright.
"No notes" as I believe the young people say. electronicintifada.net/content/bbc-...
One can particularly enjoy the fact that this kind of thing is being introduced to appease people who can barely communicate in grunts.
"Sorry small child fleeing a war zone. I'm afraid you can't join your parent here in safety because your English grammar isn't up to scratch."
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
Judith Butler is, as they normally are, right on the money with this. The first few sentences hit particularly hard.
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
"You are a bad person for refusing to ignore all the shit we actually do & focus on how wonderful we pretend to be"... Fuck off.
Love random human turds floating into the replies suggesting that not joining a party that's already turned into a rats-nest of transphobia before even picking a name is a disgraceful moral fault.
Enjoy knowing that this is both attributed to a specific named individual, and gently suggested to be a tiny bit of a myth, right here... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herta_H...
This of course is just the way fascists like it.