Crime is down in Chicago, but it’s up 752% in the imaginary Chicago in their heads.
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Crime is down in Chicago, but it’s up 752% in the imaginary Chicago in their heads.
I loved the picture of her vaping in the dinghy the Mail published on Sunday, I mean, you think that makes her *less* likeable?
I think she looks great in the photo. If it was a non politician celebrity in that outfit they would put it in the paparazzi section but laudatory.
Is it very bad that my main thought (after wtf) is about where she got those trousers
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
pritzker should send the illinois guard to austin to harass everyone going into the comedy mothership
Netflix is walking the walk: 💰 $2M for Newsom’s redistricting fight 📺 Sesame Street deal — new episodes + full archive free That’s how you pick a side.
My fave of this genre was the Chuck Norris abandoned Walmart concentration camp “Jade Helm” conspiracy theory. A veritable double rainbow of fascist misinformation.
Pritzker says the press should be asking this question, too, and he's right.
“Film things you see happening…Be loud for America” is quite the rallying cry.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
Real evil shit.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Two things can be — and are — true here: Bowser is not the champion DC needs in this moment, and The Washington Post has become a Trump rag. A newspaper that actually cared about the city in its name would not publish such an inflammatory, bullshit headline.
This guy gets it. This is the way.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
The judge for some reason apologized for not knowing that SCOTUS shadow docket orders are considered precedent, which is something no one else knew either until a couple of weeks ago.
As Trump was threatening to militarily invade and occupy the city I live in, the leader of the opposition party offered to find common ground with him. I fucking hate these people. They are worse than useless.
Still an idiot.
Which is why we've been the richest country in the world while tariffs have been at their lowest levels.
So cool this is just how things are now
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
Renaming the White House to the American Center for Political Corruption would just acknowledge its primary function under Trump.
Studies repeatedly show that most people age out of "hardcore" crime by their late 30s and 40s. And nobody is "born to be" a criminal. Even Trump, who is a hardcore criminal who has not aged out of his illicit behavoir, was not born like this. I blame his parents.
the American public are children, and they deserve to be talked to like children.
Starmer: "Is there anything to be said for swinging just a little bit more to the right?"
Truss had at least one media outlet on her side, which I suppose helped.
Not 'if'. Not even 'when'. The US *is* one.
I maintain that "escaping corporate control" only speaks to people where corporate control is in their top 5 concerns in life The pitch I offer you is shared ownership of your community and curatorial control over your online experience. It presupposes escaping corporate control (means, not ends)
Oof. The Dems need to stop pretending, based on some imaginary focus group, that there’s some common ground with Trump. The key is to fight everywhere. You should go study Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at “common ground.” It didn’t end well for his historical reputation. Or the world.
also, what do you think people conclude when they hear you say Donald Trump is a "wannabe king" who is "attacking the American people" (both true things Jeffries has said) and also that you want to find common ground with him? Probably that your criticisms are insincere or that you're weak or both
Most noticeable thing about Polanski's victory is the crushing margin - 85%, with a much higher turnout than last time. I don't think there's evidence of a big pile of rural moderates trying to hold back the tide - the party has voted for a bigger, bolder voice across the board.
Understanding how far right propaganda successfully appeals to emotions by selecting, extrapolating and myth-making around isolated cases, & countering these tactics somehow is now urgent. The government can no longer pander to it. This is a good case study. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "I was elected as the Labor Secretary for all Americans" (She was not elected)
Greg Sargent: "So perhaps it’s time for news organizations to state unabashedly and affirmatively that they are not in the business of amplifying Trump officials’ lies and smears, and any official who feels entitled to such amplification can go stuff it." newrepublic.com/article/1998...
I wish we could have seen “care about the location of Space Command” polling before and after yesterday. I’m guessing it would have gone from about 1% to about 60% overnight.
Trump will do all he can to “fix” the 2026 and 2028 elections to secure MAGA victories by every method he can muster, however blatantly illegal and unconstitutional, whatever the courts might say. If every eligible voter shows up, we can overwhelm his schemes. Otherwise, our way of life is doomed.
The Rolling Stones have toured the US just 15 times in their entire seven-decade career. Nigel Farage has been there ten times in the last year alone.
“How can such an unlikable figure be so intimidating? How can the Wizard of Oz inspire obedience *after* the curtain has been pulled back, revealing his diminutive stature? Everybody with the ability to stop Trump is simply sleepwalking” prospect.org/politics/202...
Amazing video - well done!
A country where lying is key to success and brutality is celebrated is not one that can sustain liberal democratic life. www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.
Is this related to their G2 article about failing vegan restaurants?
I remember my mother pointing out at various points through the seventies how he was reported as British when he was winning and a Hungarian immigrant when he was losing.
The common denominator in every place where birth rates are dropping is women’s increased access to education.
Max Boot: Trump demanded that Israeli prosecutors drop their corruption case against Netanyahu. “It is INSANITY doing what the out-of-control prosecutors are doing to Bibi Netanyahu,” he complained. So much for not lecturing other nations “on how to live and how to govern your own affairs”!
Well I was close
He forgot that the people he's talking about *took* personal responsibility, followed the rules and had the rules unilaterally changed on them by the UK.
this is one of the dumbest argument these arseholes trot out every time: driving licence it's not the same thing you morons
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
A flag for which it is hard to tell whether it's upside down or not is a poor flag. Either total reflective symmetry of obviously different when flipped. Not "slightly thinner line on top."
