Diana DPA

Feels like a metaphor for Elon Musk

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

Pro-Europeans really need to get their act together if they're going to sieze the opportunity which is being presented here. Press and broadcasters reverting right back to their previous position from 2016, with zero update.

By all accounts this is what most of the recent Reform media events have looked like. Bubble well and truly burst

White House Officials: Sir, we're getting crushed. The polls are grim. The early voting data is even worse. What can we do to win over the American people in this final week? Trump: Charge Comey again!

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

Look it's 2026 and I know "the president is a rapist" is already baked in to everyone's opinion but the president of the United States is a fucking rapist and I would really appreciate it if the media would treat this like the major earth-shattering scandal that it should be.

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

WE DID IT. I CANT FUCKING BELIEVED WE DEFEATED USA WE DEFEATED A COUP WE DEFEATED META WE DEFEATED EVERYONE WHO TRIED TO SILENCE BRAZILIA PEOPLE LULA WON GUYS. THE PEOPLE WON.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who spared a thought for my country today, who amplified information about the coup d’état attempt, and worried about Brazil’s democratic future—the world’s democratic future. We won! Women won! The Amazon won! Young people won! Democracy won! Hope won!

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

The Student List had no party machinery. It operated through university assemblies, protests and hiking between cities & towns. They had 2% of national TV political advertising airtime vs 93% for Vučić. This is one of the most remarkable grassroots democratic victories in modern European history.

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

Incredible. Student List are candidates selected by groups of students to form an anti-corruption party. Another youth-led movement overthrowing an authoritarian government in Europe.

One of the many reasons Catholics are leaving the church. And don’t hand me the bull that we all deserve prayers. This president is evil and those religious leaders should be in the streets helping the poor and tending to the deported.

The BBC trying very hard to be fair to both sides, but at the cost of taking overt racism at face value here by not reporting what the group was chanting, or what its banners said, but instead reporting content from its own website in what is supposed to be a news report about the protest

🧵🧵🧵 10 ways the planet’s richest person, Elon Musk, has been busy making the world worse. A thread. 1. Buying crooked politicians like Ken Paxton.

Jason Arday and the press that learned nothing from Leveson The relentless reporting on Jason Arday brought it home – parts of the mainstream media care more about clicks than fair, proportionate coverage | Gemma Gould @gemmagould.bsky.social

The new Chair of OfCom has rather oddly suggested I should set up a left wing version of GB News. This suggests he doesn’t quite know what his job is. But I have taken him at his word. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75420/...

If you live in a rural area I don't think it's a bad idea to stockpile some supplies and I don't think we need to lose our minds over everything a government does... because after all we're not Talk Radio presenters...

😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

Princes and Thieves, a book by investigative journalist Matthew Cole, says Dutch intelligence hacked the phone of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and watched him access a Dubai bank account holding hundreds of millions of dollars that came from a bank in Azerbaijan, Vanity Fair reports.

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

it's always the ones you most suspect (stay for the end)

$25 billion! 💥💥💥 This is one of the biggest fines in history — and it cuts to the core of the crooked Brexit ref! The case is about Facebook harvesting data from millions of users and selling it to Cambridge Analytica to generate targeted ads. Cambridge Analytica worked for the Leave camp and Trump.

Trump U-turns and starts to blame Iran for driving up the cost of diesel, after his plot to blame Ukraine and simultaneously force Kyiv to capitulate to fascist Russia crashes, rolls, burns and explodes.

Love this fake court sketch of tiny tears Tommy Robinson doing the rounds. Top work whoever did it.

$1.5 trillion invested a year in AI. $50 profit made. The AI firms are spending 30 times more than they are making. Convince me that that’s a business model that isn’t going to go belly up.

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I’ve had a bit of contemplation on this whole thing: Fact: when obviously toxic mortgage debt nearly brought down the western banking system - nobody was really prosecuted at the top. In fact, they got rewarded. Fact: when slavery was abolished, slave owners were compensated.

Runaway AI poses a threat to us all. How humanity stays in control should be a priority for everyone Projection location: Slough, UK Narrated by @gavinesler.bsky.social

Reform UK Oxford will host a talk in November criticising "DEI" by the Nathan Cofnas, who describes his belief in + commitment to biological racism as "race realism", writing "in a meritocracy, blacks would disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment”.

To counter Trump’s pack of lies about Ukraine, go here:

If the far right say there's no money for benefits, care homes, SEND, housing just suggest recouping £billions from PPE etc fraudsters and #TaxTheRich "Lest we forgot: The right wing made sure there was no protective ring around care homes; while protecting rich friends" via The UK Against Hate

Russian diesel supplies could reach countries beyond the United States by the end of the year, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said. This is how Trump funds Russia’s war on Ukraine.

It suits the Kremlin to have Washington believe that a deal with Putin is just around the corner. One more meeting, one more concession, one more phone call. And while the Americans wait for a peace deal, Russia keeps waging war. Russia gets concessions. Ukraine gets pressure⤵️

“You,Boy! Get me 7 bags of coke and a copy of the bible. I’ve got Tommy Robinson coming round tonight to talk about his court case!”

Chaos in Washington The new Private Eye is out now.

We were too spineless to regulate these billionaire freaks, so now one of them gets to decide whether Ukrainian drones can catch the missiles aimed at Ukrainian kids. We have failed spectacularly.

Snitches Get Riches

“In email after email, [AfD] supporters use racist slurs and share antisemitic theories of Jewish world domination; there are jokes about turning refugees into handbags and boots, discussions of whether refugees should be shot at the border, a Christmas card sent with a swastika and “Heil Hitler…””

Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.