I often think about this letter to the New Statesman. It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it. #PoliticsLive
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I often think about this letter to the New Statesman. It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it. #PoliticsLive
NEW: The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.
This is not reporting. This is propaganda.
Remember this one?
Not today, Satan‼️ Got this garbage in the mail a few days ago. Republicans trying to trick California voters into voting NO on Prop 50. Suddenly they care about “democracy”? Please. Vote YES on Prop 50. Don’t let the cheaters write the rules.
Prop 50 is about defending democracy. Republicans already stole seats in Texas without voters having any say. California is doing it differently: we get a one-time shot to fight back, then it reverts to our independent redistricting commission.
Anatomical Study of the Common Fairy by Dan Baines. www.danbaines.com/blog/anatomi...
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
live your life in such a way that millions of people don’t joyfully await your demise
Such a great series
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
also, an all timer in the field of game journalism, “Yakuza opining on a Yakuza game”
With the AJC dropping its print edition, I feel compelled to share one of the greatest moments in print design history
A bunch of guys wearing high visibility vests over full camouflage is a sight gag that would make Mel Brooks jealous 🤣
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
"Understandably, we don’t much like talking about death, and have an even stronger cultural distaste for criticizing the recently departed, or senior citizens for their declining health. But sometimes there are more pressing practical problems we have to confront."
Newly Revealed FBI Document Confirms Collaboration Between DC Police and Discredited Far-Right Group Project Veritas
Wanna play a game of Tariffs & TTRPGs? If you’re importing books, make sure your factory uses HTS code 9903.01.31, which classifies printed RPGs as exempt from tariffs. I provide a full account of what you should do as an indie or bigger TTRPG publisher in the post below 👇🏼
Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.
In case you missed it Youtube quietly started injecting GenAI in videos without the users consent 🫠 www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Here's a news story covering Sean's comments & the subsequent retaliation. Judge for yourself, but to me, this is our LA public transit showing how, bit by bit, institutions let fascism take hold. This is a matter of democracy, not just a job. Please share widely: lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-m...
No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration
If you’re in Chicago, pissed off at the thought of a military takeover of our city, and want an outlet, come to my campaign’s punk show this Thursday at Gman Tavern. God knows I need it: katforillinois.com/concert
Everything the rich have ever wanted is being delivered, a further weakened labor movement, a gutted regulatory regime, a public sector being strangled in a puddle. The rest was hokum invented by academic scribblers searching for a logical rationale for the rich to be more dominant.
Pennsylvania Needs an Independent Redistricting Commission to Ensure Fair Representation | Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Trump administration cuts to National Institutes of Health grants as part of the federal government's campaign against DEI policies. Amy Coney Barrett was the deciding vote in crafting the mixed decision: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
wrote this back in may!
Absolutely fucking insane, and the Fed should simply act like it hasn't happened
FUCK ME DO NOT DESCRIBE TRUMP'S PLANS IN THE HEADLINES WITHOUT NOTING THEY ARE ILLEGAL.
BREAKING: Trump has FIRED Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook — the first time in U.S. history a president has removed a sitting Fed governor. This unprecedented power grab shatters long-standing protections meant to keep the Fed independent from partisan politics.
he literally thinks he is a king. i mean, this entire media blitz for when he signs executive orders is meant to create the impression that they are royal decrees
"There are more than 19 million college students in the US. Most are well removed from corridors of wealth+power..43% of undergrads attend community college. 25% live with their parents." a listicle for everyone, especially for the NYT editors themselves to learn www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
Must be because the humanities department of Moderna took unpopular stances on issues of gender and race with voters, which is the *only* reason why STEM funding is being cut
He's not even mayor yet and Mamdani already has New Yorkers engaging in one of Los Angeles' favorite past times: standing in the heat in extremely long lines to get something you could have gotten online much faster. #ZcavengerHunt
In November 2024, I made a list of things I thought the fascism theory of Trumpism predicted could happen.
Where is the general article on the new tactic of the right to make up a controversy that does not exist? I’ve honestly lost count of the invented controversies just in the last month.
It’s so disappointing the day after a children’s party when you take the balloon animals to be humanely destroyed and the receptionist at the veterinary practice is even more hostile than last year.
In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided
Jack White’s response to the WH press secretary is flawless.
we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage
Industrial power, media campaigns and an electorate unsure who to trust – history has a way of repeating itself in quite a shocking way. Here’s how ⤵️ | Martin Waller @eastangliabylines.co.uk
From Mihika Manocha: From removing librarians on campuses to requiring teachers to cut personal pronouns from their email, the quiet attacks on personal expression and free speech have become apparent throughout Texas school districts.
I think in the alternate universe where Clinton won, Larry Hogan is in his 2nd term with 80% approval rating while The Dems' 5-4 Supreme Court majority ended Citizens United, gerrymandering and right to work.
If you look back at feeds from 2024, it full of people yelling that Rufo is telegraphing what he’s going to do and warning not to fall for it. That even includes the center-left.
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
Oh, you really know you have an airtight argument when you go ad hominem and fall back on anecdote, well played sir.