A danger of the 'will Bluesky succeed or not?' discourse is getting too fixated on this particular platform. This place grew because there was a demand for a microblogging site not tied to a fascist actively using it for campaigning and misinformation.
If they didn’t think painting St George’s flags all over the place was intimidating, they wouldn’t do it. It’s got bugger-all to do with patriotism.
was actually looking into something else but man I had entirely forgotten that Liz Truss, of "Liz Truss" fame, was justice secretary in 2016/2017, isn't that quite freshly insane, in retrospect
Strong start.
Why did you write "independence" replying to a comment about "fragmentation"?
I just want to order 200 St George’s flags with “REFUGEES WELCOME” across the horizontal stripe and hang them on every bridge I can find.
This is the Green party’s moment – not Farage’s. As leader, I’ll offer real solutions to Britain’s problems | Zack Polanski
How about this: we shouldn’t punish people who haven’t done anything wrong
I'd be fully in favour of the home office acknowledging reality and giving him a UK passport.
Asylum seekers often have complex legal cases and a need to make backup copies. Indeed, many get seriously penalized for not having a sheet of paper. Banning them from photocopying seems necessarily cruel and pointless
Still is for normal brits
When I moved to the UK it was explained to me repeatedly and emphatically that flying a lot of flags or particularly caring about flags was a weird US thing that most British felt was uncultured or unnecessarily
Plenty of EU countries (I speak from family experience) had a habit of registering people properly before UK's exit, this making things simple when it happened. You can stop now, nothing you say will prove the home office to be any more competent.
*or, not pt
"How can you take on Man City when you want to score goals against them and they want to score goals against you? These are opposites!"
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
Please either replace "respected" with "treated" pt delete "with respect". Thanks.
Yup, and as usual it's the home office, not the individual that is the problem here.
Other countries respected their visiting workers from UK with respect and the transition was seamless. Had a resident card before the day? You still have it after! Easy. UK's problem was it was disrespectful all along.
Someone needs to find a different word, don't they? Preferably someone with some command of the English language.
That does not answer the question. How is someone with a national insurance number "undocumented"?
And not-county-but-administered-as-if-it-was levels.
Keep in mind that when we talk about family reunification routes, they only apply when someone has been granted refugee status. That means this government is saying, "we know you have fled persecution. We know your family remains at risk therefore. We are going to ensure you cannot see them again".
it doesn't. we spent a bunch of money and made everything worse while also terrorising someone who just wants to live their life in the country they grew up.
How the fuck does stopping him from working help anyone? How does any of this help anyone?
It's the "undocumented" that gets me. How's he undocumented if he has a national insurance number?
How the hell is he undocumented, if he has a national insurance number? Someone please start making sense in the UK.
abolish the Home Office
The right will never ever vote for Labour. No matter how they try to woo them.
They are just chasing the racist vote. It makes me sick. The phrase ‘legitimate concerns’ should have been jettisoned the minute someone stupid said it in 2015!
They don't seem to "get" my concerns on asylum seekers - AS housed in poor overcrowded accommodation - AS driven onto unsafe routes - AS in limbo for too long unable to work - AS scapegoated and demonised by far right
Of course there will be different circumstances with individuals. Every attack on women & girls, coercive abuse & sexual violence, is horrific, something society as a whole needs to address, especially all men. Unfortunately it seems many white men inc Jenrick & Farage, hv an issue w that concept 😳
As I suspect you know, I know, & these many women who have put their name to this letter know, in the uk a woman is statistically *most* likely to be abused or raped by a white man, a friend or family contact or a man in an authority role. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is why "I get the concerns" is not a useful framing. Politicians never talk about "getting the concerns" of protestors re: Palestine, or the environment (although they should!). They state their own policies and views on the matter. Why not do the same with immigration and asylum seekers?
I would like to see them pressed on this issue. Which concerns do they consider legitimate and what is the legitimate basis for those concerns?
When politicians say they “get” the concerns about asylum seeker (AS) accommodation which of the commonly-expressed concerns do they “get”: -AS pose a danger to children in nearby schools? -AS will attack women? -AS will overwhelm our culture? -AS will take jobs and housing from “natives”?
Hey, guess what? No one needs to remind me, or anyone, that JD is also dangerous. Seriously. We know. No need to 'splain. But we're still laser-focused on the ailing POTUS.
No idea what this Oval Office announcement is. Could be resigning Could be apologizing because Stephen Miller molted all over the Residence and someone caught staff dumping the exuviae out of the window Could be clarifying that tariff revenue is really eleventy three trillion
J.R.R. Tolkien #quote
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it. A few examples in 🧵: theconversation.com/how-should-l...
New post: The real fiscal concern should be a populist government mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-... The idea that the UK under the current government might have to get a loan from the IMF is nonsense. But it is legitimate to ask why our interest rates on debt are relatively high.
Whereas here in England I pay a peak time fare to travel on an almost entirely empty train when I travel into work for an early start.
Every day I wake up, make coffee, read Politico and become depressed about the normalisation of far right memes, open the FT/Guardian, look at the 30 year gilt movements and become depressed about the state's structural dependence on capital, then go to work to find political agency in the archives.
Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
