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Guardian now reporting that Student List will have a majority in the Serbian Parliament!! 👏 #Serbia www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

Despite the Trump administration's best efforts, Alberta votes not to break up Canada

Producer: “Who can we get to represent the views of voters in struggling working class towns?” Researcher: “How about a London born privately educated banjo player who is the son of the billionaire who owns GB News?” Producer: “Perfect!”

There are many ways in which every billionaire is a policy failure, but the most corrosive and destructive way in which billionaires are policy failures is this: billionaires, despite being unelected and unaccountable, possess the power to control - and ruin - millions of peoples' lives.

Artificial Intelligence.

📌This naked statue of Trump, The Orange Plague, in the European Parliament in Strasbourg is exactly how you handle this deviant, who uses his office to celebrate himself, and crush others. He needs to know that THIS is how he will be remembered when he finally takes his last gasp.

It’s been a long journey since #Lanterns started as an idea from Tom King in the DC writers’ room all those years ago. So happy to see how so many have embraced it, and can’t wait for you to see the Season Finale tonight. 9pm ET on @hbomax.bsky.social.

The US has interfered in the German election. They are interfering with elections in Latin America. Trump says Canada is going to be taught a "little lesson." When is the Canadian state going to take treason seriously?

Here is the trailer for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ launch on 9October that has been banned by YouTube, TikTok and Meta, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFTf...

In announcing the settlement, Bonta's office touted a long list of concessions the AG had wrung from the Ellisons before greenlighting this indefensible, illegal and dangerous merger. Every! single! one! of these concessions is *meaningless bullshit*.

“The policing of speech always comes armed with its own excuses.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

SHOUT-OUT to all proud members of the MAGA-Resistance Movement in their defense of the Kennedy Center. It will NEVER have the Orange Felon's name on it, just as it will continue to be the Gulf of MEXICO, Lake ONTARIO & the Department of DEFENSE. #AccountabilityIn45Days 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

Absolutely unhinged response from the Israeli government, trying to revoke the citizenship of people who make critical films about the armed forces. Symptomatic of a national descent into far-right authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.

“We believe that power does not belong to the strongest, the richest or the loudest, but to all of us. That democracies have the freedom to choose with whom to work.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Why can't they integrate?

Nigel Farage update. Was. "Let's take back control from unelected bureaucrats in Brussels." Now. "And give it to unelected crypto billionaires in Hong Kong and Thailand."

As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...

How it started / How it's going

This afternoon, I joined Archbishop Elpidophoros and faith leaders at St. Nicholas National Shrine to mark the 25 years since the horrific terror attacks of 9/11 and reflect on the resilience of our city.

If anyone in the history of comics deserves to be called a genius, it's Jack Kirby: artist, writer, visionary. We all stand on his shoulders. Happy Birthday, Jack—wherever in the cosmos you are!

So you can say all you like, no, this wasn't an invasion, but the practicalities of what just happened today will hit like a ton of bricks in a matter of hours or days—not weeks. Trump declaring sovereign authority over a body of water half owned by Canada is a big fucking deal.

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

Prime Minister Carney went out of his way to negotiate a trade deal with gangsters. He held Team Canada together despite the constant insults from the MAGA gang. Canada will go more than the extra mile to find common ground but we will never bow and kiss the gangster's ring. We hold the line.

Trump is the product of the 40 plus years of the pillaging of the American working class. The theft of job security, pensions, class mobility, wages was planned at the highest levels and built the oligarch class. Here's my latest on how we got where we are: charlieangus.substack.com/p/operation-...

A former director of BBC News speaks:

This is very revealing.

#Clacton

“A big employer who uses the water of 50,000 people … which only hires about ten people is not an employer. They are an extraction.” futurism.com/future-socie...

Bin Day cometh.

Sorry but the colander thing is such a piece of shit. Fine, it's not safe to stare right at the sun. But let's not pretend I'm going to have a great time watching a tiny shadow on a piece of paper through a fucking kitchen utensil.

A texas oil giant is preparing a ship for an illegal incursion into Greenland waters. The ship is out of Quebec City and is flying the Canadian flag. Call Desgagné Transport and let them know that Canadian companies must respect the sovereignty of allied nations. (418) 692-1000

We got so much of this during the Brexit debate. "This isn't going as badly as <most insane FBPE account> warned!"

Instead of annexing, the Trump regime and its supporters are simply doing and taking what they want Denmark and the EU should put a stop to this illegal incursion now - using force if need be It is the only thing these fascists understand www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

I miss her. Jane Godley was brilliant and uncompromising.

The Mandelson/Lebedev/Deripaska connections get more and more disturbing the deeper you dive

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

Listening to my generation talk about the 90s the way the previous generation talked about the 70s is tiresome. No that wasnt 'back when movies were good' or 'music still meant something'. There's loads of great shit coming out now and there was loads of slop back then. You just miss being young.

Fantastic piece (and great related thread by Katherine - it and the replies are worth your time also):

Grandmother Can’t Believe She Hung On This Long For Granddaughter’s Lame-Ass Wedding https://theonion.com/grandmother-can-t-believe-she-hung-on-this-long-for-gra-1828104579/

There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.

Berlin 💔 Sending all the love to German LGBTQ people right now. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...