UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister

You should read this, and listen to this record when it comes out. This insanely well-connected man has really interesting things to say about jazz, spirituality, Los Angeles and the art of the arranger.

OK buuuuuuuuut isn't it the case that even the opposition would rather chaos than ally with the Arab parties? I mean we'd love to hope but....

holy fuck

this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy

Listen if HaDemokratim led by Gilad Kariv were polling at 35 seats and looking to form a coalition including Raam and the Joint List with the goal of withdrawing Israeli presence from the West Bank, I might be excited and you might have a point. Alas, they're polling at 8 seats.

Yes, the point of the embargo and sanctions is to pressure Israelis to elect leaders who will adopt different policies. Unfortunately none of the potential prime ministerial candidates support adopting different policies.

your silky smooth Lusophone rap for today is....

fuuuuuuckinell

And just like that, Pearson’s opponent has a sexting scandal (hat tip: @evanhurst.substack.com) www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

We can celebrate Bolsonaro getting a monumental spanking without pretending that Lula is anything but a canny neoliberal in a fake beard, right?

hooooooly shit I did not know how much I needed Tanzanian street jazz in my life

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frog, scorpion, lol, lmfao

Brazilian federal police are checking border crossings to see if Flávio Bolsonaro fled the country after losing the presidential election, Folha de S.Paulo reports.

It's incredible how hard people find this level of pragmatism to process, but it is an EXCELLENT illustration of the kind of way we all do draw our own personal red lines in any case even if we don't admit it publicly.

Imagine being so brutally, one-dimensionally self-caricatured, that pretty much anyone who's heard of you would read this and know instantly that it is about you.

There are times on here when I’m not quite sure of the difference between a reactionary worldview and a ‘progressive’ one. What the fuck is ‘inigeneity’? Do we really want to go down a blood and soil route hmm? Callipers but WOKELY.

Oh so this will prove it's BAD BAD for the largest GOP donor in modern history if Texas gets flipped?

Vile? CENK? No!

Ding ding fucking ding.

now look I'm just a dumb British dipshit who likes to talk silly, but I just don't feel like getting Comey on the front pages just before the midterms is clever of these guys

Telling my kids (born in South London) to say they're from "the northern outskirts of Croydon", just to feel something.

Most of Reform’s local govt by-election wins were on tiny turnouts. Bothering to vote really matters.

Accidentally stumbled on this, and now trying to work out the levels of irony in something from the American podcast with the most British name that has ever existed, and it's destroying my mind.

anyway white working class red staters are dumb trash, this will likely never change because in the aggregate if they aren't dumb trash they stop being working class red staters bsky.app/profile/mike...

This is exactly it.

It's incredible how hard people find this level of pragmatism to process, but it is an EXCELLENT illustration of the kind of way we all do draw our own personal red lines in any case even if we don't admit it publicly.

But even if you don't care about Israelis, I don't think people appreciate just how much this kind of democratic backsliding influences policy and geopolitics. People who do not believe voting matters and that their representatives answer to them do not produce good governments.

This is a good primer on Israel's political situation going into tomorrow's election. But I'd like to go deeper on something he only touches on, which is that part of the reason for Israel's electoral doldrums (and resulting geopolitical chaos) is its broken political system bsky.app/profile/avis...

Oh yes OG eyeballs in the back of your head sweat your kidneys out we are now engaging hyperdrive trance is BACK, BABYYYYYY

This guy went from being the leader of the lowest gang in the food chain in late 70s South Bronx to turning his life around and working on Wall Street in the mid 80s

Imagine the outrage if he said El-Sayed loved The Cheesecake Factory

So Americans are tying themselves up in knots with class anxiety about whether it's OK to call this bad taste. And like, guys, you clearly have never been to Italy.

I mean he's not wrong

lula

Also incredible levels of not sure etc. which I find admirable despite one of the choices.

I dunno man, I feel like these guys aren't doing good at politics?

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I am 100% not joking here btw.

[baring buttocks out of car window driving past San Fransisco] Reverse engineer THIS you weirdos.

this is still out and still good