Still can't say

These people think Confederate generals who led thousands of men to their deaths in an armed insurrection to preserve slavery deserve sympathetic consideration of their complex motivations, while protestors who think ICE is getting a bit grabby deserve to get kicked in the head by a police horse.

Joe Biden says he's started treatment for his prostate cancer and the prognosis is good. Donald Trump says Biden was executed in 2020 and was replaced with a legion of clones. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.

We make jokes about this sometimes because it’s laughable. But when journalists try to make sense of the nonsensical, rational out of the irrational, and coherence out of the incoherence, they affirmatively do the public interest great harm.

Do we think Britain has become ground zero for toilet-based warfare because we have more basic common sense than anyone else on Earth, or has this happened for very different reasons.

More should have been made about Farage's absence from Parliament in the week of the summit. After all, the date was well known in advance. And next week is a holiday for the Commons anyway. This is someone who deliberately chose not to be present.

Shit reporting, characterising this as still supporting Brexit when they say directly it wasn't about the EU but rather to stick their foot up the ass of the government. Feels like we never left? You mean "feels like there aren't any benefits". Shit journalism. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

People willing to de divisive over perceived immigration status, which is actually very arbitrary and often full of misconceptions, will easily be divisive over other things like race, sex, religion, etc

The PM’s assertion that strangers are bad or wrong is awful.

Labour will never, never, never get a vote from me again. Fuck that party. Fuck you @uklabour.bsky.social . You dicks. I hate Tories and Reform but if I'm going to be vilified anyway then I may as well have lower taxes while I'm in this dump.

Wow

It's not just the non electoral consequences. There are very clear electoral consequences too. The reality is the electorate generally wants things that are stupid and wrong - the skill is doing things that are smart and right while making them feel like they're getting what they "want".

1) we're going to give people who want to claim asylum no path to do so aside from risking their lives on a small boat 2) we're going to bitch and moan that there are too many small boats

Can you imagine if @uklabour.bsky.social were in the Democrats' shoes here? In the face of these polls Starmer would insist that the people have spoken on all of the issues in question and so we need to defer to Trump.

So the dream here is that Americans have a lot less disposable income and work physically demanding jobs, while Chinese factory workers get to be management consultants with luxury SUVs and holiday homes? I can see why this idea is appealing to someone, just not sure it's Americans.

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Feels almost cruel to point out that all the bollocks about our 10% tariffs being a 'Brexit benefit' lasted for about four days. But here we are...

I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?

Somewhere Keir Starmer is telling ministers it's time for the UK to start doing this so they don't lose Sunderland

This is obviously the only correct legal holding and anyone who disagrees is a fascist who rejects the rule of law. It's as simple as that; we can't have a system of the executive black-bagging people without cause or process, much less one that ships them to a place a court already said they can't.

“This isnt what I voted for” is an odd thing to say when this is exactly what you voted for.

The Lithuanian president showed up to honor dead American soldiers as their remains departed his country. The American president did not show up to receive their remains as they arrived in the US. He had a golf tournament to get to.

Nearly time to get my Dow 30k hat out of storage

Are we joining the dots yet?

Exceptionalism? 🇺🇸

it’s true that a lot of major universities and law firms have the resources to fight back against these awful executive orders it’s also true that many of them are run by powerful people who are delighted to have an excuse to go after a bunch of people they’ve always resented having to listen to

/11 But why, exactly, should I accept the alliance of a country ruled by a faction that is very happy for my children to live under fascism if it makes their children freer to kill Palestinians?

Congratulations to Greenland’s new government and Premier-elect Jens-Frederik Nielsen. You deserve partners who respect you and treat you as equals. And the European Union is proud to be such a partner for you.

Again, Elon Musk is pushing the *exact* white supremacist conspiracy theory that motivated the mass murders at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 and a Buffalo supermarket in 2022. And he's pushing it with the full support of Podcaster and Part-Time Senator Ted Cruz. This is vile and dangerous.

DO IT

isn’t it worse if you accidentally let a *bad* journalist spy on your war plans

asked about texting war plans to a Signal group, Pete Hegseth deflects by attacking Jeffrey Goldberg as a "discredited so-called journalist." (MAGA's only plays are whataboutism and attacking the messenger. Every. Time.)

The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.

I have no patience for this temporizing. People are being summarily shipped off into slavery in central america under the imprimatur of the US government right now. Canada—Canada!—is putting itself on a war footing. We’ve been off the map and in uncharted territory for the last 250 miles.

I still don't think it's been adequately acknowledged how much this could impact the U.S. economy

I'm not sure what he thinks this whole "the mother in law of a billionaire wouldn't care that much if she didn't receive her next social security check" is meant to prove other than that Howard Lutnick is a jackass

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

A couple of questions begged by the report - when will the right of UK politics stop their anti-EU obsession - could well be some time - and why is a Labour government desperate for growth largely leaving such failed Conservative trade policy intact?

The court that said official acts aren’t crimes and post-hoc bribery is fine would like you to please respect norms.

if these chucklefucks want to help "time poor" readers they could start by making their ad-strewn website vaguely navigable.

Fuck that guy

Ok, I deleted Twitter. Every time I'm there all I see are maga bots. Fuck it.

The absolute dumbest @britishairways.bsky.social policy is to limit lounge access to a +1 rather than +1 adult and any young children you may have. It's a big fuck you to families, serves as a reminder that there's no point in trying to keep up BA status, and generates ill will every time you fly.