Um, this is weird revisionist history- no liberal with a brain thought Rufo was anything but a National Socialist in pseudo-intellectual clothing. You’re right that he 100% telegraphed his reframing, but it wasn’t liberals that bought that ploy.
National Guard troops on D.C. streets for Trump’s crackdown will start carrying guns
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Where Tourists Vs Locals take pictures in San Francisco Red=Tourist, Blue=Local, Yellow=Could be Either Surprised? 19 More cities here: brilliantmaps.com/tourists-...
90 Minutes of James Dobson Burning In Hell (2025)
Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.
I don't like living in occupied territory. Sandwich resistance is giving me some levity and hope. Also, support the @51st.news They are doing amazing reporting!
“‘Oh look, it's couch-fucker,’ one person shouted in a video shared on social media. Another added, ‘You gonna fuck a couch, buddy?’ As the heckling escalated, chants of ‘Go fuck a couch, JD Vance!’ and ‘pussy boy’ filled the busy train station.” www.complex.com/life/a/marke...
Speaking as a Chinese person, in the Chinese culture, money is often given to others in a gesture of bribery.
I would like to say this is unbelievable, however under Donald Trump and the Texas GOP Gestapo it is not.
There’s a $75 fee for the plane to fly around the hurricane.
The Who release the “Who Are You” album 47 yrs ago today — at a time, Daltrey said, when the band “felt very threatened by the punk thing.” “.. it was like, ‘Well, they think they’re f–king tough, but we’re f–king tougher.’ .. When I listen back.., I can hear that it made me incredibly aggressive.”
For years, the FDA quietly allowed substandard foreign manufacturers to ship drugs to the U.S. from factories the agency had officially banned. We compiled a list of the drugs and their makers 👇
Check out this very palpable hit by cartoonist Guy Richards Smit:
Look, she’s still getting her thetans adjusted, she’s absolutely not locked in a Torture Cage in the San Bernadino mountains, I don’t know why people can’t understand the process, it’s very scientific
Well, it's Fustilarian Friday again and the NIH director does not disappoint with his new Statement of NIH Priorities. Despite a cover letter promising that his has made it his lifelong mission to resists any form of political influence on science, the document includes this abomination.
why does no one ask these guys then about no longer counting the prison populations in their rural districts 🤔
YOU HAD ONE JOB
A teenage 4channer was beat up by two 15 year olds in DC, which was spotted and quickly stopped by nearby police. He told his friends, the richest man in the world and the Vice President of the United States, that he was pummeled by a dozen adult Romanians. A week later, Trump federalized DC police.
Me, who went through the Common Core at the University of Chicago in the 1980s, when someone says I have no respect for the classics
This is cheery. (Narrator: It is not cheery.) asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...
Community Organizer Slams "Fascist ICE Agents" After Arrest of U.S. Citizen Documenting Raids
Oh good, at least someone isn’t ignoring that this happened — as the Sunday shows and press corps say nothing. Felt like we were losing our minds.
This is from a while back, but looks like closer to what I want out of a 5e system than the 3.5e approach they went with for 2024.
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Absolutely this. This is also why to study the liberal arts rather than see higher education as purely pre-professional- learn how to learn and how to think critically. That curriculum can absolutely include CS, btw.
Opinion from @maxmccoy.com: In 1922 a Kansas paper gave readers an inside look at the Klan. The evil it exposed was timeless. #ksleg
Sigh. One cannot commit genocide on livestock.
We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.
You sure about this, Google?
When I heard Google had been overrun by weird AI this isn’t what I thought they meant.
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
@claire1.bsky.social
the decades-long project to make sure nothing like Watergate can ever hurt a Republican president again is one of the most successful political projects ever enacted, to our everlasting detriment
NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster” NO PAYWALL! www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
the press ought to treat pete hegseth's association with doug wilson the way they would treat a black public official who was also a hebrew israelite
Your periodic reminder:
important sections of the constitution have suddenly disappeared from congress' website—some of which the administration has publicly targeted, including habeas corpus www.404media.co/constitution...
The student newspaper. This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
RFK Jr has been a liar for as long as I can remember.
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
They were going to give you vaccines to cure and prevent recurrence of cancer. And Trump and RFK and MAGA took it all away. You should be furious with these killers.
The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, writes @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage: https://theatln.tc/6OLrjo4V
The earliest reference to the Rusty Nail cocktail that I could find actually referred to it as the Knucklehead. From Charles F. Danver's long-running column "Pittsburghesque" in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, dated January 25, 1960.
Historian here that is the Soviet Lada in this tweet! The big ugly GOP bill is really taking America backwards and making America bankrupt!
“Paid for” who are they kidding Trump never pays his contractors
As someone who tracked the Russia probe closely and then tracked the effort to discredit the Russia probe closely, its brain-breaking (though not surprising) to see the administration trot out the same old debunked, cherry-picked shit in an effort to retcon Trump’s 2016 campaign.
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Elon, can we start from more equitable wealth distribution or nah?
there are no good republicans. they are all voting to dismantle our republic.
Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...