Historian of US liberalism, Congress, and the C20th Democratic Party. Trade unionist. Lanyard class warrior.
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Funniest possible thing for two MSPs to get into a violent altercation over.
"Your chilled food will resume after these messages."
Having to stand there while my fridge plays a 30-second ad (no option to skip) before I can open the door.
You think they'd have a workaround if that was the case. Reagan was very short-sighted and he wasn't this listless.
Genuinely feels like a plot detail in one of those Left Behind books where the Antichrist becomes U.S. president.
It's striking how bad he still is at delivering a prepared speech.
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Is it time to give Labour to Sam Allardyce until the end of the parliament?
The best Robert Redford story is Mike Nichols' recollection of trying to explain to Redford why he wouldn't be a good fit for the lead role in The Graduate. Literally unable to grasp the concept of a woman not being interested in him.
"Don't you think he looks wired?"
Me, a landsman:
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - the other Frank Wilhoit.
Didn't realise Vin Diesel had been making them for that long.
Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social
It is an especially good stick.
The electrical engineering programme at Dixie Technical College is well known as a hotbed of Marxist indoctrination.
Moving tribute, sir.
FAO all "unfunded hobbyist researchers" 👇 www.ucu.org.uk/join
We've got a chunky @britishacademy.bsky.social report out looking at the emergence of 'cold spots' where you can't study arts, humanities or social science subjects close to home. We call for an urgent review of HE funding & monitoring of at risk subjects www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...
The easy way to avoid a crisis in US-UK relations is to let Trump take credit for this firing. Another of Epstein's cronies driven out of public life by heroic undercover FBI informant Donald J. Trump!
A lot of people thinking VERY CAREFULLY about the emails of consolation they plan to send to Mandelson today.
Netflix and Amazon phoning Mark Gatiss's agent to find out his availability for their rival films about the Mandelson scandal.
I think someone should ask Keir Starmer - who took over as DPP a few months after these emails were written - if he agrees that billionaire nonce Jeffrey Epstein wouldn't have been prosecuted in the UK.
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
Ending up in the Epstein files because you reflexively signed, "Have a great one, Jeffers!" on a birthday card circulating round the office.
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
Embarrassing how much this is my jam.
Straightforward from here: 1. Impeach Starmer 2. Constitutional crisis 3. Call by-election 4. Burnham v. Farage 5. Prime Minister Burnham
Oh no, it really is going to replace academics.
I'm excited to find out!
If I was Keir Starmer, I would simply make fewer mistakes and be better at governing.
I think this new emergency alert system is working really well.
Nadine's not going to like this.
Wouldn't have been able to waterboard this out of me.
My first lecture after the Reform government mandate the new Patriotic Pedagogy Panopticon database, 2029:
A final little bit from me in today's edition: the south London flagger who told the BBC he was one of many “hardworking business people” hanging British flags -- and his £98,000 false injury claim When I called him, he gave this gem of a quote
You have to admire a candidate who says to the media, "Um, I have an IMPORTANT campaign announcement TODAY. You should be there later TODAY," and then the announcement is "My opponent is AWFUL and I do NOT like him."
"Seamless, huh?"
When you definitely understood Minority Report.
I didn't expect the fascist takeover to be this embarrassing.
Going to be very funny when she starts agitating for Boris to take over.
"Evening, prime minister."
Defence barrister sobbing because they have to convince a court this man is not an obsessive harasser.
Critical support to Comrade the Earl of Grantham.
Also me at an academic conference:
Of course, the funniest inducement would be to offer Adams the post of U.S. ambassador to Turkey.
More evidence that Trump continues to think of HUD as "the Department for Black Guys" because it has "Urban" in the name.
Going to flood the Internet with this until the AI-generated Lincoln is saying it to viewers.
Screaming, crying, throwing up.
EXC: President Trump has committed to staffing the Space Command HQ in Hunstville, Alabama, with even more Nazis than worked there in the 1950s.
"I'd also like to express my fondness for that particular flag." [Electorate booing, murmuring]
At this point, Donald Trump is a more robust critic of Elon Musk.
It's quite impressive that the drift of Starmer's government is such that a minister in that government doesn't know what line to take on the question, "Is Keir Starmer a traitor and his government illegitimate?"
September 1st mood:
He only moved to Mississippi in 2021.
These grainy, unfocused, Bigfoot-style photos are sure to assuage those rumours.
This is like when Piers Morgan had a tantrum over the Greggs vegetarian sausage roll. An entire political movement driven insane by the mere existence of consumer choice.
You don't *have* to buy the sourdough, though. Other breads are available.
Is there some epidemic of asylum seekers buying snowmobiles that I missed? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Donald Trump is so obsessed with the Kennedys that he wants to do his own Bay of Pigs.
We'll always have Paris* *the few hours of hope.
Ah, well. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the shitpost.
Yeah, he's alive
This is just a fraction of the deranged, racist nonsense he's been posting over the last 24 hrs FYI.
"The owner of a social media platform has accused Keir Starmer of importing foreign rapists to 'replace' the white population, endorsed every far-right agitator in his mentions, and called for the violent overthrow of Starmer's government. Should Keir Starmer continue to use the platform: Y/N?"
Absolutely no reason or justification for the UK government, the Labour Party, or any Labour MP, to continue to have accounts on X.
Maybe the fake Melania and the Trump double will fall in love? What a heartwarming tale that would be.
Of course, the real reason you can't make Life of Brian now is that the (woke) Hollywood studio executives would probably say something like, "This is just Life of Brian! We can't make this, we'd be sued."
Yeah, imagine if you tried to make Life of Brian now. It'd probably be picketed by religious groups, banned in several markets, the BBC and ITV might refuse to screen it, the cast would probably have to defend it in a televised debate with a bishop.
When people ask where the evidence is:
Labor Day Weekend at Donnie's.
The White House:
This is Trump vs. the 2016 GOP, but for Romantic poetry.
He's going to order the Army Corps of Engineers to flood DC so he can sail a destroyer down the National Mall.
I'm going to start replying, "Oh, you know, overburdened by mitochondrial challenges, inflammation, and suchlike" when people ask how I am.
Same energy.
As a historian (though admittedly with no expertise here), I much prefer the Ridley Scott "shut up, nerds" approach to that of film/TV makers who take the exact same creative liberties while boasting about how faithful they are to the historical record.
Ann Selzer, you will be avenged.
Very funny that he thinks that Rolling Stone is the official magazine of the Rolling Stones.
It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
"He's spinning the ball on his finger! Just take it! Take the ball!"
Shakespeare is, of course, the original "guy who took a girl to the park, pointed out a tree or a bird, and then ran off in the opposite direction."
Setting aside the moral case here (let's not set aside the moral case here), if you can't go in studs up on "Farage's Taliban subsidy," why are you even in politics?
I think this is a key part of his appeal. He's a politician who doesn't seem to hate or fear the electorate.
