More of this, please.
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More of this, please.
The more Labour stampede right, the emptier the vacuum for the LibDems to go "Let's just ****ing rejoin the EU already!" and snaffle up votes. But it would need to be a loud, proud and sustained message. Not a policy line item on their website, but front and centre in all comms. 2025 is NOT 2019.
The 20% tariff goes to the US Government. The manufacturer/seller in the country of origin probably gets nothing.
I imagine the cost at the point of import, on which the tariff was paid, might be $20? In which case the 20% tariff was $4, leaving $6 more profit for the rest of the supply chain.
YES! Thank you... Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". - seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
Most definitely this.
Not dissimilar to Brexit in this aspect.
And they havenโt even been given trash pickers! Theyโll do their backs in!
There's no better poster child for the mess the UK is now in than the fact that the Financial Times - home to the "how to spend it" supplement on luxury geegaws - is now one of the most left-wing media channels in the country simply because it's still interested in reality.
How can the government possibly deal with the threat from Reform? I dunno, have you heard of A DRACONIAN CRACKDOWN? Imagine Farage was a vegetarian Marxist and just do whatever you would do to that guy.
Sickening and spineless.
โฆ Pepsi?
A brainless dipsomaniac with impotence issues, guessing by the imagery.
Interesting, though with the present administration probably irrelevant.
THIS IS HOW WE DO IT, BABY! Congratulations to Air Canada Flight Attendants on their swift and unerring strike action!
wow, all it took was one week of restricted access to porn.
If you've ever wondered what life would have been like or what you would have done had you been living in Germany in the early 1930s, wonder no longer. Every day that passes now is an answer.
#london #homeless #mortgages #bekind #streetphotography
This is divine punishment for shelving books upside down, I reckon.
Itโs clear โthat the military will not rescue Americans from Mr. Trumpโs misuse of the nationโs military capabilitiesโฆgeneral officers no longer seem to see themselves as guardians of the constitutional order.โ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
This is a brilliant article, which I think I have recommended before. Itโs so good Iโm in danger of repeating myself.
And the relish with which he pronounces โRussiaโ. Wow is he excited about that.
Letter of the day (in the Times)
Ending the night with this.
What happens if you donโt do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority? ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles /
"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
Exterminism looms.
This is real: President Trump is standing on the roof of the White House briefing room right now and no one knows why
This is interesting: how the great state of Missouri (or Misery as I believe some pronounce it) was used as the sandbox for the capitalist end game. Excellent stuff.
โThat assessment would be grounded in the following truth: That the things which men can do to make themselves more attractive are things which actually improve society.โ This is a superb essay, full of truths like the above. Read it. Especially if youโre male. Bravo.
These Bibi sycophants are quite some pieces of work. The transcript provides receipts for the dissimulation in this case.
Surely the most Simon Jenkins take that Simon Jenkins has ever Simon Jenkinsed
LOL amazing
Rwanda, surely. Rwanda is his solution to everything.
Just watched Jacob Rees-Mogg on Newsnight, talking complete nonsense about Channel crossings. He seems to have got nastier since leaving Parliament.
Important thread. The most important post is about three posts in, and unquotable for me at least. Wikipedia needs to insulate itself from LLM slop urgently. My print Britannica is 40 years old.
Today, we remember and celebrate Janey Godley.
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
Itโs Your Party and you can cry if you want to.
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in all of American history, & well, then, ๐๐คทโโ๏ธ๐ฏ
Well this all sounds perfectly normal.
Now they take up sheds the size of Manhattan and use as much power as a medium-size country in order to spout white supremacist bollocks in response to all queries.
Well we in England know exactly how this will turn out.
Maybe not sacrificed. Just dispossessed will do fine.
Google (2005): you can find anything on the web! Google (2015): yeah, you can find stuff, but it's right there, sponsored, click that one! Google (2025): I can still spell check but not reliably
Paid ads? Here, this is FREE. Trump's love letter to Epstein has been leaked. It's on his own personal stationery. Bwahaha ๐ (source WSJ) Pass it on. #EpsteinList #Epstein #PamBondi
i now have such a deep understanding of the luddites and why they were bashing the shit out of those looms
Intruiged how an offence that is defined as doing something giving rise to a "reasonable suspicion" of something (such as support for PA) interacts with criminal burden of proof "beyond a reasonable doubt".Defence needs to show there's a reasonable doubt that you gave rise to a reasonable suspicion?
Oh lovely stuff
Ignore the thighs. This is an astonishing listen.
"The idea of a benevolent dictator to get past the nonsense is appealing for those who canโt think more than a step or two ahead and consider what happens next" Important read from @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/f...
And yet it seems not to be in Wiktionaryโs listing of contranyms.
Scour is one of those strange words with two more or less opposite meanings.
Did they perhaps mean โscouredโ?
look, itโs just a fired prosecutor and an inexplicable tape gap. since when has that ever indicated anything
Oh crap that reminds me.
This does require regular reminders.
What monstrous betrayal is it this time, for goodnessโ sake?
Someone go back in time and tell the founders of the Labour Party that it is now operated by people who see the UK as a "naturally deferential, hierarchical country" that therefore cannot ever pursue egalitarian policies.
One of the many problems created by extreme wealth is that you distrust the motivations of every other person you encounter. In those circumstances, an AI-based sycophantic cartoon character might become a very attractive companion in life.
Itโs the old argument: if our banks donโt profit from the end of the world, others will step in.
Incalculable damage may be very small, unmeasurably so even.
This is astounding.
Frostyโs โscholarshipโ is about as good as an AI chatbotโs.
Rather enjoyed this bit, taking down our former Ambassador to Copenhagen: a classic of the โright wingers quoting Orwell without actually bothering to read himโ genre.
Musk has adjusted Grokโs algorithm so itโs now a neo-Nazi. Pretty cool that almost every progressive commentator, elected official and organization still uses Muskโs X algorithm to communicate with the public! Good job guys.
I had to read this twice to believe it...Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
I suppose we should be thankful that it wasnโt a Handmaidโs Tale-themed party.
My oh my, this is good. Bravo.
'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community ๐ www.404media.co/a-black-hole...
So watch out for false-flag terrorism, if heโs following Putinโs playbook.
A fascinating twist here.
We don't talk enough about how an influential part of the American Right wants to hasten the end of the world through war and environmental destruction.
With Trump, there's always a tweet. Always.
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
Well, heck, thatโs hard to know. Guess only time will tell. Now back to the studio.
Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003) had Congressional authorization. ISIS (2014) had authorization only under a stretched interpretation of earlier authorizations. Libya (2011), Syria (2017) and now a bigger attack on Iran (2025), didn't have Congressional approval. Done unilaterally by presidents.
Iโm old enough to remember when Bush II was considered the dumbest president in living memory.
History is littered with examples of the USA destroying without thought of reconstruction. Afghanistan and Iraq are just the most recent ones.
Exactly. Here we go again.
From Hunter S. Thompsonโs ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
There is always a tweet. In this case, several.
Fuck
Doublefuck.
Worth a sober read, this.
โIf you watch party conference clips closely, you can see the light in Gordon Brownโs eyes gradually going out.โ This looks like a must-watch. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Herculean heavy lifting. Learn to read, people. I mean, really read.
Fuck
Indeed
By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.
Read this thread ๐งต This is the most entertaining synopsis of Les Miz ever ๐คฃ
As one of the last of the boomers, I would like to express my cohortโs profound regret for having governed so very badly when it was our turn.
Dear Members of the Military, You can conscientiously object to his war on America.
Donald Trumpโs America
Iโm beginning to wonder if this birthday parade is all it says itโs going to be.