Rick Crawford

There is truly nothing you could do to make fun of the NYT covering the Obama Cheesecake Factory quip instead of Trump being accused of rape. It’s completely beyond parody.

it low-key is pretty pathetic how servile many celebrities, artists etc. very willing to take Brave Stances in the westare when it comes to anything that pisses off Beijing.

there are people serving life sentences right now on thinner evidence than we have for "donald trump was jeffrey epstein's partner in serial rape" democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Since she is so pro-women's rights, I look forward to Rowling condemning the use of her work by the misogynist Trump administration.

"Under Brazilian federal law, all legislators have immunity...To run for President, Bolsonaro decided not to run for his Senate seat. Now, after losing the Presidential election, he no longer has legislative immunity when his Senate term expires in January 2027." Very Special Episode of no amnesty

Again: the international fascist movement.

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.

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

The Wikipedia community has built a tool that makes it possible to embed our interactive Our World in Data charts right in any Wikipedia page. I have always admired Wikipedia and all the people contributing to it. And I'm very happy that our work now can get used this way!

I think this is broadly correct but it’s a symptom not a cause- the reason I’m deeply invested in the democratic choices of e.g. Brazil is that there’s a really big difference between Lula and Bolsonaro! a characteristic of democracy is that it allows for very frequent big direction changes

Well you can't get much clearer than that. Restore are Putin stooges.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

FROM SERBIA TO BRAZIL AND EVERY DISCO I GET IN MY HEART IS PUMPING FOR LOVE

Not only a vital defeat of the far right, but also a win of inestimable value for the planet.

"There’s not enough room in my chest for all this joy". What incredible news to wake up to. First Serbia, now this www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

This just hit the @reuters.com wire: BRAZIL'S LULA REELECTED PRESIDENT IN RUNOFF VOTE, DATAFOLHA PROJECTS

Here’s a Bolsonaro-aligned congressman straight up announcing the coup plan

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

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.

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

"The government should be working out how to get me water in a crisis" Perhaps the government has worked out that the best way to get protable drinking water to you in a crisis is for you to already have it

This arrived today and has pissed me off hugely. I felt that little pang of grief I had the morning after the referendum. Brexit Bastards.

Anyone going on BBC this month should order one of these beforehand and let them sweat www.poppyshop.org.uk/products/pri...

Amazing, the new wonder technology is recreating the paperful office

that's fine, I'm sure we can astral project all the new renewable energy to where it needs to be

You have to laugh at the sheer insanity of Turning Point UK being found to be organising literal contract killings and paid agitation at protests up and down the country and it barely even raises a flicker across the press. If that isn't 'terrorism' on some level I don't really know what is

I'm being sued for $795m. By a fugitive fraudster. In Wyoming. Using an anti-Mafia law. The full strange story is here, with links to all the original court documents: buff.ly/uwnZCHY

republicans’ closing message could not be clearer: they are the party of pedophile rapists

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies then reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story in @vanityfair.com

this is partly how we end up with such credulous, fawning coverage of AI

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

guy who made his name by writing a book about how his white trash mother was an abusive loser: "it's totally off-limits to criticize your white trash mother for abuse"

How many air defense turrets can you get for the price of almost starting to build NEOM? Asking for a habibi.

The replies seem to believe that the number one priority in fighting a fire at the library of Alexandria should have been minimizing water usage

Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

With this and the ITN investigation into RefUK, can we take a moment to appreciate the bravery and brilliance of investigating reporters.

I'm sure drawing lots of additional attention to ITV's (excellent) exposé will work out just *brilliantly* for Reform